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Plot Summary:
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, serious, touching, realistic, scary, atmospheric, erotic, disturbing, anthology
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The Take (2007)
Plot Summary:
After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored truck driver wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man who committed the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, action packed, realistic, independent film
Similar in 79%
Crossing Over (2009)
Plot Summary:
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, political, emotional, touching, intense, sincere, sad, bleak, non-linear
Similar in 79%
Lap Dance (2014)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple made is broken, their lives are changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, sexual
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Grace & Mercy (2006)
Plot Summary:
In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery and they escape into a nearby church. They hold the police at bay by taking the Pastor and the elders hostage by gun point. Outside, the LAPD try to avoid another public relations disaster by keeping the hostage situation quiet and the local media away. Inside, the Pastor and the elders do their best to ease a potentially dangerous situation with their good-natured, spiritual guidance. Eventually, the church members become a new family to the desperate sisters, who have learned to trust in the Lord. But will the Lord provide HIS own Grace & Mercy for these two desperate siblings?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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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
Similar in 75%
Speed of Life (1999)
Plot Summary:
Drew (Scott Caan) must care for his father, a former professor who can now barely communicate due to Alzheimer. Depressed and struggling to make ends meet, an old buddy tries to get him to become a pusher. He gets further drawn in by a new and exciting girlfriend, Sarah (Mia Kirshner), who uses drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film
Similar in 88%
Shadowboxer (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, neo noir, noir, anamorphic, gloomy
Similar in 79%
Fragments (2008)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative, twisted
Similar in 75%
Ambushed (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the frenetic underbelly of Los Angeles, Agent Maxwell closes in on an international cocaine smuggling operation run by criminal mastermind Vincent Camastra. When Agent Beverly Royce goes undercover with the drug dealers and finds herself deeper then she can handle - the case becomes personal for Maxwell who has to combat ruthless killers and dirty cops in an all-out action filled finale to bring the criminals to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
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Officer Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, surprise ending, freeze frame
Similar in 80%
Freelancers (2012)
Plot Summary:
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, trust and respect. When the truth about his father's death is revealed revenge takes him over and he won't stop until justice has been truly served.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic
Similar in 79%
Diary of a Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife (Jain) of his client, but he starts to waiver. The longer he takes to do the job the more difficult it becomes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak
Similar in 89%
Never Die Alone (2004)
Plot Summary:
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: hood, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, crime drama, realistic, surprise ending, ambiguous ending
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Before I Self Destruct (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, Clarence (played by Jackson) is consumed by revenge and takes up a life of crime in order to support his younger brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, independent film
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Plot Summary:
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, erotic, depressing, psychological, realistic, visually appealing, serious, sad, anime
Similar in 76%
Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Plot Summary:
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating, adaptation directed by original author
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Fiona (1998)
Plot Summary:
The director of Sue continues his exploration of the theme of lonely women lost in the big city with Fiona, which goes one step further and exposes the wasted lives of whores and junkies in New York. The story of Fiona and her mother told in eight chapters. Fiona is abandoned at six months of age, raised in foster and adoptive homes, abused, and, still a teen, hustles on the streets of New York. We watch her use heroine, fall in love with other women, be pursued by men, engage in murderous violence, hide out in a crack house, and decide to leave the city. We see her mother, also a streetwalker and drug user, occasionally talk about her lost daughter. Fiona has a necklace she was clutching when a foundling. Will mother and daughter meet? Is there a silver lining?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, neorealism
Similar in 82%
Sherrybaby (2006)
Plot Summary:
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, emotional, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual, cult classic, realistic, scary, political
Similar in 76%
Striptease (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to conquer, but she faces unintended circumstances when a hound dog of a Congressman zeroes in on her and sharpens the shady tools at his fingertips, including blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, touching, sexual, intense, detective, black comedy, sensual, neo noir, sex comedy
Similar in 88%
The American (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, suspense, tense, stylized, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, talky, visually appealing, neo noir
Similar in 84%
Hardcore (1979)
Plot Summary:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, disturbing, erotic, psychological, art house, retro, depressing, slasher, social, controversial
Similar in 81%
El padrino (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he may end up with nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Similar in 76%
American Gun (2005)
Plot Summary:
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, emotional, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, inspirational, independent film, gloomy
Similar in 78%
Green Dragon (2001)
Plot Summary:
A tale about Vietnamese refugees sent to an orientation camp on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base in California, 'Green Dragon' focuses on a young boy and his sister. Set in 1975, the film chronicles the stories told to the two children by other refugees in the camp and of Tai Tran, who dares to introduce himself to Sergeant Jim Lance. In developing a relationship with Lance, Tran is able to improve.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, independent film, serious, realistic
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Plot Summary:
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, bad ending, depressing, emotional, bleak, tense, sad, atmospheric, gloomy, touching
Similar in 81%
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, psychological, depressing, bleak, non-linear, emotional, serious
Similar in 78%
Crash (2004)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 446000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional, gloomy, sad, political, intense, disturbing
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Havoc (2005)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological, bad ending, intense, serious, suspenseful, tense
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21 Grams (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, emotional, bleak, non-linear, gloomy, depressing, suspense, sincere, sad
Similar in 90%
A History of Violence (2005)
Plot Summary:
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, sexy, intense