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Plot Summary:
Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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For a Few Lousy Dollars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Three friends hold up a restaurant owned by the mob and run into a Hit-man running after a hit gone wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
Daddy's Boys (1988)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy set in 1930s America. Jimmy and Christie become celebrity bank robbers whose stardom ends in a bloody shootout when Daddy's Boys catch up with them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, independent film
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JCVD (2008)
Plot Summary:
Between his tax problems and his legal battle with his wife for the custody of his daughter, these are hard times for the action movie star who finds that even Steven Seagal has pinched a role from him! Jean-Claude Van Damme returns to the country of his birth to seek the peace and tranquility he can no longer enjoy in the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, talky, realistic, psychological, humorous, cult classic, clever, stylized, metafiction, action packed
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Downtown (1990)
Plot Summary:
Officer Alex Kearney patrols an upscale neighborhood in Philadelphia, where he pulls over a well-connected white collar executive who promises to get even with the policeman. Soon, Kearney learns that he is off the cushy suburban beat and must now work in the deadliest precinct in Philly, where he is partnered with tough veteran cop Dennis Curran. Tensions are high between them, but Kearney soon proves he can play just as rough as the crooks.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, action comedy, retro, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, neo noir
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Freebie and the Bean (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: black comedy, action comedy, neo noir, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy, dark comedy
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Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Buford Pusser's final days; not only of his life, but also as Sheriff. It seems that times are changing, and the once adoring people of Pusser's town now fear him and feel like it's time to make a change. There are also some officials who feel the same way and are using every means to get rid of Pusser.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: bad ending, grindhouse, independent film, southern gothic
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Big Bad Mama II (1987)
Plot Summary:
It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a story about them. After a time the evil land baron wants to run for governor, and Angie and her daughters kidnap his son and turn him into a gangster in order to discredit his father and his run for governor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, neo noir
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man with a bazooka helps defend air-freighters Donna and Taryn against drug smugglers and a snake.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult classic, sexy, action thriller, natural horror, independent film
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Born to Win (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Jay Jay, a former hair dresser who has become a drug addict. He lives his new life by doing deals for Vivian from time to time. One day he meets Parm, a free-spirited girl. The two fall in love. Jay Jay's drug habit grows, and he soon resorts to robbery. On the threat of arrest, he works alongside two dirty policemen by becoming a narc, and reports on his former fellow junkies. Yet, as the movie continues, Jay Jay sinks deeper into turmoil with feelings of self-hatred.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Pink Cadillac (1989)
Plot Summary:
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, talky, action comedy, cult classic, realistic, fast, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo noir
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Short Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, detective, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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Santiago Violenta (2014)
Plot Summary:
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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After the Sunset (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two master thieves (Brosnan and Hayek) are finally retiring after one last succesful mission. Residing in their own tropical paradise, their old nemesis, FBI Agent Stan P. Lloyd shows up to make sure they really are retired. Docked in the port is an ocean liner called the "Diamond Cruise" and Stan is convinced that they're not really retired at all, and that this is the next set up.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, feel good, exciting, light, entertaining, tricky, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Brannigan (1975)
Plot Summary:
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
Similar in 81%
Slaughter (1972)
Plot Summary:
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Bullet (1996)
Plot Summary:
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, hood, disturbing, harsh, stylized, serious, cult classic, independent film, bleak
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Plot Summary:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, action thriller, exciting, light, captivating, spiritual, crime drama, buddy comedy, black comedy
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In China They Eat Dogs (1999)
Plot Summary:
An intent fast paced Danish dark comedy film about two separately motivated brothers who with their slightly psychopathic tendencies end up in a touchy situation. One brother gets in serious trouble after a bank robbery and begs the other brother for help.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, ironic, black comedy, melancholic, not serious, surreal, fast paced, cult classic, art house
Similar in 87%
The Long Riders (1980)
Plot Summary:
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, factual, harsh, rough, suspenseful, serious, perverse, exciting, realistic, light
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The Hard Word (2002)
Plot Summary:
Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, tense, suspenseful, cynical, cult classic, clever, exciting, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Point Blank (1998)
Plot Summary:
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, tense, suspense, exciting, independent film, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Metro (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action comedy, black comedy, cult classic
Similar in 78%
Logan Lucky (2017)
Plot Summary:
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, funny, captivating, black comedy, gothic, art house, cult classic, action thriller
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Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, exciting, intense, semi serious, crime thriller, ironic, noir, suspenseful, hood
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48 Hrs. (1982)
Plot Summary:
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, detective, funny, neo noir, humorous, intense, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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CHiPS (2017)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers as they make their rounds on the freeways of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, intense, funny, action comedy, exciting, surprise ending, black comedy, freeze frame
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Heat (1995)
Plot Summary:
Obsessive master thief, Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective, Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 702000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, detective, suspense, suspenseful, intense, exciting, bleak, atmospheric, clever
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Den of Thieves (2018)
Plot Summary:
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting, enigmatic, disturbing, clever, experimental, detective
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Smokin' Aces (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, action packed, bloody, exciting, twist ending, cult classic, twisted, neo noir, humorous