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Plot Summary:
Single mother Sarah Palmer hides her family in Oregon when her daughter Christy becomes a key witness in a murder against the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, contemplative
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Black (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mavela, 15 years old, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, an extremely charismatic member of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, bleak, disturbing, rough, suspense, hood, touching, twist ending
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100 Streets (2016)
Plot Summary:
Three people, three extraordinary stories. All lived out within a hundred London streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, melancholic
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Burden of Evil (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of a powerful senator is kidnapped by a psychopath, the senator requests a particular homicide detective, Caitlyn Conner, to head up the case. She knows the kidnapper better than anyone else - he just killed her husband. Against the advice of her closest friend, a police psychologist, Caitlyn enters the killer's web of sadistic games and discovers the crime is far more twisted than anyone imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, captivating, suspenseful
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Silk (1986)
Plot Summary:
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Life Without Principle (2011)
Plot Summary:
A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, noir, bloody, crime drama
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Jai Gangaajal (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, contemplative
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Roots of Evil (1992)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective, sexy
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MDMA (2017)
Plot Summary:
When an Asian American girl from the wrong side of the tracks is accepted by a prestigious university, she finds that her academic prowess can be put to lucrative use.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Payback (2007)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict tracks down the cop who put him away.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Evidence of Truth (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Badge of Honor (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Hero (2015)
Plot Summary:
Prosecutor Kohei Kuryu takes charge of a case with a foreign embassy possessing the key to solve the case. Due to the extraterritoriality involving the case, the investigation has not gone anywhere. A crisis then ensues. Kohei Kuryu and his office attempt to extract the truth behind the wall of the Neustrian Embassy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Agitator (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, crime drama, crying
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Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Antonio Moro works for gangster boss Thomas Steel. He lives happily with his girlfriend Tanya who is expecting their child. Antonio's future looks bright, until one evening when he is ordered to kill a person who is close to all of them.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Crazy Joe (1974)
Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grim, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, cult film
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Pitbull: Tough Women (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Mafia Inc (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather. Without the Paternò knowing, he stages a big operation and is promoted. Fuming with jealousy, Giaco discovers that Vince committed a monstrous act during his stroke. The Gamache disown Vince and war begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Once in the Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, concocts a scheme in which the two of them will steal some dope from young couriers. The heist goes awry when Billy, the junkie brother, shoots the victims of the theft. The brothers hole up in an abandoned building, and 20/20 Mike seeks help from an old cell mate, Tony, whom he thinks is out of the life. It turns out that they have stolen Tony's dope, and Tony's boss wants the two thieves dead. Is there any way out? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, tense, captivating, neo noir, crime drama, independent film
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Deadly Influencer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman commits murder to keep her classmates' social media careers under her thumb. After killing a popular friend, she turns her sights on a new girl, but the girl's mother suspects the truth and will fight to protect her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery haunting her neighborhood. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues—including a skull, its missing skeleton and a suspicious group of neighbors—and solve the murder before she becomes the unlikely killer’s next victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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Locked In (2021)
Plot Summary:
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense
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Chandni Bar (2001)
Plot Summary:
Chandni Bar, a film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar depicts the gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, social, cult classic, sexual, independent film
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
Plot Summary:
When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, poliziottesco
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Flinch (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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Played (2006)
Plot Summary:
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, freeze frame
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Blue Steel (1990)
Plot Summary:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, rough, disturbing, erotic, cult classic, stylized
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The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Plot Summary:
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dramatic, hood, anamorphic, powerful, surprise ending, neo noir
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The Kitchen (2019)
Plot Summary:
An Irish mob story set in 1970s Hell's Kitchen. After the mobsters are sentenced to jail, their wives take their place — and do as good of a job, if not better.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, cynical, bloody, neo noir, period piece, surprise ending, weird
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Plot Summary:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, thought provoking, hood, cult classic, brutal, bleak, independent film, rough, suspenseful
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Death Wish (2018)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, exciting, suspenseful, controversial, bloody, entertaining, sad, hood, meta