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156 titles with this tag

Light the Night
8.2 56 votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Taiwan
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 24
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  In the red light district of 1980s Taipei, women at a popular Japanese night club navigate jealousy, heartbreak, friendship and love.
Style:  dark, bittersweet
Plot:  corruption, friendship, love, murder, slice of life, betrayal, drugs, struggles, ...
Time:  1980s
Place:  taipei
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Silo
Cast
Rebecca Ferguson Rebecca Ferguson
Common Common
Chinaza Uche Chinaza Uche
Ashley Zukerman Ashley Zukerman
8.2 2.2K votes
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 30
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.
Style:  cynical, absurd
Plot:  corruption, based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, politics, disaster, hidden powers, silo, ...
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Marvel's Daredevil
Cast
Charlie Cox Charlie Cox
Deborah Ann Woll Deborah Ann Woll
Elden Henson Elden Henson
Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent D'Onofrio
8.2 5.2K votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 39
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.
Plot:  new york city, corruption, secret identity, secret organization, vigilante, superhero, based on comic, lawyer, ...
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Scarface
Cast
Al Pacino Al Pacino
Steven Bauer Steven Bauer
Michelle Pfeiffer Michelle Pfeiffer
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
8.2 13.2K votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 170 min.
Audience: R
Story:  After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Plot:  corruption, sibling relationship, loss of loved one, gangster, cocaine, rise and fall, remake, tragedy, ...
Place:  miami, florida, cuba
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Casablanca
Cast
Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart
Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman
Paul Henreid Paul Henreid
Claude Rains Claude Rains
8.1 6.1K votes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 102 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Style:  romantic
Plot:  corruption, nazi, escape, love triangle, resistance, spy, patriotism, casablanca, ...
Time:  world war ii
Place:  morocco
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Memories of Murder
Cast
Song Kang-ho Song Kang-ho
Kim Sang-kyung Kim Sang-kyung
Kim Roi-ha Kim Roi-ha
Song Jae-ho Song Jae-ho
8.1 4.7K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Audience: 15
Story:  A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
Plot:  assassin, police brutality, rape, corruption, police, detective, investigation, victim, ...
Time:  1980s
Place:  south korea
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The Lives of Others
Cast
Martina Gedeck Martina Gedeck
Ulrich Mu00fche Ulrich Mu00fche
Sebastian Koch Sebastian Koch
Ulrich Tukur Ulrich Tukur
8.0 4.2K votes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Audience: R
Story:  In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
Plot:  berlin, germany, government, corruption, espionage, berlin wall, german democratic republic, blackmail, ...
Time:  cold war
Place:  germany
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio
Jonah Hill Jonah Hill
Margot Robbie Margot Robbie
Matthew McConaughey Matthew McConaughey
8.0 26.1K votes
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 180 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Plot:  corruption, based on novel or book, drug addiction, anti hero, con man, fraud, wall street, biography, ...
Time:  1980s
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Your Excellency
8.0 61 votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 134 min.
Story:  Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
Plot:  corruption, ambassador, politics, ideology, satire, speech, power struggle, true love, ...
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Locked Up
Cast
Najwa Nimri Najwa Nimri
Maggie Civantos Maggie Civantos
Berta Vu00e1zquez Berta Vu00e1zquez
Alba Flores Alba Flores
8.0 2.5K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 40
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
Plot:  prison, corruption, prisoner, prison guard, female prisoner, female homosexuality, women in prison
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House of Cards
Cast
Robin Wright Robin Wright
Michael Kelly Michael Kelly
Constance Zimmer Constance Zimmer
Patricia Clarkson Patricia Clarkson
8.0 3.2K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 73
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction and ambition are his weapons.
Style:  cynical, dark
Plot:  corruption, usa president, manipulation, politics, revenge, breaking the fourth wall, power politics, political corruption, ...
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Mayor of Kingstown
Cast
Jeremy Renner Jeremy Renner
Hugh Dillon Hugh Dillon
Tobi Bamtefa Tobi Bamtefa
Taylor Handley Taylor Handley
7.9 642 votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 40
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.
Plot:  prison, corruption, detective, michigan, drug dealer, prison guard, organized crime, brother brother relationship
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Sanjuro
Cast
Toshiru014d Mifune Toshiru014d Mifune
Tatsuya Nakadai Tatsuya Nakadai
Keiju Kobayashi Keiju Kobayashi
Yu016bzu014d Kayama Yu016bzu014d Kayama
7.9 727 votes
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Audience: NR
Story:  In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
Plot:  samurai, corruption, temple, fighter, black and white, jidaigeki, edo period, feudal japan, ...
Place:  japan
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Narcos: Mexico
Cast
Scoot McNairy Scoot McNairy
Josu00e9 Maru00eda Yu00e1zpik Josu00e9 Maru00eda Yu00e1zpik
Alejandro Edda Alejandro Edda
Luis Gerardo Mu00e9ndez Luis Gerardo Mu00e9ndez
7.9 1.5K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 30
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Style:  dark, gritty
Plot:  corruption, cocaine, tiger, usa–mexico border, based on true story, drug cartel, marijuana, mariachi, ...
Time:  1980s
Place:  mexico
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On the Waterfront
Cast
Marlon Brando Marlon Brando
Eva Marie Saint Eva Marie Saint
Karl Malden Karl Malden
Lee J. Cobb Lee J. Cobb
7.9 1.8K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 108 min.
Audience: NR
Story:  A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
Plot:  corruption, new jersey, murder, mafia, black and white, union, dock, longshoreman, ...
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Taboo
Cast
Tom Hardy Tom Hardy
David Hayman David Hayman
Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce
Oona Chaplin Oona Chaplin
7.9 1.5K votes
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: United Kingdom
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Style:  dark, slow burn, gritty
Plot:  london, england, africa, corruption, blackmail, british empire, greed, investigation, ...
Time:  19th century
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In the Name of the Father
7.9 2.0K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 133 min.
Audience: R
Story:  A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Plot:  prison, rebellion, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, faith, biography, northern ireland, trial, ...
Time:  1970s
Place:  ireland
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The K2
Cast
Ji Chang-wook Ji Chang-wook
Song Yun-ah Song Yun-ah
Yoona Yoona
Cho Seong-ha Cho Seong-ha
7.8 204 votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 16
Audience: TV-14
Story:  A patriotic bodyguard who was abandoned by his country and colleagues, a hidden daughter of leading Presidential candidate who regards love as a tool for revenge, and the First Lady contender who hides her ambition and charisma behind a kind and friendly personality.
Plot:  corruption, bodyguard, politician, first lady, government corruption
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L.A. Confidential
Cast
Kevin Spacey Kevin Spacey
Russell Crowe Russell Crowe
Guy Pearce Guy Pearce
James Cromwell James Cromwell
7.8 5.6K votes
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 138 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Plot:  corruption, based on novel or book, call girl, shotgun, detective, femme fatale, domestic violence, whodunit, ...
Time:  1950s
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Sacred Games
Cast
Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan
Nawazuddin Siddiqui Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Pankaj Tripathi Pankaj Tripathi
Kalki Koechlin Kalki Koechlin
7.8 252 votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 16
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
Style:  dark, gritty
Plot:  corruption, based on novel or book, investigation, conspiracy, torture, drugs, criminal underworld, police officer, ...
Time:  1980s, 1990s
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