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Plot Summary:
Action movie directed by Clark Henderson.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Mixed Blood (1984)
Plot Summary:
On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, and a gang of Hispanic teens charged with selling heroin and cocaine. When Rita and her young gang members get involved in a minor turf war, the violence escalates out of control, touching everyone and sparing no one.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grim, independent film, rough, clever, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Masacre en el rÃo Tula (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on a real event, twelve dead bodies are found in the Tula River, we see the events that lead up to the massacre in a tale of crime, vice, corruption and sleaze.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Clay Pigeon (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, cult film
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Open Season (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, poliziottesco
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Ride in a Pink Car (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, 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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War Dog (1987)
Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting hero gets involved in uncovering a super soldier terrorist group that has brainwashed his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bloody, independent film
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Killzone (1985)
Plot Summary:
It turns awry for a Vietnam veteran with problems during an exercise at a survival camp, and he believes that he is back in Vietnam. He kills many of the leaders whom he believes is the Vietcong. The other participants venture out to find him and catch him before he injures or kills any more. The camp holds that against have no plans to capture him alive. Is this going out, he namely major problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent 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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Killing Machine (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Kill Squad (1981)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy business man is a victim of an assault and is shot and wheelchair bound while his wife is gang raped and murdered. He then assembles his motley squad of Vietnam buddies to kung fu their way to revenge and get those muthas back.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
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The No Mercy Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Vietnam Vet returns to his father's ranch in Arizona just as criminally minded carnies begin to cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, anamorphic, independent film, juvenile, cult film
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Tigershark (1987)
Plot Summary:
Action movie directed by Emmett Alston.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult 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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Wala Ka Nang Puwang Sa Mundo (1997)
Plot Summary:
After many years of imprisonment, Miguel is finally freed. On the day of his liberation, Miguel promises himself a clean and honest life to win back the family he has lost during his incarceration. However, nobody wants to take in an ex-convict, his steadfast resolution finally breaks, and to find urgent money Miguel joins his former partner Roy in his latest venture. Miguel does not realize, however, that Roy's company actually involves a criminal activity which implicates Miguel in an abduction and ransom crime. Even worse, Roy's gang is competing against Castro's gang, so Miguel's life, and his family's, are put in constant danger. - Artemis-9.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Retrievers (1982)
Plot Summary:
Carefree electrician Tom Cathral is recruited by The Company, and is quickly offered a full-time promotion to join the Retrievers, an elite squad of crooked secret operatives. His refusal to kill botches his first mission, making Tom The Company's new target.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Soldier's Fortune (1991)
Plot Summary:
A rich young girl is kidnapped by masked terrorists. Her mother's ex-husband, a former mercenary, gathers some of his former comrades and goes off to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Fighting Mad (1976)
Plot Summary:
An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties. Eventually the take-charge no-nonsense Tom Hunter exacts a harsh revenge on the villains with the help of his bow and arrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Nam's Angels (1970)
Plot Summary:
Some bikers are hired by the CIA during the Vietnam War to rescue a captured agent from the clutches of the Red Chinese army. After a round of drinking, fighting, and whoring around, the cycle gang, led by Big Bill Smith, fix up their Yamahas with machine guns, grenades and armor plating, and storm the enemy camp.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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One Man Out (1989)
Plot Summary:
A soldier of fortune (Stephen McHattie) fights drug runners in Central America.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Jungle Assault (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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American Commandos (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chris Mitchum plays Dean Mitchell (I know, quite a stretch), the one gas station attendant you don't wanna mess with. He's a taciturn Vietnam vet who doesn't say very much. When some stupid baddies DO decide to mess with him, they end up in a world of hurt. They try robbing his beloved gas station, and then they go after his family. Big mistake.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Killer Instinct (1987)
Plot Summary:
For America, the Vietnam War is over. Johnny doesn't see it that way. This Special Forces soldier battles vicious Vietcong, a sadistic Russian advisor and his own peacenik girlfriend as he embarks on a deadly mission behind enemy lines.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Cage (1989)
Plot Summary:
A GI in Vietnam saves his buddy's life, but in the process is shot in the head. The injury results in brain damage to the point where he basically has a child's brain in a (very large) man's body. When they get out of the army the two open up a bar together, but some local gangsters make things tough for them after they refuse to take part in brutal "cage" matches where fighters battle to the point of serious injury and/or death.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jake Carter and another former Marine, Luke Trapper, join forces to rescue a kidnapped girl from a gang of international criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, tense, brutal, serious, captivating, cliffhanger, psychotronic
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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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Toy Soldiers (1984)
Plot Summary:
While on a vacation in Central America, some American teenagers are kidnapped by terrorists. A rescue mission is sent after them, but they manage to escape and join up with a mercenary fighting the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mercenaries (2011)
Plot Summary:
Andy Marlow, an ex British S.A.S serviceman turned mercenary, is sent into the Balkans after a military coup has arisen to rescue a U.S ambassador and his aide.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, exciting, realistic, independent film
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Proof of Life (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, tense, romantic, realistic, sentimental, entertaining, action packed
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The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Australia, USA, Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, cult film