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Plot Summary:
In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further into a netherworld he may never escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
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Smoke (1971)
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A group of Americans who live together in an old mansion somewhere in Sweden spend their time between working at the local airplane plant and hanging out with their revolutionary friends. Smoke has something going with his boss's daughter, but when the boss finds out, he has some dudes beat up Smoke. This leads to a strike among the workers, and a break between the boss and his daughter who goes to live with Smoke and his friends. In order to save his job from angry stockholders, the boss offers Smoke a sizable amount of money to end the strike; but when Smoke and the guys spend the money on guns things get out of hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
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Hunting of Man (2003)
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A universal story with Latino characters told in an unconventional way (like Forrest Gump and Amadeus) about a man who's trying to keep his hot-headed younger brother from carrying out revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, detective, hispanic
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Night-Flowers (1979)
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Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the co- dependent, toxic relationship soon takes a gruesome turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Aural Distortion (2017)
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A variety of characters reflect on the same moments in time from very different perspectives. Some are tenuous, some are whimsical, some are deadly.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 47 min
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Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
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A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
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Shadow Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
A quasi-ghost story about a young urban Chinese couple returning to their dusty rural roots interrogates one child policy and authoritarianism.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
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Xian's Finest (2000)
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Wu, a veteran police officer in Xian, is demoted to work in a community policing center after he accidentally injures a hostage during a rescue mission. At first the new job appears to be simple and straightforward, but Wu and his family gradually get engulfed in a web of mistrust, jealousy, accusations, and even worse things.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
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Presences (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man who loses his wife and goes to seclude himself in a cabin in the woods, where strange things happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
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Für den unbekannten Hund (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The 23rd Psalm (2007)
Plot Summary:
Drama - An evolving, empathetic, African-American, police detective, unconsciously channels his intuition to transcend his shortcomings and unravel the enigmatic murder of a transformed prostitute - Fredrick Burns, Auggie Cavanagh, Arnita Champion.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min
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Badge of the Assassin (1985)
Plot Summary:
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Princesses (2000)
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Johan has three children with different women. Two adult daughters: Sophie and Virginie, and a young son in Amsterdam. Loïc gave Johan diamonds of a criminal origin. Her husband Simon thought they were his and murdered her. Then he set out his hunt for the diamonds and for killing Johan. The police thought that Johan had murdered Loïc and called his daughters, who had not known about each other. Afterwards Sophie receives a note to take a certain train to Amsterdam. A young boy gives Virginie the oral message "The treasure is in the trout". She immediately understands that this trout must be in her mother's freezer, unknown to the mother. Both girls take the train. Simon contacts them as a helpful fellow-passenger. The girls soon detect his aim of murdering them. In Brussels they escape the train. Virginie steals a car but is not as good at driving as at stealing (she will prove this again).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Plot Summary:
A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. ….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political
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Only God Can Judge Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Film from Tody Walker.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cheekh (2019)
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Mannat, Haya and Nayab are all close friends. Wajih, Yawer , Shayaan and Haya are siblings. Mannat is married to Shayaan. Her In-Laws are shown as quite wealthy. However, Nayab is poor. Her mother passed away and she lives with her father Ramzaan , greedy step-mother and her 2 step-sisters. The story starts when Nayab gets murdered after a rape attempt and physical violence on the night of her friend Haya's engagement.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
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Yokoyama Hideo Suspense (2010)
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There are four episodes based on short stories by mystery novelist Yokoyama Hideo. Each episode depicts a stand-alone murder mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Body Scent (1983)
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Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and getting on with his own life. Lost in that space, powerless to change things significantly, he commits murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
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Macu, la mujer del policía (1987)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 90 min
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Los invitados (1987)
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A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
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Crossed Tracks (2007)
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The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, clever, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir
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A Clear View the Mark Barmore Story (2015)
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In Rockford, IL and other cities around the nation deal with their share of police killing people, by accident, in defense or sometimes just in cold blood. This is a true story about Mark Barmore a young who became a victim of Rockford Police department. This is a story of a young man just beginning his raise to fame when he was tragically killed by these to officers. When this unfolded everyone who seen, either didn't want to see more, couldn't see more or just won't tell. But every body's view of the shooting brings this gritty, thriller to life as we uncover the truth. The same truth Rev. Jesse Jackson rallied for, from the streets of Rockford all the way to the white house. This is a emotional heart stopping film straight from the national headlines.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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City Under Siege (1974)
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A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Pan (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min
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Law of Courage (1994)
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The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Dormant Beauty (2012)
Plot Summary:
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, anthology, emotional, contemplative
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Shadow Detective (2022)
Plot Summary:
A veteran detective who is about to retire unfolds a breathtaking psychological warfare with a mysterious man who follows his path while hiding his identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Sus (2010)
Plot Summary:
Election Night 1979: Margaret Thatcher is about to come into power. A young black man is held on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife. Officers Karn and Wilby, racist to the core and high on the prospect of a Conservative Party victory, try to lure the suspect into a quick confession. But the night has just begun...Callous humiliation gives way to a barrage of sinister violence, leading to a devastating conclusion.Written by Barrie Keefe, who was behind the British classic The Long Good Friday, SUS is an emotionally charged and incredibly tense crime drama that serves as a powerful outcry against past institutional racism. But in the age of counter-terrorism SUS also begs the question: has history caught up with us?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, minimal cast
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Criminal Desires (2013)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful reporter gets caught up in the deadly and erotic world of an online 'murder club' in this red-hot thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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Drew Peterson: Untouchable (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, rough, ridiculous