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Plot Summary:
Julius Fonteneau has decided to take the law into his own hands after his daughter has gone missing. His only friend supports him while his wife resents him and the police are growing suspicious of his intentions. He must determine right from wrong and make the ultimate decision to kill the man he believes to have taken his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, independent film
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Wrong Side of Town (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ex-Navy Seal Bobby Kalinowski lives a quiet, peaceful life as a landscape architect in an LA suburb with his wife Dawn and 16 year old daughter Brianna. Tonight they are invited out for an evening on the town by new neighbors clay and Elise Freeman to a happening club downtown. Little did they know that this would be the start of a life or death ordeal for the group.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, fast
Similar in 82%
Nothing Without You (2012)
Plot Summary:
A psych-patient, accused of a violent murder, turns to her court-appointed psychiatrist to prove her innocence and sanity. Her psychiatrist must help her decipher delusion from truth to unravel the mystery of her reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
Similar in 83%
Fighting Back (1982)
Plot Summary:
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial discrimination.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Edge of Fear (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being stabbed in the heart by ruthless home invaders, a man is left for dead. Now weak, outnumbered, and knife sticking from his chest, he attempts to do the impossible: save his wife from these murderers before he bleeds to death.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, brutal, suspense, psychological, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Lucifer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, surprise ending
Similar in 88%
Imaikkaa Nodigal (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CBI officer goes in search of a ruthless serial killer. Things get worse when the murderer targets the former and her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, bleak, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 88%
Greyscale (2015)
Plot Summary:
When his wife is killed, Oliver's world turns monochrome from Achromatopsia - the inability to see color. In comes Rachel, a femme fatale offering hope in return for a deadly favor, plunging Oliver into a world of crime run by Gavin Calhoun, dodging the murderous Jamison & uncovering secrets left by his late father-in-law, Jonathon Cole in the hopes of answering a haunting question about his past.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
Similar in 75%
Blood of Redemption (2013)
Plot Summary:
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the patriarch of the criminal empire is killed and his brother suspects that Quinn is behind it all. When he's released from jail he tries to escape the demons from his past, but that becomes an impossible task. Campbell, the ruthless new leader of "The Company" won't let him leave in peace. So instead of escaping them, Quinn fights back. He joins forces with his former henchman and friend, The Swede, and takes on his enemies head on.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 78%
One Good Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives of his new family members are quickly on the line as Artie investigates his partner's death. Can he find the killer -- and keep the girls safe?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious, detective, crime drama, realistic, independent film, sentimental
Similar in 77%
Rockaway (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and prostitution that have moved into their neighborhood and caused the destruction of his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama
Similar in 77%
Hollow Point (2019)
Plot Summary:
When his wife and daughter are senselessly murdered, a grieving man finds himself caught up in a war between a group of charismatic vigilantes and the crime that infests their city.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, stylized
Similar in 77%
Gang in Blue (1996)
Plot Summary:
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Payback: Straight Up (2006)
Plot Summary:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, ambiguous ending, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, action packed, mad
Similar in 89%
The Brave (2019)
Plot Summary:
In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller
Similar in 84%
The Jingoist (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of September 11th, two brothers believe they have stopped a mass terrorist attack in New York. Now they must face the consequences of taking justice into their own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Killing Angels (2023)
Plot Summary:
A group of elitists recruit a freelance agent in an attempt to bring down the worlds biggest human trafficking network.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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River Runs Red (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Walking Tall Part II (1975)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, southern gothic
Similar in 81%
Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986)
Plot Summary:
This movie features a character who is supposed to be the descendant of the character played Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name. And like McQueen's Josh Randall, Hauer's Nick Randall is also a bounty. But also an ex-CIA operative, who is asked by his former employer to help them track down a terrorrist, Malak Al Rahim, who is in the country, and has already made a move. But he is also looking for Randall, and the people, whom Randall is working for, is telling Malak, where he can find Randall.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: intense, rough, suspenseful, serious, perverse, cult classic, realistic, fast, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 77%
Desperate Hours (1990)
Plot Summary:
A criminal holds a wealthy family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, exciting, melancholic, enigmatic, intense, scary
Similar in 77%
An Innocent Man (1989)
Plot Summary:
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, intense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, scary
Similar in 80%
Dead Man Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense, neo noir, suspense, noir, cult classic, serious, realistic
Similar in 81%
Sorrow (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 87%
The Gunman (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, realistic
Similar in 85%
Semper Fi (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Black Luck (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hitman in hiding struggles to keep his monsters at bay when his dark past comes calling. Some days your LUCK just goes BLACK.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bloody, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
The Punisher (2017)
Plot Summary:
A former Marine out to punish the criminals responsible for his family's murder finds himself ensnared in a military conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 258000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: brutal, exciting, tense, disturbing, suspense, harsh, intense, suspenseful, bloody, humorous
Similar in 80%
What Happened to Monday (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, mindfuck, non-linear, political, intellectual
Similar in 87%
Man on Fire (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 383000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, brutal, exciting, emotional, psychological, harsh, rough, bloody, tragic ending
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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