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Plot Summary:
A Mexican wrestler entangled with the mob seeks revenge after a group of Mexican migrants are massacred in a human smuggling ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bounty Hunters (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of down-on-their-luck bounty hunters hit the jackpot one night when they pick up an informant with a hundred thousand dollar bounty on his head. But their world is turned upside down when a mob boss offers them one million dollars in exchange for the informant. When they refuse, the mafia unleashes a trio of assassins on them who use all of their power to bring the bounty hunters down, and to get their man - dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 989
Genere: Action
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Pushed to the Limit (1992)
Plot Summary:
Magnificent Mimi is a woman with a destiny and a bright future ahead of her. She is the world's greatest female wrestling champion, she has a loving boyfriend and loyal family members who care and love her. But things take a turn for the worst when Mimi's boyfriend Nick is wounded and her younger brother is shot to death for trying to stiff local druglord Harry Lee. Lee is the toughest and meanest criminal figure in all of Southern California and if you double-cross him, you won't live to see the sun set. Not only does Lee rule his own empire, he also runs the Kumite, a gladitorial fight ring where warriors battle to the death. Mimi knows the police can't touch Lee with a ten foot pole and so she enlists the aid of her martial arts friend Master Vern to teach her kickboxing and tai chi so she can prepare for combat. Vern doesn't think Mimi is ready for Kumite, as it is a place where only one warrior can be left standing and breathing and the one who loses dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Instant Justice (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a US Marine who travels Spain to see his sister Kim, after many years of separation. But she is dead, and there is nothing else to arrive him. Alone in the Madrid's streets, Scott will search for the killers, will try to reveal the reason of the murder of his dear sister, and for revenge for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Gibraltar
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Noon Sunday (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two mercenaries are hired to commit a political assassination.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Guam, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Serena and the Ratts (2012)
Plot Summary:
After years of killing for a man only known as "The Boss", Serena is burnt out. When she is hired for one final job, she teams up with an underground renegade group to stop her replacement from executing the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, tense, rough, serious
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Dragonwolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Devil's Cauldron, a city where depravity and violence has forged a society in which only the lethal and callous can survive, two young men who possess the intellect and ferocity to flourish, carve a name for themselves as the most efficient and unstoppable hit men. Side by side, these two brothers are the deadliest killers, feared by even the most evil criminals. But when a woman of rare beauty mysteriously enters the brother's lives she blinds them with her sweet promises and turns them against each other, resulting in an epic battle that threatens to bring the Devil's Cauldron to the brink of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, action adventure, fast
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Yakuza-Busting Girls: Duel in Hell (2010)
Plot Summary:
Asami returns exhausted after three years of intense training to become a yakuza hunter. She decides to visit her old master, Inokuma, who runs a bar. However, she finds his place in ruins and nothing is as it was when she left. As it turns out, the local yakuza had turned it into a gambling house and laid claim to the entire area with the help of a cold-blooded killer named Akira. Akira is relentless, and utilizes cruel tactics when anyone dares get in her way.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, splatter
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Streets of Rage (1993)
Plot Summary:
Melody Sails is an investigative reporter on Hollywood's juvenile delenquincy, and runs across Lunar, the crimelord. With the help of a 12-year old street-kid, she will get to him, but will she down him in the climactic fight to the death, or die trying?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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No Blood No Tears (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gyung-sun is a washed-up cab driver who has been trying to go straight after years in trouble with the law after being a big-time safecracker. Soo-jin wants to be a famous singer, but lives the life of a trophy girlfriend to her vicious gangster boyfriend. An unlikely situation cause these two different women to meet where they plan a daring solution to both their problems that will escalate and threaten the wrath of many powerful and corrupt people around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, crime drama, exciting, neo noir, realistic
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The Waiter (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man travels through corporate corruption and his own sin to find his soul.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film, bleak, captivating, realistic, suspense
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Crosshairs (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hired to enact revenge on a man who savagely beat a beautiful Russian débutant, Jack Verlaine is pressed between his newly acquired job and a persistent man named, Brill, who offers him a chance to advance higher in his seedy career. But when an estranged lover reappears in Verlaine's regimented existence, he soon realizes the new elements in his life may be just a plot to uncover his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Truth Be Told (2002)
