Description: A Playlist dedicated to Crime Dramas…both Film & TV
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Pusher
( 2012 )
In London, a street dealer's life spins out of control over the course of one week after he borrows money from his supplier on what's supposed to be a sure thing.
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Mona Lisa
( 1986 )
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
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Romeo Is Bleeding
( 1994 )
A corrupt New York policeman falls under the spell of a seductive and ruthless member of a Moscow crime family.
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In the Electric Mist
( 2009 )
A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.
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Unknown
( 2006 )
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
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The Drop
( 2014 )
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deeply into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living--no matter the cost.
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City of Industry
( 1997 )
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
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Circus
( 2000 )
Conman Leo Garfield is in hot water after accepting a contract to murder businessman Julius Harvey's alleged wife, Gloria. Leo's wife Lily brings trouble too when her old flame Elmo pops up again, years after she abandoned him mid-heist.
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The Getaway
( 1994 )
An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.
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China Girl
( 1987 )
An Italian boy and Chinese girl fall in love in New York, igniting a conflict between their ethnic gangs.
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10 Cent Pistol
( 2015 )
A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.
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Imperium
( 2016 )
A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.
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The Thomas Crown Affair
( 1999 )
A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
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Judgment Night
( 1993 )
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
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Judy & Punch
( 2020 )
Seaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show on the brink of an anarchic mob rule. When Punch accidentally kills their baby during a drinking binge, his wife, Judy, having suffered a violent beating, teams up with a band of outcast heretics to enact revenge on Punch and the entire town.
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Pride and Glory
( 2008 )
A family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.
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The Hollow Point
( 2016 )
A new sheriff of a small town along the U.S. & Mexico border investigates a drug cartel deal that went horribly wrong.
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Widows
( 2018 )
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
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The Lost Capone
( 1990 )
Fictionalized account of Jimmy Capone (Pasdar), the brother of gangster Al Capone (Roberts) who assumed an alias and became a lawman.
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The Immortals
( 1995 )
A seedy night-club owner recruits eight violent gangsters for an elaborate heist. But when they all begin to compare notes, they find they're pawns in a dangerous game of double-cross.
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The Next Three Days
( 2010 )
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder.
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Magic City
( 2012 )
Miami Beach, 1959.As Ike Evans rings in the New Year at his luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel, Havana falls to Castro's rebels. It's a turbulent time in Miami, but it's the place to be. The Kennedys, the mob and the CIA all hold court here. And Ike, he's the star of his hotel. But everything comes at a price. To finance his dream, he sold his soul to mob boss Ben "The Butcher" Diamond. Ike's wife Vera, a former showgirl, and his three kids think he's an honorable man, but he can't break his pact with the devil. His life is a façade. In fact, nothing at the Miramar Playa is what it seems. By day, it's diving clowns and cha-cha lessons. By night, escorts have secret liaisons with husbands in the family cabanas, while Miami's seedier residents and the law drift together to hear legendary singers, musicians and comics. As Ike's world threatens to implode, he fights for his family, and the Miramar Playa, in Magic City.
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The Family
( 2013 )
The Manzoni family, a notorious Mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the Witness Protection Program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
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The Hard Word
( 2003 )
3 brothers are in and out of prison in connection with heists planned by their lawyer et al. He gets them out for the heists and "looks after" the money and one's wife.
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Jack Irish
( 2012 )
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don't want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Jack Irish: Dead Point
( 2014 )
When a high profile judge commissions Jack Irish to locate a mysterious red book, Jack is thrown into a world of sexy club owners, drug dealers and unhinged killers.
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Freebie and the Bean
( 1974 )
Two reckless San Francisco police detectives finally obtain evidence against a local crime boss, and while waiting for a witness to arrive before making an arrest, they have to discreetly guard his life against an assassination attempt.
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Birdman of Alcatraz
( 1962 )
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
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Frantic
( 1988 )
In a hotel room in Paris, a doctor comes out of the shower and finds that his wife has disappeared. He soon finds himself caught up in a world of intrigue, espionage, gangsters, drugs and murder.
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Inherent Vice
( 2015 )
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
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Ocean's Eight
( 2018 )
Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's annual Met Gala.
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Desperate Measures
( 1998 )
Frank Conner is an honest police officer who desperately needs to save his son's life. However, after losing all hope, he finds out that a criminal Peter McCabe in jail is his only savior.
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Bent
( 2018 )
A discredited ex-cop connects a murder case to an elaborate conspiracy involving treason.
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Twisted
( 2004 )
Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.
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Highwaymen
( 2004 )
Rennie Cray (Caviezel) embarks on a bloodthirsty rampage to avenge the death of his wife who was struck down by a serial killer - a man who hunts and kills women using his '72 El Dorado.
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Escobar: Paradise Lost
( 2015 )
In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar.
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The Man from London
( 2008 )
After witnessing a crime during his night shift as railway switchman near the docks, a man finds a briefcase full of money. While he and his family step up their living standards, others start looking for the disappeared case.
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The Limits of Control
( 2009 )
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
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Gangs of Wasseypur
( 2012 )
A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.
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Drishyam
( 2013 )
A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.
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The White Tiger
( 2021 )
Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav) narrates his epic and darkly humorous rise from poor villager to successful entrepreneur in modern India. Cunning and ambitious, our young hero jockeys his way into becoming a driver for Ashok (Rajkumar Rao) and Pinky (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas), who have just returned from America. Society has trained Balram to be one thing - a servant - so he makes himself indispensable to his rich masters. But after a night of betrayal, he realizes the corrupt lengths they will go to trap him and save themselves. On the verge of losing everything, Balram rebels against a rigged and unequal system to rise up and become a new kind of master.
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Dhoom
( 2004 )
Dhoom reinvents the classic cops and robbers tale for the 21st century. Fast bikes, big action, and non-stop fun make for a thrilling story.
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Mardaani
( 2014 )
Inspector Shivani Shivaji Roy, who works at a Mumbai Crime Branch, sets out to confront the mastermind behind a child-trafficking mafia.
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Mardaani 2
( 2019 )
A 21-year old boy named Sunny (Vishal Jethwa), comes to the city on a murder contract. But he also has a penchant for sexually assaulting and murdering young girls. When he locks horns with Shivani Shivaji Roy (Rani Mukerji), the newly appointed Chief of the city police, a thrilling cat and mouse hunt begins. Will Shivani manage to nab Sunny, or does she end up being one of his many victims?
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Raatchasan
( 2018 )
A sub-inspector sets out in pursuit of a mysterious serial killer who targets teen school girls and murders them brutally.
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Satyameva Jayate
( 2018 )
An honest cop attempts to hunt down a vigilante who kills corrupt cops by setting them on fire.
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Section 375
( 2019 )
A celebrated Bollywood director Rohan Khurana stands accused by a female member of his crew, Anjali Dangle of having raped her at his residence.
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Company
( 2002 )
A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.
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Class of '83
( 2020 )
A hero policeman shunted to a punishment posting as the Dean of the police academy decides to punish the corrupt bureaucracy and its criminal allies in return by training five lethal assassin policemen. But, like all good plans, it only works for a while until the fire that he has ignited threatens to burn his own house down.
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Mahira
( 2019 )
Maya and Adya, a mother-daughter duo, live a happy existence in a coastal Karnataka town, running their beach cafe. Though, this idyllic life is disrupted when both police and some criminals set out in the hunt of Maya. What is Maya's real identity? Why are these people after her?
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Drishyam
( 2015 )
Desperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.
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Sky Rojo
( 2021 )
Coral, Wendy and Gina go on the run in search of freedom while being chased by Romeo, their pimp from Las Novias Club, and his henchmen, Moisés and Christian. Together, the women embark on a frantic, chaotic journey during which they must face dangers of all kinds and live every second as if it were their last, while strengthening their friendship and discovering the most important thing: that together they are stronger and have more options to recover their lives.
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Cocaine Cowboys
( 2007 )
The story of how Miami became the cocaine capital of the United States in the early 1980's and the police officers who turned the tide on crime.
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Delhi Crime
( 2019 )
Following the police force as they investigate high-profile crimes in Delhi, this series has seasons inspired by both real and fictional events.
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Criminal: UK
( 2019 )
Within the walls of an interrogation room and with time running out, London investigators go after three suspects, each accused of a grievous crime.
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Young Wallander
( 2020 )
In a bold and original new story set in contemporary Sweden, Young Wallander sees Henning Mankell's iconic detective Kurt Wallander investigate his gripping first case. The story focuses on the formative experiences – professional and personal - faced by Kurt as a recently graduated police officer in his early twenties.
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Starred Up
( 2014 )
Eric Love, 19, is locked up in prison. On his first day, he assaults another inmate and several guards. He's offered group therapy and his dad, an inmate as well, tries to talk sense into him. Can he be rehabilitated?
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Cold in July
( 2014 )
When a protective father meets a murderous ex-con, both need to deviate from the path they are on as they soon find themselves entangled in a downwards spiral of lies and violence while having to confront their own inner psyche.
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Palmetto
( 1998 )
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.
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Mr. Nice
( 2011 )
The life story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.
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Article 15
( 2019 )
In Lalgaon village two Dalit girls are abducted in a school bus Ayan Ranjan an IPS officer is assigned on the case where he closely works with two officers Brahmdutt and Jatav.Ayan finds that villagers believe in caste discrimination which is the major problem he meets his old friend Satinder who behaves strangely and goes missing next morning.The two girls body are found hanging on a tree while one goes missing an autopsy revels that they were raped multiple times.Gaura sister of one of the dead girl tells Ayan that they were slapped by their owner Anshu when they asked to increase their daily wage by three Rupees .Ayan finds that Anshu did this due to caste discrimination and posts copy of Article 15 according to constitution of India at the police station.
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Cherry
( 2021 )
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
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Driven Underground
( 2015 )
Single mother Sarah Palmer hides her family in Oregon when her daughter Christy becomes a key witness in a murder against the mob.
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Avenge the Crows
( 2017 )
On the streets of LA, old wounds ignite revenge for an ex gang member and her young cousin.
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Easy Money
( 2010 )
When JW becomes a drug runner in order to maintain his double life, his fate becomes tied to two other men: Jorge, a fugitive on the run from both the Serbian mafia and the police, and mafia enforcer Mrado, who is on the hunt for Jorge.
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Easy Money II: Hard to Kill
( 2014 )
Three years later, JW gets out of prison, but soon finds himself between the contending parties of his criminal past.
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe
( 2013 )
The final part of Stockholm criminal world trilogy tells about the final struggles that await everyone to get out of their sins.
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Dead Man Down
( 2013 )
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is helped by a woman seeking retribution.
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Alex Cross
( 2012 )
A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in torture and pain.
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Middle Men
( 2010 )
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of Internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of con men, mobsters, drug addicts, and porn stars.
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Get the Gringo
( 2012 )
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.
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Deadfall
( 2012 )
Two siblings decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
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Manhunt
( 2017 )
Manhunt explores how the FBI caught infamous criminal masterminds, with each closed-ended season following a different case.The show, heavily serialized and darkly psychological in the vein of True Detective, provides insight into the criminal and the case but also the psychological effects the cases have on the FBI agents assigned to hunt down the most dangerous criminals who often delve into a kind of madness of their own, becoming totally absorbed in the crimes and forced to live inside the darkest minds imaginable for years.
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Dogville
( 2004 )
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.
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The Reckoning
( 2004 )
A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.
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Broken Horses
( 2015 )
The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
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Mafia: Chapter 1
( 2020 )
Aryan is a narcotics bureau officer entitled with making the city a drug free zone. In Spite of huge number of drug busts and capturing of peddlers, Aryan and his team are not able to completely eradicate the alarming problem. One dreadful day, people very close to Aryan get murdered one by one. He feels that this might be the work of the mastermind who is behind the entire distribution network. Interesting flow of events end up exposing the identity of the main crook behind the murders and drug mafia - Diwakar Kumaran. With the identity of the kingpin known Aryan decides to hunt him down without knowing the deadly consequences it holds. Can the mouse outsmart the cat.
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Talvar
( 2015 )
An experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.
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Lucifer
( 2019 )
A political Godfather dies and a lot of thieves dressed up as politicians took over the rule. Question arises regarding the successor of the God, unfolding few names, along with the God's most beloved angel, Lucifer.
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Force
( 2011 )
A vengeful gangster targets and terrorizes an entire police unit and their families.
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Ripley Under Ground
( 2007 )
Professional swindler hides the death of a famous artist in order to earn money by selling pictures on his own behalf.
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Murder in the Heartland
( 1993 )
Murder in the Heartland is a television miniseries aired on ABC in 1993. It was based on the 1957–58 murder spree carried out by 19-year-old Charles Starkweather throughout Nebraska and Wyoming. The first half of the miniseries covers the murders. The second half covers the trials of Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, his 14-year-old girlfriend accomplice. Their increasingly disparate versions of events are contrasted as the trials unfold. The film received strong praise from critics and multiple Emmy nominations.
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No Way Home
( 1996 )
A paroled murderer returns to the Staten Island home of his youth, where a poignant friendship blossoms with the restrained wife of his temperamental-- and jealous-- brother.
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Flash Point
( 2007 )
A hot-headed inspector takes on a small but powerful Vietnamese-Chinese gang, after a series of crimes and murder attempts committed and putting an undercover cop and his girlfriend in great danger.
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The Blood of Wolves
( 2018 )
Hiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company's employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.
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Museum
( 2016 )
Detective Hisashi Sawamura (Shun Oguri) of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police is tired, behind and dealing with the departure of his ungrateful wife. Having lost his family, he now deals with both the serial murders or who is apparently punishing his victims. The horror comes courtesy of the manga, Museum: The Serial Killer Is Laughing In The Rain.
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Heat Wave
( 1991 )
A woman follows in her late father's footsteps and becomes a gambler, only to meet her father's murderer at a game.
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The Forest of Love
( 2019 )
A small group of student filmmakers and a shy young girl with strict parents are simultaneously manipulated, seduced and abused by an older man. They follow his bidding, even when murder is involved.
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Bullet Ballet
( 1999 )
A man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent group of young vicious punks. They first beat him severely and then he seeks revenge with his fist, then with a gun. Everything from then on is a complete downward spiral.
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The Monkey's Mask
( 2001 )
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.
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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
( 2003 )
The blind masseur/swordsman comes to a town in control of warring gangs, and while bunking with a farming family, he meets two women with their own agenda.
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Zero Woman R
( 2007 )
The secret Section 0 of Tokyo Police has a license to kill. A cute cop goes undercover to find and kill bad guys.
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Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage
( 1993 )
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York Mafia boss.
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Brother
( 2000 )
A Japanese gangster is exiled to Los Angeles where his brother lives with a small but respectable multi-racial gang, who he inspires to expand their influence.
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Tokyo Playboy Club
( 2012 )
(Japanese with English subtitles) When Katsutoshi finds trouble at work and hides out at his friend's titular nightclub, lives intersect and strange situations arise in this dark comedy set in the seedy underbelly of Tokyo nightlife.
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Masquerade Hotel
( 2019 )
When three murders occur in Tokyo, aside from the corpse and the crime, the commonality is the placement of numbers next to scene of crime. As such, the lead investigator pieces together enough clues to assume the scene of the next murder. He goes undercover and presents himself at an employee of the hotel. The present hotel employee is placed in charge of the detective's training, but it is clear that they have different priorities. In the meantime, there is a potential crime to prevent and criminal to apprehend.
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Ichi
( 2008 )
Ichi is a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.
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Tiger House
( 2015 )
Kelly sneaks into her boyfriend's house but tonight, she's not the only unwelcome visitor. As the situation spirals out of control, the suburban house becomes a terrifying arena for violence.
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By the Gun
( 2014 )
Nick, a young Boston Italian, trying to find purpose in the ideology of the mafia and finding his world turned upside down.
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