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Plot Summary:
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, psychotronic, cult film
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Cop Target (1990)
Plot Summary:
Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in dirty drug dealings. While on the island, the daughter is kidnapped by a group of seedy South American thugs and held for ransom. The cop escort gets official orders to leave the case to the FBI, but he decides to his own investigating and finds that the crime may have had political motivations.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
Similar in 86%
Giant Killer (1984)
Plot Summary:
An Arizona policeman (Bo Svenson) and his pilot buddy (Fred Williamson) discover a scheme to rob Las Vegas slot machines by computer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cult classic, poliziottesco
Similar in 83%
Highway Racer (1977)
Plot Summary:
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was once a legendary police interceptor responsible for numerous large scale arrests.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse
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Day of Violence (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two thugs take 15 people hostage and demand a ransom from the authorities million dollars in gold, a car and a plane to get out of the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Stunt Squad (1977)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the murderous shenanigans of Valli’s protection racket, police chief Grifi assembles an ace team of stunt trained police officers to tackle the mob!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Day of the Cobra (1980)
Plot Summary:
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses the opportunity to get even with an old enemy, but soon he finds out he's facing a relentless organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Convoy Busters (1978)
Plot Summary:
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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A Special Cop in Action (1976)
Plot Summary:
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, car chases, prison scenes and mafia bosses!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Thriller, Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, surprise ending
Similar in 89%
Street War (1976)
Plot Summary:
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, psychotronic, cult film
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Violent City (1975)
Plot Summary:
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo noir
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Manhunt in the City (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a crook gets framed as a drug kingpin, the mob decide to "off" his wife. Revenge is the name of the game, and the manhunt is on!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, psychotronic, cult film
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Angel (1983)
Plot Summary:
15 year-old Molly is top of her high school class. But nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as a prostitute on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a serial killer. She's the only eye witness and becomes a target herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film, slasher, erotic, action adventure, road movie, serious, realistic, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse, cult classic, psychotronic, cult film
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Chain Gang Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
A shackled murderer (Michael Stearns) and marijuana offender (Robert Lott) escape from a Georgia chain gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious, independent film, campy, cult film
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Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom (1994)
Plot Summary:
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country, but his daughter is captured in the ensuing melee and sent to The Rock, an island penitentiary known for its harshness. Agent Amanda commits a local crime in order to infiltrate the prison and rescue Princess Marga. Within, she predictably encounters official corruption, shifting allegiances, and a sleazy warden that make her task more challenging.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Heroin Busters (1977)
Plot Summary:
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, psychotronic, cult film
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Death Rage (1976)
Plot Summary:
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
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Kuwait Connection (1973)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious journalist has been transformed into an assassin by the years of war, suffering and destruction he has witnessed around the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)
Plot Summary:
This is probably the best example of a 70's Italian crime movie, though not the "best" movie of the genre (does that make sense?). It has, besides Saxon, an entirely Italian cast but most of them are pretty recognizable regulars in very amusing roles. Maurizio Merli is best as the role he was born to play, that of yet another ticked off Police commissioner. His very charismatic, yet level-headed performance is the one thing that keeps this movie moving along so well, and it is notable that of Lenzi's crime movies, this is probably the one that entrusts Merli with the most screentime.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Tough Ones (1976)
Plot Summary:
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, tragic ending, cult film
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Violent Naples (1976)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Avenging Angel (1985)
Plot Summary:
Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed observation by brutal gangsters, she returns downtown to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic, detective
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Caliber 9 (1972)
Plot Summary:
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, action thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
The Italian Connection (1972)
Plot Summary:
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man. When the pimp's wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the "manhunt", he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, black comedy
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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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The Boss (1973)
Plot Summary:
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco, noir, perverse, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Plot Summary:
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, poliziottesco
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Bloody Friday (1972)
Plot Summary:
Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn. (from IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action thriller, poliziottesco, cult film
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Shaft (1971)
Plot Summary:
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, tense, harsh, neo noir, serious, suspenseful, hood, realistic, cult classic
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The Enforcer (1976)
Plot Summary:
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, detective, retro, sexy, grindhouse, crime drama, perverse, action thriller, mind blowing