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Plot Summary:
An American colonel will pay any price to defeat the Viet Cong. When his unauthorized fighting force in Cambodia is discovered, he becomes a one man army, fighting a war of his own for a cause he knows is just.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Covert Action (1988)
Plot Summary:
Inside the stately Senate Hearing Room, Frank White, professional soldier, Vietnam vet and CIA operative, is fighting the toughest battle of his life: he's on trial for the assassination of Miguel Rivera, a Central American diplomat. Only two men could have made the shot - White or his friend Rick Burns, ex-military sniper now working as a Mafia hitman. Testimony unravels the intricate web created by Rivera and Daniel Waterman, head of an international cartel dabbling in both Latin American Politics and cocaine.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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Without Mercy (1995)
Plot Summary:
He' s been betrayed by his country, stripped of his honor and exiled to a foreign land. Now maverick Marine officer Frank Zagarino has found a way to get back what was stolen from him. And he'll get it-no matter what it takes.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Action
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Top Gunner (2020)
Plot Summary:
Recent graduates of a secluded U.S. Air Force base must protect a gene-editing bioweapon from the Russian military—who are desperate to seize the deadly viral agent at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, mockbuster
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To Be the Best (1993)
Plot Summary:
Eric Kulhane, a member of the U.S. Kickboxing Team, lets his quick temper and obsessive love for beautiful Cheryl make him the perfect target for blackmail. In order to stop ruthless gambler from rigging the World Championship and killing Cheryl, Eric and his father, his American teammates and their most feared Chinese opponents join for an explosive climax which rocks the Las Vegas Strip.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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Field of Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sergeant Thomas Duncan takes his men behind enemy lines to recover a secret government fighter copter and its pilot, a secret weapon all his own. But once stationed in the dense jungle brush of Vietnam, their radio goes out all hope of contacting their home base is out, and it is up to Duncan and his men to get to the hook up point by the agreed time. A traitor in the home camp is sending messages to the enemy side; Duncan must hurry!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Skeleton Coast (1988)
Plot Summary:
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Marines (2003)
Plot Summary:
The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to emerge. The highest military bosses in America and Russia are in panic. The well-known cover-up must offer a solution. But ... Marines are not just aside and decisions without official support to do everything to liberate their comrades. Additional help comes from an unexpected angle, but whether this will be enough.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Sector 4: Extraction (2014)
Plot Summary:
Action - When an elite band of private mercenaries known as Black Knight gets caught behind enemy lines in a Middle East combat zone, their only hope for survival lies with the team leader, who has escaped but vows to return. - Salman Bokhari, Steven Dell, Eric Roberts.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Tour of Duty (1987)
Plot Summary:
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, vintage
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Going Back (2001)
Plot Summary:
A group of Marines return to Vietnam with a news crew to relive their tragic war experiences.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, emotional, cult film
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The Walking Dead (1995)
Plot Summary:
Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, biting, suspense, cult film
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Tunnel Rats (2008)
Plot Summary:
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, controversial, exciting, suspenseful, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Shootfighter II (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Born to Defense (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, bleak, fast, cult film
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The Shadow Boxer (1974)
Plot Summary:
Chen Wo-Fu plays construction worker Ku Ting, whose skill at "tai chi" (shadow boxing) is as great as his pacifism. But when his girlfriend is raped by vicious gangsters, he shows everyone the true power and beauty of tai chi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Behind Enemy Lines (1986)
Plot Summary:
Col. Carradine leads a group of American P.O.W.s, battling their way to freedom as Saigon falls to the Viet Cong.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Eastern Condors (1987)
Plot Summary:
A motley group of Asian prisoners held in the US are given one chance for freedom. They are to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missles that the US left behind during the pull-out. The group, led by Lt. Lam and convict Tung, hook up with a trio of female freedom fighters and a happy go lucky martial artist named 'Rat'. The entire group is captured by the VC because one of them is a double agent, but they escape, cross an un-crossable bridge, and get to the secret base just ahead of the VC. By this point nearly all of the original group is dead, and it's up to Tung and Rat to fight the VC's leader, a bizarre giggling man who's lightning fast with martial arts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, grindhouse, bleak, fast, eighties
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Kung Fu Killer (2008)
Plot Summary:
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all who oppose him. Only the revered Wudang monks dare stand in Kahn’s way in order to protect the very soul of China. Among them is the Westerner, White Crane, a spiritual master of the martial arts and protector of the innocent. Revenge is not in Crane’s heart—until a mercenary army storms the temple and slaughters the beloved female Grandmaster Myling. Out of the ashes of the temple ruins, Crane rises—with vengeance in his heart. Crane comes upon Jane Marshall, a New York lounge singer and her gangster boss Bingo Quo. But it’s Bingo’s dangerous professional ties to Kahn that draw both Crane and Jane deep into the Warlord’s lair. Now torn between the spiritual Wudang teaching and the cold-blooded life of an assassin, Crane is about the cross the fine line between justice and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hunt for Wehrwolf (2011)
Plot Summary:
A small group of Russian soldiers with mixed skills are assembled to go on a covert mission to map out the area of Hitler's new HQ in the Ukraine known as Wehrwolf. But it's not until they get to their destination that the squads leader then decides to unveil the true details of the mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Special Forces (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the crazed commander (Eli Danker) of a sadistic army in Moldavia kidnaps an American photojournalist (Daniella Deutscher) and holds her hostage, his misguided actions ignite a targeted response from Maj. Don Harding (Marshall R. Teague) and his trained squad of special forces soldiers. With help from a local schoolteacher (Scott Adkins) who's trained in martial arts, Maj. Harding readies his troops for an all-out offensive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed, fast
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A Lonely Place for Dying (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders are clear: take the documents from Dzerzhinsky and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, political thriller, independent film, student film
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Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Delta Force team are brought in once again to deal with an evil villain in foreign lands.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Submerged (2000)
Plot Summary:
Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, disaster movie
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Steel Sharks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Submarine crews wage a silent war beneath the waves in this undersea thriller.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ardennes Fury (2014)
Plot Summary:
As the Battle of the Bulge rages on, an American tank unit gets trapped behind Nazi lines. With just hours before the bombs of Operation Ardennes Fury fall, the tank's commander makes the risky decision to rescue an orphanage.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, mockbuster, realistic, suspenseful
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Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Plot Summary:
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, macaroni combat, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Company of Heroes (2013)
Plot Summary:
American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, tense, scenic
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
Plot Summary:
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious
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The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, cult film