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Plot Summary:
A gang of terrorists tries to hijack a truck carrying plutonium.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Harvest of Hate (1979)
Plot Summary:
A rich winemaker dispatches a woman lawyer and male surveyor-geologist to assess a farm property whereby it is discovered that terrorists are preparing to invade a middle east country.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Bus Driver (2016)
Plot Summary:
A high school bus on its way to a retreat blows a tire and stops at the nearest ranch for help. The driver, five troubled students, and their ridiculous gym- teacher chaperone find, instead, criminals who will stop at nothing to make sure their drug operations aren't discovered. The students and teacher are easy prey for these animals, but standing in the way of certain death is a force more determined and more skilled than any of them ever expected: The Bus Driver.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Big Gamble (1961)
Plot Summary:
Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Moonfire (1970)
Plot Summary:
Truckers battle a Nazi who has hidden out in Mexico. Subplot involves the disappearance of a reclusive billionaire.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 87%
Booby Trap (1970)
Plot Summary:
A crazed military explosives expert heads for Los Angeles with an RV full of explosives, intending to blow up a rock festival and kill all the "hippies". An army officer is sent to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
Similar in 81%
Truck Stop Women (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mother and daughter who run a brothel for truckers fight back when the Mafia tries to take over their operation.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, sexual, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
Similar in 78%
Killing Machine (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a gang of thugs brands a hard working truck driver a traitor and murders his bride, He retaliates by being even more violent than his attackers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Termination Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a Serbian terrorist blackmails NATO and the U.N. with a deadly nerve gas, a covert squad is the Free World's last hope. Led by Dylan Pope they must "terminate" the threat before it terminates them!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Trucker's Woman (1975)
Plot Summary:
A young man takes up truck-driving to investigate his trucker father's suspicious death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy
Similar in 89%
Street Wars (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young man takes over as the head of a crack dealing outfit after his brother, the gang's leader, is murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 85%
Hostage (1986)
Plot Summary:
The leader of a South African Nation is imprisoned. His followers, led by Zabo, hijack a plane with the intent to use the passengers as hostages to trade for his release. They select a plane carrying a religious leader to use as their main hostage. They soon learn that they have an added bonus of the daughter and grandson of Colonel Shaw, a bigwig in the country. The grandson all the while has to cope with the dual problems of being hijacked and held hostage while needing a kidney transplant. The hijackers have everything in their favor, except that the colonel's daughter is the sweetheart of Major Sam Striker. Striker puts together a band of mercenaries and sets about freeing the hostages.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ring of Steel (1994)
Plot Summary:
A champion fencer accidentally kills an opponent in a match. Disgraced, he is blackballed from the fencing community, until a mysterious stranger saves his life one night from a gang of muggers. He soon finds himself caught up in the world of underground illegal swordfights, where combatants fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, action adventure, neo noir, independent film
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Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
Plot Summary:
Angel (William Smith), an outlaw biker, sells out his gang by exposing their wild conquests to Like magazine for $10,000. With his photo on the cover, Angel skips town and tries to start over with help from sheep rancher Dan Felton (Dan Kemp). An ex-motorcycle enthusiast, Dan becomes a mentor to Angel, giving him hope for a peaceful future. But Angel must put hope aside when members of his former gang viciously attack Dan's teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 83%
Street Hunter (1990)
Plot Summary:
Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bad Blood (1994)
Plot Summary:
A trucker (Lamas) has to come home to help fight mobsters after his brother who embezzled $5,000,000 from them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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High-Ballin' (1978)
Plot Summary:
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver "Iron" Duke (Jerry Reed) and his visiting friend, Rane (Peter Fonda), put the brakes on the bad guys by taking the law into their own hands. But their vigilante plan involves going toe-to-toe with powerful trucker boss King Carroll (Chris Wiggins) and his henchmen, who've been driving everyone out of the game.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film
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Soldier's Fortune (1991)
Plot Summary:
A rich young girl is kidnapped by masked terrorists. Her mother's ex-husband, a former mercenary, gathers some of his former comrades and goes off to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film
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From Istanbul with Orders to Kill (1965)
Plot Summary:
A starving writer is offered $20,000 by an old friend in the intelligence service to pose as “Felix,” an international smuggler, because the writer looks exactly like this Felix. There’s lots of action, beautiful locations in Italy and (presumably) Istanbul, double-crosses galore, fistfights and chases, etc.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: microfilm
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Riding the Edge (1989)
Plot Summary:
Teenage cyclist rescues his dad from terrorists in the Middle East. "Iron Eagle" on a motorcycle.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Escape from Zahrain (1962)
Plot Summary:
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot pursuit. All the performances are magnificent: Sal Mineo showing his acting talents, Jack Warden in a wiseguy performance as an employee of Zahrain oil who was involved in embezzlement, Anthony Caruso as a slimy psychotic and the underrated Madlyn Rhue as a nurse who becomes emotionally involved in the proceedings.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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I.R.A. King of Nothing (2006)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled I.R.A. member (Chapa) becomes Ireland's biggest threat to the peace process.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 77%
Convoy (1978)
Plot Summary:
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, surprise ending, exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy, light
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Hit! (1973)
Plot Summary:
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, detective, grindhouse
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Crazy Girls Undercover (2008)
Plot Summary:
The film is about a group of Las Vegas sexy showgirls who are undercover agents working with a former C.I.A. agent (Robertson) to stop a terrorist attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, spy comedy, tense, suspense, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Death Before Dishonor (1987)
Plot Summary:
Gunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and presence to avoid upsetting the host government. As a result, when terrorists attack the compound, they are able to kidnap hostages and escape with little opposition. Burns ignores the Ambassador's restrictions, and throws the rule books out the window, as he becomes a one man army in an attempt to rescue the hostages, and wipe out the terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational, clever, unusual plot structure
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The Alternate (2000)
Plot Summary:
The President of the United States, in the midst of negative public opinion, is kidnapped while attending a charity function. However, this is all part of a plan to boost his ratings, the 'kidnappers' being a CIA black ops team. It seems like a great idea until the leader of the black ops decides he can make it away with the ransom money himself, but one of his team has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Similar in 89%
Freedom Strike (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon that only the Freedom Strike team can stop! Cue an action-packed race against time to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Icebreaker (2000)
Plot Summary:
At the the Killington ski resort something has gone awry. Evil terrorists led by the sinister Greig have taken the resort hostage with a stolen nuclear device. It's up to Ski Patrol bum Matt Foster to save the day... and his fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cliffhanger, cult classic, realistic, cult film
Similar in 81%
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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Black Eagle (1988)
Plot Summary:
One of the US Air Force's most modern tactical aircrafts, an F-100 with a new laser guidance system, crashes into the sea near Malta - a region where the Soviet forces are highly present, too. The CIA immediately sends out their best secret agent, Ken Tami, to salvage the system before it falls into enemy hands. To ensure his loyalty, they bring his two young sons to a nearby hotel on the island.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, cult film