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Plot Summary:
Group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, cult film
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Trackdown (1976)
Plot Summary:
When his sister Betsy packs up and leaves the family's Montana cattle ranch to find fame and fortune in Hollywood, her brother Jim decides to follow after her to make sure she doesn't get into trouble. He's a little too late, however, since almost as soon as she gets off the bus, Betsy has her belongings stolen, then gets kidnapped, gang-raped, and is sold to a pimp to work for him as a prostitute. It is now up to Jim, with help from social worker Lynn, to rescue his sister and set things right.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Instant Justice (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a US Marine who travels Spain to see his sister Kim, after many years of separation. But she is dead, and there is nothing else to arrive him. Alone in the Madrid's streets, Scott will search for the killers, will try to reveal the reason of the murder of his dear sister, and for revenge for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Gibraltar
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Defiance (1980)
Plot Summary:
Tommy takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang called the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he tries to avoid the gang and his neighbors, it does not work. Soon he is battling the Souls and not only changing their attitudes, but the attitudes of his previously intimidated neighbors as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hispanic
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Vice Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
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Ginger (1971)
Plot Summary:
The police suspect that a drug and forced-prostitution ring is behind the recent spate of kidnappings and disappearances, but so far they've been unable to infiltrate the suspects gang. To break the case, they recruit Ginger, a young woman from an upper-class family to act as bait for the kidnappers and hopefully lead the police to their hideout. It may sound like a foolproof plan to the police, but Ginger's the one who has to risk it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Boulevard (1994)
Plot Summary:
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Switchblade Sisters (1975)
Plot Summary:
A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, slasher, hood, creepy, action thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the businessman's own daughter who has been kidnapped and forced into a teen prostitution ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Young Warriors (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a criminal act.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Shadows in an Empty Room (1976)
Plot Summary:
An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon he discovers that not everything is what he thought it was.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, slasher, grindhouse, poliziottesco, neo noir, psychotronic
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Brotherhood of Death (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated like human beings. However, these newcomers convince the local population to register to vote so they can take back power and achieve justice. When hundreds show up to register, the Klan responds with violence. Eventually, though, the Black community has little choice other than fight back and the film ends with a small war between these combat vets and the Klan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Girls Are for Loving (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two women who like control face each other in a battle over jealousy and weaknesses. The US is about to sign a trade treaty with an Asian country; in exchange for friendly relations, the US will loan the Asians money to purchase US goods under contract. Evil siren Ronnie St. Clair tries various ways to find out which US companies will get these contracts, so that she can do some inside trading to make money on the stock market. The CIA hires gun-carrying, man-eating chanteuse and stripper, Ginger MacAllister, to put a stop to Miss St. Clair’s plan. Ginger and her CIA contact, Clay Boyer, an African-American, are attracted to each other. Will they live to ignite this spark?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film
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Fighting Back (1982)
Plot Summary:
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gangsterland (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ronald, an eight year-old biracial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by a street gang where he dwells in a life of crime and violence. As he waits for his father to be released to avenge his mother, he realizes that he doesn't have to follow his father's footsteps or the path chosen for him. Against all odds, he takes control of his own destiny. His awakening to new humane values enables him to change change course despite the obvious risk of losing the only family he has ever known.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful
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Detroit 9000 (1973)
Plot Summary:
After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, action thriller, crime thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical
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Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
The bikers are the heroes and the lawmen are the villains in this vintage action drama. The Spirits are a motorcycle club who ride the highways and country roads of Michigan; while they look rough, wear beat-up denim and favor Harley Davidsons, the Spirits are good guys at heart, more likely to help a stranger change a flat tire than rough him up. Northville Cemetery Massacre is a 1976 motorcycle exploitation film written and directed by William Dear and Thomas L. Dyke. Nick Nolte did an uncredited voice over for the film's lead actor, David Hyry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Act of Aggression (1975)
Plot Summary:
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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Rockaway (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and prostitution that have moved into their neighborhood and caused the destruction of his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama
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The Mad Bomber (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles police detective hunts a rapist and a bomber of public buildings.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Stiletto (2008)
Plot Summary:
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, sexy, detective
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Chained Heat (1983)
Plot Summary:
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after drink driving and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling lesbian rapists and the guards and warden are no better.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, neo noir, sensual, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious
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Probable Cause (1994)
Plot Summary:
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Sex Traffic (2004)
Plot Summary:
Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex trafficking of young Balkan women, Kernwell has decided to support the charity, Worldwide Federation Against Forced Migration. Kernwell's head of charities is Madeleine Harlsburg, the wife of the company's CEO, Tom Harlsburg. Although it does not have a pristine reputation as a good social corporate citizen, Kernwell hits a bigger public relations problem when it is learned that one of those 3,000 peacekeepers was caught trying to buy the services of a teen-aged prostitute in Sarajevo. Although not named to the media, that person is Sergeant Callum Tate, who swears he was trying to save that woman. In reality, Tate has evidence of a larger conspiracy of sex trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: bleak, thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Twilight Portrait (2011)
Plot Summary:
Marina, an upper-crust social worker with a doting husband and an enviable downtown apartment, is suddenly transformed into a bizarre twilight version of herself when she is raped by three policemen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, neo noir, disturbing, art house, psychotronic
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Breaking Point (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sugar Boxx (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sugar State Women’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, brutality, and sexual abuse are all part of the daily routine. But when reporter Valerie March goes undercover inside Sugar State, that’s when the powder keg really explodes! Follow Valerie through prison life - catfights, knife fights, rape, whippings, prostitution, and the “hot box” - before she and her fellow inmates take bloody, unforgettable revenge on their captors. Inspired by the great women-in-prison films of the past, SUGAR BOXX takes everything one step further. SUGAR BOXX has it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, psychological, captivating, retro, independent film, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, campy
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Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. After watching their father being gunned down in front of their eyes as children, Thomas and Sean Phelan grow up building their lives on opposite ends of the law. Thomas, the studious and responsible brother, creates a better life for himself through education and hard, honest work. Eventually, he builds a successful career as a US Attorney. Sean, the more rebellious of the two, gets caught up in a life of crime and rises through the ranks to become the head of the Irish Mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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The Exterminator (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, brutal, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, retro
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Stryker (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film
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Purgatory (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse