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Plot Summary:
Gangland was a television series that aired on The History Channel. It usually aired on Thursday evenings although it has been known to arbitrarily change days every so often. Gangland explored the history of some of America's more notorious gangs. It premiered on November 1, 2007 with a special episode about the Aryan Brotherhood. The theme song was performed by Buckshot of the Boot Camp Clik. Reruns currently air on the cable channel Spike.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Biography, Crime, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, tense, educational, game show, sincere, rough
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How We Got Here (2015)
Plot Summary:
A series examining entrepreneurship and technological advances in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, clever
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Fat Tony & Co (2014)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Hunt with John Walsh (2014)
Plot Summary:
There are among the thousands of fugitives who avoid criminal prosecution in the United States every year. Find out more about these fugitives and join John Walsh in his quest to track them down and bring them to justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Plot Summary:
A docudrama series chronicling some of America's most notorious mobsters, each season dealing with a different city/region.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Documentary, Crime, History
Country: USA
Duration: 343 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, semi documentary
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The Left Wing Gang (2009)
Plot Summary:
Crime story about a notorious gang of criminals and the policeman who went for broke to catch them. The gang were radical left-wing activists. In 1989, seven of them were charged with being behind a series of the most professional robberies in the history of Denmark. The many millions stolen in the gang's activities were transferred to the terror organization PFLP with the aim of supporting anti-Israeli Palestinians. The assumed leader of the gang, Jan Weimann, never revealed his double life to his wife or friends, and police superintendent Jørn Moos, who was in charge of the investigation, staked his career to catch the gang members.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration:
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The Mind of a Murderer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Michelle Ward goes behind bars to interview violent murderers and offer insight into what drives people to kill. From her early doctorate research on psychopathy, to her ongoing study of criminal behavior, she possesses a unique ability to push murderers to the limit, getting them to admit things they wouldn't confess to anyone else. She is trained to go beyond excuses and get to the psychological core of why people commit heinous acts - and she does it alone in a room, face-to-face with coldblooded killers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, thrilling
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As Night Comes (2014)
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Troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic leader, Ricky, takes him under his wing. But as Sean becomes more and more entangled in the gang's anarchist ways, things begin to spiral out of control, and Sean realizes Ricky is a ticking time bomb on a rampage of revenge. On the eve of Halloween, as night comes, everything explodes….
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, slasher, rough, realistic
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Five Star (2014)
Plot Summary:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film and in reality—the streets of Brooklyn are all Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life, Primo must decide whether to leave it all behind as he vows to become a better husband and father. Set during those New York summer weeks where the stifling heat seems to encase everything, Five Star plunges into gang culture with searing intensity. Director Keith Miller observes the lives of these two men with a quiet yet pointed distance, carefully eschewing worn clichés through its unflinching focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain intentionally ambiguous, allowing the story of these two men to resonate beyond the streets, as they face the question of what it means to be a man.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, hood, tense, sincere, rough, bleak
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The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
Plot Summary:
A film adaptation of a book written in 1963. It tells the true story of Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film, sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Great Train Robbery (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two-part BBC drama portraying The Great Train Robbery of 8 August 1963. The first part shows it from the point of view of the robbers, and the second part from the point of view of the police who set out to identify and catch the robbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, detective, period piece, stylized
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Monga (2010)
Plot Summary:
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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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Bonnie & Clyde (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde is a two-part film about two Depression-era outlaws, starring Emile Hirsch as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker. It is based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
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Duration:
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
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IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which broadcasts on the Nine Network. Each series is based on real-life events.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, rough, realistic, anthology, erotic, dramatic, detective, sensual
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, tense, rough
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, romantic, rough, sexy, clever, enigmatic
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Plot Summary:
A Brighton crime boss turned entrepreneur and the disintegration of a criminal mind. (From IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
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City of Men (2002)
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City of Men is a Brazilian television programme created by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles, the directors of the film City of God. The series was watched by 35 million viewers in Brazil and was released internationally on DVD shortly after the film. In 2007, a feature length film based on the series was released. It is often cited as a 'spin-off' of the film; City of Men is a less violent and more light-hearted affair with dramedy elements. However, the two do share some common aspects: the directors, some of the actors, and the setting of the Brazilian favela with its background of gangsters and poverty. The programme tells the stories of Luis Claudío and Uolace, better known by their nicknames Acerola and Laranjinha, respectively, who are two best friends who live in a notorious Rio slum, in a community of drug-dealers, hustlers, and teenagers struggling to fulfill their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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Sket (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
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Gang Tapes (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, hood, tense, suspense, crime drama, realistic
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Plot Summary:
Best friends Romano, Potlood and De Paus rise in the rank of the criminal world. Before they know it, they run Amsterdam's entire coke market. Because of jealousy, their relation becomes complicated and ends up hostile.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, neo noir, suspense, disturbing, interesting
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Tulskiy Tokarev (2010)
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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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Plot Summary:
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminals.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, serious, psychological, feel good, political, suspense, entertaining, detective, mind blowing
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, dramatic, hood, crime thriller, bleak, rough
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Sucker Free City (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an African-American street gang. Lincoln (Leung) is a rising figure in the Chinese mafia. Gentrification forces Nick's family to move out of their home in the Mission District into Hunter's Point where they are harassed by the V-Dubs. K-Luv's side business of selling bootleg compact discs leads him to enlist Nick's help to bootleg CDs and to negotiate a truce with Lincoln. Lincoln conducts an affair with his boss' daughter Angela (Carpio), a Stanford student engaged to a medical student classmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, bleak, crime drama
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Top Boy (2011)
Plot Summary:
A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, suspenseful, rough, crime drama, dramatic, anime, hood, tense, bleak
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BMF (2021)
Plot Summary:
The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around brothers Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and Terry "Southwest T" Flenory, who together took their vision beyond the drug trade and into the world of hip-hop. The drama, per Starz, will tell a story about love, family and capitalism in the pursuit of the American dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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