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Plot Summary:
MG, a policewoman who has been expelled from the Corps due to the problems with alcohol and drugs that she has had since the loss of her son, receives a call from a man asking her to look for Macarena Gómez, a popular TV actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: metafiction
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Roads of Fear (2022)
Plot Summary:
Elon, who suffers bipolar disorders, wants to please his dad, head of a southern France mafia, and reluctantly commit crimes. However, each of his acts have consequences, and a heavy price to pay.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min
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Devil's Gold (2000)
Plot Summary:
Devil Gold is director José Novoa's third collaboration with producer Elia Schneider, and like the previous two films, Huelepega (or Glue Sniffer, which Schneider directed in 2000) and Sicario (1994), the film is a thriller-melodrama that focuses on a real-life problem plaguing Venezuela, with an emphasis on how the conditions affect children. Thus, after a few titles explaining the impact that gold mining has had on the country's Amazon region, along with helicopter footage (later to be blended into the narrative) of the ecologically devastated area, the film settles in on the lawless shanty town of Payapal for its narrative. Gallego (Armando Gota) runs the mine, exploiting his cheap labor force. Aroldo (Pedro Lander) breaks into Gallego's safe and steals his gold, along with a good deal of gold that Gallego was holding for his workers. Aroldo involves the unwitting Carmen (Jenny Noguera) in the robbery, and, when they are discovered, he shoots and kills Gallego's young son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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The Invincibles (1994)
Plot Summary:
Simon, the leader of a police special unit, becomes caught up in a complex scheme involving bribery and money-laundering, as well as an affair with the beautiful wife of a government official investigating organized crime and political corruption. After the official is kidnapped, the chase leads to a dramatic conclusion high in the Bavarian Alps.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: political
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Lethal Panther (1990)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around the greedy nephew of a crime lord, who has his uncle bumped off so that he can take over the business. There are several silly plot threads which include his wish to also bump off the stepson of his dead uncle, and eliminate the assassins he hired (in order to tie up loose ends). Meanwhile, a cop is out to arrest any or all of the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Deathfight (1993)
Plot Summary:
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up (1992)
Plot Summary:
The bank president in a small California town isn't quite the upstanding citizen he appears to be--he's a corrupt killer, who has just kidnapped the wife and daughter of the local sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Naked Avenger (2008)
Plot Summary:
This movie follows a young girl, whose boyfriend has left her stranded on the side of the road without a car. Seeking only to get to her job, to pay her bills, she is picked up by a scout for the seedy underworld of white slavery and prostitution. With this, the action begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense
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100 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young cop, who works in a police control room, tries to solve the mysterious case of a kidnapped girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags:
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Silent Hunter (1995)
Plot Summary:
A hardened, relentless cop (Jim Parandine) is pushed to the edge when his family is murdered by some criminals. He becomes a recluse in the mountains, where years later, the same criminals end up to rob a bank. Jim uses his Navy Seal training and police experience to hunt down the criminals one by one and get vengeance for his loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, independent film
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Mistress of Souls (2007)
Plot Summary:
The valuable secret contained in a lost formula pits a beautiful woman against a seemingly unconquerable force. But can she save herself or lose her very soul?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Action
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy, sexploitation film
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The Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead (1991)
Plot Summary:
A teacher and his five female students are attacked by a monster with neon-green eyes.The teacher escapes but his students are completely dismembered.He soon discovers the monster is worshipped by a cult whose ambition is to rule the world and tear the clothes off young girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Snake Eater (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as a tough loner, he returns to find the band of backwoods bad-guys who killed his parents and abducted his sister.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, perverse, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Angel and the Beasts (1978)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young girl parachutes onto a remote, isolated island, and finds herself taken prisoner by a gang of criminals hiding out there.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Austria, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Split Lip (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the underground world of contract killers, mistakes cannot be tolerated. Set "Doreé Seay", a top brutal mercenary with an icy exterior, finds out the hard way when one mistake sends her on a treacherous mission to clear her name. Hunted by her former mentor Karlton "DeJean Brown" and his roster of psychopaths, she forms an unlikely alliance with a mysterious stranger and his sister as Set races against the clock to out-wit and out-fight the dark forces gunning for her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Verso (2009)
Plot Summary:
Alex appartient à une unité d’élite de la police de Genève. Lorsque Victor, son ancien coéquipier, sort de prison, Alex est rattrapé par son passé. Il a témoigné contre Victor, et craint des représailles. L’ex-flic est engagé comme homme de main d’un puissant chef mafieux. Alex décide de le suivre, sans en référer à ses supérieurs, et entame une longue descente aux enfers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Confidential Informant (2023)
Plot Summary:
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Run Coyote Run (1987)
Plot Summary:
Anne is a psychic police officer working for Interpol. She’s trying to find Linda’s killer while eluding some hitmen with familiar faces and the FBI, who are all searching for an incriminating audio cassette. The film was completed in 1987 but never officially released, until 2014 when it was discovered in the trunk of an used car.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
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Bad City (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kensuke Sonomura directs the legendary Hitoshi Ozawa in this ultimate V-Cinema actioner. Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a corrupt businessman decides to run for mayor and starts eliminating opponents from the rival mafia, a former police captain serving time for murder is secretly released and put in charge of a special task force to arrest him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Hit Man (2023)
Plot Summary:
A strait-laced professor discovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man. He meets his match in a client who steals his heart and ignites a powder keg of deception, delight, and mixed-up identities. Inspired by an unbelievable true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
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Image of Bruce Lee (1978)
Plot Summary:
A band of counterfeiters wants to make Hong Kong their new territory. The disgraced leader of the Special Squad will have to team-up with a group of Hong Kong police officers in an attempt to stop the dirty business of crime lord Han Tin Lung, but Han's problem not only is the interference of the Police force, his Japanese ally Kimura is not happy with his 'cut' in the counterfeit deal and will try to put Donna (a relative of Han) on his side a make Han's business his own property. Both policemen and criminals are highly trained Martial Arts fighters and they will have the chance to prove who has the best Kung Fu techniques.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, fast, independent film, cult film
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Exit... But No Panic (1980)
Plot Summary:
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Kill Shot (2023)
Plot Summary:
Posing as hunters, a group of terrorists are in search of $100 million that was stolen and lost in a plane crash en route from Afghanistan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Champions (1997)
Plot Summary:
William Rockman, a champion "Terminal Combat" fighter who retired from the sport after accidentally killing a young man while training. Five years after his retirement, Terminal Combat has been banned by the government and has gone underground. The "new" Terminal Combat is just that; one combatant in each match usually does not live to tell about the experience. When Rockman's younger brother is killed in one of the underground matches by his old rival, the King, Rockman enters the tournament to exact revenge on the King, not knowing that the King and his wife, Daria, have been enslaved by Max Brito, the tournament's greedy promoter.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Immoral Three (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three attractive sisters have one year to avenge their mother's murder and collect her inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexploitation film
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The Emperor's Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
In an undisclosed location and time, in the land of 1001 nights, the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does not bear a son within seven years of marriage. At the celebration Ball of their sixth wedding anniversary, the Emperor (MAX BEESLEY - Torque) and his faithful manservant, Chamberlain (JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS - Vanity Fair, Bend It Like Beckham, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead) begin the covert operation to find and prepare a virgin candidate to become the new Empress.A suitable young woman, Sabah (LETICIA DOLERA) is secretly transported into an isolated wing in the Imperial Palace. In this prison of fairytale rooms, she is tutored by the Masters and spied upon by the Emperor and Chamberlain. Should the current Empress (ROSANA PASTOR) conceive, everyone in the secret wing will be executed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Purgatory Blues (2001)
Plot Summary:
Loser drug addict Jack winds up in hell after he gets killed by Steve, who's the abusive husband of the sweet Martha. Jack strikes up a deal with the head demon known as The Principal to get out of hell and return to life: He has 72 hours to corrupt an innocent soul or else he'll be condemned to Hades forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Washington Wolves (1999)
Plot Summary:
Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense thriller, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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The Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his research. But as he falls in love with this strange girl, he finds her increasingly remote and mysterious, until she finally seems to disappear for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Combustion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested in the world of Ari: illegal motor racing. Then, the protagonist of this story decides to leave Julia without knowing the true intentions of the person who has seduced. Ari and her boyfriend, Navas, have hatched a plan to get around Mikel jewelry made with his ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, tense, crime drama, erotic, sexy
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Gone Dark (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five years ago Jack faked his death. Now his little sister is hunting down his ex-partners who she thinks killed him. On top of that, the company send in the cleaners and everything gets bloody.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
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