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Plot Summary:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lies & Illusions (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a menacing smuggler coolly insists that best-selling author Wes Wilson take a chauffeured backseat ride with him, Wilson's charmed life explodes into a world of violence and espionage, and he learns shocking truths about two women in his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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The White Raven (1998)
Plot Summary:
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. Somehow, the story that the journalist originally wrote about a camp survivor is believed to have leads to the diamond.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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To Protect and Serve (1992)
Plot Summary:
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Perfect Assassins (1998)
Plot Summary:
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hand Gun (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Bare Knuckles (1977)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, grindhouse
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Runaway Car (1997)
Plot Summary:
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby nephew. Once on the street, they almost run over a young man. Not knowing if he is hurt, they pick up the man too. But the worst luck begins when the car brakes break down.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, fast
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Facade (1999)
Plot Summary:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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After the Storm (2001)
Plot Summary:
On the run from smugglers and the police, world-weary scavenger Arno (Benjamin Bratt) takes a job as a courier for a tycoon. But when the tycoon's yacht goes down in a storm, can Arno partner with a fellow sea scavenger to loot the ship's bounty? What awaits are diamonds, emeralds and gold. Guy Ferland directs this tropical noir film, which is based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Armand Assante co-stars.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Sands of Oblivion (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day these resurface leading to murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, epic
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Lost Treasure (2003)
Plot Summary:
A paint is stolen from a building during a great fire and after recovered, the police finds inside it a mysterious map. A police officer responsible for the case ask his brother, who is an antiques expert, to help him during investigations. Analysing the paint an fabric, he finds that the map belonged to Cristopher Columbus and the drawings in it refer to an old legend of a lost treasure. Asside from unravel mysterious riddles the police officer and his brother will have to fight against a violent gang which is after the treasure as well.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, touching, tense, suspense, independent film, semi serious, detective
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200 M.P.H. (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race known as Sepulveda Suicide, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the wheel. But to win, he’ll need to modify his trusty 1978 Datsun 280Z — with help from a pretty mechanic (Hennely Jimenez) — to get the maximum speed out of its machinery.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster, fast
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Max Is Missing (1995)
Plot Summary:
A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tomb raiders.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Roar (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his photojournalist brother gets killed by a white tigress in the jungles of the Sundarbans, Pandit and his team of commandos enter the prohibited core area of the forest to avenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Da Vinci Treasure (2006)
Plot Summary:
An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, enigmatic, disturbing
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Ashanti (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense, cult classic, vintage, cult film
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River of Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doing his experiments on people in the same place.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, independent film, realistic
Similar in 81%
Road to Juarez (2013)
Plot Summary:
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film
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Special Ops (2010)
Plot Summary:
When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is accused of aiding the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
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N.Y.C. Underground (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running from Simon's crew through New York City's labyrinthine subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Damned River (1989)
Plot Summary:
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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King of Africa (1968)
Plot Summary:
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Eliminator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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Blue (2009)
Plot Summary:
Blue is set in the breath taking sun soaked white sand beaches of Bahamas. Sagar is an excellent deep sea diver who dreams of getting his own new boat someday while his friend Aarav is a rich arrogant businessman, whose ego is much larger than the big boats that he owns. The conflict between these two sparring friends is the conflict between the rich & the poor, Moral & Immoral, and greed & honor.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, atmospheric, rough, humorous, semi serious, mockbuster, stylized
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Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
Plot Summary:
A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, fantasy adventure
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A Cry in the Wild (1990)
Plot Summary:
13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry animals until or if he is found.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, independent film
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Survival Quest (1988)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, retro, independent film, realistic
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Beyond the Reach (2014)
Plot Summary:
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, exciting, serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, minimal cast, independent film
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A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture. On his way to the monastery, he meets a fierce and skilled swordsman who answers his prayers and dedicates his life to protecting Hereward while he delivers the book. In the midst of their journey, they are confronted by Vikings ready to kill in order to get what they want, leaving Hereward and his protector at their mercy.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, historical drama, realistic