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Plot Summary:
Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker desperate to find his wife, who has been kidnapped by a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense female cop to reclaim his prisoner. But is Calloway’s crime-boss father somehow involved in this explosive situation?.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Swat: Unit 887 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A non-stop, race against time action packed thriller that follows an elite SWAT Team as they try to stop a domestic terrorist from killing innocent hostages and destroying the city of Los Angeles. With 24 hours left on the clock, the team must rely on their instincts and unique skill set to stop the attack and bring justice.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Beast of Burden (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Cadaver (2022)
Plot Summary:
A pathologist and a police commissioner try to solve a series of murders involving a prisoner. Their journey leads to shocking revelations!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, dramatic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
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In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas (1991)
Plot Summary:
From the "In the Line of Duty" made-for-television movie series, Manhunt in the Dakotas (also known as 'The Twilight Murders') is based on the true story of cop-killer/white supremacist Gordon Kahl.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Traffickers (2012)
Plot Summary:
After his best friend dies in an unexpected accident, black market dealer Young-gyu decides to wash his hands off his illegal activities and start a new life with his girlfriend Yu-ri. But his dream stalls when he learns that Yu-ri needs money for her father's surgery. To help her out, Young-gyu decides to do the job one last time. His smuggling ring operates out of a boat that runs between Korea and China, picking victims from its voyager pool and harvesting their organs. Meanwhile, a married couple, Sang-ho and Chae-hee, boards Young-gyu's passenger boat heading to Weihai, China. That very evening, just when the boat enters international sea waters where countries' laws cannot be enforced, Chae-hee goes missing and all her pictures and belongings vanishes without a trace. Young-gyu finds Yu-ri on the same ship, and she claims to be the only witness to Chae-hee's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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Vincent N Roxxy (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small town loner and a rebellious punk rocker unexpectedly fall in love as they are forced on the run and soon discover violence follows them everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Dhruva (2016)
Plot Summary:
A committed police officer is on a very dangerous mission to destroy the most corrupt person in the country, Siddharth Abhimanyu.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Kuttram 23 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it..
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller, suspense thriller
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Eternal Code (2019)
Plot Summary:
A researcher's family is kidnapped after she leads efforts to withdraw her company from a collaboration. With everything on the line, only her teenage daughter can save the family with help from a suicidal veteran and a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Cartel War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the king pin who devastated their families. Based on the true story of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Cartel War is an action-packed journey into an all-too-real violent underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, independent film
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Narx (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, independent film
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The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jake Carter and another former Marine, Luke Trapper, join forces to rescue a kidnapped girl from a gang of international criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, tense, brutal, serious, captivating, cliffhanger, psychotronic
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Paayum Puli (2015)
Plot Summary:
An extortion gang that murders businessmen kills a policeman working on the case. ACP Jayaseelan exterminates the gang by way of unofficial encounters, but the murders continue. What the cop doesn't realise is that the brain behind the crimes is lurking close to home.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Leakers (2018)
Plot Summary:
The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and a local reporter, the wife of the pharmaceutical company's owner leaves for Hong Kong. A Malaysian police chief , Hong Kong police officer, and journalist work together to locate her whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gang in Blue (1996)
Plot Summary:
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Mark (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman witnesses a mob hit, a seasoned assassin and his psychotic partner must track her down before she turns them in, but she proves to be the hardest mark to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Meskada (2010)
Plot Summary:
Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and a powerful woman in Hilliard; and the entire township rallies together in solidarity - to support her and Detective Cordin's efforts to find the killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, dark, suspense, disturbing
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Miami Heat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuri, a retired special forces agent, is reluctantly forced into utilizing his old skills when his daughter, Julia, gets kidnapped by a human trafficking conglomerate just days before Christmas in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Small World (2021)
Plot Summary:
After disappearing from a small Polish town, a mother discovers her 4-year old daughter, Ola, has been abducted by the Russian Mafia. In pursuit of her daughter, she is stopped for speeding by a police officer, Robert Goc. His intervention results in the escape of the kidnappers across the Eastern border. Feeling guilt for failing to prevent the abduction, Robert becomes engaged in an international investigation to find the missing girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Time of Fear (2002)
Plot Summary:
Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming from the Sheriff, she turns to the only other person who can help her, Jack Barone, a grieving father whose daughter, Lisa, was the victim of a similar slaying ten years prior. The killer's clues are a perversion of Biblical punishments for sins: stoning, burning, decapitation. Jack and Agent Hammer turn to Father Patrick, a Catholic priest, for help. As the clock ticks down, a young female friend of Jack's is kidnapped and may become the next casualty. The harrowing rescue of the young woman opens the door to a dark history hidden below the surface, revealing the true identity of the killer and answering the mystery of who killed Jack's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Vikram Vedha (2017)
Plot Summary:
A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, feel good, epic
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If You Knew Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Desperate Hours (1990)
Plot Summary:
A criminal holds a wealthy family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, exciting, melancholic, enigmatic, intense, scary
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The Trough (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Adanga Maru (2018)
Plot Summary:
A sincere cop, who's suspended from the department for locking horns with a few influential people in the society, starts taking revenge against those who finished off his dear ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Informant (2008)
Plot Summary:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Gunman (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, realistic
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Narco Sub (2021)
Plot Summary:
A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Force of Nature (2020)
Plot Summary:
A gang of thieves plan a heist during a hurricane and encounter trouble when a disgraced cop tries to force everyone in the building to evacuate.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, disturbing, captivating, heroic, suspenseful, visually appealing, surprise ending, independent film
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End of Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 264000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: emotional, tense, suspense, independent film, realistic, harsh, brutal, hood, captivating, heroic