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Plot Summary:
Crime - Nick writes a scathing biography of feared Russian mobster Ivan the Terrible that threatens to destroy the hit man's world, leading to an all-out war between the two men that culminates in torture and murder. - Danny Naten, Jerry Katz, Lloyd Sherr.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Nixer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two petty criminals, tired of living on the breadline and begging for scraps, decide to branch out on their own into a life of crime. They pull off their first job but quickly realize they've messed with the wrong person. Time is now running out as they try to escape retribution.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Crime
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Station (2001)
Plot Summary:
A seriously wounded gangster with a bag full of money stops at a deserted gas station.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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This Killing Business (2013)
Plot Summary:
Climb inside the mind of a sociopath; an office worker kills his way into management but gets into trouble with his talkative girlfriend and a corrupt detective. Jim Collins has decided to kill his way to the top. He begins by strangling Harry, his manager, one night on an abandoned highway. Complications emerge when, at Harry's wake, Jim learns Gail, his girlfriend, had slept with Harry months ago. Being interrogated by the intimidating detective Scott Hume doesn't help things either. Jim's psychosis kicks into high gear when he decides that Gail, who knows that Jim killed Harry and is going to tell the cop, has to be terminated.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Random Acts of Violence (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a young man new in town, the impressionable Chris Donds (Esteban Powell), is drawn into the super wealthy scene of Los Angeles after dark, he confuses his morals and beliefs for absolution and opportunity... the life that dreams as fast as it lives. His new lifestyle of carousing and daredevil brushes with the law leads up to an entanglement with the Russian mafia. Soon, Chris finds that his wealth cannot protect him and his friends from the retribution coming their way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film
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Joe Petrosino (2006)
Plot Summary:
Italian drama starring Beppe Fiorello, Sebastiano Lo Monaco and Anna Ammirati.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Scramble (2017)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped by an underground prostitution ring, a neighborhood loser clashes with a pimp, Asian gangsters, and renegade killers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime
Country:
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Acapulco Gold (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this rollicking adventure set on the high seas, an innocent insurance agent working on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai, is framed as a drug smuggler. He gets help from a most unlikely source - the town drunk who knows more than anyone suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Fanny Straw-Top (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eros
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Crack (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Strip Club Slayer (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a strip club goer is killed, the dancers hire a bouncer to protect themselves. As the sexual tension grows between one of the women and the bouncer, the mystery of the dangerous killer unravels.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, sensual
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Dead Eye Dick (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private-eye is on the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Flesh and Bullets (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men that meets in a bar in Las Vegas discovers that they have one big problem in common, their wifes. They decide to do something drastic about it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Kill-Off (1989)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a sultry stripper named Danny Lee (Cathy Haase). Danny Lee's act soon turns the head of Ralph, which is not good news for his bed-ridden wife Luanne (Loretta Gross). Luanne's nasty talent is her gift for gossip, and when she begins to suspect that Ralph has adultery on his mind, she starts spreading more ugly rumors that have just enough basis in fact to stick. Soon things spin out of control and a wave of violence begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, eighties, cult film
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Permanent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Brother's Badge (2023)
Plot Summary:
Detective Michael Glade, with the San Antonio police department, has wandered onto the dark side and has run afoul of the Mexican Mafia. He battles his family and feelings while riding his collision course to its ultimate outcome.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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American Fetish (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the son of an alleged killer inherits a "blue movie" that may be the key to solving a 50 year old murder, he finds himself drawn into a forbidden world of sexual obsession. But the closer he gets to the heart of the mystery, the more the past threatens to reach out into the present and reveal terrifying truths that lead him to the brink of madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 79%
American Dreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, non-linear, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Hong Kong Godfather (1991)
Plot Summary:
When the boss of a highly profitable Triad family is forced to flee from Hong Kong, rival gangs swoop in to steal any piece of the action they can. York Koo (Andy Lau) becomes the family's acting boss, and must do what he can to handle the difficult situation, with mounting pressure from both the Hong Kong police, and rival families.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama, poliziottesco
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Entanglement (2011)
Plot Summary:
A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, neo noir
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Underbelly Blues (2011)
Plot Summary:
Uforic, a cowardly gangster rapper, hitches a ride with York, a redneck who takes him out to the desert to execute him for fun. But before York is able to pull the trigger, Uforic tells him about a secret transaction involving a mysterious briefcase and a large amount of cash. This sets into motion a series of events that will inevitably involve much of the L.A. underworld and may just bring down corporate America. York tells Queel, a dirty cop, who tells Lucy, a homicidal stripper and is overheard by Carl Mauve, the greasy club owner, who hires Smith and Wesson, a pair of bungling thugs, who have it stolen from them by Norman, a pickpocket with a Jewish Dominatrix mother, who brings it to Dr. Zeus, a local Meth cook, who might just be able to solve the secret of the briefcase. Meanwhile an insane, bloodthirsty hit man named Versetti, working for a large multinational corporation, will stop at nothing to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, hood, exciting
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 87%
And Then You Die (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
Similar in 84%
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King (1995)
Plot Summary:
Al is caught between his loyalty to the police force and his love for his brother in a tense setting. It seems that his brother, Rudy, was involved in a mob hit that could potentially start a gang war. Tony C., a local mob boss and childhood acquaintance of Al, hires him to find out who was involved in the hit. Al must find his brother and make some decisions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 78%
The Assassin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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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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The Black Godfather (1974)
Plot Summary:
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 82%
Jamaican Mafia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jamaican Gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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8 of Diamonds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diamond heist goes wrong when one of the thieves gets shot during the escape after swallowing a priceless diamond. Deception, blackmail, and murder schemes overshadow the lives of the eight people left chasing the diamond.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film
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The Funeral (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film, philosophical, hood, tense, rough, clever, serious, captivating
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2017)
Plot Summary:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing