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Plot Summary:
A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anime
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Spike Drink Gang (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mrs Tsui (Yvonne Yung) buys a soft drink at a convenience store but feels drowsy afterwards to the point of fainting. Two men take care of her but are in fact after her bank account information. She wakes up in a different area and reports the robbery and possible rape to the police. This doesn't sit well with her butcher husband (Elvis Tsui) who's literally going crazy trying to deal with his virgin wife having possibly had something taken away from her. The police (headed by Lee Siu-Kei and Chan Kwok-Bong) goes to work trying to track down the spike drink gang, headed by Hung (Lo Meng), girlfriend and perverts.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Crack (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Takers (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a breakfast of LSD and hitchhikers, The Takers--two berserk bikers--decide to go upscale when they spot suburban housewife Laura and bachelorette Barbi, follow them to Laura's home, and invite themselves in: "We're gonna have us a party with some educated social-type broads!" And party they do until Laura's hubbie (director Carl Monson) unexpectedly shows up to settle things with some shotgun vengeance and... well, one of the goofiest, most startling endings of any motion picture!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Crime & Passion (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two female criminals kidnap a gangster's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Sweet Trash (1970)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic longshoreman, deep in debt to the mob, is forced into an increasingly debauched nightmare as he tries to avoid the thugs out to get him. Along the way, he meets local oddballs, violent criminals, and lusty women. With a mysterious computer controlling everyone’s actions this grimy artistic film with almost science fiction-esque fear of future mind control was made well before it’s time.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Frameup (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. Beth's longing to visit California and Ricky's longing for quick cash leads them into a desperate situation. Director Jost uses a variety of avant-garde visual and narrative techniques, such as montage, collages, split screens and lengthy, tongue-in-cheek monologues to tell the tragicomic story of two complete losers in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, independent film, black comedy
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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
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Lowball (1996)
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
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Judy (1970)
Plot Summary:
A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks Fairchild's daughter Regina.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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The Big Snatch (1971)
Plot Summary:
Guy in a pickup truck kidnaps 5 women off the street, intending to make them his sex slaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Gina (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Give Us Tomorrow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Forgive Me For Raping You (2010)
Plot Summary:
In this extreme sexploitation horror shocker, a psychotic priest travels through a seemingly idyllic suburban landscape and uses his collar to secure the trust of a series of beautiful young women before subjecting these poor beauties to increasingly sadistic bouts of sexual assault. Director Bill Zebub has trimmed all of the filler from the standard serial killer movie and replaced it with a near constant barrage of depraved sexual horror. "Most serial killer films favor soap opera dialogue and speculation-depictions of the killer doing anything but the vile deeds for which he became famous. This movie shows ONLY the deranged part of the serial killer's story." - Bill Zebub WARNING: This film contains graphic nudity and sexual assault and in intended only for mature audiences.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, independent film, sexploitation film
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Double Exposure (1994)
Plot Summary:
White collar crime, a crooked PI and a top notch homicide forensics team come together in this low-budget erotic thriller about a wife killed while in a hotel room with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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The Girl Grabbers (1968)
Plot Summary:
Two hooligans run amok.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Confessions of the Sex Slaves (1977)
Plot Summary:
The plot has pretty, middle-class Caucasian girls (college students, runaways etc.) being kidnapped right of the streets of Zurich and Montreal(!), and after being beaten, raped, and hooked on heroin, they are sent to Amsterdam to work as zombified strippers and prostitutes in a nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. A female reporter is investigating the disappearance of one girl and ends up on the trail of the slavers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Loser (1996)
Plot Summary:
23 year old Jame Dean Ray is a small time drug dealer bent on self destruction. The product of a broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs with of course and occasional robbery.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Teaser (1974)
Plot Summary:
College student Becky Bartolucci earns a living as a dancer at a nightclub. It's just a way for her to pay for her degree until one day, an obsessive customer reminds her how dangerous her job can be.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Act of Revenge (1989)
Plot Summary:
A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those who made his life Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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The Casino Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
Barry Kaylin is living the dream. Not yet 40, he owns four Las Vegas casinos and lives the life of the bachelor to the fullest. One night, while meeting with two potential business associates, he hires five local dancers to flirt and lounge around his mansion and lagoon pool.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Satan's Bed (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Affairs of Aphrodite (1970)
Plot Summary:
The god Antiochus purchases a female slave for the gods Aphrodite and her brother Apollo. She is not only to perform the expected duties of a slave but is also to take part in the depraved sexual activities the two gods constantly engage in. What they don't know is that the slave is actually Sappho, the exiled Cretan queen. They buy another female slave, Katenga, and take them back to their home on Mount Olympus. When young Paris, who is in love with Sappho, hears about it, he shows up at Mount Olympus to try to rescue her, but fails and is taken prisoner by Aphrodite and Apollo, who use him in their perverted sexual games. Paris and Sappho seemingly go along with them, but are actually plotting their escape. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Man (2007)
Plot Summary:
An undercover LAPD cop struggles to find a balance between his professional life running sting operations and his family life raising three adopted kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Condemned to Hell (1984)
Plot Summary:
Silvia is incarcerated in a corrupt women prison and forced to participate in drug distribution. When she refuses she is punished and her sister murdered. She will try to get free and get her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Private Call (2001)
Plot Summary:
In order to avenge the murder of an old friend, a recently suspended female police officer goes undercover at an illegal gambling den where the winning prize is a night with one of the female staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, sexploitation film
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Beauty Betrayed (2002)
Plot Summary:
Clark (Brad Bartram), a classic experienced detective and his girlfriend, and new part-time colleague coroner, Allie (Samm Croft) investigate the murder of a well-known model, Lily (Renee Rea). Through their research, there are all kinds of erotic secrets over the table. They discover a videotape on which Lily can be seen in bondage games with a famous photographer, Fabrice (Justin Carroll). They dive into Lily's perverse double life and soon feel attracted to it.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, erotic, sexploitation film
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Sapphire Girls (2003)
Plot Summary:
Once, Ruby, Crystal and Jade were on top of the world. Now they're desperate for a comeback. When a mysterious millionaire offers them a world tour, they jump at the chance. But there are a few strings attached, and soon these sexy sirens are in hot water. With the help of an undercover agent, they're about to prove that you don't toy with the Sapphire Girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Happy Face Murders (1999)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives (Marg Helgenberger, Henry Thomas) on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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