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Plot Summary:
Elon, who suffers bipolar disorders, wants to please his dad, head of a southern France mafia, and reluctantly commit crimes. However, each of his acts have consequences, and a heavy price to pay.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min
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Tiger Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Having failed to get into the police force, Margarete takes up training as a security guard. One night she runs into a sexually agressive ex-colleague who insists on hailing a taxi to take her home to his place. Enter Tiger: short brown hair, a tough girl and a fighter, the cab driver. Realising that the situation is far from consensual, Tiger speeds off with Margarete, leaving her companion standing in the street. It won’t be the last time she rushes to Margarete’s aid. Tiger lives in an attic flat with two men. She knows how to wield a baseball bat. Stealing a uniform from security and renaming Margarete ‘Vanilla’, she begins to steer her life in a completely different direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Giraffe (1998)
Plot Summary:
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that reaches back into the dark German history of the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Sunny Side Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
Every year, one of the Dutch islands celebrates the mysterious, age-old festival of 'Sunderum'. Non-islanders are forced to leave, prying eyes are not wanted on the island. Daan and Judith are a couple from Amsterdam who have been in a happy relationship for seven years. To celebrate this anniversary, they accidentally end up on the island, this very weekend. When the young city-dwellers refuse to leave, it soon becomes clear that they will not only have to face the angry islanders. As tension increases, they will be forced to face demons of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Kiss Me Deadly (2008)
Plot Summary:
Settled into a cozy home life in Milan with his boyfriend Paolo and his daughter Julia, photographer and ex-spy Jacob Keane is suddenly drawn back into the espionage world when his old partner Marta reappears with her memory erased.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, fast, queer cinema
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Contrato (2009)
Plot Summary:
Peter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Rita (1977)
Plot Summary:
Blue Rita runs a nightclub and gases and kidnaps men there for her pleasure and torture.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexploitation film
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As If I'm Crazy (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a successful young artist named Benjamin is involuntarily committed, he is completely baffled, for he doesn’t remember anything about what happened. Life in the psychiatric institute is violent and absurd, but step by step, Benjamin seems to come to grips with himself again. He starts to realize how narcissistic he used to be. When he is released and meets up with his old friends, he is confronted with yet another truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Intimate Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Polar (2022)
Plot Summary:
MG, a policewoman who has been expelled from the Corps due to the problems with alcohol and drugs that she has had since the loss of her son, receives a call from a man asking her to look for Macarena Gómez, a popular TV actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: metafiction
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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A Crime (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Detective and Death (1994)
Plot Summary:
Death never gives back what it takes. Only sometimes change one life for other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Thriller
Country: Spain, Poland, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective
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Temptation (2023)
Plot Summary:
Inez is a young, aspiring journalist who dreams of love and a job at a prestigious publishing house. Once she gets to the paradise of her dreams, problems will start to multiply. What's more, two handsome men will appear at her side. Both mysterious and unpredictable.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Sardinia Kidnapped (1968)
Plot Summary:
Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to contact the police, but is persuaded not to by Francesco's best friend, Gambino. Together they try to find the kidnappers, but she becomes suspicious of everyone including Gambino. Confused and paranoid, she sets out alone to contact the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Young Nurses (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds, as they work against a drug ring operating out of the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Angel (1983)
Plot Summary:
15 year-old Molly is top of her high school class. But nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as a prostitute on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a serial killer. She's the only eye witness and becomes a target herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film, slasher, erotic, action adventure, road movie, serious, realistic, psychotronic, grindhouse
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Aaron... Albeit a Sex Hero (2009)
Plot Summary:
Wild and unpredictable events shake up the life of Aaron (Matthew Burnett), who, before being stung by a scorpion and kidnapped, was a simple wage slave. Now, he's immersed in a strange adventure that will find him seduced by a coworker and assaulted by a gang of elderly women...and that's just the start of his trials and tribulations!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, queer cinema
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Amazon Jail (1985)
Plot Summary:
Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves. Some of the women escape, but are pursued into the jungle by their captors. The women must band together to turn the tables on their kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, tense, suspense, sensual
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Chain Gang Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
A shackled murderer (Michael Stearns) and marijuana offender (Robert Lott) escape from a Georgia chain gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious, independent film, campy, cult film
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To the Limit (1995)
Plot Summary:
Colette is an attractive ex-CIA agent seeking revenge against a ruthless villan and his organization of trained assasins for the murder of her husband while the man is also after mobster Frank Di Vinci for his own personal reasons. It isn't long before the paths of both Colette and Frank meet whom they share the same vendetta against the same man and they reluctnaly try to co-operate with each other to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Avenging Angel (1985)
Plot Summary:
Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed observation by brutal gangsters, she returns downtown to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic, detective
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Edge of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being stabbed in the heart by ruthless home invaders, a man is left for dead. Now weak, outnumbered, and knife sticking from his chest, he attempts to do the impossible: save his wife from these murderers before he bleeds to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, brutal, suspense, psychological, psychotronic
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Total western (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, witty, cynical, spaghetti western
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Leak 2000 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend turned gangster. The childhood friend turns informant. But his revelations are hardly the most important "leaks" in the story. In fact, the new relationship between old friends goes all wrong, and the young policeman becomes increasingly involved in a deadly web of lies, crimes, treason, and revenge, all seemingly out of control.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, serious, realistic
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Cha cha cha (2013)
Plot Summary:
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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The Assignment (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, intense, crime drama, anamorphic, cult classic
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The Enforcer (1976)
Plot Summary:
Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, detective, retro, sexy, grindhouse, crime drama, perverse, action thriller, mind blowing
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SuperFly (2018)
Plot Summary:
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, hood, captivating, disturbing, exciting, tense, erotic, retro, surprise ending, neo noir
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Hitman (2007)
Plot Summary:
The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, fast paced, suspenseful, breathtaking, bloody, realistic, emotional