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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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66/67: Fairplay Is Over (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: masterpiece
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The Crazysitter (1994)
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When a petty criminal escapes from jail, she lays low by posing as a babysitter for two semmingly precious children. But when she decides to sell them for a quick profit, she gets more than she bargained for. A wildy clever family comedy in the tradition of "Home Alone" and "Mrs. Doubtfire".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, family comedy
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Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1997)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
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Mordkommission K?nigswinkel (2017)
Plot Summary:
Police commissioner Thomas Stark, released from jail after three years after the trial for the murder of his former partner was quashed, is picked up and housed not by his wife, who disowned him and hesitates whether to reestablish contact with their bratty teen daughter, but by his discredited attorney Rainer Kessler. Stark insists instantly to rejoin his Füssen precinct in Königswinkel, where doubt remain concerning his innocence. Captain Mehrin assigns him not above loyal believer Peter Breitkreuz but under openly hostile Julia Bachleitner, to keep an eye on him for chief and her husband, state attorney Magnus Bachleitner. Their first case is the murder of local newspaper reporter Schäfer; who sought his first great scoop investigating the Italian mafia connections in Allgäu. Despite sabotage from Julia, Thomas does a good job, using his rapport with former classmate and restaurant owner Francesco Danesi only to be mistrusted by both sides. The missing evidence apparently gathered.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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On Seventh Avenue (1996)
Plot Summary:
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Cold Spring (2004)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Bad City Blues (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of a violent robbery, a New Orleans doctor, Eugene Grimes, wakes to find a wounded woman and $2 million in cash on his doorstep. In pursuit of the thieves, police captain Clarence Jefferson discovers that Grimes is the key not only to the money but to a dark web of intrigue and vengeance stretching back to a bloody civil war in El Salvador a decade before.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Baby (2002)
Plot Summary:
Alice is given a parenting exercise at school which changes her understanding of the world in a way she never expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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Wesh Wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe ? (2001)
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Kamel, a young man from the french ghetto, near Paris, is coming back to France. He was arrested for dealing drugs, he spent five years in jail and was banned from France for two years. He tries, with his family's support, to find a job and live a normal life. But nothing's normal in the ghetto.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
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Crosscurrent (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Sass (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Die Tigerin (1992)
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It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia. Does he love her or is he only using her? Is the Tigress madly in love with him or does she want to satisfy her vanity and drop him once he falls for her? The ancient cat and mouse game between a man and a woman unfolds amidst sensual seduction, the scheme of robbing a rich Texan and the jilted lover arriving from Berlin, gun drawn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
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The Petrified Forest (1973)
Plot Summary:
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Daniella by Night (1961)
Plot Summary:
Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in the hotel room next to hers. Castellani gives Daniella the spotlight, which prompts jealousy from another model. Is he merely trying to seduce her? It's soon apparent that he has other plans as well: the line of clothes is a cover for smuggling and perhaps espionage. Daniella may be in danger - one model is dead already. Is Bauer to be her protector, or is he after something too? Is anyone who they seem?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, eurospy, microfilm
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To Paris (2009)
Plot Summary:
Soviet youngster Alexey communicates with a fellow radiofan from France and makes big plans for his future. His hardworking blue-collar father Ivan is getting ready to join The Communist Party. Everything changes when Ivan's girlfriend is falsely accused in defalcation. Ivan decides to get the money by any means to help his beloved avoid the incarceration. He lets Alexey into his plans, and that triggers a chain of tragic events in this USSR-set drama. Loosely based on real events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Blinded by the Light (1980)
Plot Summary:
David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him, but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Der Skorpion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Boxing Day (2007)
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Told in real time and shot as a single take, BOXING DAY documents the minute by minute events across the course of an afternoon in the life of Chris Sykes - a recovering alcoholic and estranged father. Living alone on home detention, Chris is preparing Christmas lunch for his family when an old friend turns up at his doorstep and reveals a disturbing truth. When his daughter, his wife and her new boyfriend finally arrive, the situation slowly and inevitability escalates and we are drawn into the compelling story of a desperate father who finally exposes the dark and disturbing secret that has torn his family apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Last Fine Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
The phone call from Sybille was usual. Her family didn't even know that this call just started their last fine day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Eye of God (1997)
Plot Summary:
A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys (Nick Stahl) turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff (Hal Holbrook) embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree (Martha Plimpton) and her new husband, Jack (Kevin Anderson), a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, psychological, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
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The Most Gentle Confessions (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 95 min
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Gravity (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of a seemingly settled bank employee who breaks the shackles of his everyday life and becomes a wanderer between worlds. Frederik is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an ordinary life. When a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan in the face of the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince,he begins to live out a new, dark side of himself. He robs his rich bank customers' homes and gives the money to the needy. The initial rush of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to ever greater thrills.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
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The Chase (1991)
Plot Summary:
In Denver, a fleeing bank robber kills a cop and kidnaps an old man to hold as a hostage. He is chased by the police and a news helicopter, which films the entire incident. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Family Business (1989)
Plot Summary:
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, serious, realistic, tense, light, clever, touching, emotional, suspense, entertaining
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Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
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A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: social, hispanic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, crying
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A Regular Woman (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü, a vibrant young Turkish woman and mother is murdered at 23 by her youngest brother in an honor killing. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage with a cousin in Istanbul at 16 by her devout Muslim family, Anyur escapes to Berlin and gives birth to a son. She is considered a disgraceful burden by her parents and siblings, so Anyur soon leaves her family and attempts to start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, rough
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Straight Time (1978)
Plot Summary:
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological, thought provoking, cynical, crime drama, contemplative, independent film, tension
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The Mobfathers (2016)
Plot Summary:
The godfather of the triad Jing Hing and his senior bosses need to select a new boss to run the daily operations of the five gangs under their control. Chuck, a lifelong member of the triad, dreams of being the elected one, but his wife wants him to leave the criminal life and spend time with their child. Wulf, a former cop, also wants take over the seat. Both will try to achieve their goal by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, heroic, entertaining, banned
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The Hate U Give (2018)
Plot Summary:
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: hood, captivating, social, sad, teen, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, intellectual, brutal