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Plot Summary:
Two gangsters, fighting for influence in the city, decide to get suitcases filled with money and drugs. Meanwhile, another criminal group has the same purpose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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Dolceroma (2019)
Plot Summary:
Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Queen of Amsterdam (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chez Nous is a feel good comedy and the name of a cafe in the heart of Amsterdam that is on the brink of being closed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, queer cinema
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Witness Infection (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two rival mob families are transferred from the Witness Protection Agency by mistake to same city, Temecula, CA, and find themselves fending off a zombie outbreak.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, horror comedy
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Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a series of murders occur in Kanghwa Island, Detective K and his partner are once again called upon to solve the case. Along the way, he teams up with a beautiful woman with amnesia and together they discover Vampire bite marks on all the bodies. As they investigate further, they realize that the woman is somehow closely connected to the deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Argo 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hungarian small time crook, 70 year old Tibi Balog gets out of prison after 10 years, but he didn't change a bit. When a Japanese crime syndicate hires him to acquire a Hungarian invention - the world's first floppy disc - Tibi puts his band of retarded thugs back together and the action starts. As expected, Tibi completely screws up the job and becomes the target of Japanese Assassins, a very angry Gypsie family and the entire Slovakian Army. Gags and action and no political correctness at all. The Hungarian heat is on.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Far Out (2015)
Plot Summary:
A long time artist and recent criminal, the man known as "The Filmmaker", is forced to go undercover in order to regain his freedom. His goal is to take down a ruthless mob boss named Goldberg. In order to take Goldberg in, he has to go on a heist. When Goldberg asks him to go on three trials in order to gain a place on the heist, the Filmmaker has to go... Far Out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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For the Emperor (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yi-Hwan is a former professional baseball player. He was involved in fixing games and lost everything. Gang boss Sang-Ha runs a money lending business and a gambling location. He makes Yi-Hwan work for him. Meanwhile, Yi-Hwan falls for bar owner Yeon-Soo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, erotic, sexy, dark
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Overrun (2021)
Plot Summary:
Former military extraction specialist Marcus Lombardi, whose only chance of saving his informant sister and their family is to track down a mysterious briefcase.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Thoongaavanam (2015)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of this mess?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hackney's Finest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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American Mobster: Retribution (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nick Romano must navigate through murder, violence, and betrayal in order to maintain his place as the top mobster in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Johan Falk 13 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk is with the wife of a dead mob boss down to Latvia to try to solve a mystery that has eluded him for three years. What Johan finds downstairs in a cottage outside Riga shocks not only himself but also the Gothenburg police special unit GSI 's new chief Sophie Nordh and the former chief Patrik Agrell. At the same time a Latvian mafia group is picking up hidden and forgotten Soviet military containers from the water-filled pits nearby. Containers filled with weapons. And everything is heading to Sweden! At the same time most of the original members of the Rydellgang are being released from a long prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Jamaican Mafia (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jamaican Gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Gatao: The Last Stray (2021)
Plot Summary:
A Qing encounters the photographer Xiao Qi at the full moon banquet of the daughter of the big brother Ren Ge at the corner of the Beiguan. They fall in love with each other. But, sadly, they aren't able to stay together at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Tainted Souls (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, disturbing
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Young and Dangerous: Reloaded (2013)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Mongkok night, May, the cousin of Dai Tin-yee (Dominic Ho), was gang-raped to death by Med King (Deep Ng) and his men. The furious Tin-yee, together with his buddies, Ho-Nam(Him Law), Chicken (Oscar Leung), Pou-Pan (Jazz Lam) tracked down Med King to revenge May’s death. As Med King was under the wing of Ugly Kwan (Sammy Sum), a leader of the Hung Hing triad, Kwan gave orders to get rid of Ho-Nam by all means….
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Original Gangster (2020)
Plot Summary:
The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Gatao 2: Rise of the King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ren has finally succeeded his boss as the head of the North Fort Gang. For so long, his ambitions had been held back; now, he can realize them. But the ruthless Jian returns with his own gang. Though Ren and Jian were once like brothers, Ren's position is challenged, causing tensions with Qing, his loyal captain. Now that former friends are enemies, what is the price of loyalty? What will be left of friendship when the smoke of battle clears?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Johan Falk: Slutet (2015)
Plot Summary:
The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family, to try to kill his wife, could be the biggest mistake the organization has done. GSI closes up around Johan's family, and the final battle begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Thalaivaa (2013)
Plot Summary:
A mafia don sends his son out of the country because he doesn't want even a shadow of his life falling on him. Destiny wills otherwise. The son makes an innocuous trip to Mumbai to visit his dad. And ends up filling his father's large shoes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Master Plan (2015)
Plot Summary:
Charles Ingvar Jönsson gathers three criminals to take vengeance upon the people who killed his uncle.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Black King (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film about peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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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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Welcome to No Man's Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pete, Steven and Dave are good friends that have fallen on hard times; They are unemployed and hardly get by on benefits. Coincidentally, they are approached by a low-key gangster who offers them what seems like quick cash-in-hand work. One drop-off. Six bags of cocaine. Both estranged and tempted by the situation, they accept, only things don't go to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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El Coyote (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Italian mafia takes on the Mexican cartel on the Mexican border. The cartel has captured the son of an ex-mobster in witness protection. He calls on his mob buddies to come to Arizona to help him.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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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
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Blood out of Blood (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Boost (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Jimmy finds a mysterious package in the trunk of his latest boost, he is thrust into a violent underworld of criminals, and a race against the clock to save a little girl's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action adventure
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011)
Plot Summary:
It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Gentlemen (2019)
Plot Summary:
A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, stylized, realistic, neo noir, black comedy, funny, psychotronic, rough, psychological, cult classic