Best movies like The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides? Contribute your familiarity to steer others toward movies and tv shows you've seen before that may also fascinate them. Support broadening the circle of people referring videos between each other. We appreciate your engagement!
Plot Summary:
An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
Best tv shows and movies like The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides (1976):
Similar in 85%
The Criminals, Part 3: Arson (1977)
Plot Summary:
Part 1 : 'Gun Snatchers' - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: 'Arson' - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
Similar in 84%
The Criminals, Part 4: Assault (1977)
Plot Summary:
Part 1 : 'Maniac' - A gang is kidnapping and raping young women. Part 2: 'Queen of Temple Street' - A gambling addict sells his wife to a brothel to pay off his debts.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
Similar in 88%
Return of the Dead (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology, dark fairy tale
Similar in 86%
Animal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on a rape case that happened to two sisters in Cebu, Visayas, Philippines in late 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 80%
A Man Called Magnum (1977)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, perverse
Similar in 79%
Fearful Interlude (1975)
Plot Summary:
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang (Dana). Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, they come across woodcutter Hsi Hsueh Kuei who puts them up for the night. Captivated by the beauty of the owner’s two daughters, who are vampires, he spends a night with them and turns into a skeleton. Chased by the vampires, Shun Lai makes a narrow escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology, gothic horror
Similar in 88%
Season For Assassins (1975)
Plot Summary:
As a gang of youths terrorizes a city, the weary chief of police finds himself caught between the citizens who cry for blood and a catholic priest who believes the boys will respond to kindness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 89%
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:
Similar in 79%
The Criminals (1976)
Plot Summary:
An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Part 2: 'Valley of the Hanged'-A man murders his wife and her lover. Part 3: 'The Stuntmen' - A gang boss is murdered by his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, poliziottesco
Similar in 78%
Blazing Flowers (1978)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 79%
The Gorilla Gang (1968)
Plot Summary:
In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers based on the novels of Edgar Wallace.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Crime, Horror, Action
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
The Kiss of Death (1973)
Plot Summary:
One night a textile worker is sexually assaulted by five deviants. The young lady tries to cope with the aftermath of this dramatic event but her life is ruined. Like a shattered vase, the pieces can be put back together but it'll never be the same. Cheng get's a job as a bar girl. She meets the club's owner who was a former kung-fu fighter until he was crippled. Cheng uses her position as a B-girl to go after the losers who raped her, She soon learns from a sleazy doctor that she has contracted a dark V.D. called Viet-Nam Rose. Crushed, she begs Lo Lieh to teach her kung-fu. At first he refuses until he learns her secret. Furious, Lo Lieh teaches her his deadly fight techniques (such as a groin crunching blow).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Order to Assassinate (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, Dominican Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 83%
The Godson (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious mobster, Marko, makes the local brothel into a rousing success after double-crossing the mafia Don. This of course angers certain people who come after him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, freeze frame, independent film
Similar in 80%
The Manhandlers (1974)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. The mob doesn't like this and Katie is quickly being muscled by mob goons to turn up the heat or pay. Katie soon discovers more about the massage-parlor than she had wished.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 85%
No, The Case Is Happily Resolved (1973)
Plot Summary:
While fishing at a quiet lake, a man witnesses a murder. Although confronted by the killer he manages to escape. Afraid of the consequences of becoming involved he decides not to report what he saw. Instead the real murderer does go to the Police, claiming that he is the witness. After speaking to a priest the innocent man finally hands himself in, only to be arrested and found guilty.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 79%
The Author's Crime (1974)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Countess is warned that if she gives a valuable painting away as first prize in a music competition, the only thing handed out will be death. In rapid succession, the painting is stolen, the Countess murdered, her niece kidnapped, and the police baffled as the killings continue.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
Similar in 76%
Bewitched (1981)
Plot Summary:
While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: detective, atmospheric, poliziottesco, lovecraft
Similar in 81%
Naked Violence (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective
Similar in 79%
Her Vengeance (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wong plays an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who alienates a gang of drunken men (led by Shing Fui-on). They tail her after her shift, and mount a gang assault. She attempts to enlist the aid of her former brother-in-law (Lam) - an ex-triad now confined to a wheelchair.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 76%
Small Tiger (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ho Mei Fong is a young woman in trouble, running from a gang of criminals with something of importance hidden in her purse. She dies in Chien Chen's taxi while trying to escape, but not before hiding the purse. Chien Chen is now involved whether he likes it or not, along with Ho Mei's sister, who turns out to be an undercover Hong Kong policewoman. They must solve the mystery of the missing purse and what it contained, while being pursued by the criminals and their hired thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious
Similar in 85%
The Killer Snakes (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: natural horror, cult film
Similar in 75%
Bruce's Fingers (1976)
Plot Summary:
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Wong's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her along with the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Las Poquianchis (1976)
Plot Summary:
In the middle 70's in the mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities discover a clandestine burial ground, the corpses were from murdered prostitutes. the suspects are three sisters known as "Las Poquianchis" The sisters were very religious but were the owners of brothels and recruited poor girls with the false promises of jobs, instead they were forced to prostitution, and some were killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, period drama
Similar in 85%
East End Hustle (1976)
Plot Summary:
Group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, cult film
Similar in 83%
Killer Clans (1976)
Plot Summary:
As two rival clans vie for dominance in a martial world where loyalty and honor can be bought and friends become enemies, a peerless swordsman (Chung Wa) discovers that the only thing truly worth fighting for is love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
Similar in 89%
The Rapist (1994)
Plot Summary:
A serial rapist is loose in the Hong Kong suburb of Tuen Mun. Based on the true story of Lam Kwok-wai, who raped and murdered women in the early 90s.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco
Similar in 86%
Bloody Friday (1972)
Plot Summary:
Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn. (from IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action thriller, poliziottesco, cult film
Similar in 83%
Trip with the Teacher (1975)
Plot Summary:
A high-school field trip takes a nightmarish turn when the students' bus breaks down and thugs come to their aid.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, scary, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film, sexy, cult film
Similar in 77%
Concrete (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the captors. Subjected to rape, torture, and humiliation, Junko had no hope of escape as the manhunt was stalled by the captors forcing her to tell her parents that she was ok. For 41 harrowing days, Junko had to endure unimaginable suffering at the hands of these four individuals. Finally, after losing in a game of mahjong solitaire, they beat her with an iron dumbbell and set on fire with lighter fluid. She died later that day from shock. In an attempt to hide their crime they buried her in cement and thus the name 'Concrete Encased High School Murder Case' was born as Japan had to confront the horrors of this crime. The perpetrators disposed the drum in a tract of reclaimed land in Koto, Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, crying