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Plot Summary:
Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, captivating
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Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, twisted, bleak, independent film
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The Guardians (2012)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Nina witnesses a terrible crime that puts her life in danger. Being an orphan, she has nobody she can trust. When corrupt businessman Thomas Backer sends five killers after Nina, witness protection officer, Max, a former special-forces soldier, is responsible for her safety. They soon overcome their initial distance to find common ground. While on the run from the ruthless Backer, Rudi, one of Max’s former comrades, comes to their rescue – and continues to help the two out of some precarious situations. Even Max’s ex-girlfriend Sara is not just there to help him as a federal prosecutor. Nevertheless, Nina and Max face ever-increasing danger, and soon the teenager is not the only one in need of a guardian angel – Max could use one too.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, suspense
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Traffickers (2012)
Plot Summary:
After his best friend dies in an unexpected accident, black market dealer Young-gyu decides to wash his hands off his illegal activities and start a new life with his girlfriend Yu-ri. But his dream stalls when he learns that Yu-ri needs money for her father's surgery. To help her out, Young-gyu decides to do the job one last time. His smuggling ring operates out of a boat that runs between Korea and China, picking victims from its voyager pool and harvesting their organs. Meanwhile, a married couple, Sang-ho and Chae-hee, boards Young-gyu's passenger boat heading to Weihai, China. That very evening, just when the boat enters international sea waters where countries' laws cannot be enforced, Chae-hee goes missing and all her pictures and belongings vanishes without a trace. Young-gyu finds Yu-ri on the same ship, and she claims to be the only witness to Chae-hee's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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Straight Shooter (1999)
Plot Summary:
After his daughter died of cancer, former French foreign legionnaire "Straight Shooter" alias Volker Bretz threatens those who financed, built, favoured and now work the nuclear power plant Atar II to kill one of them each day until the plant is shut down. His former drill sergeant, Frank Hector, who now owns several night clubs and brothels, is the only one who might be able to stop the maniac killing specialist. Frank is flown in instantly, but soon has to find out that his former comrade's actions might be a result from an event long ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fatal Vacation (1990)
Plot Summary:
A pleasent trip to the Phillipines is turned into tragedy when the tour bus is kidnapped by a group of rebels that want to exchange the prisoners for the Rebel Leader's brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Mogadischu (2008)
Plot Summary:
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic
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Face of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A police officer searching for his missing sister in Spain uncovers a terrorist cell.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Trapped (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Blinded by hatred and misguided patriotism 'Anton' is led into an illicit world of violence and is forced to choose between his family and his country. Hunted and on the run, Anton is drawn into a battle of wills with the law and his former accomplices, ending in a showdown in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
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Charlie (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in Post World War II Britain, chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful
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A Common Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sri Lanka, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Hijack (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, fast
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Crash Landing (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a hostage situation arises on-board a private plane with the daughter of a billionaire on-board. Major John Masters (Sabato Jr.) teams up with Captain Williams (Michael Paré) to stop the terrorist and land the plane.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, fast, disaster movie
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Black November (2012)
Plot Summary:
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction and pollution. Inspired by true events, Black November is the gripping story of how a community rises up and takes drastic measures to make sure their voices are heard.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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Hennessy (1975)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: offbeat, political, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Indian (2001)
Plot Summary:
DCP Raksekhar Azad (Raj) is an invincible cop with a great aim. He arrests a terrorist by the name of Khan. But Khan lands in a prison cell that looks cushier than the Buckingham Palace. However, this gets Raj promoted, and he is congratulated by none other than his father-in-law, who is also a very high ranking policeman. Then all of a sudden, Raj finds out that many policemen would like to see Khan go free. He discusses this issue with his father-in-law, and to his surprise, does not find any support from him. Disagreements and arguments ensue, and as a result, his father-in-law gets killed. The Police suspect Raj of killing him, they begin the process of arresting him, he runs away, while Khan is all set to get freed to do whatever he likes.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
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Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial (1986)
Plot Summary:
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: controversial, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
Similar in 79%
Salvador (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, realistic, political, political thriller, bleak
Similar in 81%
Carlos the Jackal (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 334 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, political, atmospheric, captivating, epic, thought provoking, visually appealing, period piece, mesmerizing
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Summer Crisis (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1969, Bernard, a Gaspesian fisherman's son, arrive in Perce to fin work. He meets Paul, Jacques and Francis, Quebec Independence activists who have come to open the 'Fisherman's House'. They aim to organize public conferences and offer lodgings to young travelers. A motley crowd of Quebecers from all over the province soon flocks to Perce: artists, hippies, rockers, hitchhikers and the like shake local authorities. Bernard is won over by the trio's ideas and gets increasingly involved in their project. The following year, the will join the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) and play a pivotal role in the Summer Crisis 1969.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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The Front Line (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, serious, emotional, tense, captivating, realistic, contemplative, factual
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Patty Hearst (1988)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture. Written by Josh Pasnak.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, philosophical, neo noir, political, historical drama, independent film
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, controversial
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Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, tense, witty, breathtaking
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Stander (2003)
Plot Summary:
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany, South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: harsh, rough, serious, exciting, factual, political, realistic, suspenseful, fast, tense
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The Escapist (2002)
Plot Summary:
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough
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Counter Measures (1998)
Plot Summary:
US Navy medical officer Jake Fuller is assigned to a goodwill visit aboard a Russian submarine. But he and his companion, Lt. Swain, end up alone among terrorists, who have taken over the submarine and threaten to fire its nuclear weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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21 Hours at Munich (1976)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, political thriller
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Plot Summary:
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: political, bleak, realistic, harsh, intense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, sincere, serious
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'71 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, political, atmospheric, intense, rough, bleak, tense, realistic