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Plot Summary:
Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her superhero garb can stop him with the assistance of a petty thief named Argyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: action adventure, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, detective, campy
Best tv shows and movies like Black Scorpion (1995):
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Black Scorpion II: Aftershock (1997)
Plot Summary:
Darcy is back on the force, but still fights on as the Black Scorpion because "it's in her nature." This time, she fights Gangster Prankster; and a new villian emerges when the Mayor tries to protect his federal earthquake relief money: Aftershock. When the two villians team up and kidnap Argyle's girlfriend, Black Scorpion is faced with the theft of the Scorpionmobile and the imminent destruction of Angel City.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, spoof, parody, campy
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Darkman II: The Return of Durant (1995)
Plot Summary:
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, perverse, cult horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, dark
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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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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed, exciting, psychotronic, action thriller, stylized, fast, surprise ending
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Black Mask (1996)
Plot Summary:
Chui Chik tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701." The 701 squad is used for many government missions, but after one of the agents kills a team of policemen in an uncontrollable rage, the government decides to abort the project and eliminate all the subjects. Chui Chik helped the surviving 701 agents flee the extermination attempt. Having escaped, Chui Chik went separate ways from his team. Later, he discovers that the rest of the team were responsible for a violent crime spree that was beyond the capability of the local police. He sets out to stop them, donning a disguise and using the superhero alias of "Black Mask". Having lost the ability to feel pain due to the surgery performed on the super-soldiers by the military, Black Mask is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody, stylized, crime drama, cult classic, colorful, rough, fast
Similar in 79%
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
Plot Summary:
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark
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Black Scorpion (2001)
Plot Summary:
Black Scorpion is an action-crime TV series that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2001 and in Canada on Space in 2002. The series is based on two Roger Corman movies, Black Scorpion, and the sequel Black Scorpion II: Aftershock. The show focuses on a female police officer, who, by night, takes to the streets and fights crime as the superhero, the Black Scorpion. The show contains many references to the old Batman TV series, including guest appearances by Adam West and Frank Gorshin. Episode 1.1, 1.3 and 1.8 were combined into a 2002 straight to video movie called Sting of the Black Scorpion. The complete series was briefly available on DVD in North America, but the set is now out of production.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, detective, serious, psychotronic, weird, campy
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Black Moon Rising (1986)
Plot Summary:
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, retro, harsh, atmospheric, independent film, realistic
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Quick (1993)
Plot Summary:
A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and Quick's untrustworthy boyfriend are on the trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, retro, independent film, psychotronic, surprise ending
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The Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast
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In the Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, cliffhanger, crime drama, action thriller, fast, surprise ending
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Steel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an imaginative scrap metal worker (Richard Roundtree), Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war...if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear. "You all be cool now," the good-guy hero tells two crime victims he rescues. There'll be a lot of thrillin' before Steel himself can start chillin.'.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, epic, suspense, mockbuster, disgusting, feel good, semi serious, fast
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Connors' War (2006)
Plot Summary:
They'll never see him coming... It's Personal. It's War. A blinded ex special agent is given his sight back by a special serum in order for him to stop a nuke that's hidden somewhere in the city. Things are just starting to complicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bloody, intense, action packed
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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2001)
Plot Summary:
A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
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Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998)
Plot Summary:
Marvel's hard-boiled hero is brought back to fight the menace of Hydra after exiling himself in the Yukon since the end of the Cold War. The children of the former Hydra head, Baron Von Stucker, have taken charge of the terrorist organization. Under the lead of his vicious daughter, Viper, Hydra has seized a deadly virus and threatens the destruction of America.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, epic, fast, surprise ending, campy
Similar in 87%
Darkman (1990)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, atmospheric, gothic, serious, cult classic, stylized, slasher, dark, dark comedy
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Dark Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, christmas horror, tech noir, perverse, cult classic
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Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
Plot Summary:
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another Tec operative stops him but kills the woman he loves in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 87%
The Punisher (1989)
Plot Summary:
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER ... a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, exciting, stylized, serious, epic, slasher, hood, perverse, independent film
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Coffy (1973)
Plot Summary:
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, sexy, neo noir, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, period piece, sexual
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Daredevil (2003)
Plot Summary:
He dwells in a world of eternal night, but the blackness is filled with sounds and scents, tastes and textures that most cannot perceive. Although attorney Matt Murdock is blind, his other four senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day, Murdock represents the downtrodden. At night he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of the city, a relentless avenger of justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 227000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: stylized, action packed, exciting, epic, semi serious, psychological, romantic, slasher, saga, cult classic
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Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, tense, suspense, cult classic, independent film, fast
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Double Impact (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, suspense, cult classic, rough, independent film
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Catwoman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat -- and she's eager to use her new skills ... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse," handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, tense, captivating, saga, suspense, serious, epic, heroic, fantasy adventure
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles Seth and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tech noir, cult classic, fast, scary
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Barb Wire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, action adventure, disgusting
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Timecop (1994)
Plot Summary:
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, erotic, tech noir, grindhouse
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Ultraviolet (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence. As they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this crossed-fire is - an infected woman - Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, sexy, action packed, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, visually stunning, grindhouse, action adventure
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Judge Dredd (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized, entertaining, cyber, tense, epic, suspense
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RoboCop 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the Robocop 2 project, a living God.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bloody, cyber, stylized, tech noir, retro, epic, suspense, slasher, apocalyptic