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Plot Summary:
The godfather of the triad Jing Hing and his senior bosses need to select a new boss to run the daily operations of the five gangs under their control. Chuck, a lifelong member of the triad, dreams of being the elected one, but his wife wants him to leave the criminal life and spend time with their child. Wulf, a former cop, also wants take over the seat. Both will try to achieve their goal by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, heroic, entertaining, banned
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The Godfather: Part V (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young-goo the son of mafia boss Don Carini, is too foolish to be part of the mafia elite. One day, Young-goo comes to his father and is trained by Tony V to be his father's successor. A few days later, Young-goo accidentally rescues Nancy, the only daughter of Don Bonfante, the boss of a rival mafia family. But Vinnie, an under-boss of the Bonfante family kidnapped her and fabricates that Young-goo has taken her. Vinnie's behavior provokes an armed conflict between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, slapstick
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Victoria Gotti: My Father's Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
A revealing look at the life of Victoria Gotti, the daughter of notorious mob boss John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, crime drama, entertaining
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Hand Rolled Cigarette (2020)
Plot Summary:
A retired British Chinese soldier, a young South Asian man, an encounter at Chungking Mansions. Coincidentally, they both offended the same gang boss. What has given them a new lease of life and how do they rediscover themselves through each other's company.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir
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My Father Saved My Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) fought with the French Resistance, but near the end of the war he fell into a life of crime, and in 1947, 22-year-old Manu was arrested for his part in a bungled robbery that left a man dead. While Manu did not pull the fatal trigger, he refuses to say who did, since it would mean implicating his uncle, one of the few members of his family who has stood by him; Manu's brother is dead, and he turned his back on his father Joe (Bruno Cremer) years ago. Manu is sentenced to death, and while he protests his innocence, his attempts to escape from prison do little to convince anyone that he's telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, adaptation directed by original author
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Dogwashers (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a narco past his prime refuses to pay a debt to an upstart, only a secret stash of money can save his men. But guess what the gardener just found?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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I Was Here (2008)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of a book by Sass Henno, I Was Here. First Arrest (Mina olin siin. 1. esimene arrest, 2005), one of the most important Estonian works of literature of recent years. Seventeen-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the absence of a solid home life his family becomes a group of youngsters who are verging on being thieves. Drugs are an inseparable part of their lives, and when Rass agrees to distribute them, he gets tangled up in the narcotics trade. Small amounts suddenly become two-kilo packages that the mafia, to the misfortune of all involved, has not been paid for, and is ready to collect on by force… This story of one boy’s adolescence unwinds retrospectively over a sheet of paper on which Rass records his memories while in prison. The camera intermediates these recollections in a nervous journalistic stylisation, often even duplicating the images, which increases the pace of the story, a true-to-life basis for which can be easily imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland, Taiwan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Women of Mafia (2018)
Plot Summary:
A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, talky
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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019)
Plot Summary:
Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the Narcotics Bureau works towards preventing drug abuse but faces uncertainty.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Strike One (2014)
Plot Summary:
Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle Manny, an ex-gang member, who has fallen into an acting career playing gang bangers since his release from prison. With the future on his doorstep, Juan, like most boys, can only think of girls and is unaware of the judicial system's hard line stance against gang affiliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pudhupettai (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in the backdrop of the slums of Pudhupettai in Chennai, as the title suggests, where a high school kid Kokki Kumar (Dhanush) sees his mom dead after he comes back from watching a movie. His father, the murderer is also planning to kill his son Kumar. Kumar sensing danger runs away from home. Homeless and with no food Kumar resorts to begging until he is falsely arrested while standing by and watching a commotion on the street. In jail he befriends handymen of a local goon who take Kumar with them and give him petty jobs to do. In a confrontation with goons of another gang Kumar kills the brother of his enemy gang's head Moorthi thus earning the respect of his gang and making enemies for himself both within his gang and outside.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, epic, cult classic, cult film
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Trivisa (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in Hong Kong before its handover to China in 1997, when the city’s booming economy inadvertently attracts three infamous criminals from Mainland China to cross the border and make their fortune in Hong Kong. Although unknown to one another, their notoriety has bred the rumor that the triumvirate will join forces to stage a shocking heist together, so much so that the criminals themselves get wind of it and are tempted to do just that.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, heroic, crime thriller
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II (2015)
Plot Summary:
On the 6th December 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood. It’s now early 1997 and whoever killed the three men have yet to be brought to justice. An associate of the men, still mourning the loss of his friends, is convinced that it’s only a matter of time before he’s next. For him, the only way out is to go back in and work his way back up the criminal ladder. The higher he gets, the more violent the jobs become, his quest for power turning into an obsession. With life and family on the line can he hold his nerve together one last time in order to get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
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Grasshopper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Righteous Ties (2006)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes that a decade of loyalty towards the gang has become futile. Determined to confront his own boss, he finds a way to escape from prison with his fellow inmates. Meanwhile, his friend Joo-joong is given the task to stop Chi-sung, forcing him to choose between the bond of friendship and loyalty towards the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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Flinch (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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Triad (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Chouf (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Gang Wars. Princes (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on real-life events that took place in Lithuania at the end of the 20th century. At a time when criminal groups prevailed and corruption was rampant in the authorities, the biggest source of income for Lithuanian gangs was smuggling cigarettes. At the heart of the series is a gang called the "Princes" who clash with other groups and authorities in Lithuania's brutal underworld at the time.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime
Country: Lithuania
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Next 2 (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Vatos Locos (2011)
Plot Summary:
Thriller - Two Chicano brothers, Estaban and Raul grow up hard on the streets of Los Angeles. Their papa gets executed for a drug deal gone bad when only seven years old. Half Irish, half Mexican gangster named Mickey Solis takes the two boys in and brings them up as lieutenants in his family business. - Damian Chapa, Gabriel Tang, Ricco Chapa.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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First We Take Brooklyn (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-felon joins an Israeli crime syndicate in Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending
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Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Noem My Skollie: Call Me Thief (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in the 1960’s on the impoverished Cape Flats in South Africa. Four boys form a teenage gang to protect themselves from bullying and rape and almost as soon as their childhood pact is declared do they begin the downward spiral to become hardened gangsters. Some years later the gang leader, Abraham, discovers in jail that he has a gift for telling stories and becomes the prison 'cinema' which earns him respect and status whilst his best friend becomes the concubine of the cell boss. On his release our storyteller begins to write his stories and develops a new lease on life with his childhood sweetheart, Jenny. Meanwhile his gang buddies rope him into the murder of a taxi driver for which they will all be hung if proven guilty.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, independent film
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The Rise of the Krays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers who quickly fought their way to becoming the most feared and respected villains in all of London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, we see them rise to infamy through drugs, sex and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Syndicate Smasher (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of mercenaries hired as contract killers are hunted down by the Mafia, the Yakuza, the Russian Mob, and the Tongs all at once.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic
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Last of the Wolves (2021)
Plot Summary:
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2017)
Plot Summary:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Big Heist (2001)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. The heist was also the subject of the much better-known 1990 film "Goodfella"s, directed by Martin Scorsese. It was also the subject of another made-for-television film: "The 10 Million Dollar Getaway" from 1991.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, dark comedy
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Kin (2021)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing