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Plot Summary:
Andrey, former police officer is trying to find who is responsible for his false accusation and imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Whatever it Takes (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two Los Angeles cops go undercover to investigate the distribution of steroids to wrestlers and body builders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Joyride to Nowhere (1977)
Plot Summary:
Teenage friends Cindy and Leah have decided to leave their abusive homelives behind, stealing Cindy's father's car and setting out on the road to freedom. On the way, they meet up with a sleazy guy named Tank who invites them up to his place. As Tank showers, the two girls decide to take off, stealing Tank's wallet and his car. His car, however, happens to contain $2 million from a bank job he just pulled off, and Tank is now rather intent on tracking the pair down and reclaiming what's his.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Start Liquidation (1984)
Plot Summary:
Army and police are trying to fight crime in West Belarus during Spring of 1945.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dangerous Passion (1990)
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea (1971)
Plot Summary:
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Action, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Escape to Passion (1971)
Plot Summary:
For its lack of bucks 'Escape to Passion' packs a big bang.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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A Man Called Magnum (1977)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse
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The System (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Karz: The Burden of Truth (2002)
Plot Summary:
Suraj is the adopted son of a wealthy hotel owner who is haunted by memories of his birth mother's rejection. He befriends Raja not knowing that he is in fact his younger brother and even gives up his love Sapna to Raja. Through Raja he is reunited with his birth mother and it is revealed that she was raped by a criminal who fathered Suraj. After many fights, flying bodies, car chases, and broken glass, Suraj eventually exacts revenge on his birth father and dies happily in his mother's arms.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags:
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Son of Baby Ama (1990)
Plot Summary:
A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mother, divulges the truth about his roots. He is caught between leaving his past and living his new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Texas Detour (1978)
Plot Summary:
Stunt driving was no problem. It was real life that was out to get him.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, independent film
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Mark Strikes Again (1976)
Plot Summary:
A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to track down the two killers and bring them in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Yakuza Wives (1986)
Plot Summary:
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
Plot Summary:
Like its title, this crazy Toei film from 1976 falls neatly into two parts. The first details the exploits of two bank robbers who specialize in "smash and grab" style heists. Evidently, Japanese banks of the period left huge piles of cash laying around on filing cabinets and end tables. The thieves dream of escaping Japan and going to Brazil. Charismatic lead Tsunehiko Watase gets involved with Miki Sugimoto, a strange girl with a severe mental problem. After a bank robbery goes wrong and his partner is killed, Watase is assaulted by his dead partner's thuggish brother who wants the loot.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
Plot Summary:
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, bleak, crying, freeze frame
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Double Passing (1984)
Plot Summary:
Double Passing (Dvoynoy obgon) is a 1984 Soviet crime movie directed by Aleksandr Gordon. Truckers Viktor and Ivan Petrovich transport a valuable cargo on a highway in uninhabited territory in the South of USSR. A pair of criminals, seasoned "Bug" and young and ill-tempered "Lyon'ka", hijack the truck. Capt. Madzhiev of the road patrol chases the truck while the truckers are hold by criminals and their life is in grave danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Enemy Gold (1993)
Plot Summary:
Three Federal agents go in search of gold supposedly hidden by Quantrell during the Civil War after they are suspended by a corrupt official for excessive force during a drug raid. Meanwhile a drug lord hires a hit woman to kill the three for interfering with his operations.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, cult classic, independent film, hot, sexploitation film, cult film
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Exit... But No Panic (1980)
Plot Summary:
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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His Nickname Is Beast (1990)
Plot Summary:
Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Psy 3: W imie zasad (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 25 years, Franz Maurer gets out of from prison and came into a new Poland, where nothing is the same as he remembered. Who and what is waiting for a man who has done nothing for the last quarter century? How will he find himself in a world where old principles, roles and loyalty have ceased to apply? We'll find out this when the fate brings Franz and "New" back together. Their meeting will change everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Diamondbacks (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Diamondback Militia violently opposes certain US policies regarding satellite info. After a lightening attack on a federal courthouse, the Militia takes over a space shuttle tracking station. The goal...to take control of a multi-billion dollar communications satellite. Who will save the space shuttle and it's crew?.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Little Italy (1978)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse
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Caged Women II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Nicole Clark, a young beautiful and talented aspiring singer finds that living in a big city is not all its "cracked up to be". After being sexually harassed by her record Producer and then coming home to find her boyfriend in bed with another woman she decides to take a break from "living in the fast lane" and hitch-hikes back to Elwood, the small town she grew up in. In the middle of nowhere, scared, and short of rides, she is picked up by sly and deceptive small town Sheriff Riley who promises her safety and a ride to the next town. Nicole finds herself being a pawn in a macabre covert white slavery ring run by Marta Samtani. Nicole's only salvation now is her boyfriend and Detective Nate Penna, the policeman put on the case after she is reported missing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crime drama, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Plot Summary:
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji) finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hit man and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba) draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) into a new round of bloodshed, culminating with the tragic demise of the young Yamanaka.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Street Mobster (1972)
Plot Summary:
The Japanese yakuza films certainly have a well-earned reputation of being violent and chaotic. Some are more frenetic than others and Street Mobster is unbelievable high on savagery and energy. It dawned the re-birth of the genre, telling the story of low-level punks who will do anything without compromise and little sense of honor.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crime drama, bloody, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Mafia (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic, neo noir
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Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, tense, hood, bleak, realistic, independent film
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Rivals (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, neo noir, emotional, realistic
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El Coyote (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Italian mafia takes on the Mexican cartel on the Mexican border. The cartel has captured the son of an ex-mobster in witness protection. He calls on his mob buddies to come to Arizona to help him.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative