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Plot Summary:
Three buddies after 'Fast Money' try flying drugs into the U.S. from Mexico. When they meet with unexpected dangers, the trip turns turbulent.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Polk County Pot Plane (1977)
Plot Summary:
Oosh and Boosh, two pot smoking hicks, meet up with Big Jim, who flies in drugs from Cuba and Colombia. Our heroes unload the plane and drive off, the only problem being that within about ten seconds of doing so, the police are on their tail. You've never met two more unlucky drugs couriers, as the police are on to them every time they try something, the mafia have changed management and want money back for lost shipments, and they're about to get stiffed for their biggest heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
Similar in 85%
Acapulco Gold (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this rollicking adventure set on the high seas, an innocent insurance agent working on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai, is framed as a drug smuggler. He gets help from a most unlikely source - the town drunk who knows more than anyone suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Hip-Hop Task Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chicago Detective Khalil Jones always took risks when being wired to bring down the bad guys. Now he's been given another tough assignment lined up in Baltimore with the FBI to go undercover as a music producer at a Hip-Hop record label to pick up as much information to snag a crime lord that is affiliated with the label. Twist and turns, mind games and tactics are now being played as Jones begins to get comfortable with his hidden identity by building a friendship with the CEO of the label, Dajun Manning and a love connection with his daughter. Jones now needs to make a decision, will it be his badge or his feelings?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 84%
Purple Haze (1982)
Plot Summary:
It's dynamite stuff.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
Manhunter (1976)
Plot Summary:
Greek Spies are trying to give bad image about turkey, Metin a young police man who decides to go rogue and achieve justice after the murder of his partner and his family on the hands of Greek spices.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 82%
The Moneytree (1992)
Plot Summary:
The trials and tribulations of a marijuana grower in Marin County, California.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 78%
Panama Red (1976)
Plot Summary:
A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Permanent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
Avenge Every Second (2007)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Davy find themselves in a frightening position, when they realize that their employer, Miami Crime boss Ricky want them dead. They both escape hoping nobody will find them. But in four years time a lot can happen!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 76%
The Roundup: No Way Out (2023)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 77%
French Intrigue (1970)
Plot Summary:
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, poliziottesco
Similar in 82%
American Dreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, non-linear, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Hitchhikers (1972)
Plot Summary:
This enjoyably goofy'n'duffy piece of 70's drive-in fluff centers on a six woman outlaw gang who prey on hapless backwoods motorists. The gals are owned and trained by the amiable, scruffy, pleasantly mellow Manson-like Benson (shaggy hairball Norman Klar), a charismatically breezy anti-establishment type who wants to raise enough money to purchase a bus so he and his female family can go to California.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, road movie
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Death Kiss (2018)
Plot Summary:
A vigilante with a mysterious past becomes a one-man army in a crime-infested town as he takes the law into his own hands, at the same time protecting a young mother and her daughter. He sets his sights on a local kingpin, setting up an action-packed and fateful confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, hood, spoof, parody
Similar in 81%
Midnight Cabaret (2012)
Plot Summary:
Meet Adam, a geeky college senior who only wants to feel accepted. An encounter with Jason, his bully from high school, triggers a painful and disturbing past: an abusive, alcoholic father; his mother who committed suicide; and Todd, his older brother who's up for parole. Inspired by the goth drag queen Eve who performs at Midnight Cabaret, Adam decides to change overnight from geek to chic. He then is befriended by a few troublemakers who introduce him to a wild lifestyle of drugs and crime, sending him into a downward spiral and an unexpected journey in finding who he truly is.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, bleak, gothic, independent film, gloomy
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Beast of Burden (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
Plot Summary:
Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf (Jack Palance), wish to sever ties with organized-crime, leave the drug world behind and concentrate on music. However they are coerced into doing one last job for the Mob. They lose the $2 million of cocaine, and find themselves marked men unless they can fulfill their obligations.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 87%
The Slams (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Massacre for an Orgy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 81%
The Florida Connection (1975)
Plot Summary:
Dan Gordon arrives in town on the edge of the Florida Everglades, planning to take part in a drug smuggling operation. He's aided by his friend, Mule Tucker, but runs into opposition from corrupt local cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 90%
The Executioner Part II (1984)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 88%
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Plot Summary:
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 86%
Waters Rising (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses everything and winds up as a lowly clerk at a retail chain store. The second, Shawn, an underachieving poor kid from the neighborhood gets a fresh start and becomes a writer/novelist.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
Similar in 81%
Cartel War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the king pin who devastated their families. Based on the true story of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Cartel War is an action-packed journey into an all-too-real violent underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, independent film
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Saints and Sinners (1994)
Plot Summary:
After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 81%
Coast Mafia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shin, a good family friend and business partner of the DeLeon family, assumes his role as head of the Coast Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Smokers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Aaaron, a Kansas transplant is alone in New York City and just wants to buy a bag of weed.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cynical, neo noir, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Black King (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film about peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Narco Sub (2021)
Plot Summary:
A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)
Plot Summary:
A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, realistic