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Plot Summary:
Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a story about Reyes. Reyes orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, who is running for his countries position as president, but Cliff can't bring himself to do it, because his assignment from the DEA is to work against Reyes. Reyes is afraid Villalba will put him out of business, and is afraid that Janet's story will do the same thing, so Reyes sends someone else after Villalba, and then Reyes has Janet kidnapped, and Cliff is the only one who can keep Reyes' plans from succeeding.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Commando Squad (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, cult film
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Death Match (1994)
Plot Summary:
A kickboxing champ and a reporter are searching for a missing man, but they turn up a series of illegal kickboxing matches run by an arms dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Seven (1979)
Plot Summary:
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Sudden Death (1977)
Plot Summary:
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, action thriller, independent film, cult film
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Lady Avenger (1988)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, sex comedy, gay cinema
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Mr. No Legs (1978)
Plot Summary:
Meet Mr. No Legs! Deadly professional hit-man for a drug syndicate... and a limbless cripple! With his cool wheelchair, armed with shotguns and shurikens, and his amazing kung fu skills he means trouble for everyone he confronts, even his own boss! Things get ugly when a unlucky drug dealer kills his girl by an accident, especially because the girl's brother is a cop! And No Legs apparently have his own plans how to take over the whole business.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, independent film, poliziottesco
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Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)
Plot Summary:
Molly is now a freelance photographer in New York. She runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. She goes to L.A. to find out that this woman is in fact, her mother. She also finds out she has a sister. The reunion is short-lived when her mother calls her to tell her that her sister is in danger and later, gets killed in an explosion. Molly must once again, become Angel to try and find her sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: action adventure, serious
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Cage II (1994)
Plot Summary:
After being tricked into thinking his best friend, and caretaker is dead, Vietnam Vet, and mentally disabled person has no other choice but to enter The Arena Of Death!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ring of Steel (1994)
Plot Summary:
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, action adventure, neo noir, independent film
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Striker (1988)
Plot Summary:
John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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Cop Killers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Kung Fu Executioner (1981)
Plot Summary:
Li, a martial artist, returns home to find out that his father is being harassed by a crime syndicate. Together with an American kung fu champion he vows revenge when the syndicate kills his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse
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Bad Blood (1994)
Plot Summary:
A trucker (Lamas) has to come home to help fight mobsters after his brother who embezzled $5,000,000 from them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Bury Me an Angel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, road movie, independent film
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Leather Jackets (1991)
Plot Summary:
Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans when the thugs of a Vietnamese gangster that he has robbed, come looking for him. In order to save Dobbs, Mickey and Claudia, hide him in the boot of their car as they take off to LA. Things don't go as smoothly as planned, and Mickey finds out more about his fiancée than he ever needs to know.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, independent film, semi serious, neo noir
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Dynamite Brothers (1974)
Plot Summary:
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, realistic, semi serious
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The Abductors (1972)
Plot Summary:
Someone is stealing cheerleaders and other pretty girls and selling them to the highest bidder. Female super sexy spy Ginger is soon employed to investigate the disappearances. She does so by going undercover with a fellow agent and doing whatever is necessary to put an end to the operation and take down the leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Subterfuge (1996)
Plot Summary:
Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that crashed under mysterious circumstances into the Black Sea. With his computer-hacker younger brother, Slade travels to a resort on the Russian-Turkish border to begin his quest. To his surprise and dismay, he's now joined by another secret agent, a beautiful but highly-skilled woman named Alex. As they begin diving in search of the downed jetliner, Slade and Alex begin to suspect they're being manipulated by higher-ups who may not be committed to American interests.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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American Rampage (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Sweet Sugar (1972)
Plot Summary:
Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who performs cruel medical experiments on the people who work for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, independent film
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Deadly Heroes (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Black Sea 213 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Hardball (1997)
Plot Summary:
Incompatible fugitive recovery agents, the flighty Jersey Bellini (Michael Dudikoff) and his more serious-minded female partner, B.B. (Lisa Howard), have, for the last time, ticked off mobster Wald (Tony Curtis) by apprehending his rather inept henchmen just as they are about to commit a robbery or kill one of Wald's enemies. That's when Wald turns their fate over to the ruthless Crazy Carlos (Steve Bacic), with the intention of having Bellini and B.B. killed. But the hapless bounty hunters keep having good luck just when they need it most. ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Drum (1976)
Plot Summary:
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, campy
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Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the head when she turned down his offer to become part of the freelance assassination squad he was forming. Ignoring the need for surgery to remove the bullet fragment which still causes her to have occasional bouts of disorientation, she continues her quest to bring down Lydell before he has the chance to kill a Mafia informant being held at the police station. Written by Chris Holland.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Messenger (1986)
Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fist of Honor (1993)
Plot Summary:
As two rival Godfathers view to take control of the city, a hot-tempered family member kills two relatives of the opposing family, breaking the "Truce of Honor". Now the war begins! As a young boxer seeks revenge for his fiancée's death, the streets become a real-life battlefield... to settle the score!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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A Breed Apart (1984)
Plot Summary:
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, psychological, retro, independent film, rough, realistic
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Crazy Girls Undercover (2008)
Plot Summary:
The film is about a group of Las Vegas sexy showgirls who are undercover agents working with a former C.I.A. agent (Robertson) to stop a terrorist attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, spy comedy, tense, suspense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The City Is Mine (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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