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Plot Summary:
A frustrated artist is convinced by his eccentric roommate to rob a bank. Having planned the crime by watching bank-robber films, the amateur heist is doomed from the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Random Acts of Violence (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a young man new in town, the impressionable Chris Donds (Esteban Powell), is drawn into the super wealthy scene of Los Angeles after dark, he confuses his morals and beliefs for absolution and opportunity... the life that dreams as fast as it lives. His new lifestyle of carousing and daredevil brushes with the law leads up to an entanglement with the Russian mafia. Soon, Chris finds that his wealth cannot protect him and his friends from the retribution coming their way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film
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Arizona Heat (1988)
Plot Summary:
A tough old school Arizona cop is teamed with a lesbian partner to catch a serial killer who preys on police.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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Lip Service (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a long absence, Kat returns to the life of her old college roommate, Allison. The trouble is, Allison is a successful furniture designer and Kat is a strung-out nymphomaniac with no apparent means of support. Allison takes her in and before long, Kat has ruined the business.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The System (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Zebra Force (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this post Vietnam War actioner, a group of veterans, former members of a crack guerrilla team, decide to reteam and use their specialized skills to fight organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Weatherman '69 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film, experimental
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Black Samurai (1976)
Plot Summary:
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, cult classic, independent film, weird, cult film
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Ice (1994)
Plot Summary:
A married couple of cat burglars scheme to rob a set of stolen diamonds from the local mafia only to be hampered by persistent police detectives, another scam artist, and a rival mob group.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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L.A. Vice (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Real Thing (1996)
Plot Summary:
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, neo noir
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One Tough Cop (1998)
Plot Summary:
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, rough, bleak, realistic, sexy, bad ending
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Kill Speed (2010)
Plot Summary:
KILL SPEED is a high-octane, youth oriented, TOP GUN meets FAST & FURIOUS tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo western
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L.A. Bounty (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mayor candidate Mike Rhodes is kidnapped in his own home outside of Los Angeles by unknown, masked terrorists. His wife Kelly barely survives the attempted murder on her, and is able to identify one of the kidnappers. She's placed on the police's protection list while the investigation is ongoing. Ruger, a tough and merciless bounty hunter is out on the streets avenging her partner's death. With Kelly as her bait, Ruger starts a dangerous game to bring Cavanough, a crazed crime kingpin behind the kidnapping, out of hiding.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed
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Sister Street Fighter (1974)
Plot Summary:
Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister, Tina Long, to help them locate and free him. She gets the help of Lee's martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for the inevitable battle-royale with the drug gang, which includes masters of many different 'schools' of fighting.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, independent film
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Cutaway (2000)
Plot Summary:
The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line, a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he "disconnects" from his position of infiltrated agent, "connecting" with the team.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, sentimental, sincere, captivating, suspense, independent film
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The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)
Plot Summary:
She returns for more street fighting.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Jump Out Boys (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in post hurricane New Orleans. A brutal Mexican drug lord (Armando LeDuc) busts out of jail to retrieve the $15 million that his girlfriend is hiding. But detective Raymond (Kris Kristofferson) and McCoy (Sheldon Robbins) will try their best to put him back to where he belongs.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, fast, neo noir, detective
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Hitman's Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, independent film, realistic, buddy comedy
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Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Plot Summary:
A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ultra-violent collision course that will determine, once and for all, who owns the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bloody, action packed
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Mafia (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic, neo noir
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Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense, hood, bleak, realistic, independent film
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Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Plot Summary:
Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own agenda: they kill the suppliers, take a suitcase of money, and set up Killa to take the fall. Stuck in the state pen in Chino, Killa has his gang figure out what really happened while he hatches an escape plan. Meanwhile, Crackle has kidnaped Killa's sweetie, Booboo, and the government has confiscated his assets. Can Killa Pop escape Chino, rescue Booboo, exact revenge, find the loot, and elude the police? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, tense, independent film
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Crazy Six (1997)
Plot Summary:
In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Slovakia, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film, futuristic
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Firetrap (2001)
Plot Summary:
Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board meeting, a fire quickly spreads- he considers it a godsend opportunity and stays, but soon has his hands too full saving other lives and just surviving to concentrate on the chip; only the owner, his wife who just filed for divorce and a few employees remain, but it soon turns out one of them stole company secrets but the arsonist and/or another chip-thieves are among them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, cliffhanger, serious, fast
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American Dragons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy assassin is killing the leaders and an Italian assassin may have his own agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Half Past Dead 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transfered to a tougher prison than the re-opened Alcatraz. He claims it's to be closer to his lady but his real motives are a bit more grandiose. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bill Goldberg) a bulky prisoner who can take care of himself. Twitch, despite being less muscular, is just as mouthy and is pretty much the same. But there is a gang war brewing between the black and hispanic inmates that explodes into a hostile takeover of the prison when the black's gang leader is shot dead and the finger points at Burke. But the sh!t really hits the fan when the real killer and leader of the hispanics, Cortez (Robert Madrid) takes Twitch's girlfriend and Burke's daughter hostage.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, action packed, fast, campy
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Quick (1993)
Plot Summary:
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, retro, independent film, psychotronic, surprise ending
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El Coyote (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Italian mafia takes on the Mexican cartel on the Mexican border. The cartel has captured the son of an ex-mobster in witness protection. He calls on his mob buddies to come to Arizona to help him.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Double Impact (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, suspense, cult classic, rough, independent film
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The Gentlemen (2019)
Plot Summary:
A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, stylized, realistic, neo noir, black comedy, funny, psychotronic, rough, psychological, cult classic