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Plot Summary:
When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Death Force (1978)
Plot Summary:
Leon Isaac Kennedy is Doug Russell, an American who steals a shipment of gold in the Philippines with two Vietnam War buddies, who cut his throat and throw him overboard. Russell washes ashore an island inhabited by two Japanese soldiers stranded there since World War II. They nurse him back to health and he is taught martial arts and the art of the samurai. Back in the States, his treacherous pals, Marelli and Maghee, use their loot and viciousness to muscle their way into Los Angels mafia turf.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, independent film, cult film
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Hangup (1974)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
Similar in 82%
No Way Back (1976)
Plot Summary:
Crowder is a an unethical private detective in pursuit of a gangster who's after embezzled money.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, detective
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The Return of Superfly (1990)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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Angel of Vengeance (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young woman newly arrived in a small town comes up against a crazed group of survivalists who have killed a party of motorcyclists in the desert. They capture and rape her, but she escapes and makes plans to take her vengeance on them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cocaine Wars (1985)
Plot Summary:
Miami DEA agent Cliff Adams is in South America working undercover for Gonzalo Reyes, the biggest cocaine exporter in South America. Cliff's fiancée, Janet Meade, is a reporter doing a story about Reyes. Reyes orders Cliff to kill Marcelo Villalba, who is running for his countries position as president, but Cliff can't bring himself to do it, because his assignment from the DEA is to work against Reyes. Reyes is afraid Villalba will put him out of business, and is afraid that Janet's story will do the same thing, so Reyes sends someone else after Villalba, and then Reyes has Janet kidnapped, and Cliff is the only one who can keep Reyes' plans from succeeding.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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White Fire (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Bo was a child, a mysterious stranger sadistically murdered his parents. Only Bo and his sister, Ingrid survived the bloodshed. Now, twenty years later... Bo and his sister are grown up. They are now employees at a diamond mineshaft located in the desert. As mischievous as they are, they stumble upon the discovery of a legendary diamond, the "White Fire." However, this rapture for the diamond has provoked the angst of some short-tempered, not-so-nice villains. The quest to capture the most sought-out diamond in the world is afoot.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Death Journey (1976)
Plot Summary:
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, detective
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Top of the Heap (1972)
Plot Summary:
He was a violent man...trouble was--he was also a cop.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, black cinema
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The Black Six (1973)
Plot Summary:
A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his brother's death.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: absurd, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Black Lolita (1974)
Plot Summary:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Black Bunch (1972)
Plot Summary:
In Africa, four native women join and are hired to find a wealthy man's son who has disappeared, and use the opportunity to get revenge on a gang of mercenaries who have massacred the inhabitants of the womens' village.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, grindhouse, independent film
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Savage! (1973)
Plot Summary:
Low-budget adventure starring former baseball star James Iglehart as Savage, who is kidnapped by South American rebels. After a time, he sees their position and is joined by a female commando squad in battling the repressive government officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, black cinema
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MacArthur Park (2001)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a "blast." His girlfriend, Alicia, is a romantic who's losing her soul to the drug, and E-Max is a street hustling pimp who is trying to scoop young Linda into his motley legion of harlots. Hoover Blue, earth mother to all the addicts, attempts to pound some knowledge into the starry-eyed Linda while Cody tries to help young P-Air get his hustle on to record a hip hop track and make it big. But when Cody's real son, Terry, tracks him down to tell him his wife has passed away, Cody doesn't even recognize him at first and then can't help him with postmortem affairs. After five years of crack addiction, Cody wants to get straight and do right by Terry, but the harder he struggles to escape the park, the more it closes in on him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, rough, serious, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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The Big Score (1983)
Plot Summary:
A narcotics detective, played by Fred Williamson, lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer. After a bust gone awry, he's accused of stealing a lost briefcase filled with money and both the mob and the police are looking for him. A ruthless hit man, played by Bruce Glover, will stop at nothing to get what his boss wants; the money!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Hammer (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, cult film
Similar in 87%
Mean Johnny Barrows (1975)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Drum (1976)
Plot Summary:
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, campy
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Palermo-Milano Solo Andata (1995)
Plot Summary:
Turi Leofonte (Giannini) is a former mafioso who accepts to be a witness at a process involving very important people in the organization. For the Mafia, Leofonte is dangerous, that's why he has to be killed. A police group led by Nino Di Venanzio(Bova) accepts to protect him and to escort him till Milan where the process has to take place.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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One Down, Two to go (1982)
Plot Summary:
A pair of tough cops go after the mob who jinxed the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Black Eye (1974)
Plot Summary:
An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, silent, silent film
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Bucktown (1975)
Plot Summary:
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local redneck policemen are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the redneck cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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On the Edge (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dakota Smith is an ex-cop and former private eye with a proclivity for community service. When a young basketball player entangles himself with drug dealers, he turns to Dak for help. Eventually goons are sent to kill the hoopster, but they hit the family of Rex Stevens by mistake. Frustrated by the incompetent and crooked police, the trio of Smith, Stevens, and their friend Frank Harris then battle the drug dealers for control of the streets. Also the heroes must tangle with Felix, a stealthy and ruthless hitman.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, exciting, neo noir
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Slaughter (1972)
Plot Summary:
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Deuces Wild (2002)
Plot Summary:
1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the streets of New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: harsh, intense, realistic, suspense, epic, hood, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Vendetta (1986)
Plot Summary:
A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Black Caesar (1973)
Plot Summary:
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, psychotronic, hood, crime drama, grim, cult classic, action thriller, action adventure, rough
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Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Plot Summary:
Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a modern-day tribute to the classic 30s gangster film. Fred Williamson is Tommy Gibbs, a fearless, bulletproof tough guy who blasts his way from the gutter to become the ultimate soul brother boss. Tommy steals a ledger with the name of every crooked cop and man in the city. Enlisting the aid of his father and an army of Harlem hoods, Gibbs goes from defense to offense, launching a deadly attack on his enemies that sets off a violent chain reaction from Harlem all the way to the Caribbean, climaxing in one of the hottest turf-war shoot-outs in Hollywood history.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, hood, crime drama, grim, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious
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Strapped (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to turn in local gun dealers. How ever, the D.A. is not satisfied with the results, resulting in some serious game playing and double crossing.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: hood, crime drama, grim, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Original Gangstas (1996)
Plot Summary:
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created the Rebels, returns to Gary to be with his father and, with a little help from his friends, to destroy the Rebels his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, crime drama, cult classic, independent film, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending