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Plot Summary:
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, neo noir
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VANish (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three thugs kidnap Emma, the daughter of a drug kingpin, and have no idea that murderous blood that runs through her veins. As time passes, the unlucky threesome finds themselves in danger from the police, gangsters and their captive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, captivating, psychological thriller, independent film
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The Package (2012)
Plot Summary:
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Street Knight (1993)
Plot Summary:
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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Message Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retired assassins past catches up with him and his brutality surfaces as he goes on a final killing spree to make things right.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, intense, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Point Blank (1998)
Plot Summary:
Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, tense, suspense, exciting, independent film, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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End of a Gun (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, detective, freeze frame
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Cartels (2016)
Plot Summary:
An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
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SuperFly (2018)
Plot Summary:
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, hood, captivating, disturbing, exciting, tense, erotic, retro, surprise ending, neo noir
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Close Range (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, neo noir, independent film, freeze frame
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I Am Wrath (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, neo noir, action thriller, surprise ending, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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Assassination Games (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, intense, cult classic, surprise ending, neo noir
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Harsh Times (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, intense, hood, serious, suspense, cult classic, independent film, realistic, exciting
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Sabotage (2014)
Plot Summary:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, suspense, stylized, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, action thriller
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Hard to Kill (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast
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Maximum Force (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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Deadly Target (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese gangster in Los Angeles escapes on the eve of his deportation to Hong Kong. A martial-arts master detective and his ragtag team get caught up in the action as they track down this ruthless killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, crime drama, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Back in Action (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, neo noir, independent film, detective, cult film
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Recoil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, crime drama, realistic, surprise ending, independent film
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6 Bullets (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, action packed, independent film, exciting, surprise ending
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Marked for Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, grindhouse, intense, hood, cult classic
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Plot Summary:
In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Sam has no choice but to go rogue to save the life of an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, exciting, tense, captivating, absurd, perverse, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic
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The Courier (2012)
Plot Summary:
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, action packed, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir
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Absolution (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a contract killer (Steven Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a dangerous mob boss (Vinnie Jones) with powerful political ties, running a human trafficking operation, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Romania, USA, Ukraine
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, freeze frame
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, entertaining, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Xtreme (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, hood, perverse, thrilling, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, independent film
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The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)
Plot Summary:
While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, cliffhanger, action thriller, surprise ending
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Proud Mary (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, retro, hood, surprise ending, neo noir, black cinema
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The Asian Connection (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang's vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, tense, touching, captivating, scenic, neo noir, independent film, black comedy
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Live by Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: neo noir, stylized, period piece, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, art house, cult classic, teen