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Pixote

Pixote is a 1980 Brazilian crime drama by Hector Babenco about street children in Sao Paulo, noted for its harsh realist...

Crime Drama 1980S Street Brazilian

8.2 Great

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity is Kinji Fukasaku's 1973 Japanese yakuza film, the first of a five-part series based...

Classic Japanese Yakuza Gangster

8.1 Great

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Blue Ruin

Blue Ruin is Jeremy Saulnier's 2013 American revenge thriller, a Kickstarter-backed independent film that won a FIPRESCI...

INDIE Crime Drama Revenge Thriller

7.8 Good

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Ash Is Purest White

Ash Is Purest White is a 2018 Chinese crime drama by Jia Zhangke about a woman's loyalty to a gangster across years of s...

Romance Crime Drama Gangster Chinese

7.7 Good

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The Traitor

The Traitor is a 2019 Italian crime drama by Marco Bellocchio about Mafia turncoat Tommaso Buscetta, a key witness in th...

Italian True Crime Biographical 2010S

7.6 Good

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A Hard Day

A Hard Day is a 2014 South Korean crime thriller by Kim Seong-hun about a detective who hides a fatal accident and faces...

Korean Police Thriller Cover Up

7.6 Good

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Drug War

Drug War is Johnnie To's 2012 Chinese-Hong Kong crime thriller, following a police captain's bargain with a meth-ring op...

Police Hong Kong 2010S Drug Trafficking

7.5 Good

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Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a 2008 French crime biopic by Jean-Francois Richet about Jacques Mesrine's rise as a violent...

French True Crime Gangster 2000S

7.5 Good

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Miss Bala

Miss Bala is a 2011 Mexican crime drama by Gerardo Naranjo about a beauty pageant contestant trapped inside cartel viole...

Crime Drama Mexican 2010S Kidnapping

7.5 Good

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The Outlaws

The Outlaws is a 2017 South Korean crime action film by Kang Yoon-sung, inspired by Garibong-dong gang cases and launchi...

Korean Action Police Gangster

7.3 Good

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Suburra

Suburra is Stefano Sollima's 2015 Italian neo-noir crime film, based on a Bonini-De Cataldo novel about organized crime...

Italian 2010S Corruption Mafia

7.2 Good

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The Connection

The Connection is a 2014 French crime thriller by Cedric Jimenez about magistrate Pierre Michel and the Marseille heroin...

French True Crime 2010S Marseille

7.1 Good

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The Wild Goose Lake

The Wild Goose Lake is a 2019 Chinese neo-noir by Diao Yinan about a fugitive gangster, selected for Cannes main competi...

Gangster Neo Noir Chinese 2010S

7.0 Good

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Heli

Heli is a 2013 Mexican crime drama by Amat Escalante about a family drawn into drug violence, earning Best Director at C...

Crime Drama Mexican Violence 2010S

6.9 Fair

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Beyond Outrage

Beyond Outrage is Takeshi Kitano's 2012 Japanese yakuza film, the second Outrage entry and a Venice Film Festival compet...

Japanese Yakuza Gangster Sequel

6.7 Fair

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Believer

Believer is Lee Hae-young's 2018 South Korean action crime film, a remake of Johnnie To's Drug War and Kim Joo-hyuk's fi...

Korean Crime Thriller Undercover 2010S

6.5 Fair

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Boston Strangler

Boston Strangler is Matt Ruskin's 2023 American crime drama about reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole investigati...

Boston True Crime Journalism Serial Killer

6.4 Fair

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Outrage Coda

Outrage Coda is Takeshi Kitano's 2017 Japanese yakuza film, the third Outrage entry and an out-of-competition Venice pre...

Japanese Yakuza Gangster Sequel

6.4 Fair

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Ocean's 8

Ocean's 8 is a 2018 American heist comedy directed by Gary Ross, an Ocean's franchise spin-off centered on a Met Gala je...

Crew Heist Women 2010S

6.3 Fair

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The Drug King

The Drug King is Woo Min-ho's 2018 South Korean crime drama starring Song Kang-ho as Lee Doo-sam, a 1970s Busan narcotic...

Korean Gangster Biographical 2010S

6.1 Fair