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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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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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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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The President's Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
To many, Joshua McCord (Chuck Norris) is a charismatic Asian studies professor. To the President of the United States, he's America's greatest secret weapon; a covert operative charged with only the most sensitive and dangerous missions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, fast
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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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American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
Plot Summary:
Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ninjas.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, cult classic, captivating, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Rage of Honor (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Critical Mass (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments regarding the closing. A terrorist group led by Samson gets inside the gates, with their ultimate goal the detonation of a nuclear bomb inside the plant. After local policemen and the other plant workers are killed, Jeffers and Janine alone must confront and halt Samson and his terrorist squad. Written by Ken Miller.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, touching, fast, cult film
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High Risk (1995)
Plot Summary:
After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, freeze frame, grindhouse, cult classic, semi serious, fast, black comedy
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Firestorm (1998)
Plot Summary:
Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to recover $37,000,000 in stashed loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, anamorphic, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, suspense, exciting
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Special Forces (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the crazed commander (Eli Danker) of a sadistic army in Moldavia kidnaps an American photojournalist (Daniella Deutscher) and holds her hostage, his misguided actions ignite a targeted response from Maj. Don Harding (Marshall R. Teague) and his trained squad of special forces soldiers. With help from a local schoolteacher (Scott Adkins) who's trained in martial arts, Maj. Harding readies his troops for an all-out offensive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed, fast
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Blast (2004)
Plot Summary:
A terrorist posing as environmentalist hijacks an oil rig off the coast of California with the intent of detonating an electromagnetic bomb over the US.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, fast, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Flight of Fury (2007)
Plot Summary:
John, is sent in to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber. His trusty sidekick Rojar and John's ever faithful Jessica, fight the rebel forces of Banansistan, led by the vivacious Ellianna.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, intense, fast
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Terminal Rush (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of terrorists, led by a Brit and a psycho (in a great performance by "Rowdy" Roddy Piper) take control of the Hoover Dam and demand $25 million or they will kill civilians and dam workers they have taken hostage. But the terrorists didn't count on Sheriff Jacob Harper, (Don "The Dragon" Wilson), an ex-Army Ranger whose father is one of the hostages. But after the FBI takes over the the crisis, and relieves him of his duties, he must take on the terrorists by himself and save his father and any hostages that are still alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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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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Submerged (2000)
Plot Summary:
Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, disaster movie
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Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, independent film
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Hijack (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, fast
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Special Ops (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is accused of aiding the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Plot Summary:
A female aerobic instructor is possessed by an evil spirit of a fallen ninja when coming to his aid. The spirit seeks revenge on those who killed him and uses the female instructor's body to carry out his mission. The only way the spirit will leave aerobic instructor's body is with the help of another ninja.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, light, grindhouse, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, manga, cult classic, fast
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Storm Catcher (1999)
Plot Summary:
A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered several men and stolen the plane. Then try to murder his wife and take his daughter prisoner. Threatening to kill his daughter if he doesn't help, he appears trapped. However, his best friend who is the plane's computer specialist has a few tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak, 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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Shadow Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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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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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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Plot Summary:
The Strike Force team is back in this action-packed sequel to "The Hunt For Eagle One"! Terrorists have stolen a Ground Control Encoder.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Hour of Valor (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He plans to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. However, Secret Service agents hijack the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde. Written by Leigh Roche.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast, disaster movie
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Plot Summary:
A ship captained by the father (Dale Dye) of the leader (Michael McGrady) of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: brutal, bloody, exciting, action packed, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, fast paced, stylized, epic