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Plot Summary:
In Depression-era America, Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow over a cup of hot chocolate, and it was love at first sight. Their violent courtship took them through bank robberies, prison and a multi-state crime spree, securing their place in history as one of America's most notorious couples.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, freeze frame
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The Free World (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, realistic, contemplative, romantic drama
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Simple Men (1992)
Plot Summary:
Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas. D:"Long Island is a a terminal moraine." B:"What's that?" D:"It's the material left behind when a glacier recedes." D:"Gee, then what the hell are we waiting for?"D: "She's a bit jumpy..." B: "Jumpy women are great!".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, talky, witty, realistic, art house, independent film, clever, humorous, retro, esoteric
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Last Rites (1988)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to organized crime, and, surprisingly, so does Michael, whose father is a powerful don. When the priest finds himself falling in love with Angela, his religious vows and family ties are both severely tested.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, crying, weeping
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I'm Your Woman (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tricky, neo noir, entertaining, crying
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Anesthesia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, existential, crime drama, crying, independent film
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Flag Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)
Plot Summary:
Quasi-documentay on Bonnie and Clyde... Larry Buchanan style!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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The Sleepwalker Killing (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed while Mark was sleep walking. They build their defense around this theory.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crying
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Mercy Streets (2000)
Plot Summary:
Estranged twin brothers - one a con man, the other an Episcopal deacon - accidentally switch places... and find God in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, christian film
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, crying
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Hurricane Streets (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they shoplift and sell the wares to kids. One is moving toward selling drugs. Marcus wants to take a breather from the city and visit family in New Mexico. He also meets Melena, 14, a sweet kid who dreams of going to Alaska; her father is not just protective but angry and uncommunicative. The gang pressures Marcus to move up to burglary and car theft. He just wants to breathe open air. Can anything go right?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, clever, bad ending, sad, harsh
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The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, disturbing, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, psychological, stylized, slasher, depressing, controversial
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Running on Empty (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, thought provoking, serious, political, retro, feel good, entertaining, stylized, independent film
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Slingshot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, touching, exciting, light, captivating
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Dandelion (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn't do.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film, teen, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Queen & Slim (2019)
Plot Summary:
An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop. They kill the police officer in self-defense and rather than turn themselves in, they go on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sexy, neo noir, political
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Earthly Possessions (1999)
Plot Summary:
A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As things progress, she learns he pulled the robbery to get enough money to help his pregnant girlfriend leave a home for unwed mothers. The two have a brief flirtation, but it is clear the housewife just needs something to enliven her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, captivating, suspense, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, corny
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The Pigeon (1989)
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At an early age, Kishen, to provide a better life for himself and his younger brother Karan, entered the underworld. To prevent the same fate from happening to Karan, he sent him abroad, but before this had happened, Karan had fallen in love with his friend Prakash's sister, Paro. Years pass, and now Kishen is the henchman of Anna, a psychotic don. Karan returns to Bombay and immediately goes to meet Prakash, now an honest police officer. But Anna's men kill Prakash right in front of Karan, and he learns of his brother's involvement with Anna. Against Kishen's wishes, he joins Anna's gang and starts tipping off a rival gang. This is revenge for Prakash's death-by playing off one gang against the other, he hopes to exterminate both of them at the same time. In a desperate attempt to get Karan away from it all, Kishen gets him married to Paro. But when the couple are brutally killed on their wedding night, Kishen is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: cult classic, entertaining, serious, realistic, crying, weeping, cult film
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Hot Summer Nights (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, light, humorous, freeze frame, sexy, sweet, social, sex comedy, independent film
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The Brothers Bloom (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: witty, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, visually stunning, clever, stylized, suspense, inspirational, offbeat
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The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense, humorous, funny, dramatic, art house, cult classic, neo noir
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Badlands (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, rough, surreal, visual, art house, stylized, scenic, dark, poignant, grim
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White Boy Rick (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, hood, disturbing, retro, rough, neo noir, sad, independent film, non fiction, anamorphic
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Dillinger (1973)
Plot Summary:
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: noir, grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, dark comedy, independent film
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The Sugarland Express (1974)
Plot Summary:
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, cult classic, suspenseful, retro, sexy, offbeat, southern gothic, anamorphic, serious
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Public Enemies (2009)
Plot Summary:
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 315000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, exciting, factual, intense, serious, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, rough
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Plot Summary:
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, melancholic, heartbreaking, emotional, cult classic, visually stunning, independent film, atmospheric, stylized
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Jamesy Boy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, crying
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Appaloosa (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, stylized, serious, atmospheric, rough, realistic, epic, period piece, anamorphic
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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as the New Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, controversial, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, disturbing, captivating, grim, witty, black and white