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Plot Summary:
After his ex-wife dies in a fall from her balcony, PoliceSgt. Henry Smovinsky gets custody of his troubled teenage son. Smovinsky soon finds out that his ex-wife was a high-class hooker, her death was not a suicide and that the police have chosen him as their prime suspect. Maggie Furness is the only cop willing to help him protect his son and track down the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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City of Shadows (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the same vein as Cain and Abel, here we have two brothers, one a renegade cop and the other a murderer with a taste for little boys. The brothers come to blows, from which only one can walk away.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film
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Dead Badge (1995)
Plot Summary:
Policeman Dan Sampson happens to have the same badge # as deceased policeman Manny Torres, who died while on duty. The circumstances surrounding Torres' death, officially ruled a drug overdose, become Sampson's obsession. After Sampson begins investigating Torres' file and visiting Torres' widow, various parties begin making attempts on Sampson's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Restraining Order (1999)
Plot Summary:
Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has dinner with a friend, and his friend tells him that he needs to talk to him about something important. He is about to leave when some masked men go to his friend and kill him, when one of the men takes off his mask; it's Martin Ritter. Now being his lawyer, Robert can't say anything about what he saw. But that doesn't stop him from investigating what his dead friend was so worried about. It seems that he has stumbled onto something big, and instead of killing him they frame his wife for murder to get him to back off. But he doesn't and both his wife and him are now in danger. And still has no idea what's going on. Will he find out before they get to him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Days of Power (2017)
Plot Summary:
On their 2010 tour, an International Pop Star and band mates mysteriously disappear. As past and present merge, they find themselves searching for answers and fighting for more than just their own lives when a concealed industry is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: allegory, independent film
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The Park Is Mine (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet (Tommy Lee Jones) takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Witness (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes entangled in the conspiracy of two world governments to assassinate an international leader in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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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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Nightstick (1987)
Plot Summary:
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Moondru Mugam (1982)
Plot Summary:
Overview Coming Soon.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Permanent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Chain (1996)
Plot Summary:
When unjustly imprisoned in a South American jail, a tough cop and a renegade arms dealer must set aside their differences to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Devlin (1992)
Plot Summary:
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir
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Caboose (1996)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police investigation leads nowhere, the crime remains unsolved, and Marceau, a hardened cop, resigns in the aftermath. But his troubles don't end there: someone is stalking him and his life is in danger. To save himself, Marceau recruits Camille, a young woman drummed out of the police academy for her inability to fire a gun. They make a pact: Camille agrees to flush out Marceau's potential murderer and Marceau, in exchange, undertakes to remunerate and train her. Camille plunges into Marceau's seedy underworld and encounters a raft of suspects. As Camille sinks deeper and deeper into this sordid world, she comes to terms with its violence and understands that the line between good and evil is narrow indeed. From this insight she draws the strength that had previously eluded her. Marceau's legacy... But who, exactly, is Marceau?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Streets (1990)
Plot Summary:
Tough drama looks at the plight of a young L.A. prostitute, who shoots heroin to get through the day, sells sex just to survive, and eats roadkill sometimes when there isn't anything else available. Into this futile existence is thrown a psycho killer, who gets off on raping and slaughtering the girls he catches on the streets. Sy is a straight kid from Sanata Barbara, who gets drawn into this scuzzy underworld and tries to rescue the young prostitute from the killer and her existence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Abducted (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Someone to Die For (1995)
Plot Summary:
A policeman on the skids faces another tragedy when his daughter dies. When other police in his unit are being murdered, the viewer must decide which one of the suspects is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, twisted
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American Rampage (1989)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Deadly Surveillance (1991)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of murders that he begins to suspect are being committed by a woman involved in prostitution and narcotics trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, independent film
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Shooting Heroin (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, independent film
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Khuddar (1994)
Plot Summary:
Honest Police Inspector Siddhant Suri takes it upon himself to bring to justice the people who are involved in human flesh trading business only to aggravate his fellow colleague inspector Adarsh Vardhan who is corrupt. Adarsh decides to teach Siddhant a lesson by tendering his resignation from the police force only to join politics so that he can contest against Siddhant's father, Shastri who happens to be the Chief Minister of the region. With the help of Shastri's corrupt assistant, Kanhaiyalal Adarsh manages to outwit Shastri and is elected as the next Chief Minister of that region. But Adarsh is still not satisfy humiliating Siddhant and continues to insult him when Siddhant is assign with the task of being the security in-charge of him. Meanwhile Siddhant meets with a blind cabaret dancer, Pooja and both get married. Unknown to Siddhant that his very own brother, Nandu is involved in the flesh trading business and is responsible for Pooja losing her sight.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags:
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The Son of No One (2011)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. These letters bring back bad memories and old secrets that begin to threaten his career and break up his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, rough, realistic, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, independent film
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Stag (1997)
Plot Summary:
Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when some of the men accidentally killed one of the strippers, they are left to face the consequences of their action.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, tense, light, sexy
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Slow Burn (2000)
Plot Summary:
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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No Code of Conduct (1998)
Plot Summary:
A cop (Charlie Sheen), his partner (Dacascos), and his father (Martin Sheen) uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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211 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history, Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly-trained and heavily-armed men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful
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Ambushed (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Mahaan (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a billionaire, does life give him a second chance to be a father?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece, cult film
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Natural Causes (1994)
Plot Summary:
An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Plot Summary:
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood, depressing, stylized, detective, bleak, rough
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Back in Action (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, neo noir, independent film, detective, cult film