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Plot Summary:
Village bred farmer, brave, and honest, Dharamchand alias Dharma is thrilled when his wife, Radha, gives birth to a baby boy, who they decide to call Raju. Dharma comes to the rescue of Ajit, Suresh, and Sujit, when they are being attacked by a tiger, and they graciously offer him a job in Bombay whenever he needs it. When the region experiences drought, Dharma, Radha, Raju and Dharma's sister, Laxmi, re-locate to Bombay, where Ajit makes Dharma the Manager of his warehouse. Dharma does his job diligently, but one day is arrested by the police for carrying on illegal activities. When in court, he tries to prove his innocence, but is disbelieved and is sentenced to 18 months in jail plus an additional six months for contempt of court. When he returns home, everything has changed. His wife and Raju are near destitution; Laxmi has been raped by Sujit and has killed herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
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Harvest of Redemption (2005)
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Harvest of Redemption was inspired by a true story which occurred in the Texas Rio Grande Valley in the 1920's. It is a coming of age story about a young Latino's struggle as he grows up and attempts to overcome the resentment incurred after witnessing the brutal murder of his father as a young child. His journey is threaded with the very vivid and real colors of life including love, hate, faith, revenge and ultimately Redemption. Written by Hippo Films.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Mrityudaata (1997)
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Dr Ram Prasad Ghayal (Amitabh) is a surgeon whose scalpel proves to be a magic wand. He has a wife called Janaki (Dimple) and a brother called Bharat. Bharat is in love with a dancing doll Renu (Karishma) whom the baddie's brother (Deepak Tijouri) also loves. Bharat, an architect refuses to sign a power project involving heavy kickbacks and heavier displacement (with so many scams in the air, what can one expect the plot to be). He is implicated in a plot and sent to jail. Unable to bear this humiliation, he commits suicide and Renu marries Deepak instead of repenting her beloved's loss. Now is the time for our 'Mrityudaata' to avenge the loss of his wife and his brother. He trades his scalpel for a machine gun and apron for a commando coat and cap.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
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Hindustan Ki Kasam (1999)
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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
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Kasme Vaade (1978)
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Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit teaches in college, but Raju is unemployed and a little bit spoiled by Amit and Suman's pamperings. Raju gets into bad company, and as a result in trouble. When Amit comes to help Raju, he gets killed. Suman dons the garb of a widow and does not play to marry again. Then one day a look-alike of Amit, named Shankar enters Suman and Raju's life. Guilt-ridden Raju thinks that he has gotten his brother back, and tries to make amends by hiring Shankar, not knowing that Shankar is a wanted criminal, and is looking for an escape route from the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
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Ji (2005)
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Vasu (Ajith), a final year college student is happy go lucky. But he is forced to contest elections in the college after being persuaded by his friends (Venkat Prabhu and Arun). He, however, incurs the wrath of the local MLA Varadharajan (Charanraj), whose son is studying in the college, contests the elections too. In the course of events, the MLA's gang attacks Vasu and his friends. It's here that Vasu's father (Vijayakumar) advises the students to take a plunge in politics and teach the bad apples like Varadharajan a lesson.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min
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Ram and Shyam (1967)
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Abused by an oppressive brother-in-law Gajendra (Pran), Ramchandra (Dilip Kumar) runs away from home, and ends up in a small village where he is mistaken for Shyamrao (also Dilip Kumar), and must accept Ganga (Leela Mishra) and his new name or face severe exorcism. Meanwhile, Shyamrao is mistaken for Ramchandra by Anjana (Waheeda Rehman) and her dad (Nazir Hussain). When Gajendra finds out, he is enraged and attempts to beat the stuffing out of the person he thinks is his brother-in-law, but Shyamrao refuses to be abused or beaten, and all of a sudden things start changing in the household as well as in the community. It is not long before Gajendra finds out about the truth, and plans an ugly death for Shyamrao, and all those opposed to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
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Toofan (1989)
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Two brothers (Toofan and Shyam) are separated at birth by their father, a police inspector. One grows up to be a magician, and the other, the legendary Toofan, hero of the poor. His father was falsely accused of stealing millions in gold and Toofan is on a mission to clear his father's name from the police records.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: campy
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Bhai (1997)
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Bhai is a 1997 Bollywood Action film directed by Deepak Shivdasani, while written by Kader Khan. The film starred Sunil Shetty, Pooja Batra, Sonali Bendre and Ashish Vidyarthi in lead roles. A remake of the Telugu movie Anna starring Rajasekhar, Roja Selvamani and Gautami Tadimalla, it was a huge success at the box office, and was one of the highest-grossing films of the year 1997.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
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Pedarayudu (1995)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
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Aadi (2002)
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Aadi (Telugu: ఆది) is a Telugu film released in 2002 with Jr. NTR in the main lead. V.V. Vinayak directed this movie. This hit film stands second in Jr. NTR's career, right behind Simhadri. It was also remade in Tamil as Jai with Prashanth. This film led both the actor NTR JR and director V.V. Vinayak into instant stardom. The film collected about 22 crore rupees.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Teri Meherbaniyan (1985)
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Living under the thumb of ruthless Thakur Vijay Singh (Amrish Puri), a small village finds hope in honest newcomer Ram (Jackie Shroff), who stands up to the bully. But Ram goes too far when he helps a certain young couple get married, and Singh's men exact a terrible revenge. Will the villagers ever get justice, or will Singh and his thugs continue to abuse the innocent? Poonam Dhillon, G. Asrani, Swapna and Raj Kiran co-star.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
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Narasimham (2000)
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Poovalli Induchoodan (Mohanlal) is sentenced for six years prison life for murdering his classmate. Induchoodan, the only son of Justice Maranchery Karunakara Menon (Thilakan) was framed in the case by Manapally Madhavan Nambiar (Narayanan Nair) and his crony DYSP Sankaranarayanan (Bheeman Raghu) to take revenge on idealist judge Menon who had earlier given jail sentence to Manapally in a corruption case. The story begins with Induchoodan released and his father & mother coming to stay with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crying, weeping, entertaining
