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Plot Summary:
Four very retired, ex-GDR spies, or "Kundschafter des Friedens" as they were officially named, led by the once legendary Jochen Falk, are called on by the German government. Their mission is to rescue the interim president of the divided Republic of Katschekistan, who has been kidnapped by separatists, along with Berlin's official man on the ground, Franz Kern. To keep Jochen and his maybe no longer so crack team under control, all of whom are determined to prove they were treated unfairly by history, they are put under the command of the young and enthusiastic BND agent Paula Kern.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense
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Offroad (2012)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who had her future planned as junior manager of her father's company encounters life-changing events.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Big Match (2014)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ik-Ho (Lee Jung-Jae) is a martial arts star with talent for action and humor. But one day, he is framed for murder. Ace (Shin Ha-Kyun) is a game planner, who makes a game for the Korean upper class. He is a villain who makes a city into a big gameboard through technology. Ace and Choi Ik-Ho become adversaries as Choi Ik-Ho jumps into the game to save his brother. -asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating
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Royce (1994)
Plot Summary:
Royce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for forming Black Hole disbands the organization, Royce's fellow Black Hole members plot revenge on the man responsible for them losing their jobs. Royce decides not to join them, instead deciding to thwart their attempts to exact revenge on the senator.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Gun Shy (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mega-platinum, aging rock star's supermodel wife is abducted by pirates while vacationing in Chile.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, action comedy
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Mother 007 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nina Wenzel used to be an undercover agent. After her sister's death five years ago Nina gets child custody of the three orphans and quits her dangerous job. In her new family-life she manages to retain some of her skills. When Wolf Geiger, the last person Nina imprisoned, escapes, Nina's old skills are needed again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining
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The Assault (2017)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her best friend go on a crime spree to rob her husband and escape her marriage.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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The Throwaways (2015)
Plot Summary:
Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison. Agreeing on the condition that he can form his own team, he puts together a group of "throwaways" - the people deemed expendable and seemingly the worst in the organization.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
The story follows Dawood, who wishes to don the cop uniform right from his childhood. He grows up to be a straight-laced, passionate policeman, who is sent off to a sleepy border suburb Kollanahalli for his first posting. An unexpected turn of events presents him an opportunity to prove himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Fay Grim (2006)
Plot Summary:
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Intensive Care (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three low-life criminals attempt to rob an elderly dying woman's home, but her live-in nurse turns out to be much more trouble than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hot Dog (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, satirical, buddy comedy
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S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future (2015)
Plot Summary:
The NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive, becomes the center of attention. A sit-in demonstration takes place. Members of the NPS, including Ichigo Kamikura (Osamu Mukai) go to the protest site. Meanwhile, a transport ship is hijacked in the Pacific Ocean.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Run Baby Run (2012)
Plot Summary:
Venu, a cameraman working for Reuters, happens to meet Renuka, his old lover, while trying to cover a case involving a politician. Together they go to investigate a murder planned by Bharatan Pillai.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, suspense, twist ending, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Not My Day (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Banker Till (Axel Stein) is kidnapped during a bank robbery, he has the time of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, not serious, humorous, realistic, suspense
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Running Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jong-Woo (played by Sin Ha-gyoon) is a poor, beleagured taxi driver with a bad attitude, understandable given the kind of clients he has to deal with. So when one night, a polite, well-dressed man offers an outrageous sum of money to rent the taxi for an extended period, Jong Woo doesn't ask any questions, though he does make rather cheerful and inappropriate conversation with his uninterested charge. It's difficult to blame Jong-Woo for this, given that it takes him some time to realize that he is not the protagonist of a low-brow comedy, but of an action-packed thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, tense, intense, suspense, twisted, realistic, semi serious
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Special Delivery (2022)
Plot Summary:
Eun-ha, who is a normal junkyard employee, secretly works as a delivery clerk that deals with unusual delivery requests. One day, Eun-ha heads to Seoul to pick up a client who is involved in a gambling crime that wants to flee overseas. However, Eun-ha meets the client's young son at the pick-up point, instead of the client himself. Kyeong-pil, a current police officer who is actually masterminding the whole gambling crime, chases after the missing child who has the security key to the bank account that holds 30 million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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Level Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gamers enter virtual reality video game contest for money only to realize things are not the way they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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To Love and Die (2008)
Plot Summary:
A fun-loving 30-something (Shiri Appleby) with abandonment issues becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down the father she never knew. When she finds him (Tim Matheson), she discovers that he's an assassin and that she may have found her calling.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Double Threat (2022)
Plot Summary:
With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lies & Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence and espionage, and he learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
A group of mutant gators attack the cajun people. Pouring blue chemicals in a Louisiana swamp causes the alligator population to morph into monstrous creatures including a clan of cajuns living in the bayou.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, humorous, suspense, natural horror
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Tooken (2015)
Plot Summary:
Spoof of the "Taken" franchise. An ex-CIA agent who is now a mall security guard discovers that things are being taken from him. He must team up with his mom, also an ex-CIA agent, to defeat his rival and save his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, exciting, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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True Lies (1994)
Plot Summary:
Harry Tasker is a secret agent for the United States Government. For years, he has kept his job from his wife, but is forced to reveal his identity and try to stop nuclear terrorists when he and his wife are kidnapped by them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 276000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, action packed, action comedy, semi serious, funny, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, scary
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023)
Plot Summary:
Five Eyes, the international intelligence agency, recruits MI6 agent Orson Fortune to prevent the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, China, Indonesia, Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: entertaining, captivating, satirical, exciting, humorous, action comedy, action thriller, surprise ending, suspense, independent film
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The 355 (2022)
Plot Summary:
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Columbian and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, action thriller, neo noir, surprise ending
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Covert Operation (2014)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Turbulence (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Plummer is an FBI Agent whose family is taken hostage while she is on a flight to Washington, DC. "Turbulence" occurs when a mysterious stranger, Michelle, is seated beside her and Sarah is forced to make a decision that could cost her the lives of her husband and twelve-year-old son.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Agent Game (2022)
Plot Summary:
Harris, a CIA interrogator at an Agency black site, finds himself the target of a rendition operation after being scapegoated for an interrogation gone horribly wrong. As the team tasked to bring Harris in begins to question their orders -- and each other --Olsen, a senior intelligence officer, and his subordinate, Visser, raise the stakes. Now, it's up to Harris and some newfound allies to uncover the truth and turn the tables.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Miami Heat (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yuri, a retired special forces agent, is reluctantly forced into utilizing his old skills when his daughter, Julia, gets kidnapped by a human trafficking conglomerate just days before Christmas in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing