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Plot Summary:
An ex special forces operative stuck in a dead-end desk job reluctantly takes on a gig to provide private security for a washed-up journalist as she interviews a ruthless—but impeccably dressed—dictator. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle, the assassins, and each other in order to make it out alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Filmpje! (1995)
Plot Summary:
Bob and Annie separate. After the court case Annie gives Bob two airline tickets for a tropical island to save their relationship. However, Bob takes someone else with him on holiday: Carmen, the daughter of Mafioso Don Gorgonzola. Annie lags behind in Holland, where she falls in love again with other men.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Kickassia (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kickassia is a six-part feature-length original online film created by Doug Walker and the rest of the gang at Channel Awesome (including the Nostalgia Chick, Linkara, Spoony, the Cinema Snob, Marz Gurl, and Angry Joe) in honor of the site's second anniversary. The plot concerns the Nostalgia Critic, eager to own his very own country, deciding to organize an assault on the Republic of Molossia a one-acre independent nation within the continental United States and usurp its president, Kevin Baugh. Hilarity, as well as movie references and heavy artillery, ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Die Hart (2023)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull it off.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody
Similar in 77%
Under the Gun (1987)
Plot Summary:
A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Hit Man (2023)
Plot Summary:
A strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities. Inspired by an unbelievable true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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The Pink Jungle (1968)
Plot Summary:
A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Traxx (1988)
Plot Summary:
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Superchick (1973)
Plot Summary:
Tara B. True is a flight attendant who makes a weekly swing through New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. In each city, she has a man: Edward, older and wealthy; Johnny, a beach bum with gambling debts; and, Davey, a rock musician on the cusp of success. Tara is a free spirit, faithful to each man in her own way, and so stunning that she dresses in a wig and ill-fitting uniform while she's working so men won't harass her constantly. The low-life whom Johnny is in debt to figures out a way to use Tara to help him execute a daring in-flight robbery. But will Tara stand by helplessly, or is superchick ready for action?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film, campy, cult film
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The White River Kid (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two con men are traveling through the American South when they are held hostage by a serial killer, who is running from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Purgatory Blues (2001)
Plot Summary:
Loser drug addict Jack winds up in hell after he gets killed by Steve, who's the abusive husband of the sweet Martha. Jack strikes up a deal with the head demon known as The Principal to get out of hell and return to life: He has 72 hours to corrupt an innocent soul or else he'll be condemned to Hades forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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New Kids Nitro (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barry from Maaskantje are in a big fight with the village of Schijndel. When a zombie kills someone from Brabant, things get out of hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, tense, fast
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Welcome to the Jungle (2013)
Plot Summary:
A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Puerto Rico, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, witty, feel good, perverse, cult classic, offbeat, realistic, independent film, parody
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MacGruber (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ex-special operative MacGruber (Forte) is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Kilmer), who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, satirical, not serious, action comedy, sexy, skit, romantic comedy
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Black Dynamite (2009)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, grindhouse, humorous, funny, talky, entertaining, witty, heroic, not serious
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Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
Plot Summary:
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, slapstick, light, intense, not serious, exciting, witty
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Cat Run 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple of fumbling best friends run a private detective agency and find themselves solving their next case in New Orleans, becoming embroiled in a web of sexy female spies and government conspiracy in the lively and character-filled backdrops of the Big Easy.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, rough, humorous, semi serious, perverse, exciting, fast
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Cat Run (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized, captivating, sexy, erotic, perverse, black comedy, offbeat
Similar in 79%
Operation: Endgame (2010)
Plot Summary:
A battle ensues among two government spy teams in an underground facility after their boss is assassinated.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, perverse, fast, surprise ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 75%
Fifty/Fifty (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
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Search and Destroy (2020)
Plot Summary:
When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a battle with infamous Ukrainian Arms Dealer Igor Rodin, John is discharged from the army. Three years later he is approached by his old General to go on a private contract mission when Igor resurfaces.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame
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American Ultra (2015)
Plot Summary:
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, feel good, entertaining, stylized, scenic, independent film, action comedy, spy comedy, light, visually appealing
Similar in 82%
My Spy (2020)
Plot Summary:
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, action comedy, buddy comedy, light, feel good, captivating, hilarious, surprise ending
Similar in 79%
Bananas (1971)
Plot Summary:
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, political, funny, talky, absurd, not serious, feel good, surreal, black comedy
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Project X-Traction (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor is called in to extract the oil workers. He learns, however, that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams up with an American former Marine to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy
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The Suicide Squad (2021)
Plot Summary:
The continuing escapades of the Suicide Squad.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 395000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, intense, dark comedy, exciting, epic, saga, action comedy, perverse, cult classic
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The Interview (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, absurd, political, humorous, action comedy, satirical, entertaining, exciting, black comedy, not serious
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Bird on a Wire (1990)
Plot Summary:
A FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years, now an old flame has recognised him and the bad guys are back for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, road movie, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, light, action comedy, clever, breathtaking
Similar in 81%
Spy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, action comedy, spoof, entertaining, hilarious, absurd, witty, exciting
Similar in 77%
Deadpool (2016)
Plot Summary:
Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, entertaining, absurd, humorous, funny, parody, action comedy, dark comedy, witty
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The Lost City (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, funny, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet, cute, humorous, surprise ending, psychotronic