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Plot Summary:
Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to Benedict Weber, gallery owner and art connoisseur. Francis comes to his gallery. Blackmails him, that will provide police record, unless the image in three days back in place.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: action thriller
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No One Twice (1984)
Plot Summary:
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon to oversee the installation of his paintings in a joint exhibition with another Berlin artist, Hanna Brauer (Charlotte Schwab), Hanna never shows up. Hoffmann is puzzled because he is certain he saw a video sequence with Hanna at the exhibition, and he begins to look for her. Another Lisbon cultural center, a theater, is also having problems that may or may not be related -- and the mystery deepens when Hanna is found dead, either by her own hand, or murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Slaughter Is the Best Medicine (2014)
Plot Summary:
Vet leads his team of disbanded mercenaries into the treacherous Gallows Wood on one last mission to capture the elusive Professor Black. What was meant to be a simple extraction mission soon becomes a terrifying journey into madness.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Black Madonna (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Black Madonna is a 2007 action comedy film written by Nikolaj Peyk and Lasse Spang Olsen and directed by Lasse Spang Olsen.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: iconic
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The Hot Touch (1981)
Plot Summary:
A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quite if they forge some art lost in WWII.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Theft by Deception (2010)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to save his crumbling marriage, a police detective extorts a recently paroled art thief into stealing valuable paintings to present to his wife as gifts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Death of a Philatelist (1969)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective
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Chained Justice (1984)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Squalor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building. And in the fourth story Baste saves his sister from Ariel.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Bravo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mexico's new president vows to attack the drug trade; in retaliation, his wife has already been assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Time of Miracles (1989)
Plot Summary:
September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he is the Messiah. Director Paskaljevic cut his TV miniseries, based on the novel by Borislav Pekic, to feature film length.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Yugoslavia, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spiritual
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The Imposter (1975)
Plot Summary:
With the cast list, you would almost expect this to be another Chang Cheh film. Two of Chang's proteges, David Chiang and Chen Kuan-tai go head-to-head in The Imposter which sees cinematographer Pao Hsueh-li back in the director's chair. Chiang plays Ko Liang, as master of disguise who puts his seven faces to good use when he goes to the aid of two young guardsmen Tseng Yung (Danny Lee) and Tseng Kan (Wang Chung) who have been framed by Captain Lo (Chen Kuan-tai) for murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Maximum Breakout (1991)
Plot Summary:
Vacationing lovers Travis and Bobbi encounter an unexpected nightmare on a lonely country road. Two strangers kidnap Bobbi, and brutally beat Travis. Six months later, though Bobbi's family is wealthy, there's no ransom demand, and the police, even Travis's boss, Detective Wyatt, have all but given up. Only Travis, encouraged by Bobbi's best friend Debbie, keeps searching for Bobbi. Travis teams up with Debbie's brother Reb, who assembles a team to rescue Bobbi. Other than Travis and Reb, the team consists of the Professor, a computer nerd who likes to blow things up, Loch, a gun-crazy nut case, and a stuntman named Suicide. Together, they track Bobbi to an isolated ranch where blond, blue-eyed women are forced to bear children who are sold to desperate couples by a man named Frank and his boss, an icy woman with a Southern accent. Now Travis and the team must plan a way to infiltrate the ranch and rescue Bobbi and the other women.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Beyond Betrayal (1994)
Plot Summary:
Joanne is married to Bradley, who's a cop and who abuses her. One day she decides to run away. She then meets Sam, who is separated from his wife, who is obsessed with him. Bradley finds Joanne and the lead takes him to Sam's boat. Now his wife is on the boat and somehow she's killed. The police suspect Sam because she was stalking him and because of certain peculiarities in his actions on the day she died. Joanne knows that it's Bradley who did it but is too afraid to come forward and Bradley has another cop alibi him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Sudden Death (1977)
Plot Summary:
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, action thriller, independent film, cult film
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Power Of Evil (1985)
Plot Summary:
French, German & Italian film drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Stories from the Kronen (1995)
Plot Summary:
Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, tragic ending, homoerotic, sexy
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Birador (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mike Santana is technically as person for he uses his position as a policeman to savagely murder people; he also manhandles his wife Gina. His partner in service is Frankie, a young loyal police who sticks with him through thick and thin. But in end he betrays him for good. Because of that he pours out all of his frustrations to his wife, and as he continues to be rude, his wife Gina finally leaves him for her family. His teenage gets gang-raped by men. As he gets to live all alone, with all the people blaming him for their shortcomings; he starts to realize his mistakes which will transform from being soulless to a sensible human being. He would also meet Michelle who teaches him not to regret the act of forgiveness. Suddenly, his crooked ways backfire on him when he gets accused of killing a pro-laborer advocate. As he tries to come clean and liquidate the real criminals, another threat would come to take his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Matter of Trust (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prosecutor is building a case against a suspected serial killer. She receives death threats, but ignores them at first. When her husband disappears and someone blackmails her, she turns to her ex, a suspended homicide detective.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Hunt (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a high-ranking North Korean official requests asylum, KCIA Foreign Unit chief Park Pyong-ho and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do are tasked with uncovering a North Korean spy, known as Donglim, who is deeply embedded within their agency. When the spy begins leaking top secret intel that could jeopardize national security, the two units are each assigned to investigate each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Black Sea 213 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Gleaming the Cube (1989)
Plot Summary:
An Orange County teenager's carefree life of ditching class and skateboarding abandoned pools comes to a screeching halt when his adopted Vietnamese brother dies. The cops rule the death a suicide, but the bereaved skater believes he was murdered. It's up to him to solve the case, with a skateboard.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, sexual, colorful, tense, sentimental, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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MacArthur Park (2001)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a "blast." His girlfriend, Alicia, is a romantic who's losing her soul to the drug, and E-Max is a street hustling pimp who is trying to scoop young Linda into his motley legion of harlots. Hoover Blue, earth mother to all the addicts, attempts to pound some knowledge into the starry-eyed Linda while Cody tries to help young P-Air get his hustle on to record a hip hop track and make it big. But when Cody's real son, Terry, tracks him down to tell him his wife has passed away, Cody doesn't even recognize him at first and then can't help him with postmortem affairs. After five years of crack addiction, Cody wants to get straight and do right by Terry, but the harder he struggles to escape the park, the more it closes in on him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, rough, serious, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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Painted Lady (1997)
Plot Summary:
From the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction, a rekindled interracial love affair, helpful relatives and a painting of great price. She finds more than she bargained for in the labyrinth and milieu of stolen art.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 204 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Tejaa (1990)
Plot Summary:
ejaa watch helplessly as his parents gets assassinated by 3 absconding outlaws, Lal Singh, Heeralal and Zoravar, he then swears to avenge this carnage and this become the motive of his life. 20 years later he does manage to locate them and thus this begins his vendetta by mercilessly killing them separately.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Twist (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Dicken’s classic brought thrillingly up to date in the teeming heartland of modern London, where a group of street smart young hustlers plan the heist of the century for the ultimate payday.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, complex, modern day adaptation
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)
Plot Summary:
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: experimental, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, mindfuck, philosophical, black and white, cult classic, atmospheric
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The Inheritors (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, allegory
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The Promised Land (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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Three Colors: Red (1994)
Plot Summary:
Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog to the judge's house, she discovers him listening in on his neighbors' phone conversations. At first Valentine is outraged, but her debates with the judge over his behavior soon leads them to form a strange bond.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: colorful, atmospheric, art house, visual, cerebral, philosophical, enigmatic, psychological, touching, intellectual
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Dawn Rider (2012)
Plot Summary:
A gripping story of vengeance and passion set in the American West. When the father of gunslinger John Mason (Slater) is shot to death by masked bandits, Mason sets out with guns blazing to track down those who killed him. During his quest, he finds himself involved in a grim love triangle when he falls for Alice, the determined and beautiful woman also adored by John’s best friend. Based on the timeless John Wayne adventure, Dawn Rider is a riveting saga of retribution, duty and valor in the American West.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic