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Plot Summary:
Action movie directed by Emmett Alston.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Ultimax Force (1987)
Plot Summary:
The ULTIMAX FORCE, an elite group of Commandos, a force combining the skills of a Ninja warrior with U.S. Commando training, penetrate deep into Vietnamese territory. Their mission - to liberate a POW camp run by a sadistic colonel, who has mercilessly slaughtered his prisoners in a display of rabid madness and butchery; a challenge which, for them, is the ULTIMATE MAXIMUM.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Karate Warrior (1987)
Plot Summary:
Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing Quino near a local tournament, Anthony is beaten up and left for dead. An old monk nurses Anthony back to health and teaches him the ways of martial arts so he may go back and fight Quino again.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Action
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Gambling Syndicate (1975)
Plot Summary:
A provincial detective seeks to take down a local gambling syndicate with the help of two convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: detective
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Talk to the Gun (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bryce Turner, a former bounty hunter loses everything even his 8 year old daughter taken by a corrupt and vengful business man. But nothing will stop him from finding her alive and putting the pieces of his life back together again.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Silent Assassins (1988)
Plot Summary:
The evil criminal leader Kendrick has kidnapped an elderly biochemist who holds the secret to creating a biological superweapon. The only person who can possibly stop Kendrick and his gang is L. A. cop Sam Kettle and martial arts master Jun Kim (uncle of a little girl also kidnapped by Kendrick). Together, they go to war against an army of ninjas to rescue the hostages and bring their kidnappers to justice.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ninja Phantom Heroes (1987)
Plot Summary:
In this actioner, one of a pair of imprisoned Vietnam veterans escapes and forms an organization of secret ninjas.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Plot Summary:
Charter pilot Nick Baskin takes 5 strangers on a flight that is shot down. Taken by hillbillies in West Virginia, they are used to help transport toxic waste.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Der Stein des Todes (1987)
Plot Summary:
Kumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead from a drugs overdose. Mad with grief, he kills the two dealers and is arrested for murder. He manages to escape and is bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Action
Country: West Germany, Sri Lanka
Duration: 93 min
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Fireback (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jack Kaplan is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert liberated by a "rescue team", he returns home to the United States only to find out that his wife Diane has been captured by infatuated gangster Duffy Collins. Kaplan embarks on a mission to find his wife, running into characters like Digger, Man With The Golden Hand, and the treacherous femme fatale Eve. He is a man on a mission.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Plot Summary:
When a stranger, Thaddeus, is found badly wounded near the village, miner Li Kung and his wife Ah Ni offer him refuge. As he heals, he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho, his nefarious Beetle Clan and the terrifying Lord Pi.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, semi serious, epic
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Fear (1988)
Plot Summary:
A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is that the family's father is also a Vietnam veteran, and he has no intention of letting his family come to any harm.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Plot Summary:
A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, serious, suspense
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Plot Summary:
In this martial-arts actioner, Miami mobsters find themselves in mortal danger after an angry police chief hires the world's most vicious fighters and uses them to launch a city-wide vendetta.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Iron Protector (2016)
Plot Summary:
Wu-Lin is the successor of an ancient, once powerful Chinese clan, the "Iron Feet." After the death of his master, Wu-Lin leaves his rural village for the City of Stone-Cold looking for his fellow apprentice Jiang Li. Along the way, he becomes the bodyguard of Fei-Fei, the daughter of Jia-Shan Li, the richest family in the city, and quickly gets drawn into a mob war in order to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Five kids fled from a mafia who abused them as beggars. They ended up meeting the great kung fu master who adopted them and taught them how to fight. Now, the kids are grownups and become the magnificent five kung fu fighters who have only one mission: to avenge the mafia who destroyed their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
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Ip Man: The Awakening (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a young Master Ip stops a kidnapping, he ignites a turf war with a ruthless human trafficking ring. In retaliation, the gang kidnaps one of Ip Man’s close friends, forcing him to face the group’s brutal boxing champion head-on.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action
Country: China
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Action
Country: Philippines
Duration: 78 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, mockbuster, independent film, exciting, fast
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Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't commit, the man struggles to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name and find the identity of the real killer. Moving Target also features Bill Murphy, Hilary Kavanagh, and Terry McMahon. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Action
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Plot Summary:
Jake Turner is back on a rescue mission to liberate an attractive female Drug Enforcement officer captured and held prisoner by an American drug lord in the jungles of Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Trained To Kill (1989)
Plot Summary:
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A., there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To the Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kickboxing champ Rick Quinn decides to retire from the ring, but his main adversary, Denard, wants him to fight again and murders Quinn's wife. Quinn suspects Denard, but can't do anything. Three month later, Quinn is jailed after a drunken bar brawl; a rich man named Le Braque bails him out and asks him to fight for him.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Kill Crazy (1989)
Plot Summary:
Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a machine of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Black Tigers (1978)
Plot Summary:
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
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Kung Fu Killer (2008)
Plot Summary:
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire province hostage to the opium trade—and destroys all who oppose him. Only the revered Wudang monks dare stand in Kahn’s way in order to protect the very soul of China. Among them is the Westerner, White Crane, a spiritual master of the martial arts and protector of the innocent. Revenge is not in Crane’s heart—until a mercenary army storms the temple and slaughters the beloved female Grandmaster Myling. Out of the ashes of the temple ruins, Crane rises—with vengeance in his heart. Crane comes upon Jane Marshall, a New York lounge singer and her gangster boss Bingo Quo. But it’s Bingo’s dangerous professional ties to Kahn that draw both Crane and Jane deep into the Warlord’s lair. Now torn between the spiritual Wudang teaching and the cold-blooded life of an assassin, Crane is about the cross the fine line between justice and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Ong Bak 2 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Moments from death a young man is rescued by a renowned warrior. Realizing unsurpassed physical potential in the young boy he trains him into the most dangerous man alive. As he becomes a young man he goes on a lone mission of vengeance against the vicious slave traders who enslaved him as a youth and the treacherous warlord who killed his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, harsh, epic, cult classic, action thriller, exciting, sentimental, sincere, rough