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Plot Summary:
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
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Similar in 77%
Breaker! Breaker! (1977)
Plot Summary:
Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, rough, realistic, serious, independent film, fast, neo western, erotic, road movie
Similar in 83%
Blackbelt (1992)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson is back and forced to take on the greatest legends of the martial arts world. Wilson fights off all comers while defending rock superstar Shanna (Deirdre Imershein) against the insane attacks of a fanatical veteran John Sweet (Matthias Hues-I Come In Peace).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, mockbuster, independent film, exciting, fast
Similar in 90%
Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local tough-girl Rosanna Boom, is dispatched by the CIA to recapture Jenkins and put a stop to his heroin-smuggling captors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, macaroni combat, cult film
Similar in 88%
Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)
Plot Summary:
When DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, funny, suspense, cult classic, action thriller, action adventure, disgusting, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 89%
A Force of One (1979)
Plot Summary:
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, christmas horror, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, suspense
Similar in 78%
The Silencer (1999)
Plot Summary:
Killer gets orders from a video game named The Silencer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film
Similar in 76%
The Ultimate Weapon (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries, Ben & Vince, are assigned to destroy a stolen military arms cache held by a group of terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, perverse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
Tactical Force (2011)
Plot Summary:
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film, fast, cult film
Similar in 80%
Red Scorpion (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, retro, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, bleak, fast
Similar in 79%
Double Target (1987)
Plot Summary:
Miles O’Keeffe stars as an ex-military specialist in Vietnam trying to recover his son after learning that his wife has died in a concentration camp. The government considers the child their property since the war is over. There are others watching who believe O’Keeffe is in the country to spy on them and they want him dead! He takes a deal from the State Department to gather information on their behalf and if successful he will be allowed to claim his son and take him back to the United States. It won’t be easy though. Svenson plays the angry Russian commander who is hell-bent on destroying the American hero!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines, India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, cult film
Similar in 78%
The Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast
Similar in 88%
Black Dawn (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Cold returns, this time he goes Undercover to stop a group of Terrorists before they bomb Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, spiritual, fast, freeze frame
Similar in 78%
Belly of the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put both his physical and spiritual powers to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, spiritual, intense, action packed, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 77%
Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
The Peacekeeper (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 89%
Shining Moon (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, political thriller, black comedy, surprise ending, freeze frame
Similar in 75%
The Defender (2004)
Plot Summary:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 88%
The Delta Force (1986)
Plot Summary:
A 707 aircraft jetliner on its way from Athens to Rome and then to New York City is hijacked by Lebanese terrorists. The terrorists demand that the pilot take them to Beirut. What the terrorists don't realize is that an elite team of commandoes led by Major McCoy (Norris) and by Colonel Alexander (Marvin) has been called into service to eliminate all terrorists on the jetliner.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, funny, action thriller, independent film, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 76%
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Plot Summary:
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, political thriller, entertaining, action adventure, anamorphic
Similar in 85%
Hero and the Terror (1988)
Plot Summary:
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cult classic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, perverse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 85%
Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)
Plot Summary:
When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: cult classic, funny, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
Similar in 89%
Missing in Action (1984)
Plot Summary:
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film
Similar in 90%
The Octagon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, grindhouse, hood, independent film, realistic
Similar in 81%
Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Plot Summary:
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
The Cutter (2005)
Plot Summary:
A former cop turned Los Angeles P.I. takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning of mob to the present day Jewelry District.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, action packed, bleak, realistic, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 87%
The Eleventh Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Navy SEAL, Michael Adams, (Matthew Reese) was captured during a raid to free Japanese prisoners from a North Korean prison camp. He endures the North Koreans torture for three years -- seen only as flashbacks -- then released back into civilian life. A renegade North Korean General wants revenge for the raid on his camp, he follows Adams back to the United States with a plot to manipulate the former soldier into assassinating the leader of the raid, now a United States senator, Mason Chambers (K. Danor Gerald). The General targets Adams' estranged wife, Rachel (Jennifer Klekas) has her attacked so a doctor on the North Koreans payroll can insert a bomb into her head. Then Adam is captured, given the assignment and warned he must assassinate the senator within 12 hours or the bomb will detonate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, independent film, detective, freeze frame, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
An Eye for an Eye (1981)
Plot Summary:
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, exciting, cult classic, tense, neo noir, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Expect No Mercy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tech noir, independent film, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 85%
Submerged (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into heartless killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, fast, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Patriot Games (1992)
Plot Summary:
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller, rough, serious, realistic, action adventure, anamorphic