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Plot Summary:
Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Snatched! (2010)
Plot Summary:
After neutralizing the original curse, Guido, the jewel smuggler who was the only gangster to survive the shoot out in the warehouse, has learned that the spirits of those who were deceased in the gunfight have returned to once again torment the ladies. Guido must know gather himself and figure out who is responsible for the black magic that has brought back the curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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Black Russian (2009)
Plot Summary:
Crime - Nick writes a scathing biography of feared Russian mobster Ivan the Terrible that threatens to destroy the hit man's world, leading to an all-out war between the two men that culminates in torture and murder. - Danny Naten, Jerry Katz, Lloyd Sherr.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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My Body Hungers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her destination. Once she arrives, she discovers that her sister has recently been violently murdered -- in a stangulation by garter belt. Marcia takes her sister's job in order to go undercover in finding the murderer. She thus imperils her own life while making discoveries about her sister's former lifestyle and the seamy antics of the local civic leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Criminal Who Stole a Crime (1969)
Plot Summary:
Retired police captain tells a reporter about his latest action - carried on their own investigation into the mysterious death of the girl. Captain MO, Gray, conducts her own investigation into the death of Eve Salm, called Princess. She was a witness in a process in which the defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Gray has doubts and risked their lives seeking to apprehend the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Night Rhythms (1992)
Plot Summary:
Nick, a late night DJ, has sex with a listener that he's invited to the station. The session goes out over the air until something goes wrong. Nick wakes up to find a dead body and himself framed. Nick spends the rest of the movie having sex whilst trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, independent film, hot, cult film
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Souvenir for the Prosecutor (1989)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Portrait of a Mobster (1961)
Plot Summary:
A vicious hood rises to the top of the rackets in Depression-era New York in this account of the life of Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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The Loner (2016)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked Los Angeles, working to become a real estate agent and live a simple life with his girlfriend Oksana. But Behrouz’s attempts at a normal life become increasingly difficult as his opium addiction and gambling habit rear their ugly heads, and he struggles to leave behind his past with the Iranian mafia. Soon Behrouz and Oksana find themselves caught between the feuding heads of the Iranian and Russian mobs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Radio Corbeau (1989)
Plot Summary:
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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48 Hours to Acapulco (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 81 min
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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:
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Subho Mahurat (2003)
Plot Summary:
Shubho Mahurat (2003) is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Baby Face Nelson (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al Capone, Babyface and his female accomplice leave a trail of blood and bullets in their path towards making history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Marlowe (2022)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Spain, France, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, interesting
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Living to Die (1990)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Road to Nowhere (2010)
Plot Summary:
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, neo noir, suspense, surreal, meta, mind bending, realistic
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Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nick's made poor choices professionally and personally. A man feared and envied by many, he's lived a life seduced by crime, money, beautiful women, and burlesque. Now he wants out and he's got 24 hours to find an exit. He's helped by the love of his life, ex-burlesque dancer, Regan Price and by his brother Tony, owner of The Uptown Bar. (Julie Rubio).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, neo noir
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Rogue's Gallery (1968)
Plot Summary:
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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The Pasta Killer! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Now a disgraced P.I., Marius M. Quick is forced to relive the past he's desperately tried to forget when a murderer dubbed 'The Pasta Killer' begins assassinating his friends, connections and contacts.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: neo noir, black and white
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Too Late (2015)
Plot Summary:
Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense, scary, noir, dark, crime drama
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Hammett (1982)
Plot Summary:
"This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Dashiell Hammett, who... in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries... helped get murder out of the vicar's rose garden and back to the people who are really good at it. The detective story has not been the same since." So begins Hammett, the atmospheric and exciting tale of a young mystery writer who really lives the hard-boiled life he writes about -- and learns to dig beneath the surface of his characters to reveal their deeper, darker motivations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, detective, metafiction, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, meta, eighties
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster (1991)
Plot Summary:
A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to find the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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A Private Affair (2002)
Plot Summary:
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is attacked and injured by an anonymous assailant and becomes reluctant to continue his search. But when Rachel's body is found, Francois is drawn deeper into the investigation as he discovers the dead girl's secret life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, detective, deep, realistic, cynical
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He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
Plot Summary:
On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara (Charlotte Rampling), the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth, with surprising results. Both Serrault and Rampling are outstanding in this well-directed, well-paced film. On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois was also released as He Died With His Eyes Open and won the Jury Prize at the 1985 Montreal World Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, detective, gloomy, sexual, sexy
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Marlowe (1969)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there's much more to this than a simple missing-person case. Marlowe's path crosses that of a blackmailed movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Delores. A mobster sends karate expert Winslow Wong to bust up Marlowe's office and warn him off the case, while Lieutenant French also cautions the detective to stay out of the police's way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, psychological, tense, noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Clockers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: hood, detective, grim, neo noir, realistic, dark, social, controversial, crime drama, tense
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, surprise ending, noir, cult classic
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The Bedroom Window (1987)
Plot Summary:
Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry instead steps forward, trying to help nab the criminal. However, he never saw the suspect and, when his lies are uncovered, the police begin to suspect his motives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense, psychological, realistic, serious, sexy, psychosexual thriller, detective
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Plot Summary:
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, dark, atmospheric, clever, stylized, suspense, psychological, political, mysterious