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Plot Summary:
Ex-gang member John Henry is a quiet man with a violent past. When two immigrant kids on the run from his former South Los Angeles gang leader stumble into his life, John is forced to reconcile with his past in order to try and give them a future.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: hood
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Interludes (2012)
Plot Summary:
Interludes" is based on the real life events of three incarcerated women as they detail traumatic events from their love lives. It's about the complicated relationships, from the first love to last, and how life events shape our hearts.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, detective, hood
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Dogs (2016)
Plot Summary:
Roman returns to the land near the Ukrainian border he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land - and their smuggling business - without a fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, France, Bulgaria, Qatar
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, hood, art film
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DogMan (2023)
Plot Summary:
A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 75%
Jezebel's Kiss (1990)
Plot Summary:
Someone runs a woman (Katherine Barrese) off a beach road; she sleeps with a developer (Malcolm McDowell), his son and a sheriff to get even.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Double Game (1977)
Plot Summary:
Drugs, murders, robberies. In Turin, violence is an everyday fact of life, but a mysterious vigilante starts cleaning up the streets. In fact, the killer is a cop, Moretti, who went undercover to do the dirty work he couldn't do in cop's clothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Madtown (2016)
Plot Summary:
A stand-up comedian confesses to a murder on-stage at an open mic night to a shocked audience - his crime the result of a deadly triangle formed between his older sister, just released from prison after a 20-year stay for the murder of their parents, the loving bond he now shares with a caring surrogate family, and the ultimate choice he must make between them - his dysfunctional blood ties with his own sister, or his picturesque view of the ideal family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, rough, captivating, exciting
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American Skin (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Zebra Killer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real events that shocked San Franisco in the early 70's. Mac portrays the role of The Zebra Killer, a white man who dresses in black makeup and strolls the city of San Francisco stalking, raping and killing young women. Lt. Savage hears that the Killer has killed his girlfriend. Lt. Savage goes everywhere to find and kill the maniac, along with the help of Williams and Robert.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse
Similar in 77%
Motives (2004)
Plot Summary:
Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business tycoon who happens to be married to the quintessential wife Constance. Things go dangerously awry when the thrill seeking Emery engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah. Timing couldn't be any worse when the politics of high society, shady business deals, bad press, and a violent murder collide, they threaten to destroy more than just his shaky marriage. As police probe into his situation, they uncover a labyrinth of deception, agendas and motives, where the stakes are enormous and nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, sexual, sexy
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Don't Tell a Soul (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, intense, dark, action thriller
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Fathers & Sons (1992)
Plot Summary:
A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and danger bond father and son.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic
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Crazy as Hell (2002)
Plot Summary:
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, twist ending, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Laguna Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquility is shattered when he gets involved in the investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Supremacy (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film
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Streets of Blood (2009)
Plot Summary:
A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, hood, crime drama, exciting, suspenseful, neo noir
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If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Plot Summary:
If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, sentimental, thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, political, mystical, retro
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All Day and a Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: hood, tense, serious, realistic, rough
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Light It Up (1999)
Plot Summary:
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational, thought provoking, feel good
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One Eight Seven (1997)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: hood, suspense, cult classic, realistic, disturbing, feel good, political, action adventure, rough, serious
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Lockdown (2000)
Plot Summary:
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, hood, crime drama, bleak, independent film
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Breaking Point (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Breaking Point" is a dramatic tale of corruption and self-realization, in which one man has to overcome a deep seeded conspiracy and his own lingering past in order to gain the redemption he desires.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, hood, detective, crime drama, independent film, extraordinary
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The Trigger Effect (1996)
Plot Summary:
How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. Matthew's long-time friend, Joe, happens by on the second day and a rivalry between the two friends simmers as Annie cares for her sick baby. . Is this what is meant by "man's inhumanity to man?".
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, bleak, cult classic, action thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Fistpie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and withdrawn from those around him. Billy teams up with another old friend to find out what's going on and as they probe Stanley's recent activities, their friend's behaviour seems more and more bizarre and frightening.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller, slasher, serious, realistic, independent film, suspense
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10th & Wolf (2006)
Plot Summary:
A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, crying
Similar in 82%
Massacre Mafia Style (1974)
Plot Summary:
Terror reigns when Mimi, the son of a deported Don, along with his associate Jolly Rizzo wage a bloody war for control of the West Coast underworld, battling hordes of hard-boiled mobsters and deadly black pimps on their rise to the top!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crying, independent film, cult film
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Sugar Hill (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: hood, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, crime drama, independent film, black cinema
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Fresh (1994)
Plot Summary:
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore - he wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: hood, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, harsh, tense, rough, touching
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Original Gangstas (1996)
Plot Summary:
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created the Rebels, returns to Gary to be with his father and, with a little help from his friends, to destroy the Rebels his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, crime drama, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Doorman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, perverse, action thriller, independent film, harsh
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Menace II Society (1993)
Plot Summary:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, realistic, stylized, hood, rough, serious, harsh, intense, bloody