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Plot Summary:
Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he once flew to Alaska for a hunting trip. Arriving at the Mendez mansion in Mexico, he is immediately surprised by the beauty and youth of Mendez’s wife, Miryea.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspense, emotional, intense, serious, suspenseful, sad, cult classic, psychological
Best tv shows and movies like Revenge (1990):
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Cat Chaser (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, eighties
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Desert Saints (2002)
Plot Summary:
Kiefer Sutherland is a hard-edged hit man. Known as the world's best professional killer, Sutherland is living a life of detached solitude when he is given an assignment that pairs him up with a sultry hitchhiker (Melora Walters). Before long, he finds there is more to her than meets the eye, as he becomes entangled deeper and deeper into a web of fatal lies and double-crosses.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, road movie, crime drama, action packed, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 87%
Unlawful Entry (1992)
Plot Summary:
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, exciting, noir
Similar in 79%
The Hot Spot (1990)
Plot Summary:
A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller, psychological, slasher, sensual, visually stunning
Similar in 90%
B. Monkey (1998)
Plot Summary:
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, independent film, dark comedy, erotic, romantic
Similar in 85%
Savage Streets (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
The Specialist (1994)
Plot Summary:
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, stylized, erotic, neo noir, exciting, enigmatic
Similar in 77%
El Mariachi (1992)
Plot Summary:
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, action packed, stylized, hood, independent film, neo western, inspirational, retro, suspense
Similar in 78%
Body Heat (1981)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, sexual, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, surprise ending, intense
Similar in 79%
Fair Game (1995)
Plot Summary:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, intense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, controversial, detective
Similar in 88%
Heaven's Burning (1997)
Plot Summary:
In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only to become a hostage in an unfolding robbery, until the getaway driver, Colin, saves her from his fellow robbers. They hit the road together, with the cops, her husband and the robbers in pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, road movie, cult classic, crime drama, detective, exciting, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Out of Reach (2004)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Billy heads to Poland to figure out why -- only to discover that the orphanage that Irina was staying in, which is financed by honest -- and unsuspecting -- good-intentioned Samaritans, is a cover for a human trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, tense, captivating, spiritual, action packed, surprise ending, neo noir
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Boiling Point (1993)
Plot Summary:
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense, rough, serious, realistic, action thriller
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Assassination Games (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, intense, cult classic, surprise ending, neo noir
Similar in 84%
Sabotage (2014)
Plot Summary:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, suspense, stylized, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, action thriller
Similar in 76%
Hard to Kill (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast
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Until Death (2007)
Plot Summary:
Van Damme plays a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Bulgaria, Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, cult classic, action packed, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Marked for Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, grindhouse, intense, hood, cult classic
Similar in 77%
Last Man Standing (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed, tense, captivating, retro, epic
Similar in 76%
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, intense, cynical, rough, cult classic, action packed, clever, realistic, stylized
Similar in 87%
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, realistic, atmospheric, neo noir, cult classic, sexy, detective, noir
Similar in 87%
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal, disturbing, talky, intense, serious, realistic
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Payback (1999)
Plot Summary:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bloody, entertaining, action packed, clever
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Man on Fire (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 383000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, brutal, exciting, emotional, psychological, harsh, rough, bloody, tragic ending
Similar in 75%
Desperado (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, action packed, intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bloody, cult classic, neo western
Similar in 78%
Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Plot Summary:
When his housekeeper’s daughter is kidnapped, Rambo crosses the U.S.-Mexican border to bring her home but finds himself up against the full might of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, action adventure, emotional, captivating, controversial, cliffhanger, crime drama, cult classic, action thriller
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New Jack City (1991)
Plot Summary:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, stylized, suspense, harsh, intense, serious, tense, captivating, neo noir, cult classic
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The Juror (1996)
Plot Summary:
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, surprise ending, intense, realistic, serious, psychological thriller, educational, anamorphic
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Straw Dogs (2011)
Plot Summary:
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, enigmatic, rough, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, erotic, controversial