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Plot Summary:
Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, bloody, entertaining, stylized, realistic, action adventure, brutal, humorous, suspense
Best tv shows and movies like The Expendables 2 (2012):
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Assault on Devil's Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
When one of Mike McBride's men goes rogue and takes a group of gymnasts hostage to Devil's Island in exchange for the return of drug lord Carlos Gallindo, the SEALS face their most perilous assignment yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Double Target (1987)
Plot Summary:
Miles O’Keeffe stars as an ex-military specialist in Vietnam trying to recover his son after learning that his wife has died in a concentration camp. The government considers the child their property since the war is over. There are others watching who believe O’Keeffe is in the country to spy on them and they want him dead! He takes a deal from the State Department to gather information on their behalf and if successful he will be allowed to claim his son and take him back to the United States. It won’t be easy though. Svenson plays the angry Russian commander who is hell-bent on destroying the American hero!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines, India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, cult film
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 412000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Spain, UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, entertaining, action adventure, fast, saga, action thriller, captivating, humorous
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Navy Seals (1990)
Plot Summary:
During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, humorous, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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The Expendables (2010)
Plot Summary:
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert, heavy weapons specialist, demolitionist, and a loose-cannon sniper. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 361000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, bloody, brutal, suspenseful, action packed, action thriller, entertaining, absurd, semi serious, rough
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Rambo III (1988)
Plot Summary:
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: action packed, intense, homoerotic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, exciting, perverse
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The Expendables 3 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough, action packed, action thriller, humorous, retro, scenic, cult classic
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The Losers (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tale of double cross and revenge, centered upon the members of an elite U.S. Special Forces unit sent into the Bolivian jungle on a search and destroy mission. The team-Clay, Jensen, Roque, Pooch and Cougar -find themselves the target of a lethal betrayal instigated from inside by a powerful enemy known only as Max. Presumed dead, the group makes plans to even the score when they're joined by the mysterious Aisha, a beautiful operative with her own agenda. Working together, they must remain deep undercover while tracking the heavily-guarded Max, a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, funny, captivating, entertaining, fast paced, humorous, action comedy, action adventure, serious, realistic
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Commando (1985)
Plot Summary:
John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, action packed, serious, cult classic, entertaining, psychological, captivating, sentimental, funny
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On Deadly Ground (1994)
Plot Summary:
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO, Michael Jennings, is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long as it's making money for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: entertaining, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, funny, spiritual, political, suspense, cult classic
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London Has Fallen (2016)
Plot Summary:
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, serious, psychotronic, action adventure, romantic, clever, saga, experimental, scenic
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 703000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, clever, stylized, humorous, suspenseful, action comedy, sexy, funny, suspense
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The A-Team (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco ‘B.A.’ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck help out various people they encounter.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 267000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, entertaining, intense, action adventure, funny, stylized, grindhouse, action comedy
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Expend4bles (2023)
Plot Summary:
The Expendables square up against an arms dealer who commands the might of a massive private army.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: action thriller
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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Plot Summary:
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: action packed, harsh, intense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, exciting, retro
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Rambo (2008)
Plot Summary:
When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent memories of his time as a U.S. soldier during the Vietnam War, Rambo can hardly turn his back on the aid workers who so desperately need his help.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 242000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: brutal, bloody, action packed, grindhouse, suspense, harsh, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, stylized
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The Rock (1996)
Plot Summary:
FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed is sent on an urgent mission with a former British spy, John Patrick Mason, to stop Gen. Francis X. Hummel from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco. Gen. Hummel demands $100 million in war reparations to be paid to the families of slain servicemen who died on covert operations. After their SEAL team is wiped out, Stanley and John deal with the soldiers on their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 353000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, action packed, entertaining, intense, serious, realistic, stylized, action adventure
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Project X-Traction (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor is called in to extract the oil workers. He learns, however, that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams up with an American former Marine to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy
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Street Fighter (1994)
Plot Summary:
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, cult classic, entertaining, funny, light, retro, suspense
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, melancholic, rough, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action packed, predictable
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Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 404000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, sexy, scenic, serious, realistic, stylized
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Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Plot Summary:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 402000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense, action adventure, thrilling, exciting, buddy comedy, detective
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Homefront (2013)
Plot Summary:
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his action against a biker gang went horribly wrong and it cost the life of his boss' son. He is recently widowed and is left with a 9-years-old daughter,Maddy. He decides to quit the turbulent and demanding life of thrill for Maddy's sake and retires to a small town. His daughter fights off a boy who was bullying her at school and this sets in motion a round of events that end in his direct confrontation with the local Meth drug lord. His past history with the biker gang also enters the arena, making matters more complex. But he has a mission in his mind to protect his daughter and he is ready to pay any cost that it demands.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, exciting, rough, breathtaking, action thriller, cliffhanger, noir, gothic, cult classic
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Cliffhanger (1993)
Plot Summary:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 138000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed, rough, realistic, breathtaking, entertaining, inspirational
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Plot Summary:
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 214000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action adventure, action packed, predictable, captivating, serious, sweet, social, saga
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
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Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, suspense, intense, tense, humorous, epic, experimental, scenic
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
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When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfil his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 370000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, France, Norway, UK
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Hardcore Henry (2015)
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Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through the day. Hardcore takes place over the course of one day, in Moscow, Russia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA, China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, intense, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed, suspense, action thriller, retro, mind bending
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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Plot Summary:
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, political thriller, rough, serious, suspense, intense, realistic, clever, brutal, action adventure
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Riddick (2013)
Plot Summary:
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, rough, space horror, cliffhanger, tense, retro, sweet, epic, saga