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Plot Summary:
An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Righteous Thief (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hong Mu-Hyeok is a quiet high school music teacher with a secret. His family descends from the notorious Hong Gil-Dong, a Robin Hood styled thief. He has targeted Lee Jeong-Min, a ruthless.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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District C-11 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, where the world is under martial law, two rookie cops are tasked to patrol District C-11 where death is just a bullet away.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, political thriller
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D Company (2013)
Plot Summary:
D Company is a 2013 Indian Malayalam action portmanteau film. It is an anthology of three independently shot action films directed by M. Padmakumar, Vinod Vijayan and Diphan. Its cast includes Jayasurya, Anoop Menon, Unni Mukundan, Fahad Fazil and Asif Ali. The film is produced by Vinod Vijayan, Seven Arts Mohan and Faisal Latheef under the banner of D Cutz Film Company. (From Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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The Brink (2017)
Plot Summary:
Reckless police inspector Sai Gau (Zhang Jin) is on a mission to crack down on criminal Shing's (Shawn Yue) gold smuggling scheme, yet fails to arrest him. As Sai Gau continues his manhunt, he discovers Shing's involvement with triad boss Blackie (Yasuaki Kurata), who hides on a casino cruise ship on the high seas. Shing has been involved in a power struggle within the smuggling ring, and is forced to kill his adopted father. He also loses his share of gold smuggling to Blackie. To get even, Shing appears on the cruise, while Sai Gau is there to hunt for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, 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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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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Guilt by Design (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a juror on a high-profile case who is blackmailed into fixing the verdict after his daughter is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blind War (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bala Ko... Bahala Sa 'yo (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jeric Raval is Dias Del Fuego. An anti-organized crime cop who does the beat with a dark side of the law demeanor. The kind that loves to fight fire with fire and that which keeps the violent underworld under check. After being meted an indefinite suspension by their cop chief together with bungling rookie, Flavio (Dinky Doo, Jr.) after a botched hostage rescue, the two stage extra-legal means to pursue the town's top dollar racketing kingpins played by Kier Legaspi and Patrick Dela Rosa. Things get complicated as the underworld puts up heavy resistance. The wrench gets thrown in on Jeric's mean crimefighting machine when his ex-lover (Via Veloso) connives with the mob. As the going gets tougher, Dias Del Fuego gets down dirty and begins to reserve a special place in hell for the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Paayum Puli (2015)
Plot Summary:
An extortion gang that murders businessmen kills a policeman working on the case. ACP Jayaseelan exterminates the gang by way of unofficial encounters, but the murders continue. What the cop doesn't realise is that the brain behind the crimes is lurking close to home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Tomb of the River (2021)
Plot Summary:
An action film about the ambitions, conspiracy, and betrayal of different organizations surrounding the life-changing project of building the largest resort in Gangneung.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, noir
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Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life crimes that terrorized Hong Kong in the 1990s, Logan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is the head of leading a notorious human trafficking gang, abducting the children of Hong Kong's elite. Police forces decide to send in Sky (Louis Koo), a Hong Kong undercover agent whose mission is to infiltrate and save the hostages, all while bringing the gang and their leader to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Killerman (2019)
Plot Summary:
A New York City money launderer desperately searches for answers after waking up with no memory, millions in stolen cash and drugs, and an insane crew of dirty cops violently hunting him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, hood, crime thriller
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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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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019)
Plot Summary:
Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the Narcotics Bureau works towards preventing drug abuse but faces uncertainty.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Red Mercury (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's the early 90's. A new currency is in circulation in Estonia - the kroon. The former federal republic has become a world leader in non-ferrous metal exports. There is a relentless struggle around this criminal business. It brings new victims every day. Estonia ranks first in Europe in terms of the number of killings. This is just the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Estonia, Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Brave (2019)
Plot Summary:
In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Beyond the Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened streets he once knew so well. Armed, dangerous and with nothing to lose, he must take on the ruthless local mob in his mission for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, detective
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Fortress: Sniper's Eye (2022)
Plot Summary:
Weeks after the deadly assault on Fortress Camp, Robert makes a daring rescue to save Sasha, the widow of his old nemesis Balzary. But back in the camp's command bunker, it appears Sasha may have devious plans of her own. As a new attack breaks out, Robert is confronted with a familiar face he thought he'd never see again….
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Last Mark (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman witnesses a mob hit, a seasoned assassin and his psychotic partner must track her down before she turns them in, but she proves to be the hardest mark to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Strike One (2014)
Plot Summary:
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Fall of the Krays (2016)
Plot Summary:
The brutal brothers from Bethnal Green are back and bloodier than ever in Fall of the Krays. Following on from the ferocious Rise Of The Krays, Fall of the Krays picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the cracks start to show in the brothers business plans and their sanity. Having secured their empire and their infamy, the brothers must now fight to keep hold of both as the obsession of one police officer becomes entwined with a burgeoning romance and a dangerous state of mind for Reggie and Ronnie respectively.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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
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Percentage (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a drug deal gone wrong, two New York City hustlers relocate to Miami, where they set up a lucrative credit card fraud operation. Unfortunately, their new business not only attracts the police, but the city's top criminals -- and both want a percentage of the take.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood, crime drama
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing