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Plot Summary:
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold market.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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The Burma Conspiracy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds himself accused of crimes against humanity by a mysterious witness. To prove his innocence, Largo will have to retrace the steps of his past life, in the heart of the Burmese jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, action thriller, action adventure, political thriller
Similar in 81%
Bear Island (1979)
Plot Summary:
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, bilingual
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The Enemy (2001)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent and a geneticist battle to keep a deadly biological weapon from falling into the wrong hands when the weapon's inventor is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Plot Summary:
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fairy tale, light, clever, enigmatic
Similar in 86%
Crossplot (1969)
Plot Summary:
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, eurospy
Similar in 75%
Live and Let Die (1973)
Plot Summary:
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, saga, action adventure, retro, slasher, cult classic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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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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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Plot Summary:
A golden bullet has 007 engraved on it as it smashes into the secret service headquarters. The bullet came from the professional killer Scaramanga who has yet to miss a target and James Bond begins a mission to try and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sexy, exciting, humorous, saga, retro, slasher, cult classic, action adventure, colorful, suspenseful
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Ffolkes (1980)
Plot Summary:
A terrorist (Anthony Perkins) holds an offshore drilling rig and production platform for ransom in the North Sea. Ffolkes (Roger Moore) a wealthy eccentric, volunteers to send his crack team of soldiers in to stop the terrorists. With few other options available, the British Government reluctantly accepts his help.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, black comedy, exciting, tense, light, sexy
Similar in 84%
Octopussy (1983)
Plot Summary:
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. James Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, stylized, serious, entertaining, saga, cult classic, slasher, action adventure
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The Living Daylights (1987)
Plot Summary:
James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, saga, exciting, slasher, cult classic, action adventure, spectacular, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Mother Lode (1982)
Plot Summary:
A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shout at the Devil (1976)
Plot Summary:
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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A View to a Kill (1985)
Plot Summary:
A newly developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 103000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy, saga, cult classic, suspense, slasher, action adventure
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Plot Summary:
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who’s guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, saga, intense, retro, slasher, cult classic
Similar in 87%
Wild Geese II (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: offbeat, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
Similar in 81%
Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Plot Summary:
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Plot Summary:
James Bond tracks archnemesis Ernst Blofeld to a mountaintop retreat where he's training an army of beautiful but lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco -- and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld. Meanwhile, he locates Blofeld in the Alps and embarks on a classic ski chase.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, saga, slasher, controversial, christmas special, visually stunning, action adventure, action drama, thrilling
Similar in 79%
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Plot Summary:
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, witty, saga, action adventure, sentimental, retro, slasher, cult classic, spectacular
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Ice Station Zebra (1968)
Plot Summary:
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The atomic submarine Tigerfish, commanded by Cmdr. James Ferraday (Rock Hudson), is dispatched to save them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, retro, action thriller, serious, surprise ending, epic, tense, thought provoking
Similar in 78%
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Plot Summary:
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, sexy, tense, suspenseful, stylized, serious, entertaining, saga, action adventure, suspense
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King of Africa (1968)
Plot Summary:
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
Air Collision (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster, realistic, independent film, disaster movie
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Moonraker (1979)
Plot Summary:
During the transportation of a Space Shuttle a Boeing 747 crashes in the Atlantic Ocean yet when they go to look for the destroyed shuttle it is not there. James Bond investigates the missing mission space shuttle and soon learns that the shuttles owner Hugo Drax wants to kill all of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, stylized, saga, action adventure, funny, slasher, cult classic, crime thriller, serious
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Raise the Titanic (1980)
Plot Summary:
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, exciting, bad ending, harsh, talky, interesting
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The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
Plot Summary:
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, political
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The Jigsaw Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Riddle of the Sands (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible scheme, but must outwit not only the cream of the German Navy, but the feared Kaiser Wilhelm himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film
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Gray Lady Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, disaster movie
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The Wild Geese (1978)
Plot Summary:
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, harsh, serious, realistic, sad, action adventure, political, rough, suspenseful