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Plot Summary:
Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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The Big Grasshopper (1967)
Plot Summary:
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
Similar in 89%
Bay of Angels (1963)
Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler falls in love with a bank clerk (Claude Mann) on holiday in Nice. At first, the two lovers simply use each other as good luck charms; but what happens to love when luck runs out?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: technicolor, psychological, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, romantic drama
Similar in 81%
Two Men in Town (1973)
Plot Summary:
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, tragic ending, poliziottesco
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Max and the Junkmen (1971)
Plot Summary:
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, french noir
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The Sewers of Paradise (1979)
Plot Summary:
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Blood on the Streets (1974)
Plot Summary:
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man.".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized
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Atlantic City (1980)
Plot Summary:
Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for so desperately.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, realistic, cynical, aesthetic, tense, sentimental, clever, touching, serious
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The Swimming Pool (1969)
Plot Summary:
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, inspirational, retro, sexy, slasher, anthology, art house, technicolor, crime drama
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Plot Summary:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual, stylized, meditative, light, realistic, humorous
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Action Man (1967)
Plot Summary:
An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, nostalgic
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Second Breath (1966)
Plot Summary:
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The implosive Le deuxième souffle captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, black and white, crime drama, exciting, atmospheric, clever, bleak, serious, realistic
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Grand Slam (1967)
Plot Summary:
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized, eurospy
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The Finger Man (1962)
Plot Summary:
A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, noir, cynical, black and white
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Joy House (1964)
Plot Summary:
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women. There he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. Shot on location in the French Riviera.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, manga, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, french noir
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A Cop (1972)
Plot Summary:
Commissaire Edouard Coleman is a Paris police chief whose life investigating violent crimes has left him despondent. After beginning an affair with a beautiful but cold woman named Cathy, he befriends her boyfriend, Simon, a local nightclub owner. Unbeknownst to Edouard, however, Simon is also a ruthless bank robber and drug smuggler who is planning one final heist. Edouard is forced to pursue Simon after learning his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, visually appealing, hood, suspense, atmospheric, rough, clever, bleak, serious
Similar in 88%
Once a Thief (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
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The Upper Hand (1966)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggle business.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, eurospy
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The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia suggests that a better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le Goff is using all the available resources to thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful, Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling with Manalese's daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, french noir
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Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
Plot Summary:
A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the loot and trying to avoid capture by the police, who are pouring all their resources into capturing the robbers. Based on a real-life 1950 Brinks Armored Car Co. robbery in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Tunnel (2004)
Plot Summary:
A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Seven Times Lucky (2004)
Plot Summary:
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Borsalino (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, noir, poliziottesco, french noir, vintage
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The Gang (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Good Thief (2002)
Plot Summary:
A compulsive gambler plans the heist of his life - a priceless collection of art from the world-class Casino Riviera in Monte Carlo.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, entertaining, clever, stylized, freeze frame, crime drama
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The Fighter (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, poliziottesco, suspense
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Flic Story (1975)
Plot Summary:
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, cult classic, period piece, detective, tense, realistic
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Pasha (1968)
Plot Summary:
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, microfilm
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cynical, noir, tense, retro, heartbreaking, hood, crime drama, crime thriller, atmospheric
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The Red Circle (1970)
Plot Summary:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a heist against impossible odds, their trail is pursued by a relentless inspector, and fate seals their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir, cerebral, visual, detective, atmospheric, clever
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Le Samurai (1967)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, visual, meditative, witty, art house