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Plot Summary:
In 1970s Brazil, a Corsican gangster, a Sicilian Capo and a master forger join forces to revolutionize the Mafia in South America. As American and Italian law enforcement close in, the trio must navigate dangerous alliances, shady deals and their own dark pasts to establish their criminal empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration:
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The Abusers of Virgin Girls (1983)
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In São Paulo, the gang of the former pimp Marcus abducts another virgin woman late night. They trade the virgin girls with three wealthy sick old men that pay a little fortune to deflower the girls. Then the gang of sex maniacs kills the women and dumps their bodies in the backwoods. The police know that the gang has abducted sixteen women and they have already found ten bodies, but they do not have any lead to find the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
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Scramble (2017)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped by an underground prostitution ring, a neighborhood loser clashes with a pimp, Asian gangsters, and renegade killers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime
Country:
Duration: 102 min
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München Mord - Wir sind die Neuen (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Dead Eye Dick (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private-eye is on the hunt.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Godmother (2014)
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It’s 1993, and Paloma Luisa Marquez Hermosa is on top of the world. Originally from Columbia, she now heads a very discreet – and very efficient – criminal organization that smuggles cocaine into Montreal and launders drug money. Nicknamed the “Cali Cartel Godmother”, she stops at nothing to provide for her family. But Paloma eventually becomes the target of Paul Généreux, an honest cop who’s determined to destroy her organization – until his investigation turns into a tangled web of corruption that reaches the upper echelons of the police force.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Carla Cametti PD (2009)
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Carla Cametti PD is a six-part Australian television crime series that was announced in April 2008 and first screened on SBS TV on 8 January 2009. The series of six episodes is produced by Buon Giorno Productions Pty Ltd. The show revolves around a young female Italian-Australian private detective named Carla Cametti who is investigating her own mafia family. Carla is played by Diana Glenn. The DVD has been released in Region 4 only.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Trautmann (2000)
Plot Summary:
Detective superintendent Trautmann solves crimes in an unconventional way.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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The Gypsy Bride (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set in the heart of the Spanish Romani community, the fiction follows police inspector Elena Blanco and her team, as they try to crack the crime case pertaining to the murders of sisters Lara and Susana Macaya, separated by a 7-year gap.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective
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Leipzig Homicide (2001)
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SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, exciting, intellectual, suspenseful
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Mandrake (2005)
Plot Summary:
Meet Paulo Mandrake, a charismatic defense attorney who finds himself sidetracked by his vices--especially beautiful Brazilian women--while serving as a liaison between his high-end clients and the Rio de Janeiro subculture. Marcos Palmeira stars in this HBO Latino drama series.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, humorous
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Double Cross (2020)
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Follows Erica and Eric Cross two siblings on a quest to save the women in their neighborhood from a sex trafficking ring that's taken over Dr. Erica's hospital emergency room and shaken up the streets ran by "The Heights" Kingpin, Eric. Haunted by their past, the twins set down a path of their unique brand of vigilante justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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The Big Family (1973)
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Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: noir, poliziottesco
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Life on Call (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of an unusual businessman Alexander Schmidt, nicknamed Magic, who is ready to fulfill the most daring and explicit sex fantasies of his clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 34 min
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Rosa Roth (1994)
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Rosa Roth is a no-nonsense police commissioner stationed in Berlin, who has a small team of operatives she trusts with her life. Whatever happens on the field, takes a toll on them personally as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: detective
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Cirkus Bukowsky (2013)
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Psychologist Nestor Bukowski wants to forget the past and be with his new girlfriend. Unfortunately, he can't. The question of what happened to Edita still haunts him, so he decides to investigate it by himself, no matter the cost.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
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The Pleasure Principle (2019)
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Mysterious murders has been committed in four post-communist cities: Warsaw, Prague, Odesa, and Leipzig. The investigations are carried out by three absolutely different in many aspects criminal police officers. Independently of one another, they soon come to the conclusion that all four murders are connected. Now, to solve the crimes they have to work together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Russia
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough
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The Elements of Sasza - Fire (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Black Godfather (1974)
Plot Summary:
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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10 Grams (2015)
Plot Summary:
Crime Drama starring Brian William Woodward, Richard Douglas, Lloyd James.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Continental: From the World of John Wick (2023)
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As Winston Scott is dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970s New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind, he charts a deadly course through New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 269 min
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Get Shorty (2017)
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Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, erotic, exciting, entertaining, sensual
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Crack / System (2021)
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Contemporary Warsaw. A homeless alcoholic dies. Commissioner Monika Brzozowska, who leads the investigation, senses that there is more to the case than just a scam. Subsequent crimes with a similar modus operandi confirm her suspicions. During the investigation it turns out that the former sins of the murdered are related to the mistakes of the commissioner's youth. Brzozowska, suffering from memory lapses, becomes entangled in a dangerous game that will force her to look back and fight again with the demons of the past. Demons that she had only apparently defeated years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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The Dandy (2015)
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Inspired by the 1997 American drama Donnie Brasco, El Dandy tells the story of a law professor who has been hired by the Attorney General, to participate in a program of special operations, where you must infiltrate one of the most notorious drug cartels of Mexico City. Under the false name Daniel "El Dandy" Bracho, begins the task of identifying all the members of this clandestine network. However, he quickly finds that his acute ability to police work is only comparable with the exciting sense of danger that experiences living life to the fullest. Along the way, it avails itself of the help of a criminal's petty, loyal, even corrupt, called El Chueco, who quickly befriends Bracho and comes dangerously close to discover his true identity. Much deeper Bracho is involved in the mafia, more work tells him to get out, and the professor once incorruptible has to choose between returning to a normal life as a respectable citizen or fully embrace his criminal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective, telenovela
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Bloque De Busqueda (2016)
Plot Summary:
Group of policemen trained to capture Pablo Escobar. It tells the story of the family of some of its members and what they had to experience during the drug trafficking era in Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Dom (2021)
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A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most wanted burglars in Rio de Janeiro. Will a father’s love be enough to save his son’s life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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En la Boca del Lobo (2014)
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Based on a true story and the book, At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel, En la Boca del Lobo follows the series of events that ultimately lead to the dramatic downfall of Colombia’s infamous Cali drug cartel. The story centers on Ricardo Salgado, an engineer and soldier who rises ranks and became in charge of the security of the godfather of the Cali Cartel, one of the largest criminal organizations in the world and rival of the Medellin Cartel.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Mocro Mafia (2018)
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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The Last Don (1997)
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
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 258 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
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Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved cult status in Italy. This is the second fiction series after Quo Vadis, Baby? that was produced by Sky and broadcast on Fox Crime, Sky One and on Sky Arts with English subtitles in 2012. The series is set in about 1977-89 and follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Most of the characters use the Romanesco dialect. The gang is led by three old friends, Libanese, Freddo and Dandi. As well as its internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services. The plotline is based on the Banda della Magliana of the 1970s-90s.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, interesting