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Plot Summary:
Thanks to a tip from teenager Matt, who survives on the streets as a graffiti artist, policeman Ray is able to arrest Sergei, a diamond smuggler. In return, Matt gets Jules Daniels's file, his biological mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Checkmate (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the streets of New York City, a drug war is brewing between bikers and the local drug dealers. A group of corrupt cops have taken the lead on the investigation while trying to set up an honest detective to take the heat. In this dangerous game only one honorable man can stop the war before he's killed by the dishonest cops who betrayed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Suspect (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Maracaibo (2017)
Plot Summary:
The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a desperate attempt to understand his guilt: a tortuous guilt that provokes a deep sense of revenge. You need to find the person responsible for that crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Cruel Instruction (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of 16-year-old Kayla Adams, whose mother, Karen is advised by the school’s counselor to send Kayla to get treatment at a youth residential treatment center after she gets expelled from school. Kayla arrives at the Utah facility on the same day as her roommate Amanda, a treatment program veteran who knows exactly what the girls were in for. Led by headmistress Miss Connie, the staff uses draconian methods including force-feeding medications, arbitrary punishments, solitary confinement, verbal and physical abuse to keep the students in line. After being pushed to their limits and stripped of their lifelines, including any ability to freely communicate with the outside world, the two young women must band together to survive and fight to expose the abuse before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Price of Love (1995)
Plot Summary:
16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet another fight he leaves home. He meets two guys and a girl who are drifting around. He feels attracted to Roxanne and they decide to continue together to LA. Unfortunately Roxanne gets busted by the police, so Bret is on his own again. In LA he meets some nice guys who offer him lodging. However they are involved with (male) prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Runaway Dreams (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young girl runs away and is forced to become a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Torn: Dark Bullets (2020)
Plot Summary:
A raw and unapologetic look into a police shooting, racism, and the connections they share.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Incident in an Alley (1962)
Plot Summary:
A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14 year old boy, but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all. A stolen clarinet gives him a lead in his desperate hunt for the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Forger (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, touching, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film, crime thriller
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Wildflower (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a college student starts having a reoccurring nightmare, she begins to believe that it's a suppressed memory. Her search to find the answers forces her to confront her past traumas, while at the same time, helps her unlock a mystery that may bring a killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, christian film
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The Crimes That Bind (2020)
Plot Summary:
When her son is accused of raping and trying to murder his ex-wife, Alicia embarks on a journey that will change her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: witty, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, talky, humorous, semi serious, clever, twist ending, crime thriller
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Limbo (2021)
Plot Summary:
Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: surreal, crime drama, creepy
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The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman is miserable in the narrow-minded town she is living, while Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, biblical
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Sitting in Limbo (1986)
Plot Summary:
The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in his plans, but he becomes a very good provider. The responsibilities of parenthood, alas, irreparably damage the boy-girl relationship. Filmed in a quasidocumentary manner, Sitting in Limbo seems predestined to win film festival awards--as indeed it has.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pendulum (1969)
Plot Summary:
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Monster (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, anamorphic
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Perfect Sisters (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, scary, psychological thriller, intellectual, dark, mysterious, grindhouse
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Les Misérables (2019)
Plot Summary:
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers the tensions among the different neighbourhood gangs. As they find themselves overwhelmed during an interrogation, a drone films every one of their movements.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, suspense, art house, crime thriller, psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, social
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Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Plot Summary:
A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids, who nevertheless prefer this harsh life to going back to their families. King, somewhat older, provides some leadership the kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, rough, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Padre (2018)
Plot Summary:
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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No Good Deed (2002)
Plot Summary:
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, neo noir, suspense, talky, stylized, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense
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Billy Boy (2017)
Plot Summary:
When an angry teenager discovers a close friend has been killed, grief jeopardizes his future and he finds himself engulfed in danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, non-linear, crying
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Stand Off (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of elite female bank robbers are thrown into a Mexican stand off when they discover that someone on their team might be a snitch for the cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Reverse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex and Marcos are two brothers who have separated one from another since three years ago, due to a play that they have practiced from their childhood. In the last time they played Alex suffered an accident and he was in coma for three weeks. In the next night after the death of Alex's father-in-law, this one calls Marcos looking for revenge, ready to play one more time wanting win over Marcos by first time at any cost. While they travel in car along the city testing to each other more dangerously with every new challenge, Marta, Alex's wife, find a secret hidden in a Marcos' photo, starting an investigation about her husband and her brother-in-law. But will Marta discover the secret at time to stop Alex and Marcos before it be too much late for both?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Deadly Influencer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman commits murder to keep her classmates' social media careers under her thumb. After killing a popular friend, she turns her sights on a new girl, but the girl's mother suspects the truth and will fight to protect her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shoplifters (2018)
Plot Summary:
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them….
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexual, art house, thought provoking, art film, rough, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate
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Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Joely Richardson plays a con artist who changes identities faster than most women change hair color. Going on the lam with her daughter (Hayden Panettiere), she scams her way into a prosperous marriage and, when that union sours, pulls off a murder scheme that may be her very last con.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating, dark, serious, ridiculous
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Stolen Innocence (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stacy, a rebellious teenager, leaves home for the freedom and adventure of life on the road away from her parents. Afraid and alone, she is befriended by Richard, a handsome ex-con traveling across the country on a crime spree. Her short lived joy soon turns to terror.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Strike One (2014)
Plot Summary:
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, bleak, social, disturbing, crying, islamic, realistic, masterpiece