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Plot Summary:
A young man in Berlin is fed up with being the stooge of his criminal boss. New film by Detlev Buck based on a short story by Ferdinand von Schirach.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, grotesque
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Tiger Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Having failed to get into the police force, Margarete takes up training as a security guard. One night she runs into a sexually agressive ex-colleague who insists on hailing a taxi to take her home to his place. Enter Tiger: short brown hair, a tough girl and a fighter, the cab driver. Realising that the situation is far from consensual, Tiger speeds off with Margarete, leaving her companion standing in the street. It won’t be the last time she rushes to Margarete’s aid. Tiger lives in an attic flat with two men. She knows how to wield a baseball bat. Stealing a uniform from security and renaming Margarete ‘Vanilla’, she begins to steer her life in a completely different direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Tsiou (2005)
Plot Summary:
Athens, mid-August. Tsiou, addicted to substances, while trying to get his dose, mixes a number of people to his search through his sister and her mobster husband. A chain of meetings follows where the pressure passes from one to another.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, social
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Bruce and the Shaolin Bronzemen (1977)
Plot Summary:
The story is the usual mumbo jumbo about a hidden manuscript with secret techniques And Bruce has to fight a lot of enemies to find it, including a giant masseuse, a gang of midget hitmen and a samurai warrior.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Mr. Long (2017)
Plot Summary:
Long is a Taiwanese killer known for his sword skills. After Long fails a Tokyo mission, he moves to a small town where no one knows about him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Batas Ng Lansangan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with his dead wives sister MARIEL. Marissa refuses to recognize her father because of all his shortcomings in the past. Nevertheless, Ruben decides to remain in the area. He soon discovers the presence of drug pushers and decides to do something about them. The drug lord who controls these pushers hires a hit-man named CARLOS to hunt down Ruben for meddling in his affairs. Soon the small community turns into a war-zone a Ruben tries to defend himself and those close to him from the attacks of these gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Moonshine County Express (1977)
Plot Summary:
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Stinking Heaven (2015)
Plot Summary:
A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in '90s suburban New Jersey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Ride in a Pink Car (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Mean Mother (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Gringo (2018)
Plot Summary:
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Australia, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, dark comedy, exciting, feel good, semi serious, action comedy, absurd, entertaining, independent film, anamorphic
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Hangup (1974)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Death Journey (1976)
Plot Summary:
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, detective
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Catch the Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo noir
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Rising High (2020)
Plot Summary:
Charting the rise and fall of three corrupt real estate agents who accumulate absurd wealth in no time but fall into a vortex of fraud, greed and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, serious, captivating, intellectual, crying, detective, freeze frame
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Nicotina (2003)
Plot Summary:
A real-time dark comedy about a science geek who tangles with a clutch of Russian gangsters after he delivers them the wrong computer disk.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous
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The Doberman Gang (1972)
Plot Summary:
After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, ironic, action thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Executioner Part II (1984)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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The Chinese Boxer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Dead Heat (2002)
Plot Summary:
Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping him off to a sure-bet racehorse. But their attempts to secure the champion equine are thwarted by a local mob boss, who steals the horse as repayment for a gambling debt. With their investment on the line, Pally and Ray become entangled in a web of underworld crime and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bullet (1996)
Plot Summary:
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, hood, disturbing, harsh, stylized, serious, cult classic, independent film, bleak
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The Drug King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Crack House (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets sold to a drug kingpin by a minor dealer to pay off a debt, only Rick can save her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, poliziottesco
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God Bless America (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cynical, dark comedy, black comedy, thought provoking, talky, funny, political, intense, humorous, semi serious
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Jailbirds (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ein Förderprogramm bringt die beiden Kanckis Gerd und Steinbock in die Obhut von Frauen. Dort sollen sie beweisen, dass sie in der Lage sind sich in die Gesellschaft zu integrieren. Nun bringt Gerd dummerweise einen Barbesitzer um. Damit hat der Ausflug in die Freiheit vorlaeufig ein Ende.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, queer cinema
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, hood, harsh, talky, stylized, realistic, disturbing, rough, humorous, black comedy
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Filth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, cynical, dark comedy, black comedy, sexual, enigmatic, ironic, semi serious, absurd, disturbing
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021)
Plot Summary:
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, funny, humorous, exciting, sentimental, unusual plot structure, entertaining, dramatic, talky