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Plot Summary:
Action - 17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the killers both want her. - C. Thomas Howell, Renée Humphrey, Krista Errickson.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Trackdown (1976)
Plot Summary:
When his sister Betsy packs up and leaves the family's Montana cattle ranch to find fame and fortune in Hollywood, her brother Jim decides to follow after her to make sure she doesn't get into trouble. He's a little too late, however, since almost as soon as she gets off the bus, Betsy has her belongings stolen, then gets kidnapped, gang-raped, and is sold to a pimp to work for him as a prostitute. It is now up to Jim, with help from social worker Lynn, to rescue his sister and set things right.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
L.A. Vice (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
The Peace Killers (1971)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main squeeze of the gang's leader before she ran away. The pair get away, but the bikers find out that they're living in a nearby commune, and start making their battle plans to bring Kristy back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dog Watch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner (Morales) and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Vice Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
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The Witness Files (1999)
Plot Summary:
A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ginger (1971)
Plot Summary:
The police suspect that a drug and forced-prostitution ring is behind the recent spate of kidnappings and disappearances, but so far they've been unable to infiltrate the suspects gang. To break the case, they recruit Ginger, a young woman from an upper-class family to act as bait for the kidnappers and hopefully lead the police to their hideout. It may sound like a foolproof plan to the police, but Ginger's the one who has to risk it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy
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A Time to Die (1991)
Plot Summary:
A female photographer teams up with a policeman to try to bring down a corrupt police officer who framed her for drug possession and during her investigation, finds that not everything, or everyone, is what they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Quiet Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Palmer, is a Vietnam Veteran who must discomfit his ex-commanding officer turned crooked senate candidate named Whalen from conspiring to turn over part of the U.S. Government to terrorists. Whalen has all the help that he can afford. Mercenaries, a surveillance tracking system, endless firepower, and hired killers are at this corrupt senator's disposal. Palmer, on the other hand, only has his wits, fists and a few other surprises to help put an end to a greedy politician's guileful schemes. This one innocent man must expose this corrupt senator before he wins the election... Written by David Choi.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Conflict of Interest (1993)
Plot Summary:
Gideon rules the down and dirty side of town. From the docks where he runs an export business in stolen cars, to the heavy metal club where he can turn a little extra cash on hot women and cool drugs. Everyone loves Gideon, especially his posse of desirable women, everyone except the corpses he leaves behind and the cops who clean up after him. But now there's a new cop on Gideon's back, Mickey Fl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Route 9 (1998)
Plot Summary:
During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Streets of Rage (1993)
Plot Summary:
Melody Sails is an investigative reporter on Hollywood's juvenile delenquincy, and runs across Lunar, the crimelord. With the help of a 12-year old street-kid, she will get to him, but will she down him in the climactic fight to the death, or die trying?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hitman's Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, independent film, realistic, buddy comedy
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Men with Guns (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three losers, Eddie, Lucas and Mamet, are sent to collect some debt at a remote farm. But the thugs there are too hard for them, and they are humiliated. They return for revenge, it gets out of hand, ends with a bloodbath and they are left with a big amount of cocaine. The drugs belong to local mob boss Horace Burke, who sends his son to find them. Cops are also after them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, atmospheric
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The Underground (1997)
Plot Summary:
A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Rage and Honor (1992)
Plot Summary:
Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Cartel War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the king pin who devastated their families. Based on the true story of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Cartel War is an action-packed journey into an all-too-real violent underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, independent film
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Ambushed (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the frenetic underbelly of Los Angeles, Agent Maxwell closes in on an international cocaine smuggling operation run by criminal mastermind Vincent Camastra. When Agent Beverly Royce goes undercover with the drug dealers and finds herself deeper then she can handle - the case becomes personal for Maxwell who has to combat ruthless killers and dirty cops in an all-out action filled finale to bring the criminals to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
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Coast Mafia (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shin, a good family friend and business partner of the DeLeon family, assumes his role as head of the Coast Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Partners in Crime (2000)
Plot Summary:
Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been Reardon's first wife. Reardon's police reputation stinks because he botched a high-profile kidnapping case many years ago, which resulted in a baby who was never found. When ransom demands are finally heard, Reardon must try to solve the case without repeating his mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, detective
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Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Plot Summary:
The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, detective
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Dillinger and Capone (1995)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone (F. Murray Abraham) gives the real Dillinger (Martin Sheen) an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a secluded vault or watch his wife and child get whacked.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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The Last Riders (1991)
Plot Summary:
When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Marked Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, campy
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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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El padrino (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he may end up with nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Consignment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Laws of Gravity (1992)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neorealism, cult film
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Hot Boyz (2000)
Plot Summary:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's jailed for murder by the infamous Ramparts Division of the LAPD. Kool wants to prove her innocence, and Tully, the cynical detective in charge, ignores LaShawna's case but uses Kool to break up an incipient crime operation. She's in danger because the guilty parties fear that the officer talked before he died. While in jail awaiting a hearing and legal help, she's beaten to death by a rogue cop. Kool vows revenge: the Hot Boyz are born.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hood, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, crime drama, independent film, bleak
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Madso's War (2010)
Plot Summary:
A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, independent film, rough