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Plot Summary:
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, rough, thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Tie That Binds (1995)
Plot Summary:
John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, rough, serious, suspense, enigmatic, bleak, realistic
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Black and Blue (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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A Killing Affair (1985)
Plot Summary:
Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she can trust him.Directed by David Saperstein and based on a novel by Robert Houston, A Killing Affair features twists and turns up until the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Murder Ordained (1987)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Act of Aggression (1975)
Plot Summary:
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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After the Fall (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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The 7th Day (2004)
Plot Summary:
Isabel Jimenez is a teenager witnessing a horrible feud between her own family and the Fuentes family, a fued involving broken hearts, property disputes and a mysterious fire that destroyed the Fuentes house. Isabel's uncle is murdered by Jeronimo Fuentes, who later tries to stab her father. After Jeronimo dies in jail, Isabel must look outside of her family for the truth, learning from the village idiot that her father may have set fire to the Fuentes home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, anthropological, realistic, gloomy
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Have You Seen My Son (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Deep in My Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Guilty Hearts (2002)
Plot Summary:
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. Someone kills Carrow's wife after she learns of the affair between Jenny and her husband. The murderer is caught and confesses, but that confession leads to new lies which tear apart Jenny Moran's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills (1994)
Plot Summary:
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic
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Five Thirteen (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to protect his young daughter from an unforgiving ex. But the justice that awaits him on the streets is far worse than anything Mike had experienced in prison. His older brother Tre begrudgingly agrees to one last "delivery", attempting to free Mike and his new girlfriend from the grips of the criminal underworld. What transpires is a wild misadventure where multiple lives unknowingly intersect, and where decisions are made that will haunt everyone forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Common (2014)
Plot Summary:
Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent bystander to accessory to premeditated murder after giving a few friends a lift.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, crime drama, bleak, gloomy
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Reservation Road (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in the near future.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, intense, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, depressing, disturbing, independent film, twisted
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The Promise (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the police can't do anything else to help her. One night Bill breaks into Lisa's apartment and shoots her. As she dies in the hospital, Lisa asks her sister to promise to take care of her three children. The sister takes the kids into her home, but Bill is still on the loose, an ever present threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory (1997)
Plot Summary:
Former marine and cop Jeff Erickson starts a new life after meeting his dream girl, Jill, running a bookshop, until they decide to become the modern Bonnie and Clyde. Learning on the job the hard way, Jeff becomes famous through media-coverage, despite his power-trip tendency to bully his victims which becomes worse when Jill is hospitalized. FBI agent Tom LaSalle, has a hard time eliminating suspects and following the trail through.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Hornet's Nest (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in Charlotte, N.C., the story opens with everyone desperate to solve the latest crisis: a serial killer is specializing in out-of-town businessmen. Hammer and West make the murder investigation their top priority. But West is less than pleased when Hammer pairs her up with Brazil, a cub reporter assigned to cover the police department.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, christmas horror, suspense, mind bending, suspenseful, detective, independent film
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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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We Have Your Husband (2011)
Plot Summary:
American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful life is turned into a real-life nightmare when Eduardo is ambushed and kidnapped by strangers. With kidnapping becoming a pervasive and lucrative business in Mexico, Jayne is at the mercy of the kidnappers when they demand millions for the husband's safe release. She's pushed to the limit to do everything she possibly can to raise the money necessary to bring Eduardo back alive. As Eduardo is starved and tortured, he looses hope of ever seeing his family again but despite the dire and bleak times, Jayne refuses to give up and decides to turn the tables on the kidnappers and makes demands of her own. The film is based on a true story from the book, We Have Your Husband: One Woman's Terrifying Story of a Kidnapping in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Bloodlines (2005)
Plot Summary:
After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just released. After the autopsy concludes asphyxiation, she comprises friendly DC Jake Bannerman's official investigation by rash actions against procedure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000)
Plot Summary:
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, talky, sad, mind bending, adaptation directed by original author
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Silent Witness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Beautiful & Twisted (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Kings of South Beach (2007)
Plot Summary:
This fact-based crime thriller details the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always winds down the block and only the most beautiful people make it past the velvet rope.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Outlaw Country (2012)
Plot Summary:
A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, rough
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Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010)
Plot Summary:
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor before ultimately claiming to be an heir to the famous Rockefeller family. Confident from the success of his prior scams, Clark quickly became well known and highly respected among Boston's elite and used his purported high society status to charm his way into the life of Sandra Boss, a millionaire with a Harvard MBA and a partner at the prestigious management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, inspirational
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Raising Jeffrey Dahmer (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to, his capture.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense, non-linear, queer cinema