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Plot Summary:
The Vultures on the Road - an organized gang of robbers and murderers, which includes even the police. They kill the truck driver's friend, whose wife is expecting a baby. The police (which is cooperating with the bandits), of course, does nothing, so he begins to take revenge on the scum, crushing their cars by his truck.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Bus Driver (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school bus on its way to a retreat blows a tire and stops at the nearest ranch for help. The driver, five troubled students, and their ridiculous gym- teacher chaperone find, instead, criminals who will stop at nothing to make sure their drug operations aren't discovered. The students and teacher are easy prey for these animals, but standing in the way of certain death is a force more determined and more skilled than any of them ever expected: The Bus Driver.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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To the Last Limit (1991)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict Viktor Dremov, who is also an ex-boxer, tries to mend his ways and start a new life but his former girlfriend is marrying another man (some old antiquarian), while local thugs rob him of his car and press him constantly trying to make him work for them. Being framed and hunted he should kill them all before he becomes a broken or a dead man.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Punk Vacation (1990)
Plot Summary:
A peaceful California town is shaken after the brutal murder of diner owner by a gang of vicious punks. When the daughter of the slain man attempts to avenge her father’s death, she’s held hostage by the gang resulting in an epic battle between punks and rednecks.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Clown: Payday (2005)
Plot Summary:
Former secret government agent Max Hecker (Sven Martinek) disguises himself with a clown mask in order to fight international crime. He hangs up his mask when one of his supporters, journalist Claudia (Diana Frank), is murdered. Four years later, he must put it back on as Claudia's sister Leah (Eva Habermann) is kidnapped by the same people that killed Claudia.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Billa (1980)
Plot Summary:
Billa (Rajinikanth) is a powerful mafia lord, who in spite of being one of the most wanted on the list of Interpol, remains elusive to the police. Meanwhile, after a couple of unsuccessful attempts at nabbing Billa, the police finally succeed, but Billa dies during the pursuit, botching DSP Alexander’s plan to reach the source of all crime—the man Billa reported to-by capturing Billa alive. DSP buries Billa’s body, ensuring that people believe that he is still be alive. As luck would have it, DSP remembers his chance encounter with Rajappa, a simpleton trying to survive in the hustle and bustle of Chennai in order to support two small foster kids, who is an exact lookalike of Billa. DSP hatches a plan to transform Rajappa into Billa and place him back into the crime nexus, but this time as a police informer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Kings of Crime (1988)
Plot Summary:
This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Blood Brother (2018)
Plot Summary:
Blood Brother takes place on he mean streets of a city in decay, where a recently released convict begins to take a murderous revenge against his childhood friends, whom he believes let him take the fall for a crime they collectively committed. As the bodies start piling up, one of the friends, now a cop, will stop at nothing to put and end to the murderous rampage and to right the many wrongs of their tragically violent past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, hood
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Body Weapon (1999)
Plot Summary:
While investigating murder cases involving masked rapists, Officer Ling herself is raped and her husband murdered by the suspects, on their wedding night. Rather than relying on her fellow police officers to solve her case, Ling chooses to use her own body as the weapon to take revenge on her violators.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, sexploitation film, cult film
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Johan Falk: Blodsdiamanter (2015)
Plot Summary:
GSI follow up a weapon trail that leads right into Kavkaz mafia headquarters on the west coast. GSI member Niklas Saxlid is the one in the group who is specialized in undercover operations, and he has penetrated Kavkaz' activities. But suddenly something happens and Niklas disappears.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Overkill (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza ring operating in the city.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Pimp Bullies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Five suspects holding a piece of the truth behind an unsolved crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, erotic, detective
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Ameerin Aadhi Bhagavan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aadhi, a smart and suave smuggler in Bangkok, falls in love with a waitress. However, he finds himself in trouble when she frames him for all the crimes committed by his look-alike, Bhagavan.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating
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Big B (2007)
Plot Summary:
Big B is a 2007 Malayalam action-thriller film co-written and directed by Amal Neerad, starring Mammootty in the title role.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, stylized, exciting, suspense, slang
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The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
Plot Summary:
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty thugs in the summer of 1953, and the townspeople, along with a two political prisoners, who try to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, captivating, realistic
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Johan Falk 5 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Degenerate (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the images of his own traumatic past, Blair O'Leary (Bobby Field) unknowingly leads his friends down a dark path of destruction. Being a good friend, Marcus (David Yost) lends a helping hand getting Blair, Ralphie (Claude Duhammel), and Kayton (William Lamar) situated in a safe house in the middle of the Arizona desert... but there's a catch. They must pull off a job in order to pay their way. In tight situations friendships can only stretch so far, and what comes around goes around in this twisted tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, powerful, twisted, dark comedy, mad
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Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru (2017)
Plot Summary:
A hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, crime thriller, thrilling, action thriller
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Theri (2016)
Plot Summary:
When an honest cop, Vijay Kumar's family is ruthlessly slaughtered by a politician and his aides, he decides to change his identity and commits his life to bring his daughter up in a serene atmosphere. But some freak events end up compromising his identity and what he does to save his daughter and avenge the death of his family unfurls as Theri.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, feel good, cult film
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There Are No Saints (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mark of the Tortoise (1964)
Plot Summary:
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013)
Plot Summary:
A 5 member gang, led by Seok-Tae (Kim Yun-Seok), kidnaps a baby boy named Hwa-Yi and raises the baby like their own son. The baby boy is now 17 years old (Yeo Jin-Goo) and has turned into a lethal killer. Taking part in his father's gang, Hwa-Yi learns about his own past. Hwa-Yi pulls out his gun to find out who he really is.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, scenic, crime drama, action thriller, psychotronic
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Thoongaavanam (2015)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of this mess?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Johan Falk 13 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk is with the wife of a dead mob boss down to Latvia to try to solve a mystery that has eluded him for three years. What Johan finds downstairs in a cottage outside Riga shocks not only himself but also the Gothenburg police special unit GSI 's new chief Sophie Nordh and the former chief Patrik Agrell. At the same time a Latvian mafia group is picking up hidden and forgotten Soviet military containers from the water-filled pits nearby. Containers filled with weapons. And everything is heading to Sweden! At the same time most of the original members of the Rydellgang are being released from a long prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killerman (2019)
Plot Summary:
A New York City money launderer desperately searches for answers after waking up with no memory, millions in stolen cash and drugs, and an insane crew of dirty cops violently hunting him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, hood, crime thriller
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Run & Gun (2022)
Plot Summary:
After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the ‘burbs. But when his past is discovered, Ray is blackmailed into one last job to collect a mysterious package. After a deadly double-cross, he finds himself wounded and on the run from ruthless assassins who will stop at nothing to get what he has. Now, with the lives of his loved ones hanging in the balance and danger at every turn, Ray’s only hope is to draw upon his violent past to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Roundup (2022)
Plot Summary:
The ‘Beast Cop’ Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, crime drama, detective
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The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blowback (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a master thief is sabotaged during a bank heist and left for dead, he seeks revenge on his former crew one target at a time. Now, with the cops and the mob closing in, he's in the race of his life to reclaim an untold fortune in cryptocurrency from those who double-crossed him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Grasshopper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense