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Plot Summary:
Bardhaasht is a Bollywood drama and thriller film released in 2004. The director is E. Niwas. It is based on the screenplay written by Vikram Bhatt. The main cast of the movie is Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta and Rahul Dev. Bardaasht is noted for its gritty and brutal portrayal of police force and triumph of human will and justice in the form of Major Aditya Shrivastava portrayed by Bobby Deol.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Sawan Bhadon (1970)
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Young Vikram (Navin Nischol) stands to inherit a fortune. After living in England for the past five years, he returns home to find his family out of control. His stepmother squanders their wealth, and his stepsister loves a hoodlum. Meanwhile, Vikram falls in love with Chanda (Rekha), a sassy village girl. He soon realizes that his family only wants his money and will stop at nothing to get it. Bollywood star Rekha makes her Hindi screen debut.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Fareb (1996)
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Dr. Rohan Verma and his wife Suman; a teacher by profession are settled and lives a happy, wealthy life-style. They will find that their lives are not the same anymore when they befriend a helpful police inspector Indrajeet Saxena who comes to their aid on several occasions. Indrajeet confides that he is romantically attracted to Suman and started to behave in a way that upturn the couple's life. He will now go to any length to not only break up the couple's marriage life but to have his way with Suman at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: remake of american film
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
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Gundagardi (1997)
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The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by Kalicharan and decides to print their photos in the newspaper.But before he can do that he is killed along with his wife. Dipa is an eye-witness to this murder. But he soon plans and makes Dipa the key suspect in an attempt-to-murder case of the home minister. Karan Singh in the meanwhile trains Dipa to fight back the goons. She manages to get the files containing the proof of innocence. Kalicharan is arrested and taken to court. Narshima makes a number of attempts to free his brother. A severe struggle ensues and Narshima and Kalicharan get death sentences.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: India
Duration: 156 min
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The Fire (1999)
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Karan is a former soldier. One day when Karan finds out that his father committed suicide in prison after he is falsely charged with a crime, he suspects Ravi Verma, a city attorney who has a wife and a kid. When Karan spots Ravi on the street with his wife Kajal, he abruptly shoots Ravi and Kajal; however, Ravi survives the murder and Kajal ends up dead. After Ravi's release from the hospital, he does not realize that he has a new and different wife who looks exactly like Kajal, later on he does. While Ravi's life continues, Karan's revenge also continues against Ravi. Ravi claims that it wasn't his idea to set Karan's father up, it may be Ravi's father-in-law and his colleagues who may be responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 492
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 423
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 581
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21000
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 939
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 966
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IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
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Country: India
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The Uniform (2004)
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Just as he is preparing for his daughter's wedding, a veteran policeman is assigned to a crack team transporting a Pakistani secret agent to trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
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