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Plot Summary:
The Arrogant is a 1987 action-thriller directed, written, and produced by Philippe Blot. This film stars Gary Graham and Sylvia Kristel, Giovanni and Julie, as two strangers who meet on a desert highway. As they travel together, they encounter many strange situations that are often religious and/or sexual in nature. The uninhibited and arrogant Giovanni is usually the cause of most of these dilemmas they come across.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, erotic
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Pimp Bullies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five suspects holding a piece of the truth behind an unsolved crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, erotic, detective
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Out on Bail (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassin's Game (2015)
Plot Summary:
Legendary hitman Vet Jones never expected to accept another mission. But when his son fails to assassinate an important target, and a powerful crime boss gives Jones an ultimatum - finish the job or his son dies - Jones has no choice but to accept. After realizing the target is innocent, Jones tries to change his mission in order to protect the target - but can he save her life as well as the life of his son?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Dog Watch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner (Morales) and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, tense, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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Motorpsycho! (1965)
Plot Summary:
Three bad boy motorcyclists get kicks raping other people's women and generally being a nuisance. When they rape a veterinarian's wife, he takes exception and pursues them, teaming up with a Cajun woman whose husband they killed. The leader of the gang, a Vietnam Vet, begins showing signs of being a few slices short of a loaf.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Beatdown (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon soon gets involved in the local underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Drake Colby, a former MMA champion, Brandon devises a scheme to bring a massive payday, if they are able to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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The Box (2003)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him in prison. He meets a waitress who's also seen her share of trouble and they start up a tenuous relationship. Then there's a murder and things get complicated. It's noir so the plot isn't the main focus but the mood of the film is consistent and properly downbeat. The characters can't seem to shake the fate that hangs over them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Broken Horses (2015)
Plot Summary:
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, rough, tense, neo noir, neo western
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The Third Wave (2003)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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To Protect and Serve (1992)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hand Gun (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Facade (1999)
Plot Summary:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Bullet (2014)
Plot Summary:
Danny Trejo plays 'Bullet' a tough cop who takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, hood, crime drama
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Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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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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The Kill Reflex (1989)
Plot Summary:
Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from the police department, he vows to continue his mission to find the persons responsible for the assassination. Maud Adams plays his new police woman partner, who falls in love with him during their investigations. 'Soda Cracker' also has to deal with the fact that many of the police officers on the squad may be corrupt, and tries to break down the criminal network whilst finding evidence against Ivan Moss.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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Dirty Little Trick (2011)
Plot Summary:
After picking up a beautiful young hitch-hiker, Michael Anderson finds himself living in his worst possible nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, non-linear, independent film
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The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder (2012)
Plot Summary:
Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt between the two of them. During preparation at the castle Anna is the one to find Linda Hamrin unconscious from an overdose of medicine. Both Erica and Patrik are dragged into the case when only a day later a man, Hasse Wennerman, is killed and the rumors of an affair that led to Linda's overdose spiral up into a big conflict. The old painting, Hasse Wennerman brought to the antique show, is also missing and when it is found among Annas belongings, Erica gets a hard time trying to prove her sisters innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, stylized
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Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
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Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
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High Voltage (1998)
Plot Summary:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, independent film
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Butter (1998)
Plot Summary:
Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her cousin/manager for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the goods on the real killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Damned River (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead On (1994)
Plot Summary:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding well, he plans an elaborate scheme to kill Erin's husband. However all is not as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, creepy
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Kill Me Again (1989)
Plot Summary:
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, road movie, mind bending, offbeat, suspense thriller, twisted, independent film
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Electric Slide (2014)
Plot Summary:
A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a debonair sophistication and a serious talent for flirt, Dodson managed to lure money from mesmerized female tellers at over 60 banks during an epic spree in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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Night Eyes (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, independent film, sexual, erotic, hot