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Plot Summary:
A federal agent, Kate Parker arrives in a small rural town to extradite Claire Scott, a young woman suspected of murdering a government scientist. Kate is prevented from delivering her prisoner as the mysterious John Lawson, a rouge agent, now selling classified information on the black market, wants what Claire has - a deadly biological formula. Claire, unaware that she has it, proclaims her innocence, and together with Kate, must escape from Lawson and his two seasoned assassins Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Harry Eden, a CIA operative and Kate's former lover, is dropped into the equation to help Kate but ultimately might lead to her demise as a deadly game of cat-and-mouse is played to its extreme.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, stylized
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Women on the Run (1993)
Plot Summary:
The plot includes the plight of two women who both find themselves betrayed by the men they love. It's a violent female 'buddy' movie, with two mismatched heroines, a policewoman (Cheung) & a drug addicted prostitute(Guo) joining forces to gain revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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Midnight Witness (1993)
Plot Summary:
Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Sacrifice (2011)
Plot Summary:
A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011)
Plot Summary:
“Hunt for the I-5 Killer” is a dramatization based on the haunting true story of the yearlong manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon. As Detective Dave Kominek (John Corbett) starts to discover similarities in the cases, he becomes determined to prove the seemingly unrelated killings are the work of one man. As the case unfolds and more victims come to light, a shocking twist comes into play – could the sadistic mass murderer possibly be a handsome, all-American athlete? The movie is from Ann Rule’s book, and also stars Sara Canning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fatal Justice (1993)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border, the CIA maintains a force of domestic assassins. So secret is their work that their retirement program is a bullet in the head. Up-and-coming hitwoman, Diana, gets the order to dispatch Mars, a legendary CIA killer who's reached "retirement" age. She stalks him while he's in the bush leading a training exercise for recruits. Her pushy boyfriend Rick, also a CIA operative, insists on coming with her. Behind the scenes, a power play within the agency pits Ted Harmon against section boss George Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Once a Thief (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong Kong, Mac is forcefully recruited into a clandestine international crime-fighting unit by a hard-nosed, menacing Director. He is teamed in Vancouver with Li Ann, who thought Mac was dead, and her new fiancé Victor Mansfield, an ex-cop who is attracted to the unorthodox methods of the agency. Conflict flares between Mac and Victor as the trio take on their assignment. They soon learn that their principal target is their foster brother Michael Tang, who had been given Li Ann as his future wife and who has vowed to hunt down the pair for their disloyalty to the "family".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Search and Destroy (1988)
Plot Summary:
SEARCH AND DESTROY (1988) - Terrorists destroy a chemical factory. A virus is released that infects the people of the town with a strange psychosis. Stars Joe Ambrose, Tom Banks and Peter Drinco.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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88 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, twisted, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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The Killing Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled existence, EDWARD tries to start over. He assumes a new identity, starts a family and tries to start his own legitimate business that could potentially pull him out of his world of being a hitman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bloody, crime drama, neo noir
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The 5th Execution (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a remote island in Southeast Asia, a team of scientists, studying the regenerative properties of the salamander, discovers what their Bangkok headquarters refer to as "The Priceless Gift": an elixir of life. News of the discovery travels quickly, and profiteers begin to circle the island, only to find out just how dangerous a discovery it is. During the research process, they also uncovered an unstoppable disease. When the research team goes missing, it leaves behind a warning: that the disease has spread, and is threatening to go global. Special forces and mercenaries from around the world descend on the island, making apparent that there is more at stake than just profit and ambition, but the survival of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Action
Country: Russia, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, serious, rough
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Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, realistic
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Viral Assassins (1997)
Plot Summary:
To some, it’s murder. To them, it’s just work. The Troma Team is proud to present Robert Larkin’s intense sci-fi thriller Viral Assassins. In the not so distant future, a terminal disease will make cancer look like the common cold. The government’s solution to this epidemic is to make carrying the disease a capital crime, punishable by death through a team of highly trained assassins. This not only lowers the risk of the disease spreading but also greatly lowers health costs for the average Joe. But what happens if the government becomes infected? The only hope for a vaccine is trapped within the diseased body and mind of a government lab technician. Unfortunately, the government hires their most dedicated and trigger-happy assassin to eliminate her. Will the assassin uphold the government’s heinous order, or will he jeopardize his own life, reputation and health insurance by eliminating her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockbuster, exciting, bleak, political thriller
