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Plot Summary:
A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, cult film
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Velvet Smooth (1976)
Plot Summary:
Johnnie Hill plays Velvet Smooth in this soft-core crime meller. The slinky Ms. Smooth is head of a private detective agency, specializing in protecting the unprotectable. Her current client is in deep with a murderous numbers racket. So Velvet Smooth goes undercover (and occasionally under covers) to smash the ring. An "R" rating hardly covers it.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective
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Red Skies (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young Chinese female cop comes to Southern California on a hunt for a high-profile criminal from mainland China.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Heat Team (2004)
Plot Summary:
Eason Chan is K.C, Chan and Y.T. Lee is Aaron Kwok, both are very smart cop, who both were assign to interpol. The only thing that make them different is woman. K.C Chan is known for courting with a lot of woman and Y.T. Lee get nervous around woman. The case for this movie is about a international thief who come to Hong Kong to steal, a diamond necklace worth over 10 million US. Anyway, Yumiko Cheng who is engage with a fertilizer mogul, soon for in love with KC Chan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Female Executioner (1986)
Plot Summary:
Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of pornographers. She already has an accomplice inside the gang feeding her information, but progress is hindered by her own police commissioner. In her private live, Martine likes to hang around with her male colleagues, swapping a younger cop for the more mature and experienced Jean.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mad
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Kill a Dragon (1967)
Plot Summary:
Chinese villagers hire a mercenary and his team of karate experts to help rid them of a gangster and his henchman who are threatening their island.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Jai Gangaajal (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, contemplative
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Incident in an Alley (1962)
Plot Summary:
A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14 year old boy, but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all. A stolen clarinet gives him a lead in his desperate hunt for the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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One Man Force (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Naked Tango (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, independent film
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an incestuous affair. Being short of money, he seduces a woman cop in order to sell her house.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, erotic, psychological
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Buford Pusser's final days; not only of his life, but also as Sheriff. It seems that times are changing, and the once adoring people of Pusser's town now fear him and feel like it's time to make a change. There are also some officials who feel the same way and are using every means to get rid of Pusser.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bad ending, grindhouse, independent film, southern gothic
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Hard Vice (1994)
Plot Summary:
A vice cop and her partner investigate a string of murders apparently tied to high-priced Las Vegas call girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Victim of Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
An SEC agent investigating $70M in missing funds and a murdered businessman gets involved with the man's wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Desperate Crimes (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the large industrial port of an Italian city - sailors, women, black market traffickers, sleazy nightclubs, and dingy narrow alleys make up a world of danger, where a young American girl vanishes without a trace while an Italian man tries to track her down. On the way, he encounters a strange group of characters: a beautiful and ambitious prostitute, a girl ravaged by drugs, and the ferocious Joe Nerescu who is battling against a rival gang so he can gain control of the port.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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China Dolls (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him. The problem with this film is it becomes so sleazy. There is nudity (not Ms. Yip), violence and forcible rape.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Johnny Barrows (1975)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Payback (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict tracks down the cop who put him away.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bloody Mama (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker (Shelley Winters) grows into a violently powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons, and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman (Don Stroud), who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred (Robert Walden), an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd (Robert De Niro), who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, bleak, neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, psychological, tense, rough
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Last Man Standing (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent detective Kurt Bellmore and going by the book just isn't going to be enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Hit Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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Martial Outlaw (1993)
Plot Summary:
A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Private Call (2001)
Plot Summary:
In order to avenge the murder of an old friend, a recently suspended female police officer goes undercover at an illegal gambling den where the winning prize is a night with one of the female staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, sexploitation film
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Phoenix (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, psychological, tense
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Good Morning, Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, neo noir
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Public Enemies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ma Barker (Theresa Russell) and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's "most wanted" list in the 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Hardcore (1979)
Plot Summary:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, disturbing, erotic, psychological, art house, retro, depressing, slasher, social, controversial
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Capone (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, cult classic, captivating, poliziottesco
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Beyond the Law (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir, retro, road movie, detective, bleak
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Hoodlum (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must resist against the invasion from merciless mobster Dutch Shultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: hood, stylized, neo noir, black and white, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever