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Plot Summary:
From Drug abuse, Hate Crimes, Sex, Abuse of authority, Violence and the former Don't ask, Don't tell policy. The Barracks is the place to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
An elite group of "soldiers" are assigned the job of infultrating a right-wing militia group. Each team member has unique skills (what's new ?). The right wingers have a heavily guarded camp, and are about to launch a nationwide campaign of violent action.. Will our heroes thwart the neo-nazis in time.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Daleko nebo (1982)
Plot Summary:
A youth has a burning ambition to be a pilot, but this is met with opposition by his mother because his father, also a pilot, was killed in a jet-fighter crash in a storm. The youth goes ahead with his career but one day he encounters a bad storm.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999)
Plot Summary:
A mother gives birth to twins. Unfortunately, they are separated. One of the children ends up in neighbouring Pakistan and grows up a devout Muslim named Tauheed, while the other grows up as a Hindu named Ajay. With the on-going rivalry and hatred between the two countries, both find themselves on the opposite side, and must battle each other. The only way they can unite is by saving the life of the Pakistani Prime Minister, who himself has become the target of terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags:
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The No Mercy Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Vietnam Vet returns to his father's ranch in Arizona just as criminally minded carnies begin to cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, anamorphic, independent film, juvenile, cult film
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Viper (1988)
Plot Summary:
After Laura's husband James is murdered, she decides to find out who did it and why. She finds herself in a fight against an anti-terrorist organization in her desire for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, independent film
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Whiteforce (1988)
Plot Summary:
Johnny Quinn has been set up by a drug lord and must find a way to clear his name before the bad guys and his own agency put him in the ground.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Australia, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Class of '61 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a slave trader and goes on the run.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: historical drama
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The London Connection (1979)
Plot Summary:
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped on his arrival in London, car chases, foot chases, air chases, British secret service and a couple of American tourist caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Monumental (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two young men journey across the U.S.A to honor one's mother by spreading her ashes at monuments she always dreamed of visiting. Along the way they encounter interesting characters and dangerous situations that force them to question their own character and their life-long friendship. Marital strife, jail time, car chases, old secrets and a demolition derby all threaten to derail their trip and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Warriors (1994)
Plot Summary:
A government-trained killing machine must turn his lethal skills against his top-secret squad's AWOL leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Naa Peru Surya - Naa Illu India (2018)
Plot Summary:
Despite having serious anger management issues, Surya, an Indian Army officer is a brilliant officer but when anger takes control of him he is impossible to subdue. In spite of this issue, he achieves his goal of serving the country by overcoming the hurdles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspenseful
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Union Bound (2016)
Plot Summary:
He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Warfighter (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rusty Wittenburg is a Navy SEAL struggling to balance his family life and his job. He fights daily to maintain the line between reality and the nightmares his PTSD conjures up for him. Dedicated to his team and his mission, he is willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for his fellow brothers and teammates.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Pocahontas: The Legend (1995)
Plot Summary:
Englishmen come to explore and settle the new world. There they find natives who are curious about their "firesticks" and strange customs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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Misguided Behavior (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Truth can hurt sometimes...but not even death can keep a secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, social, disturbing
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The Base (1999)
Plot Summary:
Major Murphy, a US Army Investigator, has received a new assignment. Sgt. Gammon is suspected of dealing cocaine from his base, and Murphy must gather enough evidence to shut down Gammon and his entire operation. Along with his partner, Lt. Andrews, the Major goes undercover to infiltrate the gang and find out just how far up the chain of command these activities are going.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
A short film that tells the story of three older men who come into the same restaurant on Wednesday mornings at the same time every week. The story is told from the perspective of Megan, the newly hired waitress at the restaurant that takes classes at night. Through her deliberate acts of respect and purposeful efforts to get to know these gentlemen the shroud of their grumpy appearance is lifted and as the men open up the impact of their life stories extend beyond Megan.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Plot Summary:
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their survival training to get them through.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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SEAL Team VI (2008)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by actual events: This heroic saga depicts an elite counter-terrorism team's black ops incursion into Iraq four days prior to Operation: Desert Shield and the harrowing consequences its members faced when their covert mission was compromised.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, tense, suspense, realistic
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War Pigs (2015)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag unit of misfits known as the War Pigs must go behind enemy lines to exterminate Nazis by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, perverse
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The Last Rescue (2015)
Plot Summary:
World World II: Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, tense, suspense
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Sand Castle (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, tense, rough, captivating, suspense, melancholic, perverse
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When Trumpets Fade (1998)
Plot Summary:
In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, bleak
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Top Gun (1986)
Plot Summary:
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an Ace pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious, cult classic, action packed, retro, inspirational, epic
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Saints and Soldiers (2003)
Plot Summary:
Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, intense, rough, emotional, epic, realistic, talky, christian film, exciting, sad
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Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of American GIs work their way through war-torn France during the final days of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, christian film, action packed, historical drama, exciting, tense, rough
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Fortress (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
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Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters, this sequel will explore the end of the era of dogfighting.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 646000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, entertaining, saga, inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, epic, emotional, sad, predictable
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Plot Summary:
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, harsh, intense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, spectacular, bleak
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Plot Summary:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 463000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: epic, breathtaking, serious, exciting, captivating, period piece, realistic, stylized, dramatic, suspense