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Plot Summary:
Hassanein is a poor illiterate man who leaves his village and moves to the city to live with his maternal uncle and his family. However, he fails to keep a job and has no choice but to return to his hometown, and while he is sleeping in a mosque, a strange man named Khalil takes him to a shelter where there is food and drink for the homeless. Hassanein discovers that he is staying with a gang that forces poor people to beg in the streets after they are maimed for life. As the gang members try to cut off Hassanein's leg, their boss Joma uses him to pretend that he is a blind beggar who can collect more money. He then meets Aida who thinks he is an investor and soon fall in love with each other. How will Hassanein get out of this mess without putting himself in danger from the gang's wrath?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
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The Danish Experiment (2003)
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Qadry Al-Minyawi is a widowed husband and a father of four adult sons Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Abdulrahman and Hussien. When he is later appointed as the new minister of youth and sports, his old friend asks him to host his Danish sister-in-law Anita who is studying for her P.Hd. and visiting Egypt for the first time. Qadry feels concerned about Anita's presence and how her attractiveness and sex appeal drive all men crazy especially his sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 109 min
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Shaaban Taht El-Sifr (1980)
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Shaaban Taht El-Sifr.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
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Terrorism and Kebab (1992)
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A man named Ahmed tries unsuccessfully for days to go the the government building to complete the necessary paperwork to transfer his child to another school. Repeatedly he is unable to see the employee he needs to meet with. In a scuffle that follows Ahmed obtains the weapons of the guards and accidentally takes hostages in the government building. All the other floors of the building evacuate, the army and Minister of the Interior are called; the government treats Ahmed as a terrorist. Ahmed and the hostages demand kebab from the government for lunch.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sad
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Live by the Fist (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Ala bab el wazir (1982)
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Kamal is a university student who is in love with Nora the daughter of a ruthless businessman who rejects him because he is poor and thus plots to keep him away from her. With the help of his friends they try to solve his problem especially after Kamal's father has been unjustly arrested for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
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Suspect (1981)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of an ex-burglar who is struggling to lead a normal life with his wife and little son. His elder brother pressures him to return to burglary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 125 min
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The Uppercrust (1981)
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This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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To the Last Limit (1991)
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An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him work for them. Being framed and hunted he should kill them all before he becomes a broken or a dead man.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
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Lolo (1993)
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Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
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Pyar Ka Devta (1990)
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Film starring Mithun Chakraborty and Madhuri Dixit.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
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Assembly Rowdy (1991)
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Film starring Annapoorna, Mohan Babu and Divya Bharti.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Seoul Vibe (2022)
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Chasing speed, dreams and money, a team of drivers get involved in the slush fund investigation of a powerful figure during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 138 min
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The King (2017)
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Born in a poor family, Tae-su learns that the power is the most important thing in life and decides to become a prosecutor, the biggest symbol of power in the 90’s. After entering the most prestigious law school, experiencing democratic resistance in Korea, Tae-su finally reaches his goal of becoming a prosecutor but his life is no better than a salary man. By chance, he joins a clique of the powerful prosecutors with wealth and authority. He finally gets a taste of a life of the top hierarchy, but as he enjoys the sweetness of supremacy, he also sees the cruel side of it.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: crime drama, action drama
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Esabat Hamada Wa Toto (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of the privatization of the Egyptian tourism industry, a couple suddenly find themselves from rags to riches...and then back again to rags.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Nutty Kickbox Cops (1990)
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King-sized martial arts hero Sammo Hung stars in this wild and wacky blend of action and comedy. Skinny (Karl Maka) and Fatty (Sammo Hung) are a pair of police detectives who soon find themselves on the outs with their boss when they accidentally make a mess of his wedding while chasing Tak, a big league drug trafficker. Skinny and Fatty are forced to leave their jobs, but while on holiday in Singapore, they forget their troubles when they both find love with beautiful women. However, Tak is convinced the former cops are still a threat, and when he abducts their girlfriends, Skinny and Fatty swing into action to rescue them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, detective, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Sleeping in Honey (1996)
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Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. he knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame. A young journalist tries to do her own investigation about that phenomenon too.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 177 min
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Paris Express (2010)
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From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, exciting, tense, entertaining, realistic, not serious, fast
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Dirty Ho (1979)
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Wang Chin-chin, who is both the 11th prince and an expert fighterm has fun secretly subverting a local con-man, the inept Ho Chi (Wong Yue), but blackmails the crook into becoming his student after making it look like a B-girl named Choi Hung (Kara Hui) has poisoned Ho and beaten him up in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action comedy
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Golden Years (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Santiago Violenta (2014)
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Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, retro, neo noir, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco
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Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
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Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic, independent film
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My Boss, My Hero (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of embarrassing incidents force a mobster to go back to high school to finally graduate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crime drama
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Brannigan (1975)
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Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both a price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: detective, black comedy, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy, dark comedy
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The Takedown (2022)
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Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a new investigation that takes them across France. What seemed to be a simple drug deal turns out to be a much bigger criminal case wrapped in danger and unexpected comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, action comedy, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, buddy comedy
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I Went Down (1997)
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Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, psychological, light, road movie
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Dabangg (2010)
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A troubled relationship with his younger half-brother and stepfather compels Chulbul Pandey to become a corrupt but fearless cop whose life changes when he locks horns with a corrupt political leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, stylized, masala, entertaining, fast, humorous, realistic, freeze frame
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Hassan and Marcus (2008)
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When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Theologian (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts them into a witness protection program that requires them to disguise themselves as the Christian Marcus and a Muslim Sheikh, Hassan el-Attar, respectively. When, unwittingly, they move into the same building, a friendship blossoms that must, along with a romance between the protagonists' children, withstand the difficulties of prejudice and social persecution.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Fool N Final (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021)
Plot Summary:
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark
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American Made (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan, Colombia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, black comedy, factual, humorous, captivating, emotional, inspirational, slasher, scenic, stylized