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Plot Summary:
A bullied student forms a bond with the leader of a youth gang and discovers the power and meaning of true friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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ID2: Shadwell Army (2016)
Plot Summary:
Long-awaited sequel to the 1995 film. A young British Asian, Mo is a fast-rising police officer who goes under cover infiltrating Shadwell's resurgent hooligan element, who are fired up by Shadwells's takeover by a Russian oligarch and their unlikely adventure into European competition. Mo quickly becomes embroiled in the local schism between the BNP and EDL and plans to build a new mosque in the shadow of the Shadwell ground creates an explosive environment in which football and political violence form a perfect storm of social unrest. In the midst of this, Mo is faced with the essential existential question of of who he really is and where he really belongs. It's 20 years on and clever Trevor is now chief super, but what happens to the rest of the gang?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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E=mc2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Thillalangadi (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nisha leaves Krishna because of his easy-going attitude towards his life and career. Soon, her parents arrange her marriage with an NRI and she reluctantly agrees, but things do not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, romantic
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Shootout at Wadala (2013)
Plot Summary:
The first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982. It's based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, stylized
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Maari 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
After falling off the radar for a few years, Maari is back in the fray doing what he does best: taking trouble by the horns and being a total bad-ass. This time around, he is facing off against a formidable opponent named Beeja, who would stop at nothing until he sees Maari's downfall.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Gangster Payday (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wong Kam-Kwei, a gang boss on the decline, overseeing bathhouses and karaoke bars, falls for a small restaurant owner, Mei. He begins to help her business, and learns that Mei is already in love with Leung, a member of his gang. He’s also like a brother to Kam-Kwei. When a rival gang hoping to steal his territory kills Leung, the only thing left for Kam-Kwei to do now is to protect Mei and avenge Leung.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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FB: Fighting Beat (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of young Muay Thai experts led by David are forced to use their deadly training to protect themselves when the local extortionist threatens to kill their mentors daughter if he doesn't give up his bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Pogaru (2021)
Plot Summary:
Shiva, a ruffian, is the terror of his area in many ways, but still has a heart of gold. He has just one wish, for his mother to love him wholly like the way he does.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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I Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bullet Proof (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Thief pulls off the robbery of a lifetime when he robs the psychotic drug lord, Temple. The plan goes off without a hitch until the Thief discovers a stowaway in his getaway car - Temple's pregnant wife, Mia.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Game Changer (2017)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set during the gang wars of 1930's Shanghai. An adaptation of Shanghai Bund, the TV series.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Ip Man: The Awakening (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young Master Ip stops a kidnapping, he ignites a turf war with a ruthless human trafficking ring. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps one of Ip Man’s close friends, forcing him to face the group’s brutal boxing champion head-on.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rage (2017)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in a disturbed Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner demons of a violent past, the underworld's retribution on his last connection to humanity, a daughter and grandchild leads to a descent of fury and violence that not even the brutality of gangland is prepared for.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic
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High & Low: The Movie 2 - End of Sky (2017)
Plot Summary:
Members of SWORD win against Wangan Rengogun, which is led by Kohaku (Akira). The city becomes peaceful again. Nevertheless, the most brutal gangs, Doubt and Prison Gang, appear. They try to dominate the area controlled by SWORD.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bala Ko... Bahala Sa 'yo (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jeric Raval is Dias Del Fuego. An anti-organized crime cop who does the beat with a dark side of the law demeanor. The kind that loves to fight fire with fire and that which keeps the violent underworld under check. After being meted an indefinite suspension by their cop chief together with bungling rookie, Flavio (Dinky Doo, Jr.) after a botched hostage rescue, the two stage extra-legal means to pursue the town's top dollar racketing kingpins played by Kier Legaspi and Patrick Dela Rosa. Things get complicated as the underworld puts up heavy resistance. The wrench gets thrown in on Jeric's mean crimefighting machine when his ex-lover (Via Veloso) connives with the mob. As the going gets tougher, Dias Del Fuego gets down dirty and begins to reserve a special place in hell for the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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On the Ropes (2018)
Plot Summary:
Following the sudden death of their father, two brothers realize the greatest threat to their criminal empire might just be each other. A no-holds-barred battle for power ensues that threatens to destroy everything their old man built.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Rupinder Gandhi the Gangster..? (2015)
Plot Summary:
With the local police force unwilling to deal with crime, a college student and his gang take it upon themselves to mete out justice in their own way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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My Boss, My Hero (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of embarrassing incidents force a mobster to go back to high school to finally graduate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crime drama
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Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life crimes that terrorized Hong Kong in the 1990s, Logan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is the head of leading a notorious human trafficking gang, abducting the children of Hong Kong's elite. Police forces decide to send in Sky (Louis Koo), a Hong Kong undercover agent whose mission is to infiltrate and save the hostages, all while bringing the gang and their leader to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Riot (2015)
Plot Summary:
Copper Jack Stone purposefully orchestrates a bank robbery in order to be thrown into prison with the notorious Russian kingpin Balam. Balam is more than just a mob criminal; he's a very cunning and dangerous lord who controls the police force from behind bars. Balam lives in prison as a cover for his real power, which is King of the city. His cell is a lavish private room built specifically for him, inaccessible to most in the depths of the prison structure. Even the warden fears venturing into his area of the prison. However, even surrounded by his loyal henchmen and guards in his sectioned off fortress, Balam doesn't know Jack is coming for him to avenge his family, who Balam murdered in cold blood. Balam is tough... but Jack is tougher.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, perverse
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Women of Mafia (2018)
Plot Summary:
A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, talky
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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019)
Plot Summary:
Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the Narcotics Bureau works towards preventing drug abuse but faces uncertainty.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Debt Collectors (2020)
Plot Summary:
A pair of debt collectors are thrust into an explosively dangerous situation, chasing down various lowlifes while also evading a vengeful kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, exciting, humorous, perverse, buddy comedy
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Dogworld (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a small town is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs compete for the territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Strike One (2014)
Plot Summary:
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pudhupettai (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in the backdrop of the slums of Pudhupettai in Chennai, as the title suggests, where a high school kid Kokki Kumar (Dhanush) sees his mom dead after he comes back from watching a movie. His father, the murderer is also planning to kill his son Kumar. Kumar sensing danger runs away from home. Homeless and with no food Kumar resorts to begging until he is falsely arrested while standing by and watching a commotion on the street. In jail he befriends handymen of a local goon who take Kumar with them and give him petty jobs to do. In a confrontation with goons of another gang Kumar kills the brother of his enemy gang's head Moorthi thus earning the respect of his gang and making enemies for himself both within his gang and outside.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, epic, cult classic, cult film
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Grasshopper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Boone: The Bounty Hunter (2017)
Plot Summary:
When fame-seeking reality show bounty hunter, Boone, attempts to bring down a drug lord and his empire, he uncovers more than he bargains for and learns that justice means more than ratings.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Candy (2017)
Plot Summary:
This dramatic tale of four women running the dope game in a big city is a familiar story that is as colorful as the characters they meet in the streets.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood
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Vatos Locos (2011)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two Chicano brothers, Estaban and Raul grow up hard on the streets of Los Angeles. Their papa gets executed for a drug deal gone bad when only seven years old. Half Irish, half Mexican gangster named Mickey Solis takes the two boys in and brings them up as lieutenants in his family business. - Damian Chapa, Gabriel Tang, Ricco Chapa.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film