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Plot Summary:
A group of firefighters discover explosives on an abandoned ship which threatens the local city.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Dixie Dynamite (1976)
Plot Summary:
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Chained Justice (1984)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, "Dreptate în lanturi" is a rough and poetic film, whose action is placed at the beginning of the last century. The movie sheds light on a Romanian peasant who fights against social injustice.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Fly Me (1973)
Plot Summary:
Stewardesses battle kung fu killers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973)
Plot Summary:
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Devil Rider! (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young rebellious girl hooks up with a biker gang. Her mother hires a private detective to find her and bring her back. The detective goes undercover as a biker to search for her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, detective
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Ride in a Pink Car (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Seven (1979)
Plot Summary:
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The No Mercy Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
A decorated Vietnam Vet returns to his father's ranch in Arizona just as criminally minded carnies begin to cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, anamorphic, independent film, juvenile, cult film
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The Prodigal Boxer: The Kick of Death (1972)
Plot Summary:
THE PRODIGAL BOXER features Chinese folk hero Fong Sai Yuk (aka Fong Si Yu), the subject of dozens of HK kung fu films. The role is played by Meng Fei as a callow, unschooled youth and wrongfully accused murderer. Two vicious masters of the local kung fu school, seeking revenge against Fong Sai Yuk, attack his home and kill his father while Fong is away. Fong’s attempts to avenge the death of his father result in his being badly beaten. Fong trains at the hands of his martial artist mother as she puts him through rigorous training and an herbal bath that makes him invulnerable. A trail of revenge is set in motion with Fong against the two masters, played by formidable kung fu villains Yasuaki Kurata and Wang Ching. Can a year's worth of training prepare Fong Sai Yuk for his deadly confrontation with the vicious masters?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Dragons of Death (1973)
Plot Summary:
A young police cadet graduates from the academy, and is sent to a small town run by gangsters - one of whom betrayed the hero's father and left him to die.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Treasure of Bruce Le (1979)
Plot Summary:
In "Treasure of Bruce Le," a Samurai steals the Kung Fu secrets of the Shaolin Buddhists. Now Bruce must fight the powerful Samurai for control.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Dragon on Fire (1978)
Plot Summary:
Sammy is involved with gangsters to save his relative from a problem so he calls Dragon Hung from America to help him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult film
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Black Angels (1970)
Plot Summary:
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, political, independent film
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The Jesus Trip (1971)
Plot Summary:
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister Anna (Tippy Walker) and flee the convent. Soon Waco and the young nun fall in love and she is forced to decide whether or not to leave the church for him. (alfiehitchie).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent 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
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The Magnificent Ruffians (1979)
Plot Summary:
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear to improve when the head of a local security agency hires them to take out the competition, who their new employer insists is up to no good. But the boys are being played for fools, and after an unfortunate misunderstanding, they unite with their former adversary to take out the true villain.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Angels Die Hard (1970)
Plot Summary:
Gang of bikers try to save people in a mining disaster.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dynamite Brothers (1974)
Plot Summary:
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, realistic, semi serious
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The 18 Amazones (1979)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless Warlord from Manchuria builds a martial arts labyrinth that contains 18 martial art amazons, many try to enter but none leave, until Dragon Lee, seeking to avenge his father: his skills are good enough to defeat the 18 fighters and the warlord.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Blood & Gold (2023)
Plot Summary:
At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, brutal, period piece, period drama
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Lost Flight (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bridges is the captain of a downed airliner who must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Fire! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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City on Fire (1979)
Plot Summary:
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, disaster movie
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The Bravest (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on real life events, the film revolves around the heroic efforts of a team of firefighters as they attempt to deal with a fire that breaks out at an oil refinery in Dalian.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, heartbreaking, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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Storm tide (2006)
Plot Summary:
Susanne, a meteorologist Hamburg, has detected signs of an incipient sea storm that could devastate the city. Although given the alarm, local authorities do not listen to their warnings. To ensure the magnitude of the tsunami, Susanne decided to move to an oil platform located offshore, which verifies that their dire predictions are to become reality, as the storm will soon reach the coast, threatening the lives of thousands of people.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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As the Light Goes Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
The bond of brotherhood is always stronger when you can be pitched into a life and death situation at any time and the only thing that gets you through the inferno is the trust that your brother will have your back. The firefighters of Hong Kong’s Pillar Point division who are expecting a quiet night to see off their retiring chief find their faith in each other stretched to the limits when a small fire at a liquor warehouse threatens to plunge the whole of Hong kong into darkness if it spreads to a nearby power plant supplying natural gas. Politics, rivalry, and suspicion all come into play when dubious decisions are made, warnings are ignored and colleagues start to fall. Can the Pillar Point brotherhood survive the night, if not the fire, with their trust in each other intact?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Come Spy with Me (1967)
Plot Summary:
Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterious murders of two colleagues before an important meeting between the world's most powerful leaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Deep (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, weird, disaster movie
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Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 (1992)
Plot Summary:
Authentic drama of United Airlines flight 232 from Denver to Chicago. The DC-10 crashed during an emergency landing at Sioux City Gateway Airport on July 19, 1989. 184 people survived, partly thanks to the ground rescue workers who had 40 minutes to prepare for the event.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie