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Plot Summary:
Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether he will stay a thief or start a new life with Doris.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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A Good Murder (2006)
Plot Summary:
An illegal immigrant on the run from a Russian mafia boss, falls for an artist. When he discovers her family home is worth millions, he hatches a plot to get hold of the deeds.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Diastrofes (1974)
Plot Summary:
As Socrates is abroad for treatment, Elina's young woman falls in love with the painter Hector whom he has installed. Louisa, a girlfriend who lives with her, poses for Hector and is in love with him. He plans to murder Elina.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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My Bed Is Not for Sleeping (1968)
Plot Summary:
Laura (Ira von Fuerstenberg) the wife of a international spie arrives in Berlin for a holiday. While her husband (Paul Hubschmidt) is away, she falls for a British photographer Roger (Gerald Blain). They share a cab -- and eventually each other -- in an adulterous affair at a posh hotel. The two soon jet off to Nice, but word of the affair has reached Laura's ruthless and now Laura-less husband. The spies -- who are now being blackmailed by Roger and figure he knows too much -- go after the couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Next Stop Paradise (1998)
Plot Summary:
The level of disinterest in personal affairs has become so cynical in Bucharest that people cheer even an inept army and police manhunt. Meanwhile, Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Romania, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Lump of Sugar (2006)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a poor rancher, Si-eun's only hope is to one day, become a jockey. With her mother passing away at her birth, her favorite horse, Chun-doong, has become not only her friend, but also a soul mate. She is devastated when Chun-doong is sold to another owner, but when they are reunited two years later they have a chance to create a miracle by teaming up in a race.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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The Assistant (1997)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward Minogue (Jaimz Woolvett) rob the small Bober family grocery. Minogue attacks frail Morris Bober (Armin Mueller-Stahl) because he has little money. Later, guilt sends Alpine back to the store, where he goes unrecognized and is hired by Bober as an assistant, despite the objections of Ida Bober (Joan Plowright). While Frank works the store, receiving miniscule wages, he falls for Bober's daughter, Helen (Kate Greenhouse), and Morris eventually learns who Frank really is.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Half Past Ten (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: erotic, homoerotic, romantic, captivating, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Veneno Cura (2008)
Plot Summary:
In oPorto there is a club, Imperatriz, where everything is permitted. A moment in which all intersect in the dark night.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Running Hot (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, hot
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Mouvements du désir (1994)
Plot Summary:
During the long train ride from Montreal to Vancouver, a man and woman find themselves increasingly attracted to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: avant garde
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Verso sud (1992)
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In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals effort to build a sort of precarious family. In the end you could almost feel there's still a slender thread of hope for them to hang on.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Scene of the Crime: A Tooth for a Tooth (1985)
Plot Summary:
A man who has just become unemployed kills his closest relatives before he judges himself. Commissioner Schimanski determined.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Order to Assassinate (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, Dominican Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Give Us Tomorrow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Execution Squad (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany, Monaco
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Paul and Michelle (1974)
Plot Summary:
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison after they have been reunited. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Little Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ramona lives her lonely life in Berlin working in a lipstick factory. One day she accidentally runs into Andrzei, a Polish mechanic illegally selling cigarettes in Germany during the weekend. One thing leads to another, and soon she finds herself pregnant. Then her life starts falling apart, when Andrzei tells her he already has a wife back in Poland and her baby dies shortly after its premature birth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Play It All (1994)
Plot Summary:
A film group is making a movie in a small village. The story is based on true events that has happened in the the same village a few decades ago. A dis-liked writer Pentti Töysä arrives in the middle of a press conference and claims that he is the true writer of the film. He has made some changes in the script and these changes will bring an old crime to light. But in the following night Töysä is being killed and the final draft of the script is missing.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Payroll (1961)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: noir, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, poliziottesco, british noir, cult film
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Angels of the Street (1969)
Plot Summary:
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, poliziottesco
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Simple Men (1992)
Plot Summary:
Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas. D:"Long Island is a a terminal moraine." B:"What's that?" D:"It's the material left behind when a glacier recedes." D:"Gee, then what the hell are we waiting for?"D: "She's a bit jumpy..." B: "Jumpy women are great!".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, talky, witty, realistic, art house, independent film, clever, humorous, retro, esoteric
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Endless Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
A shiftless dreamer, Michael Rogers (Hywel Bennett) fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl, Ellie Thomsen (Hayley Mills) who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their houseguest Greta (Britt Ekland), lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, black and white, pastoral, independent film, scary, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious
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Mona Lisa (1986)
Plot Summary:
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, intense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, funny, sincere, cynical, touching, gloomy
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Breaking and Entering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, stylized, compassionate, thought provoking, realistic, anime, crime thriller
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A Very British Sex Scandal (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he meets Eddie McNally, who is on leave from the air force and the pair embark on an affair together. However, it is their weekend at the estate of Lord Edward Montagu which eventually leads to a scandal which rocked modern Britain and led to a reconsideration of, and the eventual decriminilisation of homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, intellectual, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story (2020)
Plot Summary:
Katarina, a Norwegian nurse in London, embarks on a passionate affair with a fellow immigrant nurse that suffers the consequences of unresolved mental health issues from the lovers' secret pasts.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, captivating, emotional, talky
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, lyrical, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, independent film, psychotronic
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Lila Says (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, emotional, artsy, non-linear, heartbreaking, art house, multicultural, sexual, psychological
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Kidulthood (2006)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen, emotional, cult classic, bleak, captivating, realistic