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Plot Summary:
A crew of men who do the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Hard Kill (2020)
Plot Summary:
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter just to get it.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, touching, action thriller
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Assault on VA-33 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Kill Chain (2019)
Plot Summary:
A hotel room shootout between two assassins kicks off a long night where bodies fall like dominoes, as we follow a chain of crooked cops, gangsters, hitmen, a femme Fatale and an ex-mercenary through a relay of murder, betrayal, revenge and redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, brutal, tense, rough, bloody, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, perverse, action thriller
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The Commando (2022)
Plot Summary:
An elite DEA agent returns home after a failed mission when his family makes an unexpected discovery in their house – a stash of money worth $3 million. They soon face the danger and threat of a newly released criminal and his crew, who will do whatever it takes to retrieve the money, including kidnap the agent’s daughters. Stakes are high and lives are at risk in this head-to-head battle as the agent stops at nothing to protect his family against the money-hungry criminals.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, captivating, emotional, suspense, heroic, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing
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Speed Kills (2018)
Plot Summary:
Speedboat racing champion and multimillionaire Ben Aronoff leads a double life that lands him in trouble with the law and drug lords.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, cynical
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Trauma Center (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Wakes is a vengeful police detective determined to solve the murders of his partner and an informant, and joins forces with a witness injured during the shootings. After the killers pursue the witness across the abandoned floor of a hospital, she confirms Wakes's worst fears.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, serious, intense, detective
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Hot Seat (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ex-hacker is forced to break into high-level banking institutions, another man must try to penetrate the booby-trapped building to get the young man off the hot seat.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Power Play (2003)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter links the deaths of three people to a high profile corporation, while scientists working on their privately funded research project are forced to look beyond their work and face realitytheir experiments may be the cause of a series of killer earthquakes. The corporation will stop at nothing to keep this secret from becoming public.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, independent film, fast
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Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Special Ops military Force, led by expert sniper Sergeant Jake Chandler, are sent to a remote Afghan village to extract an American congressman being held by the Taliban.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, independent film
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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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Code Name Banshee (2022)
Plot Summary:
Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, who resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, serious, bloody, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing
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Interrogation (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the FBI receives a threat that endangers the entire city, an interrogator and an I.T. specialist are plunged into a series of mind games with a criminal mastermind, desperately racing against time to uncover the villain's true agenda as they fight to protect thousands of lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Turbulence (1997)
Plot Summary:
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various people on board fall victim to Weaver, it is ultimately down to flight attendant Teri Halloran to keep the aircraft from crashing, with on-ground support from an air traffic controller. While Halloran struggles to pilot the plane, Weaver continues to terrorize the surviving members of the crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, intense, suspense, tense, serious, scary, captivating, psychological thriller, christmas horror
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The Tunnel (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Ladder 49 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sad, emotional, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, inspirational, realistic
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Survive the Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
When cop David is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric, and as Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives - along with a wounded David. Outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Superfire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, disaster movie
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Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying (1999)
Plot Summary:
A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, independent film, suspenseful, fast, disaster movie
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Earthtastrophe (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a white hot flash of light, and with no warning, one minute our moon is there, the next it's gone. Then, a second flash. And that's the last thing anyone on Earth can remember. 11 months later, it's not post- apocalyptic; it's apocalyptic as Earth has been sucked through a wormhole, literally ripping our planet from the inside out. With bizarre disasters and civilization collapsing, our heroes must find a way to survive and get to "safe ground" before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Category 5 (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a family survives Hurricane Katrina, there is another storm but this one is much worse.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Braven (2018)
Plot Summary:
A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scenic, psychological, cliffhanger, feel good, bloody, independent film, surprise ending
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Disturbing the Peace (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small-town marshal who hasn't carried a gun since he left the Texas Rangers after a tragic shooting must pick up his gun again to do battle with a gang of outlaw bikers that has invaded the town to pull off a brazen and violent heist.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, atmospheric, suspense, spaghetti western, neo western, emotional
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, intense, rough, realistic, serious, action thriller
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Unstoppable (2010)
Plot Summary:
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 206000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, breathtaking, suspenseful, tense, heroic, realistic, dramatic, captivating
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The Finest Hours (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, tense, breathtaking, scenic, stylized, suspense, factual, suspenseful
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, emotional, realistic, factual, compassionate, touching, suspenseful, intense
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No Escape (2015)
Plot Summary:
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary, serious, realistic, action thriller, suspense thriller, psychological
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Greenland (2020)
Plot Summary:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, exciting, scenic, psychotronic, psychological, tense, sentimental, serious, suspenseful