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Plot Summary:
An alcoholic London ex-cop becomes involved into a kidnapping drama and tries to free the daughter of a friend from a brutal gangster mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: neo noir, poliziottesco, noir, offbeat, grindhouse
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King of Crime (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marcus King, an old school gangster, a crime lord, has left behind old school crime. He has manoeuvred his business into the leafy lanes of the suburbs and now, in place of pimps and dealers, his team consists of the best graduate geeks that money can bribe. No brothels, no casinos and no drugs - he's dragged serious, organised crime well and truly into the twenty-first century. From credit card cloning and skimming to Internet spamming and scamming, he is the king of Cyber Land.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Revenge (1971)
Plot Summary:
A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, offbeat, independent film, poliziottesco
Similar in 84%
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
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
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Night of the Juggler (1980)
Plot Summary:
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, hood, grim, cult film
Similar in 76%
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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Cat Chaser (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, eighties
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8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, cult classic, captivating, suspense, retro, perverse
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Villain (1971)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of ruthless East End gangster Vic Dakin and his plans for an ambitious raid on the wages van of a plastic factory. This is a departure from Dakin's usual modus operandi, and the job is further complicated by his having to work with fellow gangster Frank Fletcher's firm. As Dakin plots, Wolfe wheels and deals and MP Draycott gets caught in a web of his own iniquity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, banned, cult film
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Wrong Way (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two girls are driving home when their car breaks down in the country. They are kidnapped by a gang of drug-crazed hippies, and repeatedly raped. They escape, but soon run into a death cult who plan to gang-rape the girls, then kill them. Meanwhile, the father of one of the girls gets the police to begin an investigation into their disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, independent film, cult film
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The Baby Sitter (1975)
Plot Summary:
Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the boy's house, she discovers that he in fact has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Abduction (1975)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of wealthy businessman is taken hostage by a gang of radical black revolutionaries. While she fears for her life at first, she gradually starts to become sympathetic to her kidnappers' cause, and begins to consider herself to be one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Plot Summary:
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, harsh, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, crime drama, serious
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological, sexy, suspense, rough, bleak, minimal cast, erotic
Similar in 77%
The Hit (1984)
Plot Summary:
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, neo noir, offbeat, dark comedy, noir, bloody, suspense, entertaining, manga, cult classic
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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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Under Suspicion (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, serious, clever, realistic, suspenseful, detective, noir, visually stunning, sexy
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Essex Boys (2000)
Plot Summary:
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, crime thriller, independent film
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The Yakuza (1974)
Plot Summary:
Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, intense, harsh, serious, realistic, retro, spiritual, fast paced, crime drama
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City of Industry (1997)
Plot Summary:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, hood, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Massacre Mafia Style (1974)
Plot Summary:
Terror reigns when Mimi, the son of a deported Don, along with his associate Jolly Rizzo wage a bloody war for control of the West Coast underworld, battling hordes of hard-boiled mobsters and deadly black pimps on their rise to the top!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crying, independent film, cult 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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Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, stylized, dark, neo noir, dramatic, controversial
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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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Calm with Horses (2019)
Plot Summary:
In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, Arm's loyalties are truly tested when he is asked to kill for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, social, independent film, hood, powerful
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Layer Cake (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 192000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, intense, clever, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, dark comedy, suspense, entertaining
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Eastern Promises (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 257000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, disturbing, serious, tense, suspenseful, intense, stylized, bleak, psychological
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspense, dark, cult classic, clever
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Carlito's Way (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, intense, rough, bleak, serious
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, independent film, witty, black comedy, dark comedy
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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