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Plot Summary:
When oil is discovered in a small-town, some greedy prospectors hire a gang of wild bikers to scare the townsfolk away. However, when a group of young pilots stumble across the underhanded plot, they plan an effective retaliation.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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November Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
After their candidates win control of a farming community in an election, fruit-pickers start getting harassed by the local law enforcement officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Rider (1991)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff in a small Nevada town goes up against a gang that's using his town to illegally dump toxic waste.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wild Wheels (1969)
Plot Summary:
A group of surfers use dune buggies to protect their beach from a gang of invading bikers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Devil Rider! (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young rebellious girl hooks up with a biker gang. Her mother hires a private detective to find her and bring her back. The detective goes undercover as a biker to search for her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, detective
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Coyote Run (1996)
Plot Summary:
A traumatized Vietnam veteran crosses paths with a mobster on the run with $15 million, and takes it as an opportunity to play the hero and heal in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mama Josephine Max wants to build a theme park in Hazzard, right on the Duke family farm! To stop her, Bo and Luke have to win a cross-country moonshine race. Because that's how things get settled in Hazzard.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie
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J.C. (1972)
Plot Summary:
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth. But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years, Jesus rebels, joining a biker gang and leading an LSD-fueled pilgrimage to the West to fight the establishment. Anyone who adopts the initials J.C. as a nickname probably has a Messianic complex. In Iron Horseman, the hero, the head of a motorcycle gang, wigs out on LSD. While day-tripping, he has a prophetic religious vision. This leads him back to his home town, where he challenges the local church leaders-even unto knocking down chairs and tables in righteous anger, just like....you know.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The No Mercy Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Vietnam Vet returns to his father's ranch in Arizona just as criminally minded carnies begin to cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, anamorphic, independent film, juvenile, cult film
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The Jesus Trip (1971)
Plot Summary:
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister Anna (Tippy Walker) and flee the convent. Soon Waco and the young nun fall in love and she is forced to decide whether or not to leave the church for him. (alfiehitchie).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Angels Die Hard (1970)
Plot Summary:
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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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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Shocktroop (1988)
Plot Summary:
The special commando Delta Force is sent behind the line of fire into the terrain of the enemy. Their mission goal is to destroy a base where the enemies prepare a new weapon: a combat helicopter.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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D.R.E.A.M. Team (1999)
Plot Summary:
J.W. Garrison, the head of a top-secret sub agency of the United Nations, discovers that a team of terrorists, led by the murderous Oliver Maxwell, plan on producing a bomb carrying an anthrax virus to be used in the United States. Garrison summons CIA agent Zack Hamilton who puts together a team of three beautiful women; CIA trainer Kim Taylor; photographer Victoria Carrera; and actress Eva Kirov to go to undercover as fashion models to infiltrate the terrorist organization to find the bomb before it can be used.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, tv series pilot
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Airboss (1997)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Angel Unchained (1970)
Plot Summary:
Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Secret of the Ice Cave (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what's really located in the mysterious ice cave.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Chile, West Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, semi serious
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Duke Boys and company travel to Hollywood to sell some musical recordings in order to raise money to build a new hospital in Hazzard County. However, when their recordings and money are stolen, they wind up on the run from mysterious hitmen, sleazy record producers, Russian gangsters, and vicious loan sharks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, independent film, road movie
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The Champagne Gang (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Champagne Gang is an exciting action-packed drama about four beautiful California beach girls who pull heists to pay for luxury items and surfing vacations to Mexico and Hawaii.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Angels from Hell (1968)
Plot Summary:
Mike (Tom Stern), a biker, returns to California after serving in Vietnam. He uses his war-hero experience to organize a new, united super outlaw gang. When one member is shot by police because he killed a girl at a pot orgy, an all-out cop vs. biker war results. Music by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy and the Lollipop Shoppe.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Angels' Wild Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
These angels don't wear halos. After stomping the lights out on a couple of racist rapists, some tough biker babes take refuge in a rural commune run by a peace-loving guru who's actually a drug kingpin with a vicious gang -- and who specializes in human sacrifices.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, sexual
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Latin Dragon (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the grand tradition of the lone hero who mysteriously appears in a town desperate for help (think "Shane, "Billy Jack", "James Bond" and "Chinese Connection"), having survived a war and now serving the government as an undercover agent, Danny Silva takes on his biggest foe yet: the street gangs that have taken over his neighborhood. Unwilling to play by the rules set down by the criminals, Silva forgoes the use of guns and decides to battle the thugs with the strength of his fists, spirit and willpower, turning himself into a real-life, modern-day superhero. Packed with pulse pounding, adrenaline-filled action; "Latin Dragon" gives us our first mainstream Latino martial arts action hero.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
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Nuclear (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear bomb destroys Los Angeles ATF agent, Jack Carson, must infiltrate a group of terrorists to find a second nuke set to blow up New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film
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Sky Kids (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two boys from a small town find their courage tested when they accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, inspirational, independent film, realistic
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Combustion (2004)
Plot Summary:
Millwood City engineer Scott Daniels, moved from Houston, investigates a series of mysterious fires. Scott's and Lourie Harper's only son Jesse, who hated the move or dad's youth home, fakes a fever and invites his new girlfriend Carmen. She's reporter Allison Saunders, Scott's high-school ex's, daughter and finds Jesse unconscious, overtaken by fumes. The sewers are full of dead rats. Cracks appear in various buildings. Gass leaks start explosive fires. Mayor Walker, who only care for politics and publicity, overrules Scott's call for a mass evacuation. Scott and city administration friend Kenny Barrows later discover the link is steam pressure drilling by Talbot's oil exploration firm, but fire chief Patterson is in league with Talbot for years, covers their tracks and undermines Scott's credibility. Written by KGF Vissers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense
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Valley of Mystery (1967)
Plot Summary:
A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Lone Hero (2002)
Plot Summary:
An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, dark comedy, neo western, cult film
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City Limits (1984)
Plot Summary:
A series of teenage gangs struggle against each other in a not-so-distant future. Eventually they united against an evil corporation, as represented by evil CEO Robby Benson who wants to control everything.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, cult film
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Airboss III (2000)
Plot Summary:
An American attack submarine on patrol in the South China Sea intercepts an SOS from a Russian freighter. The freighter was attacked by unidentified frogmen on the high seas and high grade plutonium was stolen. The FBI suspects this attack is the work of Darian Cain, a former Russian Commando turned terrorist. When a special anti-terrorist team is formed, Special Operations (SPECOP) Commander Webb Buckley and navy seal Bone Conn are chosen to join their FBI counterparts special agent William Murphy and special agent Morgan Daniels and an uneasy alliance is struck between the military and the FBI. Their mission: to capture Darian Cain and bring him back to the U.S. to face justice and to recover the high grade plutonium.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Norseman (1978)
Plot Summary:
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been captured by Indians.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Plot Summary:
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychotronic, parody, romantic, feel good, unusual plot structure