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Plot Summary:
When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it for two years. However the gang is double crossed by Mo and the mob begin to hunt them down, meanwhile Danny and his gang consider robbing the mill in his town.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Real Thing (1996)
Plot Summary:
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, neo noir
Similar in 75%
True Blood (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his neighborhood to take his brother with him, but things are worse than he could expect: his brother, now 18 years old, hates him and is a member of Billy Masters' gang. Furthermore, Billy Masters is looking for revenge and... the police is still after Ray for the murder of the police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, detective
Similar in 85%
Once a Thief (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Out in Fifty (1999)
Plot Summary:
A reformed ex-convict enters a love triangle and gets manipulated into being a scapegoat in a murder scheme for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, independent film
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The Hard Easy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters find her and want her to lead 'em to him. She is also interested in the case, as well as other local mobsters and dirty cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
Similar in 81%
Two Coyotes (2001)
Plot Summary:
A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, surprise ending, independent film
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Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
Plot Summary:
JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, fast
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Beyond the Trophy (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two rival gangs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, led by Gino (Robert Miano) and Cole (Michael Madsen), are vying for control. Danny (Michael Masini), an LAPD undercover police detective, goes deep into gangland to infiltrate one gang to bring down both.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Shooters (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from the job that landed him inside, J soon talks him into getting involved in one last scam.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Styx (2001)
Plot Summary:
Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, ambiguous ending
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Harold Robbins' Body Parts (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he doesn't bother to look her up. But she finds him in Southern California to warn him that J.J. wants him dead. Whack J.J. first, she tells Ty, so he heads for Manila where J.J. runs a lucrative business under the cover of exporting tropical fish. But what is that business and who's pulling the strings? With the help of Inez, a young Filipina prostitute, Ty gets to the heart of the matter even after Inez no longer has the stomach to pursue the guilty ones.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, crime drama, independent film
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Body Count (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, cult film
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Trouble Bound (1993)
Plot Summary:
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing things with them any more. They stick a dead body in his trunk, unbeknownst to him, and he roars off to find his future. Unfortunately, they forgot to get the key they need off the body, so they're chasing him. Meanwhile, a mafia kingpin's daughter is trying to kill the hitman that killed her father, but her grandmother is trying to make peace with the family that hired the hitman, so she and her thugs are trying to stop the daughter. The guy and the daughter get together and experience mayhem on the run from two directions.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, humorous, serious, cynical, road movie, neo noir, independent film, rough, fast
Similar in 83%
Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
Similar in 76%
Man with a Gun (1995)
Plot Summary:
Madsen plays an assassin who's hired to kill the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, tense, noir, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
Similar in 76%
Federal Protection (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh, a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis, is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn't know it's with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie. Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, exciting
Similar in 80%
High Voltage (1998)
Plot Summary:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, independent film
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The Immortals (1995)
Plot Summary:
An elaborate heist unites 8 strangers in a simultaneous assault on targets all over the city- and explodes in a hailstorm of gunfire and high-speed chases in this powerful action-thriller. Recruited by a Mafia nightclub owner (Eric Roberts), 4 teams launch a brutal cross-town attack to retrieve suitcases full of cash. But as the violence escalates, the team members discover just who their real target has been all along - and the shocking truth they have in common.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, erotic, independent film, neo noir
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Back in the Day (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, hood, neo noir
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The Last Riders (1991)
Plot Summary:
When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Extreme Honor (2001)
Plot Summary:
A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Spanish Judges (2000)
Plot Summary:
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, neo noir
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Charlie Valentine (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide out with his estranged son, Danny, played by Michael Weatherly. What ensues reveals the true nature of some of the most unsavory of characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Mafioso: The Father The Son (2001)
Plot Summary:
When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s behind the plot before they are all wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Consignment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Crew (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Similar in 90%
Caught Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Daryl gets out of jail after 5 years. His mother has died, his girlfriend is married, and he can't find a job. His new girlfriend Vanessa, whom he meets when a gunman opens fire on them, gets him a job as a car driver. Hitmen are still after them, and Vanessa tells Daryl that this is her former lover Ahmad who wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, fast, cult film