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Plot Summary:
Set in the world of drone technology and fifth generation fighters, this sequel will explore the end of the era of dogfighting.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 646000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: realistic, entertaining, saga, inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, epic, emotional, sad, predictable
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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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Devotion (2022)
Plot Summary:
The harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: action thriller
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Sky Fighters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Les Chevaliers du ciel (English: Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris. It is based on Tanguy et Laverdure, a comics series by Jean-Michel Charlier and Albert Uderzo – of Astérix fame, which was also made into a hugely successful TV series from 1967 to 1969 making Tanguy and Laverdure, the two main heroes, part of popular Francophone culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
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Stealth (2005)
Plot Summary:
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: entertaining, action packed, action adventure, anamorphic, suspense, funny, social, action thriller, futuristic, fast
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The Reunion (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Cleary brothers, Sam (John Cena), Leo (Ethan Embry) and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook) took dysfunctional families to a new level: Sam and Leo have grown up hating each other and neither likes their juvenile delinquent kid brother, Douglas, to whom they've only recently been introduced. The sons share the same father, a womanizing drunk, but all have different mothers. Their father died a rich man and when they're brought together by their sister Nina (Amy Smart) to learn which of them will inherit the old man`s fortune, they are handed an unpleasant surprise.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Iron Eagle (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Doug's father, an Air Force Pilot, is shot down by MiGs belonging to a radical Middle Eastern state, no one seems able to get him out. Doug finds Chappy, an Air Force Colonel who is intrigued by the idea of sending in two fighters piloted by himself and Doug to rescue Doug's father after bombing the MiG base.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, sincere, fast, surprise ending
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Iron Eagle II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Chappy Sinclair is called to gather together a mixed Soviet/U.S. strike force that will perform a surgical strike on a massively defended nuclear missile site in the Middle East. Chappy finds that getting the Soviet and U.S. Pilots to cooperate is only the most minor of his problems as he discovers someone in the Pentagon is actively sabotaging his mission.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, feel good, unusual plot structure
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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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The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
Plot Summary:
The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense, crying, psychotronic
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The Guardian (2006)
Plot Summary:
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: inspirational, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, romantic, sad, tense
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The Karate Kid (1984)
Plot Summary:
Hassled by the school bullies, Daniel LaRusso has his share of adolescent woes. Luckily, his apartment building houses a resident martial arts master: Kesuke Miyagi, who agrees to train Daniel ... and ends up teaching him much more than self-defense. Armed with newfound confidence, skill and wisdom, Daniel ultimately faces off against his tormentors in this hugely popular classic underdog tale.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 240000
Genere: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, sentimental, uplifting, touching, captivating, teen, epic, entertaining, saga
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The Blue Max (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: retro, exciting, serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexy, clever, brutal, breathtaking, unusual plot structure
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Air Force One (1997)
Plot Summary:
Russian terrorists conspire to hijack the aircraft with the president and his family on board. The commander in chief finds himself facing an impossible predicament: give in to the terrorists and sacrifice his family, or risk everything to uphold his principles - and the integrity of the nation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tension, entertaining, intense, serious, rough, realistic, action packed
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, romantic, clever, feel good
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Top Gun (1986)
Plot Summary:
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and Co-Pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. A tragedy, as well as personal demons, threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an Ace pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, intense, serious, cult classic, action packed, retro, inspirational, epic
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Plot Summary:
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, dramatic, rough, suspenseful, serious, intense, action packed, realistic, psychological
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The Marksman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He embraces his role as Miguel’s protector and will stop at nothing to get him to safety, as they go on the run from the relentless assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, road movie, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, tense, disturbing, bloody, entertaining, anamorphic
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Fortress (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the commander of the crew of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber is killed in action in a raid over Sicily in 1943, his replacement, a young, naive pilot struggles to be accepted by the plane's already tight-knit Irish American crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, tense
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Flyboys (2006)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: harsh, exciting, realistic, factual, epic, suspenseful, period piece, historical drama, rough, serious
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 171000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: intense, exciting, action packed, action adventure, saga, action thriller, intellectual, scenic, grindhouse, perverse
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Rocky Balboa (2006)
Plot Summary:
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder, Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging Rocky to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, touching, melancholic, action packed, realistic, sentimental, motivational, action adventure, entertaining
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Warrior (2011)
Plot Summary:
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 491000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, inspirational, touching, rough, exciting, tense, sentimental, realistic, entertaining
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Battle of Britain (1969)
Plot Summary:
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, patriotic, dieselpunk, spectacular, sincere, serious, black comedy
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Red Tails (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, action packed, historical drama, retro, disgusting, uplifting
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12 Strong (2018)
Plot Summary:
A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, suspenseful, anamorphic, historical drama, rough, inspirational, bloody, entertaining, factual
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Lone Survivor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 303000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting, disturbing, realistic, serious, intense, touching
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Pearl Harbor (2001)
Plot Summary:
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, period piece, factual, exciting, serious, realistic, captivating
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Dune (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 733000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, captivating, tense, atmospheric, visual, action adventure, philosophical, futuristic, visually stunning
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Plot Summary:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 463000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: epic, breathtaking, serious, exciting, captivating, period piece, realistic, stylized, dramatic, suspense
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Midway (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of the soldiers and aviators who helped turn the tide of the Second World War during the iconic Battle of Midway in June 1942.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, bleak, scary, suspense, sad, motivational, stylized, patriotic, cult classic