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Plot Summary:
30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Diamonds (1975)
Plot Summary:
Richard Roundtree (SHAFT), Robert Shaw (JAWS) and $100 Million of the Hottest Rocks in the World!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, Israel, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Winter's Flower (1978)
Plot Summary:
Kanno (Ken Takakura) is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however... the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed! A powerful motion picture about honor and the violent ways of the Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: epic, thrilling
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In the Shadows (2010)
Plot Summary:
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career criminal whose latest job slowly catches up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Paul (1974)
Plot Summary:
After 7 years spent in jail Paul (Paul Lyss) is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return.Nothing really changes and soon he finds himself spaced out drunk at some posh party and eventually ends up wielding a big gun.Hand held Camera movements in best Dogma-95 style and nervous cut makes it an interesting 70's euro crime flick.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Young Dillinger (1965)
Plot Summary:
The 1930s outlaw (Nick Adams) teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd (Robert Conrad), Baby Face Nelson (John Ashley) and Homer Van Meter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Heist (1961)
Plot Summary:
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Ninja Powerforce (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a struggle for supremacy, two childhood buddies are caught on opposite sides of a deadly gang war. Their capture and subsequent release by the police sparks off another confrontation between the notorious Red Ninjas and the Golden Ninja Empire. A titanic struggle unfolds in NINJA POWERFORCE.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Summer in the City (1971)
Plot Summary:
Released from prison a man wanders through a new reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: student film
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Gods of the Plague (1970)
Plot Summary:
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, neo noir
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The Searchers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jocke has grown up in one of Stockholm's rough suburbs. Nowadays he spends the daytime getting into trouble at school and going into Stockholm in the evenings and getting into even more trouble. After being sentenced to prison he meets Tony. After their release they begin a series of robberies.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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9 mm (1997)
Plot Summary:
The suburb that is a society in a society, a place where young guys do anything for respect. A place where criminality and violence is a part of life. The movie is about Malik, a guy without family and land of origin, and who has made crime and violence to a part of his life. Both to win respect, and to support himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic
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One Way Out (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, but finds that he may have taken on more than he can handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Second Breath (1966)
Plot Summary:
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The implosive Le deuxième souffle captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, black and white, crime drama, exciting, atmospheric, clever, bleak, serious, realistic
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Family Business (1989)
Plot Summary:
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, serious, realistic, tense, light, clever, touching, emotional, suspense, entertaining
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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
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Bad Luck Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined in this acclaimed drama from Finland. Ali (Jorma Tommila) is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working out at a gym with his brother Pulu (Tommi Eronen). Ali spends most of his day stoned on marijuana, while Pulu is known to drink cleaning products when he's run out of booze. Ali has fallen in love with Inka (Maria Jarvenhelmi), a bright woman with a mind of her own, and her independent nature occasionally throws him into a fit of jealousy. Bad Luck Love was the first film to be nominated in all 12 categories at the Jussis Awards, the Finnish Academy Awards.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, serious, gloomy
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Robbery (1967)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: noir, action thriller, independent film, british noir, cult film
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A Bunch of Bastards (2021)
Plot Summary:
An isolated villa, a family just like the others. Michele has remarried beautiful Damiana, and lives with her and her daughter Fiore, a seductive teen with whom he has an intricate relationship. In the middle of the night, Sergio, an ex-con, bursts in the villa and abducts the family. his mission: retrieve and bring back to Caligola, the man who hired him, some important documents, now seeminlgy buried somewhere in the greenhouse near the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dixieland (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
Plot Summary:
A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the loot and trying to avoid capture by the police, who are pouring all their resources into capturing the robbers. Based on a real-life 1950 Brinks Armored Car Co. robbery in Boston.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Tunnel (2004)
Plot Summary:
A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Infidus (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the suburbs of Rome, two disparate lives with only desire for vengeance and redemption in common find their destinies intertwined. Massimo's mind is plagued with images of his wife's violent death at the hands of a criminal gang involved in the production of snuff films. With every memory of the woman he loved replaced by unforgettable images of her horrific final moments, Massimo sees only one chance to take back his life: find the wealthy individual who commissioned the sickening murder - and make them pay. Barabba, a recently released convict, hopes to keep a promise he made to his father and start a new life with his brother, Spaccio, far from the violent world that they used to inhabit. Discovering that his brother is involved in the snuff gang, Barabba seeks to change things the only way he knows how: through violence and bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, bloody, psychological, tense, suspenseful, hood
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Inside Out (2011)
Plot Summary:
For the last thirteen years AJ (Triple H) has been behind bars, convicted of manslaughter for killing a man who intended to kill his best friend, Jack (Michael Rapaport). Now released, AJ wants nothing more than to start a small business and live a crime-free life. Unfortunately, within hours of leaving prison, his oldest and best friend, Jack (Michael Rapaport) involves AJ in an accidental shooting in which a man is killed, forcing Jack to skip town.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, serious, realistic
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Five Thirteen (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to protect his young daughter from an unforgiving ex. But the justice that awaits him on the streets is far worse than anything Mike had experienced in prison. His older brother Tre begrudgingly agrees to one last "delivery", attempting to free Mike and his new girlfriend from the grips of the criminal underworld. What transpires is a wild misadventure where multiple lives unknowingly intersect, and where decisions are made that will haunt everyone forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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8-Ball (2013)
Plot Summary:
8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, gloomy, detective
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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
Plot Summary:
After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother, but soon shadows from the past start to appear.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, suspense
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Virgil Bliss (2001)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of a long stretch in prison, Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) vows to go straight in this gritty, character-driven drama. But finding a job, a wife and a sense of purpose doesn't come easy when you're living in a halfway house surrounded by junkies and thugs. Things start to look up when Virgil falls for Ruby (Kirsten Russell), a prostitute and fellow lost soul, but her drug addiction stands in the way of his shot at a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film
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Straight Time (1978)
Plot Summary:
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, cynical, crime drama, contemplative, independent film, tension
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McVicar (1980)
Plot Summary:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, independent film, cult film
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Road Dogz (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, tragic ending, independent film, hood