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Plot Summary:
When Michael Norell witnesses a murder, he doesn't want to testify but he is forced to by the police. A cop is ordered to bring him to the court, but before they get there they have to deal with several attacks from killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Royce (1994)
Plot Summary:
Royce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for forming Black Hole disbands the organization, Royce's fellow Black Hole members plot revenge on the man responsible for them losing their jobs. Royce decides not to join them, instead deciding to thwart their attempts to exact revenge on the senator.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense
Similar in 89%
Bitter Harvest (1993)
Plot Summary:
Travis has just buried his father, when Kelly, an attractive hitchhiker walks into his life. At the same time, another attractive blonde, Jolene, starts taking an interest in Travis. Both women are secretly after something.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, tension, suspense
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Stripteaser (1995)
Plot Summary:
As Zipper's Clown Palace (a strip bar) closes, Neil wanders in and decides to hold the dancers, bartender, and remaining customers hostage. He torments them with little tasks he wants performed, playing on their weaknesses and relying on his gun for intimidation. Eventually the hostages begin formulating plans to thwart his control. Meanwhile, two policemen are observing the outside of the strip joint, realizing that something's wrong and trying to decide if it's worth ruining their buzz to intervene.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, cult film
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Guarded Secrets (1997)
Plot Summary:
A lifeguard gets in over his head when he meets a mobster and his beautiful wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Intimate Nights (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ultraviolet (1992)
Plot Summary:
A park ranger and his lover have heated encounters with a dangerous man in Death Valley.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psycho sexual, independent film
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Sand Trap (1997)
Plot Summary:
After falling victim to a burglar, Nelson, a wealthy businessman, takes a trip to the desert with his wife Margo and lawyer/friend Jack. The trip takes an unexpected turn when Jack helps Nelson over a cliff. Jack and Margo return to the site with the sheriff only to discover Nelson's body is missing, indicating he is still alive. As Nelson struggles to survive against madness and the elements, two separate searches for him are conducted--one by an increasingly suspicious sheriff and the other by the treacherous Margo and Jack.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Legal Tender (1991)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful bar owner becomes victimized by a lethal bank fraud plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, 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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Bikini Hoe-Down (1997)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Acting on Impulse (1993)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, independent film, detective
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Traxx (1988)
Plot Summary:
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Fake-Out (1982)
Plot Summary:
Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, poliziottesco
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Do Not Disturb (1999)
Plot Summary:
Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond (William Hurt) takes his wife (Jennifer Tilly) and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa (Francesca Brown), to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witnesses a murder. Unable to tell anyone what she's seen, the frightened girl vanishes in an attempt to elude the killers. Meanwhile, her parents try desperately to piece together the puzzle leading to Melissa's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Beyond Desire (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden agenda, who do you trust?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Unspeakable (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Alice Redmond is required to go deep undercover in an effort to trap number one suspect Darren Metlick, she gets very close to the edge. Her superiors push her past the point of no return because they need additional evidence to make their case air tight. Alice is having an affair with a fellow officer Don Holroyd and his sexual appetite closely resembles that of the hacker, so she has some experience in the dark side.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Midnight Witness (1993)
Plot Summary:
Renegade cops are videotaped murdering a motorist and the witnesses are in danger of being their next victims.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Collision Course (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tony Costas, a brash, obnoxious, sexist and racist Detroit cop who has long since stopped following the rules, gets told that he will have to work with Inspector Fuji, a straightlaced policeman from Japan. Fuji is in Detroit searching for a Japanese engineer who has gone to America with plans for a top secret car part. The pair naturally fail to get along at first, but as the investigation continues, they almost begin to come close to tolerating each other's presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action comedy, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy
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Deep Down (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young musician with a talent for all things electrical spies on his sexy neighbor with a penchant for skinny dipping in the pool in broad daylight and her obviously violent husband. He is so violent that in the opening sequence he murders a man for talking with his mouth full of food. As the soft-core sex film advances, she gets involved sexually with the much younger man, all the while luring him into a trap involving the murder of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Coldblooded (1995)
Plot Summary:
Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned killer. He falls in love with a yoga teacher, Jasmine, and must figure out a way to leave the mob so they can be together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, stylized, intense, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, witty, action comedy, crime thriller
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The Florida Connection (1975)
Plot Summary:
Dan Gordon arrives in town on the edge of the Florida Everglades, planning to take part in a drug smuggling operation. He's aided by his friend, Mule Tucker, but runs into opposition from corrupt local cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fast and Fierce: Death Race (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jack Tyson is a young man partaking in an illegal Mexico to California car race when a desperate woman, fleeing from her abusive gangster boyfriend who is financing the tournament, jumps into his car pleading for his help and who has an incriminating USB drive that could send her thug boyfriend, among others, to prison.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockbuster
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F/X2 (1991)
Plot Summary:
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike's boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it wasn't. Obviously, Silak is involved with Mike's death, so he calls on Leo McCarthy, the cop from the last movie, who is now a P.I., for help and they discover it's not just Silak they have to worry about.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, buddy comedy, independent film, dark comedy, sexy, clever
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F/X (1986)
Plot Summary:
A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, tricky, detective, surprise ending, clever, intense, offbeat
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The Squeeze (1987)
Plot Summary:
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful in either role. He owes some money, which gets him involved with Rachel Dobs, a police detective who works with a collection agency. When Harry comes into possession of a strange parcel, both the con man and the detective find themselves wrapped up in a sinister corporate plot to fix the lottery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, detective, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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A Cold Day in August (2003)
Plot Summary:
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will soon find out just what his Frankenstein's monster will cost him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Protector (1998)
Plot Summary:
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was about to turn states evidence. The killing came as the mobster was with his girlfriend Alma. Jack suspects Alma of being involved - even more so when he finds her involved with one of the mob family, Michael. However he begins to fall for her himself and finds himself involved in the deadly game where not everything is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Fish (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, dark comedy, realistic
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Plot Summary:
Tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley heads to the rarified world of Beverly Hills in his beat-up Chevy Nova to investigate a friend's murder. But soon, he realizes he's stumbled onto something much more complicated. Bungling rookie detective Billy Rosewood joins the fish-out-of-water Axel and shows him the West Los Angeles ropes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 197000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, funny, exciting, action comedy, witty, entertaining, cult classic, detective, hilarious
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2 Guns (2013)
Plot Summary:
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 223000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, entertaining, funny, humorous, crime drama, action adventure, light, visually appealing