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Plot Summary:
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Who Killed Captain Alex? (2015)
Plot Summary:
Recognized as Uganda’s first action film, Who Killed Captain Alex? is about the aftermath of a police raid in Kampala in which a police captain (Alex) and a drug racketeer’s brother are killed. Both sides seek revenge, escalating into war.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, War
Country: Uganda
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, retro, cult classic, funny, weird, bizarre, campy
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I Die Alone (2013)
Plot Summary:
American pacifist Private Finch (Carl Schreiber) finds himself pressured by his superiors to kill a P.O.W. captured from battle. As a direct result of his apprehensions, a fatal confrontation explodes amongst his platoon, and Finch becomes stranded behind enemy lines armed with nothing but limited ammunition and an uncertain sense of direction. Making his way through foreign soil, he encounters a mysterious mailman (Marc Litman) anxious to throw himself into battle. But on their exhausting quest to find a radio and signal for help, it becomes clear that Finch's new friend harbors a few dark secrets that could prove more threatening than the next ambush.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Challenge (1970)
Plot Summary:
All-out war between the United States and an Asian country is averted when the two sides agree to settle their differences by each choosing a single soldier as champion and having the two men fight to the death on an isolated island.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spooky
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Assault Platoon (1990)
Plot Summary:
In 1973 Vietnam, gas bombs are dropped on villages, killing men, women, and children. Two downed American pilots, accused of the bombings, are captured and tortured. Both men give name, rank, and serial number but neither one confesses. Elsewhere, a team of seven diverse individuals is hired to rescue the two pilots. These individuals manage to free the pilots from the river-cages where they've been imprisoned, (with water up to their shoulders), but the Vietnamese counterattack proves deadly. Only one rescuer survives and he's burdened by the knowledge that the U.S. Government wanted the pilots rescued and then silenced to order to conceal their role in dropping gas-bombs.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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War Without End (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rambosploitation madness from director Teddy Page.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Cobra Mission (1986)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Intrusion: Cambodia (1983)
Plot Summary:
A rag tag group is assembled for a secret mission into Cambodia, led by legendary special forces commando Richard Harrison.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Phantom Soldiers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been using US-made arms for massacring villages and killing unarmed civilians. Daniel goes out on his own into the jungles of Vietnam to find his brother and stop these killers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Rolf (1984)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary takes revenge on bad guys. The Last Mercenary, a thrilling story of violence... of a rare man... a man trying to forget his past. The story of a man's buring vengence, an avenger who cannot forgive. Neither threats nor traps can stop The Last Mercenary. Stretched to breaking point both physically and morally, a fight until death follows. His Price is death!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Last Grenade (1970)
Plot Summary:
British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Warbus (1985)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Invaders of the Lost Gold (1982)
Plot Summary:
A group of Japanese WWII soldiers transporting a gold shipment are captured and fight against a savage cannibal tribe. Years later, an expedition heads back into the jungle to locate the lost gold.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, War
Country: Hong Kong, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, weird, cult film
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The Stick (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad (stick) of South African soldiers is sent into the bush to track down some rebel fighters when things take a supernatural turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Action, Horror, War
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Black Commando (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Covert Action (1988)
Plot Summary:
Inside the stately Senate Hearing Room, Frank White, professional soldier, Vietnam vet and CIA operative, is fighting the toughest battle of his life: he's on trial for the assassination of Miguel Rivera, a Central American diplomat. Only two men could have made the shot - White or his friend Rick Burns, ex-military sniper now working as a Mafia hitman. Testimony unravels the intricate web created by Rivera and Daniel Waterman, head of an international cartel dabbling in both Latin American Politics and cocaine.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film
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Pursuit (1991)
Plot Summary:
A mercenary is hired to hunt down a group of rebel soldiers in Africa.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
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Operation Warzone (1988)
Plot Summary:
A squad of U.S. troops seek out a mysterious agent hiding out in the jungles of 1960s Vietnam whom has classified documents that could win the war.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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American Commandos (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chris Mitchum plays Dean Mitchell (I know, quite a stretch), the one gas station attendant you don't wanna mess with. He's a taciturn Vietnam vet who doesn't say very much. When some stupid baddies DO decide to mess with him, they end up in a world of hurt. They try robbing his beloved gas station, and then they go after his family. Big mistake.
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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Sniper 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Berenger) is back - and this time he has teamed up with death row inmate B.J. Cole (Woodbine) on a suicide mission to the Balkans. Their target: a rogue general accused of running ethnic cleansing missions. But when Becket discovers that the government is using him as a pawn in a bigger mission, the body count grows and bullets really start to fly.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, political thriller, action packed, sequel to cult film
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The Hitman Agency (2018)
Plot Summary:
An assassin hunts and tortures his old predecessor in the basement of his European home, only to reveal the lies and corruption of their international hitman agency by taking a journey through the manipulations of the old man's past.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, action adventure, twisted
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Vengeance of an Assassin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Natee became a killer for one reason- to discover who killed his parents. As he gets closer to uncovering a secret network of power and corruption, he's double-crossed on a job, making him a target and putting everyone he loves in danger. Betrayed, exposed, and hunted by the deadliest killers in the business, Natee now has a new code. Be faster. Stronger. Hit harder. Survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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I Am Vengeance (2018)
Plot Summary:
When ex-soldier turned mercenary, John Gold, learns of the murder of his best friend, he sets off on a mission to find out what happened. What he discovers is a sinister conspiracy and he sets about taking down those responsible one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost in Africa (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young American and a young English woman are kidnapped by a tribe in Africa. They manage to escape but the leader of the tribe is killed in the process. There's a whole jungle between them and civilization and chief's son wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Chemist (2016)
Plot Summary:
Gritty action thriller about an aging assassin who is double crossed by his employer when he refuses to assassinate a woman he just met. On the run; Steele becomes the next target in this fast-paced battle, