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Plot Summary:
Two hard-living best friends and aficionados of illegal racing contests find their bond tested when one of them goes to trial for vehicular homicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, exciting, suspense, tense, serious, realistic
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Goddess of Mercy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Yang Rui falls in love for the cleaning woman who works in a taekwando gym, only to later discover she's an undercover cop named An Xin. An is in hiding from drug smugglers who have a score to settle with her - a raid she led resulted in the death of one of the smuggler's parents. To complicate matters further, An was previously romantically involved with the smuggler whose parents were killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Buried Cain (2014)
Plot Summary:
Buried Cain is a steamy southern gothic drama about two brothers, Christian and Cain, who have only two things in common - their love for their small town southern home and their love for the same woman - the girl they call 'Georgia'. Their country love gets more complicated as childhood friend Faith and newcomer Grace, all the way from Hollywood, are also thrown into the love triangle. They each must ask themselves-how far you would go and what you would do for love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, touching, suspense
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Women of Mafia 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After taking control of the capital, Nanny's gang prepares for the biggest smuggling action in the history of Poland.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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Valley of the Wolves Gladio (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Waiter (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, bleak, captivating, realistic, suspense
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Changing the Game (2012)
Plot Summary:
An epic tale about a supremely intelligent young African-American male who rises from the ferocious and oppressive streets of North Philadelphia to being a shining star in the lucrative world of high finance at Wall Street's most prestigious firm. However, he soon finds that the white-collar world is filled with crime and death just like the drug-filled hood he left behind. His only chance of survival is to fully integrate a mysterious gift from a slain childhood friend fully into the fabric of his character.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, surprise ending, deep, crime drama, action thriller, exciting, serious
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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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Smokers (2008)
Plot Summary:
Aaaron, a Kansas transplant is alone in New York City and just wants to buy a bag of weed.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cynical, neo noir, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Devil's Teardrop (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a man known only as "The Digger" opens fire in a train station many are left dead. The only clue the FBI has is a hand written letter with demands on it. Agent Margurete needs help analyzing it and the best is retired specialist Kincaid.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Tajomaru: Avenging Blade (2009)
Plot Summary:
TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, stylized
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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The Scorpion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - 43 of his 57 wins have come by knockout.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Go with Peace Jamil (2008)
Plot Summary:
An Arabic tale that takes place in Scandinavia. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one's own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is fighting the war of his life; a war within himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Fast Lane (2010)
Plot Summary:
A high-speed accident on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf war between two competing car theft rings of sexy all-girl crews. Brandy Martinez, a young streetwise cop is assigned by lieutenant Baynes (Steven Bauer) to go undercover and infiltrate one of the crews. When Brandy falls for Carlo, an undercover cop also investigating the gangs, the two find themselves in the middle of a treacherous game of survival with everything exploding around them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Decisions (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want the money back and will go to any lengths to get it! Things go wrong quickly as bullets start to fly and the group finds that one thing affects another and discover that the voice of reason is not always what it appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, independent film, rough, realistic
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Santana (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers — one a narcotics agent and the other a general — finally discover the identity of the drug lord who murdered their parents decades ago. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa, Angola
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Bad Turn Worse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, tense, serious, suspense, rough, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Black King (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film about peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Dossier K. (2009)
Plot Summary:
Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, detective, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Devil's Mile (2014)
Plot Summary:
A relentlessly-paced hybrid of gritty crime thriller and Lovecraftian supernatural horror, "The Devil's Mile" follows a trio of kidnappers who take an ill-advised detour en route to deliver their hostages - two teenage girls - to their mysterious and powerful employer. When they accidentally kill one of the girls during a botched escape attempt, their simmering mistrust explodes into shocking violence. But what they thought was their worst case scenario is only the beginning, as they are engulfed by the hellish forces that haunt the road - a road they realize they may never escape. Now captors and captive must fight together to escape the monstrous forces pursuing them and somehow survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, lovecraft, psychological, tense, suspense, scary, rough, serious, realistic
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Life Hits (2006)
Plot Summary:
Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is turned upside down when Cecilie's boyfriend Shaid starts hitting on her, and Cecilie mistakenly believes the two of them are making out.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film, sincere, disturbing
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Mystery (2012)
Plot Summary:
A car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, tense, captivating, neo noir
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Kaththi (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kathiresan aka Kaththi, a criminal, escapes from the Kolkata prison and comes to Chennai, where he comes across his doppelganger Jeevanandham, fighting for his life after being shot at by unknown men. Kathir decides to pass off as Jeeva and make away with a lump sum amount but once he realizes who Jeeva really is, Kathir turns a crusader.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, feel good, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Monga (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into conflict with other gangs jealous of their rising power.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating, heroic, hood, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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Bullett Raja (2013)
Plot Summary:
A common man who transforms into a gangster revolts against the very system he once obediently followed by declaring war on the police, the government, and the industrialists.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating
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Jilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, cult film
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The Ministers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Silent Witness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Baseline (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking up fights and managing drunk kids. However, when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang leader, from a hitman, Danny is suddenly plunged deep into an underworld he had tried so hard to avoid. Danny is promoted to manager, but only on the condition that he turns a blind eye to the shady goings on both on and off the dance-floor. Danny and his girlfriend Jessica dream of setting up their own club, but Danny is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice when he has to choose between loyalty, morality and his own dreams of escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, rough, realistic
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You & Me Forever (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Laura and Christine meet Maria, their friendship takes an intense turn to vulnerability, love and sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy, sad, crying