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Plot Summary:
Dr. Hugo Arranz celebrates his 50th anniversary with his wife and daughter when vile hooligans break into their home, raping and killing both his wife and daughter and cut off the tongue of poor Hugo. Fortunately, he survives, and not surprisingly, he goes "Bronson" on the punk asses after some self-training with knives, pistols and weightlifting.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Last Round (1976)
Plot Summary:
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring down the corrupt clans.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Black Sun (1978)
Plot Summary:
A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Suburb Murder (1992)
Plot Summary:
In April 1985, two expatriate students Kenneth McBride, age 17, and 18 year-old Nicola Myers were beaten, raped, and murdered by a teenage gang. Based on the true story of Hong Kong's Braemar Hill murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scenic, controversial
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Revenge (1971)
Plot Summary:
A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, offbeat, independent film, poliziottesco
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Angela, the Marked One (1980)
Plot Summary:
Angela Delmar (Hilda Koronel) works as a waitress for one of the seedier bars in Manila. There she meets five patrons of the bar, who also turn out to be a gang specializing in drugging and raping girls and later on selling them to prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Sniper (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Frenchman's Orchard (1978)
Plot Summary:
One of the myths of fantastic movies, Paul Naschy, filmed this realistic drama in the best tradition of Spanish novel (Cela, Blasco Ibañez ) and paintings (Goya, Gutierrez Solana ) . the story of a real psychokiller, " the french man ". Besides Naschy two beautiful stars, María José Cantudo ( in her best role ) and Agatha Lys. The action is good, the atmospheric photography looks great ans crime scenes are strong . A film for rediscovering.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Her Vengeance (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wong plays an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who alienates a gang of drunken men (led by Shing Fui-on). They tail her after her shift, and mount a gang assault. She attempts to enlist the aid of her former brother-in-law (Lam) - an ex-triad now confined to a wheelchair.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Sasori in U.S.A. (1997)
Plot Summary:
Japanese lady gets framed for killing her man and is shipped off to prison in California. She escape and seek vengeance against those who wronged them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Lola (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There he met Robert, CEO of a major company, with whom she starts a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense
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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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Johnny Firecloud (1975)
Plot Summary:
An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, tension, grindhouse, suspense
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The Last House on the Beach (1978)
Plot Summary:
Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping and terrorizing the girls, killing one by raping her with a cane, until Bolkan renounces her teachings and seeks bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, poliziottesco, cult film
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Acts of Violence (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man named Flyn (Il Lim) is on a mission on killing the men who raped his wife Olivia (Leelee Sobieski). He finds himself living a double life as a killer and a husband. He finds an unexpected friend, a priest (Ron Perlman), as he deals with the gravity of his acts. The story comes to a climactic end when Flyn finds out he is in a battle he has already lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Wild Riders (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two juvenile delinquents break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbour.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Dogman (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, breathtaking, neo noir, emotional, dark, hood, controversial
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Broken (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a fugitive from the police after he kills one of the men who raped and murdered his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: twisted, crying
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Outrage (1993)
Plot Summary:
Marco Vallez (Antonio Banderas) is possessed by the beauty of a circus sharp shooter, and from the second they meet he is willing to give up everything to be with her. But one horrifying night sends them both down a road of revenge leaving behind a trail of bodies to the ultimate showdown with justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sensual
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Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, controversial, grindhouse, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher
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High Crime (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
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Wrong Way (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult who plan to gang-rape the girls, then kill them. Meanwhile, the father of one of the girls gets the police to begin an investigation into their disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, independent film, cult film
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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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Tomboys (2009)
Plot Summary:
Five girls kidnap a serial rapist... to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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The Dawn Rapists (1978)
Plot Summary:
Crime drama centering on a gang of rapists, the aftermath of their crimes on the victims and the gang members being brought to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, crying
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A Gun for Jennifer (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman comes to New York City from Ohio to escape an abusive husband and gets entangled with murderous female vigilantes who prey on abusive men.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, controversial, grindhouse, independent film
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Villa Captive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young actress seeking a life away from adult movies moves to Florida insearch of a new identity. Her newfound peace is shattered when local thugsrecognize her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, serious, realistic, rough
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Fight for Your Life (1977)
Plot Summary:
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Lipstick (1976)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, action thriller, spooky, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Almost Human (1974)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, grindhouse, action thriller, terrifying, realistic
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Straw Dogs (1971)
Plot Summary:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: controversial, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, suspense, grindhouse, bloody, dark