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Plot Summary:
Dave and Joe, just evicted from their Oakland apartment, turn to stealing cars and dealing Fluoride to make their financial ends meet. One night they find Summer Hayes, star of a popular 1990's teen soap, in the trunk of a stolen automobile. Shoot-outs, car chases, and overdoses ensue. In the Fluoride heightened world of "Medias Res", nothing is what it at first appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
Plot Summary:
Vincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco's Chinatown.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic, independent film, weird
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Half Empty (2009)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy of situation and coincidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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Cain and Abel (2006)
Plot Summary:
The zany adventures of two undercover Hollywood cops, Malcolm Cain and John Abel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blood Relative (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a botched robbery, a local crime syndicate sends a rookie enforcer to take care of a loose end. When the hit goes sideways and his civilian girlfriend ends up missing, her brother, Rodd, a mild-mannered guidance counselor, conducts an exhaustive search through the city to find her. With the support of a martial artist instructor, Bruce, the pair consistently becomes overwhelmed by a violent outfit of criminals looking to silence them. However, Rodd has a mysterious and dangerous past of his own, and with the help of his friend, they formulate a plan to take on the organization in this nail-biting action thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Delta Fox (1979)
Plot Summary:
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Forever, Lulu (1986)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop who pursues her killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Raise Your Kids on Seltzer (2015)
Plot Summary:
A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Goodbye and Go with God (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gritty urban thriller inspired by real events, Adios Vaya Con Dios is the authentic story of two friends within the world of Chicago's Latino street gangs. A day of reckoning approaches for Rory, a rising Irish-Mexican street lieutenant for the Olmecs, when his trusted life-long friend Eloy, just released from prison, dives right back into the chaotic crucible of violence and retribution that engulfs their neighborhood. Their friendship and loyalty to each other is tested to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: art house
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California Dreaming (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two Southern California College Students plot their escape after being kidnapped by a human trafficking ring while on Spring Break in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, exciting, contemplative
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Sunset (1988)
Plot Summary:
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, talky, realistic, humorous, tense, suspense, neo noir, funny, semi serious, sadistic
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American Dreamer (2018)
Plot Summary:
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, dark, non-linear, neo noir, psychological thriller, psycho film
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The Rise and Fall of Their American Dream (2010)
Plot Summary:
"The Rise and Fall of Their American Dream" revolves around Carlos, Vijay and Mike; three fearless strangers whose relentless pursuit of the fabled "American Dream" coincides. Their fateful meeting forever alters the course of their desperate lives. Carlos illegally migrates from Mexico and is forced to toil for pennies as a mechanic. A greedy Indian motel owner lures Vijay from India with the promise of riches, but instead enslaves him as a worker. Mike, who is indebted to his mob boss uncle, befriends the two immigrants and their combined courage, ambition, and friendship lead them to the top of a criminal empire. A horrific event causes their monumental rise to come to a crashing halt and forces them to define loyalties.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Baker (2022)
Plot Summary:
A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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6 Ways to Die (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top cocaine distributor in the United States, which has made him a very rich and powerful man. It has also made him plenty of enemies. John Doe is just such a man. A nameless man of mystery, John lives to see Sundown not just dead, but to suffer six meaningful losses before his death—his fortune, his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession and, finally, his life. John hires six hit-men, each one assigned to inflict one of the six meaningful losses upon Sundown.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, twisted
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Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
Plot Summary:
An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, dark comedy, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, feel good
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Deadbeat (1976)
Plot Summary:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Family Plot (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, talky, stylized, black comedy, suspense, dark comedy, tense, clever, psychotronic
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Black Friday (2007)
Plot Summary:
Amy Carlson is the woman in charge of a bank's security system. Two dirty cops (played by the slightly washed-up duo of Judd Nelson and Thomas Ian Griffith) kidnap her daughter and a friend to force her to open the safety deposit box of one of her bank's clients and give to them its content.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Distortion (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped, a drug-addicted ex-cop must overcome his demons and face the sobering task of tracking her down before it's too late. His story dismissed by the police, he's left with no choice but to rely on his own detective skills in a high-stakes race against time.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Good Morning, Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, neo noir
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The Eyes (2016)
Plot Summary:
6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Betrayed (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kidnappers force a young mother (Melissa George) to recover money stolen by her shady husband (Christian Campbell).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, realistic, surprise ending
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Homegrown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, clever, enigmatic, feel good
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The Long Goodbye (1973)
Plot Summary:
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, noir, dark, atmospheric, witty, cynical, stylized, funny, inspirational
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Freedomland (2006)
Plot Summary:
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, detective, crime drama
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Plot Summary:
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, detective, humorous, sexy, suspense, entertaining, absurd
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Suicide Kings (1997)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, black comedy, rough, twisted, surprise ending, dark
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Breakdown (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, road movie, psychological thriller, tense, scenic, intense, neo noir, scary
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Thursday (1998)
Plot Summary:
Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell breaks loose!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, witty, dark comedy, intense, suspenseful, surreal, funny, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film
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Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego suburb. When the bodies of her mother and brother were found in the burned home of family friend James DiMaggio later that day, an AMBER Alert was issued, and a frantic multi-state manhunt for Hannah began. For a week she was kept prisoner by the increasingly unstable DiMaggio as they made their way across the state. One week later, the two were found in Idaho and DiMaggio was killed in a shootout with FBI agents, leaving Hannah as the sole survivor. As the dust settled, questions began to emerge about the nature of the relationship between Hannah and her kidnapper...and what really happened?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark