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Plot Summary:
Mike Santana is technically as person for he uses his position as a policeman to savagely murder people; he also manhandles his wife Gina. His partner in service is Frankie, a young loyal police who sticks with him through thick and thin. But in end he betrays him for good. Because of that he pours out all of his frustrations to his wife, and as he continues to be rude, his wife Gina finally leaves him for her family. His teenage gets gang-raped by men. As he gets to live all alone, with all the people blaming him for their shortcomings; he starts to realize his mistakes which will transform from being soulless to a sensible human being. He would also meet Michelle who teaches him not to regret the act of forgiveness. Suddenly, his crooked ways backfire on him when he gets accused of killing a pro-laborer advocate. As he tries to come clean and liquidate the real criminals, another threat would come to take his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
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Miguelito, the Rebel (1985)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Miguelito, his estranged mother Auring and the quest for justice against a powerful politician. After ten years of suffering in jail for a crime she did not commit, Auring cries out for two things - justice and her son back in her arms. Bravely she faces her powerful oppressors led by the formidable town mayor who also happens to be the father of her son. Being the first film Brocka directed since his highly publicized arrest and detention, Miguelito is one's typical soap opera set in a political backdrop that portrays the social condition of the time.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 116 min
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Iskalawag: Ang Batas Ay Batas (1997)
Plot Summary:
An Filipino action police film directed by Francis Posadas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
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Lagalag (1994)
Plot Summary:
Filipino action star Eddie "Lagalag" Fernandez is convicted and jailed for his role in a homicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
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Tiger Over Wall (1980)
Plot Summary:
Based on actual events that took place in Shanghai 1919, Hwang Jang Lee portrays a ruthless Police Captain, who will stop at nothing in his quest for power even framing an innocent man and sending him mad. The Man's family can not tolerate the injustice and fight back with some of the meanest Kung Fu techniques ever witnessed, without doubt one of the best films from the two kings of Kung Fu: Hwang Jang Lee & Phillip Ko.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
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Batas Ng Lansangan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with his dead wives sister MARIEL. Marissa refuses to recognize her father because of all his shortcomings in the past. Nevertheless, Ruben decides to remain in the area. He soon discovers the presence of drug pushers and decides to do something about them. The drug lord who controls these pushers hires a hit-man named CARLOS to hunt down Ruben for meddling in his affairs. Soon the small community turns into a war-zone a Ruben tries to defend himself and those close to him from the attacks of these gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min
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Beyond Betrayal (1994)
Plot Summary:
Joanne is married to Bradley, who's a cop and who abuses her. One day she decides to run away. She then meets Sam, who is separated from his wife, who is obsessed with him. Bradley finds Joanne and the lead takes him to Sam's boat. Now his wife is on the boat and somehow she's killed. The police suspect Sam because she was stalking him and because of certain peculiarities in his actions on the day she died. Joanne knows that it's Bradley who did it but is too afraid to come forward and Bradley has another cop alibi him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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The One-Armed Executioner (1981)
Plot Summary:
An Interpol agent is out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won first before he can be thoroughly trained in martial arts. After his training, Ortega hunts down his adversaries for a final reckoning.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, grindhouse
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Rowdy Inspector (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rowdy Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Thunder II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Bukas Bibitayin Si Itay (1995)
Plot Summary:
Elmo is an ex-convict who swears on his mother’s remains to live uprightly. After his life in prison, Elmo makes sure to avoid any conflict despite the mistreatment he receives from people. His wife Cathy seems discontent with the meager money her husband makes. Until one time, Cathy finds fancy to Arthur, a rich arrogant brother by their town’s mayor. One day, Elmo catches Arthur abusing his Cathy in their house. He beats up Arthur but the people on the neighborhood stops Elmo from killing him. Arthur escapes from Elmo. However Arthur is murdered by his battered wife Sylvia. Because of Arthur’s brutal death, people wrongly accused Elmo as the killer. Elmo then is sent back to the prison and was sentenced to death. Will Elmo learn to defend himself and fight for justice?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Utol (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino crime drama film directed by Toto Natividad.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Banal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's high officials.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
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Lost Command (1988)
Plot Summary:
Philipino War Movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Ika-11 Utos Mahalin Mo Asawa Mo (1994)
Plot Summary:
This film is about domestic violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Suspek (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino action drama film directed by Toto Natividad.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 143 min
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Across the Crescent Moon (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a SAF exemplary Agent, Abbas Misani a Muslim who is married to Emma, whose parents with strict Christian upbringing would not accept both Abbas and Emma to their family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min
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White Fury (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two ruthless criminals take two teenage couples hostage at a remote mountain cabin in Colorado following a botched bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Manila's Finest (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the life of retired Western Police District Colonel Jimmy Tiu, who last served as Sta. Mesa Police Station Commander.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Legacy (1998)
Plot Summary:
A photojournalist deported from a war zone in Asia meets up with a woman who is looking for her father. He offers to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Break of Dawn (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating
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Ayogya (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a corrupt cop gets embroiled in a heroic brawl, he has no idea how it would eventually lead him to a shocking rape case and change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Zaalim (1994)
Plot Summary:
Judge Somnath lives with his wife, three sons, and a daughter. Two of his sons, Vikram and Mohan are married, while his daughter, Kaamna, and youngest son, Ravi, are of marriageable age. Somnath had wanted his sons to be a doctor, police officer, and a Judge. While Vikram is a surgeon, Mohan's a Police Inspector, & Ravi is now studying law and on his way to become a lawyer and then a Judge like his dad. This family does have a dark secret. Ravi is prone to losing his temper, so much so that he gets out of control, and has killed someone in his childhood. When Kaamna gets raped, the family are reluctant to tell Ravi. When they do they do convince him to control himself, while Mohan gets an arrest warrant for Vinod, Kaamna's molester. Things do not go smoothly in court as the matter is put off for several months and then Somnath and Kaamna are killed in a bomb explosion. Now Mohan and Vikram handcuff Ravi on their balcony while they finalize the funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
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Hukumat (1987)
Plot Summary:
The town of Shantinagar is terrorized by D.B.D.N who likes to kill people for his will. A daredevil cop enters the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Tejasvini (1994)
Plot Summary:
India's capital Delhi is the center-point of this story, depicted as a degenerate and corrupt city with Members of Parliament with big criminal rap sheets, ruling the roost, transferring or killing honest police officers, promotion their own corrupt cops, openly collecting weekly bribes (haftas) from local businesses, pimps, prostitutes ET AL, even openly holding an auction for bidders to bid for areas for black-marketing purposes. Lala Khurana is the uncrowned king of Delhi and he runs it with the help of a Member of Parliament, & the Director General of Police. His advocate Chintamani Chaubey wants him to contest the next elections, ensuring his win, and making his own laws, appointing his own police officers, who will do his bidding, carrying on without any checks and balance. Khurana likes this idea, but feels he is getting too old, but would like his son, Devendra Kumar, to run and be the next State Chief Minister.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
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Asero (1995)
Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Victor and Narding built their friendship in the street. At a very young age, they were partners performing dangerous activities. However, Narding heeds his foster parents’ request for him to enter the seminary to become a priest. Victor is left alone without any parental support. Later on, he grows up to be a criminal. His wayward ways eventually got him imprisoned. Meanwhile, Narding became a good priest. He visits his old friend Victor in the prison and supported him until he finished his term. Narding accompanies Victor to their hometown where Narding works as a parish priest. Albeit their friendship has rekindled, Victor and Narding argue because of their different ways of raising homeless kids. Victor trains them the rough and dangerous ways, while Narding wants them to settle everything in a peaceful manner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Saamy (2003)
Plot Summary:
A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, cult film
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Temper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Daya, a corrupt police officer, is transferred to Vizag and becomes involved with Walter Vasu, a local crook. When Walter kidnaps Daya's girlfriend, Daya goes to war with Water's criminal empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, twist ending
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Hangga't May Hininga (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ellis gets imprisoned from trying to avenge the death of his brother, who helped him expose the illegal engagements of a military general. Ellis tries to recover from the tragedies in his life by being a relentless inmate in the jail. Ellis becomes one of the best underground hitman after Leah pulls him out in the prison and hires him as an assassin. One day Ellis was assigned to abduct a politician and his child. Ellis realizes that the kid is his lovechild with his long lost lover, Beth.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Squad (2015)
Plot Summary:
A french police unit that try to stop a group of criminals.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, captivating, perverse
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Black Eagle (1988)
Plot Summary:
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tami, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, cult film