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Plot Summary:
A mysterious warrior teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel Uncle, who seeks their deaths.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: China, USA, France, Canada, Australia, Luxembourg
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, scenic, cult classic, serious, realistic, interesting, period drama
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Ballistica (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man has been trained in a deadly form of hand-to-hand combat using ballistics and firearms. He is one of the few Americans who has perfected it, which makes him the CIA's best weapon against International Terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast
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Erik the Conqueror (1961)
Plot Summary:
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, serious, realistic, stylized, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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7 Assassins (2013)
Plot Summary:
When social unrest plagues a Kingdom in ancient China, the Imperial Court collects stockpiles of gold from local governments to expand the royal army. However, the gold is robbed while in transport. In a desperate move to retrieve the stolen treasure, elite royal guards are sent on a mission to go after the gold but soon find out they are not the only ones in pursuit of it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, intense, serious, realistic
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Dragon Inn (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan, the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends on destroying the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary's children as bait. Ultimately, the two warring factions - the rebels led by Chow Wai-on and Mo-yan Yau, the East Chamber led by Tsao - end up in the rundown Dragon Inn right in the middle of the desert. Jade King, the beautiful owner and proprietor of Dragon Inn, hopes to cash in on the incident. But problems arise when Wai-on, desperate for the quickest route of escape, attempts to marry Jade in hopes of prying her for information; and the two clans go head-to-head in a no-holds barred finale battle.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, epic, cult classic
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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
Plot Summary:
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, captivating, tense, suspense, epic, serious, fast
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The Viking Sagas (1995)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles a long-ago time when men relied not on their intellect to make points, but on their swords. A mythical warrior ('Ralf Moeller (I)') wanders the snow-capped landscapes of the North territories on an arduous quest for vengeance. Amid nobles and schemers, saints and brutes, and lovers and fools, this Viking swings his sword for his family's honor, his beloved's hand, and the very survival of his pitiless culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: historical drama, independent film, exciting, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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Jiu Jitsu (2020)
Plot Summary:
Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, stylized, intense, perverse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film
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Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea (2007)
Plot Summary:
A look at Genghis Khan's life, from his birth to conquests in Asia.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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Robin Hood (1991)
Plot Summary:
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, atmospheric, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Ivanhoe (1982)
Plot Summary:
This is a remake of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He find England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England. Will justice prevail and will all fair ladies in distress be rescued?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, fairy tale, serious, period drama, eighties
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Arn: The Kingdom at the End of the Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, UK, Norway, Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, historical drama
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Laser Mission (1989)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, feel good, captivating, exciting, melancholic, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, fast
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The Eliminator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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In the Name of the King: The Last Mission (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hazen Kaine, an American contract killer living in Sofia, Bulgaria, gets more than he bargains for when he enters into a contract with the mob. One last job before he gets out and starts a new life for himself. The targets: the three children of royal billionaire Andon Dupont. Seems simple enough, or so he thought. Hazen apprehends the children, and before he can blink an eye, a simple necklace worn by one of the children sends his life spiraling back to medieval times. Now completely out of his element, Hazen fights for his life as he tries to escape a medieval army and a fierce fire-breathing dragon.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, Pakistan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, epic, tense, captivating, entertaining
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Morning Star (2014)
Plot Summary:
In time of war, a man must survive to make a journey to fulfill a promise made and discover the truth. After a terrible battle, a man sees his great friend perish, leaving him one request – that he visit the king, father of the deceased, to give him the news of his death. Tied promise on his deathbed friend, the warrior part for the meeting with the monarch, an old man and convalescent, who lost his only heir. The king demands that the warrior’s serve, but the man is tired of war and want a place to live in peace. When the warrior goes in search of tranquility, his path crosses that of a beautiful young woman, chased by soldiers. He saves her and discovers she is a witch. With the Inquisition coming to the kingdom and a new love in his chest, the warrior must regain their weapons to prevent more blood from the people he loves spill.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful
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Crusade of Vengeance (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1190, the knight Elizabeth leaves her young son Peter in England, battles, and is wounded in the Third Holy Crusade. She must return to her village, where she is informed by the local priest that Peter was abducted by the wicked tyrant Grekkor and his powerful knights. Elizabeth decides to build an army to fight against Grekkor, but all the local men are afraid to join. For her crusade of revenge, Elizabeth only counts with the support of three other women: Hunter and her bow and arrows; the prostitute Eve; and the gypsy Sybil and her powders and herbs. Later, the strong Luke also joins her desperate struggle against Grekkor.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Ireland, Lithuania
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, disturbing
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Robin Hood (2018)
Plot Summary:
A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, action adventure, fairy tale, scenic, stylized, epic, mystic, period piece, costume drama
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In the Name of the King: Two Worlds (2011)
Plot Summary:
Granger, an ex-Special Forces soldier gets thrown back to medieval times to fulfill an ancient prophecy. Venturing through the now war torn Kingdom of Ehb, he teams up with an unlikely band of allies with the goal of slaying the leader of the "Dark Ones". Fighting against all odds, they must free the land from the grasp of the evil tyrant Raven and save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, epic, psychotronic, captivating, entertaining
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Dragon Hunter (2009)
Plot Summary:
Orphaned as a baby when his parents were killed in a vicious orc attack, Kendrick of Elwood was raised by his elder brother, Darius. Now, after years of absence, a new danger emerges, more lethal than the threat of orcs or men. Reports of dragon attacks spread like wildfire through the panicked land.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: computer animated, exciting, serious, tense, suspense, mystical, mythical, cult classic, cult film
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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015)
Plot Summary:
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, surprise ending, dark, unusual plot structure, suspense, saga, cult classic, powerful, ridiculous
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Ironclad 2: Battle for Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A survivor of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to save his clan from from Celtic raiders. A sequel to the 2011 film, "Ironclad.".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Serbia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, realistic, epic, saga
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War of the Arrows (2011)
Plot Summary:
13 years after the King Injo Revolt, the Chosun Dynasty is attacked by the Chung Dynasty of China. A young man named Na-mi leaves his demolished village to find his young sister, Ja-in, and her finance Su-koon, who were to wed on the very day of the attack. While on his mission to rescue her, he is being traced by Jushinta, a fierce Chung Warrior, and his band of malicious men who are out to stop him. Na-mi has but a day to rescue his sister before she is taken away to be a slave. When Na-mi finally finds his sister, Jushinta comes between them and a fierce battle between two of the finest warriors unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, suspense, scenic, historical drama, twisted, epic
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Ivanhoe (1997)
Plot Summary:
This grand six-part adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's rousing adventure of the Middle Ages tells the epic tale of the idealistic young knight Ivanhoe (Steven Waddington) and his battle against the evil Templar Bois-Guilbert (Ciarán Hinds. Caught between the rivalries and religious struggles are Ivanhoe's betrothed Rowena (Victoria Smurfit) and the brave, beautiful Jewess healer Rebecca (Susan Lynch), who wins Ivanhoe's heart with her courage. Set against the historical backdrop of a Britain straining under the corrupt rule of Prince John while Richard the Lionhearted fights in the Crusades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, costume drama, exciting, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, period drama
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Knightfall (2017)
Plot Summary:
Go deep into the clandestine world of the legendary brotherhood of warrior monks known as The Knights Templar.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: christian film, historical drama, captivating, exciting, atmospheric, stylized, costume drama, thought provoking, breathtaking, tension
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Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: epic, breathtaking, exciting, serious, lyrical, historical drama, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, road movie
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Marco Polo (2014)
Plot Summary:
An epic adventure that follows the early years of the famous explorer as he travels the exotic Silk Road to the great Kublai Khan’s court. But Marco soon finds that navigating the Khan’s world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry will be his greatest challenge yet, even as he becomes a trusted companion to the Khan in his violent quest to become the Emperor of the World.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, epic, atmospheric, serious, historical drama, costume drama, tense, erotic, sexy
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The Great Wall (2016)
Plot Summary:
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, dark fantasy, entertaining, epic, absurd, stylized, colorful, psychotronic, mystical, captivating
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son -- two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, serious, epic, suspenseful, cult classic, crying, sexy, humorous
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Pathfinder (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: harsh, stylized, rough, suspenseful, epic, action packed, historical drama, retro, dark, saga