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Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA, France |
Duration | 01:50 |
How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane survives and becomes obsessed with getting revenge. Aided by his loyal friend Johnny Vohden, Rane, now wielding a hook for a hand, sets out on his mission of vengeance.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Japan, USA |
Duration | 01:47 |
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, western, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:02 |
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.
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: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:03 |
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA, Canada, Germany |
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
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: 4.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:23 |
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.
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: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also involves terrorism and organized crime.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:49 |
As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, western, crime |
Country | Australia |
Duration | 01:37 |
Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:32 |
Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins....
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:35 |
When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:54 |
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA, United Arab Emirates |
Duration | 02:05 |
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Chile, France |
Duration | 01:22 |
How far will you go to protect your family? Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Former undercover police officer Jack Adleth returns to London seeking those who tried to have him killed in Amsterdam.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:02 |
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:51 |
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea |
Duration | 02:32 |
A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:51 |
The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the french police before creating this story, which in part is taken from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.