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Plot Summary:
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Ireland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Ambush (2021)
Plot Summary:
It is the winter of 2018, the men and women of the UAE military are deployed to provide aid. At the Mocha Base, spirits are high as three Emirati soldiers anticipate an imminent return home. While on their final routine patrol, the three soldiers, Ali, Bilal and Hindasi are ambushed by heavily armed militants on their route, through a narrow canyon. Trapped, wounded, and out of communication range, the three soldiers realize the gravity of their situation. They are running out of options, munitions - and time. Back at the base, their commander receives word and realizes that the assault on the UAE army patrol was premeditated. A rescue mission is quickly put into action, but will air and land support reach the men in time, and will they survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: United Arab Emirates, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Angkor: Cambodia Express (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Thailand, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Aravaan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Komboodhi is the leader of a tribe that steals from the rich to survive. He befriends Varipuli, unaware of his past, only to learn that his village has been hunting him to offer his life to god.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: period drama
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A Day and a Half (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller
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No Limit (2022)
Plot Summary:
Roxana Aubrey decides to drop her studies and escape her life in Paris for a free diving course in the south of France. She is quickly pulled into a life that reaches new depths brought by the weight of an ocean's descent.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: deep
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The Point Men (2023)
Plot Summary:
A story about a diplomat and a national intelligence service agent who struggle and risk their lives on foreign soil to save Korean hostages that have been abducted in the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Shooting Heroin (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, independent film
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Cave (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of former military elites set out to explore an uncharted abyss, not knowing their worst nightmare is waiting for them deep beneath the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing
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Trade Of Innocents (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex's wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened. Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the "TRADE of INNOCENTS.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, thought provoking, crime drama, crime thriller, interesting
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The Disappearance of Cari Farver (2022)
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Dave Kroupa is shocked when his new girlfriend, Cari Farver, starts sending him demanding texts. When Dave ends the relationship, he finds himself on the receiving end of an onslaught of twisted messages from Cari, who has abruptly disappeared. Dave’s ex-girlfriend, Liz, also begins receiving harassing texts from Cari, resulting in a dangerous situation for them both. Meanwhile, Cari’s mother Nancy continually searches for her, keeping the pressure on the police who eventually uncover a shocking discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Paskal: The Movie (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true events of Lieutenant Commander Arman Anwar of PASKAL, an elite unit in the Royal Malaysian Navy, and his team's mission to rescue the MV Bunga Laurel, a tanker which was hijacked by Somalian Pirates in 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, inspirational, patriotic
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Deadly Inferno (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of employees are stuck on the 8th floor of an office building, and it is up to firefighter Ray to find a way to bring them to safety. Unsure of their fate, and with too much to lose, these men must fight to keep each other alive as they hunt for a way out from this deadly inferno.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Night of the Hunter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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PVC-1 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, realistic, tense, bleak, serious, tragic ending
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Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974)
Plot Summary:
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Isolation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good
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The Neptune Factor (1973)
Plot Summary:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, experimental
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The Icebreaker (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story is based on the real events of 1985. The team of a Russian polar icebreaker “Mikhail Gromov” discovered a giant iceberg. The ship came into collision while attempting to take cover from the weather and is forced to drift with ice along the Amundsen Sea coast. The crew of “Gromov” spent 133 days of polar night trying to find a way out of their icy trap. They have no room for mistakes; one wrong move and the vessel is crushed by ice.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, action adventure, exciting, melancholic, disaster movie
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The Tunnel (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Captive (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dozen foreigners are kidnapped by a terrorist group in the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Philippines, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, serious
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The Saratov Approach (2013)
Plot Summary:
An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe release, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ukraine
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, spiritual
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The 33 of San Jose (2010)
Plot Summary:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, serious, suspense, realistic
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Rescue Under Fire (2017)
Plot Summary:
The crew of a medical helicopter suffers an accident when helping a joint force of USA and United Nations troops under Spanish command division in Afghanistan. The Spanish army has only one night to organize the rescue of the crew and injured, but what seems routine turns into hell once they receive the order to rescue the helicopter as well. Things only get worse when during the night a huge a concentration of Talibans begin surround them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, stylized, intense, rough, bleak, epic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Thirteen Lives (2022)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, twisted, beautiful, disaster movie
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Daylight (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting, breathtaking, cult classic, surprise ending
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Perfect Storm (2000)
Plot Summary:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, emotional, factual, bad ending, action adventure, suspense
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Adrift (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, suspenseful, sad, inspirational, twist ending, romantic, clever, touching, intellectual, feel good
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Everest (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 228000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, emotional, inspirational
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Sanctum (2011)
Plot Summary:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team--including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)--are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, breathtaking, tense, realistic, sad, entertaining, stylized