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Plot Summary:
Set in the 1980s, The Worst Evil follows undercover police investigators who infiltrate a massive criminal organization responsible for the illegal drug trade between Korea, China and Japan.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: crime drama
Best tv shows and movies like The Worst of Evil (2023):
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Being a Hero (2022)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago, Wu Gang was killed by a drug trafficking organization named "K", and his son Wu Zhen Feng was expelled from the police force. Utterly dissipated, Wu Zhen Feng boards the bus to the borders, while his best friend Chen Yu chases after him relentlessly. Along the journey, the two were almost kidnapped. While saving his best friend Chen Yu, Wu Zhen Feng was brought away by the drug traffickers, and there was no news of him ever since. When the two meet again, Chen Yu became a narcotics policeman while Wu Zhen Feng is now a famed murder suspect known by the nickname "Addict Lord". Ignoring public dissension, Chen Yu sets out to find the truth and clear Wu Zhenfeng's name, but he gradually discovers that Wu Zhen Feng's return has another purpose. The two best friends begin a game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Bad Guys (2014)
Plot Summary:
To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspenseful, rough, bleak, detective, dorama
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A Model Family (2022)
Plot Summary:
After unwittingly stealing money from a cartel, a cash-strapped professor finds the only way to save his broken family is by working as a drug courier.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense
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True Justice (2010)
Plot Summary:
Elijah Kane leads a hardcore undercover team of Seattle based cops who take on the local criminal element with a high-octane style of enforcement.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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Suspicious Partner (2017)
Plot Summary:
Noh Ji Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong Hee and Noh Ji Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sweet, exciting, romantic, thought provoking, humorous, tear jerker, romantic drama, dorama, teen comedy
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The Drug King (2018)
Plot Summary:
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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Brotherhood (2019)
Plot Summary:
An honest lawyer reaches a moral crossroads after the cops force her to inform on her incarcerated brother, the leader of a rising criminal faction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Narco-Saints (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Gap Dong (2014)
Plot Summary:
20 years ago Moo-Yeom’s father was a suspect in the "Gap Dong” serial murder case. Because of the detectives’ oppressive investigation, Moo-Yeom’s father killed himself. Now, Moo-Yeom is a detective and works to capture the killer Gap Dong. The statue of limitations has expired for the serial murder case and Moo-Yeom resigns to the belief that Gap Dong is dead. New clues though for Gap Dong appears in front of Moo-Yeom and he sets out to catch him once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Maltese: The Mafia Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Dario Maltese travels from Rome to the city of his birth, Trapani in Sicily, to attend his best friend's wedding. But tragedy strikes and he finds himself pulled into a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 439 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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My Name (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yoon Ji-woo's father dies suddenly. She wants to desperately take revenge on whoever is responsible for her father's death. Yoon Ji-woo works for drug crime group Dongcheonpa. Choi Moo-jin is the boss of the drug gang. With the help of Choi Moo-jin and to uncover the reason for her father's death, Yoon Ji-woo joins the police department and becomes a mole for the drug group. Yoon Ji-woo is assigned to work in the drug investigation unit in the police department. Her partner there is Detective Jeon Pil-do.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dorama, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, clever, dark, detective
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Aftermath (2014)
Plot Summary:
Aftermath is a supernatural crime drama based on the popular Naver webtoon by Kim Sun Kwon ("Survivors of Those Days," "K Errands Center"). It is a thrilling story of murder, mystery, and love that was made exclusively for Naver TVCast for viewing on mobile devices. Ahn Dae Yong (Dong Jun) is a quiet high school student who suddenly develops the super power to predict who is a murderer and who is about to die. Those who appear to have red eyes are destined to die soon, while those with blue eyes are about to commit murder. Ahn Dae Yong decides to use this power to save lives and becomes an unexpected hero for the people.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, dorama
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Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnetship; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with the money from drug trafficking while Ik-hyeon lobbies for his partner Hyeong-bae. As the government declares war on crime, however, their partnership begins to crack.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, crime drama, captivating, suspense, noir, neo noir
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Powder and Gold (2015)
Plot Summary:
The real-life story of a drug cartel leader set to Macbeth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Drug Squad: Costa del Sol (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four intrepid and impulsive police officers form a special narcotics unit to combat the birth of drug trafficking on Spain's Costa del Sol in the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, detective
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City on a Hill (2019)
Plot Summary:
In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, bleak, exciting, detective, anime, crime drama
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Hot Blooded (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kuam is a shabby port town in the shadow of stunning port city of Busan. Hee-su is a third-rate gangster who has been acting like a hotel manager under Don Son for 20 years. Seemingly out of nowhere, Yong-kang, who fled the country as a murder suspect, returns home and begins causing trouble all over town, which only adds pressure to Hee-su.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Black Ice (2001)
Plot Summary:
There are many vicious cases in Haizhou, and the suspects are collected by Liu Mei, the general manager of Haizhou Building, which is owned by Haizhou Pharmaceutical Group. Wang Jingwen, who specializes in the aesthetics of the public security department, entered the group company as a Hong Kong investor agent and participated in the investigation. Dr. Guo Xiaopeng, the president of the group, is a famous successful person. He and Wang Jingwen saw each other as soon as possible, which turned the hostility of his long-time lover Liu Mei into action.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Impure (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out of his criminal organization. His business skills and leadership abilities draw the attention of Morello, a federal police officer with a self-destructive behavior who sees in Evandro a worthy enemy. Two strategists that share the love for danger. The hunt down begins.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, disturbing
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Never Say Never (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes to great lengths to enter the drug syndicate to finish the undercover mission that his girlfriend started. Fang Han (Qin Junjie) and his girlfriend were childhood friends. She was an exceptional cop and undercover. Upon finding out that she was killed, Fang Han is overwhelmed with grief. He receives a secret code that only he can understand and accepts a mission to infiltrate the drug ring himself. Acting impulsively and always putting himself on the line of fire gets him noticed by their target Gu Tao (Xue Haowen) who begins to trust him. As they encounter countless dangers, Fang Han inches closer to finding his girlfriend's killer and to bringing down the syndicate once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area (2022)
Plot Summary:
Disguised under the shadows of a mask, a crew of desperados band together under the leadership of a criminal mastermind known only as “The Professor” to pull off the biggest heist Korea has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Healer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kim Moon Ho is a successful reporter at a mainstream news station, but when he stumbles upon a 10-year-old mystery, he's forced to dive into a subversive underground news agency. On his journey to break open the case, Moon Ho teams up with Chae Young Shin, a second rate tabloid writer, and Healer, a mysterious internet-based journalist. With his career and his safety on the line, who can Moon Ho trust in a world full of unreliable sources?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, dorama, romantic, touching, humorous, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, romantic drama, suspense
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The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Plot Summary:
His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named Somi, a little girl next door. As Taesik spends more and more time with Somi, he gets attached to her. Then Somi is kidnapped by a gang, and as Taesik tries to save Somi by becoming deeply associated with the gang his mysterious past is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, brutal, exciting, touching, emotional, neo noir, bleak, suspense, harsh
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Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
Plot Summary:
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
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Gangs of London (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, volatile and impulsive Sean Wallace to restore control and find those responsible for killing his father.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, brutal, intellectual, suspense
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The Lord of the Skies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, novela, telenovela
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Narcos: Mexico (2018)
Plot Summary:
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, captivating, exciting, intense, crime drama, tense, erotic, inspirational, intellectual
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Ganglands (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood
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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