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Plot Summary:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, fast
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The Traveler (2010)
Plot Summary:
On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, christmas horror, rough, suspenseful, serious, twisted, realistic
Similar in 90%
Prey of the Chameleon (1992)
Plot Summary:
J.D. returns to his hometown many years after leaving Carrie at the altar. After their unhappy reunion, J.D. heads to California, only to soon fall for a woman he helps with her broken down car. Little does he know that this woman is a serial killer who takes on the identity of each of her victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Intent to Kill (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young policewoman relentlessly tries to bring down a ruthless drug kingpin whom plots his own agenda for his drug distribution empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Facing the Enemy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Griff McCleary is a cop, now his son shot himself with Griff's gun. A year later both he and his wife are still reeling from it. Griff feeling shut out by his wife Olivia, decides to move out. Now he is investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide. He believes that there was no suicide. His investigation leads him to a girl named Nikki.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
Similar in 90%
Blood of the Innocent (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes on the outfit's boss, as well as Dr. Lem, who handles illegal organ trade for the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
Coldfire (1990)
Plot Summary:
The "Coldfire" is a lethal new designer-drug with destructive capabilities. Its origins are unknown...and its effects are irreversible. This drug promises the "ultimate high." However, what does the user acquire instead? The ultimate way to die... The main purpose of the "Coldfire" drug is to help the enemy cripple the United States. An epidemic is imminent if the use of this drug spreads everywhere... Entering the scene are Nick and Jake Edwards two audacious police officers. They may lack age, but they certainly have attitude. These Generation-X cops hope to show some of the veteran members of the police force a trick or to. These two officers will be working with a company of experienced pros including the seasoned Lars and the short-tempered Dix. Their assignment is to track down who or what is responsible for the distribution of this virulent drug substance... Written by David Choi.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, neo noir, detective
Similar in 86%
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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Shotgun (1989)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ian 'Shotgun' Jones hunts a sadistic misogynistic maniac.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Hit List (1989)
Plot Summary:
A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, cult classic, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, cult film
Similar in 77%
Catch .44 (2011)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a bizarre situation involving a psychotic hit man, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, predictable, crime thriller, realistic, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir
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Grandmaster (2012)
Plot Summary:
Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, exciting, realistic, detective
Similar in 87%
Freeway (1988)
Plot Summary:
A deeply-disturbed priest goes on a murderous night-time rampage across America's highways.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Instinct to Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful
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Bloodmatch (1991)
Plot Summary:
Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the gang in the ring for an all-out kickboxing fight to the finish.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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Lies & Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence and espionage, and he learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
To Protect and Serve (1992)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Blowback (2000)
Plot Summary:
Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group who want to make him an assassin, however, Whitman escapes and decides to get back at the people who tried to stop his mission, the jury, the judge, the district attorney, who's Morrell's ex-wife. Morrell recognizes the killings as Whitman's style but how could it be when he's dead. The man who recruited Whitman posing as an FBI agent claims that they are looking for a copy cat but Morrell finds it hard to believe that it could no one other than Whitman.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film
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Street Racer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Wayne (Clint Browning) is an ex-racer who is serving time in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race. Wayne, having been traumatized by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed citizen. Later, he finds himself working at a scrap yard with his childhood friend Travis (Jack Goldenberg), but his probation officer is trying to blackmail him into illegal street racing. Even though Wayne attempts to restore his life and become an honest, hardworking member of society, he slowly finds himself being lured back into that world.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, mockbuster, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 80%
Relentless 3 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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The Kill Reflex (1989)
Plot Summary:
Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from the police department, he vows to continue his mission to find the persons responsible for the assassination. Maud Adams plays his new police woman partner, who falls in love with him during their investigations. 'Soda Cracker' also has to deal with the fact that many of the police officers on the squad may be corrupt, and tries to break down the criminal network whilst finding evidence against Ivan Moss.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, crime drama
Similar in 79%
The Sweeper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young renegade undercover cop with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader who wants only to kill all criminals and those associated with them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, detective
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The Last Ride (2004)
Plot Summary:
After thirty years in prison, ex-con Ronnie recruits his grandson to exact revenge on Darryl, the cop who put him behind bars. Standing in their way is Ronnie's son, whom Darryl raised.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Vendetta (2013)
Plot Summary:
Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
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Top of the World (1997)
Plot Summary:
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion, and the two of them become suspects. Over the course of the evening and next morning, the two attempt to escape to surrounded casino, and to prove their innocence, as well as to save their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 939
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, fast
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Betrayal (2003)
Plot Summary:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, spoof, parody
Similar in 78%
Body Armour (2007)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience to keep the assassin alive in the face of constant danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bad Country (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Death Proof (2007)
Plot Summary:
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: road movie, sexy, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense, absurd, scary, rough, exciting, cynical
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Shoot to Kill (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious, realistic, neo noir, suspense, breathtaking, cult classic, visually stunning