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Plot Summary:
FBI agents attempt to protect a woman who is testifying against her gangster boy friend. However, an army of assassins are after her in an endless series of shootouts.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Criminal Hearts (1996)
Plot Summary:
A jilted woman out for revenge picks up a hitchhiker running from police. An innocent road trip becomes mixed with passion and danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Dark Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Homicide detective Walter D'Arcangelo is the only link to a serial killer who preys on adulterous women. Walter must confront his past in order to prove himself innocent before more women are killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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No Exit (1995)
Plot Summary:
Professor John Stoneman Teaches at the local university. John philosophy is to prevent violence and handle any situation without hurting anybody. But his way of life changes when a few punks attack his wife and stab her, which causes her to lose her baby. This incident catches the attention of a man who makes illegal broadcasts of fights between two people, where they have to kill or be killed. John is kidnapped by him and is brought to the place where all the fights are taking place. At first John refuses to kill any opponent, but will he change his mind when his wife's life is on the stand...?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Day of the Warrior (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law (L.E.T.H.A.L.), is tracking a criminal mastermind known only as The Warrior. While investigating his combination diamond smuggling/art theft/porn production industry, the agents discover that he has cracked their secret database and has stolen the files on all of their agents. With the help of their martial arts intructor Fu, agents Tiger, Willow and Cobra take on the case while also taking every opportunity to remove their bikini tops.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, realistic, semi serious, sexploitation film, cult film
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Prey of the Chameleon (1992)
Plot Summary:
J.D. returns to his hometown many years after leaving Carrie at the altar. After their unhappy reunion, J.D. heads to California, only to soon fall for a woman he helps with her broken down car. Little does he know that this woman is a serial killer who takes on the identity of each of her victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
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Raw Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ballistic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Gavin is an undercover cop, part of an elite police team and highly skilled in lethal martial arts! She is suspended from the force after a witness that she was supposed to protect is killed. She must now find out what happened and clear up her name.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Body Count (1995)
Plot Summary:
A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he and his sexy and lethal partner set out to execute the agents who sent them away. As the Special Crimes Agents are systematically gunned down, Cook and Rizzo find themselves in a deadly race to find the assassins and stop the bloodbath.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Subterfuge (1996)
Plot Summary:
Scuba-diver turned beach-bum Jonathan Slade is forced back into his previous milieu - the world of international espionage - in order to retrieve Black Boxes from an American jetliner that crashed under mysterious circumstances into the Black Sea. With his computer-hacker younger brother, Slade travels to a resort on the Russian-Turkish border to begin his quest. To his surprise and dismay, he's now joined by another secret agent, a beautiful but highly-skilled woman named Alex. As they begin diving in search of the downed jetliner, Slade and Alex begin to suspect they're being manipulated by higher-ups who may not be committed to American interests.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Dark Asset (2023)
Plot Summary:
A charming guy attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Legacy of Lies (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-MI6 agent is thrown back into the world of espionage and high stakes to uncover the shocking truth about operations conducted by unknown secret services.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Poland, Ukraine, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, harsh, exciting, action thriller
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The Art of War III: Retribution (2009)
Plot Summary:
When international diplomacy comes up short, extreme measures must be taken. In the newest installment of The Art of War, Agent Neil Shaw (Treach) is on a covert mission to stop North Korean terrorists from obtaining a nuclear bomb. But when the deal turns deadly, Shaw is drawn into the crossfire to save a beautiful facilitator (Sung Hi Lee) and ends up framed for murder.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast
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Angelfist (1993)
Plot Summary:
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to the people responsible. She enters the kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the nefarious agents, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film, remake of cult film, cult film
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Embassy (1985)
Plot Summary:
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Maximum Risk (1996)
Plot Summary:
A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a sauna.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, metafiction, cult classic, rough, realistic, fast
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Bloodmoon (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ken O'Hara (Gary Daniels) is a "Mindhunter" - a serial killer specialist enlisted to find the mass murderer (Darren Shahlavi) intent on killing the strongest fighters in New York City. Trying to catch this cunning and clever killer is the hardest assignment Ken has ever had. Now, the moon is rising again and he must use all of his resources to hunt down the murderer....or he may be the next to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, detective
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Bloodmatch (1991)
Plot Summary:
Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the gang in the ring for an all-out kickboxing fight to the finish.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
Plot Summary:
Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up and stop the madman from destabilizing the world in the feature directorial debut of action icon Lorenzo Lamas. CIA Agent Mark Graver (Lamas) was living a quiet life when word came down that a government facility had been breached and a valuable device stolen. Now forced to team with former terrorist Alexa (Kathleen Kinmont) to retrieve the guidance system from international terrorist Franz Kluge (John Savage).
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Protector (1997)
Plot Summary:
Soldier of fortune Ken Conway gets a job offer from his former fiancee to look into the whereabouts of a missing scientist. The scientist was working for pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Krago, so Conway goes undercover to infiltrate the doctor's operation. He soon discovers what Krago's scheme is: he creates super-diseases and their cures at the same time, and gets rich by releasing the disease and selling the cure. Ken tries to take this information to the authorities, but finds out too late that he has been infected with the doctor's latest creation, and he has only 48 hours left to live if he can't get his hands on the antidote.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Mandrill (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mandrill (M. Zaror) is a high-level assassin whose parents many years ago were slaughtered in cold blood by a ruthless drug lord. Now he finds himself finally in a position to get his revenge. But since it falls in love precisely in the pretty daughter of the ruthless killer. Mandrill now faces the most serious decision of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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No Tomorrow (1999)
Plot Summary:
When the world's most notorious criminal allies himself with a senior employee of a major shipping corporation, a lethal deal is struck to secure a multi-million dollar arms transaction. As word of the sinister deal spreads through the underworld, a big city mobster, an extreme militia force and the FBI enter the clandestine mix, blurring the lines of loyalty and trust.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, independent film, exciting
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The Foreigner (2003)
Plot Summary:
This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic, action packed, fast
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Skyscraper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Live Wire 2: Human Timebomb (1995)
Plot Summary:
A computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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U.S. Seals (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely a deserted oil rig near Turkey. But these are cleverly waiting for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, serious, rough, suspenseful, action packed, independent film
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Into the Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa) with ties to the Chinese Tong.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spiritual, intense, crime drama, action packed, fast
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Interrogation (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the FBI receives a threat that endangers the entire city, an interrogator and an I.T. specialist are plunged into a series of mind games with a criminal mastermind, desperately racing against time to uncover the villain's true agenda as they fight to protect thousands of lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Shadow Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped niece and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, tense, romantic, scenic, action thriller, realistic
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Hard Target 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, perverse, surprise ending, black comedy