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Plot Summary:
CCTV operator Carl becomes frustrated when the police refuse to tackle a gang of drug dealers. He takes the law into his own hands with devastating repercussions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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The Assassin (1961)
Plot Summary:
A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback. Is he guilty or just a sleaze.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, poliziottesco, suspense, eurospy
Similar in 87%
10 Cent Pistol (2014)
Plot Summary:
A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending, surprise ending, independent film
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Blind Fear (1989)
Plot Summary:
A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
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The People Next Door (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ordinary young couple Gemma and Richard have just bought their first home and are expecting a baby. It's all very exciting, and the couple settles in nicely to their new pad. Except for the screaming and shouting they hear at all times of the night through their walls from the house next door. Listening more closely, pregnant Gemma is convinced that she's also hearing cries and smacking noises, which she is certain are the sounds of a toddler being abused. She and Richard have seen the child just once, but not since. Feeling morally obliged to act, the couple gather as much information as possible about what's going on next door. And after social services say there's nothing to worry about, Gemma becomes increasingly obsessed and she starts to spy on them in a way that raises questions about who is actually committing the crime — Gemma's neighbours, or Gemma?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, mockumentary
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Dead Dogs (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young security guard works the late shift at the Driftwood Inn along with a desk clerk and a married night maid with whom he is having an affair in whatever room is available. Unexpectedly, his brother and his lover, who used to be the guard's girl friend, show up at the motel. Turns out the two have been robbing convenience store and want the guard to join them to steal the motel safe after the Fourth of July when it will be at its fullest. Past history surfaces as jealousies mar the group's plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, expressionism, independent film
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Crime Scenes (2000)
Plot Summary:
Une jeune femme disparaît mystérieusement de l'auberge de ses parents. Deux policiers de la Crim' de Paris sont chargés de l'affaire. Mais des tâches de sang trouvés dans un prospectus laisse présager le pire.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir
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The Courier (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, poliziottesco
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Dangerous Pursuit (1990)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers the next target of a hired assassin and attempts to foil his plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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August 15 (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film is a sequel to the 1988 film August 1, which was directed by Sibi Malayil, and written by S. N. Swamy. Following from August 1, Mammootty plays the character of the Crime Branch officer Perumal who investigates into an attempt of assassination on the chief minister of Kerala on the 15th of August, the Independence Day of India.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Marco Effect (2021)
Plot Summary:
The thriller 'Marco effect' is a new film about the special unit of the police, Department Q, based on Jussi Adler-Olsen's fifth book in the crime series.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, tense, sincere, disturbing, social, suspense, captivating
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Nightride (2021)
Plot Summary:
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological
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Irumbu Thirai (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kathiravan, a major in the Indian army with anger management issues, is compelled by circumstances to borrow a loan from a bank with false documents. When the entire money in the account vanishes, Kathiravan tries to track down the scamsters, and it leads him to White Devil, a master hacker.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, captivating, tense, crime thriller
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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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The Chosen (2005)
Plot Summary:
A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Black's Game (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough, bleak, stylized, neo noir
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The Guilty (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer, Asger Holm, answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, minimal cast, exciting, psychological thriller, clever, enigmatic, captivating, psychological, depressing
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24 Hours in London (2000)
Plot Summary:
London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Reverse (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex and Marcos are two brothers who have separated one from another since three years ago, due to a play that they have practiced from their childhood. In the last time they played Alex suffered an accident and he was in coma for three weeks. In the next night after the death of Alex's father-in-law, this one calls Marcos looking for revenge, ready to play one more time wanting win over Marcos by first time at any cost. While they travel in car along the city testing to each other more dangerously with every new challenge, Marta, Alex's wife, find a secret hidden in a Marcos' photo, starting an investigation about her husband and her brother-in-law. But will Marta discover the secret at time to stop Alex and Marcos before it be too much late for both?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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The Line (2017)
Plot Summary:
Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Clean Hands (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia has turned a blind eye for too long to husband Eddie's flourishing drug business. When his dealing takes a (deadly) turn for the worse, however, her need to protect the lives and futures of her young children compel her to flee. But Eddie will stop at nothing to keep his wife inside the ‘family'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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I'm Not a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
One livid dawn, a cold and damp wind blows as a man walks alone through the darkness. Deputy Police Superintendent Francesco Prencipe is on his way to meet his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo whom he hasn't seen for almost two years. The men drive for two hours and exchange but a few words. Later that morning, the Judge is found dead, a single gunshot wound to his head. Francesco is the last person who saw him and his fingerprints are the only ones found in the house. But is he the murderer?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Face (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Essex Boys (2000)
Plot Summary:
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, crime thriller, independent film
Similar in 86%
Pusher (2012)
Plot Summary:
In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, hood, realistic, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, freeze frame
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Pusher (1996)
Plot Summary:
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, talky, intense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, serious, cynical
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Sugarhouse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. he thinks D - a young desperate drug addict can give him what he needs. But what D’s offering comes with more than just a price tag…. Tom is completely out of his depth when he finds himself in D's abandoned warehouse attempting to do a deal with him. The two enter into an irrational, deadly game of cat and mouse. The tense drama escalates when local crime lord, Hoodwink, wakes up to find his gun missing. With this impending threat at their backs, both men play an intense game of cat and mouse; scrambling to cut a deal and make sense of the very lives they may be about to lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, hood, cult classic, realistic
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He Who Dares (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Ministers daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack SAS operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time. "The Raid meets Die Hard" in this explosive action thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, detective, black comedy
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Phone Booth (2002)
Plot Summary:
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, psychological thriller, surprise ending, rough, twist ending, clever
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Fargo (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 711000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, clever, independent film, funny, absurd
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Line of Duty (2019)
Plot Summary:
Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, action thriller, crime thriller, surprise ending, psychotronic, buddy comedy, independent film, detective, black comedy