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Plot Summary:
With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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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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Girls Of The White Orchid (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work at the White Orchid nightclub, she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to client's proposals.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Human Capital (2013)
Plot Summary:
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, social, twisted, gloomy
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The Clockmaker of St. Paul (1974)
Plot Summary:
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visits and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Satanás - Profile of a Killer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Mario Mendoza's book and inspired by true events, tells three interconnected stories happening in the eve of the infamous Pozzetto Massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, erotic, sincere, disturbing, anthology
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Malibu High (1979)
Plot Summary:
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
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The Casino Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barry Kaylin is living the dream. Not yet 40, he owns four Las Vegas casinos and lives the life of the bachelor to the fullest. One night, while meeting with two potential business associates, he hires five local dancers to flirt and lounge around his mansion and lagoon pool.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Holy Lola (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the jealousies and mistrust of a small community of would-be adoptive parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sincere
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Las Vegas Lady (1975)
Plot Summary:
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Terror and Black Lace (1986)
Plot Summary:
A psycho with a hair fetish is caught in the act of disposing of a body and the lonely housewife that witnesses it must fight for her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Coup de torchon (1981)
Plot Summary:
In 1938 in the french West Africa, Lucien Cordier is a weak and corrupted policeman despised by the local bad boys. His wife is openly cheating on him and he hasn't got any self-respect anymore. But when comes the occasion, his revenge will be terrible.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, dark comedy, neo noir, disturbing, controversial, anthology, black comedy, crime drama, realistic
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Have Mercy on Us All (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, many citizens go to the precinct after the doors of their apartments have been sprayed with a 4 and the letters "clt". When a dweller is found mysteriously dead in his apartment, Detective Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg and his partner Danglard investigate the case and discover that plague may have killed the victim. Meanwhile, in the center of Paris, the former actor Joss Le Guern survives reading advertisements in a square for the public; when he receives weird messages about an outbreak of plague that is coming to Paris, the former professor Hervé Decambrais requests the warnings and goes to the library to research the meaning of the text, where he meets Adamsberg. Together they find that a maniac is killing people using flees contaminated by rats and spreading the disease in the city; without any clue, the police force do not have how to avoid the panic in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious, futuristic, realistic
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Hustle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a chance at the biggest score of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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City of M (2000)
Plot Summary:
After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
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The Ruthless (2019)
Plot Summary:
Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, harsh, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, intense, erotic, poliziottesco
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The Two Mr. Kissels (2008)
Plot Summary:
Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs and huge houses. But beneath the surface lie resentments and secrets that will eventually be their horrible undoing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Iowa (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gold digging man seduces a widow for her money, and also makes a pass at her teenage Daughter, the Daughter plans a terrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Three Way (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir, surprise ending
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April Showers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A look inside a tragedy through the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events, April Showers is about picking up the pieces in the direct aftermath of school violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, independent film
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Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Plot Summary:
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, adaptation directed by original author
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Rivals (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, dark, teen, mind bending, realistic
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The Informers (2008)
Plot Summary:
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, bad ending, serious, sincere, realistic, disturbing, erotic, psychological, sexual
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Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary) (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic
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Tycoon (2002)
Plot Summary:
During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the top. But with this cynical rise, comes a brutal fall.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: serious, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, suspense, biting, clever
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Siberian Education (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspense, bleak, gloomy
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SK1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was not the ex-con's and can't bring himself to do the task. Meanwhile, the ex-con tries to turn his life around by becoming a boxer and training under a former heavyweight contender.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, independent film, realistic, gloomy
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Bully (2001)
Plot Summary:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy, stylized, melancholic, depressing, intense, teen
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Havoc (2005)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, bad ending, intense, serious, suspenseful, tense