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Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al Capone, Babyface and his female accomplice leave a trail of blood and bullets in their path towards making history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Miles from Home (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, bleak, serious, realistic
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Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
Plot Summary:
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Mr. No Legs (1978)
Plot Summary:
Meet Mr. No Legs! Deadly professional hit-man for a drug syndicate... and a limbless cripple! With his cool wheelchair, armed with shotguns and shurikens, and his amazing kung fu skills he means trouble for everyone he confronts, even his own boss! Things get ugly when a unlucky drug dealer kills his girl by an accident, especially because the girl's brother is a cop! And No Legs apparently have his own plans how to take over the whole business.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, independent film, poliziottesco
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Massacre Gun (1967)
Plot Summary:
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Counselor at Crime (1973)
Plot Summary:
When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Manhandlers (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Rise and Fall of Their American Dream (2010)
Plot Summary:
"The Rise and Fall of Their American Dream" revolves around Carlos, Vijay and Mike; three fearless strangers whose relentless pursuit of the fabled "American Dream" coincides. Their fateful meeting forever alters the course of their desperate lives. Carlos illegally migrates from Mexico and is forced to toil for pennies as a mechanic. A greedy Indian motel owner lures Vijay from India with the promise of riches, but instead enslaves him as a worker. Mike, who is indebted to his mob boss uncle, befriends the two immigrants and their combined courage, ambition, and friendship lead them to the top of a criminal empire. A horrific event causes their monumental rise to come to a crashing halt and forces them to define loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Prime Target (1991)
Plot Summary:
Maverick Cop John Bloodstone is taken off suspension to ferry a Mob Boss into custody. But all is not what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo western, cult film
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The Kansas City Massacre (1975)
Plot Summary:
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Slams (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Lost Capone (1990)
Plot Summary:
While Al Capone works his way up from top-dog street gang thug captain in Chicago to U.S. crime king, his brother Jimmy Capone chooses the righteous way, actually with father's blessing, leaving Illinois for small town Harmony in Nebraska, where he adopts the alias Richard Hart, marries teacher Kathleen, has offspring and becomes its incorruptible town marshal, with a loyal Indian deputy. When his efficient fight against Al's illegal alcohol trade starts to bite financially, the gang's top lawyer is sent to buy 'Hart' or order his death, but recognizes Jimmy and arranges a fraternal reunion in Chicago. Yet money nor threats can turn Jimmy bad.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Gunshy (1998)
Plot Summary:
When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's girlfriend Melissa. Jake soon also joins Frankie in his money-collecting duties.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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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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Gamblers in Okinawa (1971)
Plot Summary:
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama
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The Death Collector (1976)
Plot Summary:
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Melvin Purvis G-MAN (1974)
Plot Summary:
Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, neo western
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Coast Mafia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shin, a good family friend and business partner of the DeLeon family, assumes his role as head of the Coast Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Dillinger and Capone (1995)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) gives the real Dillinger (Martin Sheen) an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a secluded vault or watch his wife and child get whacked.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Jailbait (1993)
Plot Summary:
Action - 17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the killers both want her. - C. Thomas Howell, Renée Humphrey, Krista Errickson.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Getting Gotti (1994)
Plot Summary:
The fall of mob boss John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Sicilian (1987)
Plot Summary:
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intense, serious, realistic, suspense, spiritual, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film, romantic
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Sinatra Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where Gotti's crew hangs out. Determined to make his name, the young Gotti plans a daring armored-car robbery that he expects to get him noticed by the bosses of each of New York's five major crime families.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Witness to the Mob (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: cult classic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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This Thing of Ours (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film
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Madso's War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, independent film, rough
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Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. After watching their father being gunned down in front of their eyes as children, Thomas and Sean Phelan grow up building their lives on opposite ends of the law. Thomas, the studious and responsible brother, creates a better life for himself through education and hard, honest work. Eventually, he builds a successful career as a US Attorney. Sean, the more rebellious of the two, gets caught up in a life of crime and rises through the ranks to become the head of the Irish Mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Gangster Land (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of America's most famous mobsters and their rise to power. Examine Al Capone's ascension through the eyes of his second in command, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, tense, atmospheric, rough, captivating, realistic
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Mob Town (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming expansion plans. Their plans are foiled when local police trooper Ed Croswell discovers their activities and, consequently, exposes the mob to the American public. Croswell’s actions shed light on the massive web of corruption and changed the face of law enforcement forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 970
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Mobsters (1991)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, talky, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, hood, exciting
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Bella Mafia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, political thriller, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, vintage