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Plot Summary:
After a kidnapping gone wrong Meeker is sentenced to prison. He escapes with other inmates who take him to collect the ransom he had hidden prior to his incarceration.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending
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Transit Carlsbad (1966)
Plot Summary:
Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, Luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary the sophisticated charade unfolds, in which several foreign agents interested in the famous Austrian scientist, the discoverer of the artificial protein. Endangered man fortunately never notice danger around him. His protection was entrusted to the mysterious madame Elizabeth, amongst agents famed as the ' 006, in fact, working for the State security... As a parody, perhaps the movie succeeded, but hardly convincing anyone - and this is despite scriptwriting participation of the renowned Jan Procházka.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Hi, Inspector (1985)
Plot Summary:
A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal of homosexuals.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Assassin (1961)
Plot Summary:
A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback. Is he guilty or just a sleaze.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, poliziottesco, suspense, eurospy
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Petrovka, 38 (1980)
Plot Summary:
Detective Kostenko is trying to find a group of criminals responsible for killing a policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Scam (1993)
Plot Summary:
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending
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Flesh and Bullets (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men that meets in a bar in Las Vegas discovers that they have one big problem in common, their wifes. They decide to do something drastic about it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980)
Plot Summary:
14 year police veteran, looking to make it to retirement, experiences the highs and lows of police work as a police woman in a male-dominated metropolitan police department.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Maigret Sees Red (1963)
Plot Summary:
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Destruction Force (1977)
Plot Summary:
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Crusade (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Border of Tong (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese immigrant becomes a fugitive from both the law and the mob after a robbery goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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La banda Vallanzasca (1977)
Plot Summary:
Convict Roberto murders a guard and escapes from jail with his cellmate. Once free he joins a group of gangsters and becomes a professional hitman. The gang abduct a young woman and when one them attacks her, Roberto shoots him and takes her to an abandoned farm house….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Keaton's Cop (1990)
Plot Summary:
Ex-mobster Keaton, now living in a retirement home, narrowly misses being the target of a mob hit. Policemen Jake, an old friend of Keaton's, and Gable, a violent cop who takes an immediate disliking to the aging gangster are called in to keep Keaton safe as well as investigate the hit. There is a turn of events though when Jake is killed by the hit-men...Gable and Keaton are forced to get along while they search for whoever killed their friend and partner. Adding to the challenge, they only have 48 hours to solve this case on their own!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Hired Gun (2009)
Plot Summary:
A hit man turns against his former boss after witnessing a nuclear weapon being smuggled into the US.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Killing Field (2014)
Plot Summary:
A task force is sent to a small country town to investigate a shocking crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, detective
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Neben der Spur - Amnesie (2016)
Plot Summary:
A commissar seeks the help of a psychiatrist when he suffers from amnesia amidst a case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, suspense, realistic
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Stakeout! (1962)
Plot Summary:
After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with his son. Together they both go looking for work in the Texas oil fields. Not being able to hold a steady honest job, Joe Dasco along with a few men that he befriends along the way attempt to kidnap an oil baron's son. The kidnapping fails and Joe Dasco is shot and killed. His son Joey is then left alone but inherits what his father fought and died for.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, noir, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Liquidator (2017)
Plot Summary:
A criminal psychologist and a forensic expert works together to track down a serial killer who targets people who have been acquitted of notable crimes and uses their guilt as his modus operandi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Crime
Country: China
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Inspector Blunder (1980)
Plot Summary:
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, cult film
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Don't Talk to Strangers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Unhappy marriage causes divorce. Brosnan (new husband) and wife attempt to build a new life, and move to a new state. However, the ex-husband follows and the story unfolds from there.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller, crying, detective
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Assassin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Equal Standard (2020)
Plot Summary:
An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Cat (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: twisted, surprise ending
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Weekend of Terror (1970)
Plot Summary:
Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Black Godfather (1974)
Plot Summary:
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Sins of the Father (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police unearth a sinful conspiracy when they investigate the murder of a pastor's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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The Fall of the Krays (2016)
Plot Summary:
The brutal brothers from Bethnal Green are back and bloodier than ever in Fall of the Krays. Following on from the ferocious Rise Of The Krays, Fall of the Krays picks up the story of the infamous Firm as the cracks start to show in the brothers business plans and their sanity. Having secured their empire and their infamy, the brothers must now fight to keep hold of both as the obsession of one police officer becomes entwined with a burgeoning romance and a dangerous state of mind for Reggie and Ronnie respectively.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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8 of Diamonds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A diamond heist goes wrong when one of the thieves gets shot during the escape after swallowing a priceless diamond. Deception, blackmail, and murder schemes overshadow the lives of the eight people left chasing the diamond.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing