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Plot Summary:
Justina is a fifteen years old girl who lives with her mother and stepfather in Mexico City. In her sexual-awakening, she starts flirting with the only man in her life, her stepfather, causing the accidental murder of her mother and stepfather. Shocked, she runs away from home, crazy, just dressed with her nightgown. Ivan, a police detective who practices torture as daily routine and is reduced to the rank of street cop, looks for her all night long.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Tillers (2008)
Plot Summary:
The plot of the movie unfolds through the testimonials of three young sisters: Uring, Luray, and Elya, who recount the grisly sexual molestation they experienced from their adoptive father Timo. The title was taken from the sisters' work as stone tillers in a quarry where most residents earn their living. Apart from being an alcoholic and gambler, Timo is a sex pervert.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspenseful, sentimental
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Gangsters (2002)
Plot Summary:
Franck Chaievski and Nina Delgado are two undercover detectives of a French special force trying to identify two corrupts members of the Paris Police Force. Franck is pretending to be a gangster and Nina a prostitute living with him, and involved in a robbery of a fortune in diamonds, having seven deaths and some injured persons.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, erotic, neo noir
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Stop It! (1980)
Plot Summary:
Filmen tar utgangspunkt i en faktisk hendelse i Oslo i 1975. To 16 år gamle gutter har stjålet en bil og blir oppdaget av politiet. Etter en dramatisk biljakt forsøker guttene å stikke av til fots. En politimann trekker imidlertid våpen fra 20 meters hold og skyter den ene av guttene i ryggen slik at han dør. Filmen handler om Reinert, kammeraten til han som ble skutt. Reinert er ferdig med ungdomsskolen og arbeidsløs som de fleste av vennene. Han går å slenger, røyker litt dop, er sammen med gjengen og er misfornøyd. Egentlig ønsker han seg en jobb, ikke en slik drittjobb som moren har. Reinert møter Siri, en jente med fast jobb og mer bestemte meninger enn det som er vanlig i gjengen. Drapet på kalle har gjort Reinert mer samfunnsbevisst, Siri er med på å utvikle holdningene hans. Noe som er positivt for den kommende rettsaken.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Game Over (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain, UK, Sweden
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, rough, bleak, erotic
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Bomb City (2017)
Plot Summary:
A crime-drama, about the cultural aversion of a group of punk rockers in a conservative Texas town. Their ongoing battle with a rival, more-affluent clique leads to a controversial hate crime that questions the morality of American justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, psychological, bleak, suspense, social, hood, art film, mind twisting, mindfuck
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Real Men (2003)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's determination to solve the three-year-old case of an abducted schoolboy leads him to uncover a web of systematic abuse that is threatening to destroy the lives of vulnerable children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, touching
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Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer (2021)
Plot Summary:
Multimillionaire Steven Beard, a retired broadcasting executive, who fell hard for Celeste , an attractive waitress who served him his nightly cocktail at the local country club in Austin, Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional
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Waters Rising (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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Rhino (2012)
Plot Summary:
An NFL veteran who's become a college-town drug kingpin takes in a protégé, but eventually the relationship turns volatile and deadly.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Paris by Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, noir, crime drama, tense, rough, realistic
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Nattbuss 807 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kalle, en kille i 18-års åldern har hamnat lite snett i livet. Han umgås mest med främlingsfientliga personer. Carlos är en kille i 16-års åldern, han har bott i Sverige större delen av sitt liv med sin mor och hennes äldre bror. Hans pappa är kvar i hemlandet Bolivia. Carlos och hans bror är med i ett mindre gäng bestående mest av invandrare. Filmen handlar om konflikten mellan Kalle och Carlos, samt deras respektive gäng, en konflikt med tragiska konsekvenser.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, cult film
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Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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I Killed My BFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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She Made Them Do It (2013)
Plot Summary:
"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller
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The Preppie Connection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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A Killer Among Friends (1992)
Plot Summary:
The film tells why a girl was killed by two of her best friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, neo noir, slasher, teen
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Rivals (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, teen, mind bending, realistic
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Concrete (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, crying
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Roberto Succo (2001)
Plot Summary:
'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly strange dates with Léa, Kurt engages in a number of armed robberies, some successful, some not... The police are perplexed by a series of crimes including disappearances and a murder. They conclude that they are dealing with a madman... After he proposes, Léa breaks up with Kurt. The attempt to find a new girlfriend leads to a shooting by Kurt, now calling himself André. Léa's information identifies Kurt/André as Roberto Succo, psychiatric patient and parental murderer. The police hunt for Roberto covers three countries.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: rough, melancholic, suspenseful, captivating
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Bloodlines (2005)
Plot Summary:
After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just released. After the autopsy concludes asphyxiation, she comprises friendly DC Jake Bannerman's official investigation by rash actions against procedure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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The Enemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Jack (2015)
Plot Summary:
Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Onion Field (1979)
Plot Summary:
Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy scheme. They drive out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, where one cop is killed and the other escapes. The film explores the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, rough, serious, disturbing, detective, bleak, emotional
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Beautiful & Twisted (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Night Stalker (2016)
Plot Summary:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, psychological horror, psychotronic
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011)
Plot Summary:
It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Down Terrace (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, dark comedy, captivating, psychological, suspense, neo noir, dark, hood, rough, humorous
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The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful
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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
Plot Summary:
The disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, touching, rough, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, tense