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Plot Summary:
Renegade bounty hunter Ryan Swan must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin who murdered his father.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Talk to the Gun (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bryce Turner, a former bounty hunter loses everything even his 8 year old daughter taken by a corrupt and vengful business man. But nothing will stop him from finding her alive and putting the pieces of his life back together again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Detective Knight: Rogue (2022)
Plot Summary:
As Los Angeles prepares for Halloween, mask-wearing armed robbers critically wound detective James Knight’s partner in a shootout following a heist. With Knight in hot pursuit, the bandits flee L.A. for New York, where the detective’s dark past collides with his present case and threatens to tear his world apart…unless redemption can claim Knight first.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 85%
The Dangerous (1995)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister Ninja warriors get revenge for their sister's death by killing the drug dealers in New Orleans. The police enlist the help of a biker warrior to solve the crime. The head drug dealer stirs the pot even further by hiring Cajun warriors to kill those he believes are responsible for the deaths of his dealers.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, cult movie cast
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The Bounty Hunter (1989)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop turned bounty hunter shows up in a small town looking for a man who's jumped bail. However, the real reason he's there is to avenge his old friend, an Indian who lived in the area and was murdered by the local sheriff, who is trying to get the Indians to sell their land cheaply so an oil company can move in and take over the land, which they believe sits on top of large reserves of oil.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Detective Knight: Independence (2023)
Plot Summary:
Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Savage Salvation (2022)
Plot Summary:
Newly engaged Shelby John and Ruby Red want a fresh start after their struggles with addiction, but when Shelby discovers his beloved Ruby dead on their porch, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree of the dealers who supplied her. Armed with nothing but adrenaline and a nail gun, Shelby begins to unleash chaos on the town’s criminal underbelly, as he hunt’s down crime lord Coyote. Sheriff Church must race against the clock to put an end to Shelby's vigilante justice before the entire town descends into a bloodbath.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Night of the Sicario (2021)
Plot Summary:
Taylor is forced to hide the young daughter of a Colombian woman in witness protection who will be testifying against a powerful drug cartel in Federal Court, as ruthless sicarios aim to hunt them down.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Gasoline Alley (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man implicated in the triple homicide of three Hollywood starlets begins his own investigation. Needing assistance, he enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy more explosive than any of them imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, China, South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: perverse
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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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Detective Knight: Redemption (2022)
Plot Summary:
In custody in New York, Detective James Knight finds himself in the middle of a jailbreak led by The Christmas Bomber, a brutal fanatic whose Santa Claus disciples are terrorizing the city. With the promised return of his badge in exchange for taking out the terrorists, the steely-eyed Knight doles out mercy for the just...and merciless justice for all the rest.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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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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There Are No Saints (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Hitman Agency (2018)
Plot Summary:
An assassin hunts and tortures his old predecessor in the basement of his European home, only to reveal the lies and corruption of their international hitman agency by taking a journey through the manipulations of the old man's past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, action adventure, twisted
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Vendetta (2022)
Plot Summary:
When his daughter is murdered, William Duncan takes the law into his own hands, setting out on a quest for retribution. After killing the street thug responsible for her death, he finds himself in the middle of a war with the thug's brother, father, and their gang, who are equally hell-bent on getting even. What ensues is a tense back-and-forth game of vengeance. By the end, William comes to find that the quest for revenge never has a winner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Facade (1999)
Plot Summary:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Trauma Center (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Wakes is a vengeful police detective determined to solve the murders of his partner and an informant, and joins forces with a witness injured during the shootings. After the killers pursue the witness across the abandoned floor of a hospital, she confirms Wakes's worst fears.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, serious, intense, detective
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American Siege (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ex-NYPD officer-turned-sheriff of a small rural Georgia town has to contend with a gang of thieves who have taken a wealthy doctor hostage.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Life on the Line (2015)
Plot Summary:
A crew of men who do the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Code Name Banshee (2022)
Plot Summary:
Caleb, a former government assassin in hiding, who resurfaces when his protégé, the equally deadly killer known as Banshee, discovers a bounty has been placed on Caleb's head.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, serious, bloody, captivating, emotional, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, disturbing
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Fortress: Sniper's Eye (2022)
Plot Summary:
Weeks after the deadly assault on Fortress Camp, Robert makes a daring rescue to save Sasha, the widow of his old nemesis Balzary. But back in the camp's command bunker, it appears Sasha may have devious plans of her own. As a new attack breaks out, Robert is confronted with a familiar face he thought he'd never see again….
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Seized (2020)
Plot Summary:
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. Now, with bullets flying and bodies dropping as Nero completes his mission, he races to find Mzamo’s hideout and seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, disturbing, controversial, suspense, perverse
Similar in 75%
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane's smart-mouthed heroics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, action packed, tense, clever, detective, action adventure, entertaining, intense
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Survive the Game (2021)
Plot Summary:
When cop David is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner Cal chases the two criminals who shot him. They all land at a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric, and as Cal and Eric plot their defense, more of the gang arrives - along with a wounded David. Outnumbered, the three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, melancholic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action packed, predictable
Similar in 81%
The Prince (2014)
Plot Summary:
A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, serious, realistic, neo noir, independent film
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Fire with Fire (2012)
Plot Summary:
A fireman takes an unexpected course of action when a man whom he's been ordered to testify against – after being held up at a local convenience store – threatens him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, action thriller, perverse, action adventure, neo noir
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I Am Wrath (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, neo noir, action thriller, surprise ending, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
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Die Hard (1988)
Plot Summary:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 923000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed, suspenseful, clever, action adventure, detective, saga
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Extraction (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former CIA operative is kidnapped by a group of terrorists. When his son learns there is no plan for his father to be saved, he launches his own rescue operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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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