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Plot Summary:
Burgler and master safe-cracker Glimmie is asked to find a young woman called Fanny by her rich stepfather Van Borsen. However, Glimmie remains suspicious of the man and decides that Fanny has to be protected by him and his pal 'De Bonk'. He is soon proved correct and winds up a scapegoat in Van Borsen's scheme. After his release from prison, Glimmie plans his revenge with some help from a young cleaning girl called Slofje.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
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Murder Story (1989)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring young novelist Tony Zonis (Alexis Denisof) wants to write the next great suspense thriller, so he decides to study the work of master crime writer, Willard Hope (Christopher Lee). Together, they pick through random newspaper stories, looking for the unusual event that will make a good thriller. What they find is murder. A government cover-up... an international scandal... and the bodies are just beginning to fall into place. Now Tony isn't just writing the next best-seller... he's writing his own obituary.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Moord in extase (1984)
Plot Summary:
De Cock & Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective
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Indraprastham (1996)
Plot Summary:
Chitra Narayan, a political journalist with Observer Daily in Delhi, is in love with Kiran Verma, a budding actor. She intrudes into the illegal affairs of Paul B. Issac, a Delhi-based politician. Paul B. Issac commits a murder and gets actor Kiran's face morphed onto his body in the video, whereby he traps him for the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
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Real Time (2002)
Plot Summary:
A band of robbers steal money from a winery. The passion for a woman, makes them begin to covet another part of the booty that they deserve. First film shot in a single take in the history of cinema. Certified by Guinness World Records.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
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Flareup (1969)
Plot Summary:
A Las Vegas go-go dancer moves to Los Angeles to escape the psycho who has killed her partners.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Claim (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young ambitious claims assesor investigates a multi million dollar marine insurance fraud.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Argentina
Duration: 93 min
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Naakt over de Schutting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rick, who runs a pinball arcade, lets a room to Penny, a young teacher and karate fan. Penny gets to know Lilly, a singer who has just been hired with her friend Ed to act in a film. But Lilly soon discovers that the movie they are involved in is nothing else but a dirty one. In disgust, she runs away from the set. Shortly afterward, the owner of the film studio is found murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Cop vs. Killer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Enigmatic Dutch crime lord Mirko is always a step ahead of the national police team. When Mirko's gang are forced to kill Russian mob baron Jegor's cousin Oleg, the cops hope their time has come. Both sides resort to dirty tricks, testing loyalties and using the antagonists' daughters and independent pimp Aziz for blackmail, which makes several bloody victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, detective
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Sins of the Night (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jack Nietsche is a hardened ex-con who now works for an P.I. firm, run by Ted Quincy. Quincy's ex-lover is Roxie, now wife to godfather Tony Falcone. In a huge mix-up/double-cross, Roxie plots with Jack to get rid of Falcone and Quincy, one an abusive husband, the other a demented role playing ex-lover, and run away with Jack. But the double crossings don't end there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, neo noir, independent film
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Kidnapped in Paradise (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman (Joely Fisher) engages a down-on-his-luck sailor (David Beecroft) to help her find her sister (Charlotte Ross), who was kidnapped by modern day pirates.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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A Brother's Badge (2023)
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Detective Michael Glade, with the San Antonio police department, has wandered onto the dark side and has run afoul of the Mexican Mafia. He battles his family and feelings while riding his collision course to its ultimate outcome.
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Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
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Two Gentlemen 'N' (1962)
Plot Summary:
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. In the middle of the night somebody kills him. The Intelligence Agency begins investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: microfilm
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Hassel 09 - Botgörarna (1992)
Plot Summary:
Roland Hassel gets involved in a tangle of lies, betrayal and industrial espionage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
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Hassel 04 - Säkra papper (1989)
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A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is discovered that a large amount of counterfeit shares and bonds are in circulation. Hassel and his colleagues recognize that there are interests in the business community who are involved in the scandal, people who don't shy away from clearing away cumbersome barriers to safeguard their economic power.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Hassel 03 - Slavhandlarna (1989)
Plot Summary:
A criminal gang use illegal immigrants as labor on the black market.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
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The Bloody Hands of the Law (1973)
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When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Grijpstra & De Gier (1979)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Carbon (2017)
Plot Summary:
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, noir, crime drama
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Paris Countdown (2013)
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Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, serious, realistic
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The Art of Dying (1991)
Plot Summary:
A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, independent film, scary, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Borderline (2002)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls, whom he gets largely because Lila's job, being a psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison, is a potentially dangerous one that forces her to keep long, erratic hours. When one of Lila's patients, Ed Baikman, is released into a half-way house, he decides under the delusional influence of his psychosis to help her out by murdering her ex-husband and his girlfriend, and then threatening to tell the cops they'd planned it together when she refuses to become romantically involved with him. Though Lila's lover, police detective Macy Kobacek, stands by her loyally, Baikman does such an ingenious job of implicating Lila in the crime that even Macy begins to have his doubts about Lila's innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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Deep Trap (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man invites a young couple to vacation on a remote island to help reignite their faltering relationship. He initially seems to be a good host but the couple starts to suspect that his true intentions are much more sinister.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic
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The Underneath (1995)
Plot Summary:
Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas. To the mother who's starting a new life and the brother driven by old jealousies. To the places he remembers and the memories he can't forget. And to Rachel, the woman he married and then betrayed with his passion for gambling. Now she's together with Tommy Dundee, a man no one trifles with. He takes care of her in a way Michael never could, but there's a price for his attention and Rachel knows this. And when Michael devises a plan to get Rachel out from under Tommy's control, they become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger and desire from which no one escapes unscathed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, suspenseful, stylized, anamorphic, twisted, serious, realistic, surprise ending, independent film
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Undercover (2015)
Plot Summary:
Young female police officer Nurgül Özdemir lives her life in a rural environment. When she gets asked for an undercover mission in Amsterdam, she grabs the opportunity to get out of the problems this place is giving her. She leaves her homesick father and dependent mother behind in an attempt to find out what she really wants with her life. In Amsterdam Nurgül gets to play a key role in the exposure of a drugdealer and learns what it is to be an undercover agent. During the mission, she finds out the secrets about her long lost brother and discovers the real reason why she was sent to Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating
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Nothing to Lose (2008)
Plot Summary:
Johan has been locked up - wrongly in his opinion - for the murder of his father and little sister. His mother is the only one who can prove his innocence, but he hasn't been able to contact her for years. When he is transferred within the psychiatric prison to the long-stay department, it's the last straw. He decides to escape and to go looking for his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, disturbing, road movie
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The Wild Card (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no one is innocent in the end. Who will live and who will die... and who is The Wild Card?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Cradle Will Fall (2004)
Plot Summary:
The suicide of a pregnant woman begins to look like murder and a county prosecutor is called in to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, mind bending, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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I Against I (2012)
Plot Summary:
Focusing on the timeless themes of jealousy, murder and betrayal, 'I Against I' is set over one night and utilises different time lines to reveal a dark and unexpected conclusion to a simple mystery premise. The main protagonists, opposite in character, take a frantic journey into a desolate nocturnal world with the common aim of survival, though once completed, the plot reveals a trap from which escape may be impossible.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, tense, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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I'm Not a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
One livid dawn, a cold and damp wind blows as a man walks alone through the darkness. Deputy Police Superintendent Francesco Prencipe is on his way to meet his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo whom he hasn't seen for almost two years. The men drive for two hours and exchange but a few words. Later that morning, the Judge is found dead, a single gunshot wound to his head. Francesco is the last person who saw him and his fingerprints are the only ones found in the house. But is he the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Sin (2003)
Plot Summary:
Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burns finds himself subjected to a fiendish and ingenious campaign of revenge by the mysterious Charlie Strom. In order to protect his sister, Eddie - disabled, betrayed and alone - journeys into the heart of his own darkness: where he discovers that the reason for his ordeal lies in his own past sins and those of his adversary Charlie Strom.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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