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Plot Summary:
Imagine leaving everything you have, everyone you know, everyone you love, behind. Having to cross half a continent on foot, atop freight trains, inside truck trailers. Swimming across wild rivers. Crossing borders illegally. Walking across the Arizona desert. Being shot at, robbed and beaten. Raped. Surviving it all. Crossing into the USA, after life in the poorest parts of Central America. Succeeding. Now. In the “promised” land, you don’t belong, legally; or socially. You don’t understand the language. No one knows you arrived, no one knows you exist. Imagine…. being Nobody. Then imagine a bag being shoved over your head. Getting your clothes stripped from you. Getting tossed in a closed room with a dozen others. A loaded gun is pointed at your head. You are forced to call back home and beg for money, a ransom for your life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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Mordkommission K?nigswinkel (2017)
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Police commissioner Thomas Stark, released from jail after three years after the trial for the murder of his former partner was quashed, is picked up and housed not by his wife, who disowned him and hesitates whether to reestablish contact with their bratty teen daughter, but by his discredited attorney Rainer Kessler. Stark insists instantly to rejoin his Füssen precinct in Königswinkel, where doubt remain concerning his innocence. Captain Mehrin assigns him not above loyal believer Peter Breitkreuz but under openly hostile Julia Bachleitner, to keep an eye on him for chief and her husband, state attorney Magnus Bachleitner. Their first case is the murder of local newspaper reporter Schäfer; who sought his first great scoop investigating the Italian mafia connections in Allgäu. Despite sabotage from Julia, Thomas does a good job, using his rapport with former classmate and restaurant owner Francesco Danesi only to be mistrusted by both sides. The missing evidence apparently gathered.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Set Me Free: Vol. I (2016)
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A troubled young woman runs away from home, unaware from the outside world that she has been missing and presumed dead for 20 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
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Jud (1971)
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A Vietnam vet, Jud Carney. returns to Los Angeles at Christmas time, finds out it's not how he thought it was going to be. When Jud discovers his fiancee has left him, he moves into a boarding house peopled with "types." Flashback memories of the war and the suicide of fellow house resident, reduce Jud to a broken and bitter man.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bad City Blues (1999)
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In the aftermath of a violent robbery, a New Orleans doctor, Eugene Grimes, wakes to find a wounded woman and $2 million in cash on his doorstep. In pursuit of the thieves, police captain Clarence Jefferson discovers that Grimes is the key not only to the money but to a dark web of intrigue and vengeance stretching back to a bloody civil war in El Salvador a decade before.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Brookside: The Lost Weekend (1997)
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A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
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Golden Horseshoes (1989)
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Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthermore, his relationship with Zineb, a young, beautiful bourgeois, only brings him more trouble. During one long winter night, Youssef wanders in search of an emotional haven, prey to all the questions that flood his memory.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 104 min
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The Perfect Arrangement (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Youth Killer (1976)
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Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 132 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min
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Gina (2024)
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After spending three years in jail, Juan goes free with the aim of recovering Eva's love. Zoe and Ismael, two ex-partners who he betrayed, will return to cross in his way.
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Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
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Mascarade (2022)
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Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorbike accident, wastes his youth in the laziness of the French Riviera, where he is looked after by Martha, a former movie star. Adrien’s life is turned upside down when he meets Margot, a captivating beauty who lives for the thrill of scams and romantic entanglements. Together, they fantasise about a better life and set up a diabolical scheme, an emotional masquerade.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 134 min
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Pra Frente, Brasil (1982)
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The film is set on mid-1970, when the military regime's "economic miracle" and the victory of the Brazilian national football team on the FIFA World Cup serves as a distraction for the persecution of opposition leaders by the political police of the dictatorship. Under this context, Jofre Godoi da Fonseca, an alienated middle class man, is mistaken for Sarmento, a political activist he met at an airport prior to his assassination. He is then arrested and brutally tortured by a paramilitary group of vigilantes sponsored by influential businessmen to hunt down people deemed "subversive" by the regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political
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Life Imprisonment (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
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She Mob (1968)
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A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman. She hires a tough private eye to find her boyfriend and rescue him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Mission 2016 (2017)
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When Sudi wins a lottery, he dreams of living a descent life off the streets but his dreams are shattered when his gang mate Jeff points his guns at him.
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Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
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Duration:
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Bruce's Fingers (1976)
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After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Wong's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her along with the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Caged Men (1971)
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Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a mate!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, hispanic, tragicomedy, crying
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Weekend of Terror (1970)
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Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Stolen from the Suburbs (2015)
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A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993)
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Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the bravery and the wit of the old driver could spoil their plan for the perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Hide and Seek (2000)
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A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
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A Time To Die (1982)
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A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected. Along the way, a third person joins the team.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, eighties
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Romanzo Criminale (2005)
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The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the 90s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
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Country: Italy, France, UK
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An Officer and a Murderer (2012)
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The true story of Colonel Russell Williams, one Canada’s most powerful and respected Air Force Officers, who committed numerous brutal crimes and was eventually brought down by a tenacious small town police detective.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful