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Plot Summary:
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
Best tv shows and movies like CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992):
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CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
Plot Summary:
Movie Info When a top secret nuclear guidance system is stolen by an ex-CIA operative looking to sell the deadly device to the top bidder, it's up to a determined CIA agent and the international terrorist who he has vowed to capture to team up and stop the madman from destabilizing the world in the feature directorial debut of action icon Lorenzo Lamas. CIA Agent Mark Graver (Lamas) was living a quiet life when word came down that a government facility had been breached and a valuable device stolen. Now forced to team with former terrorist Alexa (Kathleen Kinmont) to retrieve the guidance system from international terrorist Franz Kluge (John Savage).
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Licence to Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
James Bond and his American colleague Felix Leiter arrest the drug lord Sanchez who succeeds in escaping and takes revenge on Felix and his wife. Bond knows but just one thing: revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: saga, exciting, controversial, cult classic, slasher, crime drama, grim, action adventure, surprise ending, rough
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Crackerjack (1994)
Plot Summary:
A cop on vacation at a mountain resort comes to the rescue when the resort is taken over by violent criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, political thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
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Hangfire (1991)
Plot Summary:
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, tension, cult film
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Sanctuary (1998)
Plot Summary:
Luke Kovak is part of a covert group within the CIA that works on illegal black ops involving blackmail and assassinations. When his boss orders the murder of one of the team, Luke realizes how expendable they all are and gets out (taking proof of their activities with him). He now lives as a priest until the group start to get close to tracking him down.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense
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Mercenaries (2014)
Plot Summary:
A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, exciting, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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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
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Avenging Force (1986)
Plot Summary:
Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their grandfather Jimmy. Larry Richards, a black man running for the Senate, is one of Matt's best friends. Larry has become the target of The Pentangle, a racist organization led by a man named Glastenbury, and Glastenbury doesn't want Larry to be elected. In an attempt on Larry's life during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, The Pentangle kills one of Larry's sons. Matt lets Larry, his wife Daisy, and his other son move to the remotely located farm so they can hide from Glastenbury and the Pentangle, but the Pentangle strikes again, setting the farmhouse on fire. Matt and Sara escape as the only survivors. Then the Pentangle kidnaps Sara, sending Matt on a mission to rescue Sara from Glastenbury and the Pentangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, independent film, realistic, fast, surprise ending
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Malone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, neo noir, perverse, visually stunning, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Plot Summary:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, saga, exciting, action adventure, cliffhanger
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Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Plot Summary:
A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, funny, saga, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, action drama, rough, serious
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Broken Arrow (1996)
Plot Summary:
When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams with park ranger Terry Carmichael to put Deakins back in his box.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, entertaining, heroic, cliffhanger, cult classic
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Derailed (2002)
Plot Summary:
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the Slovakian Government. Finding Galina doesn't take long, and Jacques must wrap up the mission by returning Galina and the contraband to his superiors by train. Things seem to be going smoothly as Jacques and Galina board the train posing as a couple, but soon all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, rough, fast, psychotronic, freeze frame, sexy, clever
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, melancholic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action packed, predictable
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Detonator II: Night Watch (1995)
Plot Summary:
UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his Korean cohort Mao Yixin.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Croatia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, exciting, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 404000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, sexy, scenic, serious, realistic, stylized
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Spectre (2015)
Plot Summary:
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, exciting, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, saga, psychotronic, psychological thriller
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No Contest (1995)
Plot Summary:
A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
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Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Plot Summary:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 402000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense, action adventure, thrilling, exciting, buddy comedy, detective
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The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped niece and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, tense, romantic, scenic, action thriller, realistic
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Chain of Command (1994)
Plot Summary:
When Merrill Ross (Michael Dudikoff) is thought to be a C.I.A. agent gone bad and teaming with some other alphabet named agency to take over the oil rich country of Qumir, he finds he's in the middle of a very explosive situation. Not knowing who he can trust, he's forced to use a process of elimination thru the chain of operatives he encounters.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, perverse, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, campy
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Hard Target 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, perverse, surprise ending, black comedy
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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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Hard to Kill (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Plot Summary:
Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, suspense, intense, tense, humorous, epic, experimental, scenic
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The Serpent (2020)
Plot Summary:
Top special agent Lucinda Kavsky works for a secret part of the CIA. She's given a special assignment but then set up by her own agency.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, anamorphic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfil his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 370000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, France, Norway, UK
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: action adventure, psychological thriller, cliffhanger, exciting, clever, epic, bloody, political, slasher, political thriller
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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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The Point Men (2001)
Plot Summary:
Some time after their botched operation to capture a known Palestinian terrorist, a team of Israeli agents starts to get killed off one by one. Their leader must get to the bottom of things before the killer(s) plan is complete.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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