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Plot Summary:
Upon graduation from high school eight teens take a seaplane trip, intending to celebrate on Keith's parents' private island. Stormy weather causes the plane to crash and they end up on a deserted isle. They find evidence of other visitors, and soon must fend for their lives against drug smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 507
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Talons of the Eagle (1992)
Plot Summary:
After 3 DEA agents are killed by crime boss Mr. Li (Hong), the DEA reluctantly calls in New York cop and martial arts expert Tyler Wilson (Blanks) and sends him undercover on assignment to Toronto to team up with Canadian vice cop Michael Reeds (Merhi). Wilson and Reeds must infiltrate Li's gang, so enter a martial arts tournament that Mr Li is known to attend to recruit talent.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Hustler Squad (1975)
Plot Summary:
World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It's fortified and hard to attack, so a creative, cynical major gets the assignment to figure something else. With the help of Paco, a Filipino guerrilla leader, the major devises a plan to put four women assassins among the prostitutes. He must recruit and train them, convince his general that an unarmed woman can best a man, and get them on the island. The rest is up to them. An imprisoned killer, a nurse with a fatal disease, a chippie on the lamb from the mob, and a Filipina whom the Japanese assaulted are his team. Can they do it?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Kyoto Connection (1973)
Plot Summary:
Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Nightforce (1987)
Plot Summary:
A U.S. senator's daughter and friend go to Mexico to save her kidnapped girlfriend from terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Sisters in Leather (1969)
Plot Summary:
A husband is blackmailed by 3 lesbian bikers after they spot him having sex with another woman in a convertible. They then take the man's wife out for a picnic and some nude motorcycle riding. The husband finds some male bikers and together they try to save his wife from becoming a lesbian biker.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Commando Squad (1987)
Plot Summary:
An American narcotics agent takes her squad to Mexico, where she must break up a drug-smuggling gang that has also kidnapped her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, cult film
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Delta Heat (1992)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. Enlisting the help of an ex-cop who lost his hand to an alligator many years before.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, independent film
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Cycle Vixens (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three Colorado girls decide to hop on their motorcycles and head to California. On the way they get mixed up in drugs, rape and stolen motorcycles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Seven (1979)
Plot Summary:
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Baywatch: Forbidden Paradise (1995)
Plot Summary:
The world's most popular television series moves to Hawaii for a tropical adventure. The fun and romance is threatened when Matt is stung by a fish and captured by Hawaiian villagers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ring of Steel (1994)
Plot Summary:
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, action adventure, neo noir, independent film
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Ride The Hot Wind (1973)
Plot Summary:
Captain Shank is an outcast officer and gets dishonorably discharged. He tries to get back on his feet, but his reputation keeps following him around ruining everything. When he meets some bikers he gets caught up in a life he tries desperately to escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Cop Killers (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Black Lolita (1974)
Plot Summary:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Jailbait Babysitter (1977)
Plot Summary:
Vicki is seventeen and her older friends call her Jailbait. Her boyfriend Robert is frustrated because Vicki doesn't want to do the wild thing, but he's willing to wait. After a party gets out of hand, Vicki escapes with the help of Lorraine, who takes her in as a houseguest. While Lorraine teaches Vicki etiquette, Robert wonders what happened to his girlfriend. And Vicki soon learns more about Lorraine's job as an "executive liaison.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dirt Gang (1972)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less) who are after the women in the company.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Muthers (1976)
Plot Summary:
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Five Loose Women (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five inmates break out of a women’s prison. Four of them are hardened convicts, but one is a girl who was convicted for a crime she didn’t commit. As the authorities chase them down, the cons terrorize or kill anyone who gets in their way.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Abductors (1972)
Plot Summary:
Someone is stealing cheerleaders and other pretty girls and selling them to the highest bidder. Female super sexy spy Ginger is soon employed to investigate the disappearances. She does so by going undercover with a fellow agent and doing whatever is necessary to put an end to the operation and take down the leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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American Rampage (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Sweet Sugar (1972)
Plot Summary:
Prostitute Sugar is set up by a corrupt politician. She is convinced of the futility of appealing her case in the courts and signs on to a chain gang run by the notorious Dr. John who performs cruel medical experiments on the people who work for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, independent film
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Black Sea 213 (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the head when she turned down his offer to become part of the freelance assassination squad he was forming. Ignoring the need for surgery to remove the bullet fragment which still causes her to have occasional bouts of disorientation, she continues her quest to bring down Lydell before he has the chance to kill a Mafia informant being held at the police station. Written by Chris Holland.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jungle Warriors (1984)
Plot Summary:
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Lost Flight (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bridges is the captain of a downed airliner who must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Eye of the Tiger (1986)
Plot Summary:
Buck (Gary Busey) is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves to the teeth and wage war against the gang to destroy them once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, nostalgic, cult film
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A Breed Apart (1984)
Plot Summary:
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, psychological, retro, independent film, rough, realistic
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Caged Heat (1974)
Plot Summary:
A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, action thriller, rough, offbeat, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Vendetta (1986)
Plot Summary:
A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Emmanuelle 5 (1987)
Plot Summary:
Emmanuelle, the sexiest woman in the world, endures a streak of bad luck that begins when she's stripped by a mob of adoring fans at an international film festival. Emmanuelle's lousy luck continues when she's abducted from her yacht off the South of France and forced to submit to the erotic desires of an Arab sheik.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, independent film