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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, exciting, scary, realistic
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Bone Dry (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eddie finds himself being forced at a gunpoint, by an unseen assailant, on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of the Mojave desert. His nemesis is Jimmy, a man with an aberrant agenda; armed with a rifle, a scope, walkie-talkies and a truck, he has organized a series of ambushes and mantraps designed to push Eddie to the limits of his humanity and beyond (iMDB).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, cliffhanger, mysterious, realistic, independent film, wild
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Phantom Racer (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen years ago, NASCAR racer Cutter McCullough died in a fiery crash. But death can’t stop a man driven by revenge. He and his car are back from the grave to settle a score with his old girlfriend Tammy and his rival JJ Sawyer. Now JJ, Tammy, and their daughter, Jesse, are hitting the road with the Phantom Racer on their tail.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough
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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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Exit Speed (2008)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, exciting, realistic
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The Liquidator (2011)
Plot Summary:
A highly skilled bodyguard avenging his brother's untimely death uncovers a ring of corruption extending to the highest levels of society and government (IMDb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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Hit List (1989)
Plot Summary:
A family man (Jan-Michael Vincent) and a mob witness (Leo Rossi) hunt a mob hit man (Lance Henriksen) who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, cult classic, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, cult film
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Fast Track: No Limits (2008)
Plot Summary:
An action movie centered around a group of street racers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Red Line (1995)
Plot Summary:
A car thief is seen stealing, and is blackmailed into stealing more cars for someone else's profit.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, neo noir
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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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The Other Side (2006)
Plot Summary:
Samuel North (Nathan Mobley) escapes from Hell to find the person who murdered him, but a team of invincible bounty hunters called REAPERS are sent from the Netherworld to bring him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, touching, captivating, suspense, psychotronic
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Blood Money (2012)
Plot Summary:
Zheng Zhou is the most feared warrior from the Shaolin Dynasty in China. His fighting and weapons skills are legendary. But when his parents are killed and sister kidnapped, he turns to a life of drugs and crime that will almost kill him. With the help of Hong Kong's notorious Dragon Triad syndicate, Colombia's biggest drugs cartel hatches an elaborate plan to traffic two tonnes of crack cocaine through the Port of Miami in America and ultimately into Australia and China. But when the partnership turns sour after the Cartel holds a Triad family member hostage, the Triads recruit Zhou to rescue the girl and kill the Colombians. What ensues is a bloodied street war across three countries. Zhou turns international Hitman with an arsenal of hi-tech surveillance devices, explosives, high powered weaponry and an array of fighting skills dating back fifteen hundred years. But just as Zhou rescues the hostage and takes control of the entire drugs shipment.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, crime drama, captivating, suspense, rough, realistic
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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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Scavengers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious, futuristic
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200 M.P.H. (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race known as Sepulveda Suicide, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the wheel. But to win, he’ll need to modify his trusty 1978 Datsun 280Z — with help from a pretty mechanic (Hennely Jimenez) — to get the maximum speed out of its machinery.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster, fast
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The Maze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. As they wander aimlessly through the maze the murderer follows closely behind, taunting them and watching their every move. The game turns deadly when the kids decide to separate and weaken their chances of survival. When the mutilated body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze, the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. Manipulating everyone to his vicious will, the killer taunts his victims and leads them further into the depths of the maze. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, slasher
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Greed (2006)
Plot Summary:
Raven (Darlena Tejeiro) and Ashley (Andrea Bogart), two young women returning from a rock-climbing expedition, find themselves harassed by a group of bikers at a dusty bar in the desert. With surprise and guile on their side, the girls escape by stealing the leader's bike. Within minutes the furious biker gang is in hot pursuit through the hazardous terrain. Believing they have evaded the bikers, the girls discover a satchel of cash on their damaged bike and stumble across the desert to a small motel. The owner, Ned (Joe Goodrich), has agreed to drive them into town when suddenly the bikers appear, and they're looking for payback and the money.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, fast
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Road Rage (2000)
Plot Summary:
The highway to hell runs straight through a college campus in this compelling thriller about a killer truck. After helping a pretty co-ed out of a nasty domestic situation, Jim Travis gives the girl a lift home. But once on the road, the situation takes a white-knuckle twist as Jim gets into a frightening duel with a crazy truck driver.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic
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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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Duel (1971)
Plot Summary:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, suspense, exciting, tension, psychological thriller, psychological, creepy, intense, slasher
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Death Valley (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four friends head to the desert to attend a winter rave. Instead, it turns into the trip to hell when they meet up with a couple of bad locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, realistic, independent film, freeze frame
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Lost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Trapped in a maze of endless desert highways, bound by a vital deadline, and pursued by an unseen menace....Jeremy Stanton is about to take the longest ride of his life. He will learn that when you reach the crossroads of life...you must be careful which way you turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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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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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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The Lost Samaritan (2008)
Plot Summary:
After a long night at the office, an accountant stops to help an injured motorist and ends up becoming the target of two dangerous assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
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The Pandora Project (1998)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent has to stop a former associate who has stolen a weapon which kills people without harming buildings, all before he is to get married in a few days.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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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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Getting Even (1986)
Plot Summary:
A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Damned River (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Beyond the Reach (2014)
Plot Summary:
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, exciting, serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, minimal cast, independent film