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Plot Summary:
Mexico's new president vows to attack the drug trade; in retaliation, his wife has already been assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Farligt förflutet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Stefan is a man with a violent past. His skills come in handy when he tries to help a Bosnian stripper find her father who is hiding somewhere in Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The Runner (1992)
Plot Summary:
A group of journalists used to covering international war zones travel to a remote island on a no holds barred survival training course which swiftly gets out of hand under the tuition of two unhinged ex-military types. Running in the background, we hear news of impending nuclear war, which further affects the behaviour of the crazy 'tutors'.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Emergency Exit (1980)
Plot Summary:
When Daisy saves the life of police officer Markos she is immediately promoted to the drug department of the police. Markos falls in love with her and they start going out until he asks her to marry him. That's exactly when she meets a junkie named Tasos Bekiris and falls in love with him. When he is murdered by a mysterious woman all the clues lead to Daisy who tries to prove her innocence. As she discovers, this woman is in charge of a drug-smuggling racket and she is also planning to import a huge quantity of heroin in Athens. Daisy kills her and arrives at their meeting place along with Markos.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Tour de Force (2010)
Plot Summary:
Frank is a police officer who loses his family in a tragedy. In desperation he turns to crime and makes a living as a hitman for the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Bandido (2004)
Plot Summary:
When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Adventure, Action, Thriller, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Naked Seven (1972)
Plot Summary:
Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Los Marcados (1971)
Plot Summary:
El Pardo ha hecho del pueblo un lugar donde la justicia y el respeto no existen. Mercedes, consumida por el alcohol, vive en la amargura de los recuerdos de su vida junto a el. Pero a la llegada de "El Marcado"(Antonio Aguilar), a quien el pueblo ofrece una recompensa por deshacerse de los males que le agobian, todo cambiar.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 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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Maximum Breakout (1991)
Plot Summary:
Vacationing lovers Travis and Bobbi encounter an unexpected nightmare on a lonely country road. Two strangers kidnap Bobbi, and brutally beat Travis. Six months later, though Bobbi's family is wealthy, there's no ransom demand, and the police, even Travis's boss, Detective Wyatt, have all but given up. Only Travis, encouraged by Bobbi's best friend Debbie, keeps searching for Bobbi. Travis teams up with Debbie's brother Reb, who assembles a team to rescue Bobbi. Other than Travis and Reb, the team consists of the Professor, a computer nerd who likes to blow things up, Loch, a gun-crazy nut case, and a stuntman named Suicide. Together, they track Bobbi to an isolated ranch where blond, blue-eyed women are forced to bear children who are sold to desperate couples by a man named Frank and his boss, an icy woman with a Southern accent. Now Travis and the team must plan a way to infiltrate the ranch and rescue Bobbi and the other women.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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October 22 (1998)
Plot Summary:
A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT team shows up, the madman opens fire. Through flashbacks, a waitress serves an array of customers, all of whom are blissfully unaware of how their lives will be horrifically changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychological thriller, bizarre, psycho film
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Sudden Fury (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two rival crime lords take each other on with bloody results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Grind (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Gypsy (1990)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier saves wild horses from being slaughtered and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Baja Run (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young Japanese woman and a naive American drug courier witness a L.A. drug-deal-gone-wrong shootout, and flee into Mexico with the drug money while being chased by two hit men.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Angel of Vengeance (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the vein of HARD BOILED and NAKED KILLER comes this action-crime thriller in which two young women caught in a power struggle among a trio of mobsters must struggle to survive in a world run by vice and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Escape from Brothel (1992)
Plot Summary:
A hapless couple struggles to escape the clutches of an evil crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: controversial, transgressive
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Someone to Die For (1995)
Plot Summary:
A policeman on the skids faces another tragedy when his daughter dies. When other police in his unit are being murdered, the viewer must decide which one of the suspects is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, twisted
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The Black Spider (2022)
Plot Summary:
The courageous young midwife Christine makes a pact with the devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights. Punished by a spider plague, Christine goes from savior to hunted.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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Too Hot to Handle (1977)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous blonde assassin Samantha Fox accepts a contract to liquidate a quintet of gangsters in the Philippines. Problems ensue when she falls in love with the Manila detective investigating the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, detective, independent film
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Deadly Heroes (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-Navy SEAL Brad Cartowski is injured during an attack at Athens airport by terrorists who kidnap his wife and fly her on a hijacked plane to North Africa. Cartowski goes in pursuit, aided by another ex-SEAL, Cody Grant. Cartowski soon finds the terrorists' hide-out but is captured and electro-tortured before he manages to escape. He soon returns with reinforcements to rescue his wife and to wreak vengeance on Carlos, head of the terrorist ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Duelist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, tense, captivating, suspense, art house, exciting, suspenseful, rough, disturbing
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Bloody Friday (1972)
Plot Summary:
Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn. (from IMDB).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, action thriller, poliziottesco, cult film
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Protector (1998)
Plot Summary:
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was about to turn states evidence. The killing came as the mobster was with his girlfriend Alma. Jack suspects Alma of being involved - even more so when he finds her involved with one of the mob family, Michael. However he begins to fall for her himself and finds himself involved in the deadly game where not everything is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Final Voyage (1999)
Plot Summary:
Restored to former glory, a nostalgic cruise ship repeats a tragic past.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, suspense, independent film, cult film
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Silent Trigger (1996)
Plot Summary:
Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Plot Summary:
Professional killer Holland is forced out of retirement to break a Central American government's political torture ring when one of his friends, a Latin American journalist, is killed. The murderer, Doctor Clement Molloch, is the master sadist behind the political torture of innocent victims. Posing as a journalist, Holland lures Molloch out of his fortress-like headquarters by using his murdered friend's wife and daughter as bait. When Holland kidnaps Molloch's sister, the doctor is led on a wild chase that takes him to an abandoned opal mine where he finally comes face to face with Holland.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, cult film
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The Zone (1995)
Plot Summary:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Men of War (1994)
Plot Summary:
Nick Gunar is a burnt-out, jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. At the end of his rope, he is hired by the Nitro Mine Corporation to strong-arm the natives of a South China Sea island into giving up their rights to its valuable mineral resources. Nick loathes the thought of another mission, but this seemingly easy job will earn him enough money to get back with his estranged family. He recruits some of his former mercenary buddies to help him with the job. The island people refuse to give up their land and Nick decides to help them fight the greedy corporation that hired him. As greed and treachery begin to unravel, Nick's band of mercenaries choose sides.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, independent film
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Get the Gringo (2012)
Plot Summary:
A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: intense, clever, brutal, entertaining, exciting, rough, suspenseful, witty, action packed, humorous