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Plot Summary:
While on a business trip, Tom Phillips is in a car accident caused by a reckless driver. Tom survives the accident with a severe chronic back injury which results in him not being able to continue with his current business. The Phillips' buy a motel in the California desert and Tom with his wife Peg and their two children, Tina and Jamie make the long road trip to their new home. As they approach their destination they are terrorized by reckless teenage hot-rodders looking for kicks.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, psychedelic, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, slang
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Terror On The Beach (1973)
Plot Summary:
A family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, creepy
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Free Ride (2013)
Plot Summary:
A single mom in the 1970s raises her two daughters and becomes involved in illegal drug trade to make a better life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, retro, grindhouse, independent film
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Kitten with a Whip (1964)
Plot Summary:
Jody, a juvenile delinquent, escapes from reform school by stabbing a matron and attempting to burn down the building and then takes refuge in a house owned by an ambitious politician David Patton. Despite the hellcat's ample charms, the would-be officeholder wants nothing to do with her and tries to drive her away. She responds by shortly returning to his house accompanied by a gang of delinquent pals and taking him hostage. A sudden act of violence causes more trouble, leading Jody and her gang to hijack David and force him to drive a getaway car to Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political, grindhouse, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, juvenile, campy
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The Choppers (1961)
Plot Summary:
A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, art house
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Cop Killers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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The California Kid (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spooky, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Roadracers (1994)
Plot Summary:
Cynical look at a '50s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, psychological, captivating, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
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Hell's Belles (1969)
Plot Summary:
When hot-headed Dan out-drives the thoroughly vicious Tony in a motorcycle race and wins a brand new bike, he sets in motion a chain of events that includes one blazing gas station and a disastrous rock slide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, period piece, independent film, road movie, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Return to Macon County (1975)
Plot Summary:
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Born Losers (1967)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless motorcycle gang rides into a California town and terrorizes its denizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, hood, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lost in Plainview (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, exciting, scary, realistic
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The Wild Racers (1968)
Plot Summary:
Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Europe. After limited success he manages to win the Spanish Grand Prix. His love life however, is much less successful and his winning on the track only serves to alienate the woman he loves - with unhappy consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Wild Angels (1966)
Plot Summary:
Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California while Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychedelic, hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic
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Motorpsycho! (1965)
Plot Summary:
Three bad boy motorcyclists get kicks raping other people's women and generally being a nuisance. When they rape a veterinarian's wife, he takes exception and pursues them, teaming up with a Cajun woman whose husband they killed. The leader of the gang, a Vietnam Vet, begins showing signs of being a few slices short of a loaf.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, road movie, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, weird
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Runaway (2005)
Plot Summary:
Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael works at a convenience store where everything starts to come together for him. But as Michael falls in love with his beautiful co-worker, Carly, his past begin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Devil's Angels (1967)
Plot Summary:
An exiled band of Hell's Angels strike a bargain with the Sheriff of a local town, let them stay and the town is safe. But a local girl strays into their lair and sparks off a full scale Angel war.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychotronic
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Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Plot Summary:
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, grindhouse, cult classic, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Road Rage (2000)
Plot Summary:
The highway to hell runs straight through a college campus in this compelling thriller about a killer truck. After helping a pretty co-ed out of a nasty domestic situation, Jim Travis gives the girl a lift home. But once on the road, the situation takes a white-knuckle twist as Jim gets into a frightening duel with a crazy truck driver.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic
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Bullies (1986)
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When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now they are harassing the Morris family every chance they get. Matt meanwhile meets and starts seeing a lot of Becky who also likes him. Unfortunately her last name is Cullen, and when the rest of the family finds out about their relationship, they decide to get even, and their harassment is elevated to vicious assault.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Duel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, suspense, exciting, tension, psychological thriller, psychological, creepy, intense, slasher
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The Road Killers (1994)
Plot Summary:
After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, anamorphic, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Betrayal (2003)
Plot Summary:
When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, spoof, parody
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The Principal (1987)
Plot Summary:
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, inspirational, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Airport 1975 (1974)
Plot Summary:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, fast, crying, black comedy
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Plot Summary:
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gain a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie, meditative, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing, serious, realistic, cult classic, existential, independent film
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Malone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, neo noir, perverse, visually stunning, surprise ending, psychotronic
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic, disturbing, stylized, intense, rough, serious
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Death Proof (2007)
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Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 309000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: road movie, sexy, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense, absurd, scary, rough, exciting, cynical
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Earthquake (1974)
Plot Summary:
Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough, bad ending, psychotronic, sad, cult classic, serious, realistic
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Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
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