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Plot Summary:
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, light, captivating, action comedy, romantic comedy, rough, offbeat
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Angels' Brigade (1979)
Plot Summary:
Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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They Call Me Bruce? (1982)
Plot Summary:
Get set for all the zany fun in this hilarious comedy about an Asian immigrant that everyone calls "Bruce", because of his resemblance to the legendary Bruce Lee. Bruce unknowingly works as cook for the Mob and is duped into making deliveries of "Chinese Flour"-which is really cocaine-all across the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, independent film, psychotronic, realistic, not serious, fast, road movie, parody, funny
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Hooper (1978)
Plot Summary:
Burt Reynolds plays a legendary stunt man known as Sonny Hooper, who remains one of the top men in his field, but due to too many stressful impacts to the spine and the need to pop pain killers several times a day, he knows he should get out of the industry before he ends up permanently disabled.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, funny, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining, melancholic, dramatic
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Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Plot Summary:
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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C.C. & Company (1970)
Plot Summary:
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in with a fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann's admiring eye. His win puts him at odds with Moon, leader of "The Heads." When C.C. leaves with his cut of the purse, the bikers kidnap Ann, and C.C. races Moon to win her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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18 Fingers of Death! (2006)
Plot Summary:
The "buzz" in Hollywood is that, "18 FINGERS OF DEATH!" will kick the butt out of the low budget martial arts movies genre and knocks us down to the ground laughing! This funny "sockumentart" of the world of Chop sockey, kung fooey, ninja poo poo, karate kidding croutching tiger stuff takes you on the journey of making martial arts movies at it's lowest.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film, mockumentary, fast, cult film
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City Heat (1984)
Plot Summary:
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, cult classic, detective, action comedy, action thriller, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Plot Summary:
Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become house guests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, road movie, sexy, surreal, cult classic, absurd, art house, independent film, psychotronic
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Let's Do It Again (1975)
Plot Summary:
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black comedy, action comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, black cinema
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Pink Cadillac (1989)
Plot Summary:
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, talky, action comedy, cult classic, realistic, fast, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Cannonball Run II (1984)
Plot Summary:
The original characters from the first Cannonball Run movie compete in an illegal race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, parody, humorous, spoof, cult classic, offbeat, feel good, not serious, fast, hilarious
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Let It Ride (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gambler used to losing is having a very good day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, tense, funny, light, romantic, surprise ending
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Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, feel good, cult classic, exciting, humorous, grindhouse, action comedy, romantic comedy, spectacular
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Born to Ride (2011)
Plot Summary:
The stars of Starship Troopers are back in action! Mike (Casper Van Dien) decides to hit the road on his refurbished classic motorcycle along with best buddy Alex (Patrick Muldoon), but their trek takes a surprising turn when they become involved in a plan involving political blackmail, corruption, and dirty money. Carrying evidence that could get them killed at any minute, the boys are chased on the open road but turn their skills to their own advantage. William Forsythe (Raising Arizona) and Theresa Russell (Wild Things) also star in this gun-blazing, rip-roaring adventure from the director of Every Which Way But Loose youll never forget!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, retro
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Enter the Phoenix (2004)
Plot Summary:
Georgie Hung is handsome, stylish and charming but he hides a secret that his old-fashion father, Hung who is a Triad leader, can never forgive. He has been sent to Thailand since he was a child and never returned. After Hung's death, his right-hand Cheung intends to bring back Georgie to take over. However, Cheung finds Sam, Georgie's flat-mate, whom he mistakes for Geogie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, fast, dark comedy, queer cinema
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Winners & Sinners (1983)
Plot Summary:
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: action comedy, cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Twin Dragons (1992)
Plot Summary:
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious, road movie, action comedy, harsh, cult classic, action adventure
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Battle Creek Brawl (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, action comedy, action adventure, exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, sexy
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Girls Gone Gangsta (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, mockbuster, semi serious, neo noir, sex comedy, campy
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Black Dynamite (2009)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, grindhouse, humorous, funny, talky, entertaining, witty, heroic, not serious
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The Cowboy Way (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, buddy comedy, feel good, semi serious, realistic, funny, action comedy, witty
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The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)
Plot Summary:
Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, semi serious, cult classic, slapstick, action comedy, funny, slapstick comedy, anamorphic, relaxing
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Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Plot Summary:
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, road movie, entertaining, light, melancholic, harsh, intense, semi serious, realistic
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Debt Collectors (2020)
Plot Summary:
A pair of debt collectors are thrust into an explosively dangerous situation, chasing down various lowlifes while also evading a vengeful kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, exciting, humorous, perverse, buddy comedy
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The Gauntlet (1977)
Plot Summary:
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a high-placed figure.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, road movie, suspense, entertaining, neo noir, anime, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Bounty Hunters (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jersey Bellini is a bounty hunter who forms an uneasy partnership with a rival to capture a fugitive. But the hunters soon discover that the crook is also the man the mob most wants dead! Ready to battle anyone in their way, these hard-hitting Bounty Hunters won't quit until they've brought in their man... and brought down the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, neo noir, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, campy
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Plot Summary:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, action thriller, exciting, light, captivating, spiritual, crime drama, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Bulletproof 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
Special Agent Jack Carter reluctantly assumes the identity of criminal Archie Moses to take down a powerful South African crime family. But when the real Moses is put in danger, he and Carter must work together to foil the scheme for good.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, buddy comedy, exciting, humorous, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, action comedy
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The Cannonball Run (1981)
Plot Summary:
A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the U.S. The Cannonball was named for Erwin G. "Cannonball" Baker, who in the roaring 20's rode his motorcycle across the country. Many of the characters are based on ruses developed by real Cannonball racers over the several years that the event was run.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, cult classic, entertaining, hilarious, exciting, feel good, funny, captivating
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Bird on a Wire (1990)
Plot Summary:
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, road movie, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, light, action comedy, clever, breathtaking