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Plot Summary:
A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jackals (1986)
Plot Summary:
Cops in a small town near the Mexican border find themselves caught up in a scheme that smuggles illegal aliens into the country.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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Ring of Death (2008)
Plot Summary:
On the inside, there are no rules. See what happens when Prison Officials Profit from Illegal fights.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Sultans of the South (2007)
Plot Summary:
La historia comienza con un robo que se realiza en la Ciudad de México. La banda formada por Carlos, Leonardo, Mónica y Leserio habían pactado viajar a Argentina para lavar el dinero. Al llegar a Buenos Aires se encuentran en una guerra de mafias en la que alguien aprovecha para robarles el dinero y tendrán que recuperarlo para dárselo a quienes lo esperan.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Argentina
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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A New York Heartbeat (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spider, a young gang leader, gets in over his head when he robs a notorious gangster. On the run, he's taken in by a sheltered young woman and her reclusive uncle, a legendary mobster gunned down by the same gangster now pursuing Spider.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, emotional, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, neo noir
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Road of No Return (2009)
Plot Summary:
Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Men with Guns (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three losers, Eddie, Lucas and Mamet, are sent to collect some debt at a remote farm. But the thugs there are too hard for them, and they are humiliated. They return for revenge, it gets out of hand, ends with a bloodbath and they are left with a big amount of cocaine. The drugs belong to local mob boss Horace Burke, who sends his son to find them. Cops are also after them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, atmospheric
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Live! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the forth, Andrey. Kind-hearted Michail helps Andrey escape and together they run from the villains who chase them. Thus, two totally different men start a long and dangerous journey together, constantly arguing with each other regarding their ideology, morals and opinions about life. But life will put everything on its place and make the men understand who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, exciting, clever, contemplative, stylized
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The Death Collector (1976)
Plot Summary:
A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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The Hard Easy (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Total western (2000)
Plot Summary:
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, witty, cynical, spaghetti western
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Rage and Honor (1992)
Plot Summary:
Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Cartel War (2010)
Plot Summary:
Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the king pin who devastated their families. Based on the true story of Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Cartel War is an action-packed journey into an all-too-real violent underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, crime drama, independent film
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Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)
Plot Summary:
The bikers are the heroes and the lawmen are the villains in this vintage action drama. The Spirits are a motorcycle club who ride the highways and country roads of Michigan; while they look rough, wear beat-up denim and favor Harley Davidsons, the Spirits are good guys at heart, more likely to help a stranger change a flat tire than rough him up. Northville Cemetery Massacre is a 1976 motorcycle exploitation film written and directed by William Dear and Thomas L. Dyke. Nick Nolte did an uncredited voice over for the film's lead actor, David Hyry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Saints and Sinners (1994)
Plot Summary:
After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Two Coyotes (2001)
Plot Summary:
A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, surprise ending, independent film
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Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
Plot Summary:
JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's made peace with an old enemy. This all proves to be an illusion. On leave from prison, and back in contact with his former gang, JW learns that once you've walked in the shoes of a criminal there just may be no going back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, fast
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Hard Luck (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Shooters (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from the job that landed him inside, J soon talks him into getting involved in one last scam.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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La Fuga (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do anything not to return to prison. Some of them will suffer violent deaths, while others manage de disappear. Sordid and moving stories, not excluding tenderness and love, mercy or horror sealed with a pact of prison love that will remain in the heart of Buenos Aires, as witness of the yearned-for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, adaptation directed by original author
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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Backflash (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
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Zero Tolerance (1994)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told that his already murdered family is being held hostage, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others named Helmut Vitch, Milt Kowalski, Russ LaFleur, and Hansel Lee. After surviving a car-bombing in Las Vegas, Jeff learns the truth about his family being murdered, and he sets out to exterminate the White Hand cartel. Unofficially aided by an agent named Megan, whose mother was raped and murdered years ago, Jeff steals FBI files and begins his campaign of revenge on the White Hand cartel.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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Decisions (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want the money back and will go to any lengths to get it! Things go wrong quickly as bullets start to fly and the group finds that one thing affects another and discover that the voice of reason is not always what it appears to be.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, independent film, rough, realistic
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Hard Choices (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female social worker assigned to the boy's case not only believes him, but begins to fall in love with him, and determines to either help him prove his innocence or escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Monga (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into conflict with other gangs jealous of their rising power.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating, heroic, hood, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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Bullett Raja (2013)
Plot Summary:
A common man who transforms into a gangster revolts against the very system he once obediently followed by declaring war on the police, the government, and the industrialists.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating
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El padrino (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new life as a dealer begins. In a world where a man wants everything, he may end up with nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Consignment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Winner Takes All (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two rapper childhood friends turn to the quick and easy life of crime to support their needy parents. But after a foiled robbery, one of them is jailed while the other flees, changes his name, joins the military, and grows up to become a narcotics agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Shottas (2002)
Plot Summary:
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin a ruthless climb from the bottom. They remain bound to each other by their shottas loyalty as they aggressively take control of the Jamaican underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, exciting, epic, crime drama