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Plot Summary:
A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Fate of the Furious (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 249000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Japan, USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, stylized, saga, action adventure, tense, captivating, road movie, epic, suspense
Similar in 80%
The Elite (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast, surprise ending, black comedy, campy
Similar in 80%
No Contest (1995)
Plot Summary:
A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
Similar in 89%
The Package (2012)
Plot Summary:
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Lion Strike (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Johnny Wu becomes involved in a global Mafia arms cartel when they kidnap his son Bobby. The cartel, made-up of underworld leaders from around the world, become aware that he stumbled onto valuable information on a computer disk he possesses. Louie and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Kruskev use every bit of their cunning to trap Johnny and retrieve the disk.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, detective
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Passenger 57 (1992)
Plot Summary:
An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 86%
Rage (1995)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic
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Eraser: Reborn (2022)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in “erasing” people – faking the deaths of high-risk witnesses. With the technological advances of the last 25 years, the game has upgraded, and it’s just another day at the office when he’s assigned to Rina Kimura, a crime boss’ wife who’s decided to turn state’s evidence. As the two flee to Cape Town, South Africa, Pollard discovers he’s been set up and will need to be at the top of his game, or he’ll be the one who’s erased.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, neo noir
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Black Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, tense, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film
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End of a Gun (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, detective, freeze frame
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Contract to Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time--and his luck--run out.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating, suspense, independent film, freeze frame
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Skin Trade (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests. NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the syndicates human trafficking network.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action thriller, action adventure, fast, surprise ending
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He Who Dares (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Ministers daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack SAS operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time. "The Raid meets Die Hard" in this explosive action thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, detective, black comedy
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Cartels (2016)
Plot Summary:
An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Bastille Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, intense, suspenseful, entertaining, political, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Countdown (2016)
Plot Summary:
A madman captures a young boy and rigs him with explosives. Ray Fitzpatrick, still haunted by the loss of his own son, will defy orders to stop the clock and save a life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
Plot Summary:
After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team must pull off a deadly rescue mission to confront their sadistic foe and save the hostages before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, saga, action thriller, action packed, neo noir, psychotronic
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Blackout (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes in a hospital with no memory, and quickly finds himself on the run in a locked down hospital with the Cartel on his tail.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Maximum Force (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
Plot Summary:
In her turbulent life as a professional assassin, Sam has no choice but to go rogue to save the life of an innocent 8-year-old girl in the middle of the gang war she has unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, exciting, tense, captivating, absurd, perverse, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic
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The Courier (2012)
Plot Summary:
A shady FBI agent recruits a courier to deliver a mysterious package to a vengeful master criminal who has recently resurfaced with a diabolical plan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, action packed, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir
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Momentum (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, perverse, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, tension
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Heart of Stone (2023)
Plot Summary:
Rachel Stone is an intelligence operative, the only woman who stands between her powerful, global, peacekeeping organization and the loss of its most valuable — and dangerous — asset.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Mile 22 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, surprise ending, political, twist ending, fast paced, anamorphic
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Unlocked (2017)
Plot Summary:
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised. Running for her life, she turns to a former soldier to help her prevent a lethal biological attack on the citizens of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mind bending, political, entertaining, cult classic, neo noir, twisted
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S.W.A.T.: Under Siege (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a D.E.A. and S.W.A.T. cartel takedown ends in a shootout, S.W.A.T. Agent Travis Hall seizes a mysterious prisoner taking him into custody. Before long, the S.W.A.T. compound is under siege by wave-after-wave of assault teams attempting to recover the prisoner known as “The Scorpion” for the tattoo blazed across his back. When Travis discovers that his prisoner is a Secret Ops double agent planted within the cartel, it’s up to him and his expert S.W.A.T. team to keep “The Scorpion” and his billion dollar secrets safe.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, saga, surprise ending, neo noir
Similar in 87%
The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, entertaining, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)
Plot Summary:
While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of interest from a biker gang ruthlessly hunting them down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, cliffhanger, action thriller, surprise ending
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Proud Mary (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, retro, hood, surprise ending, neo noir, black cinema