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Plot Summary:
In a television program dedicated to the problem of drugs, George tells the story of his life which was immersed in the mire of drugs and crime. The troubled relationship with his family, robberies, drugs will revive and the narrative will give an answer to whether love can finally save.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Masacre en el río Tula (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Rooftops (1989)
Plot Summary:
T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other. When drugdealers move into the neighbourhood and kill T's best friend he embarks on a mission to eradicate the drug-presence in the neigbourhood. His friends are reluctant to help though, knowing what happened to T's friend when he crossed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, eighties
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Supermarket (1974)
Plot Summary:
Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Ladies Max (1996)
Plot Summary:
Popular pop group MAX (Mina, Lina, Nana, Reina) star in a wild teen drama based on the manga "Ladies" written by Masahide Motohashi.
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Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Downhill (1961)
Plot Summary:
Greek teenage drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Scum (1963)
Plot Summary:
A string of miscalculated choices and the longing of a fresh start will drag Magda of the slums deeper and deeper into a tireless personal nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Request for a Song (1980)
Plot Summary:
The real story of Nikos Koemtzis, who one night knifed a company of men in a tavern just because they wanted to dance on the song he had "ordered" from the musicians.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Sweet Bunch (1983)
Plot Summary:
The diary of the life and death of a group of "amoral" young people, who have reached the point of no return and seek something to believe in and to die for. Their behavior brings them to the attention of the State. A discreet surveillance begins. A vigilante group monitors their house, headed by a nameless blonde man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: anthology, avant garde, cult classic, cult film
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Manhunter (1976)
Plot Summary:
Greek Spies are trying to give bad image about turkey, Metin a young police man who decides to go rogue and achieve justice after the murder of his partner and his family on the hands of Greek spices.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Life Imprisonment (1988)
Plot Summary:
The childhood traumas of a solitary young man have a determinative effect on the formation of his personality and sexual behavior and have turned him into a rapist with the angelic face. One day, the young man, Giorgos, confides his secret to a friend and colleague named Toni, who advises him to visit a psychiatrist. At the same time, he encourages him to have a relationship with a colleague of theirs named Kaiti, who seems to be interested in him. But the police, who had been looking looking for the perpetrator all this time, finally appear.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Summertime Killer (1972)
Plot Summary:
This multinational crime action film also boasts an international cast. During his childhood, a boy (Chris Mitchum) sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim is only wounded. He kidnaps the man's daughter (Claudine Auger) and goes to a hideout. In the meantime, an ex-cop (Karl Malden) has been tracking them down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, poliziottesco
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Wednesday 04:45 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Stelios Dimitrakopoulos has 32 hours left before he loses everything. From the jazz bar he painstakingly keeps running for years, to his own family. The Romanian gangster who lent him money, now demands the debt to be paid. The middle-man and former friend, makes Stelios take care of illegal errands. His wife is seriously thinking of abandoning him, and a night club owner, not thinking about the consequences, finally starts to stand up for himself. Christmas is coming, the clock is ticking, and the tree in Stelios' house must be decorated.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Israel
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspense, disturbing, intense, retro, social
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Street Warriors (1977)
Plot Summary:
Perros Callejeros is based on the juvenile delinquency of the 1970s and 80s in Spain. The story is set in Barrio de la Mina in Barcelona one of the most conflict neighbourhoods in Spain. The characters chosen were real juvenile delinquents all with criminal records, which the director used to give the film a realistic touch. This film is very powerful and dramatic, it shows how these kids were brought up to survive on the streets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: social, hood, poliziottesco
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The Peace Killers (1971)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main squeeze of the gang's leader before she ran away. The pair get away, but the bikers find out that they're living in a nearby commune, and start making their battle plans to bring Kristy back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Angel (1982)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical mother and his disabled sister, to live with his lover. Later on, he will also join the army. A former lover of his visits him and tells him things about Michalis. At a party, Michalis forces Angelos to dress up as a woman. Later on, Angelos ends up on the street with other transvestites. He gets arrested and expelled from the Navy, while his father kills himself out of shame. His clients often humiliate him, and his lover beats him brutally.Angelos, in despair, decides to kill Michalis..The film is based on true facts and has shocked Greek public opinion.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Blue City (1986)
Plot Summary:
Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own hands and go up against a ruthless local mob boss in a desperate search to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, eighties
Similar in 77%
Band of the Hand (1986)
Plot Summary:
An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: cult classic, retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir
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Intimate Relations (1979)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy heiress that resides in Athens, is the victim of a robbery. Not only does her jewellery disappear but her maid is murdered while attempting to protect her. A police officer named Zaras is on the case. The primary suspects are ... an army of Laura's fans and Nelly, Laura's employer.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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Strange Girl in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Roza has an affair with her boyfriend's father. Soon after, she is found dead from a fall. Was it suicide, or was she pushed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Bang Bang Gang (1970)
Plot Summary:
1930's: Adam and Leroy tries to rob a cafe, but finds out that two girls are already trying to do the same. Instead of arguing with them they join them in a robbery-spree.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Pusher II (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, surprise ending, psychological, thought provoking, brutal, breathtaking, mumblecore
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Nosedive (2007)
Plot Summary:
NOSEDIVE depicts a world of unlimited drugs, wild parties, beautiful people, and no sleep. However, when reality takes a dark turn, a group of characters are forced to step out of the nightclub and into darkness.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Offender (2012)
Plot Summary:
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Rodents (1999)
Plot Summary:
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy
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Deathrow (2000)
Plot Summary:
A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, perilous and horrifying world of death row where he is introduced to other inmates all awaiting their execution by lethal injection. One of them is a 70-year-old man who detests the jungle of jail and is feared by all the convicts. He would serve as the boy’s protector and savior and in the process touch and shape enormously the violated youth’s life in prison and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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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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From the Edge of the City (1998)
Plot Summary:
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, disgusting, queer cinema, gay cinema
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic, disturbing, stylized, intense, rough, serious
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Northwest (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict, that threatens to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, noir, neo noir, hood, sincere
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Paid in Full (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, grim, neo noir