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Plot Summary:
Lonely, unstable gas station attendant Melinda is tired of being overshadowed by her more confident, outgoing co-worker Sheila. When the gas station is held up at gunpoint by Billy, a desperate man in need of quick cash, Melinda finds an opportunity to make a connection with the robber, regardless of who gets hurt.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, philosophical, political, weird
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Pixie (2020)
Plot Summary:
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
IDI: Inspector Dawood Ibrahim (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Dawood, who wishes to don the cop uniform right from his childhood. He grows up to be a straight-laced, passionate policeman, who is sent off to a sleepy border suburb Kollanahalli for his first posting. An unexpected turn of events presents him an opportunity to prove himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Ca$h (2010)
Plot Summary:
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, intelligent, realistic, fast, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 87%
Clover (2020)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Jackie and Mickey along with a teen witness Clover find themselves on the run from the city’s most notorious crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
Similar in 84%
The Toll (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin’s investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading for the booth at exactly the wrong time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 88%
A Killer Conversation (2014)
Plot Summary:
On the same day a burglar wants to kill you and your ex wants to make up - and for the life of it, you can't decide which is worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 81%
68 Kill (2017)
Plot Summary:
Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, exciting, tense, serious, suspense, romantic, captivating, neo noir, bloody, splatter
Similar in 86%
I Care a Lot (2020)
Plot Summary:
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, suspense, twisted, tense, captivating, semi serious, clever, psychological, funny, intellectual
Similar in 84%
Reckless (2018)
Plot Summary:
A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
Similar in 87%
Federal Bank Heist (2011)
Plot Summary:
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating
Similar in 89%
Paint It Red (2019)
Plot Summary:
A pair of bank robbers knock off Bohemian tenants in search for their stolen loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Pawn (2013)
Plot Summary:
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, independent film
Similar in 77%
Finish Line (2008)
Plot Summary:
Minor league stock car racer Mitch Camponella gets closer to his NASCAR dreams when he's hired as private mechanic to a millionaire importer. But Mitch's ambition comes with a heavy price when he realizes that his new boss is a smuggler who's using Mitch as a pawn in a deadly illegal arms trade.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Paydirt (2020)
Plot Summary:
A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen a decade ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 87%
Junction (2012)
Plot Summary:
Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 85%
No Good Deed (2002)
Plot Summary:
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, neo noir, suspense, talky, stylized, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense
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Street Thief (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kaspar Carr is a professional burglar who lives and works in Chicago. Carr loves his job and is good at it, and two documentary filmmakers are granted access to his private world when he agrees to let them make a film about him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, psychological, crime drama, crime thriller, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Dutch Book (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Florida teenager launches a scheme to pay off his father's gambling debts.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Mad Money (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, sweet, teen, offbeat
Similar in 75%
Wheelman (2017)
Plot Summary:
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, noir, neo noir, interesting
Similar in 82%
The Hatton Garden Job (2017)
Plot Summary:
In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. With the stolen property having a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English history".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 88%
Hard Boiled Sweets (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
The Perfect Host (2010)
Plot Summary:
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, surreal, intense, black comedy, entertaining, dark comedy
Similar in 85%
Locked In (2021)
Plot Summary:
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense
Similar in 83%
The Ladykillers (2004)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, absurd, bad ending, hilarious, clever, light
Similar in 85%
Blowback (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a master thief is sabotaged during a bank heist and left for dead, he seeks revenge on his former crew one target at a time. Now, with the cops and the mob closing in, he's in the race of his life to reclaim an untold fortune in cryptocurrency from those who double-crossed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Dead Draw (2016)
Plot Summary:
25 million dollars, 8 safety deposit boxes, and months before anyone will know it’s gone. But Harrison’s perfect heist turns deadly when his safe-cracker, Mack, discovers their getaway pilot brutally murdered. Someone knew about the job, someone set them up. Stranded in a frozen hangar, held hostage by someone outside, loyalty turns to suspicion and friends turn to enemies. Now it’s a race against time as the band of thieves try to uncover the rat and escape their troubled pasts…if they can survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 89%
Luck of the Draw (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack Sweeny is a young man just trying to get a job. Turned down at another bank due to his criminal record he meets a girl, Rebecca, but also witnesses a 3 way shootout between 2 groups of criminals and the cops over a suitcase containing perfect plates for counterfeiting bank notes. Jack grabs the plates and attempts to sell them via his friend Zippo. However with at least three different groups ready to kill him for the plates, Jack finds it's just one double cross after another.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
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Panic Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, psychological thriller, stylized, psychological, tricky, suspense thriller, scary
Similar in 79%
Rust Creek (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, philosophical, bloody, political, disturbing