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 6.7
 83K
Killer Joe (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).
Style: neo noir, disturbing, dark comedy, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: psychopath, murder, hitman, violent, sex, greed, deal, cheating wife, nudity, character study, police detective, family relations ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, oklahoma, dallas texas
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The Army of Shadows (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura) finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must ...
Style: noir, visually appealing, art house, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, espionage, terrorist, nazi, resistance, spy, wartime, world war, betrayal, nazism, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century, year 1943, year 1942
Place: paris france, vichy, marseille, lyon, europe ...
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 7.1
 18K
Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, espionage, infidelity, female nudity, manipulation, loneliness, complex characters, crime gone awry, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: florida, usa, los angeles, key west florida
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 7.3
 23K
Point Blank (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Style: neo noir, surreal, tense, brutal, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: organized crime, revenge, vengeance, gangster, betrayal, left for dead, anti hero, hitman, flashback, left to die, mafia, money ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1967, 60s
Place: usa, san francisco, los angeles, california
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The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?
Style: neo noir, noir, stylized, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot: revenge, femme fatale, justice, vigilante, murder, serial killer, wedding, swing, modernism, danger, judiciary, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former prostitute discovers that her philanthropic fiance is involved in perversion.
Style: neo noir, controversial, grindhouse, dark, surreal ...
Plot: prostitute, small town, social commentary, hospital, pedophile, prostitution, pedophilia, nurse, abortion, marriage proposal, child molester, hooker ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1961, year 1964
Place: america, switzerland, venice, usa
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 7.0
 9K
The Killers (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Style: neo noir, noir, suspenseful, stylized, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, heist, betrayal, assassin, killer, corruption, racing, femme fatale, murder, crime gone awry, gangster, death ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, miami
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 8.4
 52K
High and Low (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style: suspense, captivating, bleak, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot: police, ransom, samurai, secrets, tragedy, visceral, character study, psychopath, mistaken identity, chauffeur, rescue, missing person ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, post world war two
Place: japan
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 7.5
 23K
Europa (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An American, Leopold Kessler, goes to post-war Germany in 1945 to work as a railroad conductor for the Zentropa Rail Line instead of going into the Army because he feels its a more valuable thing to do for the state of the world. He meets Katharina ...
Style: art house, surreal, bleak, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: train, world war two, assassination, betrayal, idealism, suicide, against humanity, misfit, terrorism, employee, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, post world war two
Place: germany, nebraska, frankfurt germany, munich germany, europe
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Veronika Voss (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the ...
Style: noir, black and white, art house, stylized, neo noir ...
Plot: drug addiction, existentialism, addiction, morphine, reporter, movie star, hardcore, exodus, world war two, time travel, women, wartime life ...
Time: 1950s, year 1982, 80s
Place: munich germany, germany
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 6.5
 14K
The Big Easy (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.
Style: neo noir, sexy, noir, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, corruption, police corruption, rough sex, murder mystery, investigation, murder, sex scene, erotica, sexual content, police investigation, making love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, mississippi, usa, southern usa
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 7.2
 95K
Angel Heart (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, detective, satanic, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, private detective, satan, voodoo, devil, amnesia, missing person, incest, supernatural, nudity, plot twist ...
Time: year 1987, year 1955, 50s, 20th century, year 1918 ...
Place: new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
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 7.1
 55K
Hard Eight (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, noir, independent film, clever ...
Plot: gambling, blackmail, redemption, casino, prostitute, hotel, kindness, mentor protege relationship, dark past, motel, secret, father figure ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, nevada, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
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 7.6
 211K
Dark City (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style: neo noir, mind bending, psychological, suspense, gothic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, memory, cyberpunk, alternate reality, distopia, alien race, trippy, dystopian future, virtual reality, amnesia, memory loss, experiment ...
Time: future, year 1998, distant future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: persia
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 6.7
 37K
Cold in July (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: twists and turns, investigation, private detective, murder, home invasion, vigilantism, father son relationship, violence, small town, intruder, unlikely partners, vengeance ...
Time: year 2014, 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: texas, midwest, usa
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Any Number Can Win (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned ...
Style: noir, neo noir, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, crime gone awry, mafia, organized crime, hustler, gambler, robbery, one last job, heist gone wrong ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: cannes, france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe ...
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 5.2
 2K
Slam Dance (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: false accusation, murder, frame up, uncover truth, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, injustice, manipulation, life is a bitch, couple relations, couples ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an ...
Style: neo noir, noir, dark comedy, independent film, suspenseful ...
Plot: incest, incestuous sex, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, murder, prostitute, sex scene, violence, dark humor, reporter, crazy love, twins ...
Time: year 1997, 50s, 1920s, 1950s, year 1956
Place: usa, california, chicago, mexico
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Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Psychotherapist Ruben Brandt becomes the most wanted criminal in the world when he and four of his patients steal paintings from the world's most renowned museums and art collections.
Style: suspense, adult animation, exciting, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot: art, chase, dream, art theft, painting, psychologist, train, boat, museum, collector, kleptomania, acrobat ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: chicago, zurich switzerland, rome italy, rio de janeiro, washington d.c. ...
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 6.9
 688
Serangoon Road (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Singapore, Australia
TV show
Story: 1964-65. Singapore is a city at a crossroads. Political and racial tensions are at fever pitch as the British pull out, and a new nation is about to be born. The lights of Bugis Street have never burned so bright: bootleg copies of Motown songs boom ...
Style: tense, noir, captivating, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: private detective, murder, partner, workplace, investigation, twists and turns, political unrest, partners against crime, dishonesty, state affairs, workplace situations, detective agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1964
Place: singapore
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In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of ...
Style: psychological, dark comedy, noir, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vigilante, gangster, revenge, kidnapping, vigilantism, murder, snow, betrayal, justice, loss of son, kidnapped boy, winter ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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 7.7
 12K
The Finger Man (1962)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, friendship, crime gone awry, tough heroes, spy, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place: europe, france, paris france
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 7.8
 16K
Wallander (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling ...
Style: bleak, detective, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, police investigation, police, loneliness, whodunit, life is a bitch, small town, depression, drinking problem, nordic, murder mystery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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Those Who Kill (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Those Who Kill is a Danish crime TV series from 2011, which follows a fictitious unit within Copenhagen Police which specialises in investigating serial murders. The series was aired as five two-part stories in Denmark, but has aired as five feature ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, policewoman, police investigation, profiler, female protagonist, crime investigation, criminal, forensics, police, law enforcement, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen
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 8.6
 76K
The Bridge (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: serial killer, multiple suspects, police investigation, murder, police detective, cop, twists and turns, mind game, partners against crime, murderer, murder investigation, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe, eastern europe
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 7.6
 12K
Bordertown (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Finland, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Peculiar detective Kari Sorjonen escapes the hustle and bustle of big city to a small border town.
Style: detective, noir, captivating, tense, enigmatic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: border, crime investigation, small town, nordic, police detective, family relations, police, teenage girl, corruption, eccentricity, danger, serial killer ...
Place: finland, russia
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 7.5
 107K
Headhunters (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style: stylized, captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: twists and turns, surveillance, art thief, chase, art theft, revenge, reputation, male star appears nude, mind game, sex, infidelity, police investigation ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
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Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the first book in Jussi Adler-Olsen's bestselling thriller series about Department Q THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES tells the story of the two policemen Carl Mørck and Assad who become involved in a five-year-old case concerning a missing ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: police investigation, missing person, police detective, cold case, false identity, police partner, unsolved crime, under the surface, uncover truth, investigation, murder mystery, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
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 7.1
 26K
The Absent One (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1994 two young twins are found brutally murdered in a summer cottage. A number of clues points in the direction of a group of young upper class students from a nearby boarding school, but the case is closed as a local outsider pleads guilty and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, noir ...
Plot: police investigation, partners against crime, cold case, murder, uncover truth, law enforcement, boarding school, father son relationship, conspiracy, bare breasts, nordic, twins ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
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