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Plot Summary:
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
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Stunt Squad (1977)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the murderous shenanigans of Valli’s protection racket, police chief Grifi assembles an ace team of stunt trained police officers to tackle the mob!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 84%
Convoy Busters (1978)
Plot Summary:
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 82%
A Special Cop in Action (1976)
Plot Summary:
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, car chases, prison scenes and mafia bosses!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller, Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, surprise ending
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Emergency Squad (1974)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Violent City (1975)
Plot Summary:
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo noir
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The Bloody Hands of the Law (1973)
Plot Summary:
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Merciless Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Goodbye, Mr. President (1987)
Plot Summary:
Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to change them is to shoot the Finnish president.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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No Way Out (1973)
Plot Summary:
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo noir, noir, perverse
Similar in 86%
The Heroin Busters (1977)
Plot Summary:
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, psychotronic, cult film
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The Family (1970)
Plot Summary:
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
Plot Summary:
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 83%
The Big Racket (1976)
Plot Summary:
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, grindhouse, cult film
Similar in 77%
Crimebusters (1976)
Plot Summary:
Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 81%
High Crime (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
Similar in 79%
The Tough Ones (1976)
Plot Summary:
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, tragic ending, cult film
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Syndicate Sadists (1975)
Plot Summary:
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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The Violent Professionals (1973)
Plot Summary:
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Mad Dog Killer (1977)
Plot Summary:
Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. Meanwhile, rugged police inspector Giulio Santini is determined to bag the despicable Vitali.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Caliber 9 (1972)
Plot Summary:
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, action thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
The Italian Connection (1972)
Plot Summary:
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man. When the pimp's wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the "manhunt", he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, black comedy
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The Boss (1973)
Plot Summary:
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco, noir, perverse, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Colt 38 Special Squad (1976)
Plot Summary:
When his wife is kidnapped by a local crime lord, a determined police captain forms his own squad of rogue cops, each of whom wields a .38 Colt revolver. The mission, of course, is to rescue the captain's wife -- but the conflict soon explodes into a citywide spree of violent crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
Similar in 76%
Blood in the Streets (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, retro, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Rulers of the City (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Almost Human (1974)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, grindhouse, action thriller, terrifying, realistic
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Memory (2022)
Plot Summary:
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom he can ultimately trust.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective
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King of New York (1990)
Plot Summary:
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, tense, suspense, intense, serious, captivating, realistic, dark
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John Wick (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 722000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, neo noir, serious, brutal, entertaining, suspense, action thriller, rough, cult classic
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John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 498000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, bloody, exciting, tense, neo noir, entertaining, realistic, stylized, scenic