Thriller films about the Russian mafia

List of the best thriller films about the Russian mafia according to visitors: A Second Chance, Straw Dogs, The House That Jack Built, Blood Simple, John Q, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Lucky Number Slevin, Blind, I Confess, 21 Grams.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:42

Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:53

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryDenmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration02:43

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:22

In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by the same killer and starts investigation. One day, Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked by a suspicious man, and Tae-suk realizes that this man is the serial killer, K. Now, Dong-soo becomes the only witness and a survived victim from K.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:50

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:51

A blind witness and a runaway help the police find the suspect in a Hit and Run until the culprit realizes that they are close on his trail. The killer tracks her down and Soo-ah realizes that in order to save Gi-sub she would have to risk her life.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:35

Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

    This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryFrance, Canada, USA
    Duration02:44

    During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada
    Duration01:53

    When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
    Duration02:18

    When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:12

    Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the forth, Andrey. Kind-hearted Michail helps Andrey escape and together they run from the villains who chase them. Thus, two totally different men start a long and dangerous journey together, constantly arguing with each other regarding their ideology, morals and opinions about life. But life will put everything on its place and make the men understand who they really are.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryLithuania
    Duration01:30

    What would you get if you mix a gangster film and a soap opera? "Zero 2" is a crazy twister of criminal romance and sexy violence that just might laugh you to death.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:47

    When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, USA
    Duration01:37

    A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:48

      A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountrySpain
      Duration01:47

      During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, history
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:01

      The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

      The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:46

      Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:49

      Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration02:02

      Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in complete darkness, only to emerge a madman and soon to be a murderer. The story follows a rookie lawyer attempting to prove that Alcatraz was to blame.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:59

      Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryMexico, Spain, USA
      Duration02:05

      Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
      Duration01:56

      Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
      Duration02:37

      During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, India
      Duration02:39

        During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

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