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Plot Summary:
In the heat of the night, a man from faraway plays the piano. In the local hillside prison, a bitter double-crossed convict stares at the city life over the roofs. A revenge is brewing in his mind; the blood-thirsty killer prepares his escape. Vares gets a client who needs private investigations. Despite the beautiful wife, Vares smells a rat... In the middle of the summer night, a shot rings out. One life comes to an end and Vares finds changes in his assignment. The clues lead him to first-hand encounters and second-hand bookshops; a visit to the gym reveals a drug-smuggling route from Stockholm... Vares finds himself entangled in hot money and cool silk. In the background slithers a cunning garter snake.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)
Plot Summary:
The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring involved in extortion, religious scams, exploitation of minors and stock market speculation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, rough
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Vares: Tango of Darkness (2012)
Plot Summary:
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough….
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Kiss of Evil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
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The Girls of April (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough
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Vares: Gambling Chip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of messy denunciation letters. Before the letters reveal their secret, a lot of things happen. A gun-for-hire, Stahanov, gets an assignment. Sole's brother finds his wife in the arms of a wrong man and goes on a rampage, accompanied by a black cat. In the end the clues lead to a familiar person and more death in unavoidable.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared (1993)
Plot Summary:
A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Il capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the dominant Jari, who calls himself "Il Capitano", and his more mature "soldier" Minna, that develops into mutual dependence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Case G (2006)
Plot Summary:
Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van Veeteren has personal reasons for wanting him caught.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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Bitter Flowers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, mind bending, realistic
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Tick Tock (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on his vast assets. But the girls don't want to commit the crime themselves, so at a bar they seduce a stranger, Travis Brewer, and convince him to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, sexual
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Pride & Loyalty (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jake DeMitro cannot maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Francini or concentrate on his prestigious position with the Prosecutor's Office. He suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality and fights on a regular basis with his professional nemesis, Brian O'Leary.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cha cha cha (2013)
Plot Summary:
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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La Fuga (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, adaptation directed by original author
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Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008)
Plot Summary:
Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir, detective, serious
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One (2002)
Plot Summary:
Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens alliés n'y croient plus, même Jeanne qui s'est mariée et a maintenant des enfants.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, art house, bleak, neo noir
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Prison on Fire II (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ching is a prisoner in a Honk Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. Ching escapes to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. He surrenders himself to authorities, but the vengeful chief of security, Zau, arranges for Ching to be set up in the eyes of the Mainland gang, led by the affable Dragon. Dragon and Ching both then escape separately, and while fugitives, hook up together and bond. Ching is recaptured and instigates a riot to save his own hide from the Mainlanders. In the chaos Ching gets revenge on Skull (who, working with Zau, set him up) and Zau.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Under Suspicion (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, clever, realistic, suspenseful, detective, noir, visually stunning, sexy
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Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
Plot Summary:
The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychological, tense, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic
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The Detective 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, tense, rough
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Hyena (2014)
Plot Summary:
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood
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An Innocent Man (1989)
Plot Summary:
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, intense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, scary
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Badge 373 (1973)
Plot Summary:
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall) vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie (Henry Darrow), who wants to foment revolutionary war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: grim, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, weird
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My Kingdom (2001)
Plot Summary:
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a former junkie -- and prostitute -- rejects her inheritance, pitting sisters Kath and Tracy against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Chamber (1996)
Plot Summary:
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. "Hall" confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. "Cayhall," about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber. While the old man's life lies in the balance, Adam's motivation in fighting this battle becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only does he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for himself as well. He has come to heal the wounds of his own father's suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, thought provoking, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, talky, anamorphic, contemplative
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Bonded by Blood (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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The Preacher (2004)
Plot Summary:
Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, controversial
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Shiner (2000)
Plot Summary:
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir, serious, independent film
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The Escapist (2002)
Plot Summary:
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough
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Anything for Her (2008)
Plot Summary:
Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, serious, suspenseful, twisted, thrilling, neo noir, tense, realistic, fast