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Plot Summary:
James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in New Jersey. From his early skill as a car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to rule the streets and he seized it. With both the protection and respect of the Mafia, Dutch becomes the most terrifying force on the streets. District Attorney Anthony Jacobs is determined to take down Dutch and his crew, and he's confident that his witnesses will testify against them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: hood
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Diamond Ruff (2015)
Plot Summary:
Action - Orphan, con artist, crime boss and millionaire, Diamond Ruff has seen it all. In prison for a murder he did not commit, he meets the Reverend Trek Woods, who overwhelms him with kindness, character and faith in god. Falling in love with April, a young woman with terminal illness, Ruff is again challenged to grow and change. Will he be redeemed? There are no easy answers. - Felicia Pearson, Fredro Starr, Michael Barra.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: hood
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Baby Brown (1990)
Plot Summary:
Action thriller trails two attractive female cops (Zoli Marki and Kryska Witowska) on the hunt for a lethal drug lord who’s responsible for injuring one of the women’s former partners. Things get even more dangerous when the two women learn they must guard the suspect’s girlfriend, who has decided to testify against him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tough Cops (1987)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam War vet turned police detective on the edge Nick Carpenter partners up with slick police detective with cat skills Pete Logan to take down the local druglord Fatcat by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, Philippines
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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Deathfight (1993)
Plot Summary:
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Bank Job (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up (1992)
Plot Summary:
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the wife and daughter of the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Restraining Order (1999)
Plot Summary:
Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has dinner with a friend, and his friend tells him that he needs to talk to him about something important. He is about to leave when some masked men go to his friend and kill him, when one of the men takes off his mask; it's Martin Ritter. Now being his lawyer, Robert can't say anything about what he saw. But that doesn't stop him from investigating what his dead friend was so worried about. It seems that he has stumbled onto something big, and instead of killing him they frame his wife for murder to get him to back off. But he doesn't and both his wife and him are now in danger. And still has no idea what's going on. Will he find out before they get to him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Running Woman (1998)
Plot Summary:
Emily Russo and her son are victims of a carjacking that results in the Sam's death. No one believes that thugs dressed as cops are the perpetrators; in fact Emily is accused of committing the murder herself and inventing the carjacking story as a cover. On the run from the police, she tries to find and killers on her own and discovers that the crime might not have been as random as it first appeared.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Excessive Force (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sale, a shootout ensues, and one of Terry's fellow officers gets away with $3 million of Sal's money. Suspecting Terry took the cash, the mobster sends his men to kill Terry's brother, Dylan, and partner, Frankie Hawkins. Furious, Terry sets out to take his revenge by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Rage (1997)
Plot Summary:
Story about young criminals in Belgrade during the 1990s crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Silk 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Loha (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shankar (Dharmendra), a well-meaning but disgraced cop, is determined to fight a corrupt system, taking to task miscreants and criminals in his city. The movie begins as an aspiring underworld don, Lukkabhai (Mohan Joshi) ousts his erstwhile mentor Tandyabhai (Deepak Shirke), to emerge as the reigning champion of a crime infested world. Elsewhere, Arjun (Mithun Chakraborty), an ex-military man, has forfeited his love and career as a consequence of hitching up with a local goon. As a result, Arjun seeks his refuge in liquor. Shankar chances upon Arjun and rescues him when Arjun hits rock bottom. Meanwhile, angered by Shankar's meddling, Lukka rapes and kills Shankar's sister to teach him a lesson. Infuriated, Shankar teams up with Arjun, who now is indebted to him, and Mustafabhai (Shakti Kapoor), who wants payback for Lukka chopping his hands off. Together, they deliver the kingpin of the underworld and his minions to a well-deserved end, restoring harmony and justice to society.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Rowdy Inspector (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rowdy Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Red Sun Rising (1994)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Hoshino (Willson) is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho (Lew). He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder (Farrell). Soon they discover that Yakuza prepares a gang war and weapon smuggling. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, detective, buddy comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Killpoint (1984)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Tuesday Never Comes (1992)
Plot Summary:
An Irish mercenary will stop at nothing to get the money owed to him for a job from an Italian-American drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Champions (1997)
Plot Summary:
William Rockman, a champion "Terminal Combat" fighter who retired from the sport after accidentally killing a young man while training. Five years after his retirement, Terminal Combat has been banned by the government and has gone underground. The "new" Terminal Combat is just that; one combatant in each match usually does not live to tell about the experience. When Rockman's younger brother is killed in one of the underground matches by his old rival, the King, Rockman enters the tournament to exact revenge on the King, not knowing that the King and his wife, Daria, have been enslaved by Max Brito, the tournament's greedy promoter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Terminator Woman (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two LA cops, Julie and Jay, must return Marsalas to Africa to stand trial as the chief state witness against international villain Alex Gatelee. Gatelee, into everything from gold smuggling to female slave trade, hijacks the party. In a vicious shoot out Julie and Jay overcome Gatelee's men. Gatelee then has Julie kidnapped from one of his nightclubs. He tries to use Julie as bait to get Jay to hand over Marsalas in exchange for Julie.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Afuang Bounty Hunter (1988)
Plot Summary:
An honest to goodness cop who labors to keep the honor of his badge. Fighting ruthless criminals, he has acquired the fury of the syndicates he is fighting. But despite all the threats that are coming his way he does not give up.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
Plot Summary:
When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones travels there to find them. With the help of local detective Mi Ling, Cleopatra discovers that her friends' disappearance has to do with The Dragon Lady, a much-feared blonde "lipstick lesbian" who runs a Macao casino and controls a major chunk of the local drug trade.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, cult film
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Tiger Claws II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Released five years after the first installment, Tiger Claws II finds Yeung's martial arts serial killer, Chong, busted out of jail by a team of heavies in the employ of gangster Dai Lo Fu and whisked across the country to San Fransisco's Chinatown. When NYC cop Tarek Richards learns of a rash of recent killings using Chong's distinctive M.O.— a claw-like mark across the face of the victim— he contacts his old partner, Linda Masterson, who is now living in L.A., for help. But Chong, as it turns out, has nothing to do with the murders. He's just being used by crime kingpin Lo Fu, who needs to combine his energy with Chong's to open some sort of time portal to provide vital supplies for the ancient Shaolin monks. In truth, though, Lo Fu greedily plans to use the portal to smuggle heavy modern artillery back and rule Qing Dynasty-era China himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Recoil (1998)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's wife and kids. Now Morgan's out for revenge..and he'll do it his own way.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Redemption (2002)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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Mission of Justice (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mayoral candidate Dr. Rachel Olsen (Brigitte Nielsen) has a dangerous plan for swift justice in the form of a band of ex-convicts, called the Peacemakers, who roam the streets to do her bidding. When a boxer friend (Tony Burton) is killed by Olsen's thugs, an outlaw cop (Jeff Wincott) goes undercover to get evidence, and works his way up to the inner circle of the doctor's army.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, retro, perverse, independent film, rough
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Friday Foster (1975)
Plot Summary:
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, hood, crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lost Treasure (2003)
Plot Summary:
A paint is stolen from a building during a great fire and after recovered, the police finds inside it a mysterious map. A police officer responsible for the case ask his brother, who is an antiques expert, to help him during investigations. Analysing the paint an fabric, he finds that the map belonged to Cristopher Columbus and the drawings in it refer to an old legend of a lost treasure. Asside from unravel mysterious riddles the police officer and his brother will have to fight against a violent gang which is after the treasure as well.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, touching, tense, suspense, independent film, semi serious, detective
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Tiger Claws (1991)
Plot Summary:
The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. She gets the job and to her side an other martial arts specialist, Sgt. Tarek Richards. Now they need to find a tiger style master, because the killer obviously uses tiger style kung fu. Not a simple task, since tiger is a very ancient and rare style.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, independent film, realistic, suspenseful, detective, cult film
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Doing Hard Time (2004)
Plot Summary:
A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, crime drama
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Strapped (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to turn in local gun dealers. How ever, the D.A. is not satisfied with the results, resulting in some serious game playing and double crossing.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: hood, crime drama, grim, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Black and Blue (2019)
Plot Summary:
Exposure follows a rookie Detroit African-American female cop who stumbles upon corrupt officers who are murdering a drug dealer, an incident captured by her body cam. They pursue her through the night in an attempt to destroy the footage, but to make matters worse, they've tipped off a criminal gang that she's responsible for the dealer's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, hood, slang, neo noir, social, anamorphic, predictable, surprise ending