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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
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At Point Blank (2003)
Plot Summary:
A gang of highly efficient and cold hearted robbers strike against a number of banks in Stockholm. The investigation ends up with the criminal detective Klara and the SWAT commander Greger Krona, who together lead the hunt for the robbers. Their investigation takes them in a dangerous direction that proves to have unforeseen consequences. The hunt for the robbers is intense and their methods become more refined and terrifying. Klara ends up in the line of fire, both literally and figuratively, and the investigation takes her in a direction that she could never have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 81%
Good People (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Anna's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, neo noir, dramatic, teen, detective, interesting
Similar in 87%
The Strangers in 7A (1972)
Plot Summary:
Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife (Ida Lupino) are held hostage by the crooks, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery. Director Paul Wendkos stages the action essentially from the victim's point of view; we see only what they see, and are kept guessing as to the full details of the crime and the ultimate fate of the hostages. Based on a novel by Fielden Farrington, The Strangers in 7A was first telecast on November 14th, 1972 as a CBS Movie of the Week.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Rapid Fire (2006)
Plot Summary:
A desperate band of Militia men attempts a daylight bank robbery in the sleepy semi-rural City of Norco, California, and leads the local Police on the longest, most violent running gun battle in Law Enforcement history. Based on the true events.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film
Similar in 80%
The Wild Card (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no one is innocent in the end. Who will live and who will die... and who is The Wild Card?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 82%
The Hard Easy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 88%
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 82%
Cry in the Woods (2004)
Plot Summary:
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, tense
Similar in 87%
After the Storm (2001)
Plot Summary:
On the run from smugglers and the police, world-weary scavenger Arno (Benjamin Bratt) takes a job as a courier for a tycoon. But when the tycoon's yacht goes down in a storm, can Arno partner with a fellow sea scavenger to loot the ship's bounty? What awaits are diamonds, emeralds and gold. Guy Ferland directs this tropical noir film, which is based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Armand Assante co-stars.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Similar in 78%
Dad Savage (1998)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy, successful, East-Anglian tulip grower, Dad Savage is also something of a godfather in the local criminal fraternity but doesn't trust banks to take care of his money. On recommendation from his son, Sav, Dad hires two of Sav's unemployed school friends, Bob and Vic, to help with the business and the crime. After some careless talk from Harold, just known as 'H', about Dad's pension fund, Vic and Bob decide to steal the money from Dad if they can find it. The plans to liberate the money go awry and Sav is killed requiring Bob to call upon his sister Chris to rescue them. Dad intercepts their escape and forces a showdown to try to determine exactly the events of the night in order to identify his son's killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Headhunters (2011)
Plot Summary:
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, tense, clever, neo noir, intense, exciting
Similar in 81%
Carjacked (2011)
Plot Summary:
A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 83%
Puzzle (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially lucrative schemes. A planned bank robbery goes awry when a minor mistake leads to a hostage situation. The robbery is orchestrated by Hwan. When Hwan turns up dead at the designated meeting spot, the remaining men realize something is seriously wrong, and suspicion flares.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Surveillance (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Thick as Thieves (2009)
Plot Summary:
A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, clever, absurd, tricky, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, humorous
Similar in 75%
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
Similar in 78%
Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
Similar in 82%
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%
Ready 2 Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, crime drama, independent film
Similar in 87%
The Real McCoy (1993)
Plot Summary:
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex-husband she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, retro, realistic, stylized, semi serious, romantic, sexy
Similar in 75%
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%
Setup (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back what is rightfully his. When he finally comes face to face with his longtime friend he will be forced to make a life changing choice.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, fast, neo noir, hood
Similar in 90%
Electric Slide (2014)
Plot Summary:
A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a debonair sophistication and a serious talent for flirt, Dodson managed to lure money from mesmerized female tellers at over 60 banks during an epic spree in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
Similar in 90%
Beeper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Richard Avery, whose young son is kidnapped while they travel in India. Embarking on a desperate quest to rescue him, and with a beeper providing his only lead, Avery seeks help from unlikely sources, including a drug lord and a beautiful but dangerous woman named Julia.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, tense, bleak, realistic
Similar in 78%
Blackhat (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, intense, stylized, realistic, neo noir, political
Similar in 86%
Daylight Robbery (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
City of Industry (1997)
Plot Summary:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, hood, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
Similar in 75%
Armored (2009)
Plot Summary:
A crew of officers at an armored transport security firm risk their lives when they embark on the ultimate heist against their own company. Armed with a seemingly fool-proof plan, the men plan on making off with a fortune with harm to none. But when an unexpected witness interferes, the plan quickly unravels and all bets are off.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious, realistic, action packed, exciting, action thriller, crime thriller
Similar in 78%
Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense, captivating, rough, realistic, independent film, non-linear
Similar in 76%
The Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 410000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, serious, crime thriller, clever, neo noir, rough, stylized, action packed