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Plot Summary:
When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Steele realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, suspense, tense, surprise ending, independent film, freeze frame
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Deadly Prey (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of sadistic mercenaries led by Col. John Hogan kidnap Michael Danton from his home, and set him loose on the grounds of their secret camp to be used as training for new recruits. Danton has been called the "most perfect killer ever." Now, he'll have to prove it again. This prey has become DEADLY!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Half Past Dead (2002)
Plot Summary:
This movie tells the story of a man who goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, exciting, christian film, intense, action thriller, non stop action
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Direct Contact (2009)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring her out into the open.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, cult film
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Into the Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven Seagal) that had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza. Using his former ties, he quickly determines that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa) with ties to the Chinese Tong.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spiritual, intense, crime drama, action packed, fast
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The Expendables (2010)
Plot Summary:
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 361000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed, action thriller, entertaining, absurd, semi serious, rough
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One in the Chamber (2012)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller, action packed, rough, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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Command Performance (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. Our two heroes are seriously outnumbered, and things aren't as simple as they appear, when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast, surprise ending
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Hunt to Kill (2010)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. Border Patrol agent Jim Rhodes, a tough divorcée mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and his daughter hostage, a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance. Is there any wounded animal more dangerous than a lawman left for dead? Daniels portrays one of the villains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cliffhanger, cult classic, rough, realistic, independent film, fast
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The Defender (2004)
Plot Summary:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Detention (2003)
Plot Summary:
A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, fast
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Derailed (2002)
Plot Summary:
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is summoned into action—on his birthday, no less—to track down Galina Konstantin (Laura Harring), who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous top-secret container from the Slovakian Government. Finding Galina doesn't take long, and Jacques must wrap up the mission by returning Galina and the contraband to his superiors by train. Things seem to be going smoothly as Jacques and Galina board the train posing as a couple, but soon all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, rough, fast, psychotronic, freeze frame, sexy, clever
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, melancholic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action packed, predictable
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The Package (2012)
Plot Summary:
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped niece and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, tense, romantic, scenic, action thriller, realistic
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Chain of Command (1994)
Plot Summary:
When Merrill Ross (Michael Dudikoff) is thought to be a C.I.A. agent gone bad and teaming with some other alphabet named agency to take over the oil rich country of Qumir, he finds he's in the middle of a very explosive situation. Not knowing who he can trust, he's forced to use a process of elimination thru the chain of operatives he encounters.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, perverse, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, campy
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The Eleventh Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Navy SEAL, Michael Adams, (Matthew Reese) was captured during a raid to free Japanese prisoners from a North Korean prison camp. He endures the North Koreans torture for three years -- seen only as flashbacks -- then released back into civilian life. A renegade North Korean General wants revenge for the raid on his camp, he follows Adams back to the United States with a plot to manipulate the former soldier into assassinating the leader of the raid, now a United States senator, Mason Chambers (K. Danor Gerald). The General targets Adams' estranged wife, Rachel (Jennifer Klekas) has her attacked so a doctor on the North Koreans payroll can insert a bomb into her head. Then Adam is captured, given the assignment and warned he must assassinate the senator within 12 hours or the bomb will detonate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, independent film, detective, freeze frame, surprise ending
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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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End of a Gun (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, rough, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film, detective, freeze frame
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A Good Man (2014)
Plot Summary:
After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with an old foe, and giving him one more chance to reconcile his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective, rough
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Out for a Kill (2003)
Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, freeze frame, campy
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Contract to Kill (2016)
Plot Summary:
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time--and his luck--run out.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, touching, captivating, suspense, independent film, freeze frame
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Urban Justice (2007)
Plot Summary:
Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, suspense, bloody, cult classic, bleak, fast
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Pistol Whipped (2008)
Plot Summary:
Steven Seagal stars in this gritty, no-holds barred action film as an elite ex-cop with a gambling problem and a mountain of debt. When a mysterious man offers to clear his debts in exchange for the assassination of the city's most notorious gangsters, he make s decision that will change his life - forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast, detective
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He Who Dares (2014)
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Ministers daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack SAS operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time. "The Raid meets Die Hard" in this explosive action thriller.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, detective, black comedy
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Cartels (2016)
Plot Summary:
An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Monaco, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Unlocked (2017)
Plot Summary:
After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised. Running for her life, she turns to a former soldier to help her prevent a lethal biological attack on the citizens of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mind bending, political, entertaining, cult classic, neo noir, twisted
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S.W.A.T.: Under Siege (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a D.E.A. and S.W.A.T. cartel takedown ends in a shootout, S.W.A.T. Agent Travis Hall seizes a mysterious prisoner taking him into custody. Before long, the S.W.A.T. compound is under siege by wave-after-wave of assault teams attempting to recover the prisoner known as “The Scorpion” for the tattoo blazed across his back. When Travis discovers that his prisoner is a Secret Ops double agent planted within the cartel, it’s up to him and his expert S.W.A.T. team to keep “The Scorpion” and his billion dollar secrets safe.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, saga, surprise ending, neo noir
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Submerged (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chris Kody, imprisoned member of the US military, is released from prison and reunited with his old team in order to pursue a renegade scientist. The catch, the scientist has developed mind control technology that can make even your friends into heartless killers.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, fast, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Under Siege (1992)
Plot Summary:
This action-packed thriller takes place on the soon-to-be-decommissioned USS Missouri. Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback -- an error that could be fatal.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, funny, breathtaking, nautical
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Absolution (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a contract killer (Steven Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a dangerous mob boss (Vinnie Jones) with powerful political ties, running a human trafficking operation, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Romania, USA, Ukraine
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, freeze frame