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Plot Summary:
Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Fallen Heroes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fallen Heroes is a 2007 Italian crime-drama film directed by Paolo Franchi. It entered the competition at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Rosso (1985)
Plot Summary:
Giancarlo Rosso, a professional assassin from Sicily, is sent to Finland to kill a very specific target. When he reaches the country, he discovers that the target is one of his past loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Finland
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Worthless (1982)
Plot Summary:
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie
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13 French Street (2007)
Plot Summary:
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Night by the Seashore (1981)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged municipal architect Mikko is frustrated with his job and his marriage, so for years he has directed his energy into renovating a turn-of-the-century wooden villa on the seaside. One beautiful summer evening Mikko and his wife Liisa invite old friends to a party in the villa: divorced intellectual Erik who gets along a little too well with Liisa; and noisy building contractor Hessu with his young and sexy new wife Pirre. Their increasingly drunken discussions are interrupted by a surprise visit from Mikko's and Liisa's daughter Jonna and her husband Pete. A conflict between the father and the daughter ensues in front of the guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Heile Welt (2007)
Plot Summary:
Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Teenagers (1983)
Plot Summary:
A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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To the Last Limit (1991)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him work for them. Being framed and hunted he should kill them all before he becomes a broken or a dead man.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Up Against Them All (2004)
Plot Summary:
A story about the lies, treachery and vengeance of a middle-class family living on the outskirts of São Paulo. Four characters try desperately to change their lives, but are unable to escape their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Traffic Department (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying, black comedy
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The Earth Is a Sinful Song (1973)
Plot Summary:
An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: crying
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What Alice Found (2003)
Plot Summary:
A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, talky
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Highway (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, rough, serious, realistic, witty, cynical, offbeat, erotic, period piece, cult classic
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Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
Plot Summary:
14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, melancholic, teen
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Lucio Flavio (1977)
Plot Summary:
History of a famous Brazilian bandit of the early seventies and his fight against a death squad.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sonny (2002)
Plot Summary:
New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't materialize, and he can't escape his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, disturbing, erotic, bleak, realistic, crying, southern gothic, crime drama
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Crime and Punishment (1983)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, neo noir, intercultural, bleak, suspenseful
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Agitator (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, crime drama, crying
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City of M (2000)
Plot Summary:
After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
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Highway Patrolman (1991)
Plot Summary:
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol has to adapt to survive as he contends with dangerous drug-runners and widespread corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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Sexual Intrigue (2000)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Taylor gets a surprise release from jail after a year for a crime he denies committing. His songwriter girlfriend Randi is glad he's back and calls on an ex-boyfriend, Carl Olsen, to get Charlie a job. Carl, now a district attorney in the Malibu area, hooks Charlie up with Emma De Layle, the sultry wife of an ill but still-powerful rich man. She wants Charlie to be the middleman in a fake kidnapping of her step-daughter, Melissa, who's in on the plot because she wants cash to break free of dad and Emma is happy to have her leave. Things are bound to go wrong, and Charlie may be left holding the bag yet again. Who's pulling all the strings in this web of intrigue?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, captivating, suspense, sexual, sensual
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Milka - A Film About Taboos (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to marry Ojanen, and her daughter's pregnancy turns their lives around. Set in the Lapp country of northern Finland, the scenery is breathtaking, made even more so by the isolation of the region. A sense of natural solitude is underscored by a slow-moving dialogue interspersed with long silences, and the connection between nature and the dialogue is underscored as the young Milka recites poetry while out in the countryside. The fate of Milka and her mother, however, is connected to the decision that Ojanen makes at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Less Than Zero (1987)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, inspirational, retro, sad, art house, cerebral, cult classic, visually stunning, erotic drama
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Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Plot Summary:
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, rough, touching, serious, suspenseful
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Sugar Boxx (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sugar State Women’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, brutality, and sexual abuse are all part of the daily routine. But when reporter Valerie March goes undercover inside Sugar State, that’s when the powder keg really explodes! Follow Valerie through prison life - catfights, knife fights, rape, whippings, prostitution, and the “hot box” - before she and her fellow inmates take bloody, unforgettable revenge on their captors. Inspired by the great women-in-prison films of the past, SUGAR BOXX takes everything one step further. SUGAR BOXX has it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, psychological, captivating, retro, independent film, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, campy
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Hellsinki (2009)
Plot Summary:
Besides the journey of Tomppa and Krisu, the main characters of the film, Rööperi tells the story of Gypsy Kari, Arska, Bisquit, Uki and a bunch of other bad boys and criminals; it tells of their memorable and unscrupulous journey from crime and poverty to becoming respectable citizens, going to jail—or dying too young. The wrong side of the law is seen through the eyes of Koistinen, a local police officer. The guys who fall into a life of crime have one thing in common: they all start by bootlegging, being sure money is an answer to all their problems. Money is a way out of a miserable life; it is a way to happiness and their modest dreams. They can stop doing criminal business as soon as they get enough money. When the guys start making more money with black-market booze, their hunger and their dreams grow bigger.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: bleak, brutal, psychological, enigmatic, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary, exciting
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Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the 90s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, rough, captivating, realistic, erotic, hood, poliziottesco, neo noir, bleak
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Kings of South Beach (2007)
Plot Summary:
This fact-based crime thriller details the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always winds down the block and only the most beautiful people make it past the velvet rope.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Gomorrah (2008)
Plot Summary:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious, brutal, depressing, bleak, anthology, thought provoking
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Plot Summary:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 371000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min
Plot tags: epic, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, melancholic, breathtaking, captivating, rough, visually appealing, realistic, talky