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Plot Summary:
HAN, a Filipino-Korean(Kopino) boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game. The opponent is knocked down, and HAN returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother’s surgery. Although he is aware that he shouldn't, he strives to find his father, whom he saw in an old picture. Then, one day, HAN rushes to the Kopino Support Center after receiving an unexpected phone call from Mr. KIM, and he follows those who came to pick him up on a board to Korea. Meanwhile, a mysterious child appears and a man keeps an eye on HAN at the airport. Who or what is chasing him?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Ishmael (2010)
Plot Summary:
An ex-convict who is ostracized by his neighborhood. Little does he know that this neighborhood he once knew is set to awaken his past. Ishmael decided to come back home to find peace and solitude in a place familiar to him. But his dream of rebuilding his shattered past is shaken when a mysterious innocent girl ends up in his front yard. A powerful religious cult headed by an enigmatic leader known as the Ama, is running the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: one man show
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More Than Family (2020)
Plot Summary:
To-il tutors high school student Ho-hoon, but she soon falls in love with him and gets pregnant. The film unfolds a series of playful happenings when To-il embarks on a journey to find her birth father for the wedding, though she is living with her step-father.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: political drama
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Pandora: Beneath the Paradise (2023)
Plot Summary:
Hong Taera gets trapped in a fate like that of Pandora in Greek mythology. With a perfect husband and a lovely daughter, Taera leads a life envied by all. However, her repressed memories resurface. She sets out to take revenge and protect her beloved family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Look at Me, America (1991)
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Paul is a Korean-born immigrant whose life is turned upside down when his father is crippled from a robbery and his mother leaves them and marries the father of a bigoted gang leader, Billy. When Paul is constantly harrassed by Billy and his boys, Paul must use his skills in martial arts to defend himself. He learns that there is racial tension everywhere, especially when it involves his girlfriend, the daughter of a bigoted government official. Meanwhile, Billy must learn to adapt to this nature and attempt at peace with those who have done him wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Seventies (2002)
Plot Summary:
A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: political, tagalog
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10000 Hours (2013)
Plot Summary:
Senator Gabriel Alcaraz (Robin Padilla) is preparing to deliver a privilege speech alleging corruption in the highest levels of government. On his way to the Senate, he gets wind of a plot against him. The police seek to arrest him for his part in an operation decades ago. Suspecting that the administration isn’t willing to give him a fair trial, Alcaraz goes into hiding abroad, hoping to find a way to clear his name and eventually return to his family. Back home, an old colleague is put in charge of finding him, and his family suffers under the pressure of public scrutiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Clementine (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kim, a Taekwondo champion decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang, Kim must agree to fight in a rigged boxing match in exchange for Sa Rang's freedom.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult film
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My Name Is Vendetta (2022)
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After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Across the Crescent Moon (2017)
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The story revolves around a SAF exemplary Agent, Abbas Misani a Muslim who is married to Emma, whose parents with strict Christian upbringing would not accept both Abbas and Emma to their family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min
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High-Rise Rescue (2017)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally gripping family action drama about a mother who will do whatever it takes to save her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Manila's Finest (2015)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the life of retired Western Police District Colonel Jimmy Tiu, who last served as Sta. Mesa Police Station Commander.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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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Too Hot to Handle (1977)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous blonde assassin Samantha Fox accepts a contract to liquidate a quintet of gangsters in the Philippines. Problems ensue when she falls in love with the Manila detective investigating the killings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, detective, independent film
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Confession (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hyun-tae, In-chul and Min-soo have been best friends since childhood. Their relationship is forever changed after Hyun-tae's mother asks In-chul to commit insurance fraud by destroying her arcade.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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
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Babruvahana (1977)
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Babhruvahana, like Arjuna at the beginning of the Kurukshetra war, faces a moral dilemma. Can he risk harming his parents? While Chitarangada alerts Arjuna to shoot an arrow at their son and take advantage of Babhruvahana’s momentary lapse due to a sense of devotion towards them (as Arjuna did with Karna), Uluci, the Naga princess and yet another abandoned wife of Arjuna’s, reminds Babhruvahana of the teaching of the Kurukshetra battle that in the battlefield there is no space for feelings even towards parents. What Babhruvahana must do is to establish his mother’s good name and thereby his own character. This film captures this conflict spectacularly. The eerie parallels with the moral dilemmas of the great Mahabharata battle aside, here all the familial relationships (in particular, strong mothers and dutiful sons) become exaggerated and demand our attention.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: kannada
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Goutham Nanda (2017)
Plot Summary:
Goutham is a billionaire and his father gives him a year’s time to enjoy his life to the fullest. The deal between the two is that after a year, he’ll take over his father’s businesses. The catch is that, beneath his seemingly perfect life, Goutham is clueless about what happiness or hunger feels like. On the other hand, Nanda, who hails from a lower-middle class background, wants to die rich and his father keeps criticising his aspirations.One fine day, Goutham and Nanda bump into each other, and since both of them are quite vexed up with their respective lives & they decide to swap their places to lead a new life for 30 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Viruman (2022)
Plot Summary:
An intrepid and good-hearted son fights to make his arrogant father pay the price for his sins, which includes his mother's death, and save his brothers from the man's grip.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags:
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Marine Boy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Marine Boy is the story of a former national swimmer who finds himself in debt, and out of desperation is employed as a mule by a gangster boss, smuggling drugs by sea.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Secret Reunion (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago a mysterious shooting takes place in Seoul. The after effects of the shooting results in Han-kyu Lee (Song Kang-Ho) losing his job at the NIS (National Intelligence Service). Six years later, Ji-won Song (Kang Dong-Won), an ex North Korean spy. now operates somewhere in the Seoul metropolitan area. As these two men hide their identities and work their particular angles, trouble brews again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, serious, stylized, psychological, noir
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Back to Even (1998)
Plot Summary:
When an expert counterfeiter finds himself in debt to a dangerous bookie and on the run from the mob, he races to clear his name and settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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No Tears for the Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned by his mother shortly after immigrating to America, Gon is raised by the mafia and grows up to become a cold-blooded hitman. Though usually flawless in taking out his targets, Gon makes a terrible mistake of killing an innocent young girl. Swamped by feelings of regret, guilt and shame, Gon no longer wants to be a hitman, but his boss gives him one last mission. So Gon finds himself in Korea, the land of the mother that abandoned him, on the trail of his last target. But in bitter irony, that target is Mo-gyeong, the mother of the dead child.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, action thriller, bloody, heroic, hood
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The Taste of Money (2012)
Plot Summary:
In this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate's middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek's husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, erotic, captivating, suspense, crime drama, realistic, sexual, sexy
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New World (2013)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious, intense, rough, psychological
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Night in Paradise (2020)
Plot Summary:
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece. In revenge, Tae-goo brutally kills Chairman Doh and his men and flees to Jeju Island where he meets Jae-yeon, a terminally ill woman. Though, the henchman of the Bukseong gang, Executive Ma is mercilessly hunting Tae-goo to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, hood, perverse, brutal, noir
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Gangs of 18 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Students of two schools in Thiruvananthapuram that cater to different economical classes are in a tussle. While one set struggles for survival, the other is busy finding joy in drugs. The two groups keep finding reasons to mess with each other. Will they find the purpose of their lives amid the chaos?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Semper Fi (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cal is a dedicated cop who also serves as a sergeant in the Marine Corps Reserve. When his reckless half brother lands in jail for accidentally killing a man, Cal and his buddies hatch a plan to break him out of prison -- no matter what the cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bullitt County (2018)
Plot Summary:
An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, dark