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Plot Summary:
He (Balakrishna Nandamuri) gets injured and goes into coma at a hospital in Mumbai. When he wakes up he vaguely remembers what happened to him. He remembers himself as Bose. But, he is identified as Godse, CEO of a company in Mumbai. As he is having memory issues, he goes to Hyderabad to search for his past. He finds his parents and his lover. But they deny him. Are they his real parents or is it just a feeling of deja vu? Rest of the story is all about what led to his injury and how he fights his way back!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Maamannan (2023)
Plot Summary:
An MLA and his son, who are from oppressed community, are forced to stand up against the privileged, arrogant scion of a late politician, who is determined to make them bow down to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Cyber Heist (2023)
Plot Summary:
A computer expert accidentally falls into the conspiracy of online financial crime and has to seize the time to participate in the struggle.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
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November Children (1972)
Plot Summary:
After their candidates win control of a farming community in an election, fruit-pickers start getting harassed by the local law enforcement officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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The Bare-Footed Kid (1993)
Plot Summary:
A poor barefoot young man from the country arrives in the city to start work with the friend of his dead father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
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Aguila (1980)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Aguila's son recounts memories of the Philippines as he searches for his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 210 min
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Lakshyam (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film starts with a flashback. ACP Bose (Jagapati Babu) is a sincere police officer happily married and lives with his parents and younger brother Chandu (Gopichand). Chandu is a college student and he falls in love with his classmate Indu (Anushka). Enter Section Shankar (Yashpal Sharma), the villain who is notorious for settlements and land deals. He kills anyone who comes in his way and does not leave any evidence or witness behind. He takes a loan of 100 crores from a private bank with the help of a conniving DGP and a politician. He kills the bank’s chairman in order to avoid repayment and puts the blame on Bose. Bose tries to stop Section Shankar. Chandu also gets into disputes with Section Shankar.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
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Ji (2005)
Plot Summary:
Vasu (Ajith), a final year college student is happy go lucky. But he is forced to contest elections in the college after being persuaded by his friends (Venkat Prabhu and Arun). He, however, incurs the wrath of the local MLA Varadharajan (Charanraj), whose son is studying in the college, contests the elections too. In the course of events, the MLA's gang attacks Vasu and his friends. It's here that Vasu's father (Vijayakumar) advises the students to take a plunge in politics and teach the bad apples like Varadharajan a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min
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Barschel: A Murder in Geneva (1993)
Plot Summary:
A conspiracy-theorizing filmmaker meets with a prospective producer in order to pitch a movie about the death of real-life German politician Uwe Barschel, in which the official ruling of suicide raised more questions than answers.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 74 min
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Sarkar (2018)
Plot Summary:
NRI corporate Sundar Ramasamy comes to India to vote, only to learn that his vote has already been cast. While he reclaims his right legally, it also sets in motion a chain of events that eventually lead to him entering the political fray, trying to change the system.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, realistic, intense, political
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Rowdy Inspector (1992)
Plot Summary:
Rowdy Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Dictator (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chandu lives a normal life with his in laws in Hyderabad. One fine day, he comes across an aspiring actress and helps her in a critical situation. The problems gets big and Chandu lands himself in a huge mess. He also takes the blame for a crime committed at the store. While in prison, he learns secrets about his life, but he is hiding a secret and there's another world where people fear even the mention of his name. Why is he living in hiding?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Okka Magaadu (2008)
Plot Summary:
Veeravenkata Satyanarayana Swamy a.k.a. Satyam (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is a beloved person for several villagers, having touched and changed many a life. His grandmother is Baby (Simran Bagga) whose husband dedicated his life to gain independence, taken later as a prisoner of war and missing henceforth. Meanwhile, corrupt doctors, lawyers and journalists are allegedly killed, but their bodies are missing. The suspicions are on Swamy who is arrested, but an old man calling himself Okka Magadu (Nandamuri Balakrishna) claims to have committed those acts. The point is, OM looks like the older version of Swamy whose sworn enemy is Namboodriyar(Ashutosh Rana), a politician whose son elopes with a middle-class girl under Swamy's protection. The story line is very much similar to that of the film Bharateyudu (Indian (1996 film)) starred by the iconic actor Kamal Haasan.Movie was a blockbuster hit.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Assembly Rowdy (1991)
Plot Summary:
Film starring Annapoorna, Mohan Babu and Divya Bharti.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Stalin (2006)
Plot Summary:
The only mission in Stalin (Chiranjeevi)'s life is to help others and the make the world a better place. It turns out that Stalin served as a Major in the Indian Army. Although a war hero, he had quit the army after a rift with the Colonel (Mukesh Rishi) transfers him to administrative division from the battlefield as a disciplinary action. His family includes mother (Sharada Urvashi) as well as his sister (Khushboo), who is not in talking terms with their mother since she got married to a Punjabi. Stalin keeps helping a physically challenged girl Sumati to write her Intermediate examination and her suicide disturbs him. The death occurs as none of the people around her extend help. Then Stalin plans a chain system. The theme works on a principle that everyone should help others and in return they should not seek a mere thanks but tell those who get the help to help three more, with a condition that those who get help from them should also demand the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
