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Plot Summary:
Welcome to the bay... Mitch and his friends enter the sink or swim world that is BAYWATCH.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
Best tv shows and movies like Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier (1989):
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The Final Alliance (1990)
Plot Summary:
A drifter and his pet Puma stands up against a motorcycle gang in a small American town.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Club Life (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to flee when his boss and another bouncer are murdered by drug dealers, who are soon after him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Kyoto Connection (1973)
Plot Summary:
Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Nightforce (1987)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. senator's daughter and friend go to Mexico to save her kidnapped girlfriend from terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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San Diego Surf (1968)
Plot Summary:
Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. Tom, a surfer, is inveigled by Mr. Mead to urinate on him. In a close-up, Mr. Mead receives Tom's offering ecstatically, after which he comments, "I'm a real surfer now.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Commando Squad (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, cult film
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Death Match (1994)
Plot Summary:
A kickboxing champ and a reporter are searching for a missing man, but they turn up a series of illegal kickboxing matches run by an arms dealer.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scorpion (1986)
Plot Summary:
A top counter-intelligence agent thwarts a hijacking and is assigned to protect one of the terrorists who plan to turn evidence over for a plea bargain. Unfortunately, the terrorist organization attacks where the agent is guarding the man, wounding him and killing the agent's best friend. The agent decides to take down the terrorist organization on his own to avenge his friend's death at their hands.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, cult film
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Panama Red (1976)
Plot Summary:
A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Red Nights (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Story of a Idealistic Young man (Played by Chris Parker), who goes to Los Angeles to become an actor, but is disillusioned and jaded when the cold and realistic violent world of Hollywood shatters then explodes all around him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Ghetto Blaster (1989)
Plot Summary:
When Travis, middle-aged, working class man, returns home to visit his parents, he quickly learns that his hood is rife with criminal activity and gang warfare. Quickly, Travis finds himself thrust into a position to defend his family and neighbors from the punks who terrorize them on a daily basis. Good thing he has a military training, enabling the man to become a one-man vigilante unit against the forces of evil in his town.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)
Plot Summary:
Molly is now a freelance photographer in New York. She runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. She goes to L.A. to find out that this woman is in fact, her mother. She also finds out she has a sister. The reunion is short-lived when her mother calls her to tell her that her sister is in danger and later, gets killed in an explosion. Molly must once again, become Angel to try and find her sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: action adventure, serious
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Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise (1995)
Plot Summary:
The world's most popular television series moves to Hawaii for a tropical adventure. The fun and romance is threatened when Matt is stung by a fish and captured by Hawaiian villagers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hell Riders (1984)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose car breaks down in the desert finds her way to an abandoned town, where she is menaced by a gang of psycho bikers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Trackdown (1976)
Plot Summary:
When his sister Betsy packs up and leaves the family's Montana cattle ranch to find fame and fortune in Hollywood, her brother Jim decides to follow after her to make sure she doesn't get into trouble. He's a little too late, however, since almost as soon as she gets off the bus, Betsy has her belongings stolen, then gets kidnapped, gang-raped, and is sold to a pimp to work for him as a prostitute. It is now up to Jim, with help from social worker Lynn, to rescue his sister and set things right.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Shadow Box (1980)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Leather Jackets (1991)
Plot Summary:
Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans when the thugs of a Vietnamese gangster that he has robbed, come looking for him. In order to save Dobbs, Mickey and Claudia, hide him in the boot of their car as they take off to LA. Things don't go as smoothly as planned, and Mickey finds out more about his fiancée than he ever needs to know.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, independent film, semi serious, neo noir
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Black Sea 213 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Venice Beach (1982)
Plot Summary:
A runaway tries to survive being homeless at Venice Beach, California.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Biker Boyz (2003)
Plot Summary:
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, intense, realistic, rough, serious, thought provoking, exciting, road movie, sexy, feel good
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Jump (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Other Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorcee is surprised to learn her ex-husband has suddenly remarried a much younger woman; and even more surprised to discover her dark and treacherous past.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Sunset Strip (1985)
Plot Summary:
The stage is set for a series of confrontations when photographer Mark Jefferson (Tom Eplin) agrees to help his friend Roger (John Mayall) defend his night club against a handful of organized crime figures. Mark has an added incentive for becoming involved as his ex-girlfriend Carol (Cheri Cameron Newell) sings at the club. But the gangsters are willing to use mayhem and murder in order to take over Roger's business. It appears that the petty mobsters are out to sell illegal weapons to anyone who wants them, especially L.A.'s youth, instead of using the club as a front for a prostitution ring as Roger suspects. Soon Mark and his trusty motorcycle have their work cut out for them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff) was believed to have died in a boating accident at the end of the 10th season of Baywatch. However, it turns out he only had amnesia and has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford (Alexandra Paul), resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden (also played by Alexandra Paul), who died during the seventh season of Baywatch. However, she is cooperating with an old nemesis of Mitch's, the still undead Mason Sato (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) from the second season, to get revenge on Mitch.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Baywatch (1989)
Plot Summary:
Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show was canceled after its first season on NBC, but survived and later became one of the most watched television shows in the world. The show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, except for the 1990–1991 season, during which it was not in production. From 1999 to 2001, with a setting change and large cast overhaul, it was known as Baywatch Hawaii. Baywatch premiered on NBC in 1989, but was canceled after only one season when it placed 73rd out of 103 shows in the seasonal ratings and also because the studio, GTG, went out of business. Feeling the series still had potential, Hasselhoff along with creators and Executive Producers Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz and Greg Bonann revived it for the first-run syndication market in 1991. Hasselhoff was given the title of Executive Producer for his work on bringing the show back. The series was hugely successful, especially internationally. The show led to a spin-off: Baywatch Nights, and a reunion movie, Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding. In 1999, with production costs rising in Los Angeles, and the syndication market shrinking, the plan was to move the show to Australia and launch Baywatch Down Under. A pilot was filmed but the series was stopped when residents of Avalon put forth strong objections, including potential damage to a fragile ecosystem. Pittwater Council permanently barred all future filming. This pilot finally aired as a two-part episode of Baywatch.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, realistic, serious, sexy, captivating, sexual, retro, cult classic, telenovela, iconic
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East L.A. Warriors (1989)
Plot Summary:
As host of gladiator-style duels in which gangbangers battle to the death, East Los Angeles drug kingpin Chesare (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) capitalizes on gang antagonisms. But Chesare hasn't counted on the tactics of vengeance-minded Aurelio (Tony Bravo) and his sidekick Paulo (Kamar De Los Reyes). Vowing to fight without weapons, the determined duo stages a risky coup in the hopes of ending Chesare's reign of terror.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Top Gun (1986)
Plot Summary:
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an Ace pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious, cult classic, action packed, retro, inspirational, epic
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Drive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 690000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, suspense, tense, serious, captivating, intense, stylized, art house, ambiguous ending
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters, this sequel will explore the end of the era of dogfighting.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 646000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, entertaining, saga, inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, epic, emotional, sad, predictable