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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
Best tv shows and movies like Crackerjack (1994):
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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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Sudden Death (1995)
Plot Summary:
International action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a Tension-packed, suspense thriller, set against the back-drop of a Stanley Cup game.Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game. With the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end, Van Damme frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue his daughter and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, exciting, cliffhanger, anamorphic, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Warhead (1996)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists seize an American nuclear missile site and threaten to launch the missiles at Washington unless the President resigns immediately and $1 billion is placed in a Swiss account in 8 hours.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, freeze frame
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One in the Chamber (2012)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller, action packed, rough, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Hunt to Kill (2010)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his daughter hostage, a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead? Daniels portrays one of the villains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cliffhanger, cult classic, rough, realistic, independent film, fast
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SAS: Red Notice (2021)
Plot Summary:
An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, perverse, action thriller, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Elite (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast, surprise ending, black comedy, campy
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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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Detention (2003)
Plot Summary:
A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, fast
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Die Hard 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane's smart-mouthed heroics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense, clever, detective, action adventure, entertaining, intense
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Fair Game (1995)
Plot Summary:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, intense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, controversial, detective
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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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CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992)
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
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Lion Strike (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Johnny Wu becomes involved in a global Mafia arms cartel when they kidnap his son Bobby. The cartel, made-up of underworld leaders from around the world, become aware that he stumbled onto valuable information on a computer disk he possesses. Louie and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Kruskev use every bit of their cunning to trap Johnny and retrieve the disk.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, detective
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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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Passenger 57 (1992)
Plot Summary:
An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand this sort of thing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast, surprise ending
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Braven (2018)
Plot Summary:
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scenic, psychological, cliffhanger, feel good, bloody, independent film, surprise ending
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The Eleventh Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Navy SEAL, Michael Adams, (Matthew Reese) was captured during a raid to free Japanese prisoners from a North Korean prison camp. He endures the North Koreans torture for three years -- seen only as flashbacks -- then released back into civilian life. A renegade North Korean General wants revenge for the raid on his camp, he follows Adams back to the United States with a plot to manipulate the former soldier into assassinating the leader of the raid, now a United States senator, Mason Chambers (K. Danor Gerald). The General targets Adams' estranged wife, Rachel (Jennifer Klekas) has her attacked so a doctor on the North Koreans payroll can insert a bomb into her head. Then Adam is captured, given the assignment and warned he must assassinate the senator within 12 hours or the bomb will detonate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, independent film, detective, freeze frame, surprise ending
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Maximum Conviction (2012)
Plot Summary:
When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Steele realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, suspense, tense, surprise ending, independent film, freeze frame
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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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Fire with Fire (2012)
Plot Summary:
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against – after being held up at a local convenience store – threatens him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, action thriller, perverse, action adventure, neo noir
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Triple Threat (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A small band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand, China, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, intense, bloody, cult classic, action thriller, mind twisting, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy
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Eliminators (2016)
Plot Summary:
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, perverse, neo noir, independent film, detective, black comedy
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Die Hard (1988)
Plot Summary:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 923000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed, suspenseful, clever, action adventure, detective, saga
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Assassin Club (2023)
Plot Summary:
In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective
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The Protege (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic, neo noir, realistic, surprise ending, serious
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Extraction II (2023)
Plot Summary:
Tasked with extracting a family who is at the mercy of a Georgian gangster, Tyler Rake infiltrates one of the world's deadliest prisons in order to save them. But when the extraction gets hot, and the gangster dies in the heat of battle, his equally ruthless brother tracks down Rake and his team to Sydney, in order to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 136000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Captured (2000)
Plot Summary:
Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) is the US Navy's top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet - Escorting the deadliest viral weapon on the planet back to a safe Storage Faciliy.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, exciting, fast, surprise ending, double entendre
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Extraction (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, action thriller, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, political thriller, rough, serious, suspense, intense, realistic, clever, brutal, action adventure