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Plot Summary:
The shocking, tragic death of his father propels Chris King into a nightmare. Running for his life, Chris fights off street thugs, a homicidal psychopath, and the CIA. He teams up with a beautiful but rough petty thief to uncover why he has become the hunted. Together, they discover that a valuable piece of information his father left behind is worth killing for-they just have to stay alive to find it.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Hostage (1992)
Plot Summary:
A weary British spy retreats to a Buenos Aires hotel and recalls his last dirty job, complete with lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Argentina, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political thriller, independent film
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The Last Witness (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman becomes entangled in the conspiracy of two world governments to assassinate an international leader in New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying
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General Commander (2019)
Plot Summary:
GRS operative Jake Alexander and his team of young recruits go after the most dangerous and notorious criminals with the help of a Hong Kong billionaire.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Philippines, Hungary, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
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The Final Cut (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious bomber is planting explosive devices in Seattle. Since their quality takes too big a toll among Seattle Police bomb experts, John Pierce, former head of the Bomb Squad, reluctantly takes the job that will take him to face his worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Sabotage (1996)
Plot Summary:
Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, action adventure, independent film
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The Assassination File (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ex-FBI agent gradually uncovers the nature of a conspiracy behind the death of a black presidential candidate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
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Phase IV (2002)
Plot Summary:
Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, experimental, stylized, mystical, psychotronic
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Art of Deception (2019)
Plot Summary:
After uncovering the CIA’s ruthless master plan for world domination by gaining complete mind control over the entire population, top scientist Joseph Markham is ultimately left with a choice: save the lives of billions…or the life of his wife, who has been kidnapped, interrogated, and brutally tortured but continues to viciously fight for her life. As a nationwide manhunt ensues, deadly assassins pursue, and one man’s decision will determine the fate of the world. Art of Deception is about a fight for life, love and world dominance.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark
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Embassy (1985)
Plot Summary:
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Hitman Agency (2018)
Plot Summary:
An assassin hunts and tortures his old predecessor in the basement of his European home, only to reveal the lies and corruption of their international hitman agency by taking a journey through the manipulations of the old man's past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, action adventure, twisted
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The Contractor (2007)
Plot Summary:
Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action thriller, fast
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Rev (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young thief with a history of grand theft auto becomes an informant and helps police bring down a criminal enterprise involved in the smuggling of hundreds of exotic super cars.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense
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Man with a Gun (1995)
Plot Summary:
Madsen plays an assassin who's hired to kill the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, tense, noir, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The Fourth Angel (2001)
Plot Summary:
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film
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OSS 117 - Double Agent (1968)
Plot Summary:
A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, eurospy
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MR-9 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Masud Rana is a Secret Agent with code name MR-9 of the Bangladesh Counter Intelligence Agency.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bangladesh
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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The Sell Out (1976)
Plot Summary:
This action drama centers on a former CIA operative who grudgingly rejoins the spy game due to the machinations of his one-time student - a screw up who goes to work for the Soviets. As his job drags him deeper into a dangerous and under-handed world, the student wants out of the agency and oout of the U.S.S.R. But the man's choices have made him a target and now both the United States and Russia want him dead, sending their mos able hit men to do it.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Israel
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, poliziottesco
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A Dark Truth (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the jungles of Ecuador, blood taints the waters. A multinational conglomerate's unholy alliance with a bloodthirsty military regime has resulted in a massacre. Only the rebel Francisco Franco and his determined wife Mia can prove the truth. To settle a personal debt, former CIA agent Jack Begosian takes on the freelance assignment to rescue Francisco and risks everything in a brutal battle to expose the cover-up.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, spiritual, action packed, independent film, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense
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Agent provocateur (1998)
Plot Summary:
In 1994 South Korea, a female North Korean spy integrates herself as a housekeeper for U.S. military officer to steal classified documents, but soon worries about her cover when she falls for the teenage son of the officer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, campy
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Midnight Man (1997)
Plot Summary:
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that the first plot is but a ruse for a more sinister scheme that could result in trouble between China and Great Britain. - Written by Ørnås.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Malone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, neo noir, perverse, visually stunning, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Scorpio (1973)
Plot Summary:
Cross is an old hand at the CIA, in charge of assassinating high-ranking foreign personalities who are an obstacle to the policies of the USA. He often teams up with Frenchman Jean Laurier, alias "Scorpio", a gifted free-lance operative. One day, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross -- and leaves him no choice but to obey. Scorpio is cold-blooded and very systematic; however, as a veteran agent, Cross knows many tricks. He can also rely upon a network of unusual personal contacts, some dating back to the troubled years preceding WWII. A lethal game of hide-and-seek is programmed, but what are the true motives of every single player?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political thriller, cult classic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, tragic ending, detective
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Assassination (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, political, cult classic, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, political thriller, dark comedy
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Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, political thriller, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, political, melancholic, absurd
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The Osterman Weekend (1983)
Plot Summary:
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security in this adaptation of the Robert Ludlum novel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, exciting, serious, realistic, political thriller, suspense, captivating, neo noir, political
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Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)
Plot Summary:
During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually uncovers a deadly conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, action thriller, action adventure, fast, surprise ending, neo noir
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Erased (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Belgium, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, rough, action thriller, political thriller, action packed, action adventure, serious, realistic
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Black Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, captivating, tense, cult classic, surprise ending, independent film
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Ava (2020)
Plot Summary:
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, suspense, captivating, disturbing, action thriller, stylized, surprise ending, neo noir
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, suspense, entertaining, action adventure, action thriller, clever, political thriller