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Plot Summary:
Bruno applies his own personal idea of justice inside his prison while outside of it his life is far from ordered. When his kingdom unexpectedly comes under threat, he finds himself fighting the most difficult war of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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The Company You Keep (2023)
Plot Summary:
A night of passion leads to love between con man Charlie and undercover CIA officer Emma, who are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the ‘family business’ so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand — forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags:
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Feed the Beast (2016)
Plot Summary:
For two friends on the brink of losing everything, a dusty pipe dream of opening up an upscale restaurant in their hometown of the Bronx is all they have left to turn their lives around. Together, they take on the insanity of the New York restaurant world, and navigate its underbelly of petty criminals, corrupt officials and violent mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, suspenseful, sitcom
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Kingpin Katie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Slacker comedy writer-turned-hapless drug dealer Katie Marovitch makes coke a joke in this darkly funny origin story inspired by Breaking Bad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
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Six Four (2023)
Plot Summary:
A dark and compelling story of kidnap, corruption, betrayal, and an uncompromising search for the truth when Chris and Michelle O’Neill’s teenage daughter goes missing.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Bad Guys: Vile City (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ordered to take down a villainous business leader who controls the city, a prosecutor gathers a team of men who may not be so clean themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Plot Summary:
Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part television film adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John. The complete film is 15½ hours long.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 931 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, art house, mind blowing, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Ridley (2022)
Plot Summary:
Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Reyka (2021)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and as an adult becomes a detective. Continuing to deal with her past trauma, Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries that have challenged others.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective
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Welcome to Texas (2017)
Plot Summary:
A married couple leading a criminal organization specialized in smuggling ends up in the middle of the international crime business while trying to protect their family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Women's Prison (1974)
Plot Summary:
This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexploitation film
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1994 (2019)
Plot Summary:
After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Keisari Aarnio (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Jari Aarnio was younger, he was honored as ‘Police Officer of the Year’, and quickly became Chief of the Narcotics Squad. The Squad boasted quick results and flashy confiscations. Aarnio’s reputation as a hero cop grew when he used a pair of garden sheers to diffuse a grenade which was tossed into his backyard by a vengeful criminal. Now, the hero cop is in prison, serving a maximum sentence. King Liar follows how Aarnio’s abuse of power was discovered through hard work and persistent investigation by Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (KRP) and two reporters from the country’s largest newspaper. Together, they uncovered the most unbelievable tale of crime, bribery, prostitution, drug trafficking, and money laundering. When he was arrested, Aarnio denied all charges and tried to use his allies in the police department, media, and even the government to make it all seem like a witch hunt orchestrated by the KRP.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Time (2021)
Plot Summary:
A prisoner consumed by guilt, an officer with an impossible choice. What does it take to survive? A tense story of punishment and principles, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, crying
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The Camp: A Prison Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
Straightline Productions: All or Nothing. Presented by Transworld Snowboarding (2009).
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 2150 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense
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Seven Women in Prison (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kamiwatari Kotone is a geisha in Kyoto. While she is sleeping after a night of drinking, her fellow geisha is killed. Kotone Kamiwatari is falsely accused of her murder and is sent to prison. There, she is bullied by other prisoners, but Kotone relies on her training from senior geishas to persevere. She also learns why she was framed for murder and sent to prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bad Thief, Good Thief (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on thieves who strike against people in high power who try to control Korea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, suspense, detective
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PMTA (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marcel Ben David is a former police officer that joins PMTA (initials in Hebrew for: Tel Aviv District Attorney), and herself in the middle of an entangled corruption story. A suspenseful legal drama with Chen Amsalem, Shlomo Bar-Aba and Oshri Cohen.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997)
Plot Summary:
Drama set in a women's prison in Germany.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags:
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American Rust (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of a small Pennsylvania rust belt town, and the rise and fall of a crime-riddled community as seen through the eyes of a sheriff with a history of violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, christian film
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Two Sides of the Abyss (2022)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Luise Berg heads for an inevitable catastrophe after her daughter’s murderer is released early from prison. A psychologically complex game of confusion begins in which the boundaries of guilt and innocence, perpetrators and victims, law and justice are constantly blurred.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Convict (2021)
Plot Summary:
Successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her severity towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit. She is sent to prison, where she has to survive among the women she previously condemned herself. She is kept alive by a teenage daughter and a desire to take revenge on those who set her up.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hand of God (2014)
Plot Summary:
A morally corrupt judge suffers a breakdown and believes that God is speaking directly to him, compelling him onto a path of vigilante justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, captivating, suspense, erotic, psychological thriller, sexy, neo noir
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Low Winter Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 British two-part miniseries of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, spooky, realistic, independent film
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Bad Blood (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Bosch: Legacy (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie is venturing into the world of the LAPD.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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55 Degrees North (2004)
Plot Summary:
Armed with a self-effacing manner and a lively sense of humour, Nicky quickly discovers that being a good cop doesn't always win you friends. Stuck away from the land of the living as a night detective, he learns that new friends are in short supply”the other detectives look upon him with suspicion and his boss DI Carter doesn't do much to make his new recruit welcome. Although his methods can, at times, be unorthodox, Nicky always tries to do the right thing, even if it does make him unpopular with his new colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The Black Donnellys (2007)
Plot Summary:
Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy, Jimmy, Kevin and Sean. There is nothing these four Irish brothers wouldn't do to protect each other, and for them that means lying, cheating, stealing and, occasionally, calling the cops. Narrated by wannabe gangster Joey "Ice Cream," this gritty series bears witness to the Donnelly brothers' sudden involvement in organized crime, focusing on how they go from boys to mobsters, and showing how their new life affects their relationships with friends, family and lovers.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic, exciting, dramatic, anime, thrilling
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Kin (2021)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Power Book II: Ghost (2020)
Plot Summary:
Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful