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Plot Summary:
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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As Good as Dead (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop in self-imposed witness protection in Mexico becomes a target when a fight video of his apprentice goes viral.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Payback (1990)
Plot Summary:
An escaped con goes after a drug-dealing killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Fools Die on Fridays (1990)
Plot Summary:
Andrey, former police officer is trying to find who is responsible for his false accusation and imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Diamond Ruff (2015)
Plot Summary:
Action - Orphan, con artist, crime boss and millionaire, Diamond Ruff has seen it all. In prison for a murder he did not commit, he meets the Reverend Trek Woods, who overwhelms him with kindness, character and faith in god. Falling in love with April, a young woman with terminal illness, Ruff is again challenged to grow and change. Will he be redeemed? There are no easy answers. - Felicia Pearson, Fredro Starr, Michael Barra.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: hood
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The Law Enforcer (1986)
Plot Summary:
A police officer is suspended for assaulting gang members who threatened a young woman and her boyfriend. Meanwhile, his fellow officers need help in catching a group of murderous thugs about to make a big time bust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Live by the Fist (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man is unjustly convicted of a brutal crime. In prison he must fight for survival, justice and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Agent Jade Black (2020)
Plot Summary:
A skilled young female agent is tasked with capturing a rogue former agent before she can unleash a biological weapon starting with the wealthy and powerful purveyors of the international sex trade.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Jailer (2023)
Plot Summary:
Muthuvel Pandian lives a peaceful life with his family, but a sudden intrusion of unwelcome parties in the lives of his family forces him to turn to a path he had long left behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags:
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Hi-Riders (1978)
Plot Summary:
Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, independent film
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One Away (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Against Their Will: Women in Prison (1994)
Plot Summary:
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money and illegal favors have become the norm until one woman decides to battle the system. Leading a group of inmates on a risky life-or-death struggle for justice, a ten year silence is finally broken, exposing the twisted truth to the world and enabling the prisoners the freedom to live without fear.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Society Murders (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout Australia and later became the subject of both a book and a television film.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Pale Flower (1964)
Plot Summary:
Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko's insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, cynical, black and white, existential, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, offbeat, serious
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Jail in Burning Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Take (2007)
Plot Summary:
After he's shot during a heist in East L.A., an armored truck driver wrestles with rehabilitation and tracking down the man who committed the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, action packed, realistic, independent film
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Buckskin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost boy. Once there, Wesley Porter must confront the demons of his past and navigate the savage Native's traps in order to bring himself and the young man home alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Ring of Death (2008)
Plot Summary:
On the inside, there are no rules. See what happens when Prison Officials Profit from Illegal fights.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Ten Violent Women (1982)
Plot Summary:
Eight women miners get fed up with their lifestyle and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a jewelry store robbery, they are busted by narcs when they try to buy cocaine. The eight get sent to a prison where a butch head guard uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures. Two of the women manage to escape and then get mixed up with a shah who had a scarab ring stolen in their jewelry heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Locked Down (2010)
Plot Summary:
Danny, a respected cop, is setup after an investigation goes wrong. While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit. With the help of Irving, a former mixed martial arts champion, Danny devises a scheme to bring justice and innocence to his family's name, if he can get out of the cage alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, stylized, erotic
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The Real Thing (1996)
Plot Summary:
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver transplant. In a desperate attempt to save his brother's life, Rupert decides to execute a heist at a downtown club on New Year's Eve that will give him the money he needs. Rupert assembles an eclectic crew of ex-cons, including his best friend and his ex-girlfriend. Rupert and his gang converge on the nightclub for a climax that spins out of control. New Year's Eve has never been so explosive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, neo noir
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His Nickname Is Beast (1990)
Plot Summary:
Saveliy Govorkov, an Afghanistan war veteran tries to fight mafia in his own town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Slams (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Silent Partner (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gordon Patrick, a young CIA analyst is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a major Russian political figure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, realistic, political
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The Enforcer (2022)
Plot Summary:
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to save the young girl from the deadly organization he’s spent his life building.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Penitentiary III (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Divine Move (2014)
Plot Summary:
Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his seven-year sentence, he gets in touch with his brother's former associate "Tricks," hermit and blind master player "The Lord," and skillful junkyard owner Mok-su; together, they begin formulating a plan to get back at Sal-soo and his men. Tae-seok slowly penetrates Sal-soo's inner circle and his gambling joint, and eliminates Sal-soo's men one by one. But Sal-soo discovers Tae-seok's true identity and engages him in one final game that will seal the fates of the two men involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Plot Summary:
Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own agenda: they kill the suppliers, take a suitcase of money, and set up Killa to take the fall. Stuck in the state pen in Chino, Killa has his gang figure out what really happened while he hatches an escape plan. Meanwhile, Crackle has kidnaped Killa's sweetie, Booboo, and the government has confiscated his assets. Can Killa Pop escape Chino, rescue Booboo, exact revenge, find the loot, and elude the police? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, tense, independent film
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Half Past Dead 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transfered to a tougher prison than the re-opened Alcatraz. He claims it's to be closer to his lady but his real motives are a bit more grandiose. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bill Goldberg) a bulky prisoner who can take care of himself. Twitch, despite being less muscular, is just as mouthy and is pretty much the same. But there is a gang war brewing between the black and hispanic inmates that explodes into a hostile takeover of the prison when the black's gang leader is shot dead and the finger points at Burke. But the sh!t really hits the fan when the real killer and leader of the hispanics, Cortez (Robert Madrid) takes Twitch's girlfriend and Burke's daughter hostage.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, action packed, fast, campy
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The Prison (2017)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama
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Animal (2005)
Plot Summary:
His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, bleak