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Plot Summary:
Besa is a strong promise for the Albanians, which must be maintained, even at the cost of living. It is most often used in the form of blood feuds, which is certainly a suitable ground for the action of the series that is in front of us.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, interesting
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Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Nachtschicht (2003)
Plot Summary:
Night shift thriller story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Grasshopper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on her murderer. To do so, Suzuki has to infiltrate the underground world of criminals. Kujira is a contract killer for hire. He makes his targets fall into confusion and eventually commit suicide. Semi is a contract killer who uses the knife to take out his targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Unknown Hitman: The Story of El Cholo Adrián (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based on real events, the fictional story of Mexican drug lord El Chato's number one hitman, El Cholo.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Righteous Ties (2006)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes that a decade of loyalty towards the gang has become futile. Determined to confront his own boss, he finds a way to escape from prison with his fellow inmates. Meanwhile, his friend Joo-joong is given the task to stop Chi-sung, forcing him to choose between the bond of friendship and loyalty towards the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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Flinch (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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The Monster of Florence (2009)
Plot Summary:
The miniseries tells the eight double murders committed from 1968 to 1985, in the Florentine countryside, where young couples who were massacred appartavano in their cars looking for intimacy. It particularly emphasizes the personal battle of Renzo Rontini, father of Pia killed with her boyfriend Claudio Stefanacci in Vicchio, in Mugello (29 July 1984), in the search for the culprit of the death of his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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The Kingdom (2021)
Plot Summary:
After his running mate's murder, a controversial televangelist becomes Argentina's presidential candidate. But nothing about him is as holy as he seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: captivating, political, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ (2017)
Plot Summary:
As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, semi documentary, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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4 Blocks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Based in Neukölln, Berlin Toni manages the daily business of dealing with the Arabic gangs and ends up wanting to leave his old life behind for his family, but as expected, its never that simple.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, suspense
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Swallow the Sun (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jung-woo was abandoned by his birth parents when he was a baby and became friends with Soo-hyun, who became his sweetheart. After rescuing Chairman Jang, he is adopted by him and becomes a bodyguard to the chairman’s son. Jung-woo is reunited with Soo-hyun at Tae-hyuk’s school but even though Soo-hyun loves him, she chooses Tae-hyuk who offers to help her achieve her dream career. So both Tae-hyuk and Soo-hyun go to USA for their studies. Jung-woo is eventually betrayed by Chairman Jang but he is called to Las Vegas by Jackson Lee, a military buddy, who offers him an opportunity to rebuild his life. In Las Vegas, Jung-woo meets Soo-hyun and Tae-hyuk by coincidence. In his line of work as a private bodyguard, Jung-woo saves the life of the king of a small African nation and is asked by the king to rescue his son from the rebels in return for rights to a diamond mine. So Jung-woo heads to Africa, risking his life to claim the mine. Meanwhile, Tae-hyuk and Soo-hyun return to Seogwipo city on Jeju island at Chairman Jang’s request. Tae-hyuk is put in charge of managing a hotel there while Soo-hyun becomes the head of event planning. After gaining control of the diamond mine in African, Jung-woo returns to Jeju and engages in a struggle against chairman Jang and Tae-hyuk… He learns a shocking secret that shakes the foundation of his very existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Justice Served (2022)
Plot Summary:
A band of freedom fighters invade the trial of a white police officer who shot a Black man — and a hostage situation unfolds on screens nationwide.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Tulskiy Tokarev (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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South Wind 2: Speed Up (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nenad, Maras his little brother, wants to follow the ilegal footsteps of his brother and now Maras and Baca have to free him from the clutches of the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Reich (2001)
Plot Summary:
Alex and Andre are two hit men who face death and violence every day but also understand the gentleness of love. They would like to start a new life, but their involvement in the criminal underground is too deep. Alex and Andre move about in a world of expensive hotels, cars and discothèques frequented by drug dealers and thieves who would double-cross you as soon as look at you.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Escape (2013)
Plot Summary:
The continuing life of an ex cop who had worked for a mafia undercover. Ended up killing the mafias son so later on he used the mafias daughter to escape. Falling in a unwanted love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Rise of the Krays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers who quickly fought their way to becoming the most feared and respected villains in all of London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, we see them rise to infamy through drugs, sex and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Syndicate Smasher (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of mercenaries hired as contract killers are hunted down by the Mafia, the Yakuza, the Russian Mob, and the Tongs all at once.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic
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Suzhal - The Vortex (2022)
Plot Summary:
A minor girl goes missing in a small town in Tamilnadu and an investigation follows. A sub inspector investigating a missing girl's case in a uncovers some shocking revelations and dirty truths those threaten to shake up the cultural societal fabric.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sins of the Fathers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A retired policeman and a former criminal, must face their past when their daughters' lives are suddenly put at risk in this gangster thriller shining a light on the dark and dangerous activities of the Warsaw Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blinded by the Lights (2018)
Plot Summary:
An eight-episode story charting seven days from the life of a cocaine dealer whose perfectly organized life begins to sink into chaos while he is forced to make the most important choices in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, anthology, hood, interesting
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Last of the Wolves (2021)
Plot Summary:
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Queen of Hollywood Blvd (2017)
Plot Summary:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Big Heist (2001)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. The heist was also the subject of the much better-known 1990 film "Goodfella"s, directed by Martin Scorsese. It was also the subject of another made-for-television film: "The 10 Million Dollar Getaway" from 1991.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark, dark comedy
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The Family Business (2018)
Plot Summary:
By day, the Duncan's are an upstanding family who run a thriving exotic car dealership in New York. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. When they come under siege the Duncan's will have to stick together or die separately.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Halka (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two different young men coming together from different places stand side by side and fight against a conspiracy. They go after a past that doesn't leave behind. They bring to account of old notebooks, dirty cases, big and small lies. They're in a life with the Mafia, money, intrigue. They face against Halka, the terrifying face of which they have yet to know.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, serious, captivating, cynical, interesting
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Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, inspirational, anime, crime thriller
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Power Book IV: Force (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Endgame (2022)
Plot Summary:
A high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a very recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists, and Val Turner, the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy