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Plot Summary:
Vasu is a tough street crook who lives at a movie theater. One day while transporting the reels of a new film, he clashes with a music student Mohana. Mohana is the daughter of the Police Commissioner, who Tulsidas an ex-gang leader released from jail has an old grudge against. He tells Vasu to kidnap Mohana for two days in order to ruin the family's honor. While being held captive by Vasu, Mohana falls in love with him after hearing him sing. Vasu rejects her love, but on learning of it, Tulsidas pays him to pretend to be in love with her. By the time Tulsidas learns that his enmity with the police commissioner is false and tells Vasu to stay away from Mohana it is too late, Vasu's love has become real.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
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Thirunaal (2016)
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An underling of a gangster decides to turn over a new leaf, but will his violent past let him do so?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
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Mara Clara The Movie (1996)
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Almira and Susan give birth at the same time in the same hospital. Gary steals the Almira’s newborn child and switches the infant to one of his newborn twins; in revenge to Almira’s decision of rejecting his love for Amanthe’s Gary concocts the wicked plan with his friend, Kardo, a hospital staff in switching the babies. However, one of the twins dies in the process of switching and the Del Valle’s are made to believe that the stillborn child is theirs. Gary then persuades Amanthe to adopt one of his twins to spare Almira from despair and sorrow. Amanthe agrees and for a fee and Gary hands one of his twins to Amanthe. Kardo, feeling remorseful documents every detail of the event on his diary. Susan names her daughter Mara while the Del Valle’s name their child, Clara.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Jawan Muhabat (1971)
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Dr. Sarin lives with his wife, Sunita, young daughter, Rekha, and his brother, Rajesh. Rajesh is an eligible bachelor, and on the lookout for a life-partner with a view of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Anjaneya (2003)
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DCP Paramaguru (Ajith) an efficient police officer who fights with the scum of the society. He later masquerades as a thief to infiltrate into the underworld. The bad guys are surprised to find that Paramguru is the DCP, out to get them. So they all gang up against him. In this process a thrilling encounter takes place between the good and the evil. Paramaguru is helped in his fight against injustice by Divya (Meera Jasmine) who falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Janasheen (2003)
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Australian based Lucky Kapoor (Fardeen Khan) has no interest whatsoever in his dad's, Virendra Kapoor's (Harsh Chhaya) business in India. Saba Karim Khan (Feroz Khan), however, does have an interest in the property of Mr. Kapoor, but Mr. Kapoor is not willing to sell. This angers Karim Khan, and he has Mr. Kapoor killed, and makes it look like an accident. Lucky's childhood sweetheart, Jessica Periera (Celina Jaitley), has the proof of Mr. Kapoor's death, but decides to keep it to herself. When Karim Khan meets with Lucky to re-negotiate the property, he finds that Lucky is willing to sell; he also finds that Lucky resembles his dead son. Karim Khan will give anything to make Lucky the heir to his vaste wealth and properties, but Lucky is not willing. Karim Khan turns on all the machinations he has in his power to force Lucky to be his heir.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
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Ji (2005)
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Vasu (Ajith), a final year college student is happy go lucky. But he is forced to contest elections in the college after being persuaded by his friends (Venkat Prabhu and Arun). He, however, incurs the wrath of the local MLA Varadharajan (Charanraj), whose son is studying in the college, contests the elections too. In the course of events, the MLA's gang attacks Vasu and his friends. It's here that Vasu's father (Vijayakumar) advises the students to take a plunge in politics and teach the bad apples like Varadharajan a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min
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Clementine (2004)
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Kim, a Taekwondo champion decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang, Kim must agree to fight in a rigged boxing match in exchange for Sa Rang's freedom.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult film
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Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (1996)
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Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (Telugu: అక్కడ అమ్మాయి ఇక్కడ అబ్బాయి) is a Telugu movie released on October 11, 1996. Power Star Pawan Kalyan, the younger brother of Megastar Chiranjeevi was introduced as hero to Telugu Film Industry with this movie. It also is the first movie for the heroine Yarlagadda Supriya who is the grand-daughter of Akkineni Nageswara Rao (Hero Sumanth's Sister). Pawan Kalyan got recognition for his martial arts performed in the movie. It is directed by E.V.V. Satyanarayana and produced by Allu Aravind under Geeta Arts Banner. The music of the movie is scored by Koti.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Samadhi (1972)
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Lakah Singh gives his life of a Dacoit and lives a happy life with his wife Champa when his son Jaswant becomes three years old, Champa becomes ill with cancer and circumstances force him to be again a Dacoit.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
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Pratiggya (1975)
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Truck driver Ajit Singh find out from his foster mother before her death how his biological family were mercilessly massacre by a bandit named Bharat Thakur. He then takes a pledge to avenge their death and travel to Dinapur village where Bharat is holed up; en-route he comes to the assistance of a half-dead police inspector who was ambushed by Bharat. Once in the village he decides to impersonate the inspector and converts a liquor den into a police station. He then seeks assistance from some rowdy male villagers by making them police officers so that he can easily target Bharat and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Golden Son (2015)
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The happiness of Tamizh and his middle-class family is shattered when his dad commits suicide. The youngster tries to understand why his father took this extreme step and clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
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Bangaru Bullodu (1993)
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration:
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Sethu (1999)
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A love brings to light the soft-natured characteristic features that lie buried in the sub-conscious mind of a seemingly hard-core student. Some unexpected tragic events mould his life into an epic-like story!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sad, heartbreaking, epic, entertaining, tragic
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Krishna (1996)
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Sunil lives a poor life-style with his mom and sister. His passion is to pilot plane and he goes for training to become a successful pilot, but in the process he got himself entangled in a drug deal which changes his entire concept of life and engulfs his loved ones forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: epic
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Jaan (1996)
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Police Commissioner Suryadeo Singh hires Karan, a trained weapons expert, to protect his daughter Kajal. Later, Kajal, who is unaware of Karan's secret agenda, falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
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Hero (1983)
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Hero is the story of a criminal transforming and evolving as a good person under the influence of love. Jackie is a baddie with a heart of gold though, who has to settle scores with the area's 'Thakur' and his police officer son Sanjeev Kumar. So he opts for kidnapping their soft spot, Radha, Thakur khandaan's only daughter. Radha is given to understand that Jackie and his gang are police people who have taken her away to the safety of jungles because their house has been invaded by dacoits. The rest of the story is about the gang's camaraderie with Radha in sylvan spots and the discovery of truth by Radha.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: masala
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Tagore (2003)
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Tagore (Chiranjeevi) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. As pressure builds on Police and Government to track down the Man who masterminds these killings, Balbir Singh (Puneet Issar), is specially summoned to head the task. He is aided by Suryam (Prakash Raj) who, though being just a constable in the mammoth Police force, is compelled by his instincts to see through the underlying design. Together they unravel the mystery and unveil the phenomenon called Tagore, but not before Badrinaryana (Sayaji Shinde), the human face of evil, finds out that his revelry in the belief of Tagore’s death was a mistake he can never make amends for.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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Godfather (2006)
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Shiva, the ageing business tycoon, bound to his wheelchair, sharing a strong bonding with his son Vishnu. Indulgent, while Vishnu whiles away his time with his cronies taking life easy. But then suddenly Vishnu starts behaving out of character, his drunken bouts and acts causing the father much shame and embarrassment. And when Vishnu professes to remember nothing of what he had done, the father takes him to a psychiatrist.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Prem Deewane (1992)
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Radha (Pooja Bhatt) and Manohar (Vivek Mushran) love each other and want to get married, but Radha's dad (Ashok Saraf) does not approve of their marriage as Manohar comes from a poor family. He instructs Radha not to leave the house, but Radha finds a way to escape and goes to Manohar's house. Anticipating more obstacles, they run away, guided by Radha's uncle Natwarlal(Prem Chopra). Natwarlal convinces them that they must kidnap a wealthy person and demand a big ransom and take the money to appease Radha's dad. It is then they start to realize that their uncle has some other devious plans for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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Kireedam (2007)
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A sincere man wishes to fulfill his father's dream that he follows in his footsteps and becomes a police officer. However, when his father is punished for his honesty and transferred to an area that is ruled with an iron fist by a heartless gangster, the young man must take the law into his own hands to protect his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
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Jaal: The Trap (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sunny Deol battles terrorists from Kashmir; from director Guddu Dhanoa.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Gunaa (1991)
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Guna (Kamal Hasan) is a mentally affected person and gets treatment in a mental asylum, and another mental person in the asylum tells him the story of a fictitious character named Abirami and registers in his mind that she is an angel and she is going to marry you on full moon day.After coming out of the asylum, he believes the story to be true and searches for his Abirami. One day he mistakes a rich girl (Roshini), in a temple as Abirami and kidnaps her and takes her to a lonely damaged house situated at the top of the hill resort called Kodaikanal. Though, the girl first hates.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: sad, tragic ending
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Diljale (1996)
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Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and arranges his wedding with his daughter. Before the engagement could take place, Ranvir finds out that he has a rival in Shaka, who was in love with Radhika before, and is all set to prevent this marriage at any and costs. Ranvir decides to postpone his wedding until such time he arrests Shaka and his associates - a decision that will not only pit him against well-armed terrorists, but also result in the abduction of a bus-load of Vaishnodevi devotees - which include Radhika and her Bua.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Kya Yehi Pyaar Hai (2002)
Plot Summary:
A college slacker pursues the girl of his dreams and will do just about anything to get her to like him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, touching, serious
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Hero (2015)
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Sooraj (Sooraj Pancholi) is a gangster of Mumbai who meets Radha (Athiya Shetty). Radha is the daughter of the Chief of Police. One day, Sooraj takes Radha,telling her that he got instructions from the police to take her away from city for some time. But later Radha gets to know that she is kidnapped by Sooraj. After a series of events, Sooraj leaves Radha. But by that time, they are already in love. Thereafter, comes the part where they have to face a lot of problems.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Desamuduru (2007)
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Desamuduru is a 2007 Telugu film, dubbed into Malayalam and Tamil as Hero: The Real Hero, and Hindi as Ek Jwalamukhi. The film has Allu Arjun and Hansika Motwani in the lead. The film was directed by Puri Jagannadh. D.V.V. Danaiah produced Desamuduru under the Universal Media banner. The movie was released on 12 January 2007 in 400 theatres.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense
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Paiyaa (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shiva, an engineering graduate, is not serious about his job or future even when his friends advise him about life. He falls in love with a girl he saw at a bus stop and finally gets to ride with her in a car.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, exciting, tense, feel good, humorous, realistic, action packed, road movie
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Acid (1988)
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Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him falling in love with Mohini, who subsequently realizes that he indeed has fallen in love with her, and she too reciprocates. Mohini's dad is an alcoholic and wishes that Mohini takes up dancing and prostitution so that he can get his daily dose of alchol. Mohini attempts to take refuge with Mahesh, however, cirumstances tangle Mahesh to such an extent that he is arrested, charged, and sentenced to stay away from Bombay city limits. When Mahesh returns, it is no longer the honest, and patriotic Mahesh, but a gangster named Munna, who has many old scores to settle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: entertaining, masala, crying, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Style (2008)
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Jeetendra Kumar Makwana is employed full-time at a Call Center and works part-time teaching English. He is recruited by an attractive young woman, Pooja, to teach her Hinglish-speaking boss, Bhaiyaji, English. Jeetendra agrees to do so, falls in love with Pooja, and joins forces with her to steal a bag containing 25 Crore Rupees in cash. He will soon find out that Bhaiyaji is a hoodlum and extortionist known to the Police as Lakhan Singh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, realistic, fast
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Mutiny: A Love Story (2001)
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Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the shock of their lives when Sakina learns that her father (Amrish Puri), whom she previously believed died in the riots back in Amritsar, is still alive after seeing his picture in a tattered, old newspaper. Upon contacting him, Sakina's father, now the mayor of Lahore in Pakistan, arranges for his daughter to arrive in Lahore to see him. Sakina leaves for Lahore minus Tara and her son, and upon reaching the city, learns of her father's plans for her - plans that include forcing Sakina to forget about her family and start life anew in Pakistan. Then begins an extraordinary journey which will lead Tara to cross the border into Pakistan to find his love Sakina.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, realistic, patriotic, suspense, period drama