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Plot Summary:
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, bleak, captivating, neo noir, noir, british noir
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Himeanole (2016)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man plays matchmaker to his friend only to realize the girl being pursued is being stalked.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Silent Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, intense, disturbing
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Intrigo: Samaria (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, independent film
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The Demonologist (2019)
Plot Summary:
Detective Damien Seryph investigates a string of murders that connects to a group trying to bring forth the 4 King Demons of Hell. Damien's past connects him to those involved and will force him to become "The Demonologist".
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, scary, bleak, captivating, detective
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Raw Nerve (1999)
Plot Summary:
A cop, who is losing his sanity, lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, weeping
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Kaufman's Game (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kaufman's Game follows Stanley, an unemployed young man with a passion for boxing, who is keen to improve his strength and stamina. When a stranger approaches him outside the gym with the offer of a specially produced steroid, Stanley is drawn into the ever more violent operations of a powerful organisation, unwittingly entering into a series of tests designed to prove his mettle. This is a film about power, determination and being your own worst enemy. It celebrates the archetypes of classic Film Noir, and the dark, conspiratorial storytelling technique of Franz Kafka, but with a contemporary minimalist aesthetic.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, independent film
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Valley of Bones (2017)
Plot Summary:
A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, neo noir
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Wolf Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an attempt to rectify their criminal past, a once successful Hollywood starlet, turn prostitute, and a petty, misogynistic thief, set out together to solve a high profile child abduction case in San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, neo noir, sexual, hot
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Snow in Paradise (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hard-hitting character study that's based on the real story of one man's journey to control his violence through religion. It takes us from the blood soaked East End of London to the world of the Islamic whirling dervishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, serious, bleak, realistic, islamic
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Hot Target (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the beautiful Christine in mind.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, erotic, independent film, cult film
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Unknown Hour (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as well. He feels no-one takes him seriously and he loathes the doctors, who treat him with disdain. When an old man begs him to end his pain and suffering by helping him to die, Hynek gives him a "liberating" injection. But now he has done it once, he finds he can't stop. He continues killing other patients, even though he knows he can't get away with it for long.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychotronic, crying
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Under My Nails (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto Rican salon employee is forced to confront her own erotic desires when she becomes obsessed with the violent sexual tendencies of her new neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hispanic
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The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
Plot Summary:
A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, gloomy
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The Assassin (2007)
Plot Summary:
Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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A Grain of Truth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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Thousand Cuts (2017)
Plot Summary:
Omar Petit would be able to live a perfectly happy life with his wife and daughter if it weren’t for a number of farmers from the vineyard who have decided to make life miserable for them because of where Omar comes from. One night, one of them happens to be in the middle of sabotaging their vineyard when he witnesses the murder of three South American drug smugglers. The killer, an injured biker who’s nevertheless as hard as nails, must take refuge on the Petits’ farm and takes the family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, tense, hood
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[Cargo] (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes trapped inside a cargo container with only a cell phone and is given 24 hours by his kidnappers to raise ten million dollars in ransom or die.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, minimal cast
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Viva Riva! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache - barrels of fuel they can sell for a huge profit. Of course they're not the only ones who want the stuff.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, erotic, neo noir, hood, rough, bleak
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Traceless (2010)
Plot Summary:
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's charming, healthy and everyone likes him and seems to consider him "a great guy". But beneath the surface, not everything is perfect. Meunier feels some pressure at work, knowing others eye his future position and he and his wife have been unable to have children so far. One day, Meunier bumps into a childhood friend, Patrick Chambon (François-Xavier Demaison) and the two resume their friendship, despite Chambon having struggled as a petty criminal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious
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No Rest for the Wicked (2011)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, bleak, realistic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, rough, bleak, minimal cast, erotic
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The Element of Crime (1984)
Plot Summary:
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, bleak, neo noir, art house, psychological, detective, suspenseful, cerebral, atmospheric, stylized
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Hard Boiled Sweets (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Mortician (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as part of his parole.Noah brings the notorious gangster, Carver (Dash Mihok), and his crew to the mortuary door. The Mortician's attention is pricked by the tattoo of Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' inked on the body of a murdered woman (Judy Marte), that arrives at the morgue, triggering a series of haunting dreams from his childhood. Discovering a scared child, Kane (Cruz Santiago), fleeing the morgue, he's forced to act. They become reluctant allies, struggling for redemption as they run. Through his awkward heroism, the Mortician reconnects with his long forgotten past, and finds the answers he's been searching for. He find redemption and peace.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Plot Summary:
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending, realistic
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Circus (2000)
Plot Summary:
Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder on tape, saying Gloria isn't his wife - it's blackmail. Leo's bookie, Troy, is also closing in, wanting to be paid. Bruno and Lily as well as Bruno and Julius have their own scams running, and Leo is their target. Maybe Leo can get Troy off his back, avoid Moose (Bruno's huge enforcer), send Gloria's corpse out of England, turn the tables on Bruno's murderous brother Caspar, and outfox Lily. Or is Lily his fox? It's a three-ring circus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: stylized, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, clever, dark comedy, serious, psychological, noir
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The Kindred (2021)
Plot Summary:
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher
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Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Plot Summary:
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, melancholic, surreal, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, sensual, neo noir, independent film
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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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Cold in July (2014)
Plot Summary:
How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, realistic, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, tricky, bleak, serious