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Plot Summary:
A bored teen piano prodigy has her life turned upside down one day when she learns her parents are divorcing. After a horrible accident that drives her to run away, Claire befriends a young refugee from war torn Afghanistan. As the two of them dream of being renegade outlaws, his hidden truth starts to come out as Claire discovers he is a drug courier and the mobsters he ripped off want their drugs back leading the two on a harrowing journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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The Company Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
When mercenaries attack, Ernest Gray's solemn life as a bookstore owner is revealed to be a cover, and his real identity as an ex-CIA agent puts his family at risk.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dread
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Commando Leopard (1985)
Plot Summary:
A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent government.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Action
Country: Switzerland, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, cult film
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The Most Powerful Families in Wrestling (2007)
Plot Summary:
Some of the greatest wrestling superstars come from rich family traditions. The Rock (Rocky Johnson, The wild Samoans, the great Peter Mavia) Texas wrestling is largely defined by the Von Erich family, as well as the Funks, whose father Dory Sr. raised two future world champs, Dory Jr. and Terry. Canada considers the Hart family (Bret Hart, Owen Hart, British Bulldog, Jim the Anvil Neidhart) wrestling royalty. Great Families of Wrestling will examine these families, as well as the Guerreros, Ortons, Gagnes, Colons, DiBiases, Rhodes, Lawlers, and more. The DVD will explore the rich legacies these families have created in sports entertainment, and define their lasting impact. Fathers, sons, brothers, and grandsons will all be covered, including both relationships and connections acknowledged and long held secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 380 min
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Transit 17 (2019)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set in the future, 2026, Europe is no longer the same and separated from the rest of the world after a deadly virus spreads.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
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Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island (2021)
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During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers find themselves trapped in dense swampland infested with deadly saltwater crocodiles. As the men are picked off one by one by the hungry reptiles, those that remain resort to increasingly desperate measures to survive the onslaught of carnage and get off the island alive.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Moonlight (2002)
Plot Summary:
Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her family's garden shed. The boy is a young drug courier from Afghanistan; shot and wounded after serving his purpose as human packing material. Claire decides to keep the boy a secret. He slowly recovers under her care; and they fall in love. When the drug dealers return and Claire's family is due to move back to the city; they decide to flee; though Claire finds it difficult to outrun her past as an abandoned child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Anth (1994)
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Anth was a 1993 Indian action film directed by Sanjay Khanna and produced by Ashok Honda and starred Sunil Shetty and Somy Ali in pivotal roles. Paresh Rawal, Deepak Shirke, Mohan Joshi, Makrand Deshpande, Alok Nath and Vijendra Ghaat also featured in the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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WWE Rebellion (2002)
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Rebellion (2002) took place on October 26, 2002 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. The main event featured Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman defending Lesnar's WWF Championship in a Handicap match against Edge. Los Guerreros challenged Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the Tag Team Championship belts, Rikishi fought Albert, Reverend Devon and Ron Simmons fought Val Venis and Chuck Palumbo , and several other matches filled out the undercard.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration:
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WWF Insurrextion (2001)
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Insurrextion (2001) took place on May 5, 2001 at Earls Court in London, England. The main event was a handicap match with The Undertaker facing Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H. In a Queen's Cup match, Chris Jericho faced William Regal. Chris Benoit fought Kurt Angle in a two out of three falls match. There was also a Fatal Four-Way Elimination match between The Hardy Boyz, Edge & Christian, The Dudley Boyz, and X-Factor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
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The Siege (2023)
Plot Summary:
International assassin Walker is compromised during a mission and sent to a reassignment center for a new identity. During his stay at the facility, a ruthless assault team storms the compound searching for someone their boss has lost. Walker begrudgingly falls in with skilled hitwoman Elda and her mysterious ward Juliet in order to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Action
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance (2023)
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Pat Tate embarks on a rampage to avenge his loyal and trusted footsoldier's violent death, venturing beyond his comfort zone of Essex into the dark side of 90s Soho to track down the villain responsible. Set to execute his revenge, Tate will stop at nothing even as the world around him starts to explode.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
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ID2: Shadwell Army (2016)
Plot Summary:
Long-awaited sequel to the 1995 film. A young British Asian, Mo is a fast-rising police officer who goes under cover infiltrating Shadwell's resurgent hooligan element, who are fired up by Shadwells's takeover by a Russian oligarch and their unlikely adventure into European competition. Mo quickly becomes embroiled in the local schism between the BNP and EDL and plans to build a new mosque in the shadow of the Shadwell ground creates an explosive environment in which football and political violence form a perfect storm of social unrest. In the midst of this, Mo is faced with the essential existential question of of who he really is and where he really belongs. It's 20 years on and clever Trevor is now chief super, but what happens to the rest of the gang?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Hitmen (2023)
Plot Summary:
Michael Hero, a powerful CEO, seeks vengeance for the murder of his grandson by offering a one-million-dollar bounty for the assassination of his grandson's accidental killers, attracting the world's leading assassins to the task at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
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Athena, the Goddess of War (2015)
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Athena, The Goddess of War (2015) launches viewers into a universe filled with Gods and Goddesses, Humans and betrayals, love and redemption. When Zeus learns of a plan by Hades to enslave mankind and force them to fight alongside his army Zeus forges a key to restrict passage between the realms to protect mankind. Unfortunately, Hades one step ahead of Zeus has already sent his bride and Queen of the Underworld Persephone to earth to find the key to open the passage way to earth allowing Hades' evil and demonic creation called The Harbinger of Death to attack. The only thing standing between the impending invasion and certain annihilation of mankind is Athena, The Goddess of War and seven brave humans courageous enough to join the fight to save mankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, emotional, apocalyptic, stylized, intense, dark fantasy
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Age Of Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Baby Face Nelson (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bonnie and Clyde were no match for Depression Era gangster George "Babyface" Nelson and his moll Helen Womack. Constantly on the lam from the law and from Chicago's biggest crime lord Al Capone, Babyface and his female accomplice leave a trail of blood and bullets in their path towards making history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Vikings: Blood Lust (2023)
Plot Summary:
A band of vikings are on the run from a blood thirsty group of Berserkers who want to fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
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Sucker Punch (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ray 'Harley' Davidson is a hustler. With flash clothes and a fast mouth, Harley lives life in the fast lane. With his passion for all things gambling, money runs like water through Harley's hands and as quickly as he makes a killing he takes a beating, normally at the poker table. Nominally an illegal prize-fight manager, Harley hasn't produced a live one in months, until Charles Buchinsky literally wanders into his life. Charles Buchinsky, street fighter extraordinaire. He's from out of town looking for a fight and the chance to tie up a few loose ends. Keeps himself to himself, lets his fists do the talking and his word is his bond. Victor Maitland, top illegal fight promoter and porn baron. Hates losing and loves the prestige of managing the best hitter in town. Harley dreams of bringing Maitland down and after seeing Buchinsky at work, engineers a fragile partnership. The duo soon becomes a hot ticket.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, action adventure, fairy tale, remake of american film
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Shootfighter: Fight to the Death (1993)
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Nick and Ruben are hoodwinked into a "shootfighter" (no-holds-barred, to the death) martial arts match by the evil Mr. Lee, who has a grudge against world shootfighter champ(and teacher of Nick and Ruben) Shingo.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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400 Bullets (2021)
Plot Summary:
One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae, a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue special ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. The two soldiers must fight for their lives as they attempt to call for backup before the rogue squad, led by the backstabbing Sergeant Bartlett, can hunt them down to retrieve a case of missile guidance chips that Noah intercepted. But Bartlett and his men do not count on Rana, whose ferocious Gurkha training makes him a force to be reckoned with.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)
Plot Summary:
Chappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, satirical
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Get Lucky (2013)
Plot Summary:
Lucky is a small time criminal and he's happy just getting by until he agrees to look after some counterfeit money for a friend who is in a bit of trouble with the law Two months go by without a word from him so Lucky burns the 'funny money' to avoid problems for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
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Outlawed (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ex-Royal Marine Commando uncovers evidence that could bring down a corrupt official and put him behind bars for life. When his childhood sweetheart is kidnapped, his mission is to rescue her and let nothing stand in his way.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
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American Mobster: Retribution (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nick Romano must navigate through murder, violence, and betrayal in order to maintain his place as the top mobster in Miami.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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I Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020)
Plot Summary:
A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rage (2017)
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A vicious gang war for drug dominance draws in a disturbed Special Forces veteran John Bradley. Trying to adjust to normal life and haunted by inner demons of a violent past, the underworld's retribution on his last connection to humanity, a daughter and grandchild leads to a descent of fury and violence that not even the brutality of gangland is prepared for.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic
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I Am Vengeance (2018)
Plot Summary:
When ex-soldier turned mercenary, John Gold, learns of the murder of his best friend, he sets off on a mission to find out what happened. What he discovers is a sinister conspiracy and he sets about taking down those responsible one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Purifiers (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to maintain the successful system which has rid the city of crime and violence.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target (1998)
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The anti-terrorist team Delta Force destroys a billion dollar cocaine stash, to the extreme displeasure of drug cartel leader Umberto Salvatore. To retaliate, he hijacks a stealth submarine and threatens to unleash a biological weapon with the power to kill everyone in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense
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Underground (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've got to take the prize...but there can be only one winner.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic