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Plot Summary:
Desperate to turn his life around, a hard-luck gambler risks everything to sell stolen casino chips to a ruthless gunslinger. It's the worst bet of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, independent film, detective, neo western
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Into the Ashes (2019)
Plot Summary:
With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most - his wife - he has nothing left to lose. Confronted by the town sheriff, who is also his father-in-law, Nick must decide if he will stay on his new path or indulge in his need for revenge and force his enemies to pay for what they have done.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, powerful
Similar in 75%
The Arc (2016)
Plot Summary:
A secret organization with a hidden agenda sets in motion the beginning of Armageddon. Governments have been infiltrated, law and order become an illusion, and humanity struggles to hang on after horrific events sweep across the world leaving a trail of murder and mayhem in its wake. Special agent Tom Shepard looks for a way to escape the darkness, while his partner, Tyler Cain, looks for a way in. Cain Drags Shepard further and further into the madness where no one can be trusted, and the only hope for humanity lies in the will of an estranged child.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Down and Dangerous (2013)
Plot Summary:
An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic
Similar in 78%
The Card Counter (2021)
Plot Summary:
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk. But keeping Cirk on the straight-and-narrow proves impossible, dragging Tell back into the darkness of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, neo noir, powerful, psychological thriller, freeze frame
Similar in 87%
Only God Can Judge Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, and gets his brother Rafael on board. Everything runs smoothly, until police officer Diana turns up on the scene. A nerve-wracking cat and mouse game is set in motion. Director Özgür Yildirim’s most recent film offers insight into Frankfurt’s gangster world. As before in CHIKO – which also starred Moritz Bleibtreu – he portrays the daily life of the criminal underground scene in a large German city.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Before the Storm (2000)
Plot Summary:
Leo, a guy in the seventh grade gets harassed by a two years older boy in school and seeks revenge. At the same time, Ali, the father of a girl in Leo's class (who Leo has a crush on) is contacted by a opposition group from his home country that wants Ali to assassinate an important man for them. Otherwise, they'll kill the family that Ali left when moving to Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, cult classic, crying, detective, surprise ending, cult film
Similar in 81%
Teen Patti (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perci Trachtenberg, widely regarded as the world's greatest living mathematician, meets Venkat, a reclusive math genius from India, at a high rolling casino in London. Venkat tells Perci about an equation that could not only change the dialogue on mathematics forever, but one that has already left an indelible impression of guilt - for many painful reasons - on Venkat's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
Similar in 88%
The Poker Club (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 80%
Shooting Gallery (2005)
Plot Summary:
A street-smart pool player falls in with a pack of hustlers. As he rises in the underground circuit, he lands in the middle of a match between his boss and a crooked cop.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, neo noir
Similar in 77%
Thalaivaa (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mafia don sends his son out of the country because he doesn't want even a shadow of his life falling on him. Destiny wills otherwise. The son makes an innocuous trip to Mumbai to visit his dad. And ends up filling his father's large shoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
South of 8 (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con trying to find work in a new Depression is lured back to a life of crime, but his gang passes the point of no return once they become fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective, independent film, futuristic
Similar in 76%
McCanick (2013)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, neo noir, teen, non-linear, detective, rough
Similar in 89%
Framed (1975)
Plot Summary:
Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains after a big win gambling with high rollers-- Ron is carted off to prison. Upon his release, he embarks upon a carefully calculated campaign of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Laal Kabootar (2019)
Plot Summary:
He's looking for a way out of the city. But his only escape is through a woman looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Jingoist (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of September 11th, two brothers believe they have stopped a mass terrorist attack in New York. Now they must face the consequences of taking justice into their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Stand Off (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of elite female bank robbers are thrown into a Mexican stand off when they discover that someone on their team might be a snitch for the cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Avenge the Crows (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former gang member and her young cousin become embroiled in a vendetta between L.A. gangs, as rivals seek revenge for old crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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Dirty Lies (2017)
Plot Summary:
An under-appreciated intern entrusted with a million dollar necklace races to find out which of his money hungry room-mates betrayed him as he battles a desperate criminal duo bent on stealing.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense
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Bonded by Blood 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of the Range Rover murders, drugs, violence and revenge continue to reign in a criminal underworld even darker and deadlier than before as a new generation of Essex Boys begin to carve their bloody mark.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing
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A Life Not to Follow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters: Eric is a dead man and he knows it. Death is imminent and he must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price: A wiseguy willing to do anything to move up in the world must now make the ultimate sacrifice. He must kill his best friend or in turn be killed: An F.B.I.agent turned P.I. is on the trail of a missing girl. In his long search for her he comes face to face with a host of unsavory characters who will lead him to perdition or salvation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, detective, cult film
Similar in 84%
13 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, tense, serious, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspense, talky, stylized, intense
Similar in 87%
I Killed My BFF (2015)
Plot Summary:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Backfire (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a botched robbery escalates to homicide, a north Philly gun runner has to escape or outsmart the south Philly Italian mob as they close in for vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Wild Card (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, brutal, stylized, intense, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, scenic
Similar in 84%
Black Luck (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hitman in hiding struggles to keep his monsters at bay when his dark past comes calling. Some days your LUCK just goes BLACK.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bloody, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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The Crew (2015)
Plot Summary:
It’s bad men versus worse men as thieves face off against dealers in this super slick French heist thriller from the director of Chrysalis and The Assault.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, hood, perverse, powerful, crime thriller
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Pistol Whipped (2008)
Plot Summary:
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters, he make s decision that will change his life - forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast, detective
Similar in 87%
The Courier (2012)
Plot Summary:
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, action packed, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir
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Bird (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Proud Mary (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, retro, hood, surprise ending, neo noir, black cinema