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Plot Summary:
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother (Hideko Takamine) seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
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Winter's Flower (1978)
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Kanno (Ken Takakura) is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however... the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed! A powerful motion picture about honor and the violent ways of the Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: epic, thrilling
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Shot Pattern (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
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The Samurai That Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
A widower sends daily reminders to the petty criminal who killed his wife in a traffic accident that on the anniversary of her death, he will kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful
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Death Hunt (1977)
Plot Summary:
When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Urban Hymn (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worker who inspires her to use it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
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Baby (2002)
Plot Summary:
Alice is given a parenting exercise at school which changes her understanding of the world in a way she never expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. Unbeknownst to him, the girl plans on turning herself in, but not before she kills one more person--her real father. Later she changes her mind, but when his good wife learns of his philandering, she commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: jidai geki, detective
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Chronicle of a Homicide (1972)
Plot Summary:
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating magistrate - in charge of the case with two commissioners - wants to believe to the version of the police: the student was killed by one of the laborers, while the policeman would have been killed by Massimo Trotti.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Maracaibo (2017)
Plot Summary:
The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sex Hunter: Wet Target (1972)
Plot Summary:
While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko. Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities. Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister. What he uncovers during his investigation is much more horrifying than he could ever imagine! Fueled by rage, he meets the killers one by one as the film explodes into an unbelievable climax of bloodshed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: disturbing
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A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
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Rabal is a blind, elderly leader of the Camorra whose son ends up dead as he attempts to rape Molina. Somebody has stuck the corpse strategically with a hypodermic needle, which is to become the signature of a series of killings of Naples drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Veronica (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovered that drug traffickers killed his parents and now are at your demand.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Sweety Barrett (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Iceland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Keiho (1999)
Plot Summary:
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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Proof of the Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Die Tigerin (1992)
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It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia. Does he love her or is he only using her? Is the Tigress madly in love with him or does she want to satisfy her vanity and drop him once he falls for her? The ancient cat and mouse game between a man and a woman unfolds amidst sensual seduction, the scheme of robbing a rich Texan and the jilted lover arriving from Berlin, gun drawn.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Slayground (1983)
Plot Summary:
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: perverse, independent film, eighties
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No Return (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller centered on a man who is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Heat Wave (1991)
Plot Summary:
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Lady Cocoa (1975)
Plot Summary:
Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy
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Devil's Dandruff (2022)
Plot Summary:
When you grow up poor on the streets of London you have 2 choices. Stay poor or get Rich. We follow the True Story of the rise of a petty drug dealer to his eventual involvement in some of the most notorious and infamous real life Robberies and Gangland Executions and Drug Deals of recent times. Seduced by the underworld, glamour, girls, danger our hero is soon over his head and fighting for his life in a world filled with violence and where so many pay the ultimate price. The Devils Dandruff shows an unflinching look at the London underworld where crime does not pay and no one ends up a winner.
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Country: UK
Duration:
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Act of Revenge (1989)
Plot Summary:
A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Yearning (1964)
Plot Summary:
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
Plot Summary:
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Partners: The Movie III (2014)
Plot Summary:
A news report circulates about a man who died after being kicked by a horse on a small island located 300km away from Tokyo. National Police Agency director Takeru Kanbe assigns Vice Director Mineaki Kai the task of making sure rumors surrounding the incident are fully investigated. Soon, partners Ukyo Sugishita and Tooru Kai are dispatched to the island to conduct the investigation. When Ukyo and Tooru arrive on the island, which is privately owned by a wealthy businessman, they discover a unit of former Self-Defense Forces personnel who have set up a small community as they participate in training exercises. While Ukyo initially expected to be investigating an accidental death, he quickly becomes convinced it was actually murder. However, when they finally manage to uncover conclusive evidence of this, the soldiers attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ken and Kazu (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ken was making his life by smuggling methamphetamine with long time buddy, Kazu. Ken has decided to start a new life when he learned that his girlfriend, Saki, became pregnant. At the same time, Ken finds out that Kazu started selling on the side without getting approval from his boss, Mr. Todo. Ken tries to stop Kazu; however, instead, Kazu approaches a new partner. Knowing that this new deal puts their lives in great danger once Mr. Todo finds out... Suspicious of their dangerous involvement, Saki decides to leaves Ken. Mr. Todo finds out and decided to take action... Todo's guys start chasing Ken and Kazu.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lila & Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, exciting, captivating, crime drama, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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After Him (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle s'attache à Franck, le meilleur ami de celui-ci, qui est aussi le responsable du drame. Les proches de Camille ne comprennent pas son attitude. Le vide se fait autour d'elle. Qu'importe le scandale, Franck devient l'objet consentant de son affection. Mais il va prendre peu à peu conscience que l'obsession de Camille le met en danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, tense, sexy, gloomy, sexual, queer cinema
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In the Bedroom (2001)
Plot Summary:
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, suspense, emotional, suspenseful, independent film, sincere, serious
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Blood Brothers (1993)
Plot Summary:
Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his conscience over informing on Sly -- but this fear becomes secondary when the remaining gang members close in on both brothers and threaten their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful