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Plot Summary:
Johan works in tandem with the GSI organized crime unit to bring in a cadre of armored car robbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Best tv shows and movies like Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser (2009):
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Johan Falk: The Outlaws (2009)
Plot Summary:
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, exciting
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Zero Tolerance (1999)
Plot Summary:
Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Executive Protection (2001)
Plot Summary:
After causing a commotion with his last assignment, Falk has been given a desk job, which hardly agrees with his personality, and he ends up accepting an offer from an old friend to buy into a private investigation agency. Another friend of Falk's, Sven, purchased a business in Estonia, and when local gangsters attempted to pressure him into paying protection money, Sven retained the services of Nikolaus Lehmann, a burly private eye, to throw them off his trail. However, Lehmann does his job all too well, murdering the racketeers, and then threatening Sven and his family. With no where else to turn, Sven asks Falk to help him deal with the crazed Lehmann; Falk agrees, but soon realizes he's dealing with a more dangerous man than he imagined when Lehmann kidnaps Falk's wife Jeanette, and then releases her with a time bomb locked around her neck, demanding that Falk hand over ownership of his detective agency to Lehmann.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Johan Falk: Alla råns moder (2012)
Plot Summary:
GSI second in command, Sophie Nordh, flips gangster leader Seth Rydell and convinces him to infiltrate a rogue military group. For the first time GSI Chief Patrick Agrell realizes that he is using a ruthless psychopath as an infiltrator. Can Seth be trusted or does he have his own agenda?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
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Scar City (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young cop gets thrown in with a special police squad who are acting as assassins against hoods and who don't care who gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, independent film, realistic
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Johan Falk 5 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Bloody Tie (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this uncompromising vision of the gritty Korean underworld, a crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord. Reminiscent of the Hong Kong action films of the 80’s but full of the dark and unpredictable machismo of Korean cinema today, Bloody Ties is a sinister and vicious film noir thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody, crime drama, bleak, realistic
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Diamond 13 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful
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Johan Falk: Vapenbröder (2009)
Plot Summary:
John Falk is on a routine mission with the Gothenburg police special unit GSI. With the help of a Norwegian undercover police and a civilian infiltrator in one of Gothenburg's heaviest criminal gangs, the GSI are trying buy six assault rifles and thus get them off the street. But suddenly everything changes when a new unknown player suddenly and immediately wants to buy not only those weapons but even more, including armor-piercing shells.GSI realizes that this can not be any ordinary robbers. Someone will start a war on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time as the situation gets more and more complicated for John Falk's infiltrator Frank Wagner when the leader of the gang he infiltrated realize that one of his own leaking to the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Johan Falk: Kodnamn Lisa (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five men break into Frank Wagner's apartment. Frank is able to escape and seeks out the help of Johan Falk. Has someone leaked that Frank is working with the police? Frank and John do not know who knows what and who they can trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, rough
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Johan Falk: National Target (2009)
Plot Summary:
Frank Wagner goes deeper undercover to infiltrate Europe's most dangerous Mafia, the Russian-est, consisting of ex - KGB officers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who can clean the money of the dye pack that exploded while Johan Falk, and his colleagues at GSI, accelerate their hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense, rough, suspenseful
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Johan Falk: Spelets regler (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's been two years since John Falk and Frank Wagner broke their cooperation and Frank started working undercover with the police. Frank's search for Kevin crosses Johan's investigation and opens up a new collaboration between them - with the big difference being that this time it's personal for Frank.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Leak 2000 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic
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Johan Falk 13 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk is with the wife of a dead mob boss down to Latvia to try to solve a mystery that has eluded him for three years. What Johan finds downstairs in a cottage outside Riga shocks not only himself but also the Gothenburg police special unit GSI 's new chief Sophie Nordh and the former chief Patrik Agrell. At the same time a Latvian mafia group is picking up hidden and forgotten Soviet military containers from the water-filled pits nearby. Containers filled with weapons. And everything is heading to Sweden! At the same time most of the original members of the Rydellgang are being released from a long prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family, to try to kill his wife, could be the biggest mistake the organization has done. GSI closes up around Johan's family, and the final battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Third Wave (2003)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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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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Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows rapidly to involve several gangs from Gothenburg underworld. GSI switched to try to identify a new thread which proves to be both larger and better armed than any other. The only clue is a tattoo on one of the killed gang members. The plot thickens when it turns out that the same tattoo worn by Rydell gang's new.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, realistic
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Flashfire (1994)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal with. Another officer has been murdered in a hotel room, where he was with a prostitute named Lisa, who managed to escape with her life. Flinder has to track down Lisa to find out what happened, but the answer proves the corruption in his department runs much deeper than he had initially believed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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The Arrangement (1999)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal hijacked by a third party, they leave the drugs and take the money. A stripper witnesses a murder and now the Mafia's after but there is nowhere safe to hide.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Death Toll (2008)
Plot Summary:
New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, neighborhoods and its people. Illustrating this dark chapter in the city's history is "Death Toll".
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, hood
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Johan Falk: Leo Gaut (2009)
Plot Summary:
A car explodes outside a primary school where GSI's Chief Patrick Agrell has just left his children.The event reconnects Johan Falk to Leo Gaut, a former criminal restaurant owner Johan put behind bars a decade ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
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Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Aan: Men at Work (2004)
Plot Summary:
Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Walia has one-third, Manik Rao has one-third and Roshni has a third of the Mumbai territory. The crime rate rises with more smuggling, trading and illegal activities soaring.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Eye in the Sky (2007)
Plot Summary:
The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from filmmaking duo Johnnie To and Nai-Hoi Yau. Of course, the criminal knows all along he's being watched. But that doesn't stop him from trying to pull off the biggest score of his career.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, action thriller, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Stool Pigeon (2010)
Plot Summary:
Living in the guilt of sacrificing his informant in a previous operation, Criminal Intelligence Inspector Don Lee is wary when his superior orders him to send another informant to spy on the criminal operations of Barbarian, a vicious gangster plotting a jewelry heist. He seeks ex-convict Ghost, who agrees to work for Don despite vowing to go straight since he's desperately in need of money to repay a debt and save his sister. Ghost's driving skills help him infiltrate Barbarian's gang and earn his trust, but by feeding information to Don and hooking up with Barbarian's girlfriend Dee, Ghost is pushing himself into a tight and deadly corner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, neo noir, heroic, fast
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Colour of the Truth (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense, captivating, rough, realistic, independent film, non-linear