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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Traitor's Gate (1964)
Plot Summary:
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Young Dillinger (1965)
Plot Summary:
The 1930s outlaw (Nick Adams) teams up with Pretty Boy Floyd (Robert Conrad), Baby Face Nelson (John Ashley) and Homer Van Meter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Only the Wind Knows the Answer (1974)
Plot Summary:
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Informer 3838 (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of criminal barrister-turned police informer Nicola Gobbo and her involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 163 min
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A Season in Purgatory (1996)
Plot Summary:
True story about a kid from rich family with political ties who covers up a suspicious death of a young woman. This comes back to haunt him later.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
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Helsinki Crimes (2022)
Plot Summary:
Helsinki in the summer is shown differently through the eyes of the homicide unit detectives, Timo Harjunpää and Onerva Nykänen; painting a picture of the city where people are not safe in the streets or not even in their own homes. In the midst of the hard crimes it is impossible not to feel the constant worry about your own family while being afraid of losing touch with your children.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
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Seesaw (1999)
Plot Summary:
British series starring David Suchet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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The Long Firm (2004)
Plot Summary:
The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 220 min
Plot tags:
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Alice to Nowhere (1986)
Plot Summary:
A nurse who has been hired to staff a remote outpost in the Australian outback unwittingly carries a stash of jewels taken in a foiled robbery. The robbers track her to the outback, and are determined to let nothing--and no one--get in the way of them retrieving their loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 88
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The Sewers of Paradise (1979)
Plot Summary:
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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One Way Out (1996)
Plot Summary:
After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, but finds that he may have taken on more than he can handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Payroll (1961)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 819
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Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
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Plot Summary:
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Family Business (1989)
Plot Summary:
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity. They both have great hope for Adam, Vito's son and Jessie's grandson, who is bright, good-looking, and without a criminal past.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
To save a kidnapped family member, an enterprising furniture tycoon must use his secret diamond smuggling operation to transport guns across the border.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 631
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Country: South Africa
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Plot tags:
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The Old Fox (1977)
Plot Summary:
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
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Plot tags: detective, sincere, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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The Gang (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 728
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 808
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Country: Sweden
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Derrick (1974)
Plot Summary:
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Plot Summary:
Based on the 1994 robbery of US$33 million from Colombia's central bank, which turned the country upside down.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Duration:
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Votes: 718
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Plot Summary:
The story of three employees of a security depot who plan and execute a multi-million pound cash heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Plot Summary:
Sprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters draws the inevitable comparison to "The Godfather", but does find its own direction. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio, the family executes a rival gang on the night of the Don's daughter's wedding, including her new husband, the son of his rival. Unfortunately the daughter gets pregnant and the repercussions of the night drift into the future. Spanning 1964-1985, the film jumps forward with the growing up of the grandson who has grown ruthless and scheming. A co-rival in the family is a nephew who has been raise to take his father's place in the family as a hitman and has established his place by assassinating a man who killed a Senator's daughter. However, he is proven to not be ruthless enough and moves into the family's casino business in Vegas. When the nephew falls in love with a beautiful actress, everything is set in place for the grandson to set up a coupe to take over the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: USA
Duration: 258 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
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Animal Kingdom (2016)
Plot Summary:
The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 43000
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Country: USA
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The Driver (2014)
Plot Summary:
Taxi driver, Vince McKee, finds his life taking an unexpected turn after he accepts an offer to drive for a criminal gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful