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Plot Summary:
Fifteen years after he last saw him, Danny Cimmerman, a Toronto banker, comes back to Vancouver to say goodbye to his ethnic Croatian gangster father, John Cimmerman, who is on his death bed. Danny never approved of how his father made a living, the reason why Danny left town in the first place, and conversely John felt Danny was a disappointment. Regardless, John's death bed wish is for Danny to take over the family business and make it legitimate. Part of that entails Danny marrying Anika Nowak, the daughter of one of John's associates, Louis Nowak. The transition to legitimacy will not be easy as some friends and enemies may want to exploit what they see as a weakness in the organization during the transition. Danny is attacked one evening by two people who knew he was carrying a large wad of cash, which he guesses was organized by someone on the inside. Another of those hoping to take Danny down is a man named Angus Bunyan, aka Uncle Bunny, who knows a secret about Danny and wants.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Joe's So Mean to Josephine (1996)
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Josephine has her eye on Joe, a hot-headed, petty criminal who taps phones for a living. When she finally worms her way into his heart she realises it's not a nice place to be. But is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (1978)
Plot Summary:
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult film
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My Bed Is Not for Sleeping (1968)
Plot Summary:
Laura (Ira von Fuerstenberg) the wife of a international spie arrives in Berlin for a holiday. While her husband (Paul Hubschmidt) is away, she falls for a British photographer Roger (Gerald Blain). They share a cab -- and eventually each other -- in an adulterous affair at a posh hotel. The two soon jet off to Nice, but word of the affair has reached Laura's ruthless and now Laura-less husband. The spies -- who are now being blackmailed by Roger and figure he knows too much -- go after the couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Hang Up (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two vice cops get entangled in a web of prostitution, blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sisters in Leather (1969)
Plot Summary:
A husband is blackmailed by 3 lesbian bikers after they spot him having sex with another woman in a convertible. They then take the man's wife out for a picnic and some nude motorcycle riding. The husband finds some male bikers and together they try to save his wife from becoming a lesbian biker.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Paul (1974)
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After 7 years spent in jail Paul (Paul Lyss) is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return.Nothing really changes and soon he finds himself spaced out drunk at some posh party and eventually ends up wielding a big gun.Hand held Camera movements in best Dogma-95 style and nervous cut makes it an interesting 70's euro crime flick.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min
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En el paraiso no existe el dolor (1995)
Plot Summary:
The story of a gay man's cathartic one-night immersion in Monterrey's sexual underworld after his lover dies of AIDS.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
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Chevrolet (1997)
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Directed by Javier Maqua.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: social
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Hanste Zakhm (1973)
Plot Summary:
Film about the upper class in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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The Beautiful Risk (2013)
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William, a respected artist who lost everything after his divorce, arrives in Montreal on a job prospect. When the job falls through he then is saved and forms an erotic friendship and exposes his soul with a young woman named Paulette.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
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Burning Mussolini (2009)
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Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own posse.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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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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In the Glitter Palace (1977)
Plot Summary:
The ex-girlfriend of a laywer/detective, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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The Girl Grabbers (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two hooligans run amok.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Naked Tango (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, independent film
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Love, Money, Love (2000)
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David, a recently fired scrapyard worker and Marie, a prostitute, both about 20 years old, meet on New Year's Eve in Berlin and decide to run away together. As David's arm is plastered from an accident Marie continues to prostitute herself to finance their restless journey through the Ruhr area. Their love and their will to survive guide them though all problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Public Eye (1992)
Plot Summary:
A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crime drama, romantic drama, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Midnight Heat (2007)
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A story of cops, hookers, killers, and pimps; all centered around one sleazy night in the late 1980's. A cocaine addicted homicide detective (Jake Norvell) is brought out of suspension in order to trail a local prostitute (Bianca Queen) who may become the next victim of The Scalper (Nick Foster), a serial killer who preys on the city's hookers. Meanwhile, her burnt out pimp (Brad Jones) attempts to get out of the business while finding it harder to protect his girls from both the killer and from an abusive rival pimp (Buford Stowers).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Daughter of the King (2014)
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DAUGHTER OF THE KING follows Ashley Miller as she rebuilds herself after a drug filled episode trying to live a normal life. An outstanding debt gets her sucked back into the underworld that is ruled by Haydar, a ruthless man that forces her into slavery. She becomes his property. Ashley is forced to prostitute and deal drugs hoping to regain her freedom. The abuse that comes from all sides and in all forms crushes her to the ground making her believe she's worthless. In the darkest moments Nadia, her close friend, descends in her life like an angel bringing her back to the light and setting her free.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Max and the Junkmen (1971)
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Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, french noir
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Secrets of a Married Man (1984)
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A man (Shatner) going through a mid-life crisis, starts patronizing prostitutes. Eventually, he meets a very expensive one (Shepherd) and he thinks he has it all. That is until her pimp starts hounding him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min
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Too Late Tomorrow (2002)
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A young convict named Antonis, takes a 48 hour discharge from prison. His brother wants to spent this time together, but Antonis has other plans. He meets Olia, a girl who has abandon her household and her boyfriend has pimp her. The two fall in love and the deicide to get married.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
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Paper Moon Affair (2005)
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An enigmatic Japanese woman, abandoned by her wealthy Chinese husband in a remote Pacific Northwest village, becomes entwined in the lives of two rugged locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, intercultural, inter cultural
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Breaking and Entering (2006)
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Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, stylized, compassionate, thought provoking, realistic, anime, crime thriller
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Evidence of Truth (2016)
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A forensic investigator begins to suspect her new husband is the serial killer the police department has been hunting. This puts her and her ex-boyfriend -- a detective on the case -- in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)
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The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She took over her boss' operation and soon was raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and highest-class hookers and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, European and American corporate executives and Arab sheiks. Her operation was broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993, and she eventually went to prison for income-tax evasion. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Hardcore (2004)
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Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, stylized, erotic, controversial, art house, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Good Boys (2005)
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Movie follows two young gay hustlers through interwoven stories during a night in Tel Aviv.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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Queen & Slim (2019)
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An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a traffic stop. They kill the police officer in self-defense and rather than turn themselves in, they go on the run.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, captivating, disturbing, romantic, sexy, neo noir, political
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Virgil Bliss (2001)
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Fresh out of a long stretch in prison, Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) vows to go straight in this gritty, character-driven drama. But finding a job, a wife and a sense of purpose doesn't come easy when you're living in a halfway house surrounded by junkies and thugs. Things start to look up when Virgil falls for Ruby (Kirsten Russell), a prostitute and fellow lost soul, but her drug addiction stands in the way of his shot at a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film