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Plot Summary:
A gangster on the run, sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing, neo noir, hood, visual, weird
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, social, art film, detective, tragic
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7 Prisoners (2021)
Plot Summary:
An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, hood, existential
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Birds of Passage (2018)
Plot Summary:
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous Wayuu family get involved in a booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honour collide, a fratricidal war breaks out that will put their lives, culture and ancestral traditions at stake.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, political, factual, tense, suspense, retro, social, artsy
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Les Misérables (2019)
Plot Summary:
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers the tensions among the different neighbourhood gangs. As they find themselves overwhelmed during an interrogation, a drone films every one of their movements.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, suspense, art house, crime thriller, psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, social
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Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, suspense, noir, art house, crime drama, visual, twisted
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Rainy Dog (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bloody, crime drama, perverse, mind blowing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)
Plot Summary:
Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, disturbing, hood, perverse
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Metro Manila (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seeking a brighter future in megacity Manila, Oscar Ramirez and his family flee their impoverished life in the rice fields of the northern Philippines. But the sweltering capital's bustling intensity quickly overwhelms them, and they fall prey to the rampant manipulations of its hardened locals. Oscar catches a lucky break when he's offered steady work for an armored truck company and gregarious senior officer Ong takes him under his wing. Soon, though, the reality of his work's mortality rate and the murky motives of his new partner force Oscar to confront the perils he faces in his new job and life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, noir, neo noir, dramatic, sincere, rough, bleak
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The Gang (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Bull (2019)
Plot Summary:
The 1990s. Empty shelves in the shops, an economic abyss and criminal dramas that unfold literally at every corner. The young leader of a criminal gang Anton Bykov, with the nickname “Bull”, must make money in whatever way to provide for his family. After a local shootout, Anton ends up in the police station, from where he is released at the intervention of Moscow’s crime lords. In exchange, the latter asks Anton for a small, but dangerous service.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, bleak, serious, harsh, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing
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Paris by Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, noir, crime drama, tense, rough, realistic
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Darkland (2017)
Plot Summary:
Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome with guilt. As guilt gives way to anger, Zaid becomes a masked avenger and takes on Copenhagen's criminal underworld in his quest for justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood
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The Corrupted (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Mystery (2012)
Plot Summary:
A car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, tense, captivating, neo noir
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Street Flow (2019)
Plot Summary:
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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56 So Far (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sadhu Agashe, a police officer in Mumbai, makes a name for himself by killing criminals in sting operations instead of locking them up in prison. The film follows his method of working, gives an insight into the Mumbai Police Crime Branch, and Agashe's alleged connection with the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, experimental, funny, offbeat, intellectual, neo noir, entertaining
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Hyena (2014)
Plot Summary:
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood
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Divines (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, sad, art house, hood, mind twisting
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Cement (2000)
Plot Summary:
What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided by the narration of Nin, Bill's coke-snorting partner, we go back and forth over the past 48 hours to find out what brings Bill and Sean to this deadly scene. Missing money, cops on the take, Sean's two brothers (one the leader of the mob, the other a camera-carrying simpleton), Bill's wife, dead young police officers, infidelity, and Bill and Nin's partnership make a mix as volatile and unstable as the cement is solid and immobile.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, independent film, tense
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Hate (1995)
Plot Summary:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. La Haine means Hate.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 191000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood, political, rough, captivating, neo noir, brutal
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Abusing Protocol (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his brother (Tommy), RJ moves in with Gang Leader (Cane) and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a world of abuse and drugs. Local businessman (Dave) is watching the things he loves disappear in front of his very eyes. What happens when these two people, with nothing to lose, abuse protocol?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Turning Point (2021)
Plot Summary:
A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, hood
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The Driftless Area (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents' death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella, Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, a haphazard yet determined criminal, and a mystery that will determine all of their fates. A contemporary fable about the ways we struggle to control time and fate in a possibly predetermined universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir, independent film, weird
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Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the 90s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, rough, captivating, realistic, erotic, hood, poliziottesco, neo noir, bleak
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The Funeral (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film, philosophical, hood, tense, rough, clever, serious, captivating
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Chouf (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chouf: It means “look” in Arabic, but it is also the name of the watchmen in the drug cartels of Marseille. Sofiane is 20. A brilliant student, he comes back to spend his holiday in the Marseille ghetto where he was born. His brother, a dealer, gets shot before his eyes. Sofiane gives up on his studies and gets involved in the drug network, ready to avenge him. He quickly rises to the top and becomes the boss’s right hand. Trapped by the system, Sofiane is dragged into a spiral of violence….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Down Terrace (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, dark comedy, captivating, psychological, suspense, neo noir, dark, hood, rough, humorous
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Outlaw Country (2012)
Plot Summary:
A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, independent film, rough
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Villain (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, and he ends up using his life savings to calling in favours with mobster friends to try and help.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, social, hood
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City of God (2002)
Plot Summary:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 788000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized, visual, cult classic, visually stunning, captivating, emotional