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Plot Summary:
Three friends hold up a restaurant owned by the mob and run into a Hit-man running after a hit gone wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dion Brothers (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: perverse, independent film
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Wolves, Pigs & Men (1964)
Plot Summary:
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invites Sabu and gang to act as decoys, for 50,000 each. The sting is a success, but the double-crossing starts almost immediately. Sabu discovers how little of the take they were promised and hides the stash. Jiro and his slimy partner pressure the kids to fess up. Meanwhile, their respectable elder brother Ichiro is being leaned on by the town's big boss, whose money it was.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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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Ten Violent Women (1982)
Plot Summary:
Eight women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they are busted by narcs when they try to buy cocaine. The eight get sent to a prison where a butch head guard uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures. Two of the women manage to escape and then get mixed up with a shah who had a scarab ring stolen in their jewelry heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Downtown (1990)
Plot Summary:
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get even with the policeman. Soon, Kearney learns that he is off the cushy suburban beat and must now work in the deadliest precinct in Philly, where he is partnered with tough veteran cop Dennis Curran. Tensions are high between them, but Kearney soon proves he can play just as rough as the crooks.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, action comedy, retro, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, neo noir
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Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: black comedy, action comedy, neo noir, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy, dark comedy
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo noir
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Short Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, detective, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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Hard As Nails (2001)
Plot Summary:
After being punished for disobedience and arranging an arms deal with Russian mobsters, young member Takura violently takes over control of his Japanese mafia family. Takura takes advantage of his new position and is proceeding his deal with the Russians, his recklessness attracts the attention of an undercover cop.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: crime drama, neo noir, independent film, detective
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The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, neo noir, entertaining, dark, grim
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The Survivors (1983)
Plot Summary:
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: hilarious, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, witty, semi serious, black comedy, parody, funny, light
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The Bang Bang Gang (1970)
Plot Summary:
1930's: Adam and Leroy tries to rob a cafe, but finds out that two girls are already trying to do the same. Instead of arguing with them they join them in a robbery-spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Santiago Violenta (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, retro, neo noir, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco
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Mob War (1989)
Plot Summary:
When the New York City police disrupt a big cocaine deal, the TV news reporters find John Falcone, a local mobster, nearby. They ask some tough questions, and Falcone decides he needs a public relations man to help burnish his image. He hires Todd Barrett, and he keeps Barrett in line with generous helpings of cocaine. Meanwhile, Falcone's unorthodox, violent, and sadistic methods get him cross-wise with Don Ricci, the boss. A mob war may break out. When Todd's wife is endangered, can the flack attack back at the racketeers?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir
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Two Coyotes (2001)
Plot Summary:
A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, surprise ending, independent film
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Hard Luck (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Bounty Hunters (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jersey Bellini is a bounty hunter who forms an uneasy partnership with a rival to capture a fugitive. But the hunters soon discover that the crook is also the man the mob most wants dead! Ready to battle anyone in their way, these hard-hitting Bounty Hunters won't quit until they've brought in their man... and brought down the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, neo noir, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, campy
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Fatal Beauty (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike becomes Rita's constant companion.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: detective, crying, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, romantic, atmospheric, sexy
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Plot Summary:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, action thriller, exciting, light, captivating, spiritual, crime drama, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Six Ways to Sunday (1997)
Plot Summary:
Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, talky, intense, humorous, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, neo noir, independent film, offbeat
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Montana (1998)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, independent film
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I Went Down (1997)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, psychological, light, road movie
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Mad Dog Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, rough, sexy
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Consignment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Madso's War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, independent film, rough
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Metro (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action comedy, black comedy, cult classic
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48 Hrs. (1982)
Plot Summary:
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, detective, funny, neo noir, humorous, intense, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Heat (1995)
Plot Summary:
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 702000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful, intense, exciting, bleak, atmospheric, clever
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Smokin' Aces (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, action packed, bloody, exciting, twist ending, cult classic, twisted, neo noir, humorous