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Plot Summary:
Chris Mitchum plays Dean Mitchell (I know, quite a stretch), the one gas station attendant you don't wanna mess with. He's a taciturn Vietnam vet who doesn't say very much. When some stupid baddies DO decide to mess with him, they end up in a world of hurt. They try robbing his beloved gas station, and then they go after his family. Big mistake.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Mission Kill (1985)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Green Beret visits one of his army buddies, and finds himself involved in his friend's scheme to smuggle arms into a turbulent South American country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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Primary Target (1989)
Plot Summary:
Action movie directed by Clark Henderson.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Hateman (1987)
Plot Summary:
A woman is gang raped by backwoods locals and a crazed, Vietnam veteran comes to her rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Commando Squad (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, cult film
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Cobra Mission (1986)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Trident Force (1988)
Plot Summary:
An outbreak of bombings, assassinations, and massacres by an extremist, Marxist terrorist group, alarms the international community who calls for help - the ultimate solution - the Trident Force.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Devastator (1986)
Plot Summary:
This war's in your own backyard. Violent warfare erupts in Northern California when Vietnam vet Deacon Porter reassembles his Combat Strike Force to avenge the death of a commanding officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Rescue Team (1983)
Plot Summary:
Richard Harrison stars as a super tough CIA agent in this over-the-top action-packed Filipino jungle action flick. Bloody violence, a jungle full of bamboo death traps and some double crossing keeps things more than interesting and a definite must for fans of Filipino exploitation action.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Intrusion: Cambodia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag group is assembled for a secret mission into Cambodia, led by legendary special forces commando Richard Harrison.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Mission Manila (1988)
Plot Summary:
Web is a desperate man with a dangerous mission. His young brother Tony has mysteriously vanished with a million dollars worth of heroin that belongs to the mob. The mob wants the drugs back...and Tony dead. In the back alleys of Manila, his search leads him to three beautiful women, each one hiding a clue to Tony's disappearance, but only one will help him. As a vicious network of thugs closes in, Web battles to unravel the mystery and save his brothers life. But a fortune in drugs with a criminal empire at stake makes Web's life dispensable and the action explodes in MISSION MANILA.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The One-Armed Executioner (1981)
Plot Summary:
An Interpol agent is out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won first before he can be thoroughly trained in martial arts. After his training, Ortega hunts down his adversaries for a final reckoning.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, grindhouse
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The Zebra Force (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this post Vietnam War actioner, a group of veterans, former members of a crack guerrilla team, decide to reteam and use their specialized skills to fight organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Tigershark (1987)
Plot Summary:
Action movie directed by Emmett Alston.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Rolf (1984)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary takes revenge on bad guys. The Last Mercenary, a thrilling story of violence... of a rare man... a man trying to forget his past. The story of a man's buring vengence, an avenger who cannot forgive. Neither threats nor traps can stop The Last Mercenary. Stretched to breaking point both physically and morally, a fight until death follows. His Price is death!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Warbus (1985)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Code Name: Wild Geese (1984)
Plot Summary:
Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, macaroni combat, cult film
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Tuesday Never Comes (1992)
Plot Summary:
An Irish mercenary will stop at nothing to get the money owed to him for a job from an Italian-American drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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The Executioner (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cellat, the Turkish version of Death Wish, sticks fairly close plot wise to the template of the American film, with some scenes and bits of dialogue being almost identical. However, it also deviates from its inspiration at times and is at its most interesting and valuable in these little moments, providing lurid snapshots of a place and a culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action
Country: Turkey
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Fireback (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jack Kaplan is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert liberated by a "rescue team", he returns home to the United States only to find out that his wife Diane has been captured by infatuated gangster Duffy Collins. Kaplan embarks on a mission to find his wife, running into characters like Digger, Man With The Golden Hand, and the treacherous femme fatale Eve. He is a man on a mission.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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No Dead Heroes (1986)
Plot Summary:
Left for dead in Vietnam, Lieutenant Cotter became a guinea pig for KGB baddie Mitovitch. Implanted with a mind control microchip, he is turned into a mindless killer. His colleague Lieutenant Sanders goes looking for him in Cambodia, then in El Salvador, where they kill pretty much everyone they meet.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, cult film
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Day of the Survivalist (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam vet leaves the ugly congestion of Los Angeles and moves north to the "paradise" of rural Oregon. He is soon befriended by a group of hardcore paramilitary survivalists, who try to bring him into their circle of righteous Armageddon-ready warriors. Put off by their extreme views, he refuses their offer and, now knowing too much, becomes the target of their aggression... fighting to survive against the odds in the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Cherry Bomb (2011)
Plot Summary:
An homage to the action films of the early 1980s, Cherry Bomb follows a young dancer and her quest for revenge against the group of men that brutally assaulted her. Seeing no justice coming from within the system Cherry enlists the help of her estranged older brother and some heavy firepower as the two siblings set out on a reckless revenge mission. Things start to spiral out of control when a mysterious hit man named Bull is hired to put an end to Cherry's bloody tirade. She soon realizes that there is more at stake than she ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Phantom Raiders (1988)
Plot Summary:
Deep within the steaming tropical jungles of Vietnam is a Viet Cong terrorist training camp, run by an ex-Green Beret, William Marshall. A roving photographer stumbles upon the hidden camp and starts to take pictures. He is caught and summarily executed but the photos make it back to Washington. The CIA decide to send in an elite team of jungle warfare commandos, the Phantom Raiders, to establish whether Marshall is a POW or has gone bad. But another element has been added to this dangerous game. One of the Phantom Raiders is Marshall's son. Now he must come face to face with the enigma that was his father. The Phantom Raiders is a non-stop film of explosive action, with enough mayhem to leave you breathless.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Violent Breed (1984)
Plot Summary:
A military group led by Henry Silva and Woody Strode are bound by their honor, to execute their orders to kill as many enemies as possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
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Operation Warzone (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad of U.S. troops seek out a mysterious agent hiding out in the jungles of 1960s Vietnam whom has classified documents that could win the war.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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A Mission to Kill (1992)
Plot Summary:
His activities in Viet Nam would be denied by the U S Government. Only two others providing similar service returned to the states. Now he's getting mental help in a military institution, escapes, and must be recaptured.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: cult film
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Jungle Assault (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Point Man (2018)
Plot Summary:
A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, serious, suspense
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Killer Instinct (1987)
Plot Summary:
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Executioner Part II (1984)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, cult film