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Plot Summary:
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 206 min
Plot tags: gloomy, meta, psychological thriller, epic, crying, period drama, interesting
Best tv shows and movies like Killers of the Flower Moon (2023):
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Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, powerful
Similar in 85%
City by the Sea (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, emotional, talky, intense, serious, touching, neo noir, powerful, suspense thriller
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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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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Newton Boys (1998)
Plot Summary:
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them, Willis, one day realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers, and five years later execute the greatest train robbery in American history.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: cult classic, anamorphic, historical drama, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film, exciting
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Stolen Women, Captured Hearts (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with T.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, serious, period drama
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The Onion Field (1979)
Plot Summary:
Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy scheme. They drive out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, where one cop is killed and the other escapes. The film explores the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, rough, serious, disturbing, detective, bleak, emotional
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Lost Girls (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, disturbing, compassionate, bleak, dark, perverse, powerful
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True Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, captivating, serious, enigmatic, suspenseful, intense, tricky, realistic
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The Little Things (2021)
Plot Summary:
Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, dark, disturbing, action thriller, twisted, psychological
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Plot Summary:
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, exciting, sincere, realistic, political, historical drama, anthropological, epic
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Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
Plot Summary:
A headstrong New York painter embarks on a dangerous journey to meet Sitting Bull, but must face off with an Army officer intent war with the Native Americans.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, emotional, period piece, art film, costume drama, weird
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Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New York's power brokers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: neo noir, enigmatic, period piece, independent film, costume drama, crime drama, cult classic, detective, suspense, captivating
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Sleepers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological, brutal, intense, emotional
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Hell or High Water (2016)
Plot Summary:
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 247000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo western, realistic, neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, harsh, suspenseful, tense, independent film, crime drama
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Changeling (2008)
Plot Summary:
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 263000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, bleak, disturbing, touching, suspense, detective, emotional
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Wind River (2017)
Plot Summary:
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending, bleak, sentimental, detective, psychological thriller, atmospheric
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J. Edgar (2011)
Plot Summary:
As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: political, factual, melancholic, compassionate, thought provoking, realistic, informative, bleak, serious, historical drama
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The Untouchables (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 326000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, clever, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, rough, neo noir
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A Bronx Tale (1993)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, intense, hood, touching, realistic, inspirational, crime drama, scary, sincere
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Goodfellas (1990)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal, cult classic, hood, suspenseful, neo noir, fast paced
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Plot Summary:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 898000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, neo noir, bleak, cult classic, disturbing, controversial, psychological thriller, depressing, rough, atmospheric
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Casino (1995)
Plot Summary:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 552000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir, captivating, brutal, stylized, intense, tense
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Gangs of New York (2002)
Plot Summary:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 466000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: epic, rough, atmospheric, tense, stylized, suspense, captivating, period piece, brutal, bloody
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The Irishman (2019)
Plot Summary:
A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 421000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, inspirational, crime drama, thought provoking, retro, intellectual, suspense, sad
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
Plot Summary:
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspense, political, factual, serious, suspenseful, rough, political thriller, emotional
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Plot Summary:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15000000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, biting, cerebral, realistic, suspense, funny, entertaining
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
Plot Summary:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min
Plot tags: epic, captivating, suspense, serious, visual, neo noir, visually appealing, realistic, saga, atmospheric
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Plot Summary:
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: clever, exciting, captivating, suspense, entertaining, inspirational, dramatic, intense, informative, light
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Django Unchained (2012)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 17000000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: suspense, talky, cult classic, brutal, captivating, epic, rough, serious, witty, bloody