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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
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This Is Not Paradise (2000)
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Torino, febbraio 1996. Il furgone blindato (e scortato dalla polizia) delle Poste effettua il solito giro di ritiro sacchi-valori dagli uffici periferici. La mattina dopo, all'apertura dei plichi, la sorpresa : denaro ed assegni sono stati sostituiti da....ritagli di Topolino ! Chi è stato e quando, visto che il furgone è stato sempre guardato a vista ? Sembra il 'colpo perfetto' : senza armi, né sparatorie, né violenze. Iniziano le indagini e subito si scoprono i responsabili. Renato Sapienza, autista del furgone, ed il suo collega Walter Taranto sono spariti. Con un continuo andirivieni fra passato e presente il film ci descrive, attraverso le indagini del commissario Lucidi, la vita di Renato. Separato e con figlia a carico è perennemente insoddisfatto della propria alienante ed inutile giornata. Poeta dilettante, tira tardi ogni notte con l'amico sempre in cerca di una nuova conquista. Ed anche quando arriva l'amore, continua ad essere insoddisfatto e ad anelare un lontano '.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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No Pockets in a Shroud (1974)
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Michel Dolannes resigns from a major newspaper as a journalist to launch a new journal 'Le Cosmopolite' which reveals all kinds of shady deals.One day, he is killed but who is the killer?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
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Golden Night (1977)
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After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, psychotronic
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Riverhead (2016)
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A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ronde de nuit (1984)
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With the help of journalist Diane Castelain, Parisian police inspectors Leo Gorce and Gu Arenas are trying to solve the murder of a member of the French Parliament, but some dangerous powerful people try to make sure that doesn't happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Saudi Arabia, Aruba, Brazil
Duration: 95 min
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Cuore cattivo (1995)
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After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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Scoumoune (1972)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, suspense
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Mission 2016 (2017)
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When Sudi wins a lottery, he dreams of living a descent life off the streets but his dreams are shattered when his gang mate Jeff points his guns at him.
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Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Uganda
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Last Known Address (1970)
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Marceau Léonetti (Lino Ventura), a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne (Marlène Jobert). Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, crime drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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So Long, Stooge (1983)
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Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner named Rashid, comes to the station needing a spark plug for a stolen Moped. He and Lambert connect somehow, and a few days later, they go for a drink. The young man is too cavalier, and when he swipes Rashid's fancy motorcycle a couple of times, he's expendable. Lambert decides to avenge the young man and seeks information from Lola, a punk who knew Bensoussan. With surprising perseverance, she pierces Lambert's shell; he starts to feel again, tells Lola his story, and finds new enthusiasm for life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Dark Diamond (2016)
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Featuring menacing tracking shots; a cool, metallic color palette; surprising third-act reversals; and a terrific ensemble cast, Arthur Harari's first feature is a poised, stylish, and utterly assured revenge thriller in which, following his estranged father’s death, a man vows vengeance against his relatives who had abandoned him and returns to the family diamond business with an elaborate robbery in mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Devil's Dandruff (2022)
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When you grow up poor on the streets of London you have 2 choices. Stay poor or get Rich. We follow the True Story of the rise of a petty drug dealer to his eventual involvement in some of the most notorious and infamous real life Robberies and Gangland Executions and Drug Deals of recent times. Seduced by the underworld, glamour, girls, danger our hero is soon over his head and fighting for his life in a world filled with violence and where so many pay the ultimate price. The Devils Dandruff shows an unflinching look at the London underworld where crime does not pay and no one ends up a winner.
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Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
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City Under Siege (1974)
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A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Angel's Leap (1971)
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In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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And Then You Die (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Place Vendome (1998)
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The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, detective
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Les Misérables (2019)
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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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Partners: The Movie III (2014)
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A news report circulates about a man who died after being kicked by a horse on a small island located 300km away from Tokyo. National Police Agency director Takeru Kanbe assigns Vice Director Mineaki Kai the task of making sure rumors surrounding the incident are fully investigated. Soon, partners Ukyo Sugishita and Tooru Kai are dispatched to the island to conduct the investigation. When Ukyo and Tooru arrive on the island, which is privately owned by a wealthy businessman, they discover a unit of former Self-Defense Forces personnel who have set up a small community as they participate in training exercises. While Ukyo initially expected to be investigating an accidental death, he quickly becomes convinced it was actually murder. However, when they finally manage to uncover conclusive evidence of this, the soldiers attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Private Call (2001)
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In order to avenge the murder of an old friend, a recently suspended female police officer goes undercover at an illegal gambling den where the winning prize is a night with one of the female staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, sexploitation film
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Hunter: Return to Justice (2002)
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On enforced leave following a failed drug bust, LAPD Lieutenant Rick Hunter heads to San Diego, where he catches up with former partner Dee Dee McCall. But upon their reunion, Hunter and McCall become embroiled in a terrifying game of cat and mouse that has its roots in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Three (2002)
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The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, bleak, art house, thought provoking
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Pasha (1968)
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Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, microfilm
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The Third Nail (2007)
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A young man is sentenced to life in prison for killing two children, a crime he didn't commit. DNA evidence sets him free, but there is no hiding from the prison gang that wants him dead. When his own daughter is abducted and apparently murdered, he seeks revenge. How far will he go and is it ever too late for redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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From the Edge of the City (1998)
Plot Summary:
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, disgusting, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Money (1983)
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A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, depressing, neo noir, sad, contemplative, anthology, cynical, grim, aesthetic
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Hate (1995)
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Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. La Haine means Hate.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 191000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood, political, rough, captivating, neo noir, brutal
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Adanga Maru (2018)
Plot Summary:
A sincere cop, who's suspended from the department for locking horns with a few influential people in the society, starts taking revenge against those who finished off his dear ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Woman's Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of her mother, a thirty-something woman discovers she was conceived through rape and vows revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Point Blank (2010)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, intense, unusual plot structure, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, atmospheric