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Plot Summary:
Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Best tv shows and movies like The Night of the Following Day (1969):
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Out of Bounds (1986)
Plot Summary:
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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The Red Siren (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, bleak
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Dead Silence (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three escaped convicts take a group of deaf students hostage but their teacher is Marlee Matlin!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective, tension
Similar in 76%
The Bag Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
A criminal waits in a seedy motel and waits for his boss after killing several men to steal a bag.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bahamas, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological, neo noir, suspense, independent film, surprise ending, extraordinary
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Action Man (1967)
Plot Summary:
An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, nostalgic
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Scenes of the Crime (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir
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The Outside Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, poliziottesco, french noir, cult film
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Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, black cinema, cult film
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Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
Plot Summary:
JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, fast
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Hard Luck (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Relentless 3 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Rain Fall (2009)
Plot Summary:
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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Oxygen (1999)
Plot Summary:
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, surprise ending, rough, detective, dark, twisted, serious
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Cohen and Tate (1988)
Plot Summary:
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, entertaining, perverse, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, road movie, psychological, serious, realistic
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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Plot Summary:
Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: talky, intense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, road movie, neo noir, psychological, realistic
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, crime drama, independent film
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The Road Killers (1994)
Plot Summary:
After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, anamorphic, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
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The Piano Player (2002)
Plot Summary:
A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, surprise ending
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Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
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Sitting Target (1972)
Plot Summary:
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, offbeat, grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Trapped (2002)
Plot Summary:
When their daughter is kidnapped by experienced nappers (Bacon and Love), the Jennings' (Theron and Townsend) turn the tables on this seemingly foolproof plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, scary, clever, serious, realistic, neo noir, suspense thriller, tear jerker
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Three Way (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir, surprise ending
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Hollywood Flies (2005)
Plot Summary:
Life is the buzz.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic, road movie
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Spanish Judges (2000)
Plot Summary:
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, neo noir
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Best Seller (1987)
Plot Summary:
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic, neo noir, offbeat, detective, independent film
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Almost Human (1974)
Plot Summary:
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, slasher, grindhouse, action thriller, terrifying, realistic
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The Crew (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
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Blue Steel (1990)
Plot Summary:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, rough, disturbing, erotic, cult classic, stylized
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Point Blank (2010)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count rises. Can Samuel evade the cops and the criminal underground and deliver his beloved to safety?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, intense, unusual plot structure, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, atmospheric