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Plot Summary:
Ex-cop Thomas Malone is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. He is offered a chance at freedom if he can survive a deadly game of Apex, in which six hunters pay for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. He accepts, and once he arrives, all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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Detective Knight: Rogue (2022)
Plot Summary:
As Los Angeles prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound detective James Knight’s partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective’s dark past collides with his present case and threatens to tear his world apart…unless redemption can claim Knight first.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Detective Knight: Independence (2023)
Plot Summary:
Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Starforce (2000)
Plot Summary:
A warrior and a beautiful ex-convict are left to fight the galaxy's most fearsome commandos in an alien wasteland.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Paradise City (2022)
Plot Summary:
Renegade bounty hunter Ryan Swan must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin who murdered his father.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Gasoline Alley (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man implicated in the triple homicide of three Hollywood starlets begins his own investigation. Needing assistance, he enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy more explosive than any of them imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, China, South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: perverse
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Wire Room (2022)
Plot Summary:
New recruit Justin Rosa must monitor arms-smuggling cartel member Eddie Flynn — and keep him alive at all costs. When a SWAT team descends on Flynn’s home, Rosa breaks protocol and contacts the gangster directly to save his life. As gunmen break into the Wire Room and chaos erupts, Mueller and Rosa make a final, desperate stand against the corrupt agents and officials who seek to destroy evidence and kill them both.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Detective Knight: Redemption (2022)
Plot Summary:
In custody in New York, Detective James Knight finds himself in the middle of a jailbreak led by The Christmas Bomber, a brutal fanatic whose Santa Claus disciples are terrorizing the city. With the promised return of his badge in exchange for taking out the terrorists, the steely-eyed Knight doles out mercy for the just...and merciless justice for all the rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Dragon Fury (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mason, a dragon warrior from the future, returns to the year 1999 in search of a serum that can combat a disease simply known as "The Plague." In the post-apocalyptic world of 2099 -- after an earthquake has destroyed all of civilization has been -- "The Plague" is the deadliest menace of them all. And the cure for it lies in the past!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, hot
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Fighting Centurions (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, perverse, futuristic, exciting, rough, epic, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, weird
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The Time Guardian (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, the human race nears extinction and a new race of beast-like creatures rule the earth. The few surviving people live in the City, a huge protected construction with the ability to travel in both space and time. The City travels back to our time to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Endgame (1983)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2025, a nuclear holocaust has left New York City an irradiated, but not abandoned, wasteland. The ruined city is inhabited now by scavenger packs and telepathic mutants, who are persecuted by the elite survivors. Keeping the people pacified is the reality television program Endgame, where hunters and gladiators fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, retro, cult classic, action adventure, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, cult film
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Cosmic Sin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo star in the new epic sci-fi adventure set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets. Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers on a remote planet are attacked by a hostile alien fleet. The threat against the human race escalates into an inevitable interstellar war. General Ford teams up with General Eron Ryle (Grillo) and a team of elite soldiers in a race to stop the imminent attack before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, anamorphic, disgusting
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Incoming (2018)
Plot Summary:
The International Space Station is now a prison - the ultimate black site. No one's getting out. And no one knows it's there. But when the imprisoned terrorists take over the Station and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow, only a shuttle pilot and a rookie doctor can stop them. Their task is complicated by a rogue CIA agent (Scott Adkins) who has his own plans for the station and the terrorists within.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, rough
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Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995)
Plot Summary:
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end of the Cyborgs, and they inject it into a volunteer. When the Cyborgs learn of the woman and the baby they list both for termination.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Monsters of Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, suspenseful, intense, philosophical, enigmatic, political, apocalyptic, cyber
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Breach (2020)
Plot Summary:
A hardened mechanic must stay awake and maintain an interstellar ark fleeing the dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board... the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only passengers. A shapeshifting alien creature has taken residence, its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. The crew must think quickly to stop this menace before it destroys mankind.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Death Race (2008)
Plot Summary:
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 217000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, visually appealing, action packed, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, apocalyptic, fast
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Gamer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, action packed, cyber, apocalyptic, mindfuck, exciting, serious, psychological, philosophical
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The One (2001)
Plot Summary:
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, futuristic, action packed, mind bending, grindhouse, cult classic
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Plot Summary:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his daughter, part of a resistance movement, steals the control unit for a doomsday weapon, Snake again gets tapped to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, cyber, grindhouse
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ARQ (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, psychological, twist ending, suspense, futuristic, confusing, cerebral, exciting, mind bending
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Lockout (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspense, rough, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, absurd, captivating, apocalyptic
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Infinite (2021)
Plot Summary:
Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: spiritual, suspense, tense, captivating, philosophical, futuristic, perverse, cult classic, thrilling, enigmatic
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The Running Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed
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The Island (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 325000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, action packed, apocalyptic, intense, thought provoking, entertaining
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Plot Summary:
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 706000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: futuristic, captivating, teen, entertaining, touching, apocalyptic, sad, visual, action packed, visually stunning
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Next (2007)
Plot Summary:
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 165000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, mind bending, stylized, action packed, serious, suspenseful, clever, bad ending, suspense, surprise ending
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The Hunger Games (2012)
Plot Summary:
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 981000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, teen, thought provoking, apocalyptic, suspense, action packed
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Demolition Man (1993)
Plot Summary:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, rough, entertaining, apocalyptic, humorous, epic