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Plot Summary:
A reality cop show films a police raid on a drug ring that goes awry and results in the massacre of 11 policemen. All of this gets taped by the cameraman who tries to sell the tape to the gangsters and gets killed for his efforts. Meanwhile the film commentator gets pursued by the cops, the gangsters, and some crooked FBI agents. All are after the film which he doesn't have.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Cypress Edge (1999)
Plot Summary:
Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Determined to solve the mystery, Beau uncovers a plethora of family secrets, deception, and implications of unspeakable political wrongdoings.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 78%
Five Days from Home (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
Blood Brother (2018)
Plot Summary:
Blood Brother takes place on he mean streets of a city in decay, where a recently released convict begins to take a murderous revenge against his childhood friends, whom he believes let him take the fall for a crime they collectively committed. As the bodies start piling up, one of the friends, now a cop, will stop at nothing to put and end to the murderous rampage and to right the many wrongs of their tragically violent past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, hood
Similar in 84%
Separate Ways (2001)
Plot Summary:
A high-school crush some twenty years later, snowballs into stalking psychosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Lock 'n' Load (1990)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet has nightmares about murder and zombies, and then discovers that he and other vets have been programmed to commit crimes and then kill themselves afterwards so they can't be traced. He investigates to try to find out who is responsible.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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Night Trap (1993)
Plot Summary:
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, neo noir, independent film, cult film, cult movie cast
Similar in 75%
Take Off (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of Malayali nurses stranded in Iraq, must survive their capture by the extremists and reach out to the rescue team headed by the Indian government.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak
Similar in 86%
Dead Aim (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ed Marinaro is Malcolm "Mace" Douglas, a street-tough detective who's out for justice-no matter what the cost. While investigating the mysterious suicidal heroin overdoses of four beautiful exotic dancers, Mace puts together the pieces of a deadly puzzle, infiltrating a violent ring of shadowy drug and weapons dealers, Mace methodically tracks a serial killer (Rick Washburn) with murderous ties to a ruthless foreign diplomat (Harry Goz). Mace won't stop until he gets some answers. The FBI and KGB have them, but now they're talking back with bullets.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film, cult film
Similar in 78%
Raw Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
The mayor of a small town hires a bounty hunter to find his daughter's killer, but it turns out to be a very dangerous job.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy, erotic, sexy, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Run (1991)
Plot Summary:
While conveying a Porsche from L.A. to Atlantic City, student Charlie has to make a stop due to engine trouble. Mistaken as rich, he's invited to a big poker game -- and wins big time. However Denny Halloran, son of a mighty mobster, is a bad loser and starts a fight. But he's also a bad fighter: he falls on his head and is dead. Now Charlie's in trouble; after he flees Halloran's father puts a reward on his head. Even the police won't help him against the mighty man... so Charlie has to run for his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, detective, black comedy, rough, serious, realistic, fast, dark comedy, exciting
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The Glass Cage (1996)
Plot Summary:
Swarthy Paul Yeager arrives in New Orleans, and promptly gets a job bartending at La Cage du Verre, a show bar where his former girlfriend Jacqueline is a dancer and the moll of its sadistic owner, Marko. He and Jacqueline smuggle diamonds and drugs, with the local police detective in on the take. Even though Paul is ex-CIA, he's not undercover, he just wants to win Jacqueline back. His CIA pals from black ops are on hand hoping to arrest Marko's boss. Detective Montrachet finds out Paul's past and sets up a double cross. Her aims are less clear: to get back with Paul, to stay with Marko, or to run her own scam and scamper away?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 89%
Pathar Ke Insan (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters, Asha and Lata, want to be successful singers and dancers, but a competition drives their rivalry to tragic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Hit List (1989)
Plot Summary:
A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, cult classic, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, cult film
Similar in 83%
Survive the Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced doctor and his family are held hostage at their home by criminals on the run, when a robbery-gone-awry requires them to seek immediate medical attention.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, action thriller, perverse
Similar in 77%
Center of the Web (1992)
Plot Summary:
An actor is wrongly taken as a professional killer by a band planning to murder the Governor. Then he is hired by the Security Dept. to try to unmask and to catch the leaders.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, suspense
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The Power of Few (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, interesting
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Relentless 3 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 90%
211 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history, Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly-trained and heavily-armed men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful
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Ambushed (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Desperate Measures (1998)
Plot Summary:
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, rough, emotional, breathtaking, dark, cult classic, disgusting, surprise ending, psychological thriller
Similar in 78%
Deadly Prey (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ever." Now, he'll have to prove it again. This prey has become DEADLY!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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The Sell Out (1976)
Plot Summary:
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco
Similar in 79%
Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Ablaze (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to make a killing on the insurance money, oil refinery owner Wendell Mays decides to burn the place to the ground. His greed endangers the lives of the entire town as the fireball creates a spreading inferno threatens to engulf the entire city, and stretches the abilities of the fire department and the local hospital to their breaking points.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Similar in 88%
Avenging Force (1986)
Plot Summary:
Martial arts expert Matt Hunter was one of the most promising operatives in Army intelligence until his parents were killed by terrorists, and he retired to the family's farm in Louisiana to take care of his 12-year-old sister Sara and their grandfather Jimmy. Larry Richards, a black man running for the Senate, is one of Matt's best friends. Larry has become the target of The Pentangle, a racist organization led by a man named Glastenbury, and Glastenbury doesn't want Larry to be elected. In an attempt on Larry's life during a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, The Pentangle kills one of Larry's sons. Matt lets Larry, his wife Daisy, and his other son move to the remotely located farm so they can hide from Glastenbury and the Pentangle, but the Pentangle strikes again, setting the farmhouse on fire. Matt and Sara escape as the only survivors. Then the Pentangle kidnaps Sara, sending Matt on a mission to rescue Sara from Glastenbury and the Pentangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, independent film, realistic, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 76%
Malone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, neo noir, perverse, visually stunning, surprise ending, psychotronic
Similar in 78%
The Peacemaker (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, political thriller, psychological, cult classic, visually stunning, action drama, neo noir, rough, bleak
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Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Plot Summary:
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller, psychological, exciting, serious, suspense thriller, surprise ending, inspirational
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The Doorman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, perverse, action thriller, independent film, harsh
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The Hunted (1995)
Plot Summary:
A businessman on a trip to Tokyo ends up in the middle of a centuries old feud between a criminal Ninja cult and a Samurai when he witnesses a assassination performed by the Ninja-cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, stylized, brutal, fast