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Plot Summary:
Four backpackers arrive in Thailand to party and drink. A gambling game goes wrong and with their lives on the line they desperately decide to kidnap a billionaires daughter. Things go wrong when her 'father' doesn't play ball and prefers to use the kidnapping to further his own interests.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, fast, slapstick comedy
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Raging Phoenix (2009)
Plot Summary:
A violent gang is abducting and killing women around Thailand. Sanim and his friends, having had loved ones abducted, have joined together to break the gang of kidnappers. In a botched kidnap attempt, Deu is saved by Sanim's crew. After learning their unique martial arts style, Deu helps lure the gang into an epic battle to save the women across Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, disturbing, realistic, fast
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This Girl Is Bad-Ass!! (2011)
Plot Summary:
A bike messenger, hired by competing mob bosses to smuggle goods, finds that her only way out is a confrontation erupting into a battle of bullets, blows and kicks to the face.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, tense, light, captivating, realistic, not serious, fast, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Muay Thai Giant (2008)
Plot Summary:
Gentle giant Barney Emerald is drugged and robbed while on holiday in Pattaya. He befriends two Thai siblings, one of which is a muay-thai kick-boxing champion, and stays with them until he can recover his passport. Unfortunately the hunt for his passport makes him cross ways with international gangsters. But Barney has found a secret weapon, the very spicy Thai salad "Somtum".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sport
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic
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BKO: Bangkok Knockout (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of martial arts students are enjoying a reunion party when a bomb goes off in the building. When they wake up, some of their friends have been kidnapped and they soon find a group of assassins coming after them. The only way to survive is to fight their way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, fast
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Drive Hard (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action comedy, road movie, realistic
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Payoff (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two very different cops are forced to work together.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Action, Crime, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, action comedy, exciting, realistic, fast
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Power Kids (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lek, a Thai boxing instructor teaches Thai boxing to a group of kids for their self-defence. He is like both teacher and father to the kids – Wuth, Catt, Pong and Jib. The four have to look after Wuth’s little brother, Woon who has a heart problem. Soon, they came across a twist of fate that leads them to fight a gang of hooligans. This causes a sudden heart attack to Woon, resulting him to have a heart transplant immediately. Unfortunately, the hospital they were in has been seized by an international terrorist group led by Paeda. Unavoidably, they get involved and fight against the terrorists, as they need to save Woon’s life and help their country at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, entertaining, tense, light, sincere, disturbing
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Iron Fingers of Death (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two princes are seperated by birth. One is raised by the Prime Minister. The other is raised by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. When they are 23, they meet and combine there forces to defeat the evil 9th Prince.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Black & White Episode 1: The Dawn of Assault (2012)
Plot Summary:
A policeman, who is fearless to death, can do anything for just one truth, while a gangster, who fears death the most, has drew life threats from his risky action all for love. One policeman and one gangster can be great partners that you have never imagined. Somehow, rescue of the world now is entirely relying on the partners. Within 36 hours, they must resolve the crisis that could destroy the Harbor City.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Top Squad (1988)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a crack squad of female police officers who have to deal with harassment and a lack of respect from their male colleagues, personal issues as well as some serious criminals.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Aces Go Places IV: You Never Die Twice (1986)
Plot Summary:
Baldy and King Kong shuttle between New Zealand and Hong Kong to recover a hi-tech prism that can impart superhuman powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, New Zealand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast, poliziottesco
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Gangster Exchange (2010)
Plot Summary:
Karate meets Kalashnikovs as the uncontrollable force and the immovable object are thrown together in this bloody hilarious action comedy! Hiro's a Tokyo cyber-punk Yakuza with a simple mission: smuggle a toilet made of pure heroin to New York City. If he fails his boss will stick his sword where the rising sun don't shine. Marco's a muscle mountain enforcer working for a family of ex-commandos from the Bosnian war. He's an entry-level thug with dreams of rising up the ranks. But in the Bosnian mob, promotion is spelled AK-47. When a bloody New York mob war erupts and Hiro and Marco snatch the toilet. It's worth millions - if they can find somebody who can decipher the Japanese chemistry formula. Wounded, hunted and dragging a 50-pound toilet made of heroin; they race around New York. Through sleazy alleyways, bouncer brawls, sniper shoot-outs and a biker war they're on a quest to find a Japanese chemist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, exciting, clever, independent film, fast
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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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The Vanquisher (2009)
Plot Summary:
After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face her old foes and foil a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)
Plot Summary:
A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber Legs, another Drunken Fist master who combines it with Mantis Fist to create a deadly style.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick comedy, cult film
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You Move You Die (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn't have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate to recover it. He and his friends have one hour to get the ring back and make the date with his "beloved" Emma before all is lost. It is not long before it is revealed that Mike and his friends are not all that they seem.You move you die is a dark comedy filmed with a real time story. Get ready for a film with a unique dose of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, rough, realistic, dark comedy
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The Bodyguard 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
The best agent of Vieng, the country near the boundary of Thailand received the important mission that he had to catch two armed dealers who could be the dangerous for his country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous
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Dangerous Flowers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Miki, the daughter of a professor and martial arts master is sought after by an organized crime syndicate for her knowledge about the location of a hidden treasure, the Andaman Pearl. Five sexy undercover agents Rose, Lotus, Pouy- sian, Spadix and Hibiscus - known as Chai Lai Angels are enlisted to protect her. However, the Chai Lai Angels are overtaken in an attack, which concludes with Miki being kidnapped. These dangerous flowers must use all of their resources and skills to fight and recover Miki and protect the Andaman Pearl. But, as they soon find out, this mission is unlike any they've encountered before.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, rough, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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The Bodyguard (2004)
Plot Summary:
A professional bodyguard who failed to protect his Choti, most successful businessman, is fired by his employer's son. The son inherits his fathers company but is then targets by assassins who want to gain control of the estate. He is forced to hide out in the slums where a kind family looks after him and sparks up a relationship with their tomboy daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody
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Shoot the Hero (2010)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something couple unintentionally become involved in a botched jewel heist while shopping for wedding rings.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, realistic, offbeat, independent film, fast
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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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My Lucky Stars (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Freerunner (2011)
Plot Summary:
With a ticking bomb locked to his neck, a young freerunner races against the clock and all types of baddies to get from one end of the city to the other to save himself and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, tense, action packed, fast
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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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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Plot Summary:
Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the "eagle's claw" style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, fast paced, cult classic, exciting, realistic, fast, slapstick comedy, funny
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Drive (1997)
Plot Summary:
Drive follows Toby Wong (Mark Dacascos), whose employers at Hong Kong's Leung Corporation have implanted in his chest a bio-energy module that enhances his physical abilities. Toby has escaped from the Leung Corporation's control and is making his way to Los Angeles, where a competing company has offered to remove the implant and give him his life back.After arriving in San Francisco, Toby encounters -- and, in desparation, kidnaps -- Malik Brodie (Kadeem Hardison), who has the means to get him to Los Angeles. Following close behind are professional assassins and junk-culture connoisseurs Vic Madison (John Pyper-Ferguson) and The Hedgehog (Tracey Walter), who are pursuing Toby in the employ of the Leung Corporation's president, Mr. Lau (James Shigeta).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crime drama, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, humorous, semi serious, fast
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The Protector 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham returns to his village to live in peace. But for someone as good in martial arts as him, peace is but a wishful thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, action thriller, realistic, fast
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Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, fast, slapstick comedy
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Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
Plot Summary:
The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor a fraud, and punishes all those involved. The young actor feels he has let the workers down, and promises to atone. He sets out for Shaolin, determined to be accepted as a kung-fu pupil at the elite temple.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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House of Fury (2005)
Plot Summary:
Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. Now, father and children must team up to stop the rogue agent and his goons.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, cult classic, realistic, suspenseful