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Plot Summary:
After serving 17 years in prison for a murder conviction, Asa Katz receives an early release on the condition that he continues to cooperate with the police as their jailhouse informant. Asa returns to his old neighborhood and to his older brother, David, a successful realtor who made his money in dubious business dealings. Conflicting interests put Asa in precarious situations, and he finds himself torn between his life of crime and his work with the police, all the while skillfully navigating both worlds to his advantage.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
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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
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The Missing (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ne'elamim (The Missing) is a compelling young adult skewed thriller which follows Emma and Alon, a brother and sister who move to a small town and quickly find out that nothing is quite as it seems in their new neighborhood, which is awash with murky happenings. The ground water supply has been geologically poisoned, and three teenagers from their high school died under mysterious circumstances a few months earlier - but when an unexplainable photograph of them surfaces, the siblings begin to doubt that they know the full story, as per the official log-line.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 25 min
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Asylum City (2018)
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Based on the best-selling novel by the same name, "Asylum City" is set in the underworld of refugees and asylum seekers; those looking to help them and those who take advantage of their plight. A young social activist is found dead and the main suspect is an asylum seeker from Africa who was seen leaving her apartment. Police Officer Anat Sitton leads the murder investigation, unravelling a complex world of corrupt politicians, organized crime and illegal arms deals, putting her in the center of a dangerous and parallel universe with its own codes and morals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 40 min
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Nehama (2019)
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Guy Nehama has a wife he loves, a job in a high-tech company he despises, and 5 children that he doesn't really know. He finds himself in the midst of a mid-life crisis, feeling that because of his family he gave up on a career as a stand-up comedian. When his wife dies in a car accident, he starts chasing after his old dream. On the way he loses everything - the co-worker who is secretly in love with him, his brother's friendship and even - his children. Nehama is obsessed with his love for his dead wife. He tries to figure out what secrets she kept from him. Until he has to wake up and choose between his dream as an artist and his children.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 55 min
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Southside (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration:
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The Cops (2021)
Plot Summary:
Alon Shenhav, an outstanding detective officer who came from Nahariya and moved to Tel Aviv, is asked to return to his hometown and acts there as a detective officer for a year. When he returns, he discovers that Maor Ezra is a criminal organization operating in the city. Alon understands that in order to fight Ezra, he must first restore the public status of the police in the city.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Tellus (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Autonomies (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate reality of present day Israel, a Haredi wheeler-dealer named Broide makes his living smuggling minor contraband between the secular “State of Israel” and the ultra-Orthodox “Haredi Autonomy” in Jerusalem. One day he receives a life-changing job offer: kidnap a little girl at the heart of a custody battle between two families - one Haredi and one secular.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 60 min
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Baba Joon (2015)
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Yitzhak runs the turkey farm his father built with his own two hands after they emigrated from Iran to Israel. When his son Moti turns thirteen, Yitzhak teaches him the trade, hoping that he will continue the proud family tradition. But Moti doesn't like working in the turkey barn; his passion is fixing up junkyard cars and bringing them back to life. Moti's mother Sarah tries to reconcile between the two, while his grandfather pushes Yitzhak to take a firm hand with his son. Yitzhak takes Moti's refusal to work in the turkey barn as a personal rejection. Though he loves his son dearly, he makes it his mission to impose the family farm on Moti. The arrival of Darius, the uncle from America, sets off a chain of events that will undermine the familial harmony. Soon enough Yitzhak will learn that his son is just as stubborn as he is. The conflict is inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min
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Ajami (2009)
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Ajami is an area of Tel Aviv in Israel where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews and Christians live together in a tense atmosphere. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl: Hadir. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to find his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Israel, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, serious, emotional, bleak, educational, smart, tense, captivating, realistic
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Extracurricular (2020)
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Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a world of serious crime to ensure he can pay for college.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dorama, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, controversial
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The Arbitrator (2007)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Nadav Feldman , a young social worker , who discovers that he is adopted and finds himself in the depths of his biological father's family, Baruch Asulin, a leader of an organized crime syndicate in Israel known as "Ha-Borer"(The Arbitrator), due to his activities as an arbitrator in disputes in the underworld. The series focuses on the combination of dramatic stretches , the conflict between the norms of society including crime, especially norms and codes of conduct of the underworld. Among other highlights of the series, in a satirical way, the contrast between certain behaviors of some of the heroes of the series (as a demonstration of piety) and other behaviors (such as the blatant disregard for human life).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, talky
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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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White Sands (2021)
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To solve the brutal murder of a young German surfer, two officers are secretly sent to the tourist paradise Hvide Sande on Denmark's west coast. No one in the city trusts the police, so they go undercover as a happily married couple from the big city.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 333 min
Plot tags: tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Informer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Raza, a young second-generation British-Pakistani man from London is coerced by Gabe, a counterterrorism officer, into informing.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective
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HaMidrasha (2015)
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Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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The Forgotten (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Forgotten is a television series which premiered on September 22, 2009 on ABC. On November 9, 2009, ABC ordered five additional episodes of the series, bringing the first season's total to eighteen episodes. The final two episodes of The Forgotten aired on July 3, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, realistic, detective
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Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 720 min
Plot tags: political thriller, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, vintage, period drama
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Queens (2018)
Plot Summary:
The series begins one night at the height of the bachelor party of Eyal Malka on the family yacht, one of the largest crime families in Israel. Until they board the yacht and assassinate all the men and soldiers of the family. The women of the Malka family, who lost their status and strength in one run, are thrown into a new reality in which they must struggle for their place in a masculine world that only sanctifies power. The series tells the story of the women of the family who try to stand on their feet again and restore the family business taken from them, as well as avenge the death of their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Manayek (2020)
Plot Summary:
Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused to be corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sirius (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about an investigation of a drug case by policeman, Do Shin Woo, who bring him meet his twin brother Do Eun Chang. It will tell the story about the tense brain play between two twin brothers whose fates changed in a day and the love and hatred between them which they have kept in their hearts so long.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense
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The Straits (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set among the turquoise waters and lethal wildlife of Australia’s Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait, The Straits is an exotic, darkly humorous crime drama. The Montebellos are not your average Australian family. Modern day smugglers, their family business is transporting drugs into Australia and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized
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Reckless (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city of Charleston, S.C. apart. .
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, serious, sexy, touching, captivating
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Line of Fire (2003)
Plot Summary:
Line of Fire is a crime drama television series that was broadcast on ABC for 11 episodes in the winter of 2003-2004. It starred Leslie Bibb and Jeffrey D. Sams as two rookie FBI agents assigned to the bureau's Richmond, Virginia branch, where their story parallels that of a local mob boss, Jonah Malloy. When a fellow agent is murdered in a shootout with the gangsters, the head of the FBI branch declares an all-out war on the criminal underworld. The following episodes weaved intricately between Bibb and Sams' federal agency and Paymer's gang, though the two storylines rarely met head-on, except when occasionally focusing on an undercover agent. The show was canceled after just 11 episodes in June 2004, though 13 episodes in all were produced. Mob boss Jonah Malloy's signature line was "That's that with that." The Parents Television Council took a clip from the series for their TV's Worst Clips from years 2001 to 2004. The clip used depicted graphic sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Dumb (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shiri is 30 years old actress waiting for her big break, which doesn't seem to come because she looks too young. An unexpected opportunity comes when she is recruited by the police as a secret agent in a high-school where drugs are suspected to be distributed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Interceptor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A gripping eight-part series about a state-of-the-art law enforcement team whose unswerving mission is to hunt down some of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. The Interceptor delves into the adventures of a dedicated surveillance team known as the UNIT. Keeping their quarries under ultra-tight surveillance, they take us into the real world inhabited by the criminals of today. And it’s easy to recognize because it’s the same world the rest of us inhabit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
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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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The Last Don II (1998)
Plot Summary:
As the elder don dies, his young heir moves into the position. He quickly proves to be as ruthless as he tries to discover who has launched a plot to overthrow his rule and may be infiltrating other families. In a left over plot line, his aunt discovers that the young don had her son murdered first setting her off in a plot to kill him. Then when she is stopped she is driven into the arms of a conflicted priest. Meanwhile, an undercover FBI agent moves into the family home as a teacher for the don's handicapped daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, saga, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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The Snitch Cartel: Origins (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Cali during the '60s and '70s, two brothers juggle family, romance and the joint pursuit of a burning ambition: to rule Colombia's drug industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ray Donovan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, clever, tense, stylized, realistic, crime drama, erotic, neo noir, dramatic