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Plot Summary:
A sadistic rapist is atacking female students on a college campus. The college enlists the help of wealthy record producer Craig Merkel who hires his old friend Don Potter to teach the students self-defence. Don meets waitress Eve Campo who has her heart set on a singing career, so Don introduces her to Craig. However Craig has much more than her career on his mind.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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High Kicks (1993)
Plot Summary:
Toughs are troubling Sandy and her new aerobics studio; with the help of new employee Sam (a karate expert), she shows them who is boss.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Blackbelt II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Brad Spyder flies to Hawaii to uncover a web of bribery, betrayal and lies and when Spyder finds his partner dead, a cat and mouse game between killer and cop begins.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Tooth for a Tooth (1973)
Plot Summary:
Kung fu sensation Cheung Lik stars as the rough and ready kung fu kid who is tricked into robbing a triad boss. Amongst the things he steals is a contract for opium distribution between the triad boss and the Japanese Yakuza. Now the stage is set for some hate! The triads and the Japs send out all their top fighters to get the list back off the kid before he goes to the police with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Animal (2004)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on a rape case that happened to two sisters in Cebu, Visayas, Philippines in late 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Showdown At The Equator (1978)
Plot Summary:
An undercover detective uses a restaurant targeted for harassment by a criminal gang to infiltrate the gang and arrest its members.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Instructor (1981)
Plot Summary:
The action never stops in this stunt-packed karate extravaganza of a black belt instructor who proves that his talents and expertise can be used to defend instead of destroy. The Instructor runs a local karate school and tries to impart to his students a sense of dignity along with the intricacies of the sport. When he is threatened by a rival school’s owner he puts his teachings into action. Through spectacular car chases and gripping hand-to-hand battles he tracks, pursues and corners his adversary. 1983.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Growling Tiger (1974)
Plot Summary:
The members of an illicit organization called The Black Hand placed a lot of money on Bruce Lee. When Bruce, however, costs them a million dollar they are not happy and plot revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Tattoo Connection (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (1979)
Plot Summary:
Kung Fu star Dragon Lee appears as 'Golden Dragon', who teams up with 'Silver Snake' to take revenge on the men responsible for his brother's murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Hero Tattooed with Nine Dragons (1978)
Plot Summary:
He's just a hotheaded, rude and violent young man who loves punching people. His family are killed in a revenge attack and he seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Naan Sigappu Manithan (1985)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags:
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Lethal Woman (1988)
Plot Summary:
A group of men are told that they have won an "erotic vacation" at a fantasy island. In reality, they are being lured to the island by women they have wronged, and once there they are captured and set loose on the island to be hunted down.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three Days To A Kill (1992)
Plot Summary:
At a Chicago-area naval base, an ambassador is kidnapped. Later, a Navy officer calls his friend Cal for help. A Colombian drug lord is holding the ambassador, and the officer wants Cal to rescue the man. Cal convinces the officer to get a pardon for imprisoned explosives expert Rick, and together Cal and Rick form an uneasy partnership. They travel to meet Yolanda, a stripper who supposedly knows the location of this drug lord, named Perez (who looks like a creation out of Madame Tussaud's). Our threesome then sets about to rescue the ambassador. Cal, Rick, and Yolanda meet resistance at every turn; apparently Perez's men have the drop on them. After multiple shootouts, Cal convinces Yolanda to use her son as a pawn to draw Perez away from his home, and then all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Black Alley Cats (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Mondo Keyhole (1966)
Plot Summary:
Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he's unclear how much of what he's done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Bruce's Fingers (1976)
Plot Summary:
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Wong's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her along with the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Without Her Consent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Broken (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man becomes a fugitive from the police after he kills one of the men who raped and murdered his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: twisted, crying
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The 18 Amazones (1979)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless Warlord from Manchuria builds a martial arts labyrinth that contains 18 martial art amazons, many try to enter but none leave, until Dragon Lee, seeking to avenge his father: his skills are good enough to defeat the 18 fighters and the warlord.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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The Chinese Boxer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Kung Fu Fever (1979)
Plot Summary:
A training manual supposed used by Bruce Lee himself has mysteriously disappeared and is highly sought after by good and evil alike.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, Taiwan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Bruce the Super Hero (1979)
Plot Summary:
Bruce returns to Manila to investigate the murder of his sister, Susan Chang. On the night of her attack she was helped by an amateur-boxer, Ramon "Rocky" Roblado. Behind Susan's death is the 'Black Dragon Society', who are searching for a sacred Samurai sword hilt which contains a map leading to a hidden location of one billion in Gold. Upon the discovery that Rocky may have the artefact, the leader of the Black Dragon's orders his men to retrieve it for him at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1976)
Plot Summary:
This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a private investigation and ends up avenging the brutal death of his own girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Plot Summary:
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, fast, psychotronic
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Martial Outlaw (1993)
Plot Summary:
A DEA agent and his brother, a Los Angeles cop, battle the Russian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Cry Rape (1973)
Plot Summary:
A man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Karate Warriors (1976)
Plot Summary:
The fourth and final film in the "Street Fighter" series, where Tsurugi protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Blood and Bone (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, an ex-con (White) takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, inspirational, brutal, harsh, rough, suspenseful, serious, intense, motivational, hood