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Plot Summary:
A family of bootleggers fight against the sheriff and local gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Devil and Leroy Bassett (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff Ben Trask (Elliott Lindsey)is chasing a speeding car driven by Keema GReywolf (Cody Bearpaw) and his wife (Imagene Goodshot)when Keema's car has a blowout and crashes into a ravine. Keema blames the sheriff and in his anger draws Trask's gun, wounds the sheriff and kills his deputy. He escapes to Texas but is captured and held for extradition. The Basset brother, Leroy (John F. Goff), Wilbur (George 'Buck' Flower) and Melvin (James A. Ward), take Keema from Deputy Hector Chavez (Robert Padilla as Bob Padilla), and Keema releases Chavez with a message of revenge for Sheriff Trask. Keema and the Bassetts drive to a secluded mountain cabin, inhabited by Charlie Zornes (Dick Winslow), his wife Alma (Lillian McBride), and their deaf-mute daughter, Twila ('Bobbi Shaw' ), take the Zornes' camper and attempt to escape the roadblocks and posse headed by Trask. Written by Les Adams.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Common Outlaws (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years after their father was gunned down in cold blood, Cashius and Winston Hurley return to their hometown to avenge his death. Joining forces with their cousin Bugsy, the two gun-slinging brothers hunt down everyone involved in their father's murder. As the bullets fly and the death toll rises, the three young cowboys find themselves fugitives from the law, running for their lives and fighting for their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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Look at Me, America (1991)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a Korean-born immigrant whose life is turned upside down when his father is crippled from a robbery and his mother leaves them and marries the father of a bigoted gang leader, Billy. When Paul is constantly harrassed by Billy and his boys, Paul must use his skills in martial arts to defend himself. He learns that there is racial tension everywhere, especially when it involves his girlfriend, the daughter of a bigoted government official. Meanwhile, Billy must learn to adapt to this nature and attempt at peace with those who have done him wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Newsbreak (2000)
Plot Summary:
Film from Serge Rodnunsky.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Chrome Soldiers (1992)
Plot Summary:
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Mr. No Legs (1978)
Plot Summary:
Meet Mr. No Legs! Deadly professional hit-man for a drug syndicate... and a limbless cripple! With his cool wheelchair, armed with shotguns and shurikens, and his amazing kung fu skills he means trouble for everyone he confronts, even his own boss! Things get ugly when a unlucky drug dealer kills his girl by an accident, especially because the girl's brother is a cop! And No Legs apparently have his own plans how to take over the whole business.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: experimental, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, independent film, poliziottesco
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Ghetto Blaster (1989)
Plot Summary:
When Travis, middle-aged, working class man, returns home to visit his parents, he quickly learns that his hood is rife with criminal activity and gang warfare. Quickly, Travis finds himself thrust into a position to defend his family and neighbors from the punks who terrorize them on a daily basis. Good thing he has a military training, enabling the man to become a one-man vigilante unit against the forces of evil in his town.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stalin (2006)
Plot Summary:
The only mission in Stalin (Chiranjeevi)'s life is to help others and the make the world a better place. It turns out that Stalin served as a Major in the Indian Army. Although a war hero, he had quit the army after a rift with the Colonel (Mukesh Rishi) transfers him to administrative division from the battlefield as a disciplinary action. His family includes mother (Sharada Urvashi) as well as his sister (Khushboo), who is not in talking terms with their mother since she got married to a Punjabi. Stalin keeps helping a physically challenged girl Sumati to write her Intermediate examination and her suicide disturbs him. The death occurs as none of the people around her extend help. Then Stalin plans a chain system. The theme works on a principle that everyone should help others and in return they should not seek a mere thanks but tell those who get the help to help three more, with a condition that those who get help from them should also demand the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Defense Play (1988)
Plot Summary:
Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets killed, Colonel Denton gets under suspicion. His son Scott and Vandemeers daughter Karen believe in his innocence and search for the true murderer and his motives.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
Plot Summary:
A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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...tick... tick... tick... (1970)
Plot Summary:
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, black cinema
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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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Generational Sins (2017)
Plot Summary:
A dying mother, Sarah, tells her last wish to her eldest son, Drew, that he take his younger brother, Will, to the place they were born. Despite tragic family history, hope gives promise to the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Thursday's Child (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Hell's Bloody Devils (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce nearly perfect counterfeit 20-dollar bills. The plates were made in Germany during World War II, and were discovered by a radical right-wing group hoping to restore the Nazi Party to power. The American gangsters are in cahoots with a group of wealthy American neo-Nazis sympathetic to the new German cause, led by fugitive war criminal Count von Delberg (Kent Taylor); the count has in turn recruited a vicious motorcycle gang, the Bloody Devils, to do his dirty work.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, campy
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Fighting Mad (1976)
Plot Summary:
An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties. Eventually the take-charge no-nonsense Tom Hunter exacts a harsh revenge on the villains with the help of his bow and arrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Godfather (2006)
Plot Summary:
Shiva, the ageing business tycoon, bound to his wheelchair, sharing a strong bonding with his son Vishnu. Indulgent, while Vishnu whiles away his time with his cronies taking life easy. But then suddenly Vishnu starts behaving out of character, his drunken bouts and acts causing the father much shame and embarrassment. And when Vishnu professes to remember nothing of what he had done, the father takes him to a psychiatrist.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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True Blood (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his neighborhood to take his brother with him, but things are worse than he could expect: his brother, now 18 years old, hates him and is a member of Billy Masters' gang. Furthermore, Billy Masters is looking for revenge and... the police is still after Ray for the murder of the police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, detective
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Conflict of Interest (1993)
Plot Summary:
Gideon rules the down and dirty side of town. From the docks where he runs an export business in stolen cars, to the heavy metal club where he can turn a little extra cash on hot women and cool drugs. Everyone loves Gideon, especially his posse of desirable women, everyone except the corpses he leaves behind and the cops who clean up after him. But now there's a new cop on Gideon's back, Mickey Fl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jump (1971)
Plot Summary:
A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hardflip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hardflip follows the story of Caleb (Randy Wayne) a young skater whose ill mother (Rosanna Arquette) and absent father (John Schneider) leave him reaching for the only hope he has...becoming a sponsored skater. After his mother falls ill, Caleb finds a stack of old love letters. He sets out to find the father he never knew and inadvertently begins a journey he never could have expected. This story explores what happens when we let go of our anger and pain and forgive those who have hurt us most.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: uplifting, realistic, captivating, tense, exciting, serious, inspirational, interesting
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Brawler (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sidelined by an injury incurred while protecting his young brother, underground fighter Charlie Fontaine feels blindsided when he discovers his brother having sex on his couch with his new wife, Kat. Fueled by rage, a determined Charlie makes plans to get back in the ring and take on his brother in a fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
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Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
Plot Summary:
"From the day I was born I had to fight to survive. I fought everyone and everything that came in front of me. On the streets, confessions are made in Blood. They say that when you confess your sins, only then can you be redeemed. This is my redemption. This is my confession." (Eddie Castillo 2005).
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Wrath of Cain (2010)
Plot Summary:
A former kingpin of the streets, Miles “Cain” Skinner is doing life in prison. He is feared and respected among the inmates. When Cain learns that his sentence will be shortened only by brain cancer, his urgency to change his ways goes into overdrive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, captivating, crime drama, hood
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Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Plot Summary:
'A New Beginning' focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even his own errant son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy the family and all that his father has worked hard to protect.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, crime drama, rough, realistic
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Split Decisions (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, sincere, serious, realistic
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Animal (2005)
Plot Summary:
His name: infamous. His reputation: ruthless. But when James "Animal"Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, he meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence. Can a father haunted by his past redeem his family from the very streets he created, or will he be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama, bleak