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Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger (1982)
Plot Summary:
Dragon Kong, a victor of a millionaire's martial-arts contest, is about to begin the most dangerous mission of his life. For his prize, the millionaire's ravishing daughter Susan, has been stolen - kidnapped by a Ninja sect headed by Tiger So, a legendary Ninjitsu super-foot. Why Tiger has taken Susan, Dragon can only guess, but as the shocking truth begins to dawn, and the final showdown approaches, the violence of the Ninja reaches its fatal peak.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 95 min
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Sarrainodu (2016)
Plot Summary:
Only one man can stop a villain who, backed by his father, brutally murders anyone who gets in the way of his unscrupulous real estate deals.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Kodi (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young politician finds himself in a position where he has to contest against his girlfriend, who is ambitious. Circumstances force his look-alike twin to also get involved in this political battle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: political thriller, political
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Pratibandh (1990)
Plot Summary:
Film starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla and Rami Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Narasimham (2000)
Plot Summary:
Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying, weeping, entertaining
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Legend (2014)
Plot Summary:
Legend’s (Balakrishna) family Vs Jitender’s (Jagapthi Babu) family. Jitender & Co belongs to cruel and wicked political family who don’t mind killing people. Jitender visits Vizag for wedding match. On his return trip, his car accidentally hits an old man which draws flak from locales. Village head Suman asks Jitender to tender an apology and compensation to victim’s family. Taking it as a great disrespect, fuming Jitender vows to take revenge against Suman’s family. Jitender kills Suman (Legend’s father) and his wife Suhasini (Legend’s mother). Krishna (Balakrishna) is an NRI, who does not tolerate injustice against anyone. He is in love with Sneha (Sonal Chauhan). The couple comes to India to seek his grandmother's blessings for their wedding. But Krishna lands in a problem with Jitendra whose son is killed by Krishna while saving a person, Jitendra wants to kill Krishna & his family. The crux of the story is what happens next and how and who stops Jitendra.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, exciting
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Kireedam (2007)
Plot Summary:
A sincere man wishes to fulfill his father's dream that he follows in his footsteps and becomes a police officer. However, when his father is punished for his honesty and transferred to an area that is ruled with an iron fist by a heartless gangster, the young man must take the law into his own hands to protect his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags:
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Dhammu (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ramachandra (NTR) - an orphan wants to helps out people and make enough bank balance so that he can settle in life by marrying a girl of his choice. He falls in love with Ashwini (Trisha) at the first sight. He comes to know that a royal family from a distant village are looking to adopt a youngster. Ramachandra approaches them and gets adopted. He goes to a village where there are faction fights between the royals of the two village. It is the turn of Ramachandra to kill the enemies so that his village gets justice and peace. The rest of the story is all about how differently Ramachandra achieves it.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, emotional, realistic
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Singh Saab the Great (2013)
Plot Summary:
A common man fights corruption and injustice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Simha (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film starts with the story of the younger Bala Krishna (Srimannarayana) working as a college professor. As usual the best looking girl of the college (Janaki played by Sneha Ullal) falls in love with Srimannarayana (the monkish protector of justice); reasons for that are comprehendible only by someone who had seen enough Telugu films (Bala Krishna films in particular). As the first half progresses the screenplay tells us that Janaki’s and Srimmanarayna’s pasts are related and the flashback starts occupying the screen. The daddy Bala Krishna with Nayanatara next to him and Kota Srinivas Rao playing the bad guy in a war between good and evil about the welfare of the region is the film’s flashback.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crying
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Rangasthalam (2018)
Plot Summary:
Chitti Babu begins to suspect his elder brother's life is in danger after they team up to lock horns with their village president and overthrow his unlawful 30 year old regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, sentimental, period drama
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Chennakesava Reddy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Chennakesva Reddy (Telugu: చెన్నకేశవ రెడ్డి) is a 2002 Tollywood Faction Film, directed by V.V. Vinayak, released on 25 September 2002. The movie stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in double role father-son characther, while Shriya Saran and Tabu play the female lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Kaala (2018)
Plot Summary:
A gangster from Tirunelveli, who is the King of Dharavi, fights for keeping the land safe from mighty politicians and the land mafia.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action packed, period drama
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Thandavam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Thandavam movie tells about the love and bond between the brothers Kashi Nathan (Mohanlal) and SwamiNathan(Nedumudi Venu) and it takes a turn when Saminathan is killed in an accident.Kashinathan realises Dasappa Kaundar(Manoj K Jayan) and minister shankar Das(Sai Kumar) are behind Swaminathan.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense
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Saamy (2003)
Plot Summary:
A policeman accepts bribes from corrupt politicians and local thugs to help them in their illegal work. However, he decides to correct his mistakes after he falls in love with a woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, cult film
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Cameraman Ganga Tho Rambabu (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ganga, a camerawoman, helps Rambabu, a fiery mechanic, become a journalist. When Rana, an evil politician, kills a journalist, Rambabu decides to destroy his political career.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing