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Plot Summary:
A group of Korean anarchists in 1920s China are determined to overthrow the military and government.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: political
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Sky on Fire (2016)
Plot Summary:
The chief security officer at a top-secret medical facility finds himself caught in an explosive battle when a young thief and his accomplices steal a groundbreaking curative medicine. After discovering the true origins of the medicine, the officer must decide who he can trust to protect the cure from falling into the wrong hands, and prevent an all-out war from bringing the city to its knees.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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S.M.A.R.T. Chase (2017)
Plot Summary:
A washed-up private security agent has to escort a valuable Chinese antique out of Shanghai but is ambushed en route.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, entertaining, suspenseful
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King (2011)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a scene of a bank robbery in progress. The actions of the robbers during the gateway is photographed by Ashwin (Jeeva). After a chase, the injured Ashwin loses his camera to the robbers but managed to retrieve the memory card. His brave actions are broadcasted in the local TV channels and earns him praises from his colleagues and media friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller
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Rebellion in Patagonia (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1920, workmen of Patagonia (Argentina), grouped into anarchist and socialist societies, decide to strike demanding better working conditions. Among the workers there are numerous European immigrants acting as ideological ferment of their peers. The situation is unsustainable and Yrigoyen government sent from Buenos Aires, Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order ... Based on the book "Los vengadores de la Patagonia trágica", written by Osvaldo Bayer.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Western
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political
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Gun City (2018)
Plot Summary:
Barcelona, Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, perverse
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The Fatal Raid (2019)
Plot Summary:
An ultraviolent cops vs. gangsters bloodbath leaves casualties on both sides. Twenty years later, surviving team member Madam Fong leads a new squad in pursuit of reckless young anarchists terrorizing Macao.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Revenge of the Gweilo (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-cop goes on a rampage after his fiancee is killed by the Asian mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Remember (2022)
Plot Summary:
Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man in his 20s who helps him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Age of Shadows (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, noir, suspense, art house, costume drama, neo noir
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Assassination (2015)
Plot Summary:
Assassination is set in Korea and Shanghai in the 1930's during the Japanese occupation. The government resistance assigns a secret commando group with killing collaborators.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, neo noir, political, historical drama
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Shiri (1999)
Plot Summary:
North Korea's 8th Special Forces hijacks a shipment of CTX, a potent new liquid explosive, and threatens South Korea as part of a plot to re-unify the two countries.Ryu and Lee, special agents of O.P., South Korea's secret intelligence service, attempt to track down the terrorists and find the CTX. Meanwhile Hee, the 8th's ultra-bad female sniper, resurfaces to wreak havoc and haunt Ryu.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, stylized, neo noir, action thriller, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, tense
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Dead End City (1988)
Plot Summary:
The government's new urban renewal policy results in street gangs fighting for control of the inner cities. While most of the residents flee, one factory owner determines to fight the gangs for his property.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: hood, surprise ending, independent film
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Oru Mexican Aparatha (2017)
Plot Summary:
The student politics in a government college has for long revolved around the students' organisation KSQ. Subhash and Paul attempts to change the political scenario by launching a new movement called SFY based on their ideologies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, political
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Typhoon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Myung-sin, who has become a pirate, lives with hatred in his heart and endures the hardships, seeks revenge on the two nations, North and South Korea, using nuclear waste that has the devastating power of plutonium. Se-jong, a South Korean naval officer departs with his team of elite forces to prevent Sin's master plan of Nuclear Typhoon. Born under the same skies of the same race, but of a completely different nation... Living a life so different, the two point their guns at each other's heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, surprise ending
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S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future (2015)
Plot Summary:
The NPS (National Police Safety Rescue), whose purpose is to catch extreme criminals alive, becomes the center of attention. A sit-in demonstration takes place. Members of the NPS, including Ichigo Kamikura (Osamu Mukai) go to the protest site. Meanwhile, a transport ship is hijacked in the Pacific Ocean.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense
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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
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Howling (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man is found burned to death inside of a car. Detective Sang-Gil (Song Kang-Ho) and his co-workers investigate the scene. Sang-Gil doesn't want to take the case, because it looks like a simple suicide case and won't help him get the promotion that he desperately wants. Furthermore, rookie female detective Eun-Young (Lee Na-Young) is selected as his partner for the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, dark, action thriller, crime thriller, twisted, serious
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Seven Years of Night (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set against the haunting backdrop of a small lake town, this chilling thriller unravels a meticulous revenge set over a period of 7 years, all beginning with the accidental death of an innocent girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Four Assassins (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four assassins meet in a hotel suite to resolve unfinished business. A tense drama set in the cosmopolitan world of Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, crime drama, realistic, contemplative, talky, stylized
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The Suspect (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dong-chul was the best special field agent in North Korea, but he’s abandoned by his government during a mission. While on the run, he looks for his wife and child, who were sold as slaves to China, only to discover their corpses. He soon finds out that his colleague was behind the killing and defects to the South in search of his nemesis. He looks for him during the day, and works as a temp driver at night and as a personal driver for Chairman PARK. One night the chairman is attacked and killed by an assassin, but not before handing over a pair of glasses to Dong-chul. He is now on the run again, accused of the chairman’s murder by the intelligence service, while trying to uncover the secret contained inside the glasses. Little did he know that depending on who ultimately gains control of the secret, it could either become a national threat or treasure.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, tense, political, twisted, rough, suspenseful
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The Berlin File (2013)
Plot Summary:
JUNG Jin-soo, a South Korean intelligence agent, comes across an unidentifiable operative, a 'ghost,' while surveilling a North Korean weapons deal in Berlin. The mystery figure is a North Korean secret agent, PYO Jong-seong, whose information cannot be found on any intelligence database. Jung quickly goes after Pyo to unveil his identity and gets himself embroiled in a vast international conspiracy. In the meanwhile, another North Korean operative, DONG Myung-soo, is dispatched to Berlin with a secret agenda to purge Pyo and take control of the North Korean embassy. Dong sets a trap to frame Pyo's wife, RYUN Jung-hee, for treason and tightens the noose around Pyo's neck. Pyo surveils his wife with hopes of clearing accusation against her but he plunges into deeper confusion when he discovers her secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, political, suspense, twisted, realistic
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The Bad Guys: Reign of Chaos (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chief of the ‘Special Crime Unit’, OH Gu-tak, looks for the former gangster, PARK Woong-chul, whom he had worked with before, and recruits a con artist, KWAK No-soon, and a convicted cop, KO Yoo-sung in the new team. With new blood, the ‘Bad Guys’ have become stronger and tougher. As they dig deeper into the case, they sense that a much bigger crime organization is behind it all and they begin the hunt for bad guys….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, absurd, disturbing, psychological
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Plot Summary:
In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, visual, stylized, manga, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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2009: Lost Memories (2002)
Plot Summary:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, cyber
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Dragon Inn (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Sui Yan, the power-hungry and ruthless eunuch leader of East Chamber, craves his own kingdom. He intends on destroying the rebelling clans by using a traitorous secretary's children as bait. Ultimately, the two warring factions - the rebels led by Chow Wai-on and Mo-yan Yau, the East Chamber led by Tsao - end up in the rundown Dragon Inn right in the middle of the desert. Jade King, the beautiful owner and proprietor of Dragon Inn, hopes to cash in on the incident. But problems arise when Wai-on, desperate for the quickest route of escape, attempts to marry Jade in hopes of prying her for information; and the two clans go head-to-head in a no-holds barred finale battle.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, epic, cult classic
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J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved - all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, political, tricky, thought provoking, suspenseful, bleak, touching, realistic, suspense
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Covert Operation (2014)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, he travels between the border of China and North Korea, where the mission takes a turn for the worst.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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West 32nd (2007)
Plot Summary:
When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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V.I.P. (2017)
Plot Summary:
A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir, noir
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Mile 22 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer are forced to work together in confronting political corruption. An informant must be moved twenty-two miles to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, surprise ending, political, twist ending, fast paced, anamorphic