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Plot Summary:
A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Thailand, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, mind blowing, realistic, gloomy, experimental, crying, freeze frame
Best tv shows and movies like The Tesseract (2003):
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Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return (1989)
Plot Summary:
Renowned director Samuel Fuller's final film stars Keith Carradine as a former pop music star whose career was cut short after his throat was slit for dating a gangster's girlfriend. Carradine roams the country as a vagrant, until the day comes when he can take revenge on those who did him wrong, in this brutal action tale. Samantha Fuller and Bernard Fresson co-star.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, detective, weeping
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The Red Siren (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, bleak
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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
Similar in 89%
Golgo 13 (1977)
Plot Summary:
Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective 'Smitty' Smith, determined to stop Togo no matter the cost. The result is an explosive adventure through the seamy, violent streets of Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, detective, manga
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Bad Guys (1995)
Plot Summary:
On the run from a drug deal gone wrong, a beautiful young woman escapes across the border only to find herself trapped in a dangerous web of intrigue and deceit in old Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tortured (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mobster orders an undercover FBI agent to torture an accountant.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, twist ending, hood
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Shatter (1974)
Plot Summary:
Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, poliziottesco
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Night of the Running Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, independent film, fast
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Bangkok Dangerous (2000)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about a deaf-mute hitman and his partner. Trouble begins when he starts a relationship with a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bloody, stylized, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexy
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Walking the Edge (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, hood, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Plot Summary:
Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. Since Ledda starts showing symptoms of Alzheimer's, it's getting more and more difficult to complete his contracts. When he has to murder a 12-year old call-girl, he refuses and becomes a target himself. While Vincke and Verstuyft are chasing him and counting the corpses, Ledda is taking care of his employers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, detective, psychological, rough, neo noir, dramatic, psychological thriller, cult classic, atmospheric
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Hard Luck (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Rain Fall (2009)
Plot Summary:
A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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Rockaway (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and prostitution that have moved into their neighborhood and caused the destruction of his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama
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Headshot (2011)
Plot Summary:
A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, realistic, erotic, sexy
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Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
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In the Shadows (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach him to do stunts. While waiting for the word to kill this mentor, Eric discovers the joy of stunt work and of being part of a family. Meanwhile, several people are looking for the dead man's briefcase of money and a cloth bag of illegal drugs that he stole from an undercover FBI agent now desperate to get the borrowed drugs back to the bureau. The stunt coordinator says that 'we dance in the shadows of death.' Can Eric step out into the sun?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Federal Protection (2002)
Plot Summary:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify against the mobsters and his life is suddenly worthless - unless he submits to going into federal protection. The FBI gives him a new name - Howard Akers - and relocates him to a sleepy middle-class suburb in Little Rock, AR. Howard catches the attention of his lovely neighbor, Leigh, a bored fund-raiser for a non-profit zoo whose husband, Dennis, is having an affair - and she knows it, but she doesn't know it's with her hot-blooded sister, Bootsie. Leigh becomes friends with the enigmatic Howard, but Dennis and Bootsie see an opportunity to earn the million-dollar bounty the mob has put on his head by turning him in to the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, exciting
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Betrayal (2003)
Plot Summary:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, spoof, parody
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Stiletto (2008)
Plot Summary:
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, sexy, detective
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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
Plot Summary:
When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe (Cage) always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in the deadly arts and unwittingly becomes a target of a band of killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Thailand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: intense, action packed, suspense, stylized, rough, suspenseful, exciting, powerful, disgusting, serious
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Judgment Night (1993)
Plot Summary:
While racing to a boxing match, Frank, Mike, John and Rey get more than they bargained for. A wrong turn lands them directly in the path of Fallon, a vicious, wise-cracking drug lord. After accidentally witnessing Fallon murder a disloyal henchman, the four become his unwilling prey in a savage game of cat & mouse as they are mercilessly stalked through the urban jungle in this taut suspense drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, harsh, intense, serious, rough, realistic, hood, twisted
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
Plot Summary:
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, crime drama, realistic, fast
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The American (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, suspense, tense, stylized, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, talky, visually appealing, neo noir
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Ripley's Game (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, stylized, neo noir, absurd, atmospheric, crime thriller, intense
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Fulltime Killer (2001)
Plot Summary:
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission--to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, harsh, exciting, suspenseful, bloody, cult classic, stylized, heroic, neo noir
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The Crew (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during the job, Brennan must turn to rival crook Franner to avert an all-out gangland war.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
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22 Bullets (2010)
Plot Summary:
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, light, brutal, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, rough, bloody
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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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We Own the Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, stylized, rough, serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, dark