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Plot Summary:
When a woman's father goes missing, she enlist a local to aid in her search. The pair soon discover that her father has died at the hands of a wealthy sportsman who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, entertaining, intense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, bloody, stylized
Best tv shows and movies like Hard Target (1993):
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Maximum Risk (1996)
Plot Summary:
A policeman takes his twin brother's place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge, the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions, none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a sauna.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, metafiction, cult classic, rough, realistic, fast
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 86%
The Hitman (1991)
Plot Summary:
After surviving an attempt on his life by his former partner, officer Cliff Garrett (Norris) exacts revenge on those who wronged him by going undercover as a hit man. He works to gain the reputation and trust needed in order to be accepted by the burgeoning Seattle-area criminal underworld, but it is all done in order to take it down from within.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, fast
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Death Warrant (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors. When in jail, Lois, using his outstandings martial arts is able to save his life and make himself respected in that violent world. At least, helped by two another prisoners, he succeded in finding the truth about the dreadful crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, tense, captivating, perverse, cult classic
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Sudden Death (1995)
Plot Summary:
International action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a Tension-packed, suspense thriller, set against the back-drop of a Stanley Cup game.Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game. With the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end, Van Damme frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue his daughter and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, exciting, cliffhanger, anamorphic, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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Hunt to Kill (2010)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his daughter hostage, a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead? Daniels portrays one of the villains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cliffhanger, cult classic, rough, realistic, independent film, fast
Similar in 84%
Eraser (1996)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, action packed, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, entertaining, intense, clever
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Bullet to the Head (2012)
Plot Summary:
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, brutal, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, detective, action packed
Similar in 86%
Rapid Fire (1992)
Plot Summary:
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, suspense, crime drama, rough, realistic, fast
Similar in 82%
Raw Deal (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: intense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed, cult classic, hood, perverse
Similar in 75%
Machete (2010)
Plot Summary:
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: brutal, grindhouse, parody, stylized, dark comedy, bloody, absurd, harsh, action packed, exciting
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In Hell (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: harsh, brutal, emotional, stylized, intense, serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Similar in 90%
Romeo Must Die (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or worse!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: intense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, fast paced, action packed, hood, stylized, philosophical, epic
Similar in 83%
Double Impact (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, suspense, cult classic, rough, independent film
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Knock Off (1998)
Plot Summary:
Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a sales representative for "V SIX" jeans, and his partner, Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schneider), are about to be busted for selling "knock off" jeans. Their American contact, Karan Leigh, who by the way is not only their employer but a CIA agent sent to find the mole in their operation, is threatening them with a jail term if they do not prove their innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, buddy comedy, feel good, unusual plot structure
Similar in 82%
Derailed (2002)
Plot Summary:
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the Slovakian Government. Finding Galina doesn't take long, and Jacques must wrap up the mission by returning Galina and the contraband to his superiors by train. Things seem to be going smoothly as Jacques and Galina board the train posing as a couple, but soon all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, rough, fast, psychotronic, freeze frame, sexy, clever
Similar in 75%
Double Team (1997)
Plot Summary:
He's a one-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world. They Don't Play by the Rules. You're either on their side...or in their way. America's top counter-terrorist usually works alone...this time he's got company.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: intense, suspenseful, stylized, action packed, buddy comedy, suspense, entertaining, grindhouse, action comedy, cult classic
Similar in 83%
Street Fighter (1994)
Plot Summary:
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, cult classic, entertaining, funny, light, retro, suspense
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)
Plot Summary:
When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl (ex-football player Jimmy Dix) attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, action comedy, funny, intense, rough, serious, realistic, entertaining, buddy comedy
Similar in 87%
Assassination Games (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Romania
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, intense, cult classic, surprise ending, neo noir
Similar in 81%
Code of Silence (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 76%
Safe (2012)
Plot Summary:
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, fast paced, action packed, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, inspirational
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Marked for Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, grindhouse, intense, hood, cult classic
Similar in 88%
Surviving the Game (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mason is a man down on his luck with nothing to lose when he's approached to lead a group of wealthy hunters on an expedition in the Pacific Northwest. But things get really twisted when Mason discovers the group isn't after wild animals -- they're after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, exciting, road movie, cliffhanger, psychotronic, perverse, action thriller
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Cliffhanger (1993)
Plot Summary:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed, rough, realistic, breathtaking, entertaining, inspirational
Similar in 77%
Face/Off (1997)
Plot Summary:
An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent's family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 395000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, stylized, action packed, suspenseful, neo noir, rough, action thriller, entertaining, intense
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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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Hitman (2007)
Plot Summary:
The best-selling videogame, Hitman, roars to life with both barrels blazing in this hardcore action-thriller starring Timothy Olyphant. A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, action packed, stylized, fast paced, suspenseful, breathtaking, bloody, realistic, emotional
Similar in 78%
John Wick (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 722000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, neo noir, serious, brutal, entertaining, suspense, action thriller, rough, cult classic
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Universal Soldier (1992)
Plot Summary:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody, suspense, entertaining, cult classic