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Plot Summary:
A cop tracks down the mobster who escaped his custody while being escorted cross-country to stand trial.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Balkan Runner (1994)
Plot Summary:
To avenge the murder of her husband, Mirna dedicates herself to the destruction of the beautiful but villainous Sura who ships arms to the Middle East in exchange for drugs. Aiding her in this task is handsome undercover agent, Marc.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Tough Cops (1987)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam War vet turned police detective on the edge Nick Carpenter partners up with slick police detective with cat skills Pete Logan to take down the local druglord Fatcat by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, Philippines
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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Midnight Run for Your Life (1994)
Plot Summary:
When an accused murderer flees to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, bounty hunter Jack Walsh is hired to bring her back, unaware that the police, a hitman and a dangerous drug lord are hot on his trail.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, neo western, dark comedy
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Ninja: The Battalion (1988)
Plot Summary:
Four Chinese germ warfare scientists are kidnapped by a Japanese organisation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Red Sun Rising (1994)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Hoshino (Willson) is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho (Lew). He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder (Farrell). Soon they discover that Yakuza prepares a gang war and weapon smuggling. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, detective, buddy comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Cross Mission (1988)
Plot Summary:
General Romero, leader of a small Latin American country, is showing the UN how he's taking care of his country's drug problems by publicly burning crops of marijuana. As soon as the inspectors leave, however, Romero quickly returns to business, producing and shipping the illegal crop. When his right-hand man is convinced by a crusading reporter to turn away from his life of crime and help bring his boss to justice, Romero vows to stop at nothing to prevent this traitor from talking.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, hispanic
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Doublecross on Costa's Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa must ready for a final showdown by finding his way through an intricate web of double crosses, while meeting up with old friends and enemies. If Costa wants to survive and save his home, and island, he will have to fight his way out!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Invasion Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting a movie finds itself battling against terrorists trying to take over a city.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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Redemption (2002)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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Hard Justice (1995)
Plot Summary:
When A.T.F. agent Nick Adams (David Bradley) goes undercover in a prison to unravel the mystery of a fellow agents death there. Warden Pike (Charles Napier) and his pet goons are involved in all kinds of corrupt activities; dope dealing and gun smuggling to name a few.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bloody, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir
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Hunted by Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
An intriguing story of good, evil and the supernatural. The Story takes place in the Florida Everglades. Three men are hunting when an airplane drops bails of drugs on the ground where they are hunting.. The men must decide whether to be law-abiding citizens and report the drugs or take the drugs and sell them for millions of dollars. The lure of easy money entices the hunters into an action packed adventure as drugs dealers-led by Paco, a cold and ruthless Colombian drug lord-chase them in their quest for their precious cargo. Their decision to take the drugs leads them on a spine tingling confrontations with the drugs dealers who both outnumber and out gun them. The hunters must resort to primitive weapons, their combative Martial arts skills and their ingenuity to escape the wrath of the drugs dealers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Karate Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
John Travis is the last honest cop in a future dominated by terroristic martial-arts gangs who fight gladiator-style in arenas.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, campy
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The Expert (1995)
Plot Summary:
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved sister's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action
Country: USA, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Bloodfist 2050 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alex Danko descends into the ultra-violent underworld of extreme martial-arts to find his brother's killer with the help of hardened Detective Ramirez and his brother's alluring ex-lover in this post-apocalyptic allegory of greed and revenge set in in 2050 Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, erotic, psychotronic, detective
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Crooked (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives must protect a beautiful call girl from mob hitmen and a crooked cop.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, cult film
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Honor and Glory (1992)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Tracy Pride is on a mission to capture businessman Jason Slade, who is involved in extortion and murder. Teaming up with her is her sister Joyce, a news reporter; Dragon, Tracy's partner in Hong Kong, and Jake, a bodyguard who worked for Slade. Can they stop Slade before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Out for Blood (1992)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer's family is murdered by drug smugglers, and he is beaten and left for dead, but survives although in a coma. When he awakes he only has a partial memory of what happened. In order to find out the real story, he trains with a karate master and becomes a mysterious avenger known as "The Karate Man".
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Moving Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't commit, the man struggles to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name and find the identity of the real killer. Moving Target also features Bill Murphy, Hilary Kavanagh, and Terry McMahon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill (1996)
Plot Summary:
A former CIA agent lives a suburban life as a high school teacher with his teen son. When the agent is attacked by former allies because of knowledge he possesses and his son is kidnapped, he is forced back into the business and his son suddenly sees a side of his father that he never knew existed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Karate Raider (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To the Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Bloodfist IV: Die Trying (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Kill Crazy (1989)
Plot Summary:
Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a machine of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mercenary II: Thick & Thin (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary Captain "Hawk" is in Acion again to save a hostage. But he and his team are betrayed. Nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: christian film, suspense
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Private Wars (1993)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy businessman is trying to "convince" the inhabitants of an old neighborhood to abandon their homes in order to build a huge business center there. To achieve his goals, he bribes the police and uses organized bands to intimidate the neighbors. But perhaps this alcoholic ex-cop, Manning, could help them, but how?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood on the Badge (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes to a small Texas town to find out who murdered his former partner there.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Tiger Claws (1991)
Plot Summary:
The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. She gets the job and to her side an other martial arts specialist, Sgt. Tarek Richards. Now they need to find a tiger style master, because the killer obviously uses tiger style kung fu. Not a simple task, since tiger is a very ancient and rare style.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, independent film, realistic, suspenseful, detective, cult film
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Bulletproof (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, cult classic, independent film, fast