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Plot Summary:
Two brothers — one a narcotics agent and the other a general — finally discover the identity of the drug lord who murdered their parents decades ago. They may kill each other before capturing the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa, Angola
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Turning Point 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Laughing is judged guilty of murdering gang lord Michael So and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Locked up behind bars, he meets the seemingly benign inmate Fok Tin Yam, a university professor in criminal psychology who is jailed for drug possession. Highly intelligent and manipulative, Fok reveals the power of his mind games by effortlessly subduing the violent prison bully. He also deduces that Laughing is sent to the prison on an undercover mission to find out the rogue cops within the police force. The clues lead him to inmate Chit, a former sergeant from the Narcotics Bureau who has been suffering from a mental disorder. To unlock the critical information from the deranged man, Laughing must get the help of Fok, but this enigmatic figure has an agenda of his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ipseity (2013)
Plot Summary:
After losing his memory in a traumatic accident, a government agent, Ian Tesh, must reconnect with his family and track down a criminal who is infiltrating the government intelligence agency.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Krack (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pothuraju Veera Shankar is a hot-headed circle inspector from Andhra who doesn’t like to hear the word ‘background’. Wherever he is appointed in the state, he brings all the notorious gundas to their knees with his signature policing style. When Shankar is appointed in Ongole, the brutal Katari commits a spine-chilling murder and angers Shankar. How the rivalry between Pothuraju Veera Shankar and Katari turns worse is what Krack is all about.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Profesional (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in London in a time when being a contract killer is a legal profession, a camera crew film the reclusive, enigmatic hit man, Eli Shepard, as he undertakes one hit. The deeper both they and the audience delve into Eli's callous and brutal world, the darker things become; as we encounter dangerous psychopaths, surreal relationships and extraordinary characters. The Profesional, misspelt in connection to its themes of mistakes and the flaws that define us, is an ambitious and innovative zero budget feature film, made for no more than the price of a weeks shopping, that isn't afraid to investigate the most important question of all: in an increasingly detached, apathetic society... how do you feel?.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, visually appealing
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Vinaya Vidheya Rama (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ram is one among the five orphaned boys in Visakhapatnam, adopted by a doctor who ensures them a roof to live under, with dignity. Ram goes to any extent to protect his family and he's a handful for the baddie to handle in a time of crisis. How does Ram protect his family when they need him the most?.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
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For the Emperor (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yi-Hwan is a former professional baseball player. He was involved in fixing games and lost everything. Gang boss Sang-Ha runs a money lending business and a gambling location. He makes Yi-Hwan work for him. Meanwhile, Yi-Hwan falls for bar owner Yeon-Soo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, erotic, sexy, dark
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Rhino (2012)
Plot Summary:
An NFL veteran who's become a college-town drug kingpin takes in a protégé, but eventually the relationship turns volatile and deadly.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Cartel War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the king pin who devastated their families. Based on the true story of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Cartel War is an action-packed journey into an all-too-real violent underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, independent film
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Narx (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, independent film
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Gatao: The Last Stray (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Qing encounters the photographer Xiao Qi at the full moon banquet of the daughter of the big brother Ren Ge at the corner of the Beiguan. They fall in love with each other. But, sadly, they aren't able to stay together at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gatao 2: Rise of the King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ren has finally succeeded his boss as the head of the North Fort Gang. For so long, his ambitions had been held back; now, he can realize them. But the ruthless Jian returns with his own gang. Though Ren and Jian were once like brothers, Ren's position is challenged, causing tensions with Qing, his loyal captain. Now that former friends are enemies, what is the price of loyalty? What will be left of friendship when the smoke of battle clears?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Kuruthi Kalam (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two rival gangs with a history of violence rule the roost in Chennai. An upright youngster, Vijay, is pulled into their never-ending power play and has to give up his hopes of becoming a police officer when he resorts to violence.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family, to try to kill his wife, could be the biggest mistake the organization has done. GSI closes up around Johan's family, and the final battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Thalaivaa (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mafia don sends his son out of the country because he doesn't want even a shadow of his life falling on him. Destiny wills otherwise. The son makes an innocuous trip to Mumbai to visit his dad. And ends up filling his father's large shoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Day Hollywood Died (2012)
Plot Summary:
He just woke up. He's in a hospital. He can't move. He can't remember who he is. Memories begin to flood back to him as he regains consciousness. He was part of a heist gone wrong. One of a crew of six asked to steal a briefcase from a secret vault. But that's all he can remember. He will combat the drugs and the pain and the solitude in a desperate effort to remember what happened to him and why. But once he finally reaches the end of his quest for answers he will wish he never began.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending, independent film
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Tiger House (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young gymnast battles a group of bank robbers at the home of her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Hannah's Law (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hannah keeps the law in "the wickedest city on earth:" Dodge City, Kansas. with the help of young Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Stagecoach Mary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Hatton Garden: The Heist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Following the lead up to one of the biggest robberies of the century, Hatton Garden The Heist watches the journey of Brian Reader, John Collins, Terry Perkins, Daniel Jones and the mysterious Basil throughout the audacious heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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The Conquest Of Siberia (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story is set at the times of Peter the Great’s reforms. At those times when an emerging empire was wreaking havoc on provincial medievalism. The times were the melting pot of everything – of beliefs and of nations. The history of Russian Asia was made by captive Swedes, outlanders, Bokharan merchants, civil servants and officers, convicts, architects and chroniclers, Chinese smugglers, shamans and escaped dissenters, Orthodox missionaries and warlike steppe-dwellers Jungars.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
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Black King (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film about peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Pistolera (2020)
Plot Summary:
When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of revenge and its cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tainted (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con with ties to the Russian mob and Aryan brotherhood yearns to escape his past life of violence but ultimately decides to undertake one last assignment to escape the Russian mob and earn his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, contemplative
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Once Upon a Time in Rostov (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story about the activity in Rostov of the gang of "phantasms" that robbed state institutions and kept the entire city in fear. Vyacheslav Tolstopyatov, having witnessed the brutal execution of protesters in Novocherkassk in June 1962, completely rethinks his life and attitude towards the state and the authorities as such. Being a man of genius, he and his brother organized a gang that, from 1968-1973, keeps the whole city in fear.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
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Toro (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, resulting one of his brothers dead and he sent to jail. Five years later, Romano realizes that López, Toro's older brother, is robbing him money from his tourism business and he orders to kidnap Diana, López's little daughter, until this one get back the money. Without options, López visits Toro, now a touristic driver with the third grade prison close to get the parole, who only wants to be free to marry his girlfriend Estrella. When Toro accepts to help López and both meet Romano looking for a solution, Toro ends attacking Romano's men and fleeing with Diana, trying to escape from Romano's revenge. But Romano starts a ruthless searching for they three, meanwhile Toro counts the hours to back the prison according to the third grade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, hood, perverse, noir
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Chekka Chivantha Vaanam (2018)
Plot Summary:
A bloody power struggle erupts between three brothers who are vying to take over the family business following the death of their father.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Pericle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Black Luck (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hitman in hiding struggles to keep his monsters at bay when his dark past comes calling. Some days your LUCK just goes BLACK.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bloody, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Blood out of Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Boost (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Jimmy finds a mysterious package in the trunk of his latest boost, he is thrust into a violent underworld of criminals, and a race against the clock to save a little girl's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action adventure
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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