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Plot Summary:
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Skate Or Die (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jérôme and Benjamin are two young skateboarders whose carefree existence is turned upside down when they witness the murder of a drug dealer. Rumbled by the assassins they manage to escape. Taking refuge in a police station they then discover that the criminals are actually the crooked cops. Then begins a relentless chase through the streets of Paris as Jérôme and Benjamin attempt to outwit their unscrupulous pursuers... Utilising real Paris locations and two of France's top street skaters, Skate Or Die is an adrenalin rush thriller for the Red Bull generation.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, fast
Similar in 82%
Uro (2006)
Plot Summary:
Turning his back on a delinquent past and joining the police force, HP is determined to start doing the right thing. Soon he finds himself trapped in a web of lies, stretching out from both sides of the law. HP soon realizes that his present mission is closely connected to his own past, and that everything he worked so hard to escape from, is coming back to haunt him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Blind Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
Similar in 82%
Billa (2007)
Plot Summary:
The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hit Team (2001)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop badly injured in a raid is blamed for the raid's failure and thrown out of the police department. His injuries result in his being paralyzed form the waist down, and doctors tell him that if he doesn't have an operation within a few months, the paralysis will be permanent. His friends in the police department decide that, since the underworld was responsible for their friend's injuries, the money for the operation should come from them, and they set out to get it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Similar in 78%
Rapid Fire (2006)
Plot Summary:
A desperate band of Militia men attempts a daylight bank robbery in the sleepy semi-rural City of Norco, California, and leads the local Police on the longest, most violent running gun battle in Law Enforcement history. Based on the true events.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film
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The Lookout (2012)
Plot Summary:
A major police operation to take down a notorious gang of bank robbers goes horribly wrong when a rooftop sniper opens fire, killing several police officers and causing an explosive distraction in which the robbers make their getaway. Commissioner Mattei launches a large-scale manhunt for the sniper and his team, and is thrown into the seedy Parisian underworld of criminals and fallen souls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, powerful, twisted, realistic, detective
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Dead Drop (2013)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a murderous rampage while trying to uncover the truth. Who threw him from the plane? Was it his best friend?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, action adventure, independent film
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Sleepless Night (2011)
Plot Summary:
Vincent is a crooked cop whose drug heist goes wrong when he is stabbed and the criminals he is robbing discover his identity. Vincent escapes with a huge bag of cocaine, but discovers his loot belongs to a powerful mob boss who kidnaps Vincent's son. Vincent has until the end of the night to return the stash and save his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, hood, crime drama, intelligent, realistic, fast
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Diamond 13 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful
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Johan Falk: National Target (2009)
Plot Summary:
Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who can clean the money of the dye pack that exploded while Johan Falk, and his colleagues at GSI, accelerate their hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense, rough, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Finish Line (2008)
Plot Summary:
Minor league stock car racer Mitch Camponella gets closer to his NASCAR dreams when he's hired as private mechanic to a millionaire importer. But Mitch's ambition comes with a heavy price when he realizes that his new boss is a smuggler who's using Mitch as a pawn in a deadly illegal arms trade.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Leak 2000 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic
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Harrigan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) and cutthroat gangsters with a penchant for murder Hawkins must risk everything in the most deadly race of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, action packed, fast
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Firestorm (2013)
Plot Summary:
A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam, armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in a crowded street. Whoever tries to get in their way, they will show no mercy. This puts the police force to shame and humiliation. A hardboiled senior police inspector Lui, hot on the trails of Nam and his tight crew, determines to put an end to this madness that causes the lives of innocent people. But he soon comes face to face with the cruel reality that the usual police tactics are too futile to send these armed thieves behind bars. Extreme crime requires extreme justice, even if it means crossing his moral line. Tou, an ex-con desperate to leave his criminal past behind, volunteers to be Lui’s snitch in exchange for a fresh start with her girlfriend Bing. But little does he know what hellish situation he’s getting himself into.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, hood, crime drama, realistic
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Mission Park (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from the rough side of town grow apart when two are consumed by a life of crime, and the other two become FBI agents sent deep undercover - to bring down those childhood friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, crime drama, serious, independent film
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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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R.I.F. (2011)
Plot Summary:
A policeman takes his family on a holiday, and after almost hitting a wild hog, the car won't start. They get hike with a guy scrutinizing his pretty wife. Shortly after, she disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Mea Culpa (2014)
Plot Summary:
Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, clever, twisted, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Ten Dead Men (2008)
Plot Summary:
You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in the process. Ryan decides that if he cannot escape then he must confront them head-on in what can only be called a desperate suicide run.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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The Informant (2013)
Plot Summary:
A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, bleak
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Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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If You Knew Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Eye in the Sky (2007)
Plot Summary:
The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from filmmaking duo Johnnie To and Nai-Hoi Yau. Of course, the criminal knows all along he's being watched. But that doesn't stop him from trying to pull off the biggest score of his career.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, action thriller, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 86%
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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Go Fast (2008)
Plot Summary:
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, crime drama, fast
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Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense, captivating, rough, realistic, independent film, non-linear