Crime-based movies are known to keep viewers on their feet and eagerly waiting for more of the suspense to pass. Here is a list of 10 Thai crime movies that you must definitely add to your watchlist.
1. Soul’s Code
The Department of Special Investigation takes charge of the case involving a high school girl who is found murdered with some strange lettering and marks on her forehead. They deploy Commander Kanan to investigate. The markings on the girl's forehead supposedly served as a means to prevent her spirit from turning into a vengeful one. After Kanan finds evidence to prove that this case wasn't just any other homicide, he begins to believe in the impossible situation in which haunting souls would help him solve this case.
2. The Macabre Case Of Prom Pi Ram
A young woman's body was found on the railroad tracks, rape, and murdered. Two local police officers have been assigned to the case, but what started as a simple and straightforward case, slowly spiraled into a much darker and more horrifying case than anyone could have imagined.
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Secretary Tum had a stable job at the Bangkok bank until she lost it for some reason. One day she finds a box of instant noodles kept outside her apartment door. There were no noodles in the box, but there was a huge stash of money. When the two gangsters who had left the box at the wrong door come back to reclaim it, Tum gets left with a pair of dead criminals in her apartment and a whole bunch to explain to her neighbour, Pen.
4. Killer Tattoo
Bae Buffgun is an aging assassin who lands a job right after being released from prison. His task is to kill the Bangkok police chief. Bae forms a team of highly trained, and well-qualified criminals for the job. At the same time, Thailand's most skilled assassin, Kit Silencer, has also been hired to get rid of the cop, causing a great deal of confusion. Although the cop does get murdered, the crime lord who hired these killers wants each and every one of them dead anyway.
5. Fun Bar Karaoke
Pu is a young girl who has been dreaming that her dead mother was building a house. She gets told by a fortune-teller, that if Pu continued having the same dream, then her father would die once the house was complete. Pu's father is a karaoke regular and a high-key playboy. Eventually, he gets involved with Yok, someone with connections to the Chinese Mafia. Pu cannot stop seeing the same dream about the house and her father's acquaintance with Yok invites nothing but bad luck.
6. Nothing To Lose
Somchai is a debt-ridden gambling addict. When he finds himself sitting atop a debt that he couldn't pay back, he opts to commit suicide to escape his situation. Somchai finds a young woman, Go-go, standing on the edge of a building, ready to do the same as him. As they sit and talk to each other, they realise that they both have nothing left to save them. So the two decide to go all out on a crime spree, after figuring out that there's nothing that the two can't do since they were going to take their lives anyways.
7. Bangkok Knockout
A group of martial arts students wins the chance to star in a Hollywood movie and decide to celebrate it by hosting a party. Little did they know that this party would be the beginning of something downright disastrous. At the party, all the students end up getting drugged. When they finally awake, they end up becoming the targets of a group of assassins. They realise that the competition may not be just a simple competition to star in a Hollywood film.
8. Dang Bireley's And The Young Gangsters
Dang Bireley's lived a short life. His days were obviously numbered. Dang first murder at the age of 13. By 18, he became known in Phra Nakorn as a Chinese protection racketeer. Everything went quite well for him until one of Thailand's coup d'etat imposed a martial law that drove the city gangsters up the country. But obviously, for Dang and his accomplice Piak, it was no problem. They faced off the local countrymen with the amazing skills that they had acquired. But things begin to prick Dang when he, unfortunately, has no other choice but to team up with Pu, or Bottle-Bomb, Dang's arch-enemy.
9. Nemesis
After he is unfairly and unjustly framed, former psychiatric patient, Manop begins to seek vengeance against the justice system and a gang of underworld criminals after witnessing the murder of his beloved girlfriend.
10. Chocolate
A Thai woman and a Japanese gangster end up having an affair with each other, the result of it, was Zen. As she grows, it becomes crystal clear that she suffers from autism, and her ability to learn martial arts also becomes commendable. When Zen's mother starts battling an illness for her life, Zen makes a plan to collect debt in place of her mother.
