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Plot Summary:
Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Carbon (2017)
Plot Summary:
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, noir, crime drama
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Slave (2009)
Plot Summary:
Darryn Welch's explosive thriller SLAVE follows young American couple Georgie (Natassia Malthe) and David (Sam Page) as they visit David's father Robert's stunning Spanish villa, hoping to get his blessing on their marriage. The relationship between the father and son is strained at best, not helped by the dark skeletons of Robert's criminal past. When left to their own devices the couple embark on a hedonistic night out, with seedy nightclub owner Marlon (a cameo by 'king of hedonism' Howard Marks) offering the full VIP treatment. Georgie and David are separated for a brief moment, but in that brief moment their lives are changed forever... and David is set on a course to uncover some troubling family truths.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paris Countdown (2013)
Plot Summary:
Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, serious, realistic
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Adverse (2020)
Plot Summary:
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Down and Dangerous (2013)
Plot Summary:
An inventive and resourceful cocaine smuggler defends his trade against violent rival traffickers, a monstrous and vengeful killer, and the DEA agents who want to lock him up – all while falling for a stunningly beautiful woman with a taste for danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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Asura: The City of Madness (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor, in this scintillating crime drama from Korean maestro Kim Sung-soo (The Warrior).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, noir, crime drama
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Thoongaavanam (2015)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of this mess?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ferry (2021)
Plot Summary:
Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, powerful
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10 Grams (2015)
Plot Summary:
Crime Drama starring Brian William Woodward, Richard Douglas, Lloyd James.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Original Gangster (2020)
Plot Summary:
The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Paydirt (2020)
Plot Summary:
A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen a decade ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Brave (2019)
Plot Summary:
In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
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Beyond the Law (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a former detective learns of the murder of his estranged son, he ventures back to the darkened streets he once knew so well. Armed, dangerous and with nothing to lose, he must take on the ruthless local mob in his mission for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, detective
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Laal Kabootar (2019)
Plot Summary:
He's looking for a way out of the city. But his only escape is through a woman looking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Outlanders (2007)
Plot Summary:
After his father's death, Adam hitchhikes to London from his hometown in Poland to find his older brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Clean Hands (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Black Widow (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Black Widow is not dead ... Drug Queen Carmen van Walraven is hiding in Canada and leads an anonymous life there. One evening a colleague is harassed and Carmen helps her. In self-defense, she kills the perpetrator, is arrested and extradited to the Netherlands. While her children are in shock that their mother is still alive, there are also some people who still have to settle something with Carmen. Everyone is again dragged into an emotional rollercoaster. Carmen will now have deal with her past to save her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Robert Yummy Sandifer Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 Time Magazine covered the story about a 11 year old child gang member who is coerced by older gang members into committing a string of murders. He also committed other felonious crimes. Yummy is then killed by the older gang members in order to silence him before the authorities could find out who sent 'Yummy' on those murder missions. The storylines used in the movie are based on true events.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I'm Not a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
One livid dawn, a cold and damp wind blows as a man walks alone through the darkness. Deputy Police Superintendent Francesco Prencipe is on his way to meet his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo whom he hasn't seen for almost two years. The men drive for two hours and exchange but a few words. Later that morning, the Judge is found dead, a single gunshot wound to his head. Francesco is the last person who saw him and his fingerprints are the only ones found in the house. But is he the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Essex Boys (2000)
Plot Summary:
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, crime thriller, independent film
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Caliber 9 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise him different from his father, a deplorable gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Dead Draw (2016)
Plot Summary:
25 million dollars, 8 safety deposit boxes, and months before anyone will know it’s gone. But Harrison’s perfect heist turns deadly when his safe-cracker, Mack, discovers their getaway pilot brutally murdered. Someone knew about the job, someone set them up. Stranded in a frozen hangar, held hostage by someone outside, loyalty turns to suspicion and friends turn to enemies. Now it’s a race against time as the band of thieves try to uncover the rat and escape their troubled pasts…if they can survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Snakehead (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the crime family responsible for her transport, her survival instincts help her gain favor with the matriarch, and she rises quickly in the ranks. Soon Tse must reconcile her success with her real reason for coming to America—to find the child that was taken from her. In the end, Sister Tse must draw on the strength she found in transforming her victimhood into power.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, non-linear
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Powder and Gold (2015)
Plot Summary:
The real-life story of a drug cartel leader set to Macbeth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Notorious gangster, Pat Tate, rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld. A prequel to the 'Rise of the Footsoldier' franchise.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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El Padrino II: Border Intrusion (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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South Wind 2: Speed Up (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nenad, Maras his little brother, wants to follow the ilegal footsteps of his brother and now Maras and Baca have to free him from the clutches of the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Calm with Horses (2019)
Plot Summary:
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, social, independent film, hood, powerful
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The Thunder (2019)
Plot Summary:
A father and son represent two generations of policemen as they risk their lives in the war against drugs.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing