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Plot Summary:
A black boxer whose daughter was murdered by bikers joins up with a white repo man to battle street gangs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Talk to the Gun (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bryce Turner, a former bounty hunter loses everything even his 8 year old daughter taken by a corrupt and vengful business man. But nothing will stop him from finding her alive and putting the pieces of his life back together again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Deaden (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ex-undercover cop turned biker Rane, witnesses the brutal murder of his pregnant wife by his crew who have learned about his old policemen days. Upon his exit from the hospital, he arms himself to the teeth and goes on an substance fueled, psychotic rampage, in the name of retribution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Loha (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shankar (Dharmendra), a well-meaning but disgraced cop, is determined to fight a corrupt system, taking to task miscreants and criminals in his city. The movie begins as an aspiring underworld don, Lukkabhai (Mohan Joshi) ousts his erstwhile mentor Tandyabhai (Deepak Shirke), to emerge as the reigning champion of a crime infested world. Elsewhere, Arjun (Mithun Chakraborty), an ex-military man, has forfeited his love and career as a consequence of hitching up with a local goon. As a result, Arjun seeks his refuge in liquor. Shankar chances upon Arjun and rescues him when Arjun hits rock bottom. Meanwhile, angered by Shankar's meddling, Lukka rapes and kills Shankar's sister to teach him a lesson. Infuriated, Shankar teams up with Arjun, who now is indebted to him, and Mustafabhai (Shakti Kapoor), who wants payback for Lukka chopping his hands off. Together, they deliver the kingpin of the underworld and his minions to a well-deserved end, restoring harmony and justice to society.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Kill Squad (1981)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy business man is a victim of an assault and is shot and wheelchair bound while his wife is gang raped and murdered. He then assembles his motley squad of Vietnam buddies to kung fu their way to revenge and get those muthas back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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Unwanted (2016)
Plot Summary:
Immigrants cross the border to live the American dream but later their dreams turn into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Owl (1991)
Plot Summary:
After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Killpoint (1984)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Fists of Iron (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Dale Hartwell's best friend gets killed, he swears revenge on the bloodthirsty promoter and fighter who did it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Executioner (1975)
Plot Summary:
Cellat, the Turkish version of Death Wish, sticks fairly close plot wise to the template of the American film, with some scenes and bits of dialogue being almost identical. However, it also deviates from its inspiration at times and is at its most interesting and valuable in these little moments, providing lurid snapshots of a place and a culture.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action
Country: Turkey
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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My Samurai (1992)
Plot Summary:
A boy, Peter McCrea, witnesses a gangland murder. He turns to his martial arts teacher, Young Park, to help defend him from the gangsters. On the run from both the gang and the police, Peter learns self-defense and the courage to face his fears.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Alley Cat (1984)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young martial arts expert stops a vicious street gang from robbing her grandparents' house. The gang marks her for murder, but her grandparents are killed instead. The girl sets out to take her revenge on the gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film
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No Safe Haven (1987)
Plot Summary:
When his family is murdered by members of a drug gang, an undercover CIA agent tracks them down, but they escape and flee to their hideout, a fortress in South America. Knowing he can't count on the local authorities for aid, he calls on one of his fellow CIA agents for help in cracking the fortress, and getting to the gangsters and eliminating them and their leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dark Measures (2009)
Plot Summary:
A gritty independent film which follows the crime spree of a vicious pack of thugs. Molly's calm 9-5 life is turned upside down when the gang brutally attacks her. She survives a horrific ordeal only to find the thugs want her dead before she can bring the law down on them. Her only hope to protect herself is to trust the detectives working on the case, and stand her ground and the fight the murdering thieves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, detective
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The Immoral Three (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three attractive sisters have one year to avenge their mother's murder and collect her inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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Cherry Bomb (2011)
Plot Summary:
An homage to the action films of the early 1980s, Cherry Bomb follows a young dancer and her quest for revenge against the group of men that brutally assaulted her. Seeing no justice coming from within the system Cherry enlists the help of her estranged older brother and some heavy firepower as the two siblings set out on a reckless revenge mission. Things start to spiral out of control when a mysterious hit man named Bull is hired to put an end to Cherry's bloody tirade. She soon realizes that there is more at stake than she ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Street Corner Justice (1996)
Plot Summary:
Pittsburgh cop Mike Justus is kicked off the force and moves away to relax in sunny Los Angeles. Unfortunately his dream retirement turns out to be a nightmare and he is forced to deal out his own brand of street corner justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, detective
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Gatorbait II: Cajun Justice (1988)
Plot Summary:
A sweet city girl initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana swamp by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T". She ends up putting her newly acquired survival skills to good use when she is kidnapped by Big T's chief rival Leroy and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, sexual, sexploitation film
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Street Soldiers (1991)
Plot Summary:
Warring teenage street gangs provide the fodder for this martial arts actioner. Things really heat up when each gang finds a martial arts experts to train them out to fight.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Revenge of the Punks (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Charles Bronson look-alike takes on a gaggle of punks terrorizing a small town.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: hood, weird
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The Immortal Wars (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future the world has been split into sectors, humans have captured deviants and force them to fight to the death. Madman Dominion Harvey hosts the immortal wars and televises the show to the entire planet. Trikalypse and fellow deviants will not only fight to survive, but to bring down Dominion Industries.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
Remo Street is a young fighter who comes from a world where nothing is easy, so when he is faced with the opportunity to train with a world class coach, he has to choose between the long hard road to honor and glory, or succumbing to a brutal future as a cage fighter for the Russian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Pit Fighter (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jack Severino has no memory, all he knows is the brutal sport of Pit Fighting. When his past catches him up, he realizes he is not who he thought he was. For some men must fight for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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The Hard Way (2019)
Plot Summary:
After learning of his brother's death during a mission in Romania, a former soldier joins two allies to hunt down a mysterious enemy and take his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, disturbing, perverse
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Area of Conflict (2017)
Plot Summary:
Human traffickers wipe out a young girl's family and village. She then seeks revenge on those responsible, eventually becoming first the hunted then turning into the hunters with the mercenary hired to eliminate her.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Moving Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't commit, the man struggles to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name and find the identity of the real killer. Moving Target also features Bill Murphy, Hilary Kavanagh, and Terry McMahon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Riot (2015)
Plot Summary:
Copper Jack Stone purposefully orchestrates a bank robbery in order to be thrown into prison with the notorious Russian kingpin Balam. Balam is more than just a mob criminal; he's a very cunning and dangerous lord who controls the police force from behind bars. Balam lives in prison as a cover for his real power, which is King of the city. His cell is a lavish private room built specifically for him, inaccessible to most in the depths of the prison structure. Even the warden fears venturing into his area of the prison. However, even surrounded by his loyal henchmen and guards in his sectioned off fortress, Balam doesn't know Jack is coming for him to avenge his family, who Balam murdered in cold blood. Balam is tough... but Jack is tougher.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, perverse
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Mexican Gangster (2008)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Sun is a Mexican American with a white mother and Mexican dad. He witnesses his parents murder and gets his revenge years later, leading to a hard life as a gangster in drugs and smuggling. He tries to keep his borther from the life and finds himself fending for his own life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Stranger (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of High Plains Drifter, a female biker rides into a desert town to seek revenge on "Angel" and his ruthless gang.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Female Convict Scorpion (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a band of assassins invade the home of their target Hei Tai they find only his lovely, innocent, bride-to-be, Nami and force upon her a cruel dilemma: either she kills her fiancee’s sister or they kill her fiancee. Trapped, and unable to confide in the person she loves most, Nami kills her fiancee’s sister and is sent to prison where she survives only by becoming as ruthless as those around her. Trained to fight by a fellow inmate, Nami develops the skills and strength to escape and sets out on a quest for revenge. After killing two of the assassins she’s reunited with Hei Tai who’s still unaware she killed his sister. As their love is rekindled Nami decides to abandon her crusade of vengeance when the remaining assassin finds them and tells Hei Tai what Nami did. Nami realizes she can never rest until she finds and defeats the assassins’ employer, but now her beloved’s torn between helping her and his own personal desire for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, retro, naughty, bleak, realistic