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Plot Summary:
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, independent film, humorous, semi serious, spoof, meta, parody
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99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, surprise ending, slang
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Why Me? (1990)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd, independent film, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Spy with My Face (1965)
Plot Summary:
Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody, psychotronic, spoof, eurospy, campy
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Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
Plot Summary:
After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a loop when a prestigious Los Angeles newspaper offers his honey a job. The family migrates back to the United States, and Croc and son soon find themselves learning some lessons about American life -- many of them inadvertent.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, realistic, fast, parody, funny, light, romantic
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Ring of the Musketeers (1992)
Plot Summary:
Modern day "Musketeers" attempt to become protectors of the inocent. While the biking trio rescue kindnapped children, guard witnesses, and chase mafia types, they also seek the missing fourth musketeer, who wears the famous musketeers' ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, independent film, rough, realistic, spoof, parody
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Beer for My Horses (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Beer for My Horses" tells the story of two best friends that work together as deputies in a small town. The two defy the Sheriff and head off on an outrageous road trip to save the protagonist's girlfriend from drug lord kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Mr. Nice Guy (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese chef accidentally gets involved with a news reporter who filmed a drug bust that went awry and is now being chased by gangs who are trying to get the video tape.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, action comedy, freeze frame, cult classic, action adventure, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Batman: The Movie (1966)
Plot Summary:
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, humorous, stylized, psychotronic, funny, retro, epic, saga, semi serious
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The Karate Killers (1967)
Plot Summary:
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, psychotronic, spoof, double entendre, parody, campy
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
Plot Summary:
When diabolical genius, Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo’, Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself – with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell – to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions and saves the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, teen sex comedy, funny, satirical, hilarious, cult classic, action comedy, spy comedy, slapstick comedy
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Fifty/Fifty (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
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Dadnapped (2009)
Plot Summary:
Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry, only her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is "dadnapped" by a group of overzealous fans, it's up to Melissa to help him by tapping her inner superhero.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Armour of God (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious sword in Africa, a band of Satan-worshipping monks kidnap his ex-girlfriend Lorelei, demanding the sword as ransom as well as other pieces of the legendary Armour of God - a magical outfit dating back to the Crusades.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, stylized, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, fast, sexy, thought provoking, clever
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Chinese Zodiac (2012)
Plot Summary:
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student & a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic, action packed, hilarious, slapstick, fast
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Plot Summary:
When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer, Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, cult classic, exciting, stylized, entertaining, semi serious, suspenseful, parody, surreal, grindhouse
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Jane and the Lost City (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jane and the Colonel must journey to Africa to the lost city to retrieve the diamonds before the Nazis do. Comedy based on the popular wartime comic strip.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, saga, semi serious, independent film, campy
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Firewalker (1986)
Plot Summary:
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, cult classic, buddy comedy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, one man show
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Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, feel good, humorous, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, clever
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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, atmospheric, rough, humorous, semi serious, mockbuster, stylized
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, cult classic, inspirational, breathtaking, saga
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Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991)
Plot Summary:
Agent Jackie is hired to find WWII Nazi gold hidden in the Sahara desert. He teams up with three bungling women (the 3 stooges?) who are all connected in some way. However a team of mercenries have ideas on the ownership of the gold. A battle / chase ensues as to who gets there first. Lots of choregraphed Kung-Fu and quirky Chan humor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, intense, slapstick, cult classic, realistic, fast
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Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)
Plot Summary:
A secret society, the Delta Knights, attempts to save a medieval society from the evil over-lady.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, independent film, psychotronic
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Barbarian (2003)
Plot Summary:
An ancient land suffocates in the shadow of evil. A dark lord rules unopposed. One warrior will become legend. He is the Barbarian... the last great warrior king.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, humorous
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Plot Summary:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, breathtaking, action adventure
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The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
Plot Summary:
Wrongfully accused and on the run, a top MI6 assassin joins forces with his long-lost, football hooligan brother to save the world from a sinister plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, humorous, not serious, exciting, funny, action comedy, surreal, spoof, hilarious
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a rogue agent who might be responsible.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, stylized, humorous, realistic, not serious, action packed, action adventure, exciting, motivational, heroic
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, light, humorous, semi serious, retro, feel good, suspense, anamorphic, hilarious
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Sahara (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy, hilarious, action adventure, romantic, atmospheric, action comedy
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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, funny, retro, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, atmospheric
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Plot Summary:
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure, humorous, bad ending, harsh