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Plot Summary:
A jilted woman out for revenge picks up a hitchhiker running from police. An innocent road trip becomes mixed with passion and danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Uncaged (1991)
Plot Summary:
Miki and her younger brother Robby flee their destructive home and find themselves in the towering metropolis, Los Angeles. There, they meet Sharkey, a pimp. Miki becomes infatuated with Sharkey and starts to work for him. Miki finds herself trapped in Sharkey's dominating world and must find a way to escape the nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Outfit (1993)
Plot Summary:
A renegade FBI agent sparks an explosive mob war between gangster crime lords Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Confidential Informant (2023)
Plot Summary:
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Hit Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dan Selig is a bored thirty year-old math wiz who's looking for a way to change his life. His ray of light comes in the form of a curvy blonde named Alicia, who recruits Dan to join her blackjack card counting team for a one night Las Vegas score. Dan accepts the offer and meets Thomas, a Texas cowboy with a violent past. Alicia trains Dan and Thomas in the art of card counting and as the team hits the felt in Sin City, we learn that the perfect crime isn't so perfect. When things go from bad to worse, Dan will find out the hard way that with millions up for grabs, the only question is, who's playing who?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Women in Lingerie (1991)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
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Angel (1983)
Plot Summary:
15 year-old Molly is top of her high school class. But nobody suspects that the model pupil earns her money at night: as a prostitute on Sunset Blvd. The well-organized separation of her two lives is shattered when two of her friends are slain by a serial killer. She's the only eye witness and becomes a target herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film, slasher, erotic, action adventure, road movie, serious, realistic, psychotronic, grindhouse
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The Unspeakable (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Alice Redmond is required to go deep undercover in an effort to trap number one suspect Darren Metlick, she gets very close to the edge. Her superiors push her past the point of no return because they need additional evidence to make their case air tight. Alice is having an affair with a fellow officer Don Holroyd and his sexual appetite closely resembles that of the hacker, so she has some experience in the dark side.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Chain Gang Women (1971)
Plot Summary:
A shackled murderer (Michael Stearns) and marijuana offender (Robert Lott) escape from a Georgia chain gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious, independent film, campy, cult film
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Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom (1994)
Plot Summary:
King Lim is the oppressive ruler of a country on the verge of revolution. The CIA arranges a fake assassination to get him safely out of the country, but his daughter is captured in the ensuing melee and sent to The Rock, an island penitentiary known for its harshness. Agent Amanda commits a local crime in order to infiltrate the prison and rescue Princess Marga. Within, she predictably encounters official corruption, shifting allegiances, and a sleazy warden that make her task more challenging.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Naked Cage (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, independent film, sexploitation film
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Acts of Betrayal (1997)
Plot Summary:
FBI agents attempt to protect a woman who is testifying against her gangster boy friend. However, an army of assassins are after her in an endless series of shootouts.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Arrogant (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Arrogant is a 1987 action-thriller directed, written, and produced by Philippe Blot. This film stars Gary Graham and Sylvia Kristel, Giovanni and Julie, as two strangers who meet on a desert highway. As they travel together, they encounter many strange situations that are often religious and/or sexual in nature. The uninhibited and arrogant Giovanni is usually the cause of most of these dilemmas they come across.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, erotic
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Kuwait Connection (1973)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious journalist has been transformed into an assassin by the years of war, suffering and destruction he has witnessed around the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Dog Watch (1997)
Plot Summary:
A San Francisco detective (Elliott) goes wild when he discovers his partner dead and the presumed culprit standing over him. After beating the man to death, he comes to his senses and realizes that he has to get rid of the body of the beaten man. Dumping the man in the river, he returns to his partner's body and calls in the death. He is then given a new partner (Morales) and is assigned to investigate the death of a man just pulled from the river causing all the expected problems. However, the investigation does lead to police corruption and his own partner's involvement in drug running.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Angelfist (1993)
Plot Summary:
An assassination in the Philippines is caught on film by kickboxer Christy, which leads to her death at the hands of radicals intent on disrupting peace talks. Her sister Kat, a Los Angeles police officer, comes to Manila to try and bring justice to the people responsible. She enters the kickboxing tournament in order to get closer to the nefarious agents, and begins unravelling the twisted plan while narrowly evading the wrath of the Death Brigades.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film, remake of cult film, cult film
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Avenging Angel (1985)
Plot Summary:
Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed observation by brutal gangsters, she returns downtown to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic, detective
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Gone Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago Jack faked his death. Now his little sister is hunting down his ex-partners who she thinks killed him. On top of that, the company send in the cleaners and everything gets bloody.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999)
Plot Summary:
At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a lesson to the football jocks responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Styx (2001)
Plot Summary:
Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, ambiguous ending
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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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Black Moon Rising (1986)
Plot Summary:
An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, retro, harsh, atmospheric, independent film, realistic
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Time of Fear (2002)
Plot Summary:
Time of Fear is a taut psychological thriller thrusting an FBI agent and a grieving father into the dark world of a demented killer. FBI Agent Cheryl Hammer, arrives in a small California town to catch an elusive killer. Seeing no help forthcoming from the Sheriff, she turns to the only other person who can help her, Jack Barone, a grieving father whose daughter, Lisa, was the victim of a similar slaying ten years prior. The killer's clues are a perversion of Biblical punishments for sins: stoning, burning, decapitation. Jack and Agent Hammer turn to Father Patrick, a Catholic priest, for help. As the clock ticks down, a young female friend of Jack's is kidnapped and may become the next casualty. The harrowing rescue of the young woman opens the door to a dark history hidden below the surface, revealing the true identity of the killer and answering the mystery of who killed Jack's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Sudden Impact (1983)
Plot Summary:
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, detective, retro, crime drama
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Nighthawks (1981)
Plot Summary:
An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, harsh, intense, realistic, rough, serious, cult classic, retro
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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2001)
Plot Summary:
A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also quickly finds that they have military leadership among the officers at the Academy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, action packed, neo western
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Coffy (1973)
Plot Summary:
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, sexy, neo noir, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, period piece, sexual
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Dirty Harry (1971)
Plot Summary:
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 166000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir, grindhouse, harsh
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Street Fighters (1982)
Plot Summary:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, Eddie goes berserk and vows revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, psychotronic, hood, grim, action adventure, independent film, rough, bleak, serious
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A Day to Die (2022)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced parole officer is indebted to a local gang leader and forced to pull off a series of dangerous drug heists within twelve hours in order to pay the $2 million dollars he owes, rescue his kidnapped pregnant wife, and settle a score with the city's corrupt police chief, who is working with the gang leader and double-crossed him years ago.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending