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Plot Summary:
Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago.The case involved a group of people extorting several companies for money. The group sent cassette tapes to the companies. Eiji Akutsu comes across a mysterious cassette tape. Meanwhile, Toshiya Sone lives in Kyoto and runs a tailor shop. He discovers a cassette tape among his late father's possessions. He plays the cassette tape and hears his voice from his childhood days.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags:
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The Guard from the Underground (1992)
Plot Summary:
One of the contemporary masters of Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa here fashions a dark tale that is both a sharp satire of corporate life and a B-movie thriller. A former sumo wrestler now working as a security guard goes on a murderous rampage in the company that's employed him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Cliff Walkers (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller
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Out of Annie's Past (1995)
Plot Summary:
Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those involved. Soon, deaths of some major players in the game change the stakes from dollars and cents to life and death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Call of Death (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends try to keep a secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Midwives (2001)
Plot Summary:
It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes that it would be preferable for the woman to deliver her baby in the hospital. Though a dead telephone line and bad weather prevents Sibyl from going anywhere. Black ice and a persisten snowstorm makes transportation an impossibility. Early in the morning, the woman dies from what they believe to be a stroke and in all the chaos, Sibyl promptly decides to do a C-section to save the baby. The baby survives, but the mother is dead and tragedy is obvious. Yet, it's only going to get worse for Sibyl as her assistant is certain that the woman was still alive when Sibyl performed the C-section. Sibyl is charged with manslaughter, brought before the court and her life is and will forever be changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Petrified Forest (1973)
Plot Summary:
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako (Michiyo Aratama). In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Dimension Travelers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious Transfer Student.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Crime & Punishment (2015)
Plot Summary:
When reason fails, the devil helps.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector Tomohisa tasked with managing the team, the ST (Scientific Task Force) attempt to solve the most difficult of cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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The Kiss of Evil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Death Dreams (1991)
Plot Summary:
Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, gloomy
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The Crown Witness (1989)
Plot Summary:
A movie by Jon Lindström.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Informers (1963)
Plot Summary:
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: noir, detective, independent film, vintage
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Motherland Hotel (1987)
Plot Summary:
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film
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The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
Plot Summary:
At the turning point of the Iran-Contra affair, Elena McMahon, a fearless investigative journalist covering the 1984 US presidential campaign, puts herself in danger when she abandons her assigned task in order to fulfill the last wish of her ailing father, a mysterious man whose past activities she barely knows….
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, political thriller
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The Man from Rome (2022)
Plot Summary:
A computer hacker penetrates Vatican security and sends an urgent anonymous plea to the pope. Handsome Father Quart, of the church's Institute of External Affairs, an arm of the Vatican intelligence, is dispatched to investigate. The message of the hacker concerns a crumbling 17th century Baroque church in the heart of Seville that apparently "kills to defend itself".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: thrilling
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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Plot Summary:
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King,” the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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Negotiator (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three unidentified men hold a group of people hostage in a hospital after doing a smaller crime. Inspector Ishida and Captain Tohno handle the negotiations while one of their colleagues Lt. Ado tries to find the reason why the men decided to take the hospital hostage. At first, Lt. Ado tries to think of the possibilities for this crime using the clever aid of Ishida, but he only reaches the solution to the puzzle later on and by himself. Relevant information is revealed to the audience through flashbacks and through discoveries made by the police. And, several connections are made as the story develops. When the negotiations are finished, most things seem to be fine until they lose track of the criminals. Then, the story unveils with a different perspective, its roots in feelings of love and vengeance. Written by Rebeca C.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: thrilling
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Crows Zero II (2009)
Plot Summary:
Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, dorama, epic, anime, realistic
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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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Max & Jeremie (1992)
Plot Summary:
Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hitmen, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hitman Max, who knows too much to be left alive. Instead of planning a cool and distant hit, Jeremie gets to know his quarry personally and thereby gets entangled in a mass of conflicting allegiances. Max has one more assignment and has asked Jeremie to help him with it. The hero-worshipping boy can't bring himself to knock of this classy guy. However, just having such an inept apprentice as Jeremie around is enormously dangerous for the soon-to-be-retired killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Tajomaru: Avenging Blade (2009)
Plot Summary:
TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, stylized
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Carambole (2005)
Plot Summary:
This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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A Night in Nude: Salvation (2010)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. With no chance of their dream coming true with just their everyday earnings, they had another face - blinding the elderly with their beauty, putting on insurance coverage and seeking to get rich quick by murdering. However, their scheme begins to collapse from one little mistake.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Plot Summary:
Richter Boudreau is on a bad streak: Languishing in the shadow of his celebrity mother, he loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached with a dangerous proposition that ultimately leads to blackmail. Richter's friend Ronnie ropes him into a scheme to steal the inheritance of his wife, Vicky.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, melancholic, surreal, stylized, serious, captivating, realistic, sensual, neo noir, independent film
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Death Benefit (1996)
Plot Summary:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a small insurance policy. The further he goes into the case the more he reveals about the background of the suspect. Keeney finds support from others who also want to find out the truth behind the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, independent film
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The Blood of Wolves (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Death Note: L Change the World (2008)
Plot Summary:
"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari (Shunji Fujimura), L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, captivating, anime, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, surreal, exciting
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Last of the Wolves (2021)
Plot Summary:
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing