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Plot Summary:
On the run from a drug deal gone wrong, a beautiful young woman escapes across the border only to find herself trapped in a dangerous web of intrigue and deceit in old Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Girls for Rent (1974)
Plot Summary:
A team of girls go on a killing spree across the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, fast, independent film, sexploitation film
Similar in 89%
Dante's View (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sam, a young blonde from the wrong side of the tracks robs a sports memorabilia store with a friend who gets shot. She flees with the loot, some very rare cards related to baseball. When her car breaks down in a remote corner of California, she meets June, a young woman who dreams of change.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
Similar in 87%
Delusion (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man who has just embezzled money from his company is driving through the Nevada desert. He picks up a pretty girl and her seemingly goofy boyfriend. The girl is a Las Vegas showgirl and the boyfriend turns out to be a professional killer, and he has no intention of letting the motorist finish the trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, road movie, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
On the Border (1998)
Plot Summary:
A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to the charms of two different femmes fatales.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
29 Palms (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag changes hands numerous times, finding its way to the Drifter (Jeremy Davies) and the Waitress (Rachael Leigh Cook), among others. As the bag's journey continues, more characters, including the Cop (Michael Rapaport) and the Sheriff (Keith David), get drawn into the winding crime tale, and the search becomes increasingly desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast, romantic
Similar in 79%
If... Dog... Rabbit (1999)
Plot Summary:
Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live a normal life and gets work at a gas station. But soon his brother pays a visit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
The Box (2003)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him in prison. He meets a waitress who's also seen her share of trouble and they start up a tenuous relationship. Then there's a murder and things get complicated. It's noir so the plot isn't the main focus but the mood of the film is consistent and properly downbeat. The characters can't seem to shake the fate that hangs over them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 84%
Flipping (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Plot Summary:
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, harsh, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, crime drama, serious
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Saints and Sinners (1994)
Plot Summary:
After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Hard Luck (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Lewis & Clark & George (1997)
Plot Summary:
A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, road movie
Similar in 77%
Cold Around the Heart (1997)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
Similar in 87%
Detour (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it for two years. However the gang is double crossed by Mo and the mob begin to hunt them down, meanwhile Danny and his gang consider robbing the mill in his town.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, crime drama, independent film
Similar in 86%
Body Count (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, cult film
Similar in 78%
Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
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In the Shadows (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Federal Protection (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh, a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis, is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn't know it's with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie. Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, exciting
Similar in 85%
Sunset Heat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A former drug-dealer photojournalist (Michael Paré) returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner (Dennis Hopper).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bad Turn Worse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, tense, serious, suspense, rough, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 89%
Hollywood Flies (2005)
Plot Summary:
Life is the buzz.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, road movie
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Out of Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Spanish Judges (2000)
Plot Summary:
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, neo noir
Similar in 76%
Swerve (2011)
Plot Summary:
Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, road movie, suspense, black comedy
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Circus (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder on tape, saying Gloria isn't his wife - it's blackmail. Leo's bookie, Troy, is also closing in, wanting to be paid. Bruno and Lily as well as Bruno and Julius have their own scams running, and Leo is their target. Maybe Leo can get Troy off his back, avoid Moose (Bruno's huge enforcer), send Gloria's corpse out of England, turn the tables on Bruno's murderous brother Caspar, and outfox Lily. Or is Lily his fox? It's a three-ring circus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: stylized, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, clever, dark comedy, serious, psychological, noir
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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster, a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, crime drama, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Illegal Tender (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
The Outfit (1973)
Plot Summary:
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, exciting, suspense, retro, grindhouse, hood, cult classic, crime thriller
Similar in 79%
Catchfire (1990)
Plot Summary:
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, sentimental, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, alternative comedy, cult film