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Plot Summary:
A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Spearhead Effect (2017)
Plot Summary:
After exposing police corruption, a journalist is drawn into an underground world of violent vigilantism.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Restraining Order (1999)
Plot Summary:
Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has dinner with a friend, and his friend tells him that he needs to talk to him about something important. He is about to leave when some masked men go to his friend and kill him, when one of the men takes off his mask; it's Martin Ritter. Now being his lawyer, Robert can't say anything about what he saw. But that doesn't stop him from investigating what his dead friend was so worried about. It seems that he has stumbled onto something big, and instead of killing him they frame his wife for murder to get him to back off. But he doesn't and both his wife and him are now in danger. And still has no idea what's going on. Will he find out before they get to him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault (1999)
Plot Summary:
When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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King (2011)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a scene of a bank robbery in progress. The actions of the robbers during the gateway is photographed by Ashwin (Jeeva). After a chase, the injured Ashwin loses his camera to the robbers but managed to retrieve the memory card. His brave actions are broadcasted in the local TV channels and earns him praises from his colleagues and media friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller
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The Berlin Conspiracy (1992)
Plot Summary:
As the Berlin Wall crumbles, four canisters containing biological weapons are stolen by European terrorists. The East and West must work together to stop the terrorists from selling the weapons to the highest bidder. It is up to the CIA and an East German agent to overcome their own differences and get the weapons back.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: political thriller, independent film
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Black Warrant (2022)
Plot Summary:
A semi-retired special ops assassin and a DEA agent cross paths on separate missions to stop a cyber terrorist organization that has built a dangerous machine threatening to attack the power grid and bring catastrophe to the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Three Men on Fire (1986)
Plot Summary:
A Cameroonese police officer (Alphonse Beni) and a CIA agent (Richard Harrison) try to prevent the Pope from being assassinated by Italian terrorists during his African tour.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Sobharaj (1986)
Plot Summary:
Sobharaj is the leader of an underworld gang. He gets killed in an encounter with the police. The DSP uses his lookalike brother to pose as him in order to capture the rest of his gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Terminal Entry (1987)
Plot Summary:
The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Split Second (2004)
Plot Summary:
On the first day of April 2004, a rumour emerges that Hong Kong's most influential triad organization is planning to assassinate the new Commissioner of Police, who will take charge in 30 days. Three unrelated policemen, Fung Chi Wai (Criminal Investigation Division), Wong Ka Fai (chief of Criminal Investigation Bureau) and undercover Yeung Kai Dong find themselves implicated.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Butcher (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mob enforcer is set up to take the fall for a multi-million dollar heist involving a rival gang boss. Merle (Eric Roberts) is a gambler stuck on a twenty-year losing streak, but his luck is about to change. Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him, Merle makes away with a beautiful woman and a piece of the take. Most men in that position would have been content to simply walk away with their lives, but Merle has been loyal for twenty years. Realizing he's been betrayed, something inside snaps. They used to call him "The Butcher" as a joke, but the laughter turns to screams when Merle returns to deliver the ultimate punchline.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, bloody, fast, cult film
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Wire Room (2022)
Plot Summary:
New recruit Justin Rosa must monitor arms-smuggling cartel member Eddie Flynn — and keep him alive at all costs. When a SWAT team descends on Flynn’s home, Rosa breaks protocol and contacts the gangster directly to save his life. As gunmen break into the Wire Room and chaos erupts, Mueller and Rosa make a final, desperate stand against the corrupt agents and officials who seek to destroy evidence and kill them both.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Stranglehold (1994)
Plot Summary:
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hard Kill (2020)
Plot Summary:
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his daughter just to get it.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, touching, action thriller
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Darkland: The Return (2023)
Plot Summary:
Seven years ago, Zaid went to war against the Copenhagen underworld to avenge his dead brother. His identity as a respected doctor of cardiology and life as a family man is but a fading dream, and in prison Zaid suffers the loss of his son Noah, whom he barely knows. When a police agent approaches Zaid and offers him a deal to be released in exchange for infiltrating the Copenhagen underworld, he sees his chance to reclaim the remnants of the family life he left behind. But everything has a price, and Zaid realizes that he has now seriously endangered his son's life. After all, once you become part of the underworld, is there any way out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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All the Devil's Men (2018)
Plot Summary:
A battle-scarred War on Terror bounty hunter is forced to go to London on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him into a deadly running battle with a former military comrade and his private army.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Assault on VA-33 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Open Fire (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries leads from Kruger seize an entire city, and one man sets out to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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FIR (2022)
Plot Summary:
Irfan, an innocent Muslim chemical engineer with an ordinary life, is caught in inexplicable circumstances, when accused of being a most-wanted terrorist, that alter his life & everyone around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood on the Badge (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes to a small Texas town to find out who murdered his former partner there.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Hot Seat (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ex-hacker is forced to break into high-level banking institutions, another man must try to penetrate the booby-trapped building to get the young man off the hot seat.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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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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Skyscraper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Death Train (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent to prison by rail. The robbers take over the prison train they are on. Will these robbers get away with their crime or will the bodyguard kill all of the robbers and reclaim the train?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, fast, cult film
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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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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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Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday (1997)
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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Patriot Games (1992)
Plot Summary:
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 119000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller, rough, serious, realistic, action adventure, anamorphic
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The Siege (1998)
Plot Summary:
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, intense, exciting, rough, thought provoking, bleak, serious, controversial, political thriller