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Plot Summary:
A special forces team infiltrate the 'Golden Triangle' between Brazil and Colombia to kidnap notorious drug baron.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Ultimax Force (1987)
Plot Summary:
The ULTIMAX FORCE, an elite group of Commandos, a force combining the skills of a Ninja warrior with U.S. Commando training, penetrate deep into Vietnamese territory. Their mission - to liberate a POW camp run by a sadistic colonel, who has mercilessly slaughtered his prisoners in a display of rabid madness and butchery; a challenge which, for them, is the ULTIMATE MAXIMUM.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Angel On Fire (1995)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful supermodel-turned-gangster double crosses her ruthless partners after the gang steals a precious relic from a Manila museum. now an enterprising young Interpol agent, with the help of a comical taxi driver, must stop the vicious gang and return the relic to its rightful owners.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Balkan Runner (1994)
Plot Summary:
To avenge the murder of her husband, Mirna dedicates herself to the destruction of the beautiful but villainous Sura who ships arms to the Middle East in exchange for drugs. Aiding her in this task is handsome undercover agent, Marc.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Angel of Death (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturing nubile young virgins and performing horrible medical experiments on the locals. They prepare to battle their way past Mengele's hordes of fanatic Nazi bodyguards in order to get to him.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Giant Killer (1984)
Plot Summary:
An Arizona policeman (Bo Svenson) and his pilot buddy (Fred Williamson) discover a scheme to rob Las Vegas slot machines by computer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cult classic, poliziottesco
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Red Shield (1991)
Plot Summary:
A pair of detectives are after a smuggling ring, and when they come to the leader, they need back-up by a navy seals team - as the traffickers possess not only drugs, but heavy military equipment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Ten Tigers of Shaolin (1978)
Plot Summary:
The noble Ten Tigers, one woman and nine men, protect their Cantonese region the villainous Lord Yung and his underlings. When Yung kidnaps the wife of one of the Tiger's students, the Tigers disguise themselves as a Princess and her followers in an attempt to gain access to Yung's palace on his birthday.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Blood Ring 2: The Killer Instinct (1995)
Plot Summary:
Convicted for a crime he did not commit, kickboxer Max Rivers is sentenced to life imprisonment in Carcel de Cordoba, the world's most impenetrable prison. He discovers a corrupt regime run by the chief warden, who organizes high-stake fighting contests. When Rivers' appeal is quashed by a crooked judge, he finds himself forced to rely once again on his fighting instincts as he enters the ring in the prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three Days To A Kill (1992)
Plot Summary:
At a Chicago-area naval base, an ambassador is kidnapped. Later, a Navy officer calls his friend Cal for help. A Colombian drug lord is holding the ambassador, and the officer wants Cal to rescue the man. Cal convinces the officer to get a pardon for imprisoned explosives expert Rick, and together Cal and Rick form an uneasy partnership. They travel to meet Yolanda, a stripper who supposedly knows the location of this drug lord, named Perez (who looks like a creation out of Madame Tussaud's). Our threesome then sets about to rescue the ambassador. Cal, Rick, and Yolanda meet resistance at every turn; apparently Perez's men have the drop on them. After multiple shootouts, Cal convinces Yolanda to use her son as a pawn to draw Perez away from his home, and then all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ninja: The Battalion (1988)
Plot Summary:
Four Chinese germ warfare scientists are kidnapped by a Japanese organisation.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Red Sun Rising (1994)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Hoshino (Willson) is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho (Lew). He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder (Farrell). Soon they discover that Yakuza prepares a gang war and weapon smuggling. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, detective, buddy comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Strike of the Panther (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assignments to fight crime and right wrong do-ers. When his love is kidnapped by his arch-enemy the race is on to get into the power station where she is being held and battle an army of ninjas. Only then can he face Baxter, his arch-enemy, and stop a bomb from exploding to save his sweetheart, and show her that he is a man. A man who can commit. A man who is strong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Action
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Cheetah On Fire (1992)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, a weapon dealer has a special computer chip, which is needed to build a secret missile. He is trying to sell it to a foreign goverment. The local secret police, the CIA and an enemy band is looking for him, but he has a very rich and influential man as his partner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Fireback (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jack Kaplan is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert liberated by a "rescue team", he returns home to the United States only to find out that his wife Diane has been captured by infatuated gangster Duffy Collins. Kaplan embarks on a mission to find his wife, running into characters like Digger, Man With The Golden Hand, and the treacherous femme fatale Eve. He is a man on a mission.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Delta Force Commando (1987)
Plot Summary:
After the needless death of his wife and unborn child during a theft and raid on an army base (and it was really needless as the hoods just burst in and shoot up his apt for no reason) an ex-member of Delta Force and decorated war veteran Fred Williamson go to South America and repeatedly blow it up!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, macaroni combat, eighties, cult film
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Cross Mission (1988)
Plot Summary:
General Romero, leader of a small Latin American country, is showing the UN how he's taking care of his country's drug problems by publicly burning crops of marijuana. As soon as the inspectors leave, however, Romero quickly returns to business, producing and shipping the illegal crop. When his right-hand man is convinced by a crusading reporter to turn away from his life of crime and help bring his boss to justice, Romero vows to stop at nothing to prevent this traitor from talking.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, hispanic
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Ninja Death (1987)
Plot Summary:
Tiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of "Master." They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopardize Tiger's prostitution ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Redemption (2002)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama
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Phantom Raiders (1988)
Plot Summary:
Deep within the steaming tropical jungles of Vietnam is a Viet Cong terrorist training camp, run by an ex-Green Beret, William Marshall. A roving photographer stumbles upon the hidden camp and starts to take pictures. He is caught and summarily executed but the photos make it back to Washington. The CIA decide to send in an elite team of jungle warfare commandos, the Phantom Raiders, to establish whether Marshall is a POW or has gone bad. But another element has been added to this dangerous game. One of the Phantom Raiders is Marshall's son. Now he must come face to face with the enigma that was his father. The Phantom Raiders is a non-stop film of explosive action, with enough mayhem to leave you breathless.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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True Vengeance (1997)
Plot Summary:
An ex-naval intelligence officer is forced to assassinate a CEO when his daughter is kidnapped by the Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film
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Delta Force Commando II: Priority Red One (1990)
Plot Summary:
Only one enemy has ever beat him. Now he needs her to save his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Jungle Assault (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Once Upon a Time in China IV (1993)
Plot Summary:
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, cult classic, cult film
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Inferno (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Interpol officer Kyle Connors, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, watches his partner die in an explosion, he swears he'll hunt down the killer. Yanked of the case by Internal Affairs, Connors defied his orders and follows the only lead he has... to India. Now, he is in a strange land where nothing is what it seems. Who can he trust? A beautiful counter-operative? An earnest young cop? A reclusive arms dealer? In a country where assassins come cheap, Connors finds himself in a cobra's nest of danger and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic
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Moving Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't commit, the man struggles to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name and find the identity of the real killer. Moving Target also features Bill Murphy, Hilary Kavanagh, and Terry McMahon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Karate Raider (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To the Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Bloodfist V: Human Target (1994)
Plot Summary:
Don "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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Kill Crazy (1989)
Plot Summary:
Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a machine of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film