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Plot Summary:
A secret organization gains control over the American nuclear weapons. A journalist ventures out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful
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The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
Plot Summary:
A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured. The problem is that he's been badly injured and claims to have lost his memory entirely. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between investigator Tuxan, the mystery intruder Welles and the people who sent him on the mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political, exciting, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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3 Musketeers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster
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The Inside Man (1984)
Plot Summary:
In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Mystery, Action, Thriller
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political thriller, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Red Snow (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a snowboard instructor uncovers clues to a high stakes robbery, he finds himself in a high speed gun fight with his life on the line. He realizes he is the one pinned for murder and must hunt down the real killer and survive a dangerous glacier.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic
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Descent Into Darkness (2002)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it was not an accident. He becomes caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation, and fights to stay alive and uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, bleak
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Hangmen (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. Connelly's men try to kill Greene, but he can escape and warns his son Danny that he also may be in danger and that he should look for Dog Thompson.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Perfect Assassins (1998)
Plot Summary:
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Only Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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Riding with Death (1976)
Plot Summary:
Dimwitted, meaty guy foils criminals by turning invisible.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, rough, bleak, serious, fast, independent film
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The Philadelphia Experiment (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 'The Philadelphia Experiment', a secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it brings back the original ship (the Eldridge) that disappeared during the first test in 1943 - which brings death and destruction to the 21st century. It's up to the sole survivor (Lea) of the first experiment and his granddaughter (Ullerup) to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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Down (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman (James Marshall) and reporter Jennifer Evans (Naomi Watts) begin separate investigations. Newman gets resistance from superiors at his company, which manufactured the elevator, while additional elevator incidents cause several gruesome deaths. The police get involved and suspect that terrorists are responsible, but a far stranger explanation looms.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, funny, slasher, perverse, fast, campy
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Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in San Diego, the movie follows the desperate acts of Bill Templer head of a covert defense agency perpetrating a terrifying fraud on the American public - involving the imminent invasion of aliens - by leaking to the press a satellite image of an alien armada poised to strike earth. As terror of an alien attack spreads, the President of the United States orders the launching of Peacemaker, a surveillance satellite retrofitted with a nuclear warhead. Templer's elaborate plot is threatened when police detective Kevin Anjanette discovers that the alien images were faked. To protect his scheme, Templer swiftly unleashes the lethal head of his security, Ava Zurich, onto Anjanette. But it's soon revealed that an alien force actually does exist and is poised to strike if Peacemaker is used. In order to protect mankind from total annihilation, Anjanette must race to abort the nuclear bomb that will trigger the alien attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Path of Destruction (2005)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion. The company's CEO manages to sidestep blame by framing a meddling young reporter (Katherine), who now holds the only surviving evidence needed to expose the truth. All the while, the dangerous nanoparticles - having escaped from the explosion into the stratosphere - threaten to destroy nearby cities with wildly destructive weather patterns. Among the chaos of the storms, and on the run from the authorities, Katherine must - with the help of a young scientist - get the evidence to the government to enlist their help before it's too late...and the deadly disaster turns worldwide.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Asker (2000)
Plot Summary:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action packed, independent film, fast
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The Shadow Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
Happily married couple Bob and Dez Wilson and their 12-year old son Andy are being attacked by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They awaken a couple of hours later, seemingly unscathed but soon driven mad by recurring nightmares. It soon appears that they have been abducted by aliens as proved by their sons handycam that had suddenly started running right after the incident. This mysterious fact is discovered by even more mysterious Men In Black who start nagging the family up to the point of threatening to kill them. Laughed at by the police the threesome seek refuge at sf-writer Stan Mills' house and start fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, independent film
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The Pandora Project (1998)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent has to stop a former associate who has stolen a weapon which kills people without harming buildings, all before he is to get married in a few days.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, independent film
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Sharpshooter (2007)
Plot Summary:
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, cliffhanger, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Target (2004)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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The Way of War (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one fighting for American security and integrity.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, independent film
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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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Detonator (2003)
Plot Summary:
A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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The Zone (1995)
Plot Summary:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Assassin (1986)
Plot Summary:
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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The Vector File (2002)
Plot Summary:
A geo-political thriller where Gerry Anderson finds that sometimes, everybody really is out to get you. Gerry's daughter, Mattie, accidentally prints out a DNA code that in the wrong hands can end the human race. The chase is on - the Russians, whose DNA code it is that Mattie has in her backpack, and a group of terrorists compete to get the code from the person they all assume has it, Gerry. With all this going on, Gerry's estranged wife Margaret is worried for her daughter's safety and finds herself another target in the race to find the code.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, futuristic, serious, suspenseful
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Premonition (2005)
Plot Summary:
After a violent car wreck nearly takes his life, Detective Jack Barnes begins having inexplicable and terrifying premonitions of horrible disasters. At first his warning calls go unheeded, but as the premonitions begin to come true Jack is shocked to find himself wanted for questioning by the FBI. He goes on the run, narrowly avoiding both the FBI and a band of terrorists on the verge of unleashing a deadly attack. As he scrambles to unlock the meaning of the visions, he must race against the clock to stop the terrorists before they can strike again.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, captivating, slasher
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Maximum Velocity (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a comet passes the Earth it causes a cataclysmic storm. Only a disbanded government unit with a secret weather-manipulating weapon can try to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, rough, independent film, disaster movie
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40 Days and Nights (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, independent film, disaster movie