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Plot Summary:
Saturday 24th December 1994. Four GIA terrorists hijack an Air France A300 Airbus at the Algiers airport. The Airbus, bound for Paris, has 227 passengers on board. No one knows exactly what the terrorists’ intentions are, just that they are armed and extremely determined. They demand the liberation of their “brothers in arms” and want the aircraft to take off at once. After very lengthy and intense negotiations between the French and Algerian governments, the plane is finally allowed to leave. There are three main characters at the heart of the action: a member of the GIGN, Carole Jeanton, an ambitious technocrat willing to do anything it takes to achieve personal gain from the events, and Yahia Abdallah, a determined jihadist who grew up in the slums of Algiers and was being manipulated by an obscure GIA envoy, Ali Touchent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, History, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, fast
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Blind Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
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The Final Option (1982)
Plot Summary:
When SAS Captain Peter Skellen is thrown out of the service for gross misconduct due to unnecessary violence and bullying, he is soon recruited by The People's Lobby, a fanatical group aiming to hold several US dignitaries hostage. But Skellen's dismissal is a front to enable him to get close to the terrorist group. Can he get close enough to stop the Lobby from creating an international incident?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, offbeat, political, cult classic, action thriller, independent film
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Sonic Impact (1999)
Plot Summary:
A dangerous criminal hijacks a plane with his fellow prisoners and threatens to crash it into a populated area. The agent who captured him sets out to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Marksman (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, fast
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Operation Delta Force 5: Random Fire (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Delta Force team are brought in once again to deal with an evil villain in foreign lands.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Homeland Security (2004)
Plot Summary:
Admiral McKee (Tom Skerritt) is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the White House informing him that his commander in chief requires him to serve his country once again. Shortly after this he is sworn into office as a senior member of the Office of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. Once in office Admiral McKee faces the challenge of organising this new office so as to prevent further terrorist attacks against the United States. With this in mind Admiral McKee's wife, Elise Mckee, recommends he speaks to his friend, NSA Agent Sol Binder.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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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
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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
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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
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Special Ops (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is accused of aiding the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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Operation Delta Force (1997)
Plot Summary:
A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, South Africa
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film, fast
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Strategic Command (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rick Harding is a former Marines officer, now working in the FBI as a chemical weapons designer. While packing up for the night, a group of armed soldiers led by wanted criminal Carlos Gruber, break into the FBI research lab. They steal large amounts of a newly created germ warfare chemical called Bromax-360, loosing two of their men in the process before escaping into the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 898
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Crash Landing (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a hostage situation arises on-board a private plane with the daughter of a billionaire on-board. Major John Masters (Sabato Jr.) teams up with Captain Williams (Michael Paré) to stop the terrorist and land the plane.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, fast, disaster movie
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Air Marshal (2003)
Plot Summary:
A commercial jet plane has been hijacked by a group of terrorists who don't realize that a U.S. Air Marshal, Brett Prescott (Dean Cochran), is among the passengers. The fate of dozens of people lies in the hands of Prescott, who must forge a one-man war against the hijackers destructive plans.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
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Storm Catcher (1999)
Plot Summary:
A renegade general plots to bomb Washington using a new top secret jet called the Storm Catcher. The only trouble is only one man is capable of flying it. So they seek to put him on the run in a conspiracy that makes him appear to have murdered several men and stolen the plane. Then try to murder his wife and take his daughter prisoner. Threatening to kill his daughter if he doesn't help, he appears trapped. However, his best friend who is the plane's computer specialist has a few tricks up his sleeve.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, bleak, fast
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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
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Victory at Entebbe (1976)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003)
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Based on the known events that shook the United States for 23 days in 2002. Within 24 hours six people were killed by a sniper in Maryland County. A man and his son get overlooked in all settings where shootings occur. The police, in cooperation with the FBI follows the wrong track of a white van, while the murderers act with impunity and panic seizes the population.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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15 Minutes of War (2019)
Plot Summary:
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, touching
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D-Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
9 years ago Wali Khan (Irrfan Khan) was sent into Karachi, Pakistan by the Chief of RAW Ashwini Rao (Nasser) to report the activities of The Most Wanted Man in India. 9 days ago Rudra Pratap Singh (Arjun Rampal) Indian Armed Forces, MARCOS unit, Zoya Rehman (Huma Qureshi) RAW Explosives expert, and Aslam, a petty thief from the streets of Mumbai recruited by RAW, infiltrated Pakistan to join Wali Khan and carry out the mission to bring back The Most Wanted Man in India. The man who was going to break all ISI protocol and security and attend his own son's wedding. The man who could on that day be abducted and brought back to India to face justice. 1 day ago everything went according to plan until it all failed. The team sent in to bring The Most Wanted Man in India, did the unthinkable - they carried out the most daring operation and almost got away with it. Almost because, something went horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, realistic, exciting, captivating, entertaining, stylized, independent film, action thriller, rough
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Baby (2015)
Plot Summary:
An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it's up to them to track the terrorists' international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, offbeat, action thriller, rough, realistic
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Raid on Entebbe (1976)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the PFLP. The plane has about 100 Jewish passengers. The plane is grounded in Uganda. Israelis would not negotiate. The movie then shows how less than 500 soldiers actually flew so far and rescued the passengers in one of the most successful Military operations in history. The only casualty for Israeli soldiers was Lt. Col. Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: political, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane with 248 passengers on board and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Malta
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, inspirational, social, action adventure, surprise ending, independent film, tension
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
Plot Summary:
Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and peace. No one suspects that there are four Palestinian terrorists among the passengers: Al Assadi, Fatayer, Al Ashker and Molqi, their leader. The ship puts to sea in perfect weather. Three marvellous days follow. Everyone appears to be happy and contented. But in the case of some of the passengers appearances are deceiving. Marilyn Klinghoffer, for example, only pretends to her crippled husband that she is well and happy; in reality she is seriously ill with cancer and knows that this will be her last voyage. She does not want to upset her husband, however. A crisis is brewing between.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA, West Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Executive Decision (1996)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, intense, anamorphic, cult classic, action thriller
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Flight 93 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Flight 93 is a 2006 made-for-TV film, directed by Peter Markle, which chronicles the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks. It premiered January 30, 2006 on the A&E Network and was re-broadcast several times throughout 2006. The film focused heavily on eight passengers, namely Todd Beamer, Mark Bingham, Tom Burnett, Jeremy Glick, Lauren Grandcolas, Donald Greene, Nicole Miller, and Honor Elizabeth Wainio. It features small appearances from many other passengers, namely Donald Peterson and his wife, Jean, and also from flight attendant Sandra Bradshaw.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, History, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, patriotic, disaster movie
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Rebellion (2011)
Plot Summary:
Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: France, New Caledonia
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, thought provoking, realistic, political, stylized, gloomy
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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
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United 93 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, realistic, emotional, controversial, tense, political, rough, serious, disturbing, bleak
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21 Hours at Munich (1976)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, political thriller