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Plot Summary:
A cheerleader goes undercover to fight drug dealers because her brother OD'd and her fellow cheerleaders are hooked.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lure: Teen Fight Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
A community is under siege as three Belmont Highschool coed students go missing with no trace of their whereabouts. The pressure is on the police to capture the culprits responsible. Scouring the school hallways in search of clues, undercover female detective Maggie Rawdon (Jessica Sonnerborn) enters Belmont High as a transfer student in an attempt to solve the hideous disappearance of the students. Maggie makes a few new friends, and gets invited to a private rave in the country. Just as the group begins to suspect that they've taken a wrong turn, however, the trap is sprung and Maggie finds out firsthand what fate has befallen the missing girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Club Life (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young man from a small town goes to Hollywood to make his fortune. He gets hired as a bouncer at a disco club, but soon finds himself caught up in drugs, gangsters and eventually has to flee when his boss and another bouncer are murdered by drug dealers, who are soon after him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Pom Poms and Payback (2021)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped, a group of high school cheerleaders seek revenge on their boyfriends, only to suspect that their new cheer coach is actually behind all their troubles.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Commando Squad (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, cult film
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The Dangerous (1995)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister Ninja warriors get revenge for their sister's death by killing the drug dealers in New Orleans. The police enlist the help of a biker warrior to solve the crime. The head drug dealer stirs the pot even further by hiring Cajun warriors to kill those he believes are responsible for the deaths of his dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, cult movie cast
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Red Nights (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Story of a Idealistic Young man (Played by Chris Parker), who goes to Los Angeles to become an actor, but is disillusioned and jaded when the cold and realistic violent world of Hollywood shatters then explodes all around him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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Lady Avenger (1988)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, sex comedy, gay cinema
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Four Riders (1972)
Plot Summary:
This prime example of director/co-writer Chang Cheh's mastery takes place in Seoul right after the Korean War, as a kung-fu master, combat instructor, explosives expert, and missile specialist must take on a venal drug smuggling gang. Representing the Book of Revelation's four riders of war, famine, disease, and death as heroes against murder, corruption, jealousy, and greed, it's a brutal battle where the one true winner is the audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Streetwalkin' (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cookie and her brother run away from their loveless mother in the province and arrive in New York. At the train station Cookie meets the fancy man Duke. With his charm he makes her fall in love with him and soon has her working as prostitute. However his brutality against her colleagues disgusts her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, independent film
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Guardian Angel (1994)
Plot Summary:
Detective - turned - bodyguard Cynthia McKay (Cynthia Rothrock) is hired by a psychotic icy seductress, Nina Lindell (Lydie Denier), the same woman who killed Mckay's lover months earlier. With vendetta in her heart McKay accompanies the flamboyantly playful womanizer through the glamourous world of the super-rich as his protector. In a unique role reversal, it is the woman protecting the man from another woman, erupting into a deadly triangle of passion, suspense and action.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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The Majorettes (1986)
Plot Summary:
A hooded psycho is murdering high-school girls. A devil-worshiping, drug-dealing biker gang is suspected.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Cheer For Your Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl’s spirits are crushed as she suffers through a humiliating “Cheerleader Initiation Week,” but her dreams aren’t the only thing in danger when another girl on the squad turns up dead, and when she disappears herself, her mom will have to rush to save her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Cool and the Crazy (1994)
Plot Summary:
Unhappily married couple Roslyn and Michael lead separate affairs that lead to violent repercussions for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual, sexy
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Black Lolita (1974)
Plot Summary:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beyond Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden agenda, who do you trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Firecracker (1981)
Plot Summary:
Femme fatale martial arts expert teaches the mafia a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychological, retro, sexy, action adventure, independent film, cult film
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Too Hot to Handle (1977)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous blonde assassin Samantha Fox accepts a contract to liquidate a quintet of gangsters in the Philippines. Problems ensue when she falls in love with the Manila detective investigating the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, detective, independent film
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Deadly Surveillance (1991)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a series of murders that he begins to suspect are being committed by a woman involved in prostitution and narcotics trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective, independent film
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Last Call (1991)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to account for this crime. So Cindy decides to take vengeance herself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Eyes II (1991)
Plot Summary:
Security expert Will Griffith has been hired to secure the mansion of South American expatriate Hector Mejenes.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, independent film, hot, sexploitation film, cult film
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Sworn to Justice (1996)
Plot Summary:
After masked attackers kill her sister and young nephew, a female psychologist takes the law into her own hands by acting as a defense witness by day and a ruthless avenger by night.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, independent film, detective
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Deadbeat (1976)
Plot Summary:
When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill the four degenerates by himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sword of Honor (1996)
Plot Summary:
Officer Johnny Lee sets out to avenge his partner's mysterious death. With the help of his partner's sister and an ancient sword, Lee becomes a one man deadly strike force. Stars Steven Vincent Leigh, Sophia Crawford.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, detective
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Donnybrook (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-marine who struggles to provide for his family and a violent drug dealer with an undefeated fighting record are determined to compete in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare-knuckle brawl with a cash prize of $100,000.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, serious, intense, slang
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Merantau Warrior (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, action thriller, action packed, non stop action, fast
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The Teacher (1974)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, who's husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also has "the hots" for Diane; and it doesn't help that Sean was with Ralph's younger brother, Lou, when Lou died.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy, campy
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Savage Streets (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic
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The Big Boss (1971)
Plot Summary:
Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, brutal, harsh, atmospheric, emotional, novela, crime drama, mind blowing, exciting
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The Substitute (1996)
Plot Summary:
After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go undercover as her substitute in high school. Very soon he finds out that gang named Kings of Destruction is terrorizing the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, harsh, intense, serious, exciting, cult classic, hood, crime drama, independent film
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Tough and Deadly (1995)
Plot Summary:
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film