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Plot Summary:
A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is a mercenary and their job is to free an imprisoned rebel leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Hired to Kill (1990):
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The Runner (1992)
Plot Summary:
A group of journalists used to covering international war zones travel to a remote island on a no holds barred survival training course which swiftly gets out of hand under the tuition of two unhinged ex-military types. Running in the background, we hear news of impending nuclear war, which further affects the behaviour of the crazy 'tutors'.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rage to Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
Race-car driver Blaine Striker grows concerned about his younger brother, a student at a medical school on the Caribbean island of St. Heron. General Turner has led a violent coup on this island and may be planning to blow up the school in order to blame the destruction on counterrevolutionaries. Striker infiltrates St. Heron, is captured, stripped to his tighty-whiteys, and electrotortured. He escapes, joins forces with the counterrevolutionaries, and foils a plot to assemble Russian missiles on the island.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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The Revenger (1990)
Plot Summary:
When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have to escape the clutches of the mob in Harry's remote cabin. Will Jack Fisher retrieve his money or will Mike get his revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Death Machines (1976)
Plot Summary:
An evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Silk 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Born Killer (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two deranged and homicidal escaped convicts terrorize a group of survivalists engaged in a paint-ball war.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Checkmate (1973)
Plot Summary:
The Federation's Boss must call their best agent out of a bedroom romp with a gentleman because the USA, Russia, Britain and France, are under the menace of an atomic weapon carried by their very own super secret joint satellite.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Guns (1990)
Plot Summary:
A South American gunrunner uses an island in Hawaii as his base of operations. A squad of beautiful government agents is sent to put him out of business.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Spin2: Revenge (2015)
Plot Summary:
An AWOL marine in possession of secret government information, is a wanted man, pursued by Russian special ops, the LAPD, and a dangerous assassin.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: action adventure
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The Hit List (1993)
Plot Summary:
A hit man's boss refers him to a client, a dangerous woman who mixes business with pleasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Dead End City (1988)
Plot Summary:
The government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: hood, surprise ending, independent film
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The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Plot Summary:
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, political thriller, cult classic, action thriller, visually stunning, rough, serious, realistic
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Picasso Trigger (1988)
Plot Summary:
Double agent Picasso Trigger is assassinated in Paris by double-crossing bad guy Miguel Ortiz. Then Ortiz begins eliminating agents of The Agency who were involved in his brother's death. The Agency (belatedly) springs into action to stop Ortiz' heinous activities. The usual gunplay, romance, and nifty toys with bombs ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Fatal Justice (1993)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border, the CIA maintains a force of domestic assassins. So secret is their work that their retirement program is a bullet in the head. Up-and-coming hitwoman, Diana, gets the order to dispatch Mars, a legendary CIA killer who's reached "retirement" age. She stalks him while he's in the bush leading a training exercise for recruits. Her pushy boyfriend Rick, also a CIA operative, insists on coming with her. Behind the scenes, a power play within the agency pits Ted Harmon against section boss George Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Kill Chain (2019)
Plot Summary:
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, tense, rough, bloody, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, perverse, action thriller
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Midnight Heat (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Gray, a mild-mannered banker, gets hit by a car and loses most of his memory. When he gets out of the hospital, he has flashbacks which do not fit with his current life. After a strange telephone call and a murder attempt on his wife, Gray's wife is murdered which he is forced to go to L.A. in order to solve the crime and piece together his mysterious past.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Action, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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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
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The Virtuoso (2021)
Plot Summary:
A lonesome stranger with nerves of steel must track down and kill a rogue hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry. No name. No description. Nothing.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Hangfire (1991)
Plot Summary:
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, tension, cult film
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Skyscraper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Command Performance (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. Our two heroes are seriously outnumbered, and things aren't as simple as they appear, when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast, surprise ending
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Maximum Conviction (2012)
Plot Summary:
When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Steele realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, suspense, tense, surprise ending, independent film, freeze frame
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Escape Plan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 254000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, twist ending, clever, entertaining, intense, serious, action packed, brutal
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The November Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action thriller, brutal, visually appealing, clever, political, slasher
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Anna (2019)
Plot Summary:
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, psychological thriller, epic
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The Protege (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, tense, perverse, cult classic, neo noir, realistic, surprise ending, serious
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Submerged (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into heartless killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, fast, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
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American Assassin (2017)
Plot Summary:
Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, exciting, action adventure, tense, suspenseful, bloody, scenic, cult classic, surprise ending
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Atomic Blonde (2017)
Plot Summary:
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 204000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, harsh, retro, action thriller, visually stunning, action adventure, aesthetic
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Extraction (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, action thriller, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film