Best movies like The Brute
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Plot Summary:
Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds shelter with photographer Mark and his girlfriend Carrie. They introduce Diana to Millie, who is in a similar situation. Meanwhile, Tim informs Diane that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their son, Timmy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Line (1972)
Plot Summary:
An American soldier sent to Vietnam goes AWOL and returns to his hometown. His parents turn him over to military authorities. He is court-martialled and sent to the toughest military prison in the US - the Army Stockade of the Presidio base near San Francisco. There he is subjected to horrendous treatment. He, along with others, spoke out about the treatment of prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Girl from Pussycat (1969)
Plot Summary:
A nihilistic look at mistreated women.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Bloody Child (1996)
Plot Summary:
This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Judy (1970)
Plot Summary:
A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks Fairchild's daughter Regina.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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The Sexy Killer (1976)
Plot Summary:
A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Designated Victim (1971)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy, decadent count convinces a disillusioned playboy that they shall murder one another's relatives, to get away with the perfect crime. The count murders the playboy's unpleasant wife. Now the playboy finds he cannot keep his end of the bargain, while the police finger him for the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, poliziottesco, psychological
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Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, poliziottesco
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The Awakening of Candra (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1975 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Dirty Weekend (1993)
Plot Summary:
Shortly after she moves into her own flat in Brighton, Bella finds she is being spied on and generally harassed by a man living across from her. Finally driven to solving the problem with a hammer, she realises she is then ready for a crusade against other such problem males.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, grim, independent film
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Traffic Department (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying, black comedy
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Strange Girl in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Holiday (2018)
Plot Summary:
A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: melancholic, serious, captivating, scenic, disturbing, psychological thriller, twisted, surprise ending, weird, hot
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West of Sunshine (2017)
Plot Summary:
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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The Collaborators (2015)
Plot Summary:
A tale of two art students who, after a horrific event, are forced to take off across country in a stolen taxi to evade the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, road movie
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School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
A gold digging man seduces a widow for her money, and also makes a pass at her teenage Daughter, the Daughter plans a terrible revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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44 Inch Chest (2009)
Plot Summary:
Provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone, 44 INCH CHEST explores the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, shattered by his wife’s (Joanne Whalley) infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, surreal, psychological, captivating, neo noir, twisted, rough
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In the Bedroom (2001)
Plot Summary:
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved in a love affair with a local single mother. As the beauty of Maine's brief and fleeting summer comes to an end, these characters find themselves in the midst of unimaginable tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, bleak, depressing, heartbreaking, suspense, emotional, suspenseful, independent film, sincere, serious
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Karla (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, controversial
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crime drama dircted by Anthony Page.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Performance (1970)
Plot Summary:
Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, sexy, cult classic, bleak, neo noir, psychological, serious
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The Child I Never Was (2002)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abused, tortured and killed four schoolboys in the Ruhr region of Germany from 1962 to 1966.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, art house, realistic, gloomy, crying
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The Enemy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: art house, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, black comedy, sexy, disturbing, mindfuck, visual, brutal
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A Vigilante (2018)
Plot Summary:
A once abused woman, Sadie, devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the husband she must kill to truly be free.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, psychological thriller, social, crime drama
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McVicar (1980)
Plot Summary:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, independent film, cult film
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Deadly Intentions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: spooky
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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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Adulthood (2008)
Plot Summary:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, cult classic, gloomy, bleak
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Scum (1979)
Plot Summary:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial, offbeat, depressing, art house, grindhouse, cult classic
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Girl in the Box (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hitchhiking woman is abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, dark, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful