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Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Suraj Dutt has been in the Indian army for years. It is now time for him to take a leave of absence so that he can meet his father, Retired Colonel Yashpal Dutt, and sister, Minni. He travels home, and on the way rescues some school children held hostage by a group of armed men. The media portrays him as a hero, and it is here that he meets with a young woman named Alka, and both fall in love with each other. Alka and Suraj get the approval of their respective families' and get married. Minni also gets married to a young man named Vijay Ghai. Shortly after the marriage, Suraj leaves his pregnant wife and re-joins duty at the border. His father is the first one to get the news that he is missing, believed dead. He decides to keep his news from Alka and Minni. What Yashpal does not know that both Minni and Alka have already received this devastating news - and both have decided to keep a brave front and also hide it from each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, weeping, crying
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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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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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Loafer (1996)
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Ravi Kumar is clearly the black sheep of the Kumar family, and has been so for years. He is unemployed, uncouth, and gets into fist fights and trouble all the time. And then a man is killed, and the evidence points towards Ravi, he gets arrested. Although there were witnesses to this murder, no one comes forward to testify in favor of Ravi. The Kumar family are aware of Ravi's innocence, but watch helplessly as Ravi awaits his sentence, which may send him to the gallows, as now only a miracle can save Ravi. Written by rAjOo.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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Krishna (1996)
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Sunil lives a poor life-style with his mom and sister. His passion is to pilot plane and he goes for training to become a successful pilot, but in the process he got himself entangled in a drug deal which changes his entire concept of life and engulfs his loved ones forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: epic
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Jaan (1996)
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Police Commissioner Suryadeo Singh hires Karan, a trained weapons expert, to protect his daughter Kajal. Later, Kajal, who is unaware of Karan's secret agenda, falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
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Tarazu (1997)
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Police Inspector Ram Yadav is a honest, handsome, and incorruptible young man. He lives with his sister-in-law, Shakuntala, and elder brother, Raj . A lovely yet petty thief, Pooja admires Ram so much that she moves in to his house in the guise of a maid-servant, and eventually claims that she is to bear his child. Ram, unable to handle this, agrees to marry her. His duties and investigation lead him to suspect the renowed and influential Appa Rao. Appa Rao is engraged at Ram, and watches and waits for an opportunity to strike back at him. Janardan (Mohnish Behl), Appa Rao's spoiled and way-ward son, initially attempts to pick up a college-girl, when she refuses and humiliates him publicly, he retaliates by setting her on fire in broad daylight, in front of several college students. No one is bold enough to stop Janardan, nor even attempt to save the girl. When Ram finds out, he immediately arrests Janardan and holds him in custody.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
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Khiladi 420 (2000)
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Wealthy, world-wide business-man Shyam Prasad Bharadwaj would like to get his only daughter, Rittu marry to his business-partner Dev Kumar Malhotra. But what Shyam is unaware of is Dev is not what he claims to be but merely a con-man who is in debt with local gangsters and to worsen matters he plans to do away with the entire Bharadwaj family so that he can embezzle their property and estate.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, thought provoking, disturbing
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Indra: The Tiger (2002)
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Indra opens in a village in Andhra Pradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rival. After the funeral, no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 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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Spadikam (1995)
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Chacko Master is a school headmaster in Mathematics. He is a very strict teacher and does not go easy with his own son Thomas.When Thomas realizes that the school language headmaster was biased against him as told by Chacko in giving him a low grade, he leaves home. After 14 years, Thomas returns to his village,now the owner of a stone quarry and a rowdy who has a number of unresolved cases on his head. How the father and son realize their mistakes and bonds together forms the rest of the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Liger (2022)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Liger, from Karimnagar to Mumbai, from a nobody to a competitor, in his search for recognition while navigating his weaknesses, relationships, and love life.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 140 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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It's Our Time (1993)
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One-time rival collegians, Vikas Sabkuchwala and Sunil, are now friends and in love with sisters Ayesha and Mamta Vidrohi, who they would like to marry. But their politician father wants a size-able dowry as well as well-placed sons-in-laws, and refuses to have to do anything with them. The foursome get together and arrange the fake kidnapping of the sisters so as to extort a large sum of money from Vidrohi. Things go completely out of control and awry, when Vikas and Sunil find out that the kidnapping has taken place - not by them - but by notorious international terrorist and seemingly invincible Colonel Chikara.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: parody
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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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Ram and Belram (1980)
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Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise them himself. He enrolls the younger brother Balram, in school and eventually sends him off to join the police force. The older becomes a mechanic. Jagatpal has a tight hold on the boys, even when Ram is an adult, he still gives all his wages to his uncle and is only allowed to keep a few rupees for pocket money.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Run (2002)
Plot Summary:
Siva (Madhavan) comes to Madras from a small Tamil Nadu town to study. He instantly falls in love with elusive stranger Priya (Meera Jasmine) who resists his charms quite persistently. Madhavan later discovers that romancing Priya can be a dangerous hobby. Good performances - especially by Raghuvaran as the brother-in-law who can't see eye to eye with Siva and by Vivek as the (unnecessary) comic relief in the film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ghilli (2004)
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Muthu Pandi, a village strongman, decides to marry Dhanalakshmi, and begins his quest by eliminating everyone who opposes their union - starting with both her brothers. In desperation, Dhanalakshmi decides to escape from the village, and in the process is unwittingly assisted by a university Kabaddi player Velu.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, exciting, cult film
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Jeet (1996)
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Homeless and orphan Karan works as a dreaded gangster for Gajraj Choudhary in return for a fee. Gajraj heads a vast criminal empire consisting of ammunition, illicit alcohol and drugs smuggling. When Karan goes to kill a man, Prof. Sidhant Sharma, he falls in love with his daughter Kajal. When he finds that Kajal is not showing him attention he decides to follow her until she eventually begins to love him wholeheartedly. Kajal convinces Karan to give up his criminal ways which he does but the couple's romantic relationship goes over board when Kajal's childhood friend Rajnath alias Raju returns form the U.S.A and asks her dad for her hand in marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, crying, weeping
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Acid (1988)
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Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him falling in love with Mohini, who subsequently realizes that he indeed has fallen in love with her, and she too reciprocates. Mohini's dad is an alcoholic and wishes that Mohini takes up dancing and prostitution so that he can get his daily dose of alchol. Mohini attempts to take refuge with Mahesh, however, cirumstances tangle Mahesh to such an extent that he is arrested, charged, and sentenced to stay away from Bombay city limits. When Mahesh returns, it is no longer the honest, and patriotic Mahesh, but a gangster named Munna, who has many old scores to settle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: entertaining, masala, crying, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
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Mahaan (2022)
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A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a billionaire, does life give him a second chance to be a father?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece, cult film
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International Khiladi (1999)
Plot Summary:
International Khiladi is a Hindi action thriller film released in 1999. The film is directed by Umesh Mehra and It stars Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. The film want to done moderately at the box office. News Reporter Payal (Twinkle Khanna) and her camera-man have been assigned the task of interviewing the world's highest ranking criminal don, Devraj (Akshay Kumar), which they accept. In the process, Payal and Devraj fall in love with each other, much to the opposition of Bismillah (Mukesh Khanna), Devraj's guardian on one hand; and Police Inspector Amit (Rajat Bedi), and Payal's brother Ravi (Vivek Shaq) on the other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Force (2011)
Plot Summary:
A vengeful drug-dealer/gangster targets and terrorizes an entire police unit and their families.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, stylized, entertaining, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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Style (2008)
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Jeetendra Kumar Makwana is employed full-time at a Call Center and works part-time teaching English. He is recruited by an attractive young woman, Pooja, to teach her Hinglish-speaking boss, Bhaiyaji, English. Jeetendra agrees to do so, falls in love with Pooja, and joins forces with her to steal a bag containing 25 Crore Rupees in cash. He will soon find out that Bhaiyaji is a hoodlum and extortionist known to the Police as Lakhan Singh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, realistic, fast
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Boss (2013)
Plot Summary:
Disowned by his father as a boy, Surya is taken in by a crime boss. When his brother Shiv is wrongly imprisoned, his father pleads for Surya's help.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, sexy, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, intense, entertaining, slapstick
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Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi (1997)
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When his astrologer uncle (Satish Kaushik) predicts a favorable future for Raja (Akshay Kumar), he decides to nothing until the prediction comes true. When he meets Shalu (Juhi Chawla) the daughter of a millionaire (Kadar Khan) he decides his predicted future has arrived. However his lazy lifestyle does not meet with his future father-in-law's standards, and he insists that Raja does some hard work for a change. Written by gavin@[email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Khiladi 786 (2012)
Plot Summary:
The 8th installment in the Khiladi series.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, light, realistic
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Mutiny: A Love Story (2001)
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Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the shock of their lives when Sakina learns that her father (Amrish Puri), whom she previously believed died in the riots back in Amritsar, is still alive after seeing his picture in a tattered, old newspaper. Upon contacting him, Sakina's father, now the mayor of Lahore in Pakistan, arranges for his daughter to arrive in Lahore to see him. Sakina leaves for Lahore minus Tara and her son, and upon reaching the city, learns of her father's plans for her - plans that include forcing Sakina to forget about her family and start life anew in Pakistan. Then begins an extraordinary journey which will lead Tara to cross the border into Pakistan to find his love Sakina.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, realistic, patriotic, suspense, period drama
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The Octagon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, grindhouse, hood, independent film, realistic