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Plot Summary:
Mercenaries seize control of a remote resort hotel during a wedding and it's up to the best man, the groom and their drunken best friend to stop the terrorists and save the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Pentathlon (1994)
Plot Summary:
When East German Eric Brogar (Dolph Lundgren) wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul) vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of all… the fight for his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, perverse, independent film, exciting
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Aaru (2005)
Plot Summary:
Aarumugam, nicknamed Aaru, is a thug and dealmaker with a band of boys handpicked from the slums of Chennai. Aaru’s mentor Viswanathan protects him, because Aaru gives him the violent undercover he needs. When Vishwanthan declares war on his bitter rival Reddy, Aaru assists him. But Vishwanthan betrays him, resulting in the deaths of Aaru's subordinates. Aaru thus realizes Viswanathan's true, evil nature and vows to destroy his power. There is also a subplot involving Aaru's romance with the college student Maha.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags:
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Chalta Purza (1977)
Plot Summary:
Rajesh Khanna plays the role of Amar an unemployed struggle in life, just because he believes in honesty. Ammar's eyes open when his mother dies in a car accident. He realizes that his mother could not be safe due to his honest ways. To improve his lifestyle he joins the gang f the notorious criminal CAPTAIN, where he immediately becomes their favorite henchman. Things change for Amar when he learns that an old friend of his has joined the police force and has been assigned to nab CAPTAIN and his gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Hatchet Hour (2016)
Plot Summary:
Secrets test a friendship in this crime drama. A lawyer at a top firm accidentally kills her gardener. Fearing for her career, she asks her best friend to help her get rid of the body.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Larceny (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being busted for a heist, a former CIA contractor is sent to a Mexican prison. His former CIA boss offers him freedom if he can break into the prison vault and steal $50 Million.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Section 8 (2022)
Plot Summary:
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Lipstick Camera (1994)
Plot Summary:
Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East German spies are after.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gasoline Alley (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man implicated in the triple homicide of three Hollywood starlets begins his own investigation. Needing assistance, he enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy more explosive than any of them imagined.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, China, South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: perverse
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Daughter of the Wolf (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her father's passing and to claim her inheritance. Her son is then kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang led by a mysterious figure known only as “Father”.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, cliffhanger, entertaining, action thriller, action adventure
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Acceleration (2019)
Plot Summary:
Vladik Zorich (Dolph Lundgren), crime lord whose tentacles permeate the underbelly of a seedy Los Angeles as he deals in guns, gambling, drugs and skin trafficking, finds himself double-crossed by his most trusted operative Rhona Zyocki (Natalie Burn). Vladik's propensity for power, control, and violence drives him to kidnap Rhona's young son, forcing Rhona to participate in a planned elimination of Vladik's enemies and identities. As her son's life hangs in the balance, Rhona struggles to find and kill Vladik's most violent and twisted foes and regain valuable goods and information, all in one fateful night.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining
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The Killing Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), worked years ago as a sleeper agent in America. But when the Soviet Union collapsed, he quickly found himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled existence, EDWARD tries to start over. He assumes a new identity, starts a family and tries to start his own legitimate business that could potentially pull him out of his world of being a hitman.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bloody, crime drama, neo noir
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Three the Hard Way (1974)
Plot Summary:
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, grim, action thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating
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Castle Falls (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rival gangs seek out millions of dollars hidden inside a luxury condominium that's scheduled to be demolished, but first they have to deal with the demolition prep crewman who found the loot first.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, perverse, contemplative
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Ballerina (2023)
Plot Summary:
Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Russian Specialist (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, satanic, perverse, action packed
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Critical Mass (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments regarding the closing. A terrorist group led by Samson gets inside the gates, with their ultimate goal the detonation of a nuclear bomb inside the plant. After local policemen and the other plant workers are killed, Jeffers and Janine alone must confront and halt Samson and his terrorist squad. Written by Ken Miller.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, suspense, captivating, exciting, touching, fast, cult film
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Altitude (2017)
Plot Summary:
A female FBI agent is offered millions to help a thief escape from a hijacked airplane.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Isolation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good
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Direct Contact (2009)
Plot Summary:
An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring her out into the open.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, bloody, cult classic, surprise ending, cult film
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One in the Chamber (2012)
Plot Summary:
A seasoned assassin plays both sides in a Russian gang war and becomes the target of an unknown enemy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller, action packed, rough, surprise ending, neo noir, independent film
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The Forsaken (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, road movie, rough, cult classic, teen, psychotronic, teen horror, slasher, serious
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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Command Performance (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. Our two heroes are seriously outnumbered, and things aren't as simple as they appear, when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, fast, surprise ending
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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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Endangered Species (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of them go in search of rescue, a bloody, vicious encounter with a leopard and a clan of hyenas incites a desperate fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Kenya, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
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The Package (2012)
Plot Summary:
A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Triple Frontier (2019)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, action adventure, psychological thriller, inspirational, road movie, hood
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Arctic Blue (1993)
Plot Summary:
An environmentalist gets involved in transporting an accused killer (Ben) from an isolated Alaskan town to the authorities. Ben is determined to escape, and his fellow trappers are ready to help.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Captured (2000)
Plot Summary:
Matt Hendricks (Dolph Lundgren) is the US Navy's top Marine Special Operations Commander and is facing his toughest challenge yet - Escorting the deadliest viral weapon on the planet back to a safe Storage Faciliy.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, independent film, exciting, fast, surprise ending, double entendre