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Plot Summary:
Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Holy Year (1976)
Plot Summary:
The last film of Jean Gabin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Destruction Force (1977)
Plot Summary:
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Society Murders (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout Australia and later became the subject of both a book and a television film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Carla Cametti PD (2009)
Plot Summary:
Carla Cametti PD is a six-part Australian television crime series that was announced in April 2008 and first screened on SBS TV on 8 January 2009. The series of six episodes is produced by Buon Giorno Productions Pty Ltd. The show revolves around a young female Italian-Australian private detective named Carla Cametti who is investigating her own mafia family. Carla is played by Diana Glenn. The DVD has been released in Region 4 only.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Necessity (1988)
Plot Summary:
A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really wants is custody of their daughter. She hatches a plan to abduct her daughter and take her to safety. Meanwhile, her husband dispatches someone to find and eliminate her. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Pardon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Toni Jo tries to break her husband, Cowboy, out of prison and becomes an instant sensation due to her beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Weatherman '69 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Featuring a cast that includes Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore, Mike Watt of the legendary hardcore band Minutemen, and Pettibon himself, this deadpan narrative pays dubious homage to the 1960's radical underground. In this crudely rendered home video of a commune of stoned revolutionaries, the cameras are hand-held, the edits in-camera, and the dialogue is wryly on-target. Pettibon's band of outsiders reenacts a countercultural moment defined by rock music, drugs, and ideological paradox — and in so doing, captures their own late-80's West Coast grunge milieu as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film, experimental
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The State-Mafia Pact (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story about how the pact beetween Italian State and Mafia was inked with innocence blood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking
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La banda Vallanzasca (1977)
Plot Summary:
Convict Roberto murders a guard and escapes from jail with his cellmate. Once free he joins a group of gangsters and becomes a professional hitman. The gang abduct a young woman and when one them attacks her, Roberto shoots him and takes her to an abandoned farm house….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Petos (1988)
Plot Summary:
The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Killing Field (2014)
Plot Summary:
A task force is sent to a small country town to investigate a shocking crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, detective
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G.B.H. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Damien, a London copper has a past he's trying to forget. Before joining the force he ran with a football firm, getting involved in tear-ups up and down the country. Now he's on the other side of the law and faces a tough decision, side with his old crew or protect London as it burns and rioters run amok. Falling in love with fellow cop Louise, he is quickly alerted to a street-level uprising that is about to shake London. Amidst the brutalities presented by the riots, he fights for justice at Louise's expense. Having been raped by a rioter known to him, Damien finds himself levelling with the rioters, fighting a war he cannot win, as much against the rioters as against himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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Final Vision (2017)
Plot Summary:
Capt. Jeffery McDonald is convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1979 for the murders of his wife and two children at their Fort Bragg home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Good Father: The Martin MacNeill Story (2021)
Plot Summary:
Weeks after his wife's suspicious death, Dr Martin MacNeill moves in his mistress under the guise of a live-in nanny. Shocked by her father's actions, his daughter begins to question everything she's known about him while uncovering a web of lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
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Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
Plot Summary:
Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf (Jack Palance), wish to sever ties with organized-crime, leave the drug world behind and concentrate on music. However they are coerced into doing one last job for the Mob. They lose the $2 million of cocaine, and find themselves marked men unless they can fulfill their obligations.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Boys (1998)
Plot Summary:
Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, thought provoking
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This Is a Hijack (1973)
Plot Summary:
A man feels obligated to hijack the plane his boss is on after he has gambled himself into overwhelming debt.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where organised gangs withdraw hundreds of thousands of pounds from cash machines every night. As Mike becomes seduced by the money and women that come with his new lifestyle, the dangers increase and he soon finds events spiralling beyond his control.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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The Stranger (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, dramatic, detective
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Catching Milat (2015)
Plot Summary:
A two-part mini-series following the police effort in the 1990s to catch serial killer Ivan Milat, who kidnapped, tortured and killed backpackers along the Hume Highway before disposing of their bodies in the Belanglo State Forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful
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The Broken Shore (2013)
Plot Summary:
An evocative crime thriller that captures the chilling action and sharp wit of Peter Temple's acclaimed novel The Broken Shore. In this gripping adaptation, Detective Joe Cashin uncovers a web of lies, betrayal and police corruption in a small coastal town where tensions are at boiling point and the shocking face behind the community's respectable mask is slowly unveiled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Fat Tony & Co (2014)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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Masked Mobsters (2007)
Plot Summary:
From petty theft on the benches of Belleville to the over-publicised hold-ups of the large Parisian banks, this is the spectacular rise of Simon and his gang. They are capable of emptying a series of safes under the very nose of the police who are bewildered by the calm audacity shown by the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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3 Acts of Murder (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. This true story resulted in one of Australia’s most sensational murder trials of the 1930’s and catapulted Upfield’s name onto the world stage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Morrison Murders: Based on a True Story (1996)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife and their youngest son are murdered in this true story. Their two other sons are left to cope with their loss, but the local sherrif begins to suspect that one of the brothers committed the crime, and must convince the other to help him discover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Who Killed JonBenét? (2016)
Plot Summary:
The disturbing true story of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old beauty queen whose murder in her Colorado home remains unsolved.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993)
Plot Summary:
Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the bravery and the wit of the old driver could spoil their plan for the perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (2002)
Plot Summary:
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the torso of her missing husband, John, Evelyn is arrested for his murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, mind bending, talky, tension, cerebral, thought provoking
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G@me (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
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