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Plot Summary:
When you grow up poor on the streets of London you have 2 choices. Stay poor or get Rich. We follow the True Story of the rise of a petty drug dealer to his eventual involvement in some of the most notorious and infamous real life Robberies and Gangland Executions and Drug Deals of recent times. Seduced by the underworld, glamour, girls, danger our hero is soon over his head and fighting for his life in a world filled with violence and where so many pay the ultimate price. The Devils Dandruff shows an unflinching look at the London underworld where crime does not pay and no one ends up a winner.
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Country: UK
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Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
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Rabal is a blind, elderly leader of the Camorra whose son ends up dead as he attempts to rape Molina. Somebody has stuck the corpse strategically with a hypodermic needle, which is to become the signature of a series of killings of Naples drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Mafia Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
A crime syndicate in Miami Beach extorts politicians by filming them at sex parties.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Mafia Princess (1986)
Plot Summary:
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Juvenile Delinquents -- New World Order (2020)
Plot Summary:
Broken teens trying to claim something their parents failed to provide - A Future and Purpose.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark
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Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
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Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf (Jack Palance), wish to sever ties with organized-crime, leave the drug world behind and concentrate on music. However they are coerced into doing one last job for the Mob. They lose the $2 million of cocaine, and find themselves marked men unless they can fulfill their obligations.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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One Way Out (1996)
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After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, but finds that he may have taken on more than he can handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The High Price of Passion (1986)
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A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
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Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King,” the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Bad to the Bone (1997)
Plot Summary:
A bad girl uses her brother to kill her lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: ridiculous
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Rockaway (2017)
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Inspired by true events, a man recounts the summer of '94, when he and his brother plotted revenge against their abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Waters Rising (2006)
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Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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Hit Man (1972)
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Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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Ken and Kazu (2015)
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Ken was making his life by smuggling methamphetamine with long time buddy, Kazu. Ken has decided to start a new life when he learned that his girlfriend, Saki, became pregnant. At the same time, Ken finds out that Kazu started selling on the side without getting approval from his boss, Mr. Todo. Ken tries to stop Kazu; however, instead, Kazu approaches a new partner. Knowing that this new deal puts their lives in great danger once Mr. Todo finds out... Suspicious of their dangerous involvement, Saki decides to leaves Ken. Mr. Todo finds out and decided to take action... Todo's guys start chasing Ken and Kazu.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Act of Aggression (1975)
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After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Bonded by Blood 2 (2017)
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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
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Black Widow (2019)
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The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have to settle something with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster. Carmen will now have deal with her past to save her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 116 min
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In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994)
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After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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The disturbing true story of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old beauty queen whose murder in her Colorado home remains unsolved.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 375
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Country: USA
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Sakthivelu Nayakar (Kamal Hassan), the protagonist, is born to an anti-government union leader. The child Velu is tricked by the police into locating his father.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
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Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: epic, sad, intense, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Siberian Education (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspense, bleak, gloomy
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A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a former junkie -- and prostitute -- rejects her inheritance, pitting sisters Kath and Tracy against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
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McVicar (1980)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
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Abusing Protocol (2015)
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After the death of his brother (Tommy), RJ moves in with Gang Leader (Cane) and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a world of abuse and drugs. Local businessman (Dave) is watching the things he loves disappear in front of his very eyes. What happens when these two people, with nothing to lose, abuse protocol?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
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Welcome to No Man's Land (2015)
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Pete, Steven and Dave are good friends that have fallen on hard times; They are unemployed and hardly get by on benefits. Coincidentally, they are approached by a low-key gangster who offers them what seems like quick cash-in-hand work. One drop-off. Six bags of cocaine. Both estranged and tempted by the situation, they accept, only things don't go to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
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Bonded by Blood (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011)
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It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
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Country: Australia
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Adulthood (2008)
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After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
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Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
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Bella Mafia (1997)
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Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
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