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Plot Summary:
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Tinikling, or The Madonna and the Dragon (1990):
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Deadly Weapon (1995)
Plot Summary:
International criminals try to obtain a revolutionary new gun made for the U.S. government.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dragon Inn (1967)
Plot Summary:
General Yu is executed after having been accused of treason by the powerful eunuchs, and his children will be deported. Eunuchs plotting to kill even the children, and prepare an ambush on Dragon's shelter in the middle of the desert. There are other guests, who are also interested in the deal.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bloody
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Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tony Kendall, Brad Harris. Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Austria, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: eurospy, cult film
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Coronado (2003)
Plot Summary:
An american woman, in search of her fiance', becomes involved in a revolution of a central-american country.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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Turkish First Blood (1983)
Plot Summary:
Former war veteran Kan Rambo (Turkish cult cinema legend Cuneyt Arkin) has to fight against an evil gang of bikers when they refuse to let him enter their village and live a peaceful life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mockbuster
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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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The Tiger Brigades (2006)
Plot Summary:
The film, set in 1912, is about the exploits of France's first motorized police brigade.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious
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I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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OSS 117 prend des vacances (1970)
Plot Summary:
OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: France, Brazil, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, eurospy
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Shocktroop (1988)
Plot Summary:
The special commando Delta Force is sent behind the line of fire into the terrain of the enemy. Their mission goal is to destroy a base where the enemies prepare a new weapon: a combat helicopter.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Airboss (1997)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Legacy (1998)
Plot Summary:
A photojournalist deported from a war zone in Asia meets up with a woman who is looking for her father. He offers to help her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Captain Thunder (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of "Captain Thunder and the Holy Grail" is set during the Third Crusade in Palestine, when Captain Thunder finds in the dungeons of a fortress a dying Christian named Juan de Ribera, who entrustes him the mission to restore to Spain a cup which is the Holy Grail, stolen from an ancient order. Thunder, with his inseparable friends Crispin and Goliath, and a Viking princess named Sigfrid, will face an evil feudal lord and his black "devils", who are terrorizing the population of low Aragón.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Kill Slade (1989)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter is hired to abduct a reporter who has uncovered a U.N. conspiracy plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Tuareg: The Desert Warrior (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other -- a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Adventure, Action
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, eighties, cult film
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Sandokan the Great (1963)
Plot Summary:
After the capture of the Sultan of Muluder, Sandokan, the sultan's son, leads a guerilla army through treacherous jungles to free his father and defeat Queen Victoria's army of invaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 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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Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother's tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Puli (2015)
Plot Summary:
A virtuous soldier Magadheera aka Puli (Tiger) vows to save his people from the rule of a cruel queen and her treacherous Marshal. Does good triumph over evil?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ironmaster (1983)
Plot Summary:
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, cult classic, exciting, serious, psychotronic
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Asker (2000)
Plot Summary:
When deadly anthrax missiles are stolen by a militia, ATF agent Ethan Carter (Dean Cain) must go undercover and join the group to save the country from disaster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, action packed, independent film, fast
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7 Assassins (2013)
Plot Summary:
When social unrest plagues a Kingdom in ancient China, the Imperial Court collects stockpiles of gold from local governments to expand the royal army. However, the gold is robbed while in transport. In a desperate move to retrieve the stolen treasure, elite royal guards are sent on a mission to go after the gold but soon find out they are not the only ones in pursuit of it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, intense, serious, realistic
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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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Let's Get Harry (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, sexy, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, entertaining, splatter, visually appealing, complex
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Airboss III (2000)
Plot Summary:
An American attack submarine on patrol in the South China Sea intercepts an SOS from a Russian freighter. The freighter was attacked by unidentified frogmen on the high seas and high grade plutonium was stolen. The FBI suspects this attack is the work of Darian Cain, a former Russian Commando turned terrorist. When a special anti-terrorist team is formed, Special Operations (SPECOP) Commander Webb Buckley and navy seal Bone Conn are chosen to join their FBI counterparts special agent William Murphy and special agent Morgan Daniels and an uneasy alliance is struck between the military and the FBI. Their mission: to capture Darian Cain and bring him back to the U.S. to face justice and to recover the high grade plutonium.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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U.S. Seals II: The Ultimate Force (2001)
Plot Summary:
At a secret Russian nuclear missile base, an ex-U.S. SEAL member is planning to launch a missile strike on the United States, and the only way to stop him is with the best of the best. Because of a natural gas refinery leak, the newly formed team must infiltrate without conventional weapons and use a mixture of martial arts skills, swords, crossbows and unconventional arms in their top secret attack.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, action packed, independent film, 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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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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Guilty as Charged (2000)
Plot Summary:
US Army Investigator John Murphy (now a Lieutenant, although he was a Major in the previous Base movie) has been sent to look into a series of suspicious deaths that have been going on under the watch of Colonel Strauss. After going undercover and infiltrating Strauss's unit, Murphy discovers that Strauss and his men are leading a vigilante gang to dispense 'justice' to those they feel have been wrongly acquitted of various crimes.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Plot Summary:
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 527000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, intense, semi serious, dieselpunk, epic, action packed, action adventure, saga