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Plot Summary:
After inheriting a pig farm from their father, sisters Stephane and Betty do their best to keep the family business running. But while the very pregnant Betty is diligent about doing the work that needs to be done, Stephane can focus only on her crippling gambling problem, which has landed her in deep trouble with her creditors. Desperate for cash, she considers a dangerous option for repaying the debt … but will it work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)
Plot Summary:
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime is shared between the two police forces and detectives David Bouchard from Montreal and Martin Ward from Toronto are assigned to work together. With totally different styles, attitudes and languages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, semi serious, action comedy, realistic, suspenseful, parody, crying, humorous, funny
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Shooting Elizabeth (1992)
Plot Summary:
Before a man (Jeff Goldblum) can kill his nagging wife (Mimi Rogers) as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Killer Biker Chicks (2009)
Plot Summary:
Killer Biker Chicks are hot women living out in the desert flirting with sex, drugs, rock&roll and murder.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
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Bangkok Adrenaline (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four backpackers arrive in Thailand to party and drink. A gambling game goes wrong and with their lives on the line they desperately decide to kidnap a billionaires daughter. Things go wrong when her 'father' doesn't play ball and prefers to use the kidnapping to further his own interests.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, fast, slapstick comedy
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Gutshot Straight (2014)
Plot Summary:
A professional poker player falls deep into underworld when he takes an unexpected wager from a mysterious high roller.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, crime thriller, neo noir, rough, realistic, semi serious
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A Sense of Humor (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Kiss Kiss (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
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The Collector (2002)
Plot Summary:
Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir
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Wicked Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hannah and Amber Baker are trapped in a dark Southern underworld of violence, drugs and bikers. Both live in fear of their "Uncle Frank" Stinson, the ruthless leader of a crime organization.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, powerful, independent film
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Drive Hard (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action comedy, road movie, realistic
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Head Above Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Bjørn leave Lene on the island for a fishing trip. Then her former lover, Gaute, drops by unexpectedly. Drunk, he sleeps in the double bed. Lene sleeps on the couch and wakes up when the men come back. She tries to wake Gaute, but then discovers that he's dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, dark, cult classic, scary, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Phase IV (2002)
Plot Summary:
Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, experimental, stylized, mystical, psychotronic
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From the Inside (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are watching them through binoculars. They stare lustfully at Tally through the windows and plan something horrible for the unhappy couple when night falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Hit List (1989)
Plot Summary:
A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, cult classic, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, cult film
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Lonely Street (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Killer Drag Queens on Dope (2003)
Plot Summary:
Killer Drag Queens on Dope is the wild story of Ginger and Coco, two dolls with a little secret... They're contract killers who work for a one-eyed lunatic named Uncle A. Half the cutthroats in town are trying to kill them, the other half are trying to sleep with them and Uncle A is just getting started. Ginger is hell on heels. Coco never met a drug she didn't like. Together, they're Killer Drag Queens on Dope!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, surreal, semi serious, exciting, offbeat, realistic, witty, weird, campy
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Gangster Exchange (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karate meets Kalashnikovs as the uncontrollable force and the immovable object are thrown together in this bloody hilarious action comedy! Hiro's a Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza with a simple mission: smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York City. If he fails his boss will stick his sword where the rising sun don't shine. Marco's a muscle mountain enforcer working for a family of ex-commandos from the Bosnian war. He's an entry-level thug with dreams of rising up the ranks. But in the Bosnian mob, promotion is spelled AK-47. When a bloody New York mob war erupts and Hiro and Marco snatch the toilet. It's worth millions - if they can find somebody who can decipher the Japanese chemistry formula. Wounded, hunted and dragging a 50-pound toilet made of heroin; they race around New York. Through sleazy alleyways, bouncer brawls, sniper shoot-outs and a biker war they're on a quest to find a Japanese chemist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, exciting, clever, independent film, fast
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Scarfies (1999)
Plot Summary:
This dark comedy is set in Dunedin, New Zealand. A university student finds an old "abandoned" house and proceeds to invite other students to share. It even has running electricity. But what is the catch?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, independent film
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No Mercy for the Rude (2006)
Plot Summary:
His name is Killa. Growing up as an orphan, he had been teased so much for being a lisper that he decided not to talk at all until getting a surgery that would make him talk clearly. Living all by himself, he spends his time doing only two things; watching bullfights on TV and eating seafood. He sometimes writes poetry and spends most of his time daydreaming about becoming a matador to fight face to face with a bull. In order to earn money for the surgery, he chose to become a killer. However, he has his own rule; kill only those with scary faces or with bad manners. Everything seems fine until his boss shows him a picture. The last prey he has to kill is the one who he has never expected to kill. And there is another secret hidden behind the mysterious client of this whack jo.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: semi serious, tense, captivating, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Witness to a Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who threaten the economies of many African states.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Killing Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled existence, EDWARD tries to start over. He assumes a new identity, starts a family and tries to start his own legitimate business that could potentially pull him out of his world of being a hitman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bloody, crime drama, neo noir
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Shoot the Hero (2010)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something couple unintentionally become involved in a botched jewel heist while shopping for wedding rings.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, realistic, offbeat, independent film, fast
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A Cold Day in August (2003)
Plot Summary:
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will soon find out just what his Frankenstein's monster will cost him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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W.B., Blue and the Bean (1989)
Plot Summary:
Three modern-day L.A. bounty hunters, known only by their code names -- White Bread, Bean and Blue -- are hired by their bail bondsman boss to look after a wealthy heiress, Nettie Ridgeway, who witnessed the murder of a one-time boyfriend connected to a powerful Colombian drug cartel. When Nettie is abducted and taken to the cartel's hideout in Mexico, the trio are forced to travel south of the border to try to rescue her in time for her to testify against her boyfriend's killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, eighties
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Made Men (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters and the drug dealers start a shoot-out for unknown reasons and both go gunning for Belushi. Meanwhile an unscrupulous cop is secretly having an affair with the girl friend and planning to make off with the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Dead Fish (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, dark comedy, realistic
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his nightmare only worsens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Camouflage (2001)
Plot Summary:
Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realizes that private investigating is not as it seemed to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, detective, feel good, sentimental, touching, funny, spoof, slapstick
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Sunday (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dead body found floating in a lake… Unexplained scratch marks on her neck… Supari killers out to kill her… A taxi driver who yells ‘bhoot, bhoot’ every time he sees her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, realistic