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Plot Summary:
Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 171000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, action packed, action adventure, saga, action thriller, intellectual, scenic, grindhouse, perverse
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Taken 3 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular set of skills to track the real killer and exact his unique brand of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 202000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, fast paced, action packed, detective, saga, action thriller, breathtaking, perverse
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The Hunter's Prayer (2017)
Plot Summary:
An assassin forges an unlikely partnership with one of his targets: a woman seeking revenge for the murder of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, satanic, action thriller, surprise ending, independent film, exciting, neo noir
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The A-Team (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 267000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, entertaining, intense, action adventure, funny, stylized, grindhouse, action comedy
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Seeking Justice (2011)
Plot Summary:
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, intense, tense, enigmatic, serious, rough, realistic, thought provoking, captivating
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Black Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, tense, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film
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Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Plot Summary:
Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, humorous, intense, captivating, cliffhanger, clever, political, saga
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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
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Hard to Kill (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, rough, realistic, fast
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Maximum Force (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
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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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Peppermint (2018)
Plot Summary:
A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, neo noir, independent film, psychological, feel good, emotional, hood, fast paced, deep
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Momentum (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, perverse, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, tension
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Mile 22 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, surprise ending, political, twist ending, fast paced, anamorphic
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Blacklight (2022)
Plot Summary:
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfil his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 370000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, France, Norway, UK
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: action adventure, psychological thriller, cliffhanger, exciting, clever, epic, bloody, political, slasher, political thriller
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Jack Reacher (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 359000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, detective, suspenseful, serious, clever, intense, realistic, action packed, action adventure
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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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Jason Bourne (2016)
Plot Summary:
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Spain, Japan, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, intense, action adventure, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, action thriller, political
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The Equalizer 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Robert McCall returns to deliver his special brand of vigilante justice -- but how far will he go when it's someone he loves?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 188000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, action thriller, action adventure, retro, bloody, cult classic, mind blowing, neo noir, ambiguous ending, surprise ending
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The Foreigner (2017)
Plot Summary:
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in a senseless act of politically-motivated terrorism. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA, India
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, harsh, independent film, psychological, bloody, political, sad, scenic, neo western
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Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
Plot Summary:
When his housekeeper’s daughter is kidnapped, Rambo crosses the U.S.-Mexican border to bring her home but finds himself up against the full might of one of Mexico’s most ruthless cartels.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, action adventure, emotional, captivating, controversial, cliffhanger, crime drama, cult classic, action thriller
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
Plot Summary:
John Wick is on the run for two reasons… he’s being hunted for a global $14 million dollar open contract on his life, and for breaking a central rule: taking a life on Continental Hotel grounds. The victim was a member of the High Table who ordered the open contract. John should have already been executed, except the Continental’s manager, Winston, has given him a one-hour grace period before he’s “Excommunicado” – membership revoked, banned from all services and cut off from other members. John uses the service industry to stay alive as he fights and kills his way out of New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 413000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: brutal, exciting, tense, suspense, harsh, action adventure, psychological, intellectual, epic, entertaining
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The Equalizer (2014)
Plot Summary:
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 407000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspense, brutal, tense, stylized, suspenseful, captivating, action packed, action thriller
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The Accountant (2016)
Plot Summary:
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, intense, clever, action thriller, crime thriller, neo noir, psychological
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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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The Mummy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspense, light, entertaining, intense, action packed, psychotronic, tense, captivating
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, entertaining, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Nobody (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 312000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, action thriller, funny, entertaining, suspenseful, bloody, slasher, hood, anamorphic
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John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 498000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: brutal, suspense, bloody, exciting, tense, neo noir, entertaining, realistic, stylized, scenic