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Plot Summary:
In a world where ninjas dream of being rock stars and rock stars dream of being ninjas, a martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened their grip on Florida's narcotics trade.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, psychotronic, retro, anime, mockbuster, perverse, cult classic, action adventure, exciting, humorous
Best tv shows and movies like Miami Connection (1987):
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Forced Vengeance (1982)
Plot Summary:
A casino security guard is forced into violence from when the Hong Kong mob threatens his friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, detective, poliziottesco, surprise ending
Similar in 85%
Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Plot Summary:
Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, bloody, disturbing, controversial, art house, hood, cult classic, cult horror, action adventure, indie film
Similar in 88%
Samurai Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
When Japanese organized crime imbeds itself within LA, the police turn to one man to take down the deadly Yakuza — Joe Marshall, aka "The Samurai." With his fearless swagger and rock hard jaw, The Samurai tears a two-fisted hole through the mob and doesn't stop until the job is done.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, psychotronic, funny, retro, cult classic, action adventure, independent film
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She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
Plot Summary:
An all-female motorcycle gang, called 'The Maneaters' hold motorcycle races, as well as terrorize the residents of a small Florida town, and clash off against an all-male rival gang of hot-riders.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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Gymkata (1985)
Plot Summary:
Johnathan Cabot is a champion gymnast. In the tiny, yet savage, country of Parmistan, there is a perfect spot for a "star wars" site. For the US to get this site, they must compete in the brutal "Game". The government calls on Cabot, the son of a former operative, to win the game. Cabot must combine his gymnastics skills of the west with fighting secrets of the east and form GYMKATA!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, surreal, action adventure, exciting, serious, suspenseful, slasher, dark comedy, weird, campy
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Kill Speed (2010)
Plot Summary:
KILL SPEED is a high-octane, youth oriented, TOP GUN meets FAST & FURIOUS tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo western
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Kill 'em All (2012)
Plot Summary:
Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they survive this, they will have to confront Snakehead: the lethal, deranged top dog who will stop at nothing to kill 'em all!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
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Undefeatable (1993)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Kristi Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) who, along with her gang, take part in Mafia-run street fights to earn money for her sister's college education. Kristi's sister hopes to become a doctor and pay for Kristi's education.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, funny, sexy, suspense, cult classic, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Pray for Death (1985)
Plot Summary:
Akira Saito, a Japanese businessman lives in Tokyo with his Japanese-American wife Aiko and their children, Takeshi and Tomoya. When the family has a chance to move to the United States so that Aiko can teach the children about their American heritage, they pack up and head for Houston, Texas and run a restaurant. This is where the trouble begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, manga, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of drug runners/freedom fighters has kidnapped a busload of tourists in the Philippines and is threatening to kill them all if one of their partners is not released from prison and the government doesn't halt its anti-drug policies. To stop the criminals, a trio of specialist soldiers are called in. Even with all their training, will they be able to stop the terrorists when they begin killing hostages and turning loose their squads of attack midgets?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Streetfighter (1974)
Plot Summary:
Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's blood-feud with Terry over a disputed debt.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, bloody, cult classic, stylized, controversial, crime drama, perverse, exciting, rough, serious
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Beatdown (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon soon gets involved in the local underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Drake Colby, a former MMA champion, Brandon devises a scheme to bring a massive payday, if they are able to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 79%
Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
Plot Summary:
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When he finds out that his friend has betrayed him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle he has ever been involved in.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, bloody, grindhouse, perverse, action adventure, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast
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The Keeper (2009)
Plot Summary:
Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The businessman had been a colleague of Sallinger years before, when they were both cops. When mobsters kidnap the businessman's daughter, he hunts them down to rescue her and protect her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, bloody, realistic
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Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, crime drama
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Force of Execution (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is forced to pay the price of his failure: banishment in the city that he almost once ruled. But a war is brewing for the soul of the city between Alexander, a cold-blooded gangster known as 'The Iceman" (Rhames) and a merciless Mexican cartel. Hurst, with the help of an ex-con restaurant owner (Trejo) who has a few hidden moves of his own, will rediscover his own will to survive the coming conflict and to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Similar in 75%
Best of the Best II (1993)
Plot Summary:
In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his best friend Alex Grady. Alex and his partner, Tommy Lee, vow to avenge their friend's death by defeating Brakus and shutting down the fight club.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, independent film, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast, clever, brutal, unusual plot structure
Similar in 82%
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990)
Plot Summary:
The two American Ninjas, Joe Armstrong and Sean Davidson, team up to do battle against a terrorist and his band of Ninjas.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, realistic, fast
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Flash Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland China's takeover of Hong Kong. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. A showdown is inevitable!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, cliffhanger, crime drama, cult classic, non stop action, aesthetic, rough
Similar in 80%
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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Ninja (2009)
Plot Summary:
A westerner named Casey, studying Ninjutsu in Japan, is asked by the Sensei to return to New York to protect the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, an armored chest that contains the weapons of the last Koga Ninja.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, bloody, intense, perverse, cult classic, crime thriller
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Dragon Eyes (2012)
Plot Summary:
In St. Jude, drug dealers and corrupt cops have destroyed an urban neighborhood. But newcomer, Hong, has the fighting skills and moral vision to save this town from itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, dark, cult classic, action packed, independent film, exciting, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
Raw Deal (1986)
Plot Summary:
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: intense, rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed, cult classic, hood, perverse
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Enter the Ninja (1981)
Plot Summary:
After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Vietnam veteran by the name of Cole (Franco Nero) visits his war buddy Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers (Susan George), who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, bloody, action adventure, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, sexy, feel good, humorous
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, action packed, fast
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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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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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Marked for Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug lord who vows that Hatcher and his family are now marked for death.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, grindhouse, intense, hood, cult classic
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Plot Summary:
An assassin is shot at the altar by her ruthless employer, Bill and other members of their assassination circle – but 'The Bride' lives to plot her vengeance. Setting out for some payback, she makes a death list and hunts down those who wronged her, saving Bill for last.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bloody, non-linear, tense, suspense, visually appealing, visual, visually stunning, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed