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Plot Summary:
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, modern day adaptation
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Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964)
Plot Summary:
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Tomorrow's Child (1982)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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The Sign of the Cancer (1967)
Plot Summary:
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, poliziottesco
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The Borrowed Face (1965)
Plot Summary:
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, dark comedy, poliziottesco, campy
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Do We Match Each Other, Darling? (1975)
Plot Summary:
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Native (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: action adventure
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The Brain (1962)
Plot Summary:
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, medical horror
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The Killer Hides His Face (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives are not so clear. Two criminologists from Prague - Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) - patiently collect all available leads and question the villagers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Gina (2024)
Plot Summary:
After spending three years in jail, Juan goes free with the aim of recovering Eva's love. Zoe and Ismael, two ex-partners who he betrayed, will return to cross in his way.
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Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, crime drama, neo noir, queer cinema
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Coming Out Alive (1980)
Plot Summary:
A woman hires a contract-killer when her ex-husband kidnaps her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Escape from Segovia (1981)
Plot Summary:
Narrates the escape of 29 political prisoners, led by ETA, from Segovia prison. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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The Axe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Shades of Fern (1986)
Plot Summary:
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, period drama
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Operation Cobra (1978)
Plot Summary:
The three 13 year old friends lives close to the airport, and discovers that something fishy is going on around the time the American foreign minister is about to land.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Glass Cell (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Captain Khorshid (1987)
Plot Summary:
Captain Khorshid is a sailor who although only having one hand, manages to sail his little boat. In his village, due to its hot climate and hard living conditions, dangerous criminals are sent into exile. They want to escape from the area, so they ask a middleman to strike a deal with Khorshid. Khorshid is asked to illegally take them out of the country with his boat. At first he is reluctant, but because of the hardships of living he accepts the job.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Hard Time: The Premonition (1999)
Plot Summary:
Burt Reynolds plays Logan McQueen, the hardest and most fearless cop in Florida. A series of attacks begins to happen in Miami, everyone of them meticulously carried out by a person who seems to be an extremely lethal terrorist. Buildings, schools, public places, everything is destroyed by the bombs. When trying hopelessly to find and to destroy the terrorist, Logan McQueen ends up getting closer to a convict who says that he is capable to foresee the explosions. Now, Logan will have to team up with the man and find the terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997)
Plot Summary:
Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's rebellion group, the Udara, who, we discover, Susan was a part of. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrols in the police academy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Klinghoffer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Pursuit (1972)
Plot Summary:
What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping thriller. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, ER) "makes an impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) in this deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the stakes couldn't be higher! When government agent Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara) investigates political extremist James Wright (E.G. Marshall), he uncovers a diabolical plot to blast lethal nerve gas into San Diego during the Republican Convention. What's worse, a computer hacker (Martin Sheen) has provided Wright with a psychological profile to help him outwit Graves. As Wright ingeniously eludes Graves, can Graves find a way to stop him before the ultimate nightmare begins?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, adaptation directed by original author
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Dinner for Adele (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, detective, ambiguous ending, crying, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Cities of Last Things (2018)
Plot Summary:
This is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in the same city, as told with reverse chronology.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, China, France, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, neo noir
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Crime and Punishment (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, period piece, costume drama, existential, psychotronic
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United Red Army (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, bleak, political, anime, realistic, avant garde
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Il caso Moro (1986)
Plot Summary:
On March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Mogadischu (2008)
Plot Summary:
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified passengers throughout the harrowing ordeal. When terrorists sympathetic to the cause of the German Red Army Faction seize control of the flight, German chancellor Helmut Schmidt refuses to negotiate. Meanwhile, terrorist leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud" grows increasingly agitated, and the Yemeni government refuses to let the plane land on their soil. After Captain Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann) makes an emergency landing in the sand, he is brutally executed in front of the passengers by "Captain Martyr Mahmud" (Said Taghmaoui), who then forces the co-pilot to fly the plane to Somolia. Once there, counter terrorism measures quickly get underway as the passengers brace themselves for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, 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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Proximity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intellectual, mysterious, captivating, independent film
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The Day We Died (2020)
Plot Summary:
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing