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Plot Summary:
Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, perverse, cult horror, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, dark
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Electra (1996)
Plot Summary:
Billionaire named Roach desperately searches for the secret serum which could turn an ordinary human into a superbeing.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, cult classic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Model by Day (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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To the Limit (1995)
Plot Summary:
Colette is an attractive ex-CIA agent seeking revenge against a ruthless villan and his organization of trained assasins for the murder of her husband while the man is also after mobster Frank Di Vinci for his own personal reasons. It isn't long before the paths of both Colette and Frank meet whom they share the same vendetta against the same man and they reluctnaly try to co-operate with each other to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Black Mask (1996)
Plot Summary:
Chui Chik tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701." The 701 squad is used for many government missions, but after one of the agents kills a team of policemen in an uncontrollable rage, the government decides to abort the project and eliminate all the subjects. Chui Chik helped the surviving 701 agents flee the extermination attempt. Having escaped, Chui Chik went separate ways from his team. Later, he discovers that the rest of the team were responsible for a violent crime spree that was beyond the capability of the local police. He sets out to stop them, donning a disguise and using the superhero alias of "Black Mask". Having lost the ability to feel pain due to the surgery performed on the super-soldiers by the military, Black Mask is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody, stylized, crime drama, cult classic, colorful, rough, fast
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) and cutthroat gangsters with a penchant for murder Hawkins must risk everything in the most deadly race of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, action packed, fast
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Darkman III: Die Darkman Die (1996)
Plot Summary:
Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, cult horror, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, dark
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Best of the Best II (1993)
Plot Summary:
In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his best friend Alex Grady. Alex and his partner, Tommy Lee, vow to avenge their friend's death by defeating Brakus and shutting down the fight club.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast, clever, brutal, unusual plot structure
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High Voltage (1998)
Plot Summary:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, independent film
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Plot Summary:
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast
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Python 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
The beast is back.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: natural horror, suspense, scenic, scary, serious, suspenseful, fast, ridiculous, cult film
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Steel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Justice. Safe streets. Payback. Metallurgist John Henry Irons (O'Neal) vows to claim them all when a renegade military reject (Judd Nelson) puts new superweapons in dangerous hands. Helped by an electronics wiz (Annabeth Gish) and an imaginative scrap metal worker (Richard Roundtree), Irons becomes Steel. Wearing body armor, wielding a fearsome electrohammer and riding a gadget-packed motorcycle, he's ready to wage war...if he can fix the untimely glitches in his untested gear. "You all be cool now," the good-guy hero tells two crime victims he rescues. There'll be a lot of thrillin' before Steel himself can start chillin.'.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, epic, suspense, mockbuster, disgusting, feel good, semi serious, fast
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Bloodsuckers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Intergalactic vampire hunters. "Buffy" meets "Star Trek" in a "Mad Max" world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, space horror, scary, bleak, futuristic, fast
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Earth vs. the Spider (2001)
Plot Summary:
A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gothic, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, dark, rough, bleak, serious, scary, epic
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, fast
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Plot Summary:
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge Stryker's scheme to exterminate all mutants.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 569000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, humorous, intense, serious, stylized, entertaining, saga, action adventure, epic
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Darkman (1990)
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Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, atmospheric, gothic, serious, cult classic, stylized, slasher, dark, dark comedy
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Dark Angel (1990)
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Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Punisher (1989)
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The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER ... a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 89 min
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The Shadow (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 1930's comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002)
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The Black Mask must stop a group intent on setting off a DNA bomb that could cause mutations to the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, tense, suspense, cult classic, independent film, fast
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, psychotronic
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Blade: Trinity (2004)
Plot Summary:
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed - The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him, the original vampire, Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 186000
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Country: USA
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Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 195000
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Country: USA
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Judge Dredd (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 123000
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91000
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Country: USA
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