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Plot Summary:
Soldier of fortune Ken Conway gets a job offer from his former fiancee to look into the whereabouts of a missing scientist. The scientist was working for pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Krago, so Conway goes undercover to infiltrate the doctor's operation. He soon discovers what Krago's scheme is: he creates super-diseases and their cures at the same time, and gets rich by releasing the disease and selling the cure. Ken tries to take this information to the authorities, but finds out too late that he has been infected with the doctor's latest creation, and he has only 48 hours left to live if he can't get his hands on the antidote.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful
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New World Disorder (1999)
Plot Summary:
A gang of four eyed crooks led by Kurt Bishop (McCarthy) are ripping off top dollar computer chips from a list of factories. The night they hit Dynaphase Systems, two dirty employees are staying late using company resources to develop their own plans for a security microchip worth millions of dollars. Psychopathic Bishop raids the Dynaphase facility and downloads the mainframe before the employees have a chance to completely erase their work from it. When Bishop discovers the value of the stolen, but partially erased information, he sets out after the rest of the chip design, letting nothing stand in his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Raven (1996)
Plot Summary:
Martin Grant has been hiding for years to escape his past as a ruthless mercenary in the elite force Raven Team. He's recently been engaged and are trying to forget the nightmares of murder and betrayal. Martin was convinced, that he could escape... But no one escapes from the Raven Teams ruthless leader Raven. At least not alive. Raven is back with a new team to hunt down and eliminate Grant.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Enemy (2001)
Plot Summary:
A CIA agent and a geneticist battle to keep a deadly biological weapon from falling into the wrong hands when the weapon's inventor is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, USA, Germany, UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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First Target (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Service attempts to prevent an elaborately plotted assassination attempt on the President.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, cliffhanger
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The Vanquisher (2009)
Plot Summary:
After completing a covert mission in southern Thailand, CIA agent Gunja finds herself forced to fight off operatives who've been ordered to take her out at all costs. She survives and after two years of laying low, re-emerges in Bangkok to face her old foes and foil a plot to detonate a bomb in the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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Outside the Law (2002)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent Julie Cosgrove is walking into her most dangerous mission yet.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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The 5th Execution (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a remote island in Southeast Asia, a team of scientists, studying the regenerative properties of the salamander, discovers what their Bangkok headquarters refer to as "The Priceless Gift": an elixir of life. News of the discovery travels quickly, and profiteers begin to circle the island, only to find out just how dangerous a discovery it is. During the research process, they also uncovered an unstoppable disease. When the research team goes missing, it leaves behind a warning: that the disease has spread, and is threatening to go global. Special forces and mercenaries from around the world descend on the island, making apparent that there is more at stake than just profit and ambition, but the survival of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Action
Country: Russia, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, serious, rough
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Last Stand (2000)
Plot Summary:
A small band of desperate freedom fighters must topple a vicious dictator before he destroys mankind's last hope.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, suspense, independent film, bleak
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The Detonator (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, suspense
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Shakedown (2002)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles a deadly plague called the 'Pandora' virus is stolen from a high-security installation.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, fast
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Asker (2000)
Plot Summary:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action packed, independent film, fast
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The Marksman (2005)
Plot Summary:
Chechen rebels take over a Russian nuclear plant and it's up to a mysterious agent(Snipes) to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, fast
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The Foreigner (2003)
Plot Summary:
This story is about a freelance agent (Seagal) who is the courier of a package from France to Germany. He soon finds that many people want to get their hands on it.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic, action packed, fast
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Operation Delta Force 3: Clear Target (1998)
Plot Summary:
The anti-terrorist team Delta Force destroys a billion dollar cocaine stash, to the extreme displeasure of drug cartel leader Umberto Salvatore. To retaliate, he hijacks a stealth submarine and threatens to unleash a biological weapon with the power to kill everyone in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense
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Submerged (2000)
Plot Summary:
Navy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, disaster movie
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First Shot (2002)
Plot Summary:
No one knows why the army base was blown up until the President gets shot there during the memorial service for those killed, but he wasn't the only target.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, realistic
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Heaven's Fire (1999)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists seize a building with intent to blow it up. However, one of the men trapped in the building is an ex-treasury agent, who just happens to be there with his wife and children in a tour group. Having to fight the terrorists and fires that breakout in the high rise.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Thriller, Action
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, disaster movie
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Con Express (2002)
Plot Summary:
A hotheaded Alaskan customs agent (Sean Patrick Flannery) unwillingly teams up with a coldhearted but beautiful Soviet agent (Ursula Karven) to capture a rogue Russian general (Arnold Vosloo), selling a shipment of deadly nerve gas. Tensions and passions spin out of control after two agents are left for dead and they must combine forces to survive. They have one chance laft to take out the General and destroy the "Apocalypse in a can" nerve agent, both speeding toward freedom on a runaway mountain train. Unexpected twists and terrifying turns along the way put everyone on a collision course for explosive action, pulse-pounding thrill and a devastating betrayal of trust.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, cliffhanger, fast
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Steel Sharks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Submarine crews wage a silent war beneath the waves in this undersea thriller.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, independent film
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Frogmen Operation Stormbringer (2002)
Plot Summary:
Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him back--alive.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Plot Summary:
At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, action packed, independent film, fast
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Ancient Warriors (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
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The Protector 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kham is the last in long line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Traditionally, only the perfect elephants could successfully help defend the throne, after his harrowing quest to retrieve the elephants, Kham returns to his village to live in peace. But for someone as good in martial arts as him, peace is but a wishful thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, action thriller, realistic, fast
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The Peacekeeper (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, fast
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Target (2004)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Army sniper Charlie Snow finds himself at the other end of the crosshairs when the brother of an Eastern European arms dealer whom he killed decides to take vengeance on Charlie and his family in L.A.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Connors' War (2006)
Plot Summary:
They'll never see him coming... It's Personal. It's War. A blinded ex special agent is given his sight back by a special serum in order for him to stop a nuke that's hidden somewhere in the city. Things are just starting to complicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bloody, intense, action packed
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Lethal (2005)
Plot Summary:
A sexy and lethal female mercenary takes on an international syndicate of weapons smugglers run by the Russian Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, serious
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Blast (1997)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed. Only janitor Jack Bryant, a former Olympic gymnast champion of Tae Kwon Do felled by injuries and alcoholism knows of their real plans. And only he, with the guidance of former terrorist-fighter Leo, can stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Absolon (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone must take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug. Murchison is the leader of this firm. A scientist who was researching the virus is found murdered, and Norman Scott is the policeman who investigates the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tech noir