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Plot Summary:
A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, hood, terrifying, independent film, scary, tense, rough, bleak, serious
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Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Plot Summary:
Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, bloody, disturbing, controversial, art house, hood, cult classic, cult horror, action adventure, indie film
Similar in 81%
Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in the fictional country of Heaven Valley, the film is the story of a man, Adam, who following the suspicious death of his wife begins to investigate her murder and in doing so, discovers the involvement of local mafia boss: Denny Richards. Unable to trust the police, corrupt and controlled by Denny, Adam, consumed by anger, summons a demon who offers him superhuman strength and dark powers. The demon follows him during his trip, promising to lead Adam to the door of the murderer if he does everything the demon asks. This unleashes a bloody war that will bring Adam, the demon on his side, against the police department with all its dark allies. The fight begins and it will be extreme!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, USA, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious, slasher, bloody, suspense, controversial, grindhouse
Similar in 88%
The Thrill Killers (1964)
Plot Summary:
Three psychotic murderers escape from a mental institution and stalk women in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, independent film, scary, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Run and Kill (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man (Fatty) returns home to find his wife with another man. He goes to a bar and begins to drink, waking up the next day to find that he owes a mafioso money for killing his wife. Not wanting to pay the money, he enlists a malitia organization only to find the leader a psychopath who seeks revenge on his brother, who the mafioso tortured. The psycho blames Fatty, and kills his mother and young daughter. Fatty must kill the psycho to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: controversial, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, banned film
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Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, christian film, christmas horror, classic horror, psychological thriller, bloody, dark, cult classic, spooky, independent film
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Enemy Territory (1987)
Plot Summary:
An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, hood, independent film
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The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
Plot Summary:
When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams). An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary. Karl signs on as a new substitute teacher in order to investigate Randall's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
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Born to Raise Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and the Russians, leaving one task force member dead. Fueled with vengeance, he leads us on an action packed thrill ride while avenging his friend's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, suspense, hood, realistic, fast
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Neighbor (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious new girl arrives in posh suburban neighborhood and quickly sets out to terrorize the town. As she starts breaking into homes and torturing the occupants, they begin to realize that she isn't just another girl next door.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, rough, serious, brutal, bloody, slasher, scary, realistic, grindhouse
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The Cohasset Snuff Film (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, the small town of Cohasset, Massachusetts was rocked with tragedy. A 17-year-old high school senior named Collin Mason murdered three classmates. All the murders were videotaped and uploaded to the Internet via bit torrent sites and for three days, the world viewed the murders of these three innocent teens. Through legal action, the parents of the victims were able to remove all footage from the Internet and the town tried to save face by pretending it never happened. Bootleg copies of this footage are still passed around and downloaded through illegal means. The impact of this video is still being felt in Cohasset today. The video has become infamous, and is now referred to as The Cohasset Snuff Film.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary, serious
Similar in 78%
Axe (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of three criminals on the run from the law, go about terrorizing the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an isolated farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, psychological, controversial, southern gothic, cult classic, terrifying, independent film, scary
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Sick Girl (2007)
Plot Summary:
Izzy is raising her younger brother, Kevin, by herself. Their parents are deceased and her older brother, Rusty, is away in the Marines. When Izzy learns that her little brother is being bullied at school, she does what any unstable, psychopathic, homicidal sister would do.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: disturbing, scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher, erotic, bloody, suspense
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Urban Menace (1999)
Plot Summary:
An insane preacher seeks retribution from the local crime syndicate for the violent death of his family and the burning of his church in a horrendous ghetto crime spree.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, hood, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
Plot Summary:
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, bloody, disturbing, dark comedy, splatter, cult classic, stylized, horror comedy, brutal, futuristic
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The House by the Lake (1976)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, scary, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Borderland (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, bleak, suspenseful, rough, brutal, psychological thriller, slasher, splatter
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Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985)
Plot Summary:
After being arrested, a Texas man begins confessing to the brutal murder of over 200 women. He recounts his random selection of victims and his traveling companions, his friend and friend's sister. But the police can't be sure whether to believe him or not until he locates a body and shows them some polaroids. Based on the true story of Henry Lee Lucas.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, controversial, psychological, detective, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, bleak, serious
Similar in 84%
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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Death Sentence (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, harsh, rough, neo noir, grindhouse, action packed, stylized
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Snitch'd (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but nobody is talking. And as McClure continues to dig for answers, it becomes clear that the two gangs are fighting for territory - and nobody is getting in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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State Property (2002)
Plot Summary:
Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic
Similar in 81%
Corrupt (1999)
Plot Summary:
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ride of action!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: hood, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Plot Summary:
Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and the police enter the apartment and find Paul standing over Charley's body. Paul is arrested for the murder, but police chief Richard S. Shriker is like Paul.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, neo noir, hood, perverse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Exterminator (1980)
Plot Summary:
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, brutal, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, retro
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Street Fighters (1982)
Plot Summary:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, Eddie goes berserk and vows revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, psychotronic, hood, grim, action adventure, independent film, rough, bleak, serious
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Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Plot Summary:
Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Nightstalker (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Ramirez, dubbed "The Night Stalker" by the media, a serial killer who killed somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 souls during his reign of terror in Los Angeles back in the Eighties.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, slasher
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Maniac (1980)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial, bloody, psychological, frightening, brutal
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
Plot Summary:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, slasher, scary, grindhouse, sadistic, bleak, psychological, creepy, cult classic, bloody
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Death Wish (1974)
Plot Summary:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: controversial, disturbing, tense, grindhouse, intense, cult classic, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir