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Plot Summary:
The USA is attacked by a large group of well organized terrorists who communicate through a computer network via satellite. A bunch of highschool kids has hacked the password and gained access. Believing it's a game they unknowingly cause terror acts all over the country. An anti-terror force fights against the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Playing Dangerous (1995)
Plot Summary:
A child genius has to defend his family from terrorists after they search his house for the secret to cold fusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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16 December (2002)
Plot Summary:
White collar crimes that drain the nation of precious foreign exchange is connected to the funding of international terrorism. The much-told Hollywood theme is retold in the Indian context with much needed technical wizadry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags:
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Double Down (2005)
Plot Summary:
An edgy action thriller set in Las Vegas during a terrorist attack. A genius computer loner takes control of the city and the attack as he fights with his fits of overwhelming depression and obsessions with love and death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film, cult film
Similar in 85%
Sudden Death (1985)
Plot Summary:
A New York City career woman becomes a vigilante after being raped by two car thieves.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Black Warrant (2022)
Plot Summary:
A semi-retired special ops assassin and a DEA agent cross paths on separate missions to stop a cyber terrorist organization that has built a dangerous machine threatening to attack the power grid and bring catastrophe to the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Silk 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Silk, the smoothest, toughest, and sexiest cop in Honolulu is hot on the trail of ruthless art smugglers who are after a priceless Asian Scroll. Silk will stop at nothing to get her man, even if it means blowing up an entire building.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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One Ranger (2023)
Plot Summary:
A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Thrillkill (1984)
Plot Summary:
Karlie Kendall's job is to write computer games - but in her spare time she hacks bank accounts. With 5 million dollars gathered, she wants to retire to Brazil - unaware that her secret partner Adrienne intends to keep all the money. Moreover, Karlie's boss Julien has got to know of her doing and has hired villains to get hold of the treasure. Only after Karlie's death they realize that she has hidden the money well inside the computer game "Thrillkill" - leaving the single clue to her sister, stewardess Bobbie.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, 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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Y2K (1999)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the new millennium, a nervous military leader assembles a team to help him deal with an unforeseen problem, as they are being alerted of a long missing nuclear missile hidden somewhere deep in the jungle which is set to go off in January 2000, due to the millennium bug! It's up to them to race against time to stop it before it is too late and they are doomed!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Absolute Aggression (1996)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2011, the prison system is run by the private sector. Business tycoon R.D. Crowley (Robert Davi) has created a Virtual Reality prison. The prisoner's bodies are locked in suspended animation while their mind traverses the lethal labyrinth of games Crowley has designed for them. Crowley allows wealthy sportsmen to participate, for a price, in deadly VR combat with the prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Land of the Free (1998)
Plot Summary:
A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities, he puts himself and his family in danger of being killed. Written by John Sacksteder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, serious, realistic, political thriller
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Plot Summary:
An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare d'Austerlitz. The police starts tracking down an Al Queda satellite group. The hacker succeeds in finding images of the explosion and discovers that it was a young couple who planted the bomb. Using the city's cameras, he decides to hunt down the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Hacker (2017)
Plot Summary:
A hacker has adventures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dark Web: Cicada 3301 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Genius hacker Connor discovers Cicada 3301, an online treasure hunt that could be a recruiting tool for a secret society. Soon Conner, art-expert friend Avi, and secretive librarian Gwen are dashing from graffiti sites to ancient libraries to uncover real-world clues. But they must outrun aggressive NSA agents, also hot on the trail of Cicada, who want the glory for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: intellectual, enigmatic, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, weird
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Bloodmoon (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ken O'Hara (Gary Daniels) is a "Mindhunter" - a serial killer specialist enlisted to find the mass murderer (Darren Shahlavi) intent on killing the strongest fighters in New York City. Trying to catch this cunning and clever killer is the hardest assignment Ken has ever had. Now, the moon is rising again and he must use all of his resources to hunt down the murderer....or he may be the next to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, detective
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Blood on the Badge (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cop goes to a small Texas town to find out who murdered his former partner there.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo western
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Hot Seat (2022)
Plot Summary:
An ex-hacker is forced to break into high-level banking institutions, another man must try to penetrate the booby-trapped building to get the young man off the hot seat.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action thriller
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Prime Risk (1985)
Plot Summary:
While siphoning bank funds, computer-wise lovers spot a plot to sink the Federal Reserve.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ghost Machine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two technicians battle a vengeful spirit that has infected their stolen military software.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, terrifying, psychotronic
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Blast (2004)
Plot Summary:
A terrorist posing as environmentalist hijacks an oil rig off the coast of California with the intent of detonating an electromagnetic bomb over the US.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, fast, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Armstrong (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a highly secret video tape of Russian missiles leaving an unknown base near Moscow under the cover of darkness. Are these missiles destined to be aimed at the US or are they being smuggled to a terrorist organisation. The Americans need to know where these missiles are going, the only person who can help them discover their destination is Armstrong (Frank Zagarino) an ex buddy of Bob who now trains an elite Russian anti-terrorist squad under the command of Colonel Zukov (Richard Lynch). Zukov is from the old guard, corrupt, ruthless, and will stop at nothing to gain control.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Skyscraper (1996)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter charter turns deadly when the pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Blackhat (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man is released from prison to help American and Chinese authorities pursue a mysterious cyber criminal. The dangerous search leads them from Chicago to Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, intense, stylized, realistic, neo noir, political
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Plot Summary:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 417000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, intense, action thriller, action adventure, suspense, action packed
Similar in 77%
Swordfish (2001)
Plot Summary:
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. Enter Stanley Jobson, a n'er-do-well encryption expert who can log into anything.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, entertaining, neo noir, suspenseful, action packed, cyber, action thriller
Similar in 76%
Operator (2015)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela, and her estranged husband Jeremy, a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, the one thing they do know is if they fail to discreetly collaborate with one another - they will be solely responsible for facilitating the biggest crime in the city's history. Now they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives - save the city - or save their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film, tension
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Nirvana (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, apocalyptic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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Enemy of the State (1998)
Plot Summary:
Hotshot Washington lawyer, Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover the tape – and destroy Dean.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 256000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, tense, political thriller, suspenseful, political, exciting, sexy, entertaining, action thriller
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The Running Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed