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Plot Summary:
U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Scar City (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young cop gets thrown in with a special police squad who are acting as assassins against hoods and who don't care who gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, independent film, realistic
Similar in 83%
Air Strike (2003)
Plot Summary:
En plein coeur de l'Europe de l'Est, dans une ancienne république du bloc communiste. Un puissant cartel de la drogue organise des raids destinés à destabiliser le pouvoir en place afin de prendre progressivement le contrôle de la région. Seul moyen de mettre fin aux ambitions de cette dangereuse organisation : l'emploi de la force militaire. En l'occurence, l'intervention d'une escadrille d'hélicoptères de combat commandée par le ranger Ben Garrett.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic
Similar in 90%
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
Similar in 89%
Safehouse (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and now the ex-agent is forced back into the life he left behind to keep the thumb drive from the wrong hands.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, exciting, realistic
Similar in 78%
Shakedown (2002)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles a deadly plague called the 'Pandora' virus is stolen from a high-security installation.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, fast
Similar in 88%
Con Games (2001)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Army veteran goes undercover as a prison inmate to investigate the death of a Senator's grandson, who was killed while behind bars. Once under lock and key, he finds himself at the mercy of an all-powerful guard whose deadly influence reaches far beyond the prison walls. His only chance for freedom now is to escape ... or die.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, tense
Similar in 81%
On Dangerous Ground (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Body Armour (2007)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience to keep the assassin alive in the face of constant danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 83%
Special Forces (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the crazed commander (Eli Danker) of a sadistic army in Moldavia kidnaps an American photojournalist (Daniella Deutscher) and holds her hostage, his misguided actions ignite a targeted response from Maj. Don Harding (Marshall R. Teague) and his trained squad of special forces soldiers. With help from a local schoolteacher (Scott Adkins) who's trained in martial arts, Maj. Harding readies his troops for an all-out offensive.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed, fast
Similar in 84%
Flight of Fury (2007)
Plot Summary:
John, is sent in to recover a stolen Stealth Bomber. His trusty sidekick Rojar and John's ever faithful Jessica, fight the rebel forces of Banansistan, led by the vivacious Ellianna.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, intense, fast
Similar in 86%
Death Train (2003)
Plot Summary:
A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent to prison by rail. The robbers take over the prison train they are on. Will these robbers get away with their crime or will the bodyguard kill all of the robbers and reclaim the train?.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, realistic, fast, cult film
Similar in 79%
Heaven's Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists seize a building with intent to blow it up. However, one of the men trapped in the building is an ex-treasury agent, who just happens to be there with his wife and children in a tour group. Having to fight the terrorists and fires that breakout in the high rise.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Thriller, Action
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, disaster movie
Similar in 81%
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
Similar in 90%
Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, independent film
Similar in 77%
Sharpshooter (2007)
Plot Summary:
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, cliffhanger, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Hijack (1998)
Plot Summary:
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, fast
Similar in 79%
Crash Point Zero (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a plane carrying a legendary and recently found death ray machine from Siberia to Canada is hijacked and crashes in the remote mountains of Alaska, only a fearless government agent (Treat Williams) will risk his life to save the world. A modern B movie, reusing lots of footage from other films.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, cliffhanger
Similar in 90%
The Way of War (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paramilitary operative David Wolfe stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders and returns to the US as an army of one fighting for American security and integrity.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, action packed, independent film
Similar in 75%
The Defender (2004)
Plot Summary:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 78%
Shadow Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 78%
Connors' War (2006)
Plot Summary:
They'll never see him coming... It's Personal. It's War. A blinded ex special agent is given his sight back by a special serum in order for him to stop a nuke that's hidden somewhere in the city. Things are just starting to complicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bloody, intense, action packed
Similar in 82%
Detonator (2003)
Plot Summary:
A former FBI agent must stop a crazy man from blowing up bombs.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Similar in 75%
The Zone (1995)
Plot Summary:
Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous tyrant Lothar Krasna.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Counterstrike (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on board with the aim to steal China's nuclear codes to arm China's ICBM missiles to use as bargaining chips for their personal crusade against China.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Ticker (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will let explode bombs throughout the city if she will not be released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, independent film, detective, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 81%
Hour of Valor (2000)
Plot Summary:
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate the release of American servicemen being held hostage. Before he leaves, he receives a disk documenting evidence that the Vice-President has been trying to revive the American economy by causing a war in the Balkans. He plans to show it to both sides in the hopes of ending the situation. However, Secret Service agents hijack the Concorde he is on and kill the pilots. It's up to an Air Force officer, nicknamed "Washout" because he can't fly a plane, to land the Concorde. Written by Leigh Roche.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast, disaster movie
Similar in 78%
The Marine 3: Homefront (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Marine must do whatever it takes to save his kidnapped niece and stop a terrorist attack masterminded by a radical militia group.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, tense, romantic, scenic, action thriller, realistic
Similar in 80%
Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday (1997)
Plot Summary:
A ship captained by the father (Dale Dye) of the leader (Michael McGrady) of Delta Force is taken hostage by terrorists. As might be expected the force is sent in to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Depth Charge (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jason Gedrick and Eric Roberts lead the cast of this thriller about a submarine captain who attempts to hold Washington, D.C. hostage for a billion dollars, and the heroic doctor who struggles to thwart the plan before the situation escalates.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, suspense