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Plot Summary:
In the future of post-Soviet and economically devastated Russia, Big Brother still rules with an iron hand of brutality, brain-washing and ruthless dictatorship. Into this cauldron of corruption and terror plunges American crook and smuggler John Wade (Rutger Hauer), looking to make a small fortune out of illegal fantasy chips... bio-synthetic devices that can make the user's weirdest and wildest fantasies come true in their scrambled minds. Betrayed by the leader of a vicious crime syndicate called the Trocia (Mark Dacascos); Wade is executed in cold blood by a bullet to the brain. The authorities discover his corpse and he is brought back to life via the miracle of biosynthetic technology. However, Wade eventually escapes, intent on exacting revenge on his double-crossing killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, cyber, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Hard Justice (1995)
Plot Summary:
When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams (David Bradley) goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike (Charles Napier) and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun smuggling to name a few.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bloody, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir
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Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business (1998)
Plot Summary:
Luc Devereaux and Veronica Roberts continue their attempts to expose the Universal Soldier unit. But after a hostage situation mistakenly leaves Veronica a fugitive, the two escape the city and go into hiding. CIA Deputy Director Mentor and Dr. Walker are also in the middle of literally 'growing' a powerful new Universal Soldier clone of Luc's brother Eric to assassinate him and Veronica.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tech noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, fast
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Slow Burn (2000)
Plot Summary:
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, detective
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Moscow Heat (2004)
Plot Summary:
After a U.S. policeman is killed by black market weapons dealers, his partner, Rudy (Robert Madrid), and the murdered cop's father, ex-British Intelligence agent Roger Chambers (Michael York), head to Moscow to find the killers. The two begin to track down their targets, but their plan falters when Rudy's injured and Chambers is arrested. Enter Vlad (Alexander Nevsky), a Russian officer who's willing to help the men complete their mission.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic, fast
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The Expert (1995)
Plot Summary:
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved sister's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action
Country: USA, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Back to Back (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs and discovers that he was framed for wrong-doings by a corrupt cop.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Instinct to Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Out for Blood (1992)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer's family is murdered by drug smugglers, and he is beaten and left for dead, but survives although in a coma. When he awakes he only has a partial memory of what happened. In order to find out the real story, he trains with a karate master and becomes a mysterious avenger known as "The Karate Man".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Warlords (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a brutal, radioactive future, fearless warrior Dow (David Carradine) is humanity's last hope against the Warlord and his mutant hordes. With the gorgeous, deadly Danny (Dawn Wildsmith) and the strange Ammo at his side, Dow makes desperate war on the fierce desert savages who threaten to overrun the world. Courage and resourcefulness on an heroic scale lead to a final, bitter triumph in this epic action lead to a final, bitter triumph in this epic action adventure in future tense.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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American Dragons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Murders in Seoul, Korea and in America pair two cops from each of the countries together to solve the crimes. The investigation leads to a gang war between the Mafia and the Yakuza, but one that may not be of either of their making. A shadowy assassin is killing the leaders and an Italian assassin may have his own agenda.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Prophet (1998)
Plot Summary:
Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is recruited to take part in a secret government experiment which results in him being able to see into the future. Years later, the child is an adult and is working for the government; his latest assignment is to find the other people who were part of the same project. Before long, he discovers the other test subjects usually pop up murdered shortly before he can talk to them, and he realizes he may well be the next target. Horror film legend Barbara Steele highlights the supporting cast; cult figure Fred Olen Ray directed. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shadowchaser (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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T-Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, cybernetic research has developed advanced robots with human traits, whioch are widely used in the service industry. They have also been turned into cyber cops with a licence to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, campy
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Cyborg Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scenic, action thriller
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Cold Harvest (1999)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter protects his dead brother's wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast, wild
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TC 2000 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive. Jason Storm, an underworld guard gets knowledge of a conspiracy to kill all people on the surface. He needs to flee to the surface, and wins Sumai, a respected martial arts master, as his ally to stop the dirty plot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, futuristic
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Virtual Combat (1995)
Plot Summary:
This lively low-budget action movie is packed with martial arts, sexy sirens, and a sci-fi plot involving computers and virtual reality images that become real. The tale centers on two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) and John (Ken McLeod), who amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere, a computer tycoon prepares to market his company's latest invention, a combination of DNA and virtual reality that creates beings and creatures who look and feel real.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Drive (1997)
Plot Summary:
Drive follows Toby Wong (Mark Dacascos), whose employers at Hong Kong's Leung Corporation have implanted in his chest a bio-energy module that enhances his physical abilities. Toby has escaped from the Leung Corporation's control and is making his way to Los Angeles, where a competing company has offered to remove the implant and give him his life back.After arriving in San Francisco, Toby encounters -- and, in desparation, kidnaps -- Malik Brodie (Kadeem Hardison), who has the means to get him to Los Angeles. Following close behind are professional assassins and junk-culture connoisseurs Vic Madison (John Pyper-Ferguson) and The Hedgehog (Tracey Walter), who are pursuing Toby in the employ of the Leung Corporation's president, Mr. Lau (James Shigeta).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crime drama, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, humorous, semi serious, fast
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The Gene Generation (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, cyber, futuristic, apocalyptic, action adventure, neo noir
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Stryker (1983)
Plot Summary:
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero (Stryker) unites with some of the remaining "good guys" and the Amazons and frees the woman. They go on to a "Road Warrior" type of concluding battle with the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Sanctuary (1998)
Plot Summary:
Luke Kovak is part of a covert group within the CIA that works on illegal black ops involving blackmail and assassinations. When his boss orders the murder of one of the team, Luke realizes how expendable they all are and gets out (taking proof of their activities with him). He now lives as a priest until the group start to get close to tracking him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
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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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Automatic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, bleak
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Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994)
Plot Summary:
Prepare yourself for the all too deadly future. Cash, the heroine of Cyborg 2, is living safe in the free zone. But not for long. Biomechanical problems are taking down her systems and a visit to a doctor in Silica confirms her worst fears. She is more then a marvel of cyborg technology. She is the first of her kind to become a creator-she is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, suspenseful
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Digital Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, computer animated
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Shepherd (1998)
Plot Summary:
aka Cybercity It's the year 2017, the Earth's surface is destroyed and its citizens flee to an underground wasteland ruled by warring religious cults. In this sinful cybercity, Mercenary Dakota's (C. Thomas Howell) family is murdered by a perverse virtual prophet (Roddy Piper) bent on world domination. Seeking justice, Dakota, beautiful assissin Lilith (Heidi Von Palleske) and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry battle for the Earth's most precious resource - Humanity. It's time for the false prophets to meek their makers! Packed with innovative special effects and teeth-clenching action, "CyberCity" will make you rethink the millennium.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Expect No Mercy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tech noir, independent film, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Cyber Tracker (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, an perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is playing dirty games, he does not only have Dilly's security chief Ross after him, but also those nearly undefeatable Trackers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, fast, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tech noir, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough
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Cyborg (1989)
Plot Summary:
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, homoerotic, rough, bleak, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film