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Plot Summary:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Woman to be Hanged (1986)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Basar Sabuncu.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Sleeping Waters (1992)
Plot Summary:
Whatever happened to my father?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Kill-Off (1989)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a sultry stripper named Danny Lee (Cathy Haase). Danny Lee's act soon turns the head of Ralph, which is not good news for his bed-ridden wife Luanne (Loretta Gross). Luanne's nasty talent is her gift for gossip, and when she begins to suspect that Ralph has adultery on his mind, she starts spreading more ugly rumors that have just enough basis in fact to stick. Soon things spin out of control and a wave of violence begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, eighties, cult film
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Naakaa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter illegally from one of the sub-border point to Barhabise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Paul (1974)
Plot Summary:
After 7 years spent in jail Paul (Paul Lyss) is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return.Nothing really changes and soon he finds himself spaced out drunk at some posh party and eventually ends up wielding a big gun.Hand held Camera movements in best Dogma-95 style and nervous cut makes it an interesting 70's euro crime flick.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min
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The Inn on the River (1962)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Axe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Father (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, provided that the landlord supports his wife and children. As there is little difference for the father between ten years in prison or ten years in a foreign country, he regards this to be the best solution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Proof of the Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Black Sun (1978)
Plot Summary:
A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Midwives (2001)
Plot Summary:
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Indian Scarf (1963)
Plot Summary:
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979)
Plot Summary:
Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political
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A Crime (1993)
Plot Summary:
"Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the apartment. The first man is a famous lawyer named Dunand. The second is Frédéric Chapelin-Tourvel, Dunand's rich client, twenty years his junior. Throughout the night, Dunand tries to track down the truth. Did Frédéric kill his father and mother, in particularly barbarous circumstances ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako (Michiyo Aratama). In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Enough Rope (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Crime and Punishment (2002)
Plot Summary:
John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, period piece, costume drama, existential, psychotronic
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One Way Out (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, but finds that he may have taken on more than he can handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Don't Tempt the Devil (1963)
Plot Summary:
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: detective
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Angel's Leap (1971)
Plot Summary:
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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The Dictator's Guns (1965)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the "Dragoon" is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Maigret (2022)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
Plot Summary:
After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, social, sincere, thought provoking, serious, contemplative, semi documentary, tense, light
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Pan (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very strong in their opinions, and both are behaving a little strange. Love turns to hate, and instead of doing all they can to please each other, they do all they can to hurt the other person psychological. They both do a great job, and what began as a love story turns into a sad and depressing story of two ruined persons. The story is told by Thomas Glahn from his "exile" in Thailand, where he in the beginning of the movie receives two green feathers from Edvarda.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Flag in the Mist (1965)
Plot Summary:
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Crime of the Century (1996)
Plot Summary:
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Death Benefit (1996)
Plot Summary:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a small insurance policy. The further he goes into the case the more he reveals about the background of the suspect. Keeney finds support from others who also want to find out the truth behind the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film
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Silent Witness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful