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Plot Summary:
Michael Stone is a rising company executive decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team to partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Before/During/After (2020)
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This sharp-witted dramedy studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Even After Everything (2018)
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A wealthy mom of two children catches her husband in an affair and welcomes home his estranged brother, setting the stage for love, war and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Different Eye (2017)
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Julia and her fiancé Mark's world is shattered when they find themselves with conservator-ship of Maria, a young woman with Downs Syndrome. Can Maria teach Julia to find the beauty in life's ups and downs, or will Julia and Mark's crumbling relationship cause them to send Maria away for good?.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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Andarivaadu (2005)
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Govinda Rajulu is a mesthri (construction worker) who drinks a lot and lives a care-free life. His son Siddartha, on the other hand, is a popular TV show host and is a more disciplined man — the opposite of his dad. The son gets his father married to Shanti to sober him. Siddartha is in love with Shwetha, who is the daughter of a big-time contractor, Veerendra. Veerendra agrees to get his daughter married but tries to distance the father-son duo as he does not like the father's influence on the son. The situation comes where Shwetha's engagement is called off and she turns vengeful to separate the family. She moves into the house and makes sketches to create differences but fails. The rest of the film is about if she succeeds or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
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Emily (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple struggles to stay together after the husband suffers a crisis of faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Emily & Tim (2015)
Plot Summary:
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Ammajan (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ammajan (English: Dear Mother) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language film directed by Kazi Hayat and written by Monwar Hossain Dipjol. The film was released in 1999 in Bangladesh. It was produced by Monwar Hossain Dipjol. It is a drama film and superstars Manna, Shabnam Moushumi, Amin Khan, Monwar Hossain Dipjol, Miju Ahmed and more. It is all-time blockbuster Bangladeshi movie and it is one of the highest-grossing films at Bangladesh box-office.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 145 min
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Jwala (1985)
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Jwala is action drama based movie in which, Chiranjeevi played dual roles in this movie as brothers Raju (chiru) and Yuvaraj (chiru) are brothers and sons of SP Chakravarthi. Sarvothama Rao and his son are indulged in smuggling and other illegal activities.During an attempt to catch their sumggled goods, one of their main henchmen is shot dead by Chakravarthi. Sarvottama rao plans to take revenge on chakravarti by trapping his son. Yuvaraj is already in love with with Bhanupriya. Meanwhile, Raju saves an innocent girl Janaki (radhika), from the clutches of those smugglers and marries her.Sarvothama Rao kills Basawaraj and traps Raju into this murder. Raju, unable to prove his innocence, is sentenced to death. Chakravarthi tries to prove his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
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Dictator (2016)
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Chandu lives a normal life with his in laws in Hyderabad. One fine day, he comes across an aspiring actress and helps her in a critical situation. The problems gets big and Chandu lands himself in a huge mess. He also takes the blame for a crime committed at the store. While in prison, he learns secrets about his life, but he is hiding a secret and there's another world where people fear even the mention of his name. Why is he living in hiding?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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Bhai (1997)
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Bhai is a 1997 Bollywood Action film directed by Deepak Shivdasani, while written by Kader Khan. The film starred Sunil Shetty, Pooja Batra, Sonali Bendre and Ashish Vidyarthi in lead roles. A remake of the Telugu movie Anna starring Rajasekhar, Roja Selvamani and Gautami Tadimalla, it was a huge success at the box office, and was one of the highest-grossing films of the year 1997.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
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Pushed to the Limit (1992)
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Magnificent Mimi is a woman with a destiny and a bright future ahead of her. She is the world's greatest female wrestling champion, she has a loving boyfriend and loyal family members who care and love her. But things take a turn for the worst when Mimi's boyfriend Nick is wounded and her younger brother is shot to death for trying to stiff local druglord Harry Lee. Lee is the toughest and meanest criminal figure in all of Southern California and if you double-cross him, you won't live to see the sun set. Not only does Lee rule his own empire, he also runs the Kumite, a gladitorial fight ring where warriors battle to the death. Mimi knows the police can't touch Lee with a ten foot pole and so she enlists the aid of her martial arts friend Master Vern to teach her kickboxing and tai chi so she can prepare for combat. Vern doesn't think Mimi is ready for Kumite, as it is a place where only one warrior can be left standing and breathing and the one who loses dies.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fire on East Train 34 (1981)
Plot Summary:
A tiny mistake of train stuard leads to a giant fire. Unfortunately, there are almost no one to help people onboard.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 83 min
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The Detached Mission (1986)
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CIA appointed US Army major Jack Hessalt to be in charge of a secret missile base in the Atlantic Ocean. Jack is still troubled by memories of Vietnam, and soon goes berserk, taking control of the base and killing some crew members. Jack and his cronies commandeer a powerful missile and proceed to perform terrorism, but they haven't counted on a rough-n-ready squad of Russian Marines.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min
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Bare Knuckles (2010)
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Women will go to extreme lengths for those they love and single mother Samantha Rogers is no exception. Along with her young daughter, Milla, Sam struggles to make ends meet, taking her licks as a stunt double by day and cocktail waitressing at a rowdy bar at night. When Sam uses her skills to end a bar fight between two drunk women, down and out fight promoter Sonny Cool sees an opportunity to get back into the game. He tells Sam all about the "show," a high class, underground illegal all female bare knuckle fight tournament, where brutality and elegance mix with high stakes and deception. Is the price too much for her...? Bare Knuckles..... a knockout punch of strength and determination, inspired by a true story.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, exciting, rough, independent film
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Viswasam (2019)
Plot Summary:
A village ruffian, who settles disputes in his native, takes on a big shot when he tries to sort out the rough patch in his marriage after several years.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, cult film
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Biker Boyz (2003)
Plot Summary:
A mythic motorcycle tale of father and son", this is the story of Manuel Galloway, also known as "the King of Cali", the president of a motorcycle club whose members are all African-American men, mostly white-collar workers who exchange their suits and ties at night and on weekends for leather outfits and motorcycle helmets.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, intense, realistic, rough, serious, thought provoking, exciting, road movie, sexy, feel good
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The Book of Eve (2002)
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A Romanian immigrant (Daniel Lavoie) uses good food, good humor and good conversation to break down the walls around a reclusive woman's (Claire Bloom) heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
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Chatrapathi (2005)
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Sivaji is a young kid from Sri Lanka who's family consisting of a mother and brother Ashok is uprooted from their community in Sri Lanka ends up in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh. There they are unjustly forced into work by a local mob boss named Baji Rao who forces them to work in transportation of illegal goods. Their lives are in constant hell because of the torture and unfair demands Baji Rao puts on them. Finally unable to bear the injustices by Baji Rao, Sivaji rises and turns into Chatrapati filling in the legend of the original Chatrapati who rose up and led the people against the Mughal emperor Aurangazeb and reunites with his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
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Hardflip (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hardflip follows the story of Caleb (Randy Wayne) a young skater whose ill mother (Rosanna Arquette) and absent father (John Schneider) leave him reaching for the only hope he has...becoming a sponsored skater. After his mother falls ill, Caleb finds a stack of old love letters. He sets out to find the father he never knew and inadvertently begins a journey he never could have expected. This story explores what happens when we let go of our anger and pain and forgive those who have hurt us most.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 860
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: uplifting, realistic, captivating, tense, exciting, serious, inspirational, interesting
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Yateem (1988)
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When Inspector Yadav (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) shoots down a criminal couple in the line of duty, his heart goes out to their orphaned baby son Krishna. He adopts the child, who grows up with Yadav's own daughter, Gauri (Farha). As they grow up, Krishna (Sunny Deol) and Gauri fall in love - but an obstacle is looming in their path in the form of Yadav's young second wife (Sujata Mehta), who is attracted to the handsome Krishna, and in her jealousy proceeds to do all she can to destroy the young couple's chances of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
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Shaolin Mantis (1978)
Plot Summary:
Skilled martial arts director Lau Ka Leung offers you another Kung Fu treat! this Asian classic introduces viewers to the Shaolin Mantis way of fighting! The tale takes you back to the Qing dynasty & Wei Feng, the son of a Qing official who tries to unveil facts about a revolt. The grand daughter of the farmer community where his investigation takes him, sacrifices her life to save him in the end. Managing to escape unscathed, he promises to hunt down the girl's killer and therefore creates the effective technique of Shaolin Mantis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, tense, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending, cult film
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Brawler (2011)
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Sidelined by an injury incurred while protecting his young brother, underground fighter Charlie Fontaine feels blindsided when he discovers his brother having sex on his couch with his new wife, Kat. Fueled by rage, a determined Charlie makes plans to get back in the ring and take on his brother in a fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
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Heaven's Heroes (1980)
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The story of the life and witness of a Christian Police Officer called Dennis Hill asks the question, why did he have to die that night? How could such a tragedy be part of God’s plan? Denny Hill, himself asks, “Where will you spend eternity?”.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Angel Town (1990)
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A graduate student and martial-arts expert rents a room in a house owned by a single mother who lives there with her son. A local street gang is trying to recruit the son, but the new tenant tries to help the boy's mother keep him out of the gang. When they learn of this, they target both the mother and her new tenant.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: hood, action adventure, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Wildfire 7: The Inferno (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nell is a young mother convicted of accidentally killing her alcoholic husband. When given the opportunity to serve his sentence as a forest firefighter, demonstrates his courage and discipline in an exceptional way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
Plot Summary:
David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, disturbing, serious, art house, independent film
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Street Crimes (1992)
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After some cops urge young street kids to turn from drugs and crime to the neighborhood boxing rings, the local street lord begins to loose control of his illicit empire and begins a war on the good-intenioned police and the civilians.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, captivating, realistic
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Bomb the System (2002)
Plot Summary:
Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same insatiable addiction. With the other members of his ‘crew,’ Anthony parties, shoplifts spray-paint and 'tags' virgin walls with his signature 'Blest.' He does his best to avoid run-ins with the cops and hostile rival crews, but he can’t avoid the pressure from his mother to attend college, and from his girlfriend to leave New York with her. As tensions rise, a physical threat from the cops causes the crew to intensify their bombing excursions, calling an all out war on the city. When the inevitable confrontation happens, a tragedy results that pushes Anthony to make a decision that has even darker consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, rough, independent film
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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
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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