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Plot Summary:
A veteran cop is after a Mafia hitman, who killed his partner. Unbeknownst to him, a rookie cop has gone undercover to also catch the hitman, who murdered his parents. In order to get close to the hitman, the rookie has cozied up to the hitman's boss, who is in the middle of a gang war with a rival Chinese mob.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Ultimate Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
A double-dealing member of an elite group of hit men becomes the ultimate target when his organization discovers his deceit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: crime drama, suspense, independent film
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Balkan Runner (1994)
Plot Summary:
To avenge the murder of her husband, Mirna dedicates herself to the destruction of the beautiful but villainous Sura who ships arms to the Middle East in exchange for drugs. Aiding her in this task is handsome undercover agent, Marc.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Tough Cops (1987)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam War vet turned police detective on the edge Nick Carpenter partners up with slick police detective with cat skills Pete Logan to take down the local druglord Fatcat by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, Philippines
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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China White (1989)
Plot Summary:
In Amsterdam - in the time before the legalisation of some drugs and the following growth of competition on the market - takes place a war between the Italian and Chinese mafia because of the control of the heroin market.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Action, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: heroic, crime drama
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Spy Games: The Black Wolf Hunt (2006)
Plot Summary:
Retired Colonel Matveev takes on an unofficial assignment to revenge his friend's death and catch one of the most dangerous terrorists who managed to escape to America during a failed operation in Chechnya.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Gridlocked (2015)
Plot Summary:
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, action packed, twisted
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Rage (1997)
Plot Summary:
Story about young criminals in Belgrade during the 1990s crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Loha (1997)
Plot Summary:
Shankar (Dharmendra), a well-meaning but disgraced cop, is determined to fight a corrupt system, taking to task miscreants and criminals in his city. The movie begins as an aspiring underworld don, Lukkabhai (Mohan Joshi) ousts his erstwhile mentor Tandyabhai (Deepak Shirke), to emerge as the reigning champion of a crime infested world. Elsewhere, Arjun (Mithun Chakraborty), an ex-military man, has forfeited his love and career as a consequence of hitching up with a local goon. As a result, Arjun seeks his refuge in liquor. Shankar chances upon Arjun and rescues him when Arjun hits rock bottom. Meanwhile, angered by Shankar's meddling, Lukka rapes and kills Shankar's sister to teach him a lesson. Infuriated, Shankar teams up with Arjun, who now is indebted to him, and Mustafabhai (Shakti Kapoor), who wants payback for Lukka chopping his hands off. Together, they deliver the kingpin of the underworld and his minions to a well-deserved end, restoring harmony and justice to society.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Under the Gun (1987)
Plot Summary:
A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Crackerjack 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jack Wild discovers that the well-known international terrorist Hans Becker is on a train, carrying a wealthy business man and his girlfriend. Without a second to loose Jack hires a helicopter to drop him down onto the train to try and stop whatever scheme Becker is planning.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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Devlin (1992)
Plot Summary:
A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir
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The Stabilizer (1986)
Plot Summary:
Peter Goldson, aka The Stabilizer, searches for drug smuggler Greg Rainmaker. Rainmaker killed Goldson's fiancee by kicking her with his spiked shoes, and now Goldson wants revenge. Meanwhile, Rainmaker has kidnapped the famous Professor Protost, and the Stabilizer teams up with his daughter Christina to save the Professor and bring Rainmaker down for good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Action
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Under the Gun (1995)
Plot Summary:
A debt-ridden night club owner has to take on Italian and Asian mobsters, corrupt police, and an angry pimp that he threw out of the club to try to keep his club in business.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama, neo noir
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Red Sun Rising (1994)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Hoshino (Willson) is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho (Lew). He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder (Farrell). Soon they discover that Yakuza prepares a gang war and weapon smuggling. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, detective, buddy comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Last to Surrender (1998)
Plot Summary:
A maverick American cop and his Chinese counterpart join forces to bring a drug dealer and his hired thugs to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film
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Killpoint (1984)
Plot Summary:
An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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White Tiger (1996)
Plot Summary:
When D.E.A. agent Mike Ryan undertakes the huge task of avenging the brutal murder of the partner John Grogan, he find he must fight both sides; the murderer and his double crossing police buddies. Now with the unexpected help of the lovely Jade, he must confront the new generation Chinese underworld want-to-be kingpin and fight like and out-of-place "White Tiger".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film
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Theft Under the Sun (1997)
Plot Summary:
During an operation with a master criminal, an undercover cop fails his mission because he was shot by an uniform officer. His superior suspects he has become a bad seed and refuses to allow him to rejoin the force. In order to prove his innocence, the cop decides to follow the thief to the Sino-Russian border on an arms struggle deal, but on the way they are chased by Mainland police. During the escape the cop and the criminal become friends. When they return to the Hong Kong border, the police awaits on the other side and.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crime drama
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Armed for Action (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cop tracks down the mobster who escaped his custody while being escorted cross-country to stand trial.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Quiet Cool (1986)
Plot Summary:
This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny of the pot growers. It begins with a surveyor who is leading the town's crooked sheriff to a small marijuana field he has just discovered. The surveyor is killed before he can get there. Joshua, a small boy, sees the execution and tries to get back in time to tell his parents. Unfortunately, the killers murder his family and throw him off a cliff. The boy's aunt, worried at not hearing from her family, gets suspicious and asks an old flame, NY cop Joe Dillon, to investigate. The town sheriff is not pleased by his intrusion and warns him to stay out of it. Dillon disobeys, and that is where all the action comes in.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Tiger Claws II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Released five years after the first installment, Tiger Claws II finds Yeung's martial arts serial killer, Chong, busted out of jail by a team of heavies in the employ of gangster Dai Lo Fu and whisked across the country to San Fransisco's Chinatown. When NYC cop Tarek Richards learns of a rash of recent killings using Chong's distinctive M.O.— a claw-like mark across the face of the victim— he contacts his old partner, Linda Masterson, who is now living in L.A., for help. But Chong, as it turns out, has nothing to do with the murders. He's just being used by crime kingpin Lo Fu, who needs to combine his energy with Chong's to open some sort of time portal to provide vital supplies for the ancient Shaolin monks. In truth, though, Lo Fu greedily plans to use the portal to smuggle heavy modern artillery back and rule Qing Dynasty-era China himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Recoil (1998)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ray Morgan accidentally kills the son of a mob boss. The mob boss orders to have Morgan killed unknowing that the assassin killed Morgan's wife and kids. Now Morgan's out for revenge..and he'll do it his own way.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Redemption (2002)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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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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Outside the Law (2002)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To the Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Silencer (1999)
Plot Summary:
Killer gets orders from a video game named The Silencer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, independent film
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Tactical Force (2011)
Plot Summary:
A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film, fast, cult film
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The Mission (1999)
Plot Summary:
Triad boss Lung (Eddy Ko), who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis (Anthony Wong), James (Lam Suet), Mike (Roy Cheung), Roy (Francis Ng) and Shin (Jackie Lui) for his protection.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: heroic, neo noir, bloody, art house, crime drama, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful