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Plot Summary:
On their way to cover a sporting event in Argentina, reporter John Teller and photographer Bob Norton make a brief stop-off in a Latin America country and get entangled in a revolution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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WWE King of the Ring 1993 (1993)
Plot Summary:
This was the first of 10 King of the Ring events that was produced as a pay-per-view. It took place on June 13, 1993 at the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio. The central focus of this PPV event was the tournament itself. Wrestlers gained entry into the tournament by participating in qualifying matches on WWF TV program. Bret Hart won the tournament by defeating Razor Ramon, Mr. Perfect, and Bam Bam Bigelow. He was attacked by Jerry Lawler during a coronation ceremony, which led to a feud that lasted more than two years. In addition to the tournament, the event featured Yokozuna defeating Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship as well as Shawn Michaels retaining his belt in a match against Crush for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. The match for the Intercontinental Championship has received positive reviews, but the ending to the WWF Championship match, which featured Hulk Hogan in his final PPV appearance in the WWF until 2002, has been criticized.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Karate Warrior (1987)
Plot Summary:
Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing Quino near a local tournament, Anthony is beaten up and left for dead. An old monk nurses Anthony back to health and teaches him the ways of martial arts so he may go back and fight Quino again.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Action
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Thunder III (1988)
Plot Summary:
They took his wife... but he's still Walking Tall, they drew First Blood, but he's gonna fight back like Billy Jack.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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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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Tough Cops (1987)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam War vet turned police detective on the edge Nick Carpenter partners up with slick police detective with cat skills Pete Logan to take down the local druglord Fatcat by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, Philippines
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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Deathfight (1993)
Plot Summary:
When family fortune, beautiful mistresses and control of an international smuggling operation are at stake, family rivalry turns to rage as two brothers meet in one final battle...a deathfight.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Pretty Boys (2011)
Plot Summary:
Featuring copious sex, drugs and rock and roll (and that's just in the pre-credit sequence), The Pretty Boys swings to its own queer beat. Writer-director Everett Lewis' 1973-set period piece concerns Pagan, a shirtless, pansexual, drug-addled singer-songwriter. He's smitten with hunky Donovan, probed by an ambitious journalist and drugged by an evil groupie. Unfolding as a double LP, Pretty Boys meanders from seductive and weird to wild and tender. -Gary Kramer, Instinct Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: period piece, queer cinema
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Ultimate Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
Agent Axon Rey, a heavily decorated war hero and former police officer, is send to a rehabilitation island called "Gulag 7" under the nickname "Sphinx". He has to perform an extremely dangerous mission.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Croatia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Kill Ratio (2016)
Plot Summary:
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country’s ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Deaden (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ex-undercover cop turned biker Rane, witnesses the brutal murder of his pregnant wife by his crew who have learned about his old policemen days. Upon his exit from the hospital, he arms himself to the teeth and goes on an substance fueled, psychotic rampage, in the name of retribution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Bad Pack (1997)
Plot Summary:
A band of mercenaries are hired to combat the militia that terrorise a group of Mexican immigrants in a Texas border town.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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American Hunter (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jake Carver needs to retrieve a microfilm containing information which would cause a Wall Street panic and an economic crisis for Western governments. Also seeking the microfilm is the villainous Adam who plans to sell the microfilm to the highest bidder. Fist fights, explosions, and car chases ensue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Action
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, microfilm
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Albatross (1996)
Plot Summary:
A mixed group of prisoners in a concentration camp in North Korea struggle for survival and dignity as best the can, enduring the cruelty of the guards and of their fellow inmates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Cobra Mission (1986)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Trident Force (1988)
Plot Summary:
An outbreak of bombings, assassinations, and massacres by an extremist, Marxist terrorist group, alarms the international community who calls for help - the ultimate solution - the Trident Force.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Maciste In King Solomon's Mines (1964)
Plot Summary:
Maciste is captured and forced to work as a slave in an African mine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: campy
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Thunder II (1987)
Plot Summary:
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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New Killers in Town (1990)
Plot Summary:
The story follows Chin Siu Ho and the rarely seen Lee Ga Sing as Wu Shu experts coming over from Mainland China to live with their uncle - Liu Chia Liang and his daughter Moon Lee. Immediately upon arrival, they inadvertently get into a fight with some gangsters and incur the wrath of their crime boss. As a result there are a lot of gun battles, fist fights and bloodshed leading up to a final action packed showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Russian Terminator (1989)
Plot Summary:
An ex-mercenary is enlisted back into the life to rescue the boyfriend of the daughter of a powerful mogul.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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T.N.T. (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Tactical Neutralization Team, or T.N.T., is a squad of elite soldiers sent on top-secret, near-suicidal missions around the world. After one of their missions ends in failure, team member Alex decides he's had enough of the special-op life and calls it quits. His commanding officer, however, doesn't want the security risk of a former member walking around, so he assigns another member of the team to hunt down Alex and retire him permanently.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, independent 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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XX: Beautiful Hunter (1994)
Plot Summary:
Shion, ruthless assassin for the Magnificat crime syndicate, is as beautiful as she is deadly. But when her latest target turns out to be the man she loves, Shion is torn between duty and her heart. Her reluctance marks her for death by Magnificat, and her decision forces her into a life on the run, with her fellow assassins always a step behind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Ninja USA (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two cops are investigating a drug ring that may be led by an American man who saved them when they were kids. But when he kidnaps one's wife, they must fight through an army of ninjas to save her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scenic
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The Spirit (1987)
Plot Summary:
A legally dead police detective decides to battle crime as a masked superhero.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: epic, comic, cult film
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American Samurai (1992)
Plot Summary:
When a father passes on the traditional family sword to one of his two adopted sons, the other--in a fit of jealous rage--joins a yakuza drug smuggling mob. When the other son decides to find him and set things straight, things don't seem to go as smoothly as he planned, and a misunderstanding leads the stepbrothers into a Turkish arena to battle swordsmen from around the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, bloody, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, action adventure
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The Dallas Connection (1994)
Plot Summary:
Assassins led by Black Widow are out to kill Antonio Morales to prevent him from handing a computer chip over to IWAR headquarters. It's up to secret agents Chris Cannon, Mark Austin, and Samantha Maxx to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Hammerhead (1987)
Plot Summary:
A detective's hunt for the man who murdered his friend takes him to the Caribbean, where he finds himself enmeshed in a web of corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, buddy comedy, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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American Commandos (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chris Mitchum plays Dean Mitchell (I know, quite a stretch), the one gas station attendant you don't wanna mess with. He's a taciturn Vietnam vet who doesn't say very much. When some stupid baddies DO decide to mess with him, they end up in a world of hurt. They try robbing his beloved gas station, and then they go after his family. Big mistake.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Friday Foster (1975)
Plot Summary:
Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, hood, crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Con Games (2001)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Army veteran goes undercover as a prison inmate to investigate the death of a Senator's grandson, who was killed while behind bars. Once under lock and key, he finds himself at the mercy of an all-powerful guard whose deadly influence reaches far beyond the prison walls. His only chance for freedom now is to escape ... or die.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, tense