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Plot Summary:
The journalist becomes a victim of rape. To take revenge on the rapists, she makes a deal with the criminals. But things are beginning to unfold unpredictably.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Paradise America (1990)
Plot Summary:
Finnish friends escape taxes to Florida.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie
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On Seventh Avenue (1996)
Plot Summary:
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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To the Last Limit (1991)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Gina (1975)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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To Paris (2009)
Plot Summary:
Soviet youngster Alexey communicates with a fellow radiofan from France and makes big plans for his future. His hardworking blue-collar father Ivan is getting ready to join The Communist Party. Everything changes when Ivan's girlfriend is falsely accused in defalcation. Ivan decides to get the money by any means to help his beloved avoid the incarceration. He lets Alexey into his plans, and that triggers a chain of tragic events in this USSR-set drama. Loosely based on real events.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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My Name Is Harlequin (1988)
Plot Summary:
The guy nicknamed harlequin and his company, which calls itself "wolves", live on a half-stop, near the city, where they often go "to rest" — in search of thrills. And it's not just bullies, at least they think so.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: retro, crying
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And Then You Die (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Siberia (1998)
Plot Summary:
Goof and Hugo are flatmates in Amsterdam who have made a tidy sum from having sex with tourists, then robbing them. Their goal is to spend the money together on a world trip and their scam is going well until they meet Lara, originally from Siberia, whom Goof becomes besotted with (IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 956
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious
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A Thousand and One (2023)
Plot Summary:
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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The Blackmailer (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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Birds of Passage (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous Wayuu family get involved in a booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honour collide, a fratricidal war breaks out that will put their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, political, factual, tense, suspense, retro, social, artsy
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I'm Your Woman (2020)
Plot Summary:
In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tricky, neo noir, entertaining, crying
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Cyclo (1995)
Plot Summary:
Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, stylized, intellectual, neo noir, controversial, rough, serious, realistic, crying
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Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
A revealing look at the life of Victoria Gotti, the daughter of notorious mob boss John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, crime drama, entertaining
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The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)
Plot Summary:
A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: emotional, disturbing, touching, rough, suspense, crying, tension
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Agitator (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, crime drama, crying
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Highway Patrolman (1991)
Plot Summary:
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol has to adapt to survive as he contends with dangerous drug-runners and widespread corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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MosGaz. Delo N2: Palach (2015)
Plot Summary:
Events take place on the outskirts of Moscow in 1965. In the center - the story of the exposure of a woman executioner who, during the war, at the behest of the Germans, shot prisoners, partisans, and civilians. This is actually a separate civil war of the fanatic with their people. During the war, she was barely 20 years old, and on her account there were already fifteen hundred murders. She shot her victims with a machine gun, hiding behind a toy bunny mask. Then she drank a bottle of moonshine and then appeared the next morning without a mask and lived an ordinary life, the same as everyone else ... Therefore, after the war, it was very difficult to figure out the killer. This case was assigned to the chief investigator. His suspicions fall on one or the other woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: History
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak
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Diary of a Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Dekker is on his last job, out to kill the wife (Jain) of his client, but he starts to waiver. The longer he takes to do the job the more difficult it becomes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, crying
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Flawless (1999)
Plot Summary:
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: talky, independent film, light, thinking, cult classic, comedy drama, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Vera Drake (2004)
Plot Summary:
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sincere, depressing, bleak, compassionate, thought provoking, contemplative, period piece, grim, realistic, social
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Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, depressing, neo noir, sad, contemplative, anthology, cynical, grim, aesthetic
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The Thief (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where he becomes everyone's favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile he gives the boy, Sanya, lessons in life: to fight back, to win at all costs. The child's mother, Katya, is head-over-heels in love with Tolyan, the soldier, but the relationship becomes rocky when Tolyan's true plans for the rooming house become clear. It starts them on a treadmill of flight that risks Katya's life, Tolyan's liberty, and Sanya's trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, sincere, gloomy, serious, crying, sentimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, touching
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Corniche Kennedy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to experience life to the fullest. Suzanne devours them with her eyes from inside her chic villa. Their free bodies, their excess. She wants to be part of them. She will be part of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Prince of the City (1981)
Plot Summary:
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, neo noir, detective, bleak, realistic, epic, political, crime drama, grim, sincere
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White Boy Rick (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, hood, disturbing, retro, rough, neo noir, sad, independent film, non fiction, anamorphic
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The Accused (1988)
Plot Summary:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, poignant, thought provoking, compassionate, tense, rough, controversial, captivating, emotional
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Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Plot Summary:
Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark, grim, realistic, psychedelic, art house, aesthetic