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Plot Summary:
It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The women getting raped appear to be raped by a rapist who has raped them earlier and who was not caught. Detective Eileen Burke, who is working together with detectives Carella, Meyer and Brown, goes undercover and pretends to be one of the women who was raped earlier in order to lure out the rapist. Her boyfriend, Det. Kling, is not happy with her assignment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Ground (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two men living in a criminal-ran city have two choices: Either fight back or join the corruption. Chaos just always seems to find them.
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Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Plot tags: detective
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Exception to the Rule (1997)
Plot Summary:
An aggressive woman tries to blackmail a married gem trader who had an affair with her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Underdog Knight (2008)
Plot Summary:
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Blood and Water (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young female police detective is fighting cancer while trying to solve the murder of a Vancouver billionaire's drug-addicted son.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Lies and Crimes (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves to a new home after her police officer husband is killed. She soon discovers a place where growing prescription drug abuse is creating a nightmare of lies, crime, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Brookside: The Lost Weekend (1997)
Plot Summary:
A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Naked City: Justice with a Bullet (1998)
Plot Summary:
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime
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Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Plot Summary:
Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car (“It gives a man a chance to think”), he’s on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal’s son-in-law. It won’t be the only time the killer strikes before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, tv series pilot
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A Killing Affair (1977)
Plot Summary:
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
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Judy (1970)
Plot Summary:
A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks Fairchild's daughter Regina.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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On the Line (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female police detective tries to track down a gang of teenage bank robbers while dealing with sexual harassment on the job, and her troubled home life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Midwives (2001)
Plot Summary:
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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Necessity (1988)
Plot Summary:
A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really wants is custody of their daughter. She hatches a plan to abduct her daughter and take her to safety. Meanwhile, her husband dispatches someone to find and eliminate her. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Double Exposure (1994)
Plot Summary:
White collar crime, a crooked PI and a top notch homicide forensics team come together in this low-budget erotic thriller about a wife killed while in a hotel room with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Nightmare Nurse (2016)
Plot Summary:
After Brooke and her boyfriend Lance have a car accident, Lance’s leg injury requires him to be bedridden with at-home care. When an attractive nurse, Chloe, is recommended to them, she seems perfect for the task. However, when her troubled past comes to light, it becomes apparent to the happy couple that someone is out to destroy their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, sexy, medical horror
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She Said No (1990)
Plot Summary:
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and slander leaving her feeling raped again. - Written by John Sacksteder [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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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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Four Nights with Anna (2008)
Plot Summary:
A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, offbeat, weird
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Johnny Belinda (1982)
Plot Summary:
While attempting to set up a communal garden in the poverty stricken rural community of Hatcher, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a silent, mute, disheveled girl by the name of Belinda. He soon learns that she is considered mentally handicapped by the community, and by her harsh father and aunt, who initially rebuff all attempts at communication and assistance from Bill. He persists in making contact, and discovers that Belinda is actually deaf. He realizes that he can communicate with her using sign language, and teaches her to sign. Gradually, Belinda's world opens up but life is not all smooth sailing, however, as Bill deals with the sneers and jeers of the town's bad boy, Kyle Hager and his group of rowdy friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Born Bad (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers rob a bank, causing a deadly standoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Without Her Consent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Desperate Crimes (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the large industrial port of an Italian city - sailors, women, black market traffickers, sleazy nightclubs, and dingy narrow alleys make up a world of danger, where a young American girl vanishes without a trace while an Italian man tries to track her down. On the way, he encounters a strange group of characters: a beautiful and ambitious prostitute, a girl ravaged by drugs, and the ferocious Joe Nerescu who is battling against a rival gang so he can gain control of the port.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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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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Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994)
Plot Summary:
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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A Lonely Woman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Lonely Woman is about a docile and shy girl, Annie, (Youlika Skafida) an orphan from Greece who all she wanted was to have parents. After living in an orphanage her first 12 years, an elderly wealthy American couple finally adopts her giving her a new life in the USA. Fifteen happy years later her world flips upside down when a horrible event changes her life forever. Annie slowly transforms into a new persona; Jezebel (her real birth name) a dark and merciless woman with only revenge on her mind to get justice at her own hand. A series of events keep her on a destructive path from which there might be no return. Then she meets Antoine (Beau Yotty), a handsome, sincere man who seems to truly cares for her. Is he her savior who will help her forget her mission of revenge? Or is he the instrument to finish her transformation to the dark side?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
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The Ladies Club (1985)
Plot Summary:
A raped policewoman forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men whom have committed repeated violations of women, and got away with it through legal technicalities.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, independent film
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A Gun for Jennifer (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman comes to New York City from Ohio to escape an abusive husband and gets entangled with murderous female vigilantes who prey on abusive men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, grindhouse, independent film
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Cry Rape (1973)
Plot Summary:
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Complex of Fear (1993)
Plot Summary:
Condominium residents are terrified when they learn that two of their neighbors have been brutally raped and that the culprit may be living in their midst. A police manhunt ensues. One officer, who actually lives in the complex, is particularly troubled, for not only do the incidents cause his wife to admit that she was a victim of date rape, he is also the one who had a chance to kill the rapist and didn't.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, detective, rough, bleak, serious