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Plot Summary:
A film based on the life of retired Western Police District Colonel Jimmy Tiu, who last served as Sta. Mesa Police Station Commander.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Jesus the Revolutionary (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man named Jesus takes on the ruling military junta.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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Squalor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four men, four stories, all intersect in Manila. Episode one is about Ariel, a con-man. Episode two is about Boy, an expectant father. In the third episode, Ronald goes to Manila to sell a building. And in the fourth story Baste saves his sister from Ariel.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 91 min
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Iskalawag: Ang Batas Ay Batas (1997)
Plot Summary:
An Filipino action police film directed by Francis Posadas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
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Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up (1992)
Plot Summary:
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the wife and daughter of the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lagalag (1994)
Plot Summary:
Filipino action star Eddie "Lagalag" Fernandez is convicted and jailed for his role in a homicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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You Got Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
An embassy consul for the United States works in the Philippines and finally gives in to his adopted mother's advice to track down his birth parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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10000 Hours (2013)
Plot Summary:
Senator Gabriel Alcaraz (Robin Padilla) is preparing to deliver a privilege speech alleging corruption in the highest levels of government. On his way to the Senate, he gets wind of a plot against him. The police seek to arrest him for his part in an operation decades ago. Suspecting that the administration isn’t willing to give him a fair trial, Alcaraz goes into hiding abroad, hoping to find a way to clear his name and eventually return to his family. Back home, an old colleague is put in charge of finding him, and his family suffers under the pressure of public scrutiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min
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Delta Heat (1992)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. Enlisting the help of an ex-cop who lost his hand to an alligator many years before.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, independent film
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Panama Red (1976)
Plot Summary:
A hippie musician needs to make $60,000 through selling high grade Panama Red in just three days to pay back a drug smuggler known as The Money Man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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Moondru Mugam (1982)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Waltair Veerayya (2023)
Plot Summary:
A notorious smuggler Waltair Veerayya is hired by a CI Seethapathi, reaches Malaysia with the ostensible mission of kidnapping a drug mafia leader named Solomon, who escaped India after wreaking havoc on the RAW agents and local policemen. Veerayya manages to pummel Solomon, who is fiercely protected by his ruthless gang-lord brother Kaala. Tables are turned, when Veerayya reveals that he shares a turbulent past with Kaala & an ACP Vikram Sagar who is hell-bent on ending his smuggling activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Courage (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alfred and Jerzy take part in a brutal incident: during a train ride, a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. 'Courage' is about people whose lives get disturbed by a violent act, which forces them to reveal who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful
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Whiteforce (1988)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Quinn has been set up by a drug lord and must find a way to clear his name before the bad guys and his own agency put him in the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Australia, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bukas Bibitayin Si Itay (1995)
Plot Summary:
Elmo is an ex-convict who swears on his mother’s remains to live uprightly. After his life in prison, Elmo makes sure to avoid any conflict despite the mistreatment he receives from people. His wife Cathy seems discontent with the meager money her husband makes. Until one time, Cathy finds fancy to Arthur, a rich arrogant brother by their town’s mayor. One day, Elmo catches Arthur abusing his Cathy in their house. He beats up Arthur but the people on the neighborhood stops Elmo from killing him. Arthur escapes from Elmo. However Arthur is murdered by his battered wife Sylvia. Because of Arthur’s brutal death, people wrongly accused Elmo as the killer. Elmo then is sent back to the prison and was sentenced to death. Will Elmo learn to defend himself and fight for justice?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Utol (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Filipino crime drama film directed by Toto Natividad.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Birador (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mike Santana is technically as person for he uses his position as a policeman to savagely murder people; he also manhandles his wife Gina. His partner in service is Frankie, a young loyal police who sticks with him through thick and thin. But in end he betrays him for good. Because of that he pours out all of his frustrations to his wife, and as he continues to be rude, his wife Gina finally leaves him for her family. His teenage gets gang-raped by men. As he gets to live all alone, with all the people blaming him for their shortcomings; he starts to realize his mistakes which will transform from being soulless to a sensible human being. He would also meet Michelle who teaches him not to regret the act of forgiveness. Suddenly, his crooked ways backfire on him when he gets accused of killing a pro-laborer advocate. As he tries to come clean and liquidate the real criminals, another threat would come to take his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Banal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's high officials.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
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Afuang Bounty Hunter (1988)
Plot Summary:
An honest to goodness cop who labors to keep the honor of his badge. Fighting ruthless criminals, he has acquired the fury of the syndicates he is fighting. But despite all the threats that are coming his way he does not give up.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Across the Crescent Moon (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a SAF exemplary Agent, Abbas Misani a Muslim who is married to Emma, whose parents with strict Christian upbringing would not accept both Abbas and Emma to their family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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Project: Kill (1976)
Plot Summary:
A former government assassin flees a mind-control program in the Philippines, pursued by his ex-partner, the local police and Asian gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, independent film, cult film
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The Falling (2006)
Plot Summary:
Amidst his broken life, Police Officer Grayson Reed is about to be thrown into the middle of a feud between the five angels of Heaven and the leader of Hell. As faith ends in the world around him, Grayson will be faced with an ultimate choice that could decide the fate of our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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Legacy (1998)
Plot Summary:
A photojournalist deported from a war zone in Asia meets up with a woman who is looking for her father. He offers to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fever of Love (1985)
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Bane and Vesna are young and happy couple. Vesna gets pregnant, but soon she was told that Bane was not faithful to her, which was a lie made by their female acquintance. Vesna's parents decide to sell their little son to a German couple. After finding out what has happened, Bane kidnaps the baby and runs away with it on his motorcycle. With the help of his loyal friends, he seeks hideout from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
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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
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Asero (1995)
Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Victor and Narding built their friendship in the street. At a very young age, they were partners performing dangerous activities. However, Narding heeds his foster parents’ request for him to enter the seminary to become a priest. Victor is left alone without any parental support. Later on, he grows up to be a criminal. His wayward ways eventually got him imprisoned. Meanwhile, Narding became a good priest. He visits his old friend Victor in the prison and supported him until he finished his term. Narding accompanies Victor to their hometown where Narding works as a parish priest. Albeit their friendship has rekindled, Victor and Narding argue because of their different ways of raising homeless kids. Victor trains them the rough and dangerous ways, while Narding wants them to settle everything in a peaceful manner.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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The Florida Connection (1975)
Plot Summary:
Dan Gordon arrives in town on the edge of the Florida Everglades, planning to take part in a drug smuggling operation. He's aided by his friend, Mule Tucker, but runs into opposition from corrupt local cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hangga't May Hininga (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ellis gets imprisoned from trying to avenge the death of his brother, who helped him expose the illegal engagements of a military general. Ellis tries to recover from the tragedies in his life by being a relentless inmate in the jail. Ellis becomes one of the best underground hitman after Leah pulls him out in the prison and hires him as an assassin. One day Ellis was assigned to abduct a politician and his child. Ellis realizes that the kid is his lovechild with his long lost lover, Beth.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Beauty and the Bestie (2015)
Plot Summary:
For an important case, a policeman needs the help of his former best friend to impersonate the daughter of a foreign dignitary in a beauty pageant.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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C.L.I.F. (2011)
Plot Summary:
C.L.I.F. is a police procedural series produced by MediaCorp Singapore in 2011 in collaboration with the Singapore Police Force. It was aired from 31 May - 27 Jun 2011 on free-to-air MediaCorp Channel 8 and consists of 20 episodes. The drama stars Tay Ping Hui, Qi Yuwu, Elvin Ng, Joanne Peh, Chris Tong and Tracy Lee in the main roles with a large ensemble supporting cast. It was directed by Chong Liung Man, who previously directed another award-winning police procedural C.I.D., which also starred Tay and Qi in the lead roles as police officers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 45 min
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