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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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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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Sacrifice (2011)
Plot Summary:
A tough undercover cop inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five year-old sister in his care.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Millionaire Tour (2012)
Plot Summary:
Impressive debut feature from writer director Inon Shampanier. A man needs to convince his kidknappers that they have got the wrong person before they deliver him to his death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twisted
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Royal Kill (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fearsome warrior from the Kingdom of Samarza arrives in America to assassinate a high school girl. The girl does not know it, but she is the last living heir to the Kingdom. A noble guard arrives in America to protect the young princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Cold Steel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, fast
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When the Cobra Strikes (2012)
Plot Summary:
One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon double-crossed and becomes caught up in a contraband forcing him to overcome an opponent far more lethal and deadlier than he has ever met.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, crime drama, realistic
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Die Fighting (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a team of Shaolin-trained kung fu actors is about to get their break in Hollywood, a mysterious and sadistic Director forces them to run a gauntlet through Los Angeles. The Director films their every move as they prove their prowess by provoking a rogues' gallery of underworld thugs and martial artists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twisted
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Dead Drop (2013)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a murderous rampage while trying to uncover the truth. Who threw him from the plane? Was it his best friend?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, action adventure, independent film
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The Power of Few (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, interesting
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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April Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, independent film
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Assassins Tale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three assassins deal with life, love, addiction and trust as each tries to find the answers to a better life. Together, they prove to be the most trustworthy in this tangled web of murder, greed, friendship and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic
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Facade (1999)
Plot Summary:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Street Racer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Wayne (Clint Browning) is an ex-racer who is serving time in prison after crippling a young boy during an illegal street race. Wayne, having been traumatized by the events, vows to never race again, and is soon released as a reformed citizen. Later, he finds himself working at a scrap yard with his childhood friend Travis (Jack Goldenberg), but his probation officer is trying to blackmail him into illegal street racing. Even though Wayne attempts to restore his life and become an honest, hardworking member of society, he slowly finds himself being lured back into that world.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, mockbuster, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Hit List (2011)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, captivating, disturbing, neo noir
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Blackhats (2015)
Plot Summary:
"blackhats" is about a reformed, hot-tempered bounty hunter, whom, finds his new harmonious life as a Fugitive Recovery Agent threatened, when he must track down a group of cyber hackers before they are assassinated by a rival bounty hunter while also trying to prevent a massive viral attack that could collapse America’s economic foundation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Rebellion (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a district within Hong Kong five gangs have an uneasy truce as they all work within the area. Chaos then ensues when triad leader Jimmy is shot. Jimmy's wife Cheung Wah then appoints his bodyguard Po as the temporary leader of the gang over Jimmy's #2 man Blackie. Po must now find the assassin, control the seething Blackie, and keep their rival gangs at bay before all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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Urgency (2011)
Plot Summary:
Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in the next half hour. Doomed to hear Tony goes in search of money, but soon realizes that the kidnapping was not connected with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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Assassins Run (2013)
Plot Summary:
Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American businessman, is killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, independent film
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Road to Juarez (2013)
Plot Summary:
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film
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Body Armour (2007)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience to keep the assassin alive in the face of constant danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
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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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Special Ops (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is accused of aiding the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Plot Summary:
You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in the process. Ryan decides that if he cannot escape then he must confront them head-on in what can only be called a desperate suicide run.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller
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Enemies Among Us (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the way.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, realistic
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Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Absolute Deception (2013)
Plot Summary:
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left is a severed finger. In order to find a new lead, Nelson travels to New York City to inform widowed magazine reporter Rebecca Scott that her long dead husband, Miles, had only recently been murdered to see if she had heard from him in recent years. Perplexed, Scott joins Agent Nelson in the wealthy enclave of Australia’s Gold Coast to find out what really happened. The two soon discover Miles may have been part of an elaborate “Ponzi scheme” to bilk investors, and a vengeful billionaire, out of millions of dollars. As more layers of Miles’ secret life are exposed, can the two stay ahead of the mysterious attackers who will stop at nothing to halt their investigation?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, mind bending
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The Way of War (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one fighting for American security and integrity.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, independent film