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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
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Yesterday (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1990, number of children suddenly disappear. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense selects an elite group of scientists for a top-secret mission. Then, 30 years later ... The year is 2020 on a reunified Korean Peninsula. A string of murders is committed against retired scientists. The Special Investigations (SI) unit staffed by a crack team from the former North and South Koreas and outfitted with the latest technology is brought in to investigate. The killer, however, far from being deterred, taunts them with a signature pendant at every murder scene. In an act of devilish boldness he even kidnaps the son of the investigation team's leader, Seok.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 880
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, fast
Similar in 79%
Border Lost (2008)
Plot Summary:
Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these defenseless groups. An elite task force is put together with high expectations of solving this problem that is plaguing our border.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, exciting, independent film
Similar in 85%
The Real Thing (1996)
Plot Summary:
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, neo noir
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The Killers Edge (1991)
Plot Summary:
A cop teams up with an FBI agent to track down a counterfeiter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fatal Instinct (2014)
Plot Summary:
A police detective follows a trail of evidence that eventually seems to lead to his trusted partner's ex-con brother who he helped put in prison years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Hit List (1989)
Plot Summary:
A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, cult classic, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, cult film
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Simple Justice (1989)
Plot Summary:
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for the police to decide - and it's a puzzle that becomes more mysterious with each new clue.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Mr. Socrates (2005)
Plot Summary:
A low-life scumbag gets kidnapped by a mysterious gang and put through inhumane training to become a mole inside the police force.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic
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L.A. Bounty (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mayor candidate Mike Rhodes is kidnapped in his own home outside of Los Angeles by unknown, masked terrorists. His wife Kelly barely survives the attempted murder on her, and is able to identify one of the kidnappers. She's placed on the police's protection list while the investigation is ongoing. Ruger, a tough and merciless bounty hunter is out on the streets avenging her partner's death. With Kelly as her bait, Ruger starts a dangerous game to bring Cavanough, a crazed crime kingpin behind the kidnapping, out of hiding.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed
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Road of No Return (2009)
Plot Summary:
Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Donato and Daughter (1993)
Plot Summary:
Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart (2011)
Plot Summary:
An aggressive police officer tries to solve the mystery behind consecutive murders. While doing so, he must fight against his inner demons.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
Brass (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Face of Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A police officer searching for his missing sister in Spain uncovers a terrorist cell.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Jump Out Boys (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in post hurricane New Orleans. A brutal Mexican drug lord (Armando LeDuc) busts out of jail to retrieve the $15 million that his girlfriend is hiding. But detective Raymond (Kris Kristofferson) and McCoy (Sheldon Robbins) will try their best to put him back to where he belongs.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, fast, neo noir, detective
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Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Plot Summary:
A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ultra-violent collision course that will determine, once and for all, who owns the streets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bloody, action packed
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Hawaii (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hawaii is a United States television series produced and distributed by NBC Universal Television for the NBC television network. Originally titled Pearl City, this police drama was produced with the series Hawaii Five-O in mind, and debuted on August 31, 2004. Written by Executive Producer Jeff Eastin, the series revolves around a fictional elite crime unit of the Honolulu Police Department headed by veteran detective and local legend Sean Harrison and John Declan, a former Chicago Police Department detective transferred to the state of Hawaii for his talents. The series was written by Jeff Eastin, Chris Black, Reid Steiner, Wendy West, Eric Haywood, and Travis Romero. The series is considered one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism's Hawaii Film Office, desperate to repeat the economic prosperity once gained and driven by the CBS television series such as Hawaii Five-O and Magnum, P.I. for the state's tourism industry. The series was canceled in October 2004. Although eight episodes were filmed, only seven actually aired.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Chance (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the heist learns of the whereabouts of his diamonds, he instructs his thugs to find Zach and get the jewels back by any means possible. Zach gets help from his friend, police detective Chance, but they will both need more than a little luck to prove that neither of them were behind the robbery, and to keep the actual thieves from getting their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two tactical unit leaders are forced to put aside their differences to help catch a group of robbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Armed Response (1986)
Plot Summary:
One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth's brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crime drama, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Firetrap (2001)
Plot Summary:
Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board meeting, a fire quickly spreads- he considers it a godsend opportunity and stays, but soon has his hands too full saving other lives and just surviving to concentrate on the chip; only the owner, his wife who just filed for divorce and a few employees remain, but it soon turns out one of them stole company secrets but the arsonist and/or another chip-thieves are among them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, cliffhanger, serious, fast
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Plot Summary:
LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
Similar in 82%
Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, 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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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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Birds of Prey (1973)
Plot Summary:
Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. Harry goes into pursuit which leads to an exciting conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jailbait (1993)
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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Urgency (2011)
Plot Summary:
Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in the next half hour. Doomed to hear Tony goes in search of money, but soon realizes that the kidnapping was not connected with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, 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