Plot Summary:
Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Local (2008)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Iris: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hyunjun and Sawoo, close friends and rivals from the South Korean special forces, are recruited by the secret agency NSS. They both fall for Seunghee, the beautiful but lethal profiling specialist at NSS. When they are faced against each other in a nuclear terrorist attack, they are forced to make their final decision and Seunghee's formidable secret is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, serious, realistic
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The Guillotines (2012)
Plot Summary:
During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor Qian Long ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression. Written by Anynomous.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China, Haiti, Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Hard Way to Die (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sung Shao Chong (Billy Chong) traverses the Arizona desert, helping those in need on the way to meet his old friend Kum (Lam Hak-Ming) in a small western town. Once there, he runs into a group of men who terrorize the town and extort the local businesses. Meanwhile, a trio of three bank robbers need a place to hide until the heat dies down from a recent heist. They pick the home of a black farming family and subsequently kill them, leaving only the severly injured eldest son Tommy (Carl Scott) to escape. Tommy is found by Chong and Kum and is brought to the home of Doctor Ko (Leung Siu-Chung), who heals his injuries. Eventually Tommy learns kung fu from Ko, and sets out for payback. Luckily for Tommy, Chong is also bent on revenge after the bandits hire the local troublemakers and some Japanese samurai to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, spaghetti western
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A Gunfighter's Pledge (2008)
Plot Summary:
After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do time in jail so long ago. In a small town saloon Austin's mission to locate his family's murderer comes to an end. The pursuit was long and difficult. Upon discovering the killer a gunfight ensues, unfortunately in the crossfire an innocent bystander is shot and injured. Once again the murderer made a quick getaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Hooded Angels (2002)
Plot Summary:
A gang of women wreak vengeance upon the society that failed them.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Action, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, surreal, exciting, realistic, independent film
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The Man Who Came Back (2008)
Plot Summary:
Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this traditional Western about one man who stood against injustice.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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El Gringo (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000 – and a bloody past – suddenly finds himself under attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, dark, perverse, action packed, neo western
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A Town Called Hell (1971)
Plot Summary:
A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, euro western
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Hate Thy Neighbor (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Scorpion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Featuring a mix of Thai Boxing and Ultimate Fighting, SCORPION has been dubbed The French Fight Club. It stars Jerome Le Banner, who is also known as Hyper Battle Cyborg and The Bulldog of Paris, a true kickboxer, famous for his aggressive style - 43 of his 57 wins have come by knockout.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Riders (1991)
Plot Summary:
When his family is murdered, Johnny gets revenge on his former biker gang, The Slaves, and the police who lied to the gang about Johnny selling them out to the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Plot Summary:
'A New Beginning' focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama, rough, realistic
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Monster (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho bitch” in her neighborhood. Bok-Soon’s relatively peaceful life with her sister is disrupted when they cross paths with a serial killer named Tae-Soo (Lee Min-ki). Tae-Soo kills Bok-Soon’s sister because she may have stumbled upon the truth of his murderous lifestyle. Bok-Soon’s rage consumes her completely, leading her to plot her revenge on Tae Soo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychological, realistic, psychotronic
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The Gundown (2011)
Plot Summary:
Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect The Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic
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Coffin Full of Dollars (1971)
Plot Summary:
There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico. Outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada's Kid's family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, euro western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Baseline (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking up fights and managing drunk kids. However, when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang leader, from a hitman, Danny is suddenly plunged deep into an underworld he had tried so hard to avoid. Danny is promoted to manager, but only on the condition that he turns a blind eye to the shady goings on both on and off the dance-floor. Danny and his girlfriend Jessica dream of setting up their own club, but Danny is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice when he has to choose between loyalty, morality and his own dreams of escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, rough, realistic