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Plot Summary:
A Filipino action movie directed by Ronnie Ricketts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Balkan Runner (1994)
Plot Summary:
To avenge the murder of her husband, Mirna dedicates herself to the destruction of the beautiful but villainous Sura who ships arms to the Middle East in exchange for drugs. Aiding her in this task is handsome undercover agent, Marc.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Death Machines (1976)
Plot Summary:
An evil Oriental Dragon Lady injects three martial arts fighters with a serum that turns them into zombie-like assassins, and she sends them out against her enemies.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Escape from Hellhole (1983)
Plot Summary:
Indonesian film about a Punjabi girl getting tricked into living with a big time pimp. Uncle MG as they call him, abducts virgins, and forces them to submit to his hymen bustin ways. The not so attractive gals get several chances to marry Uncle MG, or it's into his private jail. Old wives become queen bees, and must submit to the guards.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Wala Ka Nang Puwang Sa Mundo (1997)
Plot Summary:
After many years of imprisonment, Miguel is finally freed. On the day of his liberation, Miguel promises himself a clean and honest life to win back the family he has lost during his incarceration. However, nobody wants to take in an ex-convict, his steadfast resolution finally breaks, and to find urgent money Miguel joins his former partner Roy in his latest venture. Miguel does not realize, however, that Roy's company actually involves a criminal activity which implicates Miguel in an abduction and ransom crime. Even worse, Roy's gang is competing against Castro's gang, so Miguel's life, and his family's, are put in constant danger. - Artemis-9.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Asian Cop: High Voltage (1994)
Plot Summary:
Donnie Yen is back with a vengeance in this electric action thriller. The star of Fist of Fury, Hero and Highlander goes up against Hong Kong's deadliest gangsters in a no holds barred duel to the death. Donnie Yen has proven to be one of martial arts most reliable and dedicated martial arts stars. Through the years he's been the lead in his own films, as well as co-starring with the modern legends such as Jet Li and Jackie Chan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Angel of Vengeance (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the vein of HARD BOILED and NAKED KILLER comes this action-crime thriller in which two young women caught in a power struggle among a trio of mobsters must struggle to survive in a world run by vice and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One (1990)
Plot Summary:
Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Killing Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled existence, EDWARD tries to start over. He assumes a new identity, starts a family and tries to start his own legitimate business that could potentially pull him out of his world of being a hitman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bloody, crime drama, neo noir
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Three the Hard Way (1974)
Plot Summary:
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, grim, action thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating
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The Condemned 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, black comedy
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Rage (2014)
Plot Summary:
When the Russian mob kidnaps the daughter of a reformed criminal, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, hood, independent film, ambiguous ending, rough, twisted
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The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
After his family is kidnapped during their sailing trip in Spain, a young Wall Street trader is confronted by the people responsible: intelligence agents looking to recover a mysterious briefcase.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, political thriller, action packed, realistic
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Warhead (1996)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists seize an American nuclear missile site and threaten to launch the missiles at Washington unless the President resigns immediately and $1 billion is placed in a Swiss account in 8 hours.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, freeze frame
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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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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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Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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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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Arena (2011)
Plot Summary:
David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, erotic, perverse, action thriller, homoerotic
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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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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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Maximum Conviction (2012)
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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The Prince (2014)
Plot Summary:
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious, realistic, neo noir, independent film
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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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Operator (2015)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela, and her estranged husband Jeremy, a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, the one thing they do know is if they fail to discreetly collaborate with one another - they will be solely responsible for facilitating the biggest crime in the city's history. Now they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives - save the city - or save their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film, tension
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I Am Wrath (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, neo noir, action thriller, surprise ending, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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Extraction (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Assassin Club (2023)
Plot Summary:
In this world of contract killers, Morgan Gaines is the best of the best. When Morgan is hired to kill six people around the world, he soon discovers all the targets are also assassins unknowingly hired to kill each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, detective
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The Serpent (2020)
Plot Summary:
Top special agent Lucinda Kavsky works for a secret part of the CIA. She's given a special assignment but then set up by her own agency.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, anamorphic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Extraction (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, action thriller, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film