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Luger (2025) TMDB IMDb
Luger
director: Bruno Martín actor: David Sainz / Mario Mayo …
Rafa and Toni are two hustlers who work for Angela, a lawyer with flexible morals who offers her clients quick solutions outside the law. The story unfolds over the course of a frantic day in a labyrinthine industrial park, when they are tasked with recovering a stolen car belonging to one of those clients. In the trunk, they find a mysterious safe containing a relic from World War II: a Luger P08, highly coveted by dangerous figures in the underworld.
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Hard Boiled (1992) IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban
辣手神探
8.3 (7 ratings) director: John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Tony Leung Chiu-Wai …
other title: Fervura Máxima / À toute épreuve …
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
April 18, 2026 watched
Realism is overrated. Insane action all the way!

Rewatched for the umpteenth time a day after the 34th anniversary of its release (16 April 1992).
Police PhilipKwok PhilipChan Crime HongKong
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The Outfit (1973) IMDb WikiData
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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City of God (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB
Cidade de Deus
8.7 (14 ratings) director: Fernando Meirelles actor: Alexandre Rodrigues / Leandro Firmino …
other title: Cidade de Deus / La Cité de Dieu …
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
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Tokyo Dragon Chef (2020) TMDB IMDb
TOKYOドラゴン飯店
director: Yoshihiro Nishimura actor: Yasukaze Motomiya / Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi …
other title: TOKYOドラゴン飯店
Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!
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Big Bad Mama (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Big Bad Mama
director: Steve Carver actor: Angie Dickinson / Tom Skerritt …
other title: F.B.I. e la banda degli angeli / Krudt, knald og kællinger …
Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.
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Appointment with Crime (1946) IMDb WikiData
Appointment with Crime
director: John Harlow actor: William Hartnell / Raymond Lovell …
other title: Cita con el crímen
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder — but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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A Bittersweet Life (2005) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
달콤한 인생
7.4 (7 ratings) director: Kim Jee-woon actor: Lee Byung-hun / Kim Yeong-cheol …
other title: Bittersweet life / Doce Tortura …
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Hee-soo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with a younger man with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.
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The Lost One (1951) IMDb WikiData
Der Verlorene
director: Peter Lorre actor: Peter Lorre / Karl John …
other title: Un uomo perduto / Der Verlorene …
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
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M (1931) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
8.0 (7 ratings) director: Fritz Lang actor: Peter Lorre / Ellen Widmann …
other title: M - Il mostro di Düsseldorf / Matou …
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut …
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.
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Strongroom (1962) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Strongroom
director: Vernon Sewell actor: Colin Gordon / John Chappell …
other title: La camera blindata
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
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Flaming Brothers (1987) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
江湖龍虎鬥
director: Joe Cheung Tung-Cho actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Alan Tang Kwong-Wing …
other title: Hermanos de fuego / 江湖龍虎鬥
Two blood brothers, who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
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Hidden Assets (Series 1) (2021) NeoDB Douban TMDB
Hidden Assets Season 1 part of TV Series: Hidden Assets
director: Kadir Ferati Balci / Thaddeus O'Sullivan actor: Simone Kirby / Angeline Ball …
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
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The Seven-Ups (1973) IMDb WikiData
The Seven-Ups
director: Philip D'Antoni actor: Roy Scheider / Jerry Leon …
other title: Squadra speciale / O Esquadrão Indomável …
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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Two-Way Stretch (1960) IMDb WikiData
Two-Way Stretch
director: Robert Day actor: Peter Sellers / Wilfrid Hyde-White …
other title: Un alibi (troppo) perfetto / Spjældet tur-retur …
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail afterwards. First however they must get out, a task made more difficult by a new, stricter prison officer.
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Happy New Year (1973) TMDB IMDb WikiData
La Bonne Année
director: Claude Lelouch actor: Lino Ventura / Françoise Fabian …
other title: Una donna e una canaglia / Feliz Ano Novo …
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.