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The Dark Knight Rises(2012)

PG-13
| 2h 45min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 10,320 votes)

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

Directed by Christopher Nolan - With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, ...
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Bad Boys II(2003)

R
| 2h 27min | Action, Crime, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 2,486 votes)

Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.

Directed by Michael Bay - With Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, ...
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Transfusion(2023)

1h 46min | Crime, Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 107 votes)

Ryan Logan, a former Special Forces operative, is battling to cope with life after the loss of his wife. He is thrusted into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him.

Directed by Matthew Nable - With Sam Worthington, Phoebe Tonkin, Matthew Nable

Hummingbird(2013)

R
| 1h 40min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 740 votes)

Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

Directed by Steven Knight - With Jason Statham, Vicky McClure, Dai Bradley, Agata Buzek, Benedict Wong, Ger Ryan, ...
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They Call Me Jeeg(2016)

1h 52min | Crime, Drama, Action, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 1,172 votes)

After accidentally coming into contact with radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo Ceccotti gains superpowers. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his new powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally challenged girl who believes Enzo’s the hero from her favorite Japanese anime series, Steel Jeeg.

Directed by Gabriele Mainetti - With Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli, Ilenia Pastorelli, Stefano Ambrogi, Maurizio Tesei, Francesco Formichetti, ...
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In Darkness(2018)

1h 40min | Thriller, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 211 votes)

A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.

Directed by Anthony Byrne - With Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein, Emily Ratajkowski
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The Emperor of Paris(2018)

2h 1min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 218 votes)

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.

Directed by Jean-François Richet - With Vincent Cassel, Freya Mavor, Denis Ménochet, August Diehl, James Thiérrée, Patrick Chesnais, ...

Shanghai Triad(1995)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Xiao-Xiao Wang, Fu Biao

Ash Is Purest White(2018)

2h 21min | Crime, Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 123 votes)

Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.

Directed by Jia Zhangke - With Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Zheng, Zhang Yibai

Riphagen the Untouchable(2016)

2h 12min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 74 votes)

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

Directed by Pieter Kuijpers - With Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Sigrid ten Napel, Kay Greidanus, Mark Rietman, Lisa Zweerman, Peter Blok, ...
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Cyclo(1996)

2h 3min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 46 votes)

Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.

Directed by Tran Anh Hung - With Tony Leung, Trần Nữ Yên Khê, Như Quỳnh, Trinh Thinh, Lê Công Tuấn Anh

Vada Chennai(2018)

2h 46min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 34 votes)

A young carrom player in North Chennai becomes a reluctant participant in a war between two feuding gangsters.

Directed by Vetrimaaran - With Dhanush, Arvind
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Crooks in Clover(1963)

1h 45min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.9/5 (with 219 votes)

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Directed by Georges Lautner - With Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre, Francis Blanche, Venantino Venantini, Robert Dalban, ...

Mr. Six(2015)

PG-13
| 2h 14min | Crime, Action, Drama
3.4/5 (with 65 votes)

Many years ago Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. That was back when there was still such a thing as honour among thieves, when criminals earned respect and maintained principles. These days Mr. Six is all but forgotten, a living relic residing in a narrow alley. One day Six's son, Xiaobo, is abducted by some spoiled punks after he scratches their precious Ferrari. Mr. Six realizes that he must do whatever it takes to get his son back — even if that means returning to the life he thought he had left behind.

Directed by Guan Hu - With Feng Xiaogang, Li Yifeng, Zhang Hanyu, Kris We, Xu Qing, Liu Hua, ...
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Blind Mountain(2007)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 21 votes)

Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.

Directed by Li Yang - With Huang Lu

Neon Flesh(2010)

NR
| 1h 41min | Thriller, Action, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

Directed by Paco Cabezas - With Mario Casas, Macarena Gómez, Darío Grandinetti, Ángela Molina, Blanca Suárez, Luciano Cáceres, ...
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Garv: Pride and Honour(2004)

2h 42min | Action, Crime, Drama
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

About to retire, police inspector Samar Singh changes his mind when he discovers that a recently elected official has ties with the underworld.

Directed by Puneet Issar - With Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Arbaaz Khan, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher, ...

The Penalty(1920)

NR
| 1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

Directed by Wallace Worsley - With Lon Chaney, Charles Clary, Ethel Grey Terry, Doris Pawn, James Pier Mason, Claire Adams, ...

Shootout at Lokhandwala(2007)

2h 25min | Action, Crime, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

On a calm summer day in 1991, in the bustling Lokhandwala Complex, five criminals including Maya and Dilip were counting 70 lakhs in flat no. 32 B, when 286 policemen, headed by ACP Khan, took strategic positions around their building. A gunfire ensued and the entire nation witnessed the most talked about daylight encounter lasting 6 hours that transformed suburban Mumbai into a war zone.

Directed by Apoorva Lakhia - With Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, ...
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The 3 Penny Opera(1931)

1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert, Lotte Lenya, ...

Satya(1998)

2h 50min | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.

Directed by Ram Gopal Varma - With J. D. Chakravarthy

Company(2002)

2h 36min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.

Directed by Ram Gopal Varma - With Ajay Devgn, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Vivek Oberoi, Seema Biswas, Antara Mali, ...

Colt 38 Special Squad(1976)

1h 50min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

The city of Turin is in the grip of a brutal crime boss known as "the Marsellaise," and plenty of cops have good cause to want him dead — none more than Inspector Vanni, whose wife was murdered by the ruthless gangster. Having exhausted every other avenue, Vanni forms a crack squad of motorcycle-riding, Colt .38-toting elite officers, tasked with meting out justice on the margins of the law. But when the Marsellaise launches a bombing campaign designed to extort a vast ransom from the city's authorities, Vanni finds himself in a race against time to exact his revenge and avert disaster.

Directed by Massimo Dallamano - With Riccardo Salvino, Ivan Rassimov, Fabrizio Capucci, Armando Brancia, Marcel Bozzuffi, Carole André, ...

Rakht Charitra 2(2010)

2h 15min | Action, Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

The sequel carries forward the tale of power and revenge which exploded in Rakht Charitra 1. The rebel leader turned politician, Pratap consolidates his political base but is forced to retread the path of vengeance once again after a rival from the past, Surya Narayan Reddy chooses to avenge the assassination of his family. Surya swears vengeance against Pratap after his family is wiped out in a bomb attack and Pratap is hell bent on decimating his enemy, even if it means separating ways with his mentor and political veteran, Shivaji.

Directed by Ram Gopal Varma

Haseena Parkar(2017)

2h 4min | Crime, Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Haseena is very close to her brother Dawood, who turns to a life of crime and rises to power in the Mumbai underworld. After the bomb blasts of 1993, Dawood escapes to Dubai and she falls in trouble.

Directed by Apoorva Lakhia - With Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Sarah Anjuli

Daddy(2017)

2h 14min | Crime, Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

This is the gritty and sensational true story of Arun Gulab Gawli, a mill worker’s son who grew up in Mumbai’s impoverished Dagdi Chawl, to become an infamous don, politician and chief rival of the most powerful crime boss of the day, Dawood Ibrahim. Daddy realistically charts Mumbai’s true crime history from the 1970s and 1980s until 2012, when Gawli was finally sentenced to life imprisonment.

Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia - With Arjun Rampal, Aishwarya Rajesh
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Johan Falk: Slutet(2015)

1h 43min | Crime, Action, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 12 votes)

The unknown, large mafia organization is now showing its true face. The pressure that GSI and John Falk and his family have put on the organization, makes them fight back on all fronts. The rule book is thrown out. But to go after Johan Falk's family and trying to kill his wife could be the biggest mistake the organization has ever made. GSI closes up around Johan's family and the final battle begins ...

Directed by Richard Holm

Played(2006)

R
| 1h 27min | Thriller, Crime
1.8/5 (with 8 votes)

An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

Directed by Sean Stanek - With Gabriel Byrne
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Finders Keepers(2017)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Lonnie and Brian go on the run from the Cape Town underworld, after finding a box filled with cash and a valuable wrist watch. They steal a lucky fish that they use to barter with the gangsters.

Australia Day(2017)

1h 34min | Drama, Crime
2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues of racial tension and national identity that simmer beneath the surface of modern Australia.

Directed by Kriv Stenders
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