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Plot Summary:
In the slums of Barcelona, Fanny, a woman just released from prison, tries to carry out a revenge that has nourished for years: to kill "El Gallego", the corrupt and brutal policeman who killed her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, eros
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A Brutal Game (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a famous scientist (Bruno Cremer) who rules over his errant disabled daughter (Emmanuelle Debever) with an iron fist. He's meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetuous but equally cruel in her own immature way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: art house, hot
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Scramble (2017)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped by an underground prostitution ring, a neighborhood loser clashes with a pimp, Asian gangsters, and renegade killers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime
Country:
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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München Mord - Wir sind die Neuen (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Rope and Skin (1979)
Plot Summary:
Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Passing Fancy (2005)
Plot Summary:
"Passing Fancy" is a film about the devastating effects that emotional and sexual abuse reap on the human mind. In this story the abuse leads to drugs, deception, insanity and eventually murder. With few clues to go on, Detective Rodriguez is assigned to the case and charged with the task of bringing a beautiful, murdering seductress to justice. After being sentenced to a life term at a mental institution for the criminally insane, the convicted murderer fights for her freedom while falling in love with the man who put her there.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Crime Partners (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hustlers, players and gangsters rule the urban streets of New York in this story about loyalty and betrayal. Billy Goode, a street-smart crook and his partner Jackie Williams are two small time gangsters with dream of seeing their names in the headlines. After a shooting and robbery that doesn't give them the attention they desire, the partners hook up with the local criie boss Kenyatta who has a major agenda to shake up the city. Meanwhile Detective Benson and Detective Ryan are on the case.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: hood
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Crimes of Passion: Death of a Loved One (2013)
Plot Summary:
Puck has been invited by her tutor at the university to celebrate midsummer at his secluded cottage on an island together with a group of friends, among them Einar Bure. Puck and Einar are having a secret relationship, and he is the reason she says yes to the invitation. Having been out on a romantic spree with Einar, Puck finds one of the female guests murdered. Einar contacts his friend Christer Wijk, but upon Christer's arrival, the dead body has disappeared. The contact with the outside world is broken when the island's only boat goes missing. They are trapped on the island - and someone among them is a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, period piece
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Dead Eye Dick (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private-eye is on the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Claudia Case (1979)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true events that took place in the 70s, in Rio de Janeiro. The body of beautiful girl Cláudia Lessin Rodrigues, actress Márcia Rodrigues's sister, was found in the seashore. After Police investigation, it was found she had been murdered on a party by a rich industrialist's son and his socialite hairdresser buddy, after much sex, alcohol and drugs, specially Mandrax (methaqualone). She'd probably resisted being raped and the killers threw away the body in the water. One of the guys tried to escape flying to Switzerland.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Flesh and Bullets (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men that meets in a bar in Las Vegas discovers that they have one big problem in common, their wifes. They decide to do something drastic about it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Kill-Off (1989)
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The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a sultry stripper named Danny Lee (Cathy Haase). Danny Lee's act soon turns the head of Ralph, which is not good news for his bed-ridden wife Luanne (Loretta Gross). Luanne's nasty talent is her gift for gossip, and when she begins to suspect that Ralph has adultery on his mind, she starts spreading more ugly rumors that have just enough basis in fact to stick. Soon things spin out of control and a wave of violence begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, eighties, cult film
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Backstreet Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, cult film
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13 French Street (2007)
Plot Summary:
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Valentin Valentin (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a small Parisian building, a diverse group of people crosses paths, likes and observes each other, without always seeing each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The North Star (1982)
Plot Summary:
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Radio Corbeau (1989)
Plot Summary:
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The House That Vanished (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young model and her petty thief boyfriend find their way through the English fog to a backwoods manor in hopes of looting it. What they find instead is murder, and when the model attempts to find the house again, her efforts come to naught.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic
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Die Tigerin (1992)
Plot Summary:
It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia. Does he love her or is he only using her? Is the Tigress madly in love with him or does she want to satisfy her vanity and drop him once he falls for her? The ancient cat and mouse game between a man and a woman unfolds amidst sensual seduction, the scheme of robbing a rich Texan and the jilted lover arriving from Berlin, gun drawn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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A Singular Crime (2022)
Plot Summary:
Rosario in the 80s. The disappearance of a man during the military dictatorship. Two young people from the court must do everything possible to solve the case while facing police corruption and various dangers that put their lives at risk.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense
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The Perfect Killer (1977)
Plot Summary:
Betrayed by his girl and best friend, thief Harry Chapman (Lee Van Cleef) takes the fall for a racetrack robbery. While in prison, he is offered a chance to participate in an escape plan. What he doesn't know is that once he is on the outside, the group responsible for the prison break has Harry in their debt and they use him as a hit-man. Naturally, he grows tired of the job and splits because he is hellbent on getting revenge on the former partners. So the mob puts young hit-man Luc (Robert Widmark) on Harry's trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, poliziottesco
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The Manhandlers (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Grijpstra & De Gier (1979)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Crimes of Passion: Roses, Kisses and Death (2013)
Plot Summary:
The country estate of Rödbergshyttan is surrounded by heavily fragrant roses in every color. There lives the beautiful Gabriella, who Christer loves, and an invitation to their engagement party is the reason for Puck and Einar to travel there. But the rose-scented idyll soon turn into a stifling background when Puck finds Gabriella's grandfather poisoned in his bed. Little by little we learn that the relations between the people living at the estate is everything but uncomplicated, and that there is a sexual frustration behind every well polished marriage. The question is to what extent beautiful Gabriella is involved in the intrigues and how much of a coincidence it is that her grandfather is killed just when Christer is in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, detective, period piece, exciting, contemplative
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Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971)
Plot Summary:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: weird
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Stripped Naked (2009)
Plot Summary:
When exotic dancer Cassie happens upon a drug deal gone bad, she steals the money and the drugs thinking she now has the funds to make her dream of moving to Paris come true. But waiting three days to get her passport proves tougher than she thought when everyone she knows from her ex-boyfriend, to her drug addict boss, to her lesbian lover, to the rightful owner of the money decides to get in on the action.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sensual, independent film, surprise ending
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MP Da Last Don (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nino never wanted the life of a gangster, but when his father, Don Corleone is gunned down in the street, he must answer the call for revenge. Now Nino is Da Last Don and the family business is in his hands...a world of deceit, back room deals and crooked cops that threatens to destroy everything Nino loves.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: hood, independent film
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Entanglement (2011)
Plot Summary:
A member of a therapy group is found dead. A prosecutor and a police officer try to solve the mystery of his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, neo noir
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A Grain of Truth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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The Black Godfather (1974)
Plot Summary:
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense