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Plot Summary:
A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a match with "the man" - the mysterious king of bare-knuckled boxing. There are no rules for this fight...one man wins when the other dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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The Magnificent 3 (1979)
Plot Summary:
After getting into a brawl in a Discotech in Dominica, three strangers; a Japanese tourist (Yasuaki Kurata), a Chinese restaurant worker (Tony Poon) and an American (!) painter (Tadashi Yamashita) find themselves thrown in jail together and left to rot there. Just when things seem their grimmest, the three are released, their bonds posted by an ex Army General. His intention is to put their supreme fighting skills to use against his family's black sheep, a powerful mafioso who employs top fighters from all over the world as protection.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Red Serpent (2003)
Plot Summary:
Steve Nichols part à Moscou pour un voyage d'affaires de routine. Il doit remettre au point le transport par bateau de médicaments aux Etats-Unis et il va rencontrer ses associés russes. Le train-train... jusqu'au moment où il devient la cible du “Red Serpent”. Ne se rendant compte de rien, Steve tombe dans un piège et sera obligé de participer à un projet mortel de traffic de drogues.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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Reflex Action (2002)
Plot Summary:
Emotionally scarred after serving in the Gulf War, soldier Quinn Taylor returns to his Arizona home, only to learn that his father plans to sell their land to a drug lord. Determined to interrupt the sale, Taylor goes to war with a powerful cartel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Busted Up (1986)
Plot Summary:
Prolific actor-stuntman Conrad Palmisano directed this average action-thriller about the owner of an inner-city gym. Earl (Paul Coufos) happens to also be a skilled fighter, and when he is pressured by real-estate developers to close the gym, he fights in order to save it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Action, Drama, Music, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Last Man Standing (1987)
Plot Summary:
Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets a job fighting in a gym run by Napoleon. Roo is often tormented by memories of shock treatment and inhumane conditions. His friends, Capser and Ratty help him along the way, until he gets brutally beaten up by one of Napoleon's fighters.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Expendables (1988)
Plot Summary:
Captain Baronski, assigned a squad of misfit soldiers, trains them into a fighting powerhouse "The Expendables." Breaking every rule, they must risk their lives crossing into Cambodia to save the American hostages.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Rigged (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the seedy underground of illegal prizefighting, a corrupt boxing promoter is embroiled in a dangerous fight-fixing scheme with his female prizefighter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Thunder in Paradise 3 (1995)
Plot Summary:
Spencer and Bru break into his HQ and capture notorious drug lord Manuel Santiago of a DEA Agent. Santiago's angered assistant, Mason Lee, takes the school hostage where Kelly is teaching and Jessica is one of the students in attendance in retaliation to Santiago's capture. Alison, knowing a way in, joins Spencer and Bru in the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Thunder in Paradise 2 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Kelly is whisked off into Prince Aramour's harem and given to his enemy as tribute in this romantic tale of capture and rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Indio (1989)
Plot Summary:
A half-breed Marine takes on greedy industrialists in the Amazonian rain forests. Marvelous Marvin proves his ability as a fighter!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Last to Surrender (1998)
Plot Summary:
A maverick American cop and his Chinese counterpart join forces to bring a drug dealer and his hired thugs to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film
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Gold Raiders (1982)
Plot Summary:
An SOS message is sent out when a plane carrying gold worth $200 million dollars belonging to the free world is brought down somewhere in Thailand, and Robert Ginty is called upon to team up with his old flame Claudia Dubois. Together, they head up a small crack group of six undercover agents who are given the mission to infiltrate enemy lines and recover the gold.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK, Thailand
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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Bimini Code (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two female adventurers travel to the Bermuda Triangle to search after a young boy who disappeared mysteriously.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Young Rebels (1989)
Plot Summary:
From Amir Shervan, the director of SAMURAI COP, comes another great 90's action classic. One man (Johnny Greene) teams up with another (Tadashi Yamashita) to take down the cartel run and its evil leader (Robert Z'Dar).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Street of a Thousand Pleasures (1972)
Plot Summary:
In a Middle Eastern country, a traveling American saves the life of the local sheik. In gratitude, the sheik takes him to The Street of a Thouand Pleasures, where he can choose from any of hundreds (actually, 71) of nude and semi-nude women.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, weird, cult film
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The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)
Plot Summary:
Sunset Boulevard is a lucrative place to work for the Black Baron, a pimp with a distinctive red and yellow Rolls Royce and plenty of girls on his books. He don't take no mess from his girls, his madam or his competitors and viciously defends his patch. First, he clobbers the Mob who attempt to move in on his patch. Second, he tracks down one of his girls who runs off with a suitcase full of his cash. Third, he disposes of two policemen. But by now he knows his pimping days are numbered, so after a final explosive gun battle he switches to being his alter ego, mild-mannered businessman Ron who lives out in the leafy suburbs with an unsuspecting wife and family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film
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S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert (1980)
Plot Summary:
Security Hazards Expert Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic
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Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963)
Plot Summary:
The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother Khan is plotting to prevent Kashi, the youthful heir, from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect Kashi and, in doing so, he must face Khan in three tests of strength. The final test is a sword fight which takes place on a wide-mesh net stretched over cauldrons of boiling oil. Jeweled elephants lead grand processions, and a thousand girls perform the "dance of the candles". A baby elephant named Hungry replaces Cheetah in the humor role.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Spitfire (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film, cult movie cast
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Pit Fighter (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jack Severino has no memory, all he knows is the brutal sport of Pit Fighting. When his past catches him up, he realizes he is not who he thought he was. For some men must fight for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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Sinbad and the War of the Furies (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a treasure hunt gone wrong, modern-day adventurer Sinbad accidentally releases the Furies, three beautiful but terrible ancient beings powerful enough to threaten life on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, epic, stylized, semi serious, mockbuster, dark comedy
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L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach (1998)
Plot Summary:
A stolen computer disk contains the location of a hidden tresaure trove. It's up to the sexy ladies of LETHAL (Legion to Ensure Total Harmony and Law) to find the treasure before the bad guys do.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, surprise ending, cult film
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Red Scorpion (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, retro, cult classic, action adventure, independent film, rough, bleak, fast
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Fire Birds (1990)
Plot Summary:
A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug cartels operating in South America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountainous compound have been thwarted by a Scorpion-attack helicopter piloted by a cartel leader, Eric Stoller (Bert Rhine). After having several aircraft shot down, most notably a pair of UH–60 Black Hawks and their AH–1 Cobra escorts, the army turns to the new AH–64 Apache attack helicopter, which can match its enemies' maneuverability and firepower.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting, suspense, independent film, double entendre, dark comedy, sexy
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Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)
Plot Summary:
A princess is on a quest to unite the five greatest warriors to save her kingdom from a demon sorceress.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, cult classic, bleak
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Batman (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 398000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, bleak, visual, neo noir, saga, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, cult classic, stylized
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No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel, Scott Wylde, an American kickboxer, must go to Cambodia to rescue his Vietnamese girlfriend from Russian and Vietnamese troops.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, intense, cult classic, independent film, stylized, fast, campy
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 798000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: entertaining, breathtaking, exciting, epic, action packed, action adventure, dieselpunk, saga, cult classic, humorous
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, epic, atmospheric, semi serious, saga, action adventure, witty, visual, humorous
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy's colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 485000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, action packed, scenic, action adventure, humorous, suspenseful, saga, breathtaking, epic