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Plot Summary:
A young man tries to get away from his disfunctional family by working with his friend, a rich boy who lives in excess and sleaze, but he will soon realize how reckless his friend is and that he is submerged in a life of crime, vice and deadly bets.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration:
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Masacre en el rÃo Tula (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Die My Way (1994)
Plot Summary:
A group of terrorists cause chaos in a small mexican city, now Mario, the town's mayor, and a special forces group must restore peace in the city.
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Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min
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The Scent Of Death (1987)
Plot Summary:
The Chemos and the Pachecos are two gangs whose adventures are witnessed by the doctor, the assistant and the social worker of a clinic where they know of the young men's problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
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The Pick-Up (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two mob money couriers, Frankie and Tony, have their latest package of $1 million stolen by two con women, Dana and Marcia, in which the men must find the women to recover the money before they become marked men.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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Violated (1984)
Plot Summary:
An actress in New York City goes against a group of gangsters who are abusing her "party girl" friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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17000 Block (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld, 17000 Block tells the story of Buck, a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced, by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie, to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck finds himself running from the law, and the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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The End We Start From (2023)
Plot Summary:
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
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Deadly Weapons (1974)
Plot Summary:
After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, cult film
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The Debutantes (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers who get involved with a sexy stripper and her boss, the nightclub king of Santiago, as told from three perspectives. Sexy, gritty, emotional.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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Mad Drivers (1978)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled rich boys get into drag-racing and end up in beeg trobbles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Atrapados en la coca (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man with economic problems get's involved with the mafia, but when he is asked to commit murder he refuses, which gets him in trouble with a drug lord, this brings nothing but problems to his son, who must now take control of the situation.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: mexploitation
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Right Bank, Left Bank (1984)
Plot Summary:
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Everything in Vain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Gunfighters kill all family members of farmer brothers Mario and Fernando Almada, after the tragic event, they seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
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Forbidden Beach (1985)
Plot Summary:
An engineer moves into a bungalow on the beach next to a widow and her two boys. The older boy has a bit of an Oedipal complex and seems to like his mom. Of course, that means that no other man can come and break up their "happy" family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Scorpion: Double Venom 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the--don't laugh--one-armed man who murdered her younger sister fifteen years ago. Nami is certainly no great action heroine, and the plot at times makes little sense, climaxing with a coincidence more ridiculous than any Shakespeare ever used. For complicated reasons, Nami uses her medical knowledge to break into a women's prison as staff physician. There, as in the previous movie, the convicts wind up naked awfully frequently.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration:
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The Human Hyena (1995)
Plot Summary:
The dead body of a young man who was kidnapped is found, the police looks for the kidnappers as a web of corruption its uncovered in the police department.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Give Us Tomorrow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Reflections on a Crime (1994)
Plot Summary:
Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has been assigned to watch over her. By telling Regina's story through flashbacks interwoven with her present situation, the film helps us understand this woman in a unique, disturbing and sympathetic way.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Prostitutes Protective Society (1966)
Plot Summary:
Madame Sue runs a successful Prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action. Still, being the go ahead women they are, they decide to fight back and keep themselves independent of any outsider business influence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Beyond the Sky (2006)
Plot Summary:
Malboro and Cucu, the starring characters, are two brothers who split after the older one, Malboro, went to prison five years. One day he is set free, willing to return to his life. Cucu is the younger brother, who has become a boxer with possible success, if only the beater he keeps somewhere inside, didn't arise in the worst moments. The relationship between the two brothers is somehow ambiguous, there's something unclear that caused Malboro's arrest. To complete the triangle is Uncle Jesus who has been like a father to them; a retired boxer who's always thinking about his past. Sara is Malboro's great love, a woman full of shame and resented after almost leaving her whole life behind to follow Malboro, but he failed in their attempt to run away because that same night, he got arrested by Rojas. Rojas is Sara's husband, a police officer who hates Malboro and will do anything to get him out of his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic
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The Concrete Jungle (1982)
Plot Summary:
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, soap opera, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film, cult film
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Malibu High (1979)
Plot Summary:
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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Terror and Black Lace (1986)
Plot Summary:
A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Baby Sitter (1975)
Plot Summary:
Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the boy's house, she discovers that he in fact has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Walking Vengeance (2008)
Plot Summary:
Frantic to be free of Felix, her wealthy but drunken and violent drug-lord husband, Ana (Elena Anaya) tricks her fresh-from-prison sister, Aurora (Ariadna Gil), and two other ex-partners in crime into coming to her aid. Now that their crew is reassembled, the women begin planning a heist that will rid Ana of Felix and net them enough cash to be set for life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, neo noir
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Fight for Your Life (1977)
Plot Summary:
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Julia (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Mexico, Belgium
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, stylized, cult classic, dark comedy, psychological thriller, neo noir, serious, realistic
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Charlie Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide out with his estranged son, Danny, played by Michael Weatherly. What ensues reveals the true nature of some of the most unsavory of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crime family becomes entangled in a vicious gang war while a serial killer cuts a swath through Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing