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Plot Summary:
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
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The Brute (1977)
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Glamour model Diane Shepherd is routinely being beaten by her husband Tim, who accuses her of infidelity. When she can't take it anymore, she finds shelter with photographer Mark and his girlfriend Carrie. They introduce Diana to Millie, who is in a similar situation. Meanwhile, Tim informs Diane that if she doesn't come back to him, he will see to it that he gains custody of their son, Timmy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The King of Kungsan (1987)
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The film is loosely based on a true story about Paolo Roberto, later a professional boxer and TV presenter. Because of his Italian roots, Paolo is dealing with an identity crisis. With an admiration of kung fu films and with his teenage aggressions, the kung fu films have a negative impact on him, which tempts him to practice violence on innocent citizens in Stockholm.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, cult film
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Colour of the Loyalty (2005)
Plot Summary:
As befits a full-blooded Jiang Hu (underworld) antic, COTL takes place over the course of a short, frenetic period, feeling to all intents and purposes like one night. It encompasses plenty of gore and cadavers (unless you get the sanitized, inferior mainland version), relying to a large extent on so-called triad codes of honor and organizational culture. At its core resides old boss Dragon Brother, done by Eric Tsang in a repast from his barrage of comical roles and commercial endorsements. The head wants to retire, leading to chaos in gangland as everybody else desires his position and accumulated fortune. Following his fateful announcement, two rival Mafioso's become potential enemies as Dragon Brother and concubine (Suki Kwan) aim to leave Hong Kong in order to start a new life in Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Stronger Than Blood (2010)
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Fresh out of juvenile prison, Tommy has sworn off the drugs. But when the going gets tough, the only support he finds is from his best friend Sule - who has "the master plan": one last drug deal to finance their own auto body shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
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Fist Power (2000)
Plot Summary:
Cheuk is a mainland security officer who's thrown into a race against the clock when he discovers a man is holding an entire school hostage in exchange for his adopted son, so it's up to Cheuk to use his formidable martial arts skills to retrieve the boy and bring him back before the man decides to kill everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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13 French Street (2007)
Plot Summary:
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Zig-Zag (1975)
Plot Summary:
Marie and Pauline are two cabaret singers who dream of buying a cabin in the mountains. To achieve this, the two women become prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Fatal Mistake (1989)
Plot Summary:
A drama about the youth of the late 1980s. The action takes place in Moscow. A young girl named Nadia, whom her own mother left in the hospital, has fun and quite innocently spends time with her friends. Before returning from a walk home is repainted in punk and brings his own kind of mother. The girl falls in love with a veteran of the Afghan war - a married man. She is called to look after his son, unsuccessfully trying to achieve reciprocity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Jargo (2004)
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Jargo is a German teen brought up in Saudi Arabia. Moving to Berlin, Jargo maintains his Arabian clothing until he encounters a similar aged German Turk Kamil and here begins his introduction into the world of juvenile cool (read delinquency). He then has to decide which girls he likes while being pressured by his father to get laid.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Iceland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: hot
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The Masked Prosecutor (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two cops, one young and tough, the other nearing retirement, are after a ruthless vigilante who kidnaps and tortures acquitted criminals.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
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Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako (Michiyo Aratama). In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Edge of Fury (1978)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur is pursued by drug dealers after his boss, a convicted drug kingpin, is sentenced to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Queen of Fist (1973)
Plot Summary:
Local gangsters apply pressure to the wrong family when they realize that the leader of the family is a mother with powerful kung fu skills.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997)
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It is a very hot summer in the city as the well known detectives of the 87th Precinct investigate serial rapes and a mysterious homicide (which do not appear to be connected). The women getting raped appear to be raped by a rapist who has raped them earlier and who was not caught. Detective Eileen Burke, who is working together with detectives Carella, Meyer and Brown, goes undercover and pretends to be one of the women who was raped earlier in order to lure out the rapist. Her boyfriend, Det. Kling, is not happy with her assignment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective
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Without Her Consent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Blackmailer (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Crime and Punishment (1983)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, neo noir, intercultural, bleak, suspenseful
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Hoodlums (1980)
Plot Summary:
Loretta is a singer and escort in a mob-owned NYC nightclub and illegal casino. The favorite working girl of manager George, Loretta is unhappy with her current occupation and looking for a way out. George, meanwhile, is losing his stranglehold on the business. Complications arise when Loretta finds herself falling for a man she meets in her off-hours.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Chinese Boxer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Duke (2019)
Plot Summary:
Duke is a modern day telling of a classic western film. Dare and Roost are brothers who have been raised in a reformatory, taught to survive and conditioned to trust no one. They have moved to West Los Angeles, where Dare moonlights himself as a Detective and Roost blankets himself in old John Wayne films and reclusive habit. Cleaning the streets and ridding the neighborhoods of scum, this contemporary study finds Dare obsessed with a phantom like criminal (Winky) who seems to be terrorizing the community. Simultaneously, the same exact investigation is being led by official and likely engrossed Detective Robert Morrison. As Dare closes in on Winky and the entire department closes in on them both, these brothers must make the ultimate commitment and pay the extraordinary consequences therein.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Cop on a Mission (2001)
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Mike, a cop who is becoming increasingly frustrated with his tiresome job with little benefits, whilst the criminals live a life of luxury. He is offered a undercover job to infiltrate a Triad gang led by Boss Tin. Mike slowly becomes engrossed in this world and in Tin's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama
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I Corrupt All Cops (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was established, whose operation branch was headed by Yim. Bong and Unicorn also joined the ICAC. Despite threats of violence and intimidation, they managed to bring about the downfall of the empire of graft.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Young and Dangerous: Portland Street Blues (1998)
Plot Summary:
This spin-off movie provides a different contrast to the familiar Young and Dangerous films with greater character development. This time, the story's focus is on a female character - Sister 13 (Sandra Ng) of the "Hung Hing" triad. In a triad underworld dominated by men, the film tells the story of how she faces trials and tribulations of rising to become the branch leader of Portland Street. The story shows the reasons she became a lesbian. The film also gives more details about the "Tung Sing" triad, and how the relationship between Sister 13 and Ben Hon develops.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood Brothers (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fung (Daniel Wu) and his best friends, brothers Kang (Liu Ye) and Hu (Tony Yang), leave the countryside together to make it big in Shanghai. Things aren't so easy in the city, however, and the brothers stumble and toil until opportunity brings them to Club Paradise and ruthless mob boss Hong (Sun Honglei). While Kang embraces his newfound power in the Shanghai triad, Fung and Hu are less comfortable with the crime and violence, sending the brothers slowly but surely down opposite paths. Fung falls for Hong's woman, sassy nightclub singer Lulu (Shu Qi) who is also involved with Hong's top henchman Mark (Chang Chen). When Hong catches scent of the betrayal, he sends Kang to finish off business, leading the brothers to meet at gunpoint on a cold Shanghai night. Set in Shanghai during the 1930s, the story is inspired by John Woo's classic work Bullet in the Head, released in 1990.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, stylized, tense, serious, realistic, neo noir, heroic, crime drama
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Saving Mr. Wu (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this suspenseful crime thriller, Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by six unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. The story is based on the 2004 real-life celebrity kidnapping case in China.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense
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Beast Cops (1998)
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Ruthlessly realistic, and vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, Beast Cops is a visceral and hard-hitting exploration of the dichotomous existence of two cops charged with upholding the law, while balancing on a moral knife-edge. Compelling and controversial, with a breakout performance of startling intensity from leading man Anthony Wong, this raw and enticing action-thriller has mesmerized audiences worldwide with its disturbing examination of the subjective and marginal morality, which inhabits the uncertain and ambiguous world of law enforcement.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, heroic, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Colour of the Truth (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Time To Die (1982)
Plot Summary:
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the targeted men is being groomed by the US to become the West German chancellor and is to be protected. Along the way, a third person joins the team.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, eighties
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How I Became a Gangster (2019)
Plot Summary:
A polish gangster discovers the senselessness of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, visually appealing
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Police Story: Lockdown (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, crime drama, cult classic, spooky, serious