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Plot Summary:
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir, offbeat, tech noir, postmodern, perverse, cult classic, atmospheric, noir, serious
Best tv shows and movies like Trouble in Mind (1985):
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Equinox (1992)
Plot Summary:
Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are twins who were separated being babies, and they do not know each other. Henry was adopted by a honest man, while Freddy becomes a gangster. Henry is very shy and has a lot of mental troubles. The film melts the two stories by a young writer who discovers that they were sons of an european noble and they own a large inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, offbeat, serious, futuristic, realistic, gloomy
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Coastlines (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film
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Remember My Name (1978)
Plot Summary:
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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Hotel Noir (2012)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious, black and white, suspense, detective, stylized, independent film
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Choose Me (1984)
Plot Summary:
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, neo noir, surreal, sex comedy, independent film, atmospheric, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Underneath (1995)
Plot Summary:
Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas. To the mother who's starting a new life and the brother driven by old jealousies. To the places he remembers and the memories he can't forget. And to Rachel, the woman he married and then betrayed with his passion for gambling. Now she's together with Tommy Dundee, a man no one trifles with. He takes care of her in a way Michael never could, but there's a price for his attention and Rachel knows this. And when Michael devises a plan to get Rachel out from under Tommy's control, they become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger and desire from which no one escapes unscathed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, suspenseful, stylized, anamorphic, twisted, serious, realistic, surprise ending, independent film
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Once a Thief (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, retro, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, detective
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The Box (2003)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him in prison. He meets a waitress who's also seen her share of trouble and they start up a tenuous relationship. Then there's a murder and things get complicated. It's noir so the plot isn't the main focus but the mood of the film is consistent and properly downbeat. The characters can't seem to shake the fate that hangs over them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Cisco Pike (1971)
Plot Summary:
Cisco is an ex-rock star who has become a drug dealer. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him. Cisco has one weekend to sell it to his friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, surprise ending
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Let the Devil Wear Black (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, neo noir, independent film, serious
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Body Count (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, cult film
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Bad Turn Worse (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, captivating, tense, serious, suspense, rough, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Miami Blues (1990)
Plot Summary:
When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, especially since the job of cop in 1980's Miami is getting crazier all the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, harsh, bloody, witty, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic
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Dead in the Water (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be appointed to the high court. The only thing wrong with this is that his shrewish wife Olivia, whose father made all the wealth and all the power, is living and that greatly upsets Charlie. So when his lover, Laura, suggests that they get rid of Olivia, Charlie thinks, being a lawyer, that he can create a fool-proof plan. In this plan, he must incorporate a woman named Victoria whom he detests, but she can help him get into the court and be part of the plan for Olivia. But dreams of judgeship, money and Laura makes him proceed. However, things never turn out as planned and he may not be as smart as he considers himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sucker Punch (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mike Sullivan spends his nights kidnapping runaways so his boss, Lamar, can turn them into prostitutes. He is a crack addict and a thief and he is in love with a resentful prostitute, Rhonda, who doesn't love him back. Although he has aspirations of escaping this world, it isn't until he is nearly killed by corrupt cops for stealing money from his boss that he decides to redeem himself. In an attempt to save his own soul, he tries to get Rhonda out of the business, and is forced to battle Lamar and his henchmen, as well as Rhonda's unwillingness to change. As punishment for betraying Lamar, Mike is forced into a series of misdeeds, and in a shocking ending, must commit unredeemable acts as he tries to save Rhonda and himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, semi serious, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film
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The Lookout (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense, psychological, serious, independent film, clever
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The Ice Harvest (2005)
Plot Summary:
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, black comedy, suspenseful, intense, semi serious, witty, harsh, clever, spiritual
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City of Industry (1997)
Plot Summary:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, hood, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Plot Summary:
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, art house, independent film, atmospheric, cerebral, tense, cynical, crime drama, crime thriller
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Billy Bathgate (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: stylized, erotic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, light, romantic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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After Hours (1985)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, funny, atmospheric, realistic, disturbing, art house, grim, talky
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One False Move (1991)
Plot Summary:
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, independent film, atmospheric, disturbing, intense, rough, serious
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Caught Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Daryl gets out of jail after 5 years. His mother has died, his girlfriend is married, and he can't find a job. His new girlfriend Vanessa, whom he meets when a gunman opens fire on them, gets him a job as a car driver. Hitmen are still after them, and Vanessa tells Daryl that this is her former lover Ahmad who wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, fast, cult film
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Killing Them Softly (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense, bleak, independent film, dark comedy, rough, bloody, political
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Plot Summary:
A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 286000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir, suspense, gloomy, melancholic, atmospheric, crime thriller
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy, sexy, atmospheric, erotic, art house, mindfuck
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Sexy Beast (2000)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, psychological, talky, atmospheric, black comedy, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspense, dark, cult classic, clever
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Carlito's Way (1993)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, intense, rough, bleak, serious
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Plot Summary:
A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, independent film, witty, black comedy, dark comedy