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The Cursed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, exciting, tense, bleak, realistic
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Living & Dying (2007)
Plot Summary:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. As the police surround the building and the killers begin methodically executing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak, realistic
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Marked Man (1996)
Plot Summary:
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, campy
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On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Lost Samaritan (2008)
Plot Summary:
After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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The Pandora Project (1998)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent has to stop a former associate who has stolen a weapon which kills people without harming buildings, all before he is to get married in a few days.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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A Lonely Place for Dying (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders are clear: take the documents from Dzerzhinsky and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, political thriller, independent film, student film
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First Shot (2002)
Plot Summary:
No one knows why the army base was blown up until the President gets shot there during the memorial service for those killed, but he wasn't the only target.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, realistic
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Tunnel (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ex-SAS agent and a thief battle for their lives as air runs out in a maze of abandoned mine tunnels while they're searching for $200 million in stolen diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Hijack (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, fast
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Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Extraction (2013)
Plot Summary:
A major feature exclusively for digital, EXTRACTION follows a U.S. Black Ops team member who finds himself the only survivor of a botched prisoner extraction mission. Forced to fight his way out of a maximum-security Chechen prison, he must keep his target alive in order to catch a terrorist arms-dealer who is a threat to thousands of lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Absolute Deception (2013)
Plot Summary:
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left is a severed finger. In order to find a new lead, Nelson travels to New York City to inform widowed magazine reporter Rebecca Scott that her long dead husband, Miles, had only recently been murdered to see if she had heard from him in recent years. Perplexed, Scott joins Agent Nelson in the wealthy enclave of Australia’s Gold Coast to find out what really happened. The two soon discover Miles may have been part of an elaborate “Ponzi scheme” to bilk investors, and a vengeful billionaire, out of millions of dollars. As more layers of Miles’ secret life are exposed, can the two stay ahead of the mysterious attackers who will stop at nothing to halt their investigation?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, mind bending
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Target (2004)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, realistic
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D-Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
9 years ago Wali Khan (Irrfan Khan) was sent into Karachi, Pakistan by the Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao (Nasser) to report the activities of The Most Wanted Man in India. 9 days ago Rudra Pratap Singh (Arjun Rampal) Indian Armed Forces, MARCOS unit, Zoya Rehman (Huma Qureshi) RAW Explosives expert, and Aslam, a petty thief from the streets of Mumbai recruited by RAW, infiltrated Pakistan to join Wali Khan and carry out the mission to bring back The Most Wanted Man in India. The man who was going to break all ISI protocol and security and attend his own son's wedding. The man who could on that day be abducted and brought back to India to face justice. 1 day ago everything went according to plan until it all failed. The team sent in to bring The Most Wanted Man in India, did the unthinkable - they carried out the most daring operation and almost got away with it. Almost because, something went horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, exciting, captivating, entertaining, stylized, independent film, action thriller, rough
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Ambition (2005)
Plot Summary:
Elaan (Hindi: एलान, translation: Manifesto) is a 2005 Bollywood action thriller film. Elaan is a mission film about five characters and their plan against one man. Produced by Ganesh Jain and Ratan Jain and directed by Vikram Bhatt, the film stars Rahul Khanna, Arjun Rampal, John Abraham, Amisha Patel, Lara Dutta and Mithun Chakraborty. The film marked the return of Mithun Chakraborty to the Bollywood film industry after starring in low budget productions based at Ooty, known as Mithun's Dream Factory for a decade. It managed to do well and was a 'average' grosser at the Box-office.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting