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Plot Summary:
Carlita's Secret begins with a young girl who unwittingly participates in a drug deal rip off. She goes into hiding from the police and the boyfriend she helped commit the rip off with. After years in hiding she becomes a successful nightclub performer under an assumed name. When a relentless detective reopens the investigation, Carlita is threatened with exposure. Will she run, or confront the ghosts from her past?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Illegal in Blue (1995)
Plot Summary:
A cop taking personal leave after he witnesses money stolen from the police property room becomes involved with a beautiful singer who may have killed her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, sexual, erotic
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A Time to Die (1991)
Plot Summary:
A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her investigation, finds that not everything, or everyone, is what they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Framed (2002)
Plot Summary:
New York detective Mike Santini (Rob Lowe) is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers (Sam Neill) a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic, surprise ending
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Fatal Call (2012)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a nightmarish roller coaster ride, accused of murder and running from the law and a mysterious stranger out to kill him. Surviving by quick thinking and his wits, Mitch must confront both his past and present and find a solution before time runs out!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Slow Burn (2000)
Plot Summary:
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A gambler, a Texas ranger and an FBI agent are investigating a series of vigilante murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Rage and Honor (1992)
Plot Summary:
Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassins Tale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three assassins deal with life, love, addiction and trust as each tries to find the answers to a better life. Together, they prove to be the most trustworthy in this tangled web of murder, greed, friendship and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic
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The Kill Reflex (1989)
Plot Summary:
Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from the police department, he vows to continue his mission to find the persons responsible for the assassination. Maud Adams plays his new police woman partner, who falls in love with him during their investigations. 'Soda Cracker' also has to deal with the fact that many of the police officers on the squad may be corrupt, and tries to break down the criminal network whilst finding evidence against Ivan Moss.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Death Toll (2008)
Plot Summary:
New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, neighborhoods and its people. Illustrating this dark chapter in the city's history is "Death Toll".
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, hood
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House of the Rising Sun (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ray, an ex-cop, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal past is exposed Ray hunts for the person responsible for this crime in an effort to clear his own name. Ray must get to the bottom of this as both the mob and cops start to close in on him as their target suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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The Cheating Pact (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three high school students that are under pressure from their parents to get into good colleges convince a shy but very smart girl to take the College Entrance Test for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Ambushed (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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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
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Dirty Little Trick (2011)
Plot Summary:
After picking up a beautiful young hitch-hiker, Michael Anderson finds himself living in his worst possible nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, non-linear, independent film
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Switch (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, surreal
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Proximity (2001)
Plot Summary:
When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, and then turns up dead the next day, Conroy realizes he is in more danger than he ever imagined. Conroy's suspicions are confirmed when the van carrying the inmates crashes. Seizing the opportunity, Conroy flees the scene and elicits the help of his lawyer. What the two discover is a grisly murder ring set up within the prison walls that incriminates those at the highest levels of the correctional system.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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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
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In the Shadows (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Federal Protection (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh, a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis, is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn't know it's with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie. Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, exciting
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Three Blind Mice (2001)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ruthless member of an up and coming crime syndicate named Alek Ravik (Al Sapienza). Knowing that Klebanov saw her, she faked her death, changed her name, and went into hiding in Philadelphia. When a crooked cop retires and young, eager Detective Miesen (Alain Chanoine) is chosen to head a new task force to tackle crime syndicates in Chicago, the unsolved murder case is reopened. Miesen believes that Kate/Stephanie is still alive and begins to look for her. Unfortunately, so does Alek.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic
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Sunset Heat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A former drug-dealer photojournalist (Michael Paré) returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner (Dennis Hopper).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Double Bang (2001)
Plot Summary:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Assassins Run (2013)
Plot Summary:
Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American businessman, is killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster, a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, crime drama, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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True Blue (2001)
Plot Summary:
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to understanding the victim is through one of her roommates, Nikki. Through Nikki and others, Macy learns of the victim's shady contacts at City Hall, the involvement of a gang of Asian drug runners, and the sordid affairs of one of the city's bigwigs. As Macy begins to understand how all these crimes fit together, he learns that his new friend Nikki is not an innocent bystander.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense, neo noir, serious, realistic
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Colour of the Truth (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Beautiful & Twisted (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Snitch'd (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but nobody is talking. And as McClure continues to dig for answers, it becomes clear that the two gangs are fighting for territory - and nobody is getting in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak