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1. Road House (1989)
R | 114 min | Action, Thriller
A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a degree in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner.
Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara
Votes: 101,464 | Gross: $30.05M
2. The Equalizer 3 (2023)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Eugenio Mastrandrea, David Denman
Votes: 117,430
3. Drive (I) (2011)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks
Votes: 705,506 | Gross: $35.06M
4. Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."
Director: John Landis | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Walter Levine, Tom Davis
Votes: 34,803 | Gross: $13.98M
5. Mafia! (1998)
PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father
Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Jay Mohr, Christina Applegate, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Burke
Votes: 15,987 | Gross: $19.88M
6. Smartass (2017)
TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A 15-year-old girl becomes intimately acquainted with a town in California after being released from prison.
Director: Jena Serbu | Stars: Joey King, Luke Pasqualino, Yvette Nicole Brown, Marc Menchaca
Votes: 816
7. City of Joy (1992)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
Votes: 5,630 | Gross: $14.68M
8. Bucktown (1975)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being hassled by The Man in a southern town, a cool operator asks some violent friends for help. After all, if you can't trust another brother, who can you trust?
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King
Votes: 1,604
9. Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
You play a 1930s mobster as you act out your confession of your rise in the ranks of organized crime.
Director: Daniel Vávra | Stars: Michael Sorvino, William DeMeo, George DiCenzo, Matt Servitto
Votes: 6,483
10. Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among... See full summary »
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Hayato Ichihara, Riko Narumi, Shô Aoyagi, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Votes: 4,518
11. Prem Pratigyaa (1989)
Not Rated | 156 min | Drama, Romance
Raja Bhaiya and Charan come to the big city to make a living, but cannot find jobs. While eating some food, they are taunted and physically assaulted by Kallu Dada, a physical altercation ... See full summary »
Director: Bapu | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Madhuri Dixit, Vinod Mehra, Ranjeet Bedi
Votes: 358
12. The Frightened City (1961)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Director: John Lemont | Stars: Herbert Lom, Sean Connery, John Gregson, Alfred Marks
Votes: 1,121
13. Ghulam (1998)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An amateur boxer runs errands for a local gangster but revolts against him after the gangster kills his friend and his conscience is awakened.
Director: Vikram Bhatt | Stars: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Rajit Kapoor, Mita Vashisht
Votes: 12,157
14. Hukumat (1987)
130 min | Action, Drama
A tough cop is posted to a small town where an evil businessman reigns like a tyrant. When the cop recognizes the businessman as his father's murderer, it becomes personal.
Director: Anil Sharma | Stars: Dharmendra, Rati Agnihotri, Shammi Kapoor, Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Votes: 183
15. Loafer (1996)
160 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Ravi, an unemployed man who constantly gets into fights, is framed for the murder of a gangster. With no support from his family, he must now fight to prove his innocence.
Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Farida Jalal
Votes: 629
16. The Don's Analyst (1997 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Comedy
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead ... See full summary »
Director: David Jablin | Stars: Rick Aiello, Robert Cicchini, Joe Pingue, Robert Loggia
Votes: 332
17. Baasha (1995)
Not Rated | 145 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An auto driver, Manikam, desperately tries to hide his dark underworld side to keep his promise to his father.
Director: Suresh Krishna | Stars: Rajinikanth, Nagma, Raghuvaran, Vijayakumar
Votes: 11,499
18. Hum (1991)
184 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A dockworker overthrows the tyranny of a cruel gangster but has to run away to make a new life for himself and his brothers. Fifteen years later, his past catches up with him as his old enemy resurfaces.
Director: Mukul Anand | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Govinda, Kimi Katkar
Votes: 3,355
19. The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.
Director: Anthony Bushell | Stars: Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone, Marne Maitland
Votes: 1,183
20. Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001)
131 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Desperate for money, three men plot to kidnap a woman and hold her for ransom.
Director: Eeshwar Nivas | Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Fardeen Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonali Bendre
Votes: 1,817
21. The Tong Man (1919)
50 min | Crime, Drama
An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marc B. Robbins, Toyo Fujita
Votes: 123
22. Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990)
Not Rated | 152 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A father and son are conning the whole city of Bombay.
Director: Aziz Sejawal | Stars: Govardhan Asrani, Gulshan Grover, Jamuna, Shakti Kapoor
Votes: 382
23. Kireedam (1989)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Drama
The life of a young man turns upside down when he intervenes in a dispute in order to rescue his father (a cop) from a ruthless local outlaw.
Director: Sibi Malayil | Stars: Mohanlal, Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Parvathi
Votes: 8,567
24. The Toast of New York (1937)
Approved | 109 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Notorious robber baron financier Jim Fisk, who makes and loses fortunes, tries to corner the gold market as well as the heart of a beautiful actress.
Directors: Rowland V. Lee, Alexander Hall | Stars: Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, Jack Oakie
Votes: 1,215
25. Tezaab (1988)
Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Crime, Drama
From a very early age Mahesh Deshmukh has dreams of serving his country; his encouragement and dreams multiplies when his parents are killed by a gang of robbers who plan to loot the bank ... See full summary »
Director: N. Chandra | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey
Votes: 2,501
26. Gardish (1993)
Not Rated | 153 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A soon-to-be police officer takes a path of crime after his father gets attacked by hoodlums.
Director: Priyadarshan | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Amrish Puri, Dimple Kapadia, Farida Jalal
Votes: 956
27. They Call Him Cemetery (1971)
Not Rated | 88 min | Western, Comedy
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a ... See full summary »
Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: Gianni Garko, William Berger, Christopher Chittell, John Fordyce
Votes: 497
28. Kireedam (2007)
Not Rated | 156 min | Action, Drama
Shakthi, a Police Constable's son, is aspiring to be a cop himself. He crosses paths with a local.
Director: A.L. Vijay | Stars: Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Raj Kiran, Vivek
Votes: 1,945
29. Shastra (1996)
Not Rated | 144 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
One of the employees of Vijay's parents, Babu, is sentence to a long jail term for killing them. In hot pursuit to avenge the death of his parents Vijay wait until Babu is release from jail... See full summary »
Director: Sanjay Khanna | Stars: Suniel Shetty, Anjali Jathar, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa
Votes: 124
30. The Company Man (1998 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action
Ernest Gray is a bookstore owner who lives peacefully with his daughter. When a crew of mercenaries attacks, his real identity of an ex-CIA agent is blown. Control 5, who betrayed him ten years ago, is on his trail again.
Director: Art Camacho | Stars: Frank Zagarino, Matthias Hues, Don Stroud, Bryan Genesse
Votes: 94
31. Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
102 min | Crime, Drama
It is the late nineties, Vietnam is in economic turmoil and overpopulation has sparked political concern. Vu, a photography student, arrives in the sprawling metropolis of Saigon and moves ... See full summary »
Director: Dang Di Phan | Stars: Do Thi Hai Yen, Ha Phong Nguyen, Hoang Le Cong, Truong The Vinh
Votes: 419
32. Mantis Fist Fighter (1980)
89 min | Action, Comedy
Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. One day he gets into a fight defending the locals from a ... See full summary »
Director: Wing-Cho Yip | Stars: Ka-Yan Leung, Yi-Lung Huang, Feng Cheng, Fu-Chien Chang
Votes: 295 | Gross: $0.03M
33. Vietnam Colony (1992)
Not Rated | 154 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Two men tries to persuade a bunch of colony residents to relocate to another location for the sake of a corporate project, while the residents including a number of goons, comes in their way.
Directors: Lal, Siddique | Stars: Mohanlal, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Kanaka, Devan
Votes: 1,500
34. Kaal Chakra (1988)
Action, Drama
Director: Dilip Shankar | Stars: Ishrat Ali, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Madan Jain, Suhas Joshi
Votes: 16
35. Zahreelay (1990)
163 min | Action, Drama
After being critically wounded and losing his left arm, Captain Jaswant Kumar is discharged from the Indian army and goes to live with Journalist A.V. Razdan in Shanti Nagar, Bombay. ... See full summary »
Director: Jyotin Goel | Stars: Jeetendra, Bhanupriya, Sanjay Dutt, Vinita Goel
Votes: 128
36. Bhai-Bahen (1959)
136 min | Drama, Family
Soni Rai lives a wealthy lifestyle in India with her businessman dad, Kedarnath and mom, Geeta, and longs for a brother, who she can tie a Raakhi on. She meets with the lollipop seller, ... See full summary »
Director: G.P. Sippy | Stars: Daisy Irani, Rajan Kapoor, Kathana, Rehman Khan
Votes: 9
37. Excellent Cadavers (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
In the late-80s and early-90s, two prosecutors went after the mob in Sicily. Archival footage, gruesome photographs and new interviews are shown.
Director: Marco Turco | Stars: Giuseppe Ayala, Letizia Battaglia, Alexander Stille
Votes: 161
38. San mao liu lang ji (1980)
88 min | Action, Comedy
The evil Mr. Chu's control of a village is challenged by a Korean wanderer named Eagle and the three Kung Fu Kids.
Director: Kan-Ping Yu | Stars: Ti Ou, Ho Wang, Hai-Fen Chang, Ti Chin
Votes: 88
39. Paap Ki Aandhi (1991)
Action, Drama
Dharma is the local hoodlum in a small town in India, who terrorizes everyone in the town and forces them to pay him "protection money". No police officer has dared to stand in Dharma's way... See full summary »
Director: Mehul Kumar | Stars: Dharmendra, Aditya Pancholi, Farha Naaz, Amrita Singh
Votes: 44
40. The Weapons of Death (1981)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
In San Francisco's Chinatown, a band of thugs kidnaps a girl for a large Chinese gang. Her half-brother gathers a team of expert fighters to get her back.
Director: Paul Kyriazi | Stars: Eric Lee, Bob Ramos, Ralph Castellanos, Louis Bailey
Votes: 134
41. Chauraha (1994)
Not Rated | 154 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being framed for a murder in childhood, a young man returns to his former neighbourhood and resolves to rid it of crime.
Director: Sadaqat Hussein | Stars: Jeetendra, Jackie Shroff, Jaya Prada, Ashwini Bhave
Votes: 44
42. Hafta Vasuli (1998)
Not Rated | 140 min | Action
Lotiram Khabadia is an MLA based in Bombay, who is corrupt, and involved in all kinds of criminal activities. He has close links with another gangster cum wrestler, Tamancha. As elections ... See full summary »
Director: Deepak Balraj Vij | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Aditya Pancholi, Ayub Khan, Madhoo
Votes: 34
43. In Heaven as It Is on Earth (1998)
100 min | Comedy
Russian woman is robbed after crossing Polish border and has to wait until the local policemen catch the thieves. The priest, who is the main authority in the town, orders that she stays at organist's house.
Director: Jacek Bromski | Stars: Jan Wieczorkowski, Krzysztof Dzierma, Andrzej Beja-Zaborski, Anna Yanovskaya
Votes: 1,121
44. Thundering Trails (1943)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western
In 1871, the Rangers are disbanded due to lack of funds so Monroe County sets up it's own police force. All ranchers must pay for protection, but those who do not are quickly robbed and/or ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Nell O'Day
Votes: 77
45. The Big Noise (I) (1936)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Julius Trent, the founder and president of Trent Mills objects to the plans of his manager, Walford Andrews, to manufacture a synthetic wool called Woolex. Finding Julius behind the times, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Warren Hull, Alma Lloyd, Dick Foran
Votes: 175
46. The Zeroes (2014)
72 min | Comedy, Family
A group of kids realizing there is strength in numbers, band together to take on the neighborhood bullies.
Director: Steve Royall | Stars: Keith Nagel, Sam Cohen, Sophie Sabatini, Arden Belle
Votes: 51
47. Like a Rolling Stone (1994)
120 min | Crime, Drama
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him.
Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Shô Aikawa
Votes: 47
48. The Real Untouchables (2001 TV Movie)
Documentary, History
The three-part documentary examines Eliot Ness, Melvin Purvis and Thomas Dewey: three real-life heroes who battled organized crime between the two world wars.
Director: John Fothergill | Stars: James Woods, Bob Kaliebe, Dominic Capone III, Tom Clarke Hill
Votes: 23
49. El Flaco (2014)
6 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
'El Flaco' is a male prostitute that pays for police protection to be able work in downtown streets of Juarez, Mexico.
Director: Krisstian de Lara
50. Imtithal (1972)
120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A biopic based on the life of Imtithal Fawzy, a dancer who was murdered in 1936 for refusing to pay protection money to Beltagia (an organized crime group in Egypt).
Director: Hasan El-Emam | Stars: Adel Adham, Magda El-Khatib, Nour El-Sherif
Votes: 19