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Plot Summary:
A haunted Afghanistan war veteran attempts to come to terms with his past while searching for his family in a post-apocalyptic America.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, sad, apocalyptic, anamorphic, twisted
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Sniper: Legacy (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rogue gunman is assassinating high-ranking military officers one by one. When Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Beckett is informed his father, legendary shooter Thomas Beckett has been killed, Brandon springs into action to take out the perpetrator. But when his father rescues him from an ambush, Brandon realizes he's a pawn being played by his superiors to draw out the killer. It's up to the two men, bound by blood, to bring an end to the carnage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, perverse, action thriller, bleak, realistic, vintage
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The One That Got Away (1996)
Plot Summary:
The existence of the anti-Iraq coalition was threatened when Saddam targetted Israel. In order to keep Israel out of the war, and the coalition together the Scuds had to be stopped. SAS patrol Bravo Two Zero, under the command of Sgt. Andy McNab was tasked to destroy these weapons. Three of the SAS troopers were killed and four captured: Only one escaped - Cpl. Chris Ryan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers domestic mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, emotional, tense, melancholic, suspense, heartbreaking, poignant, intense, rough
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Soldier Boyz (1995)
Plot Summary:
A group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016)
Plot Summary:
Elite snipers Brandon Beckett and Richard Miller are tasked with protecting a gas pipeline from terrorists looking to make a statement. When battles with the enemy lead to snipers being killed by a ghost shooter who knows their exact location, tensions boil as a security breach is suspected. Is there someone working with the enemy on the inside? Is the mission a front for other activity? Is the Colonel pulling the strings?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Plot Summary:
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: UK, China, USA, Taiwan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful, sad, novela, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy
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Down River (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, psychological, surprise ending, road movie, psychedelic, neo noir, dark
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Stop-Loss (2008)
Plot Summary:
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, sad, harsh, serious, thought provoking, realistic, suspense, cult classic, edutainment, psychological
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Mosul (2019)
Plot Summary:
When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, perverse, neo noir, independent film, tension, surprise ending
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Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, surprise ending
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Black Crab (2022)
Plot Summary:
To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Plot Summary:
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Black Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, tense, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film
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Redemption Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
Having just returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Captain Brad Paxton's wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action for a daring and deadly operation to save the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, independent film, freeze frame, islamic, surprise ending, heroic
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The Doorman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, perverse, action thriller, independent film, harsh
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Dead Presidents (1995)
Plot Summary:
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, disturbing, intense, neo noir, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic
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The Tax Collector (2020)
Plot Summary:
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, suspense, grindhouse, perverse, neo noir
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Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, tense, psychotronic, retro, apocalyptic, lovecraft
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Red Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky - shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerrilla group of fighters. Taking inspiration from their high school mascot, they call themselves the Wolverines, banding together to protect one another, liberate their town from its captors, and take back their freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, intense, action packed, teen, apocalyptic, serious, epic, futuristic, sad
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 461000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, tense, suspense, intense, emotional, apocalyptic, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating
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Uncommon Valor (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, perverse, surprise ending, black comedy
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The Contractor (2022)
Plot Summary:
After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organization alongside his best friend and under the command of a fellow veteran. Overseas on a covert mission, Harper must evade those trying to kill him while making his way back home.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, action thriller, political drama
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Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021)
Plot Summary:
An elite Navy SEAL uncovers an international conspiracy while seeking justice for the murder of his pregnant wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, perverse, action thriller, neo noir, surprise ending
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Rules of Engagement (2000)
Plot Summary:
Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: political, tense, intense, rough, serious, disturbing, entertaining, realistic, suspense, epic
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The Outpost (2019)
Plot Summary:
A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force of Taliban fighters in a coordinated attack. The Battle of Kamdesh, as it was known, was the bloodiest American engagement of the Afghan War in 2009 and Bravo Troop 3-61 CAV became one of the most decorated units of the 19-year conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, brutal, perverse, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, captivating
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Plot Summary:
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, harsh, suspense, intense, serious, rough, cult classic, dark comedy, inspirational, retro
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Tears of the Sun (2003)
Plot Summary:
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees. When the democratic government of Nigeria collapses and the country is taken over by a ruthless military dictator, Waters, a fiercely loyal and hardened veteran is dispatched on a routine mission to retrieve a Doctors Without Borders physician.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, factual, compassionate, brutal, political, rough, suspenseful, entertaining
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The Hurt Locker (2008)
Plot Summary:
Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 468000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, emotional, tense, serious, rough, psychological, political, sad, factual
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Fury (2014)
Plot Summary:
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank called "Fury" and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 532000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, sad, cult classic, historical drama, psychological
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The Courier (2019)
Plot Summary:
This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, entertaining, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy