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Plot Summary:
The film follows warring political factions in 1970s Jamaica as they enlist the support of gangs to enforce their policies, and advance their political agenda. It is a fictionalized dramatization of real historical events, specifically, the Green Bay Massacre, where the government finally tracked down these gangs and had systematically wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film, period drama
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Avenge Every Second (2007)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Davy find themselves in a frightening position, when they realize that their employer, Miami Crime boss Ricky want them dead. They both escape hoping nobody will find them. But in four years time a lot can happen!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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 Harder They Come (1972)
Plot Summary:
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: cult classic, tense, road movie, exciting, rough, stylized, grindhouse, philosophical, political, hood
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Melinda (1972)
Plot Summary:
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: black cinema
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Silent Action (1975)
Plot Summary:
A small yet strange series of deaths of people working for the Ministry of Defense and the military hits Italy. Since all of the deaths seem to be accidental or suicides, no alarm bells start to ring anywhere. That's a problem, because the deaths are in fact murders and we the viewers the only witnesses. The Roman cop Solmi (Luc Merenda) is as unsuspecting as anyone else, until he is starting to investigate the death of the private detective Chiarotti.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Death Journey (1976)
Plot Summary:
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, detective
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Black Lolita (1974)
Plot Summary:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dancehall Queen (1997)
Plot Summary:
Street vendor Marcia is scraping together a living in the ghetto section of Kingston, Jamaica. Her young daughter is being hounded by a rich sugar daddy who has been supporting the family; her brother's life is being threatened by a local thug. So, when the licentious patron threatens to abandon the family, and her brother breaks down under pressure, Marcia hits bottom. She needs to escape to a haven where she can get lost in fantasy; Marcia, don in sex-me-up clothing and outrageous glamour, finds refuge in the beats of the very dance hall outside of which she normally vends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing, semi serious
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Countryman (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young woman crash-lands her plane in Jamaica. A local named Countryman rescues her and leads her away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, in order to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Drama
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: social, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
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Rockers (1978)
Plot Summary:
Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston plans to make some extra money selling and distributing records. He buys a motorcycle to carry them to the sound systems around the island.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious
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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 Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
Plot Summary:
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: political, deep, cult classic, aesthetic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, surprise ending
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Hammer (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, cult film
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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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Crimebusters (1976)
Plot Summary:
Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Kabali (2016)
Plot Summary:
A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, feel good, ambiguous ending
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Youngblood (1978)
Plot Summary:
A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, independent film
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Black Eye (1974)
Plot Summary:
An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, silent, silent film
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Bucktown (1975)
Plot Summary:
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local redneck policemen are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the redneck cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shaft in Africa (1973)
Plot Summary:
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: hood, exciting, rough, feel good, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, poliziottesco, sexy
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Hit! (1973)
Plot Summary:
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, detective, grindhouse
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Slaughter (1972)
Plot Summary:
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Trouble Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
It seems that masked men are knocking over the floating crap games of Chalky and Pete. Chalky and Pete hire the cool, loose, elegant Mr. T to fix things. Then, the masked manipulators set up the death of a collector for a rival gang lord. It looks like it's up to T to hold a gang war from breaking out, keep the police off his back, and earn his fee from Chalky and Pete.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crime drama, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
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The Drug King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Crack House (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge the killing of his brother by a rival gang. In the course of getting even, Rick is arrested, leaving Melissa without anyone to protect her. She falls in with a crack dealer and quickly becomes addicted to the drug. When she gets sold to a drug kingpin by a minor dealer to pay off a debt, only Rick can save her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, poliziottesco
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The Final Comedown (1972)
Plot Summary:
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, black cinema
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Shottas (2002)
Plot Summary:
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom. They remain bound to each other by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, exciting, epic, crime drama
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Yardie (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, inspirational, hood, powerful
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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)
Plot Summary:
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, hood, social, crime drama, epic
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Paid in Full (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, grim, neo noir