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Plot Summary:
Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín´s two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, hispanic
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Gangster Ka (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film based on a book by Jaroslav Kmenta tells the story of a mafioso who got rich by tax fraud of billions of crowns in transactions with petroleum products and who later tried to gain control of the state-owned petroleum concern. The main character is the gangster Radim Kraviec (Hynek Cermák). He was always capable of violence, but when his father is abducted and killed by a competing mafia, he is changed into a murdering monster.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Iskariot (2008)
Plot Summary:
A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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26 Years (2012)
Plot Summary:
26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, CEO from a large company and director of a private security outfit get involved in a plan to convict the person responsible for the massacre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: 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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The Bandit (1996)
Plot Summary:
The epic adventures of the legendary Baran the Bandit following his release from prison. After serving 35 years, it is no surprise that the world has changed dramatically. Still, Baran can't help but be shocked to discover that his home village is now underwater thanks to the construction of a new dam. He then heads for Istanbul to get revenge upon his former best friend, the man who snitched on him and stole his lover Keje. Along the way, Baran teams up with Cumali, a tough young punk who finds the thief's old-fashioned ways rather quaint. When Cumali gets into deep trouble with a crime boss, Baran adds another vengeful task to his roster.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: dorama, political, art house, exciting, tense, epic, serious, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
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Lila & Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, exciting, captivating, crime drama, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Johnny Handsome (1989)
Plot Summary:
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, harsh, neo noir, serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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To Steal from a Thief (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a rainy morning six armed men in disguise rob a bank in Valencia .But what seemed like an easy heist quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, clever, action thriller, surprise ending
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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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Avenge the Crows (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former gang member and her young cousin become embroiled in a vendetta between L.A. gangs, as rivals seek revenge for old crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crime drama
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Echoes of Violence (2021)
Plot Summary:
An immigrant travels from Sedona to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Life Not to Follow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters: Eric is a dead man and he knows it. Death is imminent and he must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price: A wiseguy willing to do anything to move up in the world must now make the ultimate sacrifice. He must kill his best friend or in turn be killed: An F.B.I.agent turned P.I. is on the trail of a missing girl. In his long search for her he comes face to face with a host of unsavory characters who will lead him to perdition or salvation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, detective, cult film
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Black Widow (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have to settle something with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster. Carmen will now have deal with her past to save her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Marseille (2014)
Plot Summary:
Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But in the city, relationships have changed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, rough, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful
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Toro (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hood, perverse, noir
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Illegal Tender (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Plot Summary:
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, retro, expressionism, hood, cult classic, visually stunning
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Kiss of Death (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, a police officer named Calvin Hart is injured and Jimmy lands back in prison. In exchange for an early release, he is asked to help bring down a local crime boss named Little Junior Brown. Jimmy remarries and attempts to renew a relationship with his child. But he is sent undercover by Detective Hart to work with Junior and infiltrate his operations. As soon as Little Junior kills an undercover federal agent with Jimmy watching, the unscrupulous district attorney and the feds further complicate his life. He must take down Junior or face the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, brutal, hood
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Cell 211 (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense, tricky, rough, bleak, clever, dramatic, realistic
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Sleep Tight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara proves to be harder than the most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, mind twisting, mind blowing, twisted
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The Gunman (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, realistic
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Empire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, melancholic, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense, realistic
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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Retribution (2015)
Plot Summary:
Carlos, a bank executive, begins his morning routine by taking his kids to school. As he starts the car he receives an anonymous phone call informing him that there's a bomb under his seat. A stranger's voice tells him that he only has a few hours to gather together a large amount of cash: if he doesn't, his car will blow up.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, social, twist ending, hispanic, action thriller, twisted, thrilling
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, rough, psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller
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Narc (2002)
Plot Summary:
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads and informants turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, harsh, disturbing
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Calm with Horses (2019)
Plot Summary:
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, social, independent film, hood, powerful
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Training Day (2001)
Plot Summary:
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 463000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, realistic, harsh, suspense, hood, detective, crime thriller, psychological, clever
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We Own the Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, stylized, rough, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, dark
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Carlito's Way (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, intense, rough, bleak, serious