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Plot Summary:
Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Delta Fox (1979)
Plot Summary:
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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The Takers (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a breakfast of LSD and hitchhikers, The Takers--two berserk bikers--decide to go upscale when they spot suburban housewife Laura and bachelorette Barbi, follow them to Laura's home, and invite themselves in: "We're gonna have us a party with some educated social-type broads!" And party they do until Laura's hubbie (director Carl Monson) unexpectedly shows up to settle things with some shotgun vengeance and... well, one of the goofiest, most startling endings of any motion picture!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Date with a Kidnapper (1976)
Plot Summary:
A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: independent film, bizarre
Similar in 79%
Backstreet Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, cult film
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Sex Hunter: Wet Target (1972)
Plot Summary:
While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister. What he uncovers during his investigation is much more horrifying than he could ever imagine! Fueled by rage, he meets the killers one by one as the film explodes into an unbelievable climax of bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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Black Snow (1965)
Plot Summary:
Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a loaded gun. Later that night, he murders the GI before running amok through the building and finally slaying his mother's sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Pale Blue Balloons (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dave is a bad cop fighting a deadly heroin addiction while working a case deep inside the mafia. After killing numerous drug dealers and even undercover police officers for the mob, he is kept from his money for trivial reasons. As his drug problem gets worse, and Dave sinks deeper into a murderous lifestyle, he runs from the city to live with an old friend. But Dave can't hide for long, and he is soon lured back to town in a dangerous war to get his money back from the men that wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Sexy Killer (1976)
Plot Summary:
A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Return of Superfly (1990)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Born Bad (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers rob a bank, causing a deadly standoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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The Slams (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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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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Gone with the Pope (2010)
Plot Summary:
GONE WITH THE POPE stars Duke Mitchell as Paul, a gangster with an unholy scheme: to kidnap the pope and charge "a dollar from every Catholic in the world" as the ransom. Shot in 1975 as KISS THE RING, GONE WITH THE POPE was unfinished at the time of Duke Mitchell's death in 1981. Sage Stallone and Bob Murawski of Grindhouse Releasing rediscovered GONE WITH THE POPE in 1995 and vowed to save it from obscurity. Academy Award-winning film editor Murawski (THE HURT LOCKER, SPIDER-MAN 1,2 & 3) spent 15 years completing GONE WITH THE POPE from the surviving film elements.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, retro, grindhouse, independent film, freeze frame, exciting, contemplative, weird
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
Plot Summary:
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 82%
Route 9 (1998)
Plot Summary:
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Killers Three (1968)
Plot Summary:
America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, cult film
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Wrong Way (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult who plan to gang-rape the girls, then kill them. Meanwhile, the father of one of the girls gets the police to begin an investigation into their disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, independent film, cult film
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Deadbeat (1976)
Plot Summary:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Agitator (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, crime drama, crying
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Bloody Mama (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker (Shelley Winters) grows into a violently powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons, and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman (Don Stroud), who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred (Robert Walden), an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd (Robert De Niro), who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, bleak, neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, psychological, tense, rough
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Waters Rising (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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Diary of a Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife (Jain) of his client, but he starts to waiver. The longer he takes to do the job the more difficult it becomes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak
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Charlie Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide out with his estranged son, Danny, played by Michael Weatherly. What ensues reveals the true nature of some of the most unsavory of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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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
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Road Dogz (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days hanging out and playing basketball. But everything is about to change...when one of them gets involved with a dangerous drug dealer, all their lives are at risk and they must make some life and death decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, tragic ending, independent film, hood
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Belly (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale, neorealism
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Plot Summary:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, thought provoking, hood, cult classic, brutal, bleak, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Hoodlum (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must resist against the invasion from merciless mobster Dutch Shultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: hood, stylized, neo noir, black and white, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever