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Plot Summary:
Two detectives are called on to investigate the bizarre serial murders of young women.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, tv series pilot
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Dangerous Men (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Men has many characters like Mina whose life is shattered when two bikers with rape on their minds attack and kill Daniel, her fiancé. Driven by grief, she embarks on a killing rampage, wreaking vengeance upon all the men that she seductively lures into her trap. In her twisted world, cops and killers are all the same - David, Daniel's brother, is a cop who relentlessly pursues the killers, while facing a nest of drug dealers, followed by the FBI and the police SWAT team, also in hot pursuit. Mina, a victim of violence, carrying a twisted obsession for justice, is caught between opposing forces in a world of dangerous men.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Kona Coast (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sam Moran (Richard Boone) is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle (Joan Blondell), who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Malevolence (2004)
Plot Summary:
Antonio owes the Robaldo family a hundred G's, Gray wants revenge on the street gang who mugged him, Jimmy's escaped from prison, and his brother/accomplice David has many serious mental conditions. Detective Brickley is hot on their trail willing to stop them with any means necessary, while a pair of rogue psychiatrists track them to discover the roots of David's condition. It isn't long before the paths of these characters cross with violent and tragic consequences. The result is a shocking and disturbing portrait of human nature at its worst that can only be summed up in one word: Malevolence.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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The Outsider (1967)
Plot Summary:
Not so uncommon themes of the 1960's are used as dark backdrop for a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con with a bone to pick with the Los Angeles police Dept. Darren McGavin plays David Ross the hired investigator to play a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quick when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect of an attractive woman's death.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Plot Summary:
Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car (“It gives a man a chance to think”), he’s on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal’s son-in-law. It won’t be the only time the killer strikes before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, tv series pilot
Similar in 83%
Final Justice (1984)
Plot Summary:
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III (Joe Don Baker) has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, mockbuster, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Judy (1970)
Plot Summary:
A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks Fairchild's daughter Regina.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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On the Line (1997)
Plot Summary:
A female police detective tries to track down a gang of teenage bank robbers while dealing with sexual harassment on the job, and her troubled home life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Silk (1986)
Plot Summary:
Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988)
Plot Summary:
A by the book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ladykillers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A female police detective enlists her boyfriend to help her track down a murderer picking off the dancers at an upscale male strip club in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, tense, enigmatic
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Dark Measures (2009)
Plot Summary:
A gritty independent film which follows the crime spree of a vicious pack of thugs. Molly's calm 9-5 life is turned upside down when the gang brutally attacks her. She survives a horrific ordeal only to find the thugs want her dead before she can bring the law down on them. Her only hope to protect herself is to trust the detectives working on the case, and stand her ground and the fight the murdering thieves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, detective
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Black Rose (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Russian Police Major is enlisted by the LAPD to help solve a series of gruesome murders perpetrated against young women by a sadistic sociopathic killer on the mean streets of Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Roots of Evil (1992)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, detective, sexy
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Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)
Plot Summary:
Dramatization of an actual homicide investigation. In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, one man show
Similar in 77%
Vice Girls (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three sexy cops will have to go undercover to catch a ruthless pornographer who is murdering young runaway girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, cult film
Similar in 79%
Ginger (1971)
Plot Summary:
The police suspect that a drug and forced-prostitution ring is behind the recent spate of kidnappings and disappearances, but so far they've been unable to infiltrate the suspects gang. To break the case, they recruit Ginger, a young woman from an upper-class family to act as bait for the kidnappers and hopefully lead the police to their hideout. It may sound like a foolproof plan to the police, but Ginger's the one who has to risk it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
Plot Summary:
The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck (Richard Crenna) when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the tough system he was a part of. As he struggles to regain his status at work, he also must make sure those responsible for his attack are prosecuted.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sad, thought provoking, crying, detective
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The Swinging Barmaids (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes after a psycho who is killing cocktail waitresses.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Underground (1997)
Plot Summary:
A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 76%
Last Man Standing (1995)
Plot Summary:
A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent detective Kurt Bellmore and going by the book just isn't going to be enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Narx (2011)
Plot Summary:
Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, independent film
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Partners in Crime (2000)
Plot Summary:
Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been Reardon's first wife. Reardon's police reputation stinks because he botched a high-profile kidnapping case many years ago, which resulted in a baby who was never found. When ransom demands are finally heard, Reardon must try to solve the case without repeating his mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, detective
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The Perfect Weapon (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending, nostalgic
Similar in 75%
Oxygen (1999)
Plot Summary:
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, surprise ending, rough, detective, dark, twisted, serious
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Probable Cause (1994)
Plot Summary:
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Time of Fear (2002)
Plot Summary:
Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming from the Sheriff, she turns to the only other person who can help her, Jack Barone, a grieving father whose daughter, Lisa, was the victim of a similar slaying ten years prior. The killer's clues are a perversion of Biblical punishments for sins: stoning, burning, decapitation. Jack and Agent Hammer turn to Father Patrick, a Catholic priest, for help. As the clock ticks down, a young female friend of Jack's is kidnapped and may become the next casualty. The harrowing rescue of the young woman opens the door to a dark history hidden below the surface, revealing the true identity of the killer and answering the mystery of who killed Jack's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hero and the Terror (1988)
Plot Summary:
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cult classic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, perverse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 87%
Blue Steel (1990)
Plot Summary:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective, rough, disturbing, erotic, cult classic, stylized