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Plot Summary:
When a former marine is framed for a deadly terrorist bombing, he must track down the mastermind behind the plot. But soon he discovers an even deadlier conspiracy that threatens the nation. One that will force him to choose between the freedom of millions, and his own survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
An elite group of "soldiers" are assigned the job of infultrating a right-wing militia group. Each team member has unique skills (what's new ?). The right wingers have a heavily guarded camp, and are about to launch a nationwide campaign of violent action.. Will our heroes thwart the neo-nazis in time.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, 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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Termination Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a Serbian terrorist blackmails NATO and the U.N. with a deadly nerve gas, a covert squad is the Free World's last hope. Led by Dylan Pope they must "terminate" the threat before it terminates them!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Chrome Soldiers (1992)
Plot Summary:
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Sudden Death (1977)
Plot Summary:
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. Deception, international intrigue and a ruthless "syndicate of businessmen" intent on raping a South Pacific Islands nation of its resources keep the pace fast.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, action thriller, independent film, cult film
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Hostage (1986)
Plot Summary:
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Presumed Guilty (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jessie Weston is an ex-con recently released from prison after serving two years for auto theft. He is welcomed back into his small California down by his best friend Dillion and his older brother, Paul. But Jessie is not warmly received by his old girlfriend Mary, whom is the daughter of the arrogant and corrupt sheriff, who was the reason why he locked Jessie up in the first place. When Dillion is murdered by two thugs looking him up for late payments, the sheriff and his MORE murderously corrupt deputy frame Jessie for it in order to organize a vigilante group to hunt him down. Jessie must go on the run, with Mary tagging along, to try to prove his innocence and kill all the bad guys out to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: splatter, independent film
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Viper (1988)
Plot Summary:
After Laura's husband James is murdered, she decides to find out who did it and why. She finds herself in a fight against an anti-terrorist organization in her desire for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film
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Banal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's high officials.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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White Fury (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two ruthless criminals take two teenage couples hostage at a remote mountain cabin in Colorado following a botched bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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Age Of Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Break of Dawn (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two ex-legionnaires in a mission of political assasination in Romania. A candid portrayal of the human side of assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating
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In Her Line of Fire (2006)
Plot Summary:
When the Vice President's plane goes down near a remote Pacific island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, cliffhanger, rough
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Jarhead 3: The Siege (2016)
Plot Summary:
Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S. Embassy in a seemingly safe Middle Eastern capitol, relegates his unit to wrangling "gate groupies" protesting outside the compound and honing their marksmanship by playing video games. So Albright and his team are caught off guard when well-armed and well-trained militants launch a surprise attack aimed at killing an informant in the embassy. Heavily out-gunned, they will have to muster all the courage and fire power they can as their once routine assignment spirals into all-out war.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: ridiculous
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Excessive Force II: Force on Force (1995)
Plot Summary:
Stacie Randall plays Harley, a Special Forces agent-turned-investigator, who arrives on the scene of an apparent mob hit to help the local police. In actuality, she's hunting down Francis Lydell, her former C.O. and lover, who shot her in the head when she turned down his offer to become part of the freelance assassination squad he was forming. Ignoring the need for surgery to remove the bullet fragment which still causes her to have occasional bouts of disorientation, she continues her quest to bring down Lydell before he has the chance to kill a Mafia informant being held at the police station. Written by Chris Holland.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The 2nd (2020)
Plot Summary:
Secret-service agent Vic Davis is on his way to pick up his estranged son, Sean, from his college campus when he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes terrorist operation. His son's friend Erin Walton, the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Walton is the target, and this armed faction will stop at nothing to kidnap her and use her as leverage for a pending landmark legal case.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic, exciting, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Rage of Honor (1987)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese cop, Shiro, and his partner Ray are after a bunch of drug dealers. But they are betrayed by an insider and Ray is killed. Shiro follows the murderer, a sadistic drug lord, up to Singapore.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Death Before Dishonor (1987)
Plot Summary:
Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and presence to avoid upsetting the host government. As a result, when terrorists attack the compound, they are able to kidnap hostages and escape with little opposition. Burns ignores the Ambassador's restrictions, and throws the rule books out the window, as he becomes a one man army in an attempt to rescue the hostages, and wipe out the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational, clever, unusual plot structure
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The Alternate (2000)
Plot Summary:
The President of the United States, in the midst of negative public opinion, is kidnapped while attending a charity function. However, this is all part of a plan to boost his ratings, the 'kidnappers' being a CIA black ops team. It seems like a great idea until the leader of the black ops decides he can make it away with the ransom money himself, but one of his team has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Live Wire 2: Human Timebomb (1995)
Plot Summary:
A computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The President's Man: A Line in the Sand (2002)
Plot Summary:
A counterterrorism specialist is assigned by the President to track down a terrorist who is suspected of planning to set off a nuclear device in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Freedom Strike (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon that only the Freedom Strike team can stop! Cue an action-packed race against time to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Icebreaker (2000)
Plot Summary:
At the the Killington ski resort something has gone awry. Evil terrorists led by the sinister Greig have taken the resort hostage with a stolen nuclear device. It's up to Ski Patrol bum Matt Foster to save the day... and his fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cliffhanger, cult classic, realistic, cult film
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Critical Assembly (2002)
Plot Summary:
Critical Assembly is based on two college students (Katherine Heigl and Kerr Smith) who build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against time.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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The Marine 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rebels seize control of the hotel where a Marine sniper and his wife are staying. Can he save the day?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, cliffhanger, intense, action thriller, action packed, independent film, fast
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White House Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 233000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, action packed, action thriller, intense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, political, breathtaking
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The Peacemaker (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, political thriller, psychological, cult classic, visually stunning, action drama, neo noir, rough, bleak
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Plot Summary:
CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: suspense, political, exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, political thriller, entertaining, action adventure, anamorphic
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Shooter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 351000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, suspense, political, action packed, serious, realistic, entertaining, clever, action thriller