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Plot Summary:
Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia suggests that a better way to get the rocks would be to hijack the transport plane while it is en route to New York. The dogged inspector Le Goff is using all the available resources to thwart their plans. Though the heist itself is successful, Santet finds himself trapped by the mob because of his fling with Manalese's daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, french noir
Best tv shows and movies like The Sicilian Clan (1969):
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Scoumoune (1972)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, suspense
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Last Known Address (1970)
Plot Summary:
Marceau Léonetti (Lino Ventura), a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne (Marlène Jobert). Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, crime drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Two Men in Town (1973)
Plot Summary:
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, tragic ending, poliziottesco
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Any Number Can Win (1963)
Plot Summary:
Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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The Sewers of Paradise (1979)
Plot Summary:
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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The French Detective (1975)
Plot Summary:
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: crime drama, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco, french noir
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Blood on the Streets (1974)
Plot Summary:
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man.".
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized
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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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Second Breath (1966)
Plot Summary:
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the suave inspector, Blot (Paul Meurisse), relentlessly seeking him. The implosive Le deuxième souffle captures the pathos, loneliness, and excitement of a life in the shadows with methodical suspense and harrowing authenticity, and contains one of the most thrilling heist sequences Melville ever shot.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, black and white, crime drama, exciting, atmospheric, clever, bleak, serious, realistic
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Grand Slam (1967)
Plot Summary:
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized, eurospy
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Once a Thief (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
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The Upper Hand (1966)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggle business.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, eurospy
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The Violent Four (1968)
Plot Summary:
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Borsalino (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, noir, poliziottesco, french noir, vintage
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The Second Wind (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, neo noir, crime drama
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The Gang (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Choice of Arms (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Grand Pardon (1982)
Plot Summary:
Le clan Bettoun : Raymond (le patriarche), Maurice (le fils), Jacky (le neveu), Roland (le neveu), Albert (le cousin de Raymond), Pépé (l'ami de Raymond), Samy (le garde du corps) sont un clan familial de caïds pieds-Noirs juifs du crime organisé français. Leurs activités sont la gestion de casinos, l'organisation de match de boxe clandestins, les jeux clandestins, le proxénétisme, le racket et les règlements de compte sanguinaires contre d'autres clans arabes et français.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Paris by Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, noir, crime drama, tense, rough, realistic
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The Fighter (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, poliziottesco, suspense
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Flic Story (1975)
Plot Summary:
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, cult classic, period piece, detective, tense, realistic
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Pasha (1968)
Plot Summary:
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, microfilm
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cynical, noir, tense, retro, heartbreaking, hood, crime drama, crime thriller, atmospheric
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The Red Circle (1970)
Plot Summary:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a heist against impossible odds, their trail is pursued by a relentless inspector, and fate seals their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir, cerebral, visual, detective, atmospheric, clever
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Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary) (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
Plot Summary:
When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, poliziottesco
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Le Samurai (1967)
Plot Summary:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, visual, meditative, witty, art house
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The Professor (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. Here he starts immediately a new relationship with "Cosa Nostra" (Italian American Mafia). He is going to seat on the peak of the most powerful criminal organization, and the Italian authorities are almost impotent.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the 90s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, rough, captivating, realistic, erotic, hood, poliziottesco, neo noir, bleak
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This Thing of Ours (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film