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Akela (1991)
Plot Summary:
The 7th film of Ramesh Sippy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jigarwala (1991)
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Murder and political intrigue kick off a chain reaction of revenge in a small Indian village when the local zamindar, Dhurjan Singh (Amrish Puri), is convicted and jailed for killing Ranjeet (Biswajeet), a villager who opposed his policies. The animosity only intensifies when Dhurjan is released from prison and learns his son has been murdered in his absence. Anil Kapoor and Gulshan Grover co-star.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
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Family Comes First (2005)
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Virruddh... Family Comes First (English: Opposites) is a Hindi film, released in 2005, directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham. Viruddh is one among relatively few Hindi films that is not a musical, instead the soundtrack is primarily used as background.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, inspirational, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Mahaan (1983)
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Amitabh Bachchan in a triple role as father with twin sons. The standard plot of families separated then united many years later with a string of coincidences. Throw in a diamond necklace and Amjad Khan playing the bad guy, some musical numbers, comedy scenes, and some poorly staged fights make up this masala movie from 1983.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: crying, weeping
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We (1991)
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Tiger works for the local Don Bhaktawar but never hesitates to revolt against him if he harms his friends or family. When his girlfriend Jumma's brother Gonsalves is killed by Bhakhtawar for revolting against him, Tiger promises revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Singh Saab the Great (2013)
Plot Summary:
A common man fights corruption and injustice.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Coolie (1983)
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A wealthy, but evil man named Zafar Khan, has fallen in love a girl named Salma and wants to marry her, but she and her father do not let him. Zafar is arrested for various crimes and is imprisoned for 10 years, but when he is discharged, he sees that Salma is married to a good man named Aslam Khan. Zafar Khan, wants to convince Salma to marry him but Salma refuses. Zafar plots his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, freeze frame
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Phaansi (1978)
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Film starring Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit and Ranjeet.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
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Daku Hasina (1987)
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A 1987 Hindi movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Thandavam (2002)
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Thandavam movie tells about the love and bond between the brothers Kashi Nathan (Mohanlal) and SwamiNathan(Nedumudi Venu) and it takes a turn when Saminathan is killed in an accident.Kashinathan realises Dasappa Kaundar(Manoj K Jayan) and minister shankar Das(Sai Kumar) are behind Swaminathan.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspense
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Tuck Jagadish (2021)
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In a village with greedy property fights among the families, Jagadish carries on his father's legacy to reform all the property issues in his village while trying to reunite his family, which is also split due to property issues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Arrested (1985)
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Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who wastes no time in entrapping Kishan in a web of lies and deceits and gets him imprisoned for life. While in jail, Kishan reaches up with his long lost elder brother Karan who has been sentenced for life charged with murdering the Police Commissioner son, Vijay Sinha. Together they both plotted a scheme which will only benefit them in granting revenge from there perpetrators. Written by gavin ([email protected]).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shikkar (2010)
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The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating
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Allah-Rakha (1986)
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Karim Khan is employed as driver for a gangster named Don, who has an accident with his car, and asks Karim to take the blame for it for a hefty sum of cash, which Karim does so, and is imprisoned. But Don does not fulfill his promise, and as a result, Karim's wife, Razia, and new-born son are left destitute. Razia complains to Police Inspector Anwar, who arrests Don and holds him in prison, pending his trial in court. When Anwar finds out that his new-born son, Iqbal, is in need of a pace-maker, which he is unable to afford, he makes a compromise with Don, who lets him have one. Iqbal undergoes surgery and a pace-maker number 786, considered lucky in Islamic faith, is attached to his tiny heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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The Chain (1973)
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The world erodes around Vijay, an honest police officer. He is jailed for 6 months on false charges, trapped by gang leader Teja. When Vijay is released from jail, he plans to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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God Is My Witness (1992)
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Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he must return to India. He is then tragically separated from Benazir through a series of incidents that are only resolved years later with the arrival of his daughter, Menhdi, and his release from prison.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, crying, weeping
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Trader (1973)
Plot Summary:
Moti is a merchant who sells jaggery in the market, with the help of an older woman, Mahjubhi, who makes exemplary jaggery. He is in love with a village girl, but cannot afford to pay the dowry/marriage expenses to her father. So he decides to marry Mahjubhi, while secretly harbouring the dream of saving enough money for dowry and marrying the village girl. After marrying Majubhi, Moti extracts a lot of work from her to this end. He eventually does collect the amount and divorces her, accusing her of infidelity. Shortly after that he marries the village girl, and goes back to his business of selling jaggery, but faces the consequence of losing Mahjubhi's jaggery.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Sarkar Raj (2008)
Plot Summary:
The politically influential Shankar Nagre agrees to back a power plant scheme presented by corporate hotshot Anita Rajan; providing their enemies, which include upcoming political firebrands, an embezzling facilitator and shady businessmen with a unique opportunity to destroy the mass political clout enjoyed by him and his father (Subhash Nagre), the political icon known as "Sarkar".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, political, political thriller