Best movies like Lowball
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies related to Lowball? Contribute your familiarity to direct others toward tv shows and movies you've viewed before that may also consume them. Help enlarge the circle of people referring videos between each other. We welcome your engagement!
Plot Summary:
Two undercover police officer investigating a heroin ring find their covers blown.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Lowball (1996):
Similar in 76%
Hasta Morir (1994)
Plot Summary:
A street kid's wish to run away to Tijuana is hampered by lies and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 75%
Real Bullets (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of stuntmen and women travel to the wilderness for a weekend party. Two of the women stumble upon the secret entrance to a drug-lord's narcotics operation and are abducted. Out-gunned and out-numbered, the stunt team must rescue their friends before they are administered fatal overdoses of heroin. Written by David Bassler.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
Perseguida (1991)
Plot Summary:
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: political
Similar in 86%
Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)
Plot Summary:
A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Similar in 80%
Hard Time: Hostage Hotel (1999)
Plot Summary:
A California congressman's wife and daughter are abducted and held hostage in a historic hotel and Logan McQueen (Reynolds) is rushed to the scene to assist his former partner, Charlie Duffy (Durning), who has been taken captive trying to broker the ransom deal. McQueen must risk his life to face the cunning killer (Carradine) and save the hostages and his long-time friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 75%
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers (1968)
Plot Summary:
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn't having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky bartender.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic
Similar in 89%
Bang (1995)
Plot Summary:
A young woman in L.A. is having a bad day: she's evicted, an audition ends with a producer furious she won't trade sex for the part, and a policeman nabs her for something she didn't do, demanding fellatio to release her. She snaps, grabs his gun, takes his uniform, and leaves him cuffed to a tree where he's soon having a defenseless chat with a homeless man. She takes off on the cop's motorcycle and, for an afternoon, experiences a cop's life. She talks a young man out of suicide and then is plunged into violence after a friendly encounter with two "vatos." She is torn between self-protection and others' expectations. Is there any resolution for her torrent of feelings?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
Similar in 85%
Sweet Justice (1991)
Plot Summary:
City councilor Susan takes bribes from Reevers and allows him to deposit his garbage illegally in an old mine. But when she learns that he also dumps toxic wastes which threaten the nearby water purification unit, she wants to cancel their agreement. She asks her ex-husband Steve, a cop, for help, but before he can do anything she's found dead. Her sister Sunny decides to take revenge with help of a couple of friends, who once formed a female martial fighting squad.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 76%
Partners in Action (2002)
Plot Summary:
Drama about a former police officer who's framed for murder and a young boy who attempts to help him clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
Bolt (1995)
Plot Summary:
21 Jump Street heartthrob Richard Grieco stars in the 1994 motorcycle movie Bolt, released on DVD as Rebel Run. A tough New Jersey biker named Bolt (Grieco) travels across the country heading west. He encounters old gang rival Billy Niles (Michael Ironside). Bolt fights to protect his Indian girlfriend Patty Deerheart (Sean Young) from land-stealing bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 87%
The Manhandlers (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 75%
Black Lolita (1974)
Plot Summary:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971)
Plot Summary:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: weird
Similar in 75%
Ten Violent Women (1982)
Plot Summary:
Eight women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they are busted by narcs when they try to buy cocaine. The eight get sent to a prison where a butch head guard uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures. Two of the women manage to escape and then get mixed up with a shah who had a scarab ring stolen in their jewelry heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
Similar in 78%
American Rampage (1989)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
Similar in 77%
Bruce's Fingers (1976)
Plot Summary:
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
Similar in 77%
Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Buford Pusser's final days; not only of his life, but also as Sheriff. It seems that times are changing, and the once adoring people of Pusser's town now fear him and feel like it's time to make a change. There are also some officials who feel the same way and are using every means to get rid of Pusser.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bad ending, grindhouse, independent film, southern gothic
Similar in 81%
Vice Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
Similar in 77%
Ginger (1971)
Plot Summary:
The police suspect that a drug and forced-prostitution ring is behind the recent spate of kidnappings and disappearances, but so far they've been unable to infiltrate the suspects gang. To break the case, they recruit Ginger, a young woman from an upper-class family to act as bait for the kidnappers and hopefully lead the police to their hideout. It may sound like a foolproof plan to the police, but Ginger's the one who has to risk it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy
Similar in 85%
Hammer (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, cult film
Similar in 75%
The Bang Bang Gang (1970)
Plot Summary:
1930's: Adam and Leroy tries to rob a cafe, but finds out that two girls are already trying to do the same. Instead of arguing with them they join them in a robbery-spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
Similar in 79%
Sunset Strip (1985)
Plot Summary:
The stage is set for a series of confrontations when photographer Mark Jefferson (Tom Eplin) agrees to help his friend Roger (John Mayall) defend his night club against a handful of organized crime figures. Mark has an added incentive for becoming involved as his ex-girlfriend Carol (Cheri Cameron Newell) sings at the club. But the gangsters are willing to use mayhem and murder in order to take over Roger's business. It appears that the petty mobsters are out to sell illegal weapons to anyone who wants them, especially L.A.'s youth, instead of using the club as a front for a prostitution ring as Roger suspects. Soon Mark and his trusty motorcycle have their work cut out for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 75%
Cartel War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the king pin who devastated their families. Based on the true story of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Cartel War is an action-packed journey into an all-too-real violent underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, independent film
Similar in 77%
Narx (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, independent film
Similar in 82%
Freelancers (2012)
Plot Summary:
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic
Similar in 87%
Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
Plot Summary:
A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer around (Academy Award(R)-nominee Harvey Keitel) in this crime thriller from writer/director Franck Khalfoun.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Similar in 75%
Double Tap (1997)
Plot Summary:
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 82%
Narco Sub (2021)
Plot Summary:
A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
Similar in 87%
Paid in Full (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, grim, neo noir