Outback (1971), End of the Century (2003), The Shadow of Violence (2019), Drunken Angel (1948), For a Few Dollars More (1965), Circo (2010), Act of Violence (1949), The Italian (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gritty movies.
Storyline: Directed by Satyajit Ray. An innocent youth takes a job in a profession where one must break the rules to succeed.
Plot Keywords: sister, best friend, businessman, taxi driver, college graduate, prostitute, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.
Plot Keywords: thief, ex-convict, entertainer, girlfriend, police chief, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?
Plot Keywords: mobster, gangster, thief, partner, agent, mob enforcer, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Plot Keywords: captain, soldier, brother, enemy, parachutist, mother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Misfit Missouri brothers Jesse and Frank James (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) turn to crime in the post-Civil War South.
Plot Keywords: brother, outlaw, bank robber, mother, confederate soldier, brooding, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia (Krystyna Janda) decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Plot Keywords: singer, guard, government official, husband, dark, gritty, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man becomes a gifted storyteller while serving time in jail.
Plot Keywords: prisoner, prisoners, gangsters, concubine, loved one, love interest, criminal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When sleazy Paul Snider (Eric Roberts) stumbles upon pretty high school beauty Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway), he knows she is star material. Paul becomes her manager and husband, and under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men. Dorothy's career rises as Paul's mental state declines, leading ultimately to tragedy.
Plot Keywords: model, director, hugh hefner, pornographer, husband, dark, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this crime-action tour de force, the South Boston state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover?
Plot Keywords: mobster, criminal, cop, informant, girlfriend, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
Plot Keywords: gladiator, prince, emperor, senator, gritty, thrilling, rome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kurdish orphans work odd jobs for food and to raise money so their severely handicapped brother can have surgery.
Plot Keywords: sister, child, kurd, refugee, brother, orphan, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman.
Plot Keywords: volunteer, doctor, american man, gripping, dark, gritty, laos ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The life of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, a coal miner's son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. Before long, he finds himself in dance, demonstrating the kind of raw talent seldom seen by the class' exacting instructor, Mrs. Wilkinson. With a tart tongue and a never-ending stream of cigarettes in her hand, Mrs. Wilkinson's zest for teaching is revived when she sees Billy's potential.
Plot Keywords: dancer, miner, teacher, father, friend, inspiring, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother's, Danny Vineyard, narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
Plot Keywords: neo-nazi, gang member, single father, police officer, brother, dark, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1858, a bounty hunter named Schultz seeks out a slave named Django and buys him because he needs him to find some men he is looking for. After finding them, Django wants to find his wife, Broomhilda, who along with him were sold separately by his former owner for trying to escape. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she was sold to a plantation in Mississippi. Knowing they can't just go in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner will welcome them into his home and they can find a way.
Plot Keywords: slave, bounty hunter, criminal, plantation owner, wife, servant, gritty ...
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