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Plot Summary:
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tech noir, independent film, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Black Tigers (1978)
Plot Summary:
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
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The Silencer (1999)
Plot Summary:
Killer gets orders from a video game named The Silencer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film
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The Ultimate Weapon (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries, Ben & Vince, are assigned to destroy a stolen military arms cache held by a group of terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, perverse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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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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Tactical Force (2011)
Plot Summary:
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film, fast, cult film
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Prophet (1998)
Plot Summary:
Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is recruited to take part in a secret government experiment which results in him being able to see into the future. Years later, the child is an adult and is working for the government; his latest assignment is to find the other people who were part of the same project. Before long, he discovers the other test subjects usually pop up murdered shortly before he can talk to them, and he realizes he may well be the next target. Horror film legend Barbara Steele highlights the supporting cast; cult figure Fred Olen Ray directed. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Redline (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the future of post-Soviet and economically devastated Russia, Big Brother still rules with an iron hand of brutality, brain-washing and ruthless dictatorship. Into this cauldron of corruption and terror plunges American crook and smuggler John Wade (Rutger Hauer), looking to make a small fortune out of illegal fantasy chips... bio-synthetic devices that can make the user's weirdest and wildest fantasies come true in their scrambled minds. Betrayed by the leader of a vicious crime syndicate called the Trocia (Mark Dacascos); Wade is executed in cold blood by a bullet to the brain. The authorities discover his corpse and he is brought back to life via the miracle of biosynthetic technology. However, Wade eventually escapes, intent on exacting revenge on his double-crossing killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, cyber, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Hands of Steel (1986)
Plot Summary:
A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, classic horror, action adventure, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast
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TC 2000 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive. Jason Storm, an underworld guard gets knowledge of a conspiracy to kill all people on the surface. He needs to flee to the surface, and wins Sumai, a respected martial arts master, as his ally to stop the dirty plot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, futuristic
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Velocity Trap (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a desolate and treachorous region of space known as the Velocity Run, a heavily armored ship passes every six months. It carries billions of Universal Dollars between the colonies and the Central Bank on Earth. Hard currency has returned due to rampant electronic crime. Now a team of highly trained mercenaries are about to commit the perfect crime in a place where evidence and witnesses have no chance of survival. In this deadly corridor of space, a single man must stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, tense, futuristic, saga, anamorphic, action thriller, action adventure
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Belly of the Beast (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put both his physical and spiritual powers to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, spiritual, intense, action packed, fast, surprise ending
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Connors' War (2006)
Plot Summary:
They'll never see him coming... It's Personal. It's War. A blinded ex special agent is given his sight back by a special serum in order for him to stop a nuke that's hidden somewhere in the city. Things are just starting to complicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bloody, intense, action packed
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Jiu Jitsu (2020)
Plot Summary:
Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, stylized, intense, perverse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film
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Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Secret Service agent (Wilson) battles an arms dealer who is creating a cyborg army.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tech noir, independent film, futuristic, fast
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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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Firepower (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2007, crime has risen at an exponential rate. Once highly populated metropolises such as Los Angeles are no longer inhabitable. These cities have transformed into "Hell Zones," ruled by violent street gangs. The Hell Zone, formerly called the "Zone of Personal Freedom," is a safe-haven for criminal warpaths everywhere. This Hell Zone in LA is controlled by a criminal mastermind named Drexal (Joseph Ruskin). For the sake of entertaining his crowds of decadent losers and underlings, Drexal has staged a series of lethal, no-holds-barred matches in the "Death Ring," where the winner takes all of the glory...while the defeated one shall lose his self-respect (or maybe just his head). Meanwhile, two brave cops, Braniff (Chad McQueen), and Sledge (Gary Daniels) must risk their badges...and their lives when they enter Los Angeles's "Hell Zone.".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, black comedy, freeze frame
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Rage (1995)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt right-wing militia group chooses a California teacher as the ideal specimen to clone for its army.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic
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Mask of Death (1996)
Plot Summary:
While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades McKenna to undergo facial surgery and take the place of Lyle Mason in order to find Dallio and a valuable microchip.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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Maximum Force (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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Fortress 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not a man to give in easily, and with a 10 year old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, tech noir, cult classic, action packed, independent film, serious
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Enhanced (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of mutant outcasts including a young woman with enhanced super strength find themselves being hunted down, one by one by a sinister government organization. But when an even stronger enhanced serial killer emerges on the scene, agents and mutants are forced to question their allegiances.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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Retrograde (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, apocalyptic, cult classic, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Gen-X Cops 2: Metal Mayhem (2000)
Plot Summary:
When terrorists abduct a deadly government attack robot, the call is put out to the Gen-Y Cops, an elite task force with lethal fighting skills. Together with a trigger-happy FBI agent, the Gen-Y Cops race against time to destroy the robot before it destroys their city.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, cult classic, futuristic, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, buddy comedy
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Cyber Tracker (1994)
Plot Summary:
Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, an perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is playing dirty games, he does not only have Dilly's security chief Ross after him, but also those nearly undefeatable Trackers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, fast, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles Seth and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tech noir, cult classic, fast, scary
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Bleeding Steel (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, bleak, futuristic, action adventure, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called Glass Shadow. Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors by using Casella.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic, suspense, tech noir, action thriller, spectacular, independent film
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The Running Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed
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The Matrix 4 (2021)
Plot Summary:
The fourth installment in The Matrix franchise. Plot unknown.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 273000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, cyber, tech noir, cerebral, tense, spiritual, saga, apocalyptic, suspense