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Plot Summary:
When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist joins forces with a beautiful young activist to find out who is responsible. Along they way, they fall in love as they discover the men responsible for the killing would be more than willing to murder again if it will keep them quiet.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, exciting, colorful, suspenseful, colourful
Best tv shows and movies like Fire on the Amazon (1993):
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Quiet Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jesse Palmer, is a Vietnam Veteran who must discomfit his ex-commanding officer turned crooked senate candidate named Whalen from conspiring to turn over part of the U.S. Government to terrorists. Whalen has all the help that he can afford. Mercenaries, a surveillance tracking system, endless firepower, and hired killers are at this corrupt senator's disposal. Palmer, on the other hand, only has his wits, fists and a few other surprises to help put an end to a greedy politician's guileful schemes. This one innocent man must expose this corrupt senator before he wins the election... Written by David Choi.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Conflict of Interest (1993)
Plot Summary:
Gideon rules the down and dirty side of town. From the docks where he runs an export business in stolen cars, to the heavy metal club where he can turn a little extra cash on hot women and cool drugs. Everyone loves Gideon, especially his posse of desirable women, everyone except the corpses he leaves behind and the cops who clean up after him. But now there's a new cop on Gideon's back, Mickey Fl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, 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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Noon Sunday (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Guam, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Adventurers (1970)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he had assumed.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: exciting, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Green Sails (2000)
Plot Summary:
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader to guide him through his struggle, he travels to the jungles of Indonesia where a tribe--wrongly forced off their land by CCT--and the corporation clash. No matter which side Will chooses--with so many lives on the line, his decision is destined to be a deadly one.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Far Cry (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jack Carver, a former member of the Special Forces takes the journalist Valerie Cardinal to an Island to visit her uncle Max who is working in a Military complex on the Island. As they arrive Valerie gets captured by the minions of Doctor Krüger. After the destruction of his boat Jack finds out about the true purpose of the Facilities on the Island, which is the creation of genetic soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, cult classic, action packed, fast, cult film
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Hotel Colonial (1987)
Plot Summary:
Marco Veniera goes to Bogota, Columbia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama
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Freefall (1994)
Plot Summary:
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, cliffhanger, suspense, independent film
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Asker (2000)
Plot Summary:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action packed, independent film, fast
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Iris: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
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Lone Hero (2002)
Plot Summary:
An actor in a Wild West show must become a mythical Western Hero when a biker gang descends upon a small Montana town.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, dark comedy, neo western, cult film
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Amazon (1990)
Plot Summary:
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Finland, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Medicine Man (1992)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, anamorphic, philosophical, action adventure, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, romantic, road movie
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Beyond Rangoon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, inspirational, touching, emotional, intense, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, anamorphic, exciting
Similar in 77%
River of Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doing his experiments on people in the same place.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, independent film, realistic
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Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 75%
Fog and Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or well in expressing his feelings,Sedat is being consumed , going through the hardest time of his life , not able to silence his guilty conscience because he was unsuccessful in solving the murder of his partner , whom he saw a brother .His faith in his organization is shaken as he witness the schemes in machination inside the organization and between the organization and the state.Meanwhile , while trying to find his lover who has disappeared after falling for a former militant , he does not refrain from making use of the filthiest methods of his profession.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
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Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Plot Summary:
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their survival training to get them through.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Raven Hawk (1995)
Plot Summary:
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bleak, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
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Absolute Deception (2013)
Plot Summary:
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left is a severed finger. In order to find a new lead, Nelson travels to New York City to inform widowed magazine reporter Rebecca Scott that her long dead husband, Miles, had only recently been murdered to see if she had heard from him in recent years. Perplexed, Scott joins Agent Nelson in the wealthy enclave of Australia’s Gold Coast to find out what really happened. The two soon discover Miles may have been part of an elaborate “Ponzi scheme” to bilk investors, and a vengeful billionaire, out of millions of dollars. As more layers of Miles’ secret life are exposed, can the two stay ahead of the mysterious attackers who will stop at nothing to halt their investigation?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, mind bending
Similar in 76%
Cover-Up (1991)
Plot Summary:
Mike Anderson, a tough American reporter on a dangerous foreign assignment, finds his own life in jeopardy when he uncovers a deadly labyrinth of political intrigue that threatens the lives of thousands. Dispatched to investigate a mysterious and fatal attack on an overseas US naval base, Anderson, a leading investigative journalist and ex-US marine, finds himself back on familiar ground. Instinct makes him question the official CIA explanation that cites an unknown terrorist group called Black October. Alone, and armed only with his combat training and determination to uncover the truth, he sets out to expose a complex and dangerous political web.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Israel
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, freeze frame
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Amazons and Gladiators (2001)
Plot Summary:
During the Roman Empire, General Crassius ruled a small province with an Iron fist. Serena, a young girl in a village, watches Crassius kill her parents. Crassius and Serena's destiny would lead them to the Gladiator ring; the Amazons Warrior vs the Roman General.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, realistic, independent film
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The Arena (2001)
Plot Summary:
In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from their homelands, the fiery Druid maiden Bodicia, exotic slave girl Jessemina, and the powerful barbarian Flavius, are pitted against each other as gladiators by the sadistic Roman Governor Timarchus. Banished by Caesar, Timarchus unleashes his frustration on his gladiators, staging extravagant spectacles of combat, orgy and death. In a violent world where only the strong survive, love and hate, life and death, are separated by an instant.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Action
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, realistic, independent film, period piece, remake of cult film, cult film
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Guilty as Charged (2000)
Plot Summary:
US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and infiltrating Strauss's unit, Murphy discovers that Strauss and his men are leading a vigilante gang to dispense 'justice' to those they feel have been wrongly acquitted of various crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Wake of Death (2004)
Plot Summary:
Action superstar, Jean-Claude Van Damme (Universal Soldier, Street Fighter), is back and at his hard-hitting best as Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer seeking revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad in this pulse-pounding action thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, South Africa, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, action adventure, erotic, crime drama, cult classic, action packed, realistic
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The Vivero Letter (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
Plot Summary:
A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, fantasy adventure
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Shoot to Kill (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious, realistic, neo noir, suspense, breathtaking, cult classic, visually stunning
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The Edge (1997)
Plot Summary:
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate, exciting, entertaining, intense, atmospheric, clever