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Plot Summary:
Medical and de-mining personnel for the United Nations must escape from war-torn Angola before revolutionaries kill them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action
Country: South Africa, UK, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Wild Zone (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in the outback of Africa's Okavango Delta, Wayne Garrison, a former Green Beret, dedicated to the conservation of the region, finds himself forced back into action.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dragon Hunt (1990)
Plot Summary:
The people's private army and their crazed leader Jake, have a simple plan - take over the world. But, there are three things in their way, money and two deadly kickboxers - The Twin Dragons (Michael and Martin McNamara). Jake's devious plan has the Twin Dragons captured, drugged, and set loose on an island for a little game called "Kill the Twins." Outnumbered and out-gunned, the Twins spring into action turning the hunters into the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy, cult film
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Askal (1997)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Askal (John Regala) hardened by life in poverty. All grown up, he uses his skills to stop the spreading of 'Askals' (Asong-Kalye, Street Dog; used as a metaphor for street children) and give them a better future. Stopping the root of all crimes and poverty in the process. A modern-day Robin Hood.
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Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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The Company Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
When mercenaries attack, Ernest Gray's solemn life as a bookstore owner is revealed to be a cover, and his real identity as an ex-CIA agent puts his family at risk.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dread
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Merchants of War (1989)
Plot Summary:
The heroes are best friends and commandos sent on a covert mission by the CIA. The mission is a success, but the two incur the wrath of the world's most feared terrorist, a fanatical Islamic, when they set out to do one last mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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The Firing Line (1988)
Plot Summary:
An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's arrested and tortured but soon escapes, along with a beautiful American woman, in order to join the rebels.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, cult film
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The Sixth (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Civil War in Russia has just finished. The sixth chief of militia came to a small town in the south. Five Glodov’s predecessors had been killed by a gang of elusive Vakhromeyev. Now Glodov and his crew are going to have a mortal combat with the smart gangsters….
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
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Hitman the Cobra (1987)
Plot Summary:
Philippe (Richard Harrison) kills Roger (who sold information to the Japanese). Mike (Mike Abbott), Roger's brother, wants revenge and sends Bob, Blackie (Nathan Mutanda Chukueke) to find Philip.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
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Operation Cobra (1995)
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A family is held prisoner in their own house, when a summit conference is to be held in Nærum. The terrorist group has the plan of preventing this meeting and therefor capturing a family, and their house until the conference is held. Frederik, the main character, wants to stop them and with a little help from his friends, they try.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Armadong Hudas (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino action movie directed by Augusto Salvador which is a followup from the movie Barumbado(1990).
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Run (2016)
Plot Summary:
"A woman finds out on her morning jog that, if she stops running, she will die...".
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Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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Animal Protector (1989)
Plot Summary:
Swedish animal rights action film. Also known as "Born to Kill".
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cobra Thunderbolt (1987)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a brilliant Thai army colonel, who invented the machine battle Cobra Thunderbolt, takes on the lao-army to rescue his kidnapped father.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Emong Salvacion (1996)
Plot Summary:
A film by Francis Posadas.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Wild Justice (1994)
Plot Summary:
Colonel Peter Stride is on the trail of a mysterious international criminal known only as Caliph.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags:
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Slow Burn (1989)
Plot Summary:
A veteran cop is after a Mafia hitman, who killed his partner. Unbeknownst to him, a rookie cop has gone undercover to also catch the hitman, who murdered his parents. In order to get close to the hitman, the rookie has cozied up to the hitman's boss, who is in the middle of a gang war with a rival Chinese mob.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Der Stein des Todes (1987)
Plot Summary:
Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action
Country: West Germany, Sri Lanka
Duration: 93 min
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Snake Eater III: His Law (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet named soldier is hired to find a biker gang called Hell's Fury, which kidnapped, drugged, and raped a young girl, and exact revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: perverse, independent film
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Terminator Woman (1993)
Plot Summary:
Two LA cops, Julie and Jay, must return Marsalas to Africa to stand trial as the chief state witness against international villain Alex Gatelee. Gatelee, into everything from gold smuggling to female slave trade, hijacks the party. In a vicious shoot out Julie and Jay overcome Gatelee's men. Gatelee then has Julie kidnapped from one of his nightclubs. He tries to use Julie as bait to get Jay to hand over Marsalas in exchange for Julie.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Munna (2007)
Plot Summary:
Munna (Prabhas) is a college student. His aim is to finish off mafia don Kakha (Prakash Raj) who keeps the entire city under his grip. Munna has personal vengeance to take on Kakha. An honest politician Srinivasa Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao) relentlessly works to expose Kakha but gets killed. Meanwhile, Munna’s classmate Nidhi (Ileana D'Cruz) falls in love with him. The twist in the tale is that Kakha is none other than his estranged father who tries to sell off his mother and was responsible for the death of his mother and his kid sister. Another don in the city named Aatma, who is the opposition of Kakha (Rahul Dev) asks Munna to join him. But Munna refuses his proposal. Munna starts to beat Kakha and the mind game begins. Kakha's second wife and son-daughter left him and join Munna. After some incidents including the death of his best friend, Munna finds out that Aatma was working for Kakha all along.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Phantom Raiders (1988)
Plot Summary:
Deep within the steaming tropical jungles of Vietnam is a Viet Cong terrorist training camp, run by an ex-Green Beret, William Marshall. A roving photographer stumbles upon the hidden camp and starts to take pictures. He is caught and summarily executed but the photos make it back to Washington. The CIA decide to send in an elite team of jungle warfare commandos, the Phantom Raiders, to establish whether Marshall is a POW or has gone bad. But another element has been added to this dangerous game. One of the Phantom Raiders is Marshall's son. Now he must come face to face with the enigma that was his father. The Phantom Raiders is a non-stop film of explosive action, with enough mayhem to leave you breathless.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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City of Fear (2000)
Plot Summary:
When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, UK, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, independent film, exciting
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Queen's Messenger (2001)
Plot Summary:
By order of Her Majesty's Secret Service, Captain Strong is given a dangerous assignment to deliver a delicate communication to the British Ambassador in Kazakhstan. As the senior officer for the elite Queen's Messenger corps, Captain Strong must pledge to protect his diplomatic cargo with his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Action
Country: Bulgaria, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, informative
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Diamondbacks (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Diamondback Militia violently opposes certain US policies regarding satellite info. After a lightening attack on a federal courthouse, the Militia takes over a space shuttle tracking station. The goal...to take control of a multi-billion dollar communications satellite. Who will save the space shuttle and it's crew?.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Skeleton Coast (1988)
Plot Summary:
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Expert (1995)
Plot Summary:
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved sister's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action
Country: USA, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Witness to a Kill (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Queen's Messenger is called to convey vital dispatches to a highly secretive conference called to combat the activities of modern poachers who threaten the economies of many African states.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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To the Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Tactical Force (2011)
Plot Summary:
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film, fast, cult film