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Plot Summary:
A policeman on the skids faces another tragedy when his daughter dies. When other police in his unit are being murdered, the viewer must decide which one of the suspects is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, twisted
Best tv shows and movies like Someone to Die For (1995):
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The Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his soul enters into the body of a young officer to seek revenge for his murder. However, when the spirit takes over, the officer is unaware of what is going on and most think he is in need of a psychiatrist, including the wife of the fallen cop.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dead End (1998)
Plot Summary:
After his ex-wife dies in a fall from her balcony, PoliceSgt. Henry Smovinsky gets custody of his troubled teenage son. Smovinsky soon finds out that his ex-wife was a high-class hooker, her death was not a suicide and that the police have chosen him as their prime suspect. Maggie Furness is the only cop willing to help him protect his son and track down the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Bravo (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mexico's new president vows to attack the drug trade; in retaliation, his wife has already been assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Deceptions II: Edge of Deception (1994)
Plot Summary:
Since the death of his colleague, which was partly his fault, Lieutenant Nick Gentry lives a lonesome life. Reporter Joan wants to write a story about him, and seems to be interested in other ways too, but he rejects. Instead he falls in love with his new neighbor Irene and witnesses how she's repeatedly beaten up by her husband Allan. One day, when Allan threatens her with a gun, he shoots him. Certainly self-defense -- until it turns out, that Alan's gun was made inoperable.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Angry (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Realtor Sandra visits a foreclosed property with her client, the former owner Danny attacks them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, China, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Pale Blue Balloons (2008)
Plot Summary:
Dave is a bad cop fighting a deadly heroin addiction while working a case deep inside the mafia. After killing numerous drug dealers and even undercover police officers for the mob, he is kept from his money for trivial reasons. As his drug problem gets worse, and Dave sinks deeper into a murderous lifestyle, he runs from the city to live with an old friend. But Dave can't hide for long, and he is soon lured back to town in a dangerous war to get his money back from the men that wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Someone to Carry Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dan Webster lives a privileged life where everything is carefully managed for him. He dreams of becoming a professional musician in spite of his fathers intentions. His pampered world is shattered when he witnesses a brutal murder and is forced to run. Hunted by those he once trusted he is propelled into a world that is alien to him. He takes refuge in a small town where his only plan is to survive and his only friend is out of reach. Alone and with no one to look after him, Dan reaches out to Michael for strength and Angelica for love, inadvertently placing them in peril. Dan has underestimated the ruthlessness of his enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, fairy tale, independent film
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Tin God (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ethan is a young man searching for meaning in life and he thinks he has found what he is looking for in the new girl, Sasha. But Sasha has a dark side that will be his undoing.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse, cult classic, psychotronic, cult film
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American Rampage (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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The Duelist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, tense, captivating, suspense, art house, exciting, suspenseful, rough, disturbing
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Shooting Heroin (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, independent film
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The Son of No One (2011)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. These letters bring back bad memories and old secrets that begin to threaten his career and break up his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, rough, realistic, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, independent film
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Stag (1997)
Plot Summary:
Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when some of the men accidentally killed one of the strippers, they are left to face the consequences of their action.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, tense, light, sexy
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7 Colombian Kilos (2007)
Plot Summary:
The brutal story of betrayal between two partners in the violent business of supplying drugs to Chicago's West Side. Greed and mistrust tear apart their childhood-long friendship.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Lucifer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, surprise ending
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Devil Face, Angel Heart (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lon is an assassin who is deformed. The only man he can trust is his brother, Kwan. When Lon kills a police officer, the officer's partner tries to go after him, but lets him go after seeing his face. Meanwhile, Lon falls for Wendy, the girlfriend of Lon's sadistic boss, Dragon. When Lon agrees to kill Dragon for Wendy, it's a setup. After the kill, Lon is hit by a car and plunges into the river. A year passes by. A new man named Michael arrives, working for Wendy. Meanwhile, the partner of the cop Lon killed is still on the case. He notices a resemblance of the new man to Lon. Is Michael the same person as Lon? If so, what is the motive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, erotic, heroic
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211 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history, Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly-trained and heavily-armed men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful
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Diplomatic Immunity (1991)
Plot Summary:
A military career man, distraught over the murder of his daughter and the subsequent release of her killer who is protected by 'diplomatic immunity,' resigns from the service to pursue the psychopath. No one will help him - and no one can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
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The Sweeper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young renegade undercover cop with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader who wants only to kill all criminals and those associated with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, detective
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Sword of Honor (1996)
Plot Summary:
Officer Johnny Lee sets out to avenge his partner's mysterious death. With the help of his partner's sister and an ancient sword, Lee becomes a one man deadly strike force. Stars Steven Vincent Leigh, Sophia Crawford.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, detective
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Protector (1998)
Plot Summary:
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was about to turn states evidence. The killing came as the mobster was with his girlfriend Alma. Jack suspects Alma of being involved - even more so when he finds her involved with one of the mob family, Michael. However he begins to fall for her himself and finds himself involved in the deadly game where not everything is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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American Heist (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending, suspense, thrilling, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir
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Death Wish II (1982)
Plot Summary:
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: detective, cult classic, neo noir, grindhouse, spooky, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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The Specialist (1994)
Plot Summary:
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, stylized, erotic, neo noir, exciting, enigmatic
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Outlaw (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark, grindhouse, hood, crime drama, bleak, surprise ending
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Night Hunter (2018)
Plot Summary:
A police task force traps an online predator, only to discover that the depth of his crimes goes far beyond anything they had anticipated.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, tense, bleak, surprise ending, gothic, neo noir, independent film, detective
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Semper Fi (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Point Men (2001)
Plot Summary:
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Chaos (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two cops, a rookie and a grizzled vet, pursue an accomplished bank robber.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, surprise ending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, tense, action adventure, talky