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Plot Summary:
A small, wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets, lies, and the theft that orchestrates all of it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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The Upper Footage (2013)
Plot Summary:
'THE UPPER FOOTAGE' is the first film experience of its kind. The film is an edited version of 393 minutes of recovered footage documenting a young girl's tragic overdose death and subsequent cover up by a group of affluent socialites. What started as a blackmail plot played out over YouTube, became Hollywood's biggest drug scandal, turned into a heavily controversial film property that was rumored to be held by some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Now, after playing itself out in the media for 3 years it is finally making its way to the public.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, mockumentary, fake documentary
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3 Holes and a Smoking Gun (2014)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, detective, visually appealing, cult film
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Dream Lover (1986)
Plot Summary:
After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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American Bomber (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently released from military prison with a dishonorable discharge and a broken heart, John Hidell decides to travel to New York City. However his preparations are complicated by an unexpected relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Detective (1968)
Plot Summary:
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, retro, crime drama, twisted, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
Plot Summary:
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: detective
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Miami Hustle (1996)
Plot Summary:
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Risk (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran insurance investigator who succumbs to temptation and veers towards the wrong side of the law. With the help of novice con man Ben (Tom Long), John hatches a scheme to substantiate false claims by taking a percentage of several questionable claims his firm has settled for a fraction of their usual worth. John and Ben are assisted in their illegal business by Louise (Claudia Karvan), a lawyer with a cocaine problem who is also John's lover. But when Louise becomes involved with Ben and demands a bigger share of the money, their already-shaky confidence game begins to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, suspense, neo noir
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One Eyed King (2001)
Plot Summary:
Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Lying and Stealing (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con woman to pull off the ultimate heist and set himself free.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: entertaining, captivating, tense, surprise ending, humorous
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Five Corners (1987)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, talky, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, grindhouse, independent film, clever, psychological thriller
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Bullet Head (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, hood, perverse, crime thriller, interesting
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City of Ghosts (2002)
Plot Summary:
A con man travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in an insurance scam, but discovers more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: intense, stylized, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, crying, light
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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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Towards Darkness (2007)
Plot Summary:
Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Pride and Glory (2008)
Plot Summary:
A saga centered on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, intense, detective, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, dark, psychological
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Good Time (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 136000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film, brutal, captivating, retro, suspenseful, hood, crime thriller, psychological
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Billy Bathgate (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, light, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Uncut Gems (2019)
Plot Summary:
Howard Ratner, a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score, makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, suspense, independent film, dark comedy, uplifting, black comedy, crime thriller, tragic ending, psychological thriller
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Hacker (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alex, an immigrant from Ukraine comes to Canada and becomes involved with an online criminal organization called Darkweb. What starts off as a way to help his parents financially, soon becomes a personal vendetta against the entire banking system, when his mother is fired from her job at the bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, realistic, entertaining
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Empire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, melancholic, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense, realistic
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Cop Land (1997)
Plot Summary:
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, neo noir, talky, intense, realistic, serious, suspense, crime thriller, detective, sexy
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Panic Room (2002)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 293000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, psychological thriller, stylized, psychological, tricky, suspense thriller, scary
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The Drop (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspense, cerebral, clever, atmospheric, tricky, crime thriller
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
Plot Summary:
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, clever, exciting, surprise ending, psychological thriller, captivating, serious, psychological
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Jackie Brown (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 367000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, serious, tense, talky, cult classic, dark comedy, rough, suspenseful, bloody
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, psychological, depressing, bleak, non-linear, emotional, serious
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Marathon Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense, serious, disturbing, dark, political thriller, grim
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Hannibal (2001)
Plot Summary:
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, stylized, clever, rough, psychological thriller, serious, intense