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Plot Summary:
Based on true events and the novel of the same name. Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags:
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Little Dixie (2023)
Plot Summary:
Erstwhile Special Forces operative Doc Alexander is asked to broker a truce with the Mexican drug cartel in secrecy. When Oklahoma Governor Richard Jeffs celebrates the execution of a high-ranking cartel member on TV, his Chief of Staff and Doc inform him about the peace he just ended. But it’s too late, as Cuco, the cartel’s hatchet man, has set his vengeful sights on Doc’s daughter Dixie.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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One Way (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the run with a bag full of cash after a robbing his former crime boss—and a potentially fatal wound—Freddy slips onto a bus headed into the unrelenting California desert. With his life slipping through his fingers, Freddy is left with very few choices to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Traveler (2010)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, christmas horror, rough, suspenseful, serious, twisted, realistic
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Night Drive (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Russell picks up an enigmatic young woman through a ride-share app, his boring evening perks up. But all bets are off after they hit a guy with the car in this charming comedy of errors.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: christmas horror
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Domino (2019)
Plot Summary:
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, perverse
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9 Bullets (2022)
Plot Summary:
A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents’ murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Arrogant (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Arrogant is a 1987 action-thriller directed, written, and produced by Philippe Blot. This film stars Gary Graham and Sylvia Kristel, Giovanni and Julie, as two strangers who meet on a desert highway. As they travel together, they encounter many strange situations that are often religious and/or sexual in nature. The uninhibited and arrogant Giovanni is usually the cause of most of these dilemmas they come across.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, erotic
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Wrong Side of Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ex-Navy Seal Bobby Kalinowski lives a quiet, peaceful life as a landscape architect in an LA suburb with his wife Dawn and 16 year old daughter Brianna. Tonight they are invited out for an evening on the town by new neighbors clay and Elise Freeman to a happening club downtown. Little did they know that this would be the start of a life or death ordeal for the group.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, fast
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Kill Speed (2010)
Plot Summary:
KILL SPEED is a high-octane, youth oriented, TOP GUN meets FAST & FURIOUS tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo western
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The Enforcer (2022)
Plot Summary:
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Beatdown (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon soon gets involved in the local underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Drake Colby, a former MMA champion, Brandon devises a scheme to bring a massive payday, if they are able to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Gun (2010)
Plot Summary:
Detroit gun runner Rich (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) works to sniff out a traitor in his midst after being targeted by the FBI and having barely surviving a weapons deal gone awry. Rich was all set to unload a serious supply of firepower when the bullets started to fly, and Angel (Val Kilmer) saved his life. Later, as the investigation heats up, Rich's lover and supplier Gabriella (Anna Lynne McCord) starts getting paranoid. When Gabriella too finds herself on the bad end of a botched exchange, the stage is set for a shocking revelation that will rock the entire Detroit underworld.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, hood
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Bullet (2014)
Plot Summary:
Danny Trejo plays 'Bullet' a tough cop who takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, hood, crime drama
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Headhunters (2011)
Plot Summary:
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, dark comedy, suspense, tense, clever, neo noir, intense, exciting
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Killerman (2019)
Plot Summary:
A New York City money launderer desperately searches for answers after waking up with no memory, millions in stolen cash and drugs, and an insane crew of dirty cops violently hunting him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, hood, crime thriller
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The Keeper (2009)
Plot Summary:
Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The businessman had been a colleague of Sallinger years before, when they were both cops. When mobsters kidnap the businessman's daughter, he hunts them down to rescue her and protect her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, bloody, realistic
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A Dangerous Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving 6 years for a crime he didn't commit, Shane Daniels is released from jail with an apology from the State of Arizona. Within hours of his freedom, he unluckily bears witness to a cop killing by Chinese mafia who have a kidnapped girl and a bag of drug money.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, action packed, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Born to Raise Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and the Russians, leaving one task force member dead. Fueled with vengeance, he leads us on an action packed thrill ride while avenging his friend's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, suspense, hood, realistic, fast
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) and cutthroat gangsters with a penchant for murder Hawkins must risk everything in the most deadly race of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, action packed, fast
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Force of Execution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is forced to pay the price of his failure: banishment in the city that he almost once ruled. But a war is brewing for the soul of the city between Alexander, a cold-blooded gangster known as 'The Iceman" (Rhames) and a merciless Mexican cartel. Hurst, with the help of an ex-con restaurant owner (Trejo) who has a few hidden moves of his own, will rediscover his own will to survive the coming conflict and to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
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High Voltage (1998)
Plot Summary:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, independent film
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Wheelman (2017)
Plot Summary:
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, noir, neo noir, interesting
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Hijacked (2012)
Plot Summary:
A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, erotic, sexy, action packed, serious, realistic
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The Silencing (2020)
Plot Summary:
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, action thriller, disturbing, psychological thriller, entertaining, independent film, perverse
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Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose members are being systematically murdered one by one. To solve the brutal killings, Kingston joins forces with a cocky, young homicide detective. But neither of them is prepared for the shocking corruption their investigation will uncover — stunning secrets that will set both men on a violent collision course with betrayal and vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, detective, freeze frame
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Reindeer Games (2000)
Plot Summary:
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, intense, suspense, serious, realistic, entertaining, action packed, action adventure, twisted
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Lethal Weapon (1987)
Plot Summary:
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 272000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, humorous, entertaining, action packed, tense, detective, action comedy, saga
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Run All Night (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, intense, stylized, tense, serious, realistic, suspense, fast paced, neo noir, psychological thriller