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Plot Summary:
A veteran pilot finds himself knee-deep in trouble when his ex-girlfriend shows up at his doorstep in a terrible state. She knows the whereabouts of an immense fortune, and the Mafia is hot on her trail.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Mark of Death (2017)
Plot Summary:
Witness the explosive return of Nick Wilson, in this new sequel/reboot for the character from the Evil On Queen Street series. Nick Wilson (Matt Spease) is now in a relationship with Sarah Thompson (Caitlyn Bailey) and things seem to be going well for him, until a man from his past comes calling. Erich Denham used to be a member of Nick's old group of thieves, but now he's in charge of the group and wants Nick out of the way because he believes Nick can't be trusted. The group murders not only Nick, but Sarah as well. What they didn't count on was that Lucifer would give Nick the opportunity to avenge his and Sarah's deaths, but he has a special twist to the stipulation though and Nick soon finds out that he is now a woman. But hell hath no fury like this woman scorned, so Nick sets out to get revenge. Erich and the rest of the group responsible for their deaths are now marked with a strange tattoo on their wrist, this tattoo disappears whenever they are killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Real Bullets (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of stuntmen and women travel to the wilderness for a weekend party. Two of the women stumble upon the secret entrance to a drug-lord's narcotics operation and are abducted. Out-gunned and out-numbered, the stunt team must rescue their friends before they are administered fatal overdoses of heroin. Written by David Bassler.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Perseguida (1991)
Plot Summary:
A journalist Lorena and her friend photographer Raul decide to try to take an interview from influential politician Hermenegildo Parra. After several unsuccessful attempts they decide to break into his house and make some photos there but when they enter his cabinet they see him stabbed with the knife. The next day the newspaper announces his death and start to celebrate a big amount of sold copies but during the fiesta a phone calls and it was Mr.Parra "alive and kicking". After this scandal Lorena becomes pursued by some mysterious killers who want to take the negatives from her at any price. The solution of this mystery is very unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: political
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Black Oak Conspiracy (1977)
Plot Summary:
An average Joe is pitted against a crooked sheriff and unscrupulous land grabbers in this tale of small town corruption and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Amazon Hot Box (2018)
Plot Summary:
An innocent college student must fight for her life inside a jungle prison with an evil wardress who uses voodoo experiments and a torture machine.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, horror comedy
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Cool Red (1976)
Plot Summary:
Greg Morris stars as Red Salter, an American jazz musician working in Nigeria. Red is trying to make time with Leah Matanzima (Ruby Dee), who is working with a group of rebels trying to liberate the fictional nation of Fahari. Leah recruits Red to help smuggle Ernest Motapo (Ossie Davis), the leader of the revolutionary army, out of Nigeria and into Fahari. Motapo is being hunted by mercenary Ben Amed (Tom Aldredge), who has been hired by a powerful corporation that has been oppressing the people of Fahari, and stripping the nation of its natural resources. Though he is reluctant to get too heavily involved, Red soon finds himself fighting along with Motapo and the rebels to liberate their homeland from its colonialist oppressors.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ride On (2023)
Plot Summary:
The once beautiful, now down-and-out Dragon Tiger martial artist Lao Luo lives with his beloved horse, Red Rabbit. Due to a debt dispute involving Red Rabbit, he is faced with the crisis of "father-son separation". In desperation, Lao Luo asks his daughter Bao and her boyfriend Naihua, who have misunderstood him for years, for help. On the road of self-help of three people and one horse, they make a lot of jokes and gradually get closer to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Panama Red (1976)
Plot Summary:
A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Newsbreak (2000)
Plot Summary:
Film from Serge Rodnunsky.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Trucker's Woman (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young man takes up truck-driving to investigate his trucker father's suspicious death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy
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The Stunt Woman (1996)
Plot Summary:
A few years in the life of Ah Kam, starting with her joining action director Master Tung's team of regulars.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Jesus Trip (1971)
Plot Summary:
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister Anna (Tippy Walker) and flee the convent. Soon Waco and the young nun fall in love and she is forced to decide whether or not to leave the church for him. (alfiehitchie).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Big Sweat (1991)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con, just released from jail, returns home only to become immediately embroiled in a robbery. A tenacious FBI agent hounds him every step of the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Defense Play (1988)
Plot Summary:
Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. His son Scott and Vandemeers daughter Karen believe in his innocence and search for the true murderer and his motives.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980)
Plot Summary:
An improbable story, but entertaining, of five American women pilots recruited in to the British RAF before the USA joined the war to fly a new top secret aircraft, which turns out to be helicopters, with a Hollywood mansion standing in for a British stately home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Manila's Finest (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the life of retired Western Police District Colonel Jimmy Tiu, who last served as Sta. Mesa Police Station Commander.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Roadracers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Cynical look at a '50s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, psychological, captivating, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Down's Revenge (2019)
Plot Summary:
A revenge of a mentally challenged teenager whose death occurs from school bullying.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, slasher, psychotronic
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Baby Face Nelson (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al Capone, Babyface and his female accomplice leave a trail of blood and bullets in their path towards making history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hunted by Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
An intriguing story of good, evil and the supernatural. The Story takes place in the Florida Everglades. Three men are hunting when an airplane drops bails of drugs on the ground where they are hunting.. The men must decide whether to be law-abiding citizens and report the drugs or take the drugs and sell them for millions of dollars. The lure of easy money entices the hunters into an action packed adventure as drugs dealers-led by Paco, a cold and ruthless Colombian drug lord-chase them in their quest for their precious cargo. Their decision to take the drugs leads them on a spine tingling confrontations with the drugs dealers who both outnumber and out gun them. The hunters must resort to primitive weapons, their combative Martial arts skills and their ingenuity to escape the wrath of the drugs dealers.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Gale Force (2002)
Plot Summary:
A new reality-style game show, "Treasure Hunt" has invited a cast of contestants, including a Los Angeles cop who's joined to try and make up for an earlier PR blunder, to a tropical island to hunt for a buried treasure worth ten million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
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Laughing Under the Clouds (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the dawn of the Meiji period, the Gokumonjou, an inescapable prison, has been established in the middle of an enormous lake to counter the soaring crime rates the new era has brought. Serving as the ferrymen are the famous Kumou brothers: the eccentric family head, Tenka; the reckless but noble second son, Soramaru; and the guileless youngest, Chuutarou. In spite of their grim work, the three lead relatively peaceful lives in the ever-cloudy town of Oumi, together with their housekeeper, Shirasu Kinjou. But buried in the long history of Oumi is the legend of the terrifying "Orochi," a serpentine beast that awakens every three hundred years in a human vessel. Unbeknownst to Soramaru and Chuutarou, the actual job of the Kumou family is to seal the Orochi away before it fully revives—or the world will be plunged into destruction. Amid the monster's next resurrection, the Kumou family must find the resolve to keep laughing under the clouds.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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A Zombie Exorcism (2010)
Plot Summary:
Opstandelsen brings the zombie apocalypse into the house of God. Simon's three siblings gather at his funeral - where all hell breaks loose as the undead rise from their graves, driving the siblings down into the deep dark catacombs below the church. Surrounded by death, they now have to face the congregation of zombies in order to escape the house of God alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Kill and Kill Again (1981)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Horatio Kane has been kidnapped, and is being forced to create an army of martial artists who will help take over the world. His daughter, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of Steve Chase (and a few of his friends) to rescue her father before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 750
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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Night Hunter (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jack Cutter is the last in long line of vampire hunters. After killing few vampires in one L.A. restaurant, he is chased both by police and by other vampires. In the process he meets an attractive woman-reporter.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, retro, independent film, exciting, serious, fast, surprise ending
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Certain Fury (1985)
Plot Summary:
During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave Scarlett, an accident makes it impossible. So they're bound together on a flight from the police and some of the meanest criminals of New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, independent film
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Top Gun (1986)
Plot Summary:
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an Ace pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious, cult classic, action packed, retro, inspirational, epic
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Black Eagle (1988)
Plot Summary:
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tami, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, cult film
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Sickness (2017)
Plot Summary:
On this ill-fated day when many in this sector of the world go completely insane, a group of virtual strangers left with sanity have to fight to stay alive by fending off those out for blood. The heart and courage of different individuals are tested, as they have to figure out how to survive this chaotic onslaught of murder and mayhem, all caused by those with a mysterious sickness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Drive (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 690000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, suspense, tense, serious, captivating, intense, stylized, art house, ambiguous ending