Best movies like Company of Women
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Plot Summary:
The story is about a privileged young man named Al who kills a teenage girl, Belinda. He seeks a hiding place, and sanctuary is given by Julius, a friend who is a pimp in a whorehouse. While in the whorehouse, Al takes his enjoyment of one prostitute, Cita. One day, a woman named Isabel comes to the brothel and starts to work there. Al falls for the newcomer which angers Cita. Unknown to all, though, Isabel is actually the older sister of the murdered girl and her true intent is to avenge Belinda's death.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema
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The Looming Storm (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yu, a self-assured factory guard, fancies himself a detective and begins poking his nose into a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime
Country: China
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, suspense, disturbing
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Lovesick: Sick Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Julia is a hard-working girl with two jobs and a boyfriend, Istvan, who is a rock musician and always in trouble. When cocaine dealers threaten to kill him over a debt, she tries to help him come up with the money. This starts an unfortunate chain of events at her daytime job at the hotel, and brings her and the hotel manager, O'Ryan, closer together, or so it seems. Then, in his unrequited love for Julia, O'Ryan goes a step too far, way too far, and from there, things get very ugly!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, weird
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The Abusers of Virgin Girls (1983)
Plot Summary:
In São Paulo, the gang of the former pimp Marcus abducts another virgin woman late night. They trade the virgin girls with three wealthy sick old men that pay a little fortune to deflower the girls. Then the gang of sex maniacs kills the women and dumps their bodies in the backwoods. The police know that the gang has abducted sixteen women and they have already found ten bodies, but they do not have any lead to find the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Scramble (2017)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped by an underground prostitution ring, a neighborhood loser clashes with a pimp, Asian gangsters, and renegade killers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime
Country:
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Himeanole (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man plays matchmaker to his friend only to realize the girl being pursued is being stalked.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Fanny Straw-Top (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eros
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Crimes of Passion: Death of a Loved One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an island together with a group of friends, among them Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relationship, and he is the reason she says yes to the invitation. Having been out on a romantic spree with Einar, Puck finds one of the female guests murdered. Einar contacts his friend Christer Wijk, but upon Christer's arrival, the dead body has disappeared. The contact with the outside world is broken when the island's only boat goes missing. They are trapped on the island - and someone among them is a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, period piece
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Wretched Lives (2001)
Plot Summary:
A poor Filipino woman (Assunta de Rossi) tries to take care of her mentally handicapped sister amid the poverty and violence of the shantytown in which they live.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Eye Dick (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private-eye is on the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Flesh and Bullets (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men that meets in a bar in Las Vegas discovers that they have one big problem in common, their wifes. They decide to do something drastic about it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Valentin Valentin (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Vice Academy Part 3 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters in the Vice Academy try to thwart the crime wave wrought by escaped convict Malathion, who got her name after being exposed to toxic chemicals. An honest new recruit does such a good job at arresting Malathion's gang that the sisters are taken off active duty. To get their jobs back, they try to tarnish the new girl's reputation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Animal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on a rape case that happened to two sisters in Cebu, Visayas, Philippines in late 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Life Imprisonment (1988)
Plot Summary:
The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a friend and colleague named Toni, who advises him to visit a psychiatrist. At the same time, he encourages him to have a relationship with a colleague of theirs named Kaiti, who seems to be interested in him. But the police, who had been looking looking for the perpetrator all this time, finally appear.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 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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A Day Without Policemen (1993)
Plot Summary:
Simon Yam plays a former big city cop who had a very bad experince with an AK-47. So he's been assigned duty on one of the Hong Kong Islands as a police chief of a small village. He spends most of his time drinking beer and smoking hash while daydreaming. But when a group of thugs armed with AK-47's and .45's invade his terrain, he must over come his fear of that weapon to save his ex-wife and his fellow officers only armed with a .38 and a baton. Can Yam save the day?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
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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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The Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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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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Entanglement (2011)
Plot Summary:
A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, neo noir
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Intimate Relations (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy heiress that resides in Athens, is the victim of a robbery. Not only does her jewellery disappear but her maid is murdered while attempting to protect her. A police officer named Zaras is on the case. The primary suspects are ... an army of Laura's fans and Nelly, Laura's employer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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Sweet Sexual Awakening (1978)
Plot Summary:
Paul Dellis, a young self-made shipowner, has no time for anything other than high class call girls in a luxurious resort. The girl suppliers are a photographer and owner of a model agency, Werner, and his girlfriend Samantha. A rich woman, Tina, who spends her time at the same resort, fascinated by Paul arranges to visit him taking the place of Samantha. When Samantha is found dead, Tina disappears and all suspicions fall on Paul.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy
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Strange Girl in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
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Desperate Crimes (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the large industrial port of an Italian city - sailors, women, black market traffickers, sleazy nightclubs, and dingy narrow alleys make up a world of danger, where a young American girl vanishes without a trace while an Italian man tries to track her down. On the way, he encounters a strange group of characters: a beautiful and ambitious prostitute, a girl ravaged by drugs, and the ferocious Joe Nerescu who is battling against a rival gang so he can gain control of the port.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Massacre for an Orgy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Hunters of the Night (1984)
Plot Summary:
A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide to use the detective to accomplish their plans about the heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult film, cult movie cast
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Invisible Killer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Zhang Yao, the leader of the Haidao vice squad, accidentally captured suspect Gao Fei, who used a fake ID. According to his confession, Gao Fei is a player of the online game "World of Warcraft" and he once met a beautiful young woman Ju Yue at a party. They began to date. One night, Cheng Tao, Lin Yan's husband, unexpectedly found the saucy chat record between Gao Fei and his wife. In a blaze of anger, he posted an anonymous letter online condemning them . His story drew more attention than expected. Net-friends started a "cyber manhunt" and the private information of Gao Fei and Ju Yue were posted online. They also issued a wanted circular for Gao Fei and Ju Yue. To protect his family and himself, Gao Fei lost his job and hid on an island with a fake ID. After Gao Fei left the police station, Zhang Yao answered a call that a headless female body was found on the dock.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime
Country: China
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Bodywork (2001)
Plot Summary:
Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a dysfunctional family of thieves, unorthodox police procedure and some clever body work of his own, he sets out to clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, melancholic, independent film, offbeat, cynical
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Midnight Dancers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Joel (Alex Del Rosario), Dennis (Grandong Cervantes) and Sonny (Lawrence David) work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tagalog, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual, neorealism, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic