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Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France |
Duration | 01:45 |
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain |
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 02:15 |
Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:51 |
Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA, France |
Duration | 01:54 |
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France |
Duration | 02:07 |
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish history. But during the complicated preparations he meets a woman from his past - Nadja. Martin Hägerström is chosen to go undercover into the Serbian mafia, in order to get its notorious boss Radovan Krajnic behind bars. When an assassination attempt is made on Radovan, his daughter Natalie is pulled into the power struggle within the Serbian mafia.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France, Belgium |
Duration | 01:25 |
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 02:02 |
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, film noir |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:36 |
After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France, Italy |
Duration | 02:14 |
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using the "Go Fast" method. A fleet of high-powered speedboats and cars races across the Mediterranean to Spain and then France, loaded with drugs.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime, film noir |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Italy, France |
Duration | 01:38 |
Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:29 |
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:57 |
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Spain |
Duration | 01:22 |
The tentative romance between a gentle Madrid labourer and a working single mother becomes a struggle for survival when the woman’s violent boyfriend returns from prison, in the gritty, suspenseful debut feature from Spanish actor Raúl Arévalo.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, film noir |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. To prevent a catastrophic epidemic, Clint must find and inoculate the killers and their associates, with the reluctant aid of police captain Tom Warren, despite official skepticism, and in total secrecy, lest panic empty the city. Can a doctor turn detective? He has 48 hours to try...
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium |
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Spain, France, Portugal |
Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 01:42 |
After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel. (Remake of the Chinese film “Drug War,” 2012.)
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | India |
Duration | 02:24 |
In the early 1980s in India, a group of con artists rob well-known businessmen and politicians by posing as officers of the Central Bureau of Intelligence or income tax officials. The gang stages fake raids during which they steal great amounts of money from their targets.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | France, Luxembourg, Spain |
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Argentina, Spain, Germany, USA |
Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a favor hard to fulfill, a unexpected arrival which will change Agustín's life forever.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, crime |
Country | France, Luxembourg, Belgium |
Duration | 01:48 |
Simon, a burglar on probation, agreed to go on the biggest shot of his life: The flight of the "Florentine", a mythical diamond set auction by its owners. To succeed, he must approach Julia, expert diamond for sale which is a considerable personal and family issue. Beyond a jigsaw particularly daring, Julia Simon will lead to a destiny she could not imagine.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Italy, Belgium, France |
Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France, Italy |
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.