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Plot Summary:
He wanted adventure...She craved revenge...Emeralds held the answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, vintage, cult film
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Joyride (1977)
Plot Summary:
Scott, John and Suzie quit their boring jobs and depart L.A. for Alaska to pursue their dream of their own salmon fishing business. They soon find that life in Alaska is more difficult than expected as they are forced to abandon their plans and make desperate choices just to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 76%
The Moon-Spinners (1964)
Plot Summary:
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: light, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, tense
Similar in 87%
Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
Plot Summary:
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
Old Gringo (1989)
Plot Summary:
When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a famous writer, who knowing that he is dying, wishes to keep his identity secret so he can determine his own fate. Though he likes Arroyo, Bierce tries to provoke the General's anger whenever possible in an attempt to get himself killed, thus avoiding suffering through his illness. Winslow is intrigued by both Bierce and Arroyo, and the men are in turn attracted to her. She becomes romantically involved with Arroyo. When Winslow learns of Bierce's true identity (a writer whose work she has loved and respected for years), she is singlemindedly determined to fulfill his dying wish. Written by E.W. DesMarais.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, fairy tale, exciting, romantic, road movie, brutal, entertaining, dramatic
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
Plot Summary:
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult film
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The Race (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
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
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Girl in the Cadillac (1995)
Plot Summary:
A runaway teenage girl and a drifter rob a bank, hit the road to elude the Texas Rangers and find love on the run.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Angelique and the Sultan (1968)
Plot Summary:
This film finds Angélique in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. The first part of the film consist of her angrily refusing to be bedded as well as their trying to literally beat some sense into her. It all seems to go on too long and I was surprised that the Sultan simply didn't have her killed. Late in the film, she finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious, stylized, idiotic
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Joseph Andrews (1977)
Plot Summary:
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: historical drama, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Similar in 82%
Tuesday (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four career criminals, two glamorous bank workers and one over-the-hill has-been all happen to be planning a robbery on a London bank on the same day, by sheer coincidence. The two investigating detectives must try and deduce how these seemingly unrelated people came to be in the area and which were responsible for the lifting a priceless emerald.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: semi serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear, fast, detective
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Tempo (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a young American woman, moves to Paris and gets involved with Jack, who is seemingly the man of her dreams. However, he has a lot to hide and Jenny quickly gets entangled his dangerous lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, independent film
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Rough Cut (1980)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, detective
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Loophole (1981)
Plot Summary:
When architect Stephen Booker loses his partnership, he finds jobs hard to come by, and with money in short supply, he unwittingly becomes involved in a daring scheme to rob one of London's biggest bank vaults.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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The Heist (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Neal Skinner (Pierce Brosnan) seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens (Tom Skerritt) for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, surprise ending, detective, eighties
Similar in 80%
Bank Shot (1974)
Plot Summary:
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Why Me? (1990)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd, independent film, realistic, suspenseful
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Fathom (1967)
Plot Summary:
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas Campbell recruits her to help him on a secret mission. Before long, Fathom realizes that no one around her, including the mysterious Peter Merriweather, can easily be trusted, leading to various adventures that involve bull fighting, beaches and, of course, romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, grindhouse, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 90%
Royal Flash (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mind blowing, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, period drama
Similar in 83%
In Gold We Trust (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Similar in 81%
Beyond Justice (1991)
Plot Summary:
A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him back to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage, cult film
Similar in 83%
Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Firpo Brothers can get away with anything. They just can't get away!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, light, funny, absurd, hilarious, feel good, anamorphic, offbeat, realistic
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Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Plot Summary:
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent (Cheryl Campbell) teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger (James Warwick) to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Getting Even (1986)
Plot Summary:
A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
Open Desert (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's supposed to be a dream vacation with the man she loves, but trapped in the open desert with no water, in the deadly heat and with a seductive stranger, Lucie St. James' dream quickly turns into a nightmare. A life or death battle she's ill-equipped to fight. But to surrender is to die. And Lucie refuses to die...at least for now. If she survives Lucie St. James also has to decide which life she wants to live. A secure but mundane existence with her fiancee David or the adventure promised by the wild and mysterious Ben. When David's demanding work keeps him glued to his phone during their vacation, Lucie vows to make the best of the situation. She leaves David in the hotel and ventures off to explore the desert with Ben. The adventure turns deadly in a heartbeat. Only hours into the trip, Ben's truck breaks down in the middle of the desert. To leave the truck means facing the lethal heat, the dangerous desert and even more dangerous natives. But to stay put, means certain death.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Similar in 84%
Cache Cash (1994)
Plot Summary:
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense
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Hanover Street (1979)
Plot Summary:
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, period piece, vintage
Similar in 77%
The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)
Plot Summary:
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, cult classic, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, tense, light
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Plot Summary:
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: UK, France, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, cult classic, exciting, humorous, semi serious, scary, parody, funny, romantic, sexy
Similar in 84%
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Plot Summary:
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: epic, funny, cult classic, humorous, witty, fairy tale, thrilling, exciting, realistic, stylized