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Plot Summary:
Sequel to 'Future Force' has John Tucker's son traveling back in time 30 years to save his father from being killed by thugs he is currently pursuing back in 1990.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, neo western
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The Gumshoe Kid (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young man has to take over the ruined detective agency of his father and his uncle. There are two major difficulties to manage: His uncle and his new job.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Future Force (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the future, a cop protects a reporter from an organization of crooked, renegade cops who thinks she knows too much about them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult classic, splatter, independent film, neo western
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Thunder and Lightning (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young man who hauls liquor for moonshiners comes up against a competing gang of moonshiners who intend to get rid of him and take over his operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Cop Target (1990)
Plot Summary:
Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in dirty drug dealings. While on the island, the daughter is kidnapped by a group of seedy South American thugs and held for ransom. The cop escort gets official orders to leave the case to the FBI, but he decides to his own investigating and finds that the crime may have had political motivations.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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Dimension 5 (1966)
Plot Summary:
An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Deadliest Prey (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Deadly Prey. Colonel Hogan is still alive and just getting out of prison on parole, some 28 years later. But he has only one thing in mind and that is revenge on Mike Danton. So once again, Hogan puts together a group of mercenaries, has Danton kidnapped, and the games begin. Only this time Hogan is funded by a huge internet company in exchange for broadcasting the hunting of Danton over the internet, worldwide. For Hogan, winning is everything. Proving that there can only be one best and that it is him. What he had not thought of is that he isn’t the only one who had twenty eight years to get pissed off. Because now Mike Danton is pissed off and that means few will survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Invasion Force (1990)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting a movie finds itself battling against terrorists trying to take over a city.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, splatter, independent film
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The Final Sanction (1990)
Plot Summary:
After war breaks out between the U.S. and Russia, the two countries decide to settle the conflict by putting its two best warriors into an arena in a fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Short Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, detective, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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Jungle Assault (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Lost at War (2007)
Plot Summary:
This is a Twilight Zone type story that involves five soldiers out on a mission. And they soon find themselves stuck in a foxhole in an apparently deserted camp. Then strange things begin to happen. For one they are surrounded by strange creatures shrouded in black who do not fire on them or attempt to hurt them in any way but still they stay out there watching, almost as if waiting for something. And this, along with other things that happen, cause these men to question weather they are alive or dead. And that is where their struggle begins. Exploring the age old question of fate and if it is something that is written in stone or is it something we as people can affect. One by one, four of these five men give in to fate as it were and walk off into the woods never to be seen again, but Captain Jason Briggs will not give up for any reason and in the end it is up to him alone to fine out if he can truly change his own fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Paradox (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists are experimenting with time travel, and they manage to send one of their group ahead in time one hour. But when he comes back, he tells them that they’ll all be dead within the next hour unless they shut the machine down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending, grindhouse, surprise ending
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Karate Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
John Travis is the last honest cop in a future dominated by terroristic martial-arts gangs who fight gladiator-style in arenas.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, campy
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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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Tokyo Revengers (2021)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl. He aims to rise to the top of the most brutal delinquent gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Treasure Raiders (2007)
Plot Summary:
Michael, an American professor teaching history at Moscow University, finances his passion for treasure hunting with competitive street racing. His racing nemesis Wolf becomes his ally as they both embark on a quest to search for a famous ancient Russian treasure.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Death Race 2000 (1975)
Plot Summary:
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, suspenseful, cult classic, humorous, entertaining, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic
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Dune Warriors (1991)
Plot Summary:
After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, perverse, psychotronic, independent film, neo western
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Drive (1997)
Plot Summary:
Drive follows Toby Wong (Mark Dacascos), whose employers at Hong Kong's Leung Corporation have implanted in his chest a bio-energy module that enhances his physical abilities. Toby has escaped from the Leung Corporation's control and is making his way to Los Angeles, where a competing company has offered to remove the implant and give him his life back.After arriving in San Francisco, Toby encounters -- and, in desparation, kidnaps -- Malik Brodie (Kadeem Hardison), who has the means to get him to Los Angeles. Following close behind are professional assassins and junk-culture connoisseurs Vic Madison (John Pyper-Ferguson) and The Hedgehog (Tracey Walter), who are pursuing Toby in the employ of the Leung Corporation's president, Mr. Lau (James Shigeta).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crime drama, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, humorous, semi serious, fast
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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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Time Under Fire (1997)
Plot Summary:
A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship. They decide to help the rebels.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A.P.E.X. (1994)
Plot Summary:
A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots from the future.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
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Mega Time Squad (2018)
Plot Summary:
A small-town criminal finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, light, horror comedy
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Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn’t changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, uplifting
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The Adam Project (2022)
Plot Summary:
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 224000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, funny, mysterious, disturbing, motivational, thought provoking, emotional, entertaining, satirical, action adventure
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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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Freejack (1992)
Plot Summary:
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, suspense, tech noir, grindhouse, anamorphic, disgusting, exciting, bleak
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Timecop (1994)
Plot Summary:
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, entertaining, erotic, tech noir, grindhouse
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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