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Plot Summary:
A committed police officer is on a very dangerous mission to destroy the most corrupt person in the country, Siddharth Abhimanyu.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future (2015)
Plot Summary:
The NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive, becomes the center of attention. A sit-in demonstration takes place. Members of the NPS, including Ichigo Kamikura (Osamu Mukai) go to the protest site. Meanwhile, a transport ship is hijacked in the Pacific Ocean.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Spyder (2017)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, bilingual
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Julayi (2012)
Plot Summary:
An intelligent young man and a timid cop team up to catch a criminal who wants revenge after a foiled bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017)
Plot Summary:
A hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller, thrilling, action thriller
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Garv: Pride and Honour (2004)
Plot Summary:
Garv is a story of three brave and honest cops: Samar Singh (Amrish Puri), Arjun Ranawat (Salman Khan) and Hyder Ali Khan (Arbaaz Khan). Samar wants to reduce the amount of crime in the state. The trio faces obstacles because the powerful and corrupt politicians (played by Govind Namdeo, Anant Jog and Shivaji Satam) are connected with underworld don Zafar Supari (Mukesh Rishi). The politicians decide to transfer Samar Singh while Hyder Ali is named a traitor and is killed. The goons next target Arjun by gang-raping his sister, Rakhi (Akanksha) and hurting his other family members. Arjun, in a fit of anger, kills the rapists and surrenders himself to his police colleagues. He is seen walking up the steps with police in the opening scenes of the movie. He wants to be awarded capital punishment but later the court finds the politicians wrong and lets Arjun go free.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Maayavan (2017)
Plot Summary:
A series of murders are happening in the city, and a cop realises that they are all eerily similar. Can he find out the link and capture the murderer before it is too late?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspense thriller
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Kanthaswamy (2009)
Plot Summary:
A CBI officer moonlights as a modern day Robin Hood in the guise of the masked Kanthaswamy, as he helps fight corruption and aid impoverished people.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rakhi (2006)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious and young man named Rama Krishna avenges his sister's death after her in-laws burn her alive due to their greed for dowry. Thereafter, he starts killing every man that harasses a woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Acharya (2022)
Plot Summary:
Acharya, a middle-aged Naxalite-turned-social reformer, launches a fight against the Endowments Department over misappropriation and embezzlement of temple funds and donations.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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12 Rounds 3: Lockdown (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lockdown Follows a police officer who returns to duty after recovering from a gun shot wound to discover incriminating evidence of illegal activities against those closest to him. He quickly finds himself trapped inside his own precinct, hunted and in search of the truth, as the crooked cops stop at nothing to recover the evidence.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Kuttram 23 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it..
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller, suspense thriller
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Saamy (2003)
Plot Summary:
A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, cult film
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Kadaram Kondan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kadaram Kondan (Conqueror of Kadaram): The pregnant wife of a young doctor is kidnapped and the kidnappers want him to help free a patient who is admitted in the hospital. Who is the patient? And why are the cops and criminals after him?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Darbar (2020)
Plot Summary:
Aaditya, the commissioner of Mumbai Police, sets out to catch Ajay, a drug peddler. However, he uncovers a deeper controversy linked to an international drug lord and must mete out justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, action packed, cult film
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Si 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A reputed cop from Tamil Nadu takes charge in Andhra Pradesh to solve the mysterious murder of a top police officer, and takes on local thugs and criminals during the course of his mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, cult film
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Crossfire (2008)
Plot Summary:
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Thani Oruvan (2015)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, motivational, epic, dark, crime thriller
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Black & White: The Dawn of Justice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Police officer in the Southern Precinct, WU Ying-xiong, has been revered as a hero in the Harbor City ever since he stopped the terrorists on a Boeing 777 airplane and kept the city safe. Unfortunately, the peace is only temporary… Panic spreads the whole city as a series of bomb explosions happen within hours and this is just the beginning of a tight-knit conspiracy. Facing the unprecedented crisis, the two-men team of totally opposite characteristics is the only hope to reverse the situation. Nonetheless, when moral standards are turned upside down, what faith should they keep to maintain the so-called justice?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Action
Country: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Line Walker 2: Invisible Spy (2019)
Plot Summary:
A car crash sparks a war between local police and an international terrorist organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Myanmar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Leakers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and a local reporter, the wife of the pharmaceutical company's owner leaves for Hong Kong. A Malaysian police chief , Hong Kong police officer, and journalist work together to locate her whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dum Maaro Dum (2011)
Plot Summary:
ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspense, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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If You Knew Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Shool (1999)
Plot Summary:
Police Inspector Samar Pratap Singh is transferred to Motihari, in the Indian state of Bihar, along with his wife, Manjari and a daughter. He is honest and diligent and these attributes sets him up against his superior - the District Superintendent of Police, as well as his subordinates and fellow officers.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: dark, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, tragic ending
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Sooryavanshi (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fearless, faithful albeit slightly forgetful Mumbai cop, Veer Sooryavanshi, the chief of the Anti-Terrorism Squad in India pulls out all the stops and stunts to thwart a major conspiracy to attack his city.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, fast, action packed
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Baby (2015)
Plot Summary:
An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it's up to them to track the terrorists' international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat, action thriller, rough, realistic
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The Policeman's Lineage (2022)
Plot Summary:
A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the rules shouldn't stop an investigation. As the officer investigates further, his own attitudes begin to mirror the team leader's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Bairavaa (2017)
Plot Summary:
A loan recovery agent takes on a corrupt head of an educational institution to save his girlfriend..
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cult film
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Vikram (2022)
Plot Summary:
Amar is assigned to investigate a case of serial killings. When Amar investigates the case, he realizes it is not what it seems to be and following down this path will lead to nothing but war between everyone involved.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, entertaining, cult classic, action thriller
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Adanga Maru (2018)
Plot Summary:
A sincere cop, who's suspended from the department for locking horns with a few influential people in the society, starts taking revenge against those who finished off his dear ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Informant (2008)
Plot Summary:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing