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Plot Summary:
Film starring Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit and Ranjeet.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
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Toofan (1989)
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Two brothers (Toofan and Shyam) are separated at birth by their father, a police inspector. One grows up to be a magician, and the other, the legendary Toofan, hero of the poor. His father was falsely accused of stealing millions in gold and Toofan is on a mission to clear his father's name from the police records.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: campy
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Kismat (2004)
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Tony works as a hit-man for gangster, Vikas Patil, who owes his allegiance to wealthy Raj Mallya. Raj Mallya is involved in marketing spurious and out-dated drugs, and as a result is the subject of an investigation by the Food & Drugs Administration's inspector Dr. Hargobind Gosai. Raj asks Vikas to take care of Hargobind through Tony, which Tony does, and in this manner, Raj is absolved of all wrong-doing. Then Tony meets with attractive starlet named Sapna, and falls head over heels in love with her. When Sapna tells him that she is engaged to be married to Dr. Ajay Saxena, he is heart-broken. Then a scandal breaks out, and Hargobind is implicated in the deaths of three children that were killed by Raj's spurious drugs. All the evidence points against Hargobind, and not a single lawyer is willing to take his case; his wife kills herself, and the marriage of his daughter has been canceled.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Suryaa: An Awakening (1989)
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Thakur Gangadhar Choudhary rules a small community in rural India with an iron hand, and will never permit anyone to speak up against him. He owns most of the land surrounding his palatial home - save for the small patch of land owned by Veer Singh. He summons Veer to his house, and offers him substantial compensation for his land, but Veer refuses, and the Thakur has him killed. Veer's widow dies of shock, leaving behind a young Suraj to be brought up by a kindly widow Mrs. Salma Khan, who is also the mother of Iqbal. Years go by, Suraj grows up joins the Indian Armed Forces, and after a meritorious career, he resigns and returns home to avenge his father's death. What he does not know that he must first come to terms with the local Police Inspector Iqbal Khan, and then the wealthy Collector of the District, Rajpal Chauhan, before he can even think of touching a single hair of Gangadhar Choudhary.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Aahuti (1978)
Plot Summary:
Film from 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
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Janbaaz (1986)
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Rana Vikram Singh has two sons, police officer Rajesh and fun-loving playboy Amar. Rajesh has gone through a traumatic experience of losing the girl he loved when she succumbed to drug addiction. He vows to fight this menace.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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Samadhi (1972)
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Lakah Singh gives his life of a Dacoit and lives a happy life with his wife Champa when his son Jaswant becomes three years old, Champa becomes ill with cancer and circumstances force him to be again a Dacoit.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
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Pratiggya (1975)
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Truck driver Ajit Singh find out from his foster mother before her death how his biological family were mercilessly massacre by a bandit named Bharat Thakur. He then takes a pledge to avenge their death and travel to Dinapur village where Bharat is holed up; en-route he comes to the assistance of a half-dead police inspector who was ambushed by Bharat. Once in the village he decides to impersonate the inspector and converts a liquor den into a police station. He then seeks assistance from some rowdy male villagers by making them police officers so that he can easily target Bharat and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
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Ghazab (1982)
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Ajay alias Munna Babu is a semi-senile, gentle but naive young man who has a wealthy family estate. His employees and alleged well-wishers conspire against him and introduce him to his long-estranged mother, Shakuntala, and brother, Vijay. Munna is overjoyed, not knowing that they are devious impersonators. This joy is quite short-lived, as they soon show their true colors, and Munna gets killed. His restless spirit seeks out his real brother and appeals to him to avenge his death. Vijay, at first, thinks he is hallucinating, but when his mother confirms that he indeed had a twin brother, he agrees to accompany Munna's spirit back to where he was killed, and thus assist him complete his vengeance. Things do not go as planned, and Vijay himself becomes their victim, and may face the very same fate as Munna.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
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Pedarayudu (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
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Son of Satyamurthy (2015)
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The son of a rich businessman struggles to save his father's wealth after his demise. However, he faces many challenges when he becomes the sole breadwinner of his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: light, atmospheric, humorous, realistic
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Pratibandh (1990)
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Film starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla and Rami Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Kanoon (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man plots revenge on a killer who slaughtered his family. Starring Ajay Devgn and Urmila Matondkar!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min
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Yodha (1991)
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Suraj Singh is addicted to drugs and as a result witnessed his girlfriend being raped in front of his eyes with him being helpless, from here on he vows to put an end to all drug dealers and started to work as a hit man for an underworld don, Daaga also known as Justice Dharmesh Agnihotri. He also meets and make enemy with a lawyer, Karan Srivastav, who is looking for the murderer of his father, journalist Chandrakant. As time proceeds, Suraj and Karan would frequently get into brawls in front of the society to the extent that each of them will now do anything to kill the other. Unknown to both that one person is responsible for there lives being upside down and he is under the veil of respectability - non other than Justice Dharmesh Agnihotri alias Dagga.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
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Zaalim (1994)
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Judge Somnath lives with his wife, three sons, and a daughter. Two of his sons, Vikram and Mohan are married, while his daughter, Kaamna, and youngest son, Ravi, are of marriageable age. Somnath had wanted his sons to be a doctor, police officer, and a Judge. While Vikram is a surgeon, Mohan's a Police Inspector, & Ravi is now studying law and on his way to become a lawyer and then a Judge like his dad. This family does have a dark secret. Ravi is prone to losing his temper, so much so that he gets out of control, and has killed someone in his childhood. When Kaamna gets raped, the family are reluctant to tell Ravi. When they do they do convince him to control himself, while Mohan gets an arrest warrant for Vinod, Kaamna's molester. Things do not go smoothly in court as the matter is put off for several months and then Somnath and Kaamna are killed in a bomb explosion. Now Mohan and Vikram handcuff Ravi on their balcony while they finalize the funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
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Hukumat (1987)
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The town of Shantinagar is terrorized by D.B.D.N who likes to kill people for his will. A daredevil cop enters the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Jai Kishen (1994)
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Inspector Pratap Singh is killed, while one of his son's, Kishen, goes missing, and the other, Jai, loses his vision. His wife is the only witness to his brutal death at the hands of three criminal dons. Years later, Kishen and Jai have both grown up. While Jai has mastered self-defence and use of a sword, Kishen is a career thief. When Kishen unknowlingly double-crosses one of the three dons, who were responsible for killing his dad, he puts the entire family to risk, as the criminal dons will not hesitate to wipe the entire family from the face of this Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
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Mass (2004)
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Mass (Akkineni Nagarjuna) is an orphan, who bonds well with his landlord's son Adi (Sunil). He is behind a collegian Anjali (Jyothika) who happens to be the daughter of Vizag city's mafia don Satya (Raghuvaran). This restricts her from falling for him, as it would land him in danger but she finally gives in. She suggests that he ties the knot immediately before her brother (Rahul Dev) and father try separating them. The gangsters in the process kill Mass's best friend Adi (Sunil) when he tries to stop them when they try separating the lead pair, before their marriage. The hero moves into Vizag and stays in an apartment hiding his identity to take revenge on the mafia dons. Finally his quest for revenge is complete, and also he eliminates the anti-social elements in the society by killing them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
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Jigarwala (1991)
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Murder and political intrigue kick off a chain reaction of revenge in a small Indian village when the local zamindar, Dhurjan Singh (Amrish Puri), is convicted and jailed for killing Ranjeet (Biswajeet), a villager who opposed his policies. The animosity only intensifies when Dhurjan is released from prison and learns his son has been murdered in his absence. Anil Kapoor and Gulshan Grover co-star.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
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Hitler (1996)
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This movie is about the life of Madhavankutty (locally known as Hitler), a bachelor protective brother of five younger sisters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
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Diljale (1996)
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Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and arranges his wedding with his daughter. Before the engagement could take place, Ranvir finds out that he has a rival in Shaka, who was in love with Radhika before, and is all set to prevent this marriage at any and costs. Ranvir decides to postpone his wedding until such time he arrests Shaka and his associates - a decision that will not only pit him against well-armed terrorists, but also result in the abduction of a bus-load of Vaishnodevi devotees - which include Radhika and her Bua.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Singh Saab the Great (2013)
Plot Summary:
A common man fights corruption and injustice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Jai Ho (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jai Ho is an upcoming Bollywood action Drama film starring Salman Khan and Tabu in lead roles. It is a remake of Telugu film Stalin starring Chiranjeevi in the lead role.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, fast, exciting, social
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Black Stone (1979)
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tejaa (1990)
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ejaa watch helplessly as his parents gets assassinated by 3 absconding outlaws, Lal Singh, Heeralal and Zoravar, he then swears to avenge this carnage and this become the motive of his life. 20 years later he does manage to locate them and thus this begins his vendetta by mercilessly killing them separately.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
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Yateem (1988)
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When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with Yadav's own daughter, Gauri (Farha). As they grow up, Krishna (Sunny Deol) and Gauri fall in love - but an obstacle is looming in their path in the form of Yadav's young second wife (Sujata Mehta), who is attracted to the handsome Krishna, and in her jealousy proceeds to do all she can to destroy the young couple's chances of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
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Chennakesava Reddy (2002)
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Chennakesva Reddy (Telugu: చెన్నకేశవ రెడ్డి) is a 2002 Tollywood Faction Film, directed by V.V. Vinayak, released on 25 September 2002. The movie stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in double role father-son characther, while Shriya Saran and Tabu play the female lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Rajput (1982)
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Unable to handle the taking of his kingdom by an Indian Government decree, the Maharaja kills himself. His son, Jaipal, takes over as the Maharaja, turns rebel, and refuses to hand over his title and kingdom to the Government. It is in this background that Police Superintendent Dhirendra Singh assumes his duties.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
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Daku Hasina (1987)
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A 1987 Hindi movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Khaidi (1983)
Plot Summary:
Khaidi is action oreinted movie in which, Suryam (chiranjeevi) works along with his widow sister in his field and studies in a college in the nearby town. His classmate madhavi falls in love with him, but later suryam realizes that she is RaoGopalrao’s daughter who gave loan to his father and is now trying to grab his land for that.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
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Thandavam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Thandavam movie tells about the love and bond between the brothers Kashi Nathan (Mohanlal) and SwamiNathan(Nedumudi Venu) and it takes a turn when Saminathan is killed in an accident.Kashinathan realises Dasappa Kaundar(Manoj K Jayan) and minister shankar Das(Sai Kumar) are behind Swaminathan.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense