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Plot Summary:
An intertwining tale of sex, drugs, rock and woe. Lives criss-cross and converge thanks to the most addictive drug in human history, Red Devil—which also happens to be the title of Savvas D. Michael’s tale of sex, drugs, and guns. An anonymous voice at the start of the film warns, “Once you’ve tasted the devil’s cum, everything else is dull and numb.” The current problem with the Red Devil drug is the supply has dried up. Addicts are so desperate for it they’re willing to kill for it…and they do.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Colony (1995)
Plot Summary:
Thriller about a man who, along with his family, moves from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free haven overseen by a godlike businessman. However, they soon discover that life in The Colony is much more sinister than it first appeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Crimes of Passion: Tragedy in a Country Churchyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Off Limits (2010)
Plot Summary:
During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the son of a politician. This is why the two police constables are accused of brutality by the brass. Abandoned by their superiors, the two leading characters will lead an investigation on the drug that caused the politician's son to be out of his mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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An Act of War (2015)
Plot Summary:
Battling insomnia and undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, and violence.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, neo noir
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King of the Jungle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a neighborhood punk. Now Seymore must overcome the child within as he rises up to fight for some kind of justice. It's a fight that will take him out into the streets where there are few friends and many enemies -- and one of them is a killer who wants him silenced.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, tense, disturbing, independent film, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Cover (2007)
Plot Summary:
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith keep her going as the revelation of her husband's betrayal threatens to destroy all that they have known.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, suspense, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, detective, black cinema
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Beautiful Creatures (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, stylized, tense, suspenseful, cynical, clever, neo noir, psychological thriller, serious, realistic
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Only God Can Judge Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky agrees, and gets his brother Rafael on board. Everything runs smoothly, until police officer Diana turns up on the scene. A nerve-wracking cat and mouse game is set in motion. Director Özgür Yildirim’s most recent film offers insight into Frankfurt’s gangster world. As before in CHIKO – which also starred Moritz Bleibtreu – he portrays the daily life of the criminal underground scene in a large German city.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Pride & Loyalty (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jake DeMitro cannot maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Francini or concentrate on his prestigious position with the Prosecutor's Office. He suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality and fights on a regular basis with his professional nemesis, Brian O'Leary.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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How It All Went Down (2003)
Plot Summary:
A struggling filmmaker finds himself involved in a dark world of guns, drugs and prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, independent film, rough, epic, gloomy, semi autobiographical
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Distortion (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped, a drug-addicted ex-cop must overcome his demons and face the sobering task of tracking her down before it's too late. His story dismissed by the police, he's left with no choice but to rely on his own detective skills in a high-stakes race against time.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Coverup (2008)
Plot Summary:
Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department after the young man was arrested for drunk driving. The arresting officer's story is highly suspicious and everyone involved, from the investigating detective to the FBI, appear to be aiding in covering up what actually happened that fateful night. With a promise made to the Thacker family to expose the truth, Stu dives head first into an uphill battle against lies and corruption. What transpires will change this lawyer's life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, independent film, detective, rough
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Class of '76 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, mind bending, realistic
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Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Swedish tabloid Kvällspressen has set their crime reporter, Annika Bengtzon, to monitor a complex murder case. The victim is a colleague and the only witness is a 15-year-old boy. Bengtzons inquiries may be an unexpected turn when the tracks leading to a 40 year attack on an airbase.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Wall of Silence (2004)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Iowa (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster (2003)
Plot Summary:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, captivating, realistic, sexual, detective, sexy
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Tucked Away (2007)
Plot Summary:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are giving way to visions of his abusive father, unlocking a suppressed violence he's unable to control. When ray brutally assaults a man in a parking lot, it leads to an investigation by an aging detective with a connected past. Neither is prepared as the secrets begin to unfold over a thirty-year-old murder they've both struggled to keep buried.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Stolen (2011)
Plot Summary:
A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's happening now.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing
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Reversible Errors (2004)
Plot Summary:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, intense
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The Prophet's Game (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies... somebody famous.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak, realistic, suspense, serious
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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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13 (2010)
Plot Summary:
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, tense, serious, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspense, talky, stylized, intense
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Resurrection Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, tense, rough, realistic, parody, sexy
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.45 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, sexy, erotic, serious, realistic
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Sins of the Father (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, emotional, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating
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Monument Ave. (1998)
Plot Summary:
Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even from their and Teddy's relatives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, neo noir, cult classic, rough, bleak, realistic
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The Rosary Murders (1987)
Plot Summary:
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspense, independent film, tense, rough, realistic
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Shoot on Sight (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London. Tariq's task gets complicated as an innocent Muslim is killed by the commando shooters of Scotland Yard. On the other hand, Tariq - a British citizen is himself a suspect in the eyes of his boss, despite his long service in the Scotland Yard.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Villain (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, and he ends up using his life savings to calling in favours with mobster friends to try and help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social, hood