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Plot Summary:
Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: patriotic
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Libertad (2017)
Plot Summary:
Rony is an ordinary man sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In jail he will have to face the gangs and hard life behind bars while he dreams of recovering his family and proving his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Alexander The Great (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around Alexander Varma, who survives with his IQ, but fate has something else stored for him.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags:
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Mayavi (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Chenkol (1993)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to Kireedam (1989), Chenkol continues the story of Sethumadavan who hopes to regain his lost life after 8 years in prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: touching, tragic ending
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Summer in Bethlehem (1998)
Plot Summary:
Summer in Bethlahem movie tells the story is all set in a hill station (Ooty) where a rich man comes with his five grand daughters for vacation. The fifth girl Abhirami(Manju Warrier) who is very smart, and she is the favourite of the grandfather. But she has some secret, which nobody knows. The girls meet two guys, one of them their own cousin who are their neighbours and they all play pranks on them.One of them Dennis (Suresh Gopi) falls in love with Aami, but she tells him that she loves Niranjan (Mohanlal) who is in jail and she will only marry him. This forms the climax of the movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Adwaytham (1991)
Plot Summary:
Advaitham is a 1991 Malayalam film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Mohanlal, Jayaram, Revathi Menon and Srividhya in lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags:
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Aaram Thamburan (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jagannathan faces several challenges when he goes to stay in Kanimangalam village. He promises the villagers that he will help in the preparations for the annual temple festival, but will his enemies leave him in peace?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: crying, weeping
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Ulladakkam (1991)
Plot Summary:
Reshma is a patient of psychiatrist Dr Sunny. She gets romantically obsessed with him even though this is not reciprocated by the doctor. The arrival of the doctor's fiancee Annie causes a lot of conflict in the mind of Reshma.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Kireedam (1989)
Plot Summary:
Sethumadhavan, the son of Achuthan Nair, a Police Constable who wishes to make his son an Inspector one day. Sethu, a recent college graduate, has many opportunities to enter different fields but he goes with his father's dream of becoming an Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, sad
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Dhaal: The Battle of Law Against Law (1997)
Plot Summary:
Crime drama starring Vinod Khanna, Sunil Shetty and Gautami.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags:
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Christian Brothers (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Devasuram (1993)
Plot Summary:
Neelakantan, heir to his father's fortunes, is an apparent menace to society. He once belittles a dancer but later they fall in love. Shekharan, an arch enemy, kidnaps his lover due to an old enmity.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: crying, weeping
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Nirnayam (1995)
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Dr. Roy (Mohanlal) is a surgeon who works in a private hospital. He falls in love with his colleague Dr. Annie (Heera Rajgopal). When Annie discovers a frightening organ-smuggling operation in her hospital, it proves to be a turning point in the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags:
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Narasimham (2000)
Plot Summary:
Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying, weeping, entertaining
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Spadikam (1995)
Plot Summary:
Chacko Master is a school headmaster in Mathematics. He is a very strict teacher and does not go easy with his own son Thomas.When Thomas realizes that the school language headmaster was biased against him as told by Chacko in giving him a low grade, he leaves home. After 14 years, Thomas returns to his village,now the owner of a stone quarry and a rowdy who has a number of unresolved cases on his head. How the father and son realize their mistakes and bonds together forms the rest of the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Calcutta Mail (2003)
Plot Summary:
Avinash(Anil Kapoor) went to Calcutta for no reason. After meeting with Reema (Rani Mukherjee), he starts having flashbacks about his past and his son. His inquiries take him to Bombay via the Calcutta Mail, and this is where he will find out whether his son is alive or not, or he has been trapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)
Plot Summary:
A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, during the time of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, patriotic, tense, captivating, feel good, mind blowing
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Keerthi Chakra (2006)
Plot Summary:
Major Mahadevan (Mohanlal) is the head of the elite command force. He is in charge of fighting the country’s terrorist groups and protecting the country from their terrorist intentions. Havildar Jaikumar (Jeevaa) is Major Mahadevan’s most trusted lieutenant. He meticulously carries out his chief’s instructions, thereby gaining his trust and confidence. Mahadevan, Havildar Jaikumar and their team save the public from threats, attempted bombings, kidnappings, and extortions by militants.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: patriotic
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Yateem (1988)
Plot Summary:
When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with Yadav's own daughter, Gauri (Farha). As they grow up, Krishna (Sunny Deol) and Gauri fall in love - but an obstacle is looming in their path in the form of Yadav's young second wife (Sujata Mehta), who is attracted to the handsome Krishna, and in her jealousy proceeds to do all she can to destroy the young couple's chances of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags:
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Khaidi (1983)
Plot Summary:
Khaidi is action oreinted movie in which, Suryam (chiranjeevi) works along with his widow sister in his field and studies in a college in the nearby town. His classmate madhavi falls in love with him, but later suryam realizes that she is RaoGopalrao’s daughter who gave loan to his father and is now trying to grab his land for that.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags:
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Anwar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film takes a look at the life of a terrorist. Anwar starts off making money on small-time hawala deals, but later transitions to bombing plots. He becomes a big name in the Coimbatore crime world and wins the heart of Ayesha. Is he really what he seems to be or does Anwar’s past hold an even darker secret?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating
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Airlift (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Iraq invades Kuwait in August, 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, thought provoking, suspense, inspirational, sexy, feel good, realistic, fast, mind blowing
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Arrested (1985)
Plot Summary:
Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who wastes no time in entrapping Kishan in a web of lies and deceits and gets him imprisoned for life. While in jail, Kishan reaches up with his long lost elder brother Karan who has been sentenced for life charged with murdering the Police Commissioner son, Vijay Sinha. Together they both plotted a scheme which will only benefit them in granting revenge from there perpetrators. Written by gavin ([email protected]).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Red Alert: The War Within (2009)
Plot Summary:
While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, Chinna; and son, Mohan, but Velu keeps on putting it off. Narasimha gets to know and sympathize with members of this band, and befriends Lakshmi, who was gang-raped by several policemen. He is then asked to prove his loyalty by killing an informant/plainclothes police inspector - which he does - and even accompanies the band on an assault on a school, resulting in the death of some children. Traumatized after this incident, he decides to flee - and it is this decision that will not only estrange him from his family but also force him to be on the run from the band as well as the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, patriotic
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Deewaar: Let's Bring Our Heroes Home (2004)
Plot Summary:
Major Ranvir Kaul (Amitabh Bachchan) is a POW who was captured along with over 50 soldiers by Pakistani soldiers in 1971 during the war between India and Pakistan. 33 years later Ranvir's son Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna) decides to go on a rescue mission to Pakistan and bring back his father who he has not seen since he was a child. Helping him on his mission is Khan (Sanjay Dutt) who had successfully escaped from the same prison. They steal, kill, and plan to get the prisoners out. This movie is inspired by the film The Great Escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, realistic, visually appealing, cult classic, fast, mind blowing
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Bullet Train (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a set of Indians, fighting to get what is their own, while another set of Indians working for the Scotland Yard Police chase them hard to stop them from spreading terror. The film in entirety has been been shot in London, Birmingham and Scotland. Ajay Devgn plays the role of a businessman who is married to actress Kangana Ranaut. Anil Kapoor plays the cop. The stylist Navin Shetty said to Mid Day, “Director Priyadarshan gave me a brief on Ajay's character in Tezz saying he didn't want anything fancy but more realistic - someone who will blend with the crowd. Ajay plays a father of a child and the film is set against a grey London winter so we have give Ajay's character an earthy look. He has a moustache and faint stubble. The colours are grey, brown, rust and khaki. We have played with the cut and the colours while the fabrics used have been wool and leather with lots of scarves and headgears. The effect is simple, realistic, smart and classy.".
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, India
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Mutiny: A Love Story (2001)
Plot Summary:
Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the shock of their lives when Sakina learns that her father (Amrish Puri), whom she previously believed died in the riots back in Amritsar, is still alive after seeing his picture in a tattered, old newspaper. Upon contacting him, Sakina's father, now the mayor of Lahore in Pakistan, arranges for his daughter to arrive in Lahore to see him. Sakina leaves for Lahore minus Tara and her son, and upon reaching the city, learns of her father's plans for her - plans that include forcing Sakina to forget about her family and start life anew in Pakistan. Then begins an extraordinary journey which will lead Tara to cross the border into Pakistan to find his love Sakina.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, realistic, patriotic, suspense, period drama
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Black Friday (2004)
Plot Summary:
Under torture, Indian gangster Tiger Memon confesses to his involvement in a plot to set off explosives throughout Bombay. The police choose not to believe him, however, and bombs tear through the city that Friday, wreaking havoc and polarizing the citizens of Bombay. Through a series of interviews, DCP Rakesh Maria comes closer to discovering who the leader of the conspiracy is, but it soon becomes clear that a foreign power must be involved.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, disturbing, offbeat, tense, cult classic, motivational, inspirational, entertaining, dark
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The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Legend of Bhagat Singh is a 2002 Indian historical biographical film about Bhagat Singh, a freedom fighter who fought for Indian independence.It shows in detail how Singh came to develop his views on the British Raj and his struggle for Indian independence.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: realistic, patriotic, sincere, serious, emotional, inspirational, philosophical, touching, political, social