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Plot Summary:
A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film, cult movie cast
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Day of the Warrior (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law (L.E.T.H.A.L.), is tracking a criminal mastermind known only as The Warrior. While investigating his combination diamond smuggling/art theft/porn production industry, the agents discover that he has cracked their secret database and has stolen the files on all of their agents. With the help of their martial arts intructor Fu, agents Tiger, Willow and Cobra take on the case while also taking every opportunity to remove their bikini tops.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, realistic, semi serious, sexploitation film, cult film
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Raven (1996)
Plot Summary:
Martin Grant has been hiding for years to escape his past as a ruthless mercenary in the elite force Raven Team. He's recently been engaged and are trying to forget the nightmares of murder and betrayal. Martin was convinced, that he could escape... But no one escapes from the Raven Teams ruthless leader Raven. At least not alive. Raven is back with a new team to hunt down and eliminate Grant.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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3 Musketeers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster
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First Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Service attempts to prevent an elaborately plotted assassination attempt on the President.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, cliffhanger
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Knights (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the future, as a result of devastating wars, all suitable for cultivation of land turned into one big lifeless desert. In the search of fertile lands around the world were traveling group of nomadic farmers. But one of the distant city genesis in these lands came cyborgs. For the operation they need human resources, or more simply - blood. To combat this army of Vampire creator has been sent cyborg Gabriel (Christopherson). In this he will help the girl Nea (Long), whose parents as a child killed the main villain - Job (Henriksen).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, futuristic
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Shootfighter II (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Vanquisher (2009)
Plot Summary:
After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face her old foes and foil a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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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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Hangmen (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rob Greene has information about an undercover terror team inside the CIA led by Joe Connelly. To stay alive with the knowledge, he is advised to stay undercover by his supervisor Andrews. Connelly's men try to kill Greene, but he can escape and warns his son Danny that he also may be in danger and that he should look for Dog Thompson.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sky Riders (1976)
Plot Summary:
Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top lair.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Rapid Exchange (2003)
Plot Summary:
To break the plane during flight 747 and steal a quarter of a billion dollars is needed pervaded team, however, the members are given betrayals that can spoil the coup.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, cliffhanger, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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The Protector (1997)
Plot Summary:
Soldier of fortune Ken Conway gets a job offer from his former fiancee to look into the whereabouts of a missing scientist. The scientist was working for pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Krago, so Conway goes undercover to infiltrate the doctor's operation. He soon discovers what Krago's scheme is: he creates super-diseases and their cures at the same time, and gets rich by releasing the disease and selling the cure. Ken tries to take this information to the authorities, but finds out too late that he has been infected with the doctor's latest creation, and he has only 48 hours left to live if he can't get his hands on the antidote.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Freefall (1994)
Plot Summary:
New York publisher Dex Dellum sends his fiancée and star photographer Katy Mazur to Swaziland to shoot the taita falcon. There she meets 'highman' (altitude stuntman) Grant Orion, who practices skydiving. After an initial clash, they become hot lovers, her first infidelity. She's drugged before he leaves unannounced. In London Grant saves her from armed killers and discloses to be an Interpol agent. Dex has an incompatible story but is killed. It's the start of a cascade of violence and charades.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, cliffhanger, suspense, independent film
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Asker (2000)
Plot Summary:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action packed, independent film, fast
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Iris: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
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Let's Get Harry (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sexy, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, entertaining, splatter, visually appealing, complex
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The Apocalypse Code (2007)
Plot Summary:
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The Executioner," is about to blow up the bombs. The Executioner is chased by FSB, whose agent Marie has previously infiltrated Zayidi's team.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Air Rage (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea agreement wherein all the blame is on him and his men would be discharged and receive any benefits they're entitled. But the General presiding over his trial chooses not to agree to the agreement and throws the book at the Colonel and has his men dishonorably discharged thus eliminating all their benefits.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed, realistic, fast
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Con Express (2002)
Plot Summary:
A hotheaded Alaskan customs agent (Sean Patrick Flannery) unwillingly teams up with a coldhearted but beautiful Soviet agent (Ursula Karven) to capture a rogue Russian general (Arnold Vosloo), selling a shipment of deadly nerve gas. Tensions and passions spin out of control after two agents are left for dead and they must combine forces to survive. They have one chance laft to take out the General and destroy the "Apocalypse in a can" nerve agent, both speeding toward freedom on a runaway mountain train. Unexpected twists and terrifying turns along the way put everyone on a collision course for explosive action, pulse-pounding thrill and a devastating betrayal of trust.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, cliffhanger, fast
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Chain of Command (2000)
Plot Summary:
Secret Service agents must retrieve the briefcase allowing the President control of America's nuclear arsenal before massive destruction ensues.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak, fast, surprise ending
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Mercenaries (2014)
Plot Summary:
A diplomatic official is captured and imprisoned while touring a war zone, so a team of elite female commandos is assembled to infiltrate a women's prison for a daring rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, exciting, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Plot Summary:
At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, action packed, independent film, fast
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Lethal (2005)
Plot Summary:
A sexy and lethal female mercenary takes on an international syndicate of weapons smugglers run by the Russian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, serious
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Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)
Plot Summary:
A princess is on a quest to unite the five greatest warriors to save her kingdom from a demon sorceress.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, cult classic, bleak
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The Arena (2001)
Plot Summary:
In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - glorified in the deadly spectacle of The Arena. Stolen from their homelands, the fiery Druid maiden Bodicia, exotic slave girl Jessemina, and the powerful barbarian Flavius, are pitted against each other as gladiators by the sadistic Roman Governor Timarchus. Banished by Caesar, Timarchus unleashes his frustration on his gladiators, staging extravagant spectacles of combat, orgy and death. In a violent world where only the strong survive, love and hate, life and death, are separated by an instant.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Action
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, rough, realistic, independent film, period piece, remake of cult film, cult film
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Blast (1997)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed. Only janitor Jack Bryant, a former Olympic gymnast champion of Tae Kwon Do felled by injuries and alcoholism knows of their real plans. And only he, with the guidance of former terrorist-fighter Leo, can stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Guilty as Charged (2000)
Plot Summary:
US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and infiltrating Strauss's unit, Murphy discovers that Strauss and his men are leading a vigilante gang to dispense 'justice' to those they feel have been wrongly acquitted of various crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Laser Mission (1989)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent is sent to get Professor Braun before the KGB can seize him as the Prof's knowledge, together with a recently stolen diamond, could be used to make a laser cannon.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: West Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, feel good, captivating, exciting, melancholic, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, fast
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CIA Code Name: Alexa (1992)
Plot Summary:
A CIA operative kills a terrorist during a prison break. When a group of terrorists attempts to recover a microchip implanted in the man's body, one of them is captured and convinced by the CIA to work for them as an informer.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, neo noir, detective