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Plot Summary:
Working undercover on a human trafficking bust, maverick FBI agent Wade Dalton (Kaiwi Lyman), captures Serick Ibrayev (Sanjar Madi), a mysterious operative from the Mongolian underworld. With time running out, Wade must escort Serik back to Mongolia, and team up with hard-boiled police detective Ganzorig (Amra Baljinnyam), to deliver Serik to court to testify against a crime Syndicate that will do anything to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action
Country: Mongolia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Apprehenders (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two police stations from neighboring precincts are in constant fierce competition with each other, including for the Officer of the Year award. But then a high-profile case forces them to work together.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Two Cops in Trouble (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two crazy Dominican cops and a disciplined FBI agent join forces to investigate an international criminal network.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Four 3 (2014)
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The reputation of the Four constables survives, but since Emotionless’s departure, there have been changes at the Divine Constabulary. The four Coldblood, Iron Hands, Life Snatcher, rescue Zhuge Zhengwo from An Yunshan’s mountain fortress, then with the Emperor and Di armies, they attack. But An Yunshan absorbs their power, which means the constables and their allies now face their most lethal opponent yet, a nearly invincible kung fu master who won’t stop until he has absolute power.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Action
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Beyond Redemption (2015)
Plot Summary:
A weary undercover cop must maintain his cover while trying to save the daughter of a notorious Triad Boss from becoming collateral damage in a sting operation gone wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Meltdown (2009)
Plot Summary:
Meltdown is a action/adventure film about a FBI agent who goes deep undercover to bring down a crime syndicate. When his cover is blown the mob and FBI want him dead. His only hope of survival is a female agent who is willing to break the rules to help save his life. Out numbered and out gunned it is a deadly fight to the finish.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Queen's Messenger (2001)
Plot Summary:
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Action
Country: Bulgaria, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, informative
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Vettai (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around two brothers, the elder being sensitive to violence and the younger being a jobless rogue, settled in Thoothukudi. After the death of their father, a police officer, the elder brother takes on the same job by request of the younger. The older brother rises to fame in his job by having his younger brother secretly punish suspects and save victims for him. This angers two of the village's biggest mob bosses, who begin to seek revenge on the elder brother. After getting severely beaten by them, the elder brother loses his fear and becomes physically stronger through training from his younger brother. How the brothers get back at two gangs and protect their families form the rest of the story. The film was released worldwide on 13 January 2012 to mixed reviews.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Gates of the Sun (2014)
Plot Summary:
An Algerian secret agent has to destroy an undercover paramilitary organization that plans to strike against the country and its people.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Action
Country: Algeria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Action
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Duration:
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Leung Siu-Tong is an experienced undercover agent who returns from a long-term assignment in Mainland China to teach new undercover recruits at Hong Kong Police's Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB). During this time, he befriends triad member Michael So, who only agrees to the relationship because he sees it as a stepping stone to the role of gang leader. Meanwhile, conflict at the CIB department ensues when Siu-Tong forms a tentative romantic relationship with his supervisor Jodie Chow.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 45 min
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Plot Summary:
Aaditya, the commissioner of Mumbai Police, sets out to catch Ajay, a drug peddler. However, he uncovers a deeper controversy linked to an international drug lord and must mete out justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, action packed, cult film
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S Storm (2016)
Plot Summary:
No sooner is a team at ICAC set up to investigate irregularities/corruption in soccer/football official gaming/betting in Hong Kong before a suspect is assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
In 1985, when detective Kyogoku Kosuke (Karasawa Toshiaki) was hunting down some criminals, he suddenly found himself in the center of an explosion and ended up falling into a coma. In 2015, after 30 years Kosuke wakes up and has a lot to catch up, new values, technology, family, work, everything he has missed. Back to the Criminal Division, Kosuke and his new partner Ryota (Kubota Masataka) are entrusted with classified security data that aims to a terrorist group Schiesser.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Public Enemy Returns (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 203
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Plot Summary:
When Bússi, Iceland's toughest cop, is forced to work with a new partner to solve a series of bank robberies, the pressure to close the case as soon as possible proves too much for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 98 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 140 min
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Plot Summary:
Jeric Raval is Dias Del Fuego. An anti-organized crime cop who does the beat with a dark side of the law demeanor. The kind that loves to fight fire with fire and that which keeps the violent underworld under check. After being meted an indefinite suspension by their cop chief together with bungling rookie, Flavio (Dinky Doo, Jr.) after a botched hostage rescue, the two stage extra-legal means to pursue the town's top dollar racketing kingpins played by Kier Legaspi and Patrick Dela Rosa. Things get complicated as the underworld puts up heavy resistance. The wrench gets thrown in on Jeric's mean crimefighting machine when his ex-lover (Via Veloso) connives with the mob. As the going gets tougher, Dias Del Fuego gets down dirty and begins to reserve a special place in hell for the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Action
Country: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
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Plot Summary:
Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 310
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Country: Poland
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FBI Agent Karl Helter and his partner Rebecca Lombardo are very close to busting a sex-trafficking ring. When they realize their investigation has crossed the path of a brutal serial killer, they team up with a Texas Ranger to put an end to the infamous 'Truck Stop Killer'.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022)
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When a crooked federal agent is involved in a human sex trafficking ring, Sniper and CIA Rookie Brandon Beckett goes rogue, teaming up with his former allies Homeland Security Agent Zero and assassin Lady Death to uncover the corrupt agent and take down the criminal organization.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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EP/Executive Protection (2015)
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First as Special Forces and then as a part of the elite world of Executive Protection, Max Webber has dedicated his life and career to protecting others. Working for one of the richest men in the world, Max finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy of betrayal that has spanned the globe and threatens to cost him everything.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration:
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The Roundup (2022)
Plot Summary:
The ‘Beast Cop’ Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, crime drama, detective
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The Policeman's Lineage (2022)
Plot Summary:
A by-the-book police officer is assigned to secretly investigate a team leader who believes that the rules shouldn't stop an investigation. As the officer investigates further, his own attitudes begin to mirror the team leader's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
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The Trough (2018)
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Yu Chau is a cop who has gone so deep undercover within the triad. He can no longer tell which side of the law he's on. When he accidentally kills one of his pals in an operation, he runs off into the boonies to lick his wounds. Upon his return, he teams up with fellow officers Jim and Jackie to catch a triad Boss, only to unveil collusion with government officials at the highest level. Yu Chau once again faces the dilemma of taking the law into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Informant (2008)
Plot Summary:
McInnes plays a suburban dad who works as a police informant for a federal investigative agency. The character’s background is shrouded in mystery, with intelligence officers seeking to uncover the truth about his past by working with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
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Strike Force (2014)
Plot Summary:
A boisterous homicide detective is partnered with a neurotic narc to fight organized crime in the Dutch city of Tilburg.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Duration: 50 min
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Tokyo Dogs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kanade Takakura is an elite detective from the New York Police department. He has a very keen sense of judgement but is cold and inflexible. Kanade lost his father in a murder as a young boy, which drove him to become a detective. Maruo Kudo is a former motorcycle gang member now special detective with the Japanese police department. These two opposite characters team up on a case in which secrets are held by a young lady named Yuki Matsunada.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration:
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