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Plot Summary:
MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Egypt, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: noir, british noir
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Jack Of Diamonds (1967)
Plot Summary:
A cat burglar (George Hamilton) replaces his mentor (Joseph Cotten) and joins a woman (Marie Laforêt) and her stepfather on a necklace caper in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Murph the Surf (1975)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called the "Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th Century," the robbers took 22 precious gems, including the Star of India, the 100.32-carat de Long Ruby and the 16.25-carat Eagle Diamond, stones so famous they would be impossible to sell.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Traitor's Gate (1964)
Plot Summary:
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 76%
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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Cuore cattivo (1995)
Plot Summary:
After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
Plot Summary:
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Wild Is the Wind (2022)
Plot Summary:
When two corrupt police officers investigate the brutal murder of a young girl, tensions come to a head in their small, racially-segregated town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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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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And Hope to Die (1972)
Plot Summary:
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, euro western, poliziottesco, french noir
Similar in 78%
Snow Job (1972)
Plot Summary:
A famous skier (Jean-Claude Killy), his mistress (Danièle Gaubert) and a ski instructor (Cliff Potts) rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Any Number Can Win (1963)
Plot Summary:
Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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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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Payroll (1961)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: noir, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, poliziottesco, british noir, cult film
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The Lawbreakers (1961)
Plot Summary:
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir
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The Dictator's Guns (1965)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the "Dragoon" is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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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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Grand Slam (1967)
Plot Summary:
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized, eurospy
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Cool Breeze (1972)
Plot Summary:
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, black cinema
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Once a Thief (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
Similar in 86%
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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The Padre (2018)
Plot Summary:
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
Similar in 87%
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Plot Summary:
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia suggests that a better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le Goff is using all the available resources to thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful, Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling with Manalese's daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, french noir
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 80%
Choice of Arms (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Normal Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
Chris Anderson and his wife Pam live a fairly normal life until Chris loses his job on the police force and secretly turns to robbing banks to make his wife's dreams come true. Upon discovering his secret, she joins his deadly crime wave and together they terrorize an unsuspecting suburban town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, erotic, exciting, sexy, enigmatic, unusual plot structure
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cynical, noir, tense, retro, heartbreaking, hood, crime drama, crime thriller, atmospheric
Similar in 84%
The Red Circle (1970)
Plot Summary:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a heist against impossible odds, their trail is pursued by a relentless inspector, and fate seals their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir, cerebral, visual, detective, atmospheric, clever
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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