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Plot Summary:
Three officers are assigned to go undercover and join a mission to capture Den Donovan.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Mafia Princess (1986)
Plot Summary:
Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Bella Bettien (2002)
Plot Summary:
The gripping story of the Dutch Bettien Martens, based on true facts. After making an incredible career in the international narcotics world during 1984-1992, Bettien was arrested at Piazza Navona in Rome as one of the targets of the International Police Operation "Green Ice". Bettien decided to cooperate with the police and because of her testimonies, many precious arrests were made. As of then, Bettien became a "Pentita" and now is a guest of the "Witness Protection Program".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful
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The Mayor of Rione Sanità (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mario Martone brings Eduardo De Filippo’s play Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità to the big screen, a story the director sets in the present day, using the text as an opportunity to continue to investigate reality. The protagonist, Antonio Barracano, is a “man of honour” who distinguishes between “decent people and scoundrels”; around him flourishes a fierce, ambiguous and pained humanity, where good and evil confront each other in every character, where the two cities people always speak about in Naples (the legal and the criminal) clash in an encounter neither can win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, modern day adaptation
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Perfect High (2015)
Plot Summary:
Star high school dancer Amanda's life spirals out of control when she starts abusing painkillers with her new friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, dark
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Òlòtūré (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship with Blessing, Linda and Beauty, the prostitutes she lives with. However, she gets drawn into their lifestyle and finds it difficult to cope. In her quest to uncover the truth, she pays the ultimate price - one that takes her to the verge of no return.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Badge of Honor (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Come Into the Light (2005)
Plot Summary:
A priest (Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children by providing them with a place to play and learn and then works on their parents. The church slowly becomes the focal point of the community and rapidly ends up full with standing room only. But.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, factual
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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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Ferry (2021)
Plot Summary:
Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, powerful
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Don't Be Bad (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic, hood
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Collar (2015)
Plot Summary:
Timothy James 'TJ' Williams (David Wilson) is a streetwise detective whose checkered career, family life and long standing friendship with the would-be mayor, police chief Hamilton Markham (Tom Sizemore), spins out of control and teeters on the brink of catastrophe as a result of a bust gone bad. While his life begins to crumble, his fast fading future is bartered for political gain by his former best friend and boss, a mayor with her eye on a Senate seat (Rebecca De Mornay) and an ambitious, activist 'man-of-the-cloth,' the Rev. Alonso Sparks (Richard Roundtree). The political machinery, geared to grind up Williams as a bad cop, has a wrench tossed into the works by the detective, who with the help of his partner, Angel Santangelo (Jaime Santana), gets back on the job to reclaim his reputation and his dignity in spite of their worst efforts.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Clean Hands (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Corrupted (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Drug King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Dark Figure of Crime (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hyeong-min, a prominent police detective, and Tae-oh, a killer who has confessed to multiple murders, maintain a fierce psychological confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, twisted, detective
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The Preppie Connection (2015)
Plot Summary:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense
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The Ministers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, detective
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Abusing Protocol (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his brother (Tommy), RJ moves in with Gang Leader (Cane) and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a world of abuse and drugs. Local businessman (Dave) is watching the things he loves disappear in front of his very eyes. What happens when these two people, with nothing to lose, abuse protocol?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Runner (2021)
Plot Summary:
After being busted for drug possession, Aiden, a troubled teenager, is forced by the cops to go undercover and risk his life to bring down a dangerous drug kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Not With His Wife (2016)
Plot Summary:
Forensic accountant Monica Bolland tracks down white-collar criminals, but when her husband Josh, an undercover agent for the FBI, is killed, she goes undercover herself to find his murderer. She gets a bookkeeping job with a criminal cartel but her cover is blown just as she discovers the devastating truth about her husband and the forces that brought him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Fatal Blade (2000)
Plot Summary:
East meets West as the Japanese Yakuza battle drug lords and the LAPD in the streets of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011)
Plot Summary:
It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Yardie (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, inspirational, hood, powerful
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Down Terrace (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, dark comedy, captivating, psychological, suspense, neo noir, dark, hood, rough, humorous
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mob Town (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming expansion plans. Their plans are foiled when local police trooper Ed Croswell discovers their activities and, consequently, exposes the mob to the American public. Croswell’s actions shed light on the massive web of corruption and changed the face of law enforcement forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 970
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Rise of the Krays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers who quickly fought their way to becoming the most feared and respected villains in all of London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, we see them rise to infamy through drugs, sex and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2017)
Plot Summary:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing