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Plot Summary:
August Eighth - story of an ordinary young woman. Ksenia's life is not too happy. Problem at work, problem in personal life, problem with mother, a baby requiring constant cares... Ksenia want to spend a few days in Sochi with new boyfriend, and mom sends her son Artem to the boy's father on Caucasus. But Georgia started war and she must overcome fear, overcome circumstances, she must save her child.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Olimpius Inferno (2009)
Plot Summary:
The movie is based on the events in South Ossetia in August 2008, and portraying a brutal Georgian army engaging in ethnic cleansing at the behest of its omnipresent American masters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Nothing Without You (2012)
Plot Summary:
A psych-patient, accused of a violent murder, turns to her court-appointed psychiatrist to prove her innocence and sanity. Her psychiatrist must help her decipher delusion from truth to unravel the mystery of her reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological
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The Turkish Gambit (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Bulgaria
Duration: 208 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, romantic, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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A Line in the Sand (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a remote village on the Suffolk Coast, Frank Perry (Ross Kemp) waits for his past to catch up with him. Previously a spy for MI6 working on Iranian chemical and biological weapons production, his reports led to the deaths of many Iranian scientists while also undermining the progress of their production. Now the Iranians have found out he was responsible and have sent their best assassin to kill him. A team of "protectors" move in around Perry, disrupting the local community who, fearing for their lives, turn against him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Flesh Wounds (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a remote U.S. Army facility a group of scientists vanish while conducting experiments with a top secret weapon. An elite covert ops team commanded by Lt. Tyler (Kevin Sorbo) is sent on a rescue mission that quickly turns deadly. With time running out and the death count rising, Tyler's team must hunt and destroy a predator unlike any they have ever encountered or become its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious
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Marines (2003)
Plot Summary:
The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to emerge. The highest military bosses in America and Russia are in panic. The well-known cover-up must offer a solution. But ... Marines are not just aside and decisions without official support to do everything to liberate their comrades. Additional help comes from an unexpected angle, but whether this will be enough.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Saving Leningrad (2019)
Plot Summary:
September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes - but not rescuers - are the first to arrive at the scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, exciting, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful
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Tunnel Rats (2008)
Plot Summary:
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, controversial, exciting, suspenseful, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Sand Serpents (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, natural horror, scary, serious
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One Shot (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Kyle Matthews, an elite Sniper from the World Defense Force, is trapped in enemy territory - his skills are put to the test as he attempts to survive against a whole armada of Cerulean soldiers, Hell bent on wiping all humans from existence. But when a beautiful Cerulean woman is shot and left for dead by her own kind, Kyle must chose between his own life and the life of one of the very beings he is out to kill.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, futuristic
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The Blackout (2019)
Plot Summary:
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. What military forces find outside the Ring is shocking. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychedelic, action thriller, action adventure
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American Siege (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ex-NYPD officer-turned-sheriff of a small rural Georgia town has to contend with a gang of thieves who have taken a wealthy doctor hostage.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Wolf Warrior 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
China's deadliest special forces operative settles into a quiet life on the sea. When sadistic mercenaries begin targeting nearby civilians, he must leave his newfound peace behind and return to his duties as a soldier and protector.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger
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Alien Siege (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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The Human Shield (1991)
Plot Summary:
The Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, bleak, serious, cult film
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Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Special Ops military Force, led by expert sniper Sergeant Jake Chandler, are sent to a remote Afghan village to extract an American congressman being held by the Taliban.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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American Warships (2012)
Plot Summary:
When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship, stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005)
Plot Summary:
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, dieselpunk
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Pistolera (2020)
Plot Summary:
When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of revenge and its cost.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Rocket Hunter (2020)
Plot Summary:
In one of the most dangerous missions of the war, an American B-17 pilot volunteers to fly a surrendered Messerschmitt 109 on a daring flight through the heart of Germany to try to prevent the people of London from being terrorized by the V-2 rockets. "Rocket Hunter" tells the story of an amazing pilot and his bombardier brother from the time they are teenagers dreaming of taking to the skies to the dark days of January 1945.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Men of War (1994)
Plot Summary:
Nick Gunar is a burnt-out, jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. At the end of his rope, he is hired by the Nitro Mine Corporation to strong-arm the natives of a South China Sea island into giving up their rights to its valuable mineral resources. Nick loathes the thought of another mission, but this seemingly easy job will earn him enough money to get back with his estranged family. He recruits some of his former mercenary buddies to help him with the job. The island people refuse to give up their land and Nick decides to help them fight the greedy corporation that hired him. As greed and treachery begin to unravel, Nick's band of mercenaries choose sides.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, independent film
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The Ravagers (1965)
Plot Summary:
Cruel captors of the war in the pacific.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Digital Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, computer animated
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Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016)
Plot Summary:
Elite snipers Brandon Beckett and Richard Miller are tasked with protecting a gas pipeline from terrorists looking to make a statement. When battles with the enemy lead to snipers being killed by a ghost shooter who knows their exact location, tensions boil as a security breach is suspected. Is there someone working with the enemy on the inside? Is the mission a front for other activity? Is the Colonel pulling the strings?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Tides of War (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering Officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, bleak, realistic
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Second in Command (2006)
Plot Summary:
Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, fast
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Interceptor Force (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, fast
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
Plot Summary:
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, disaster movie
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Stormageddon (2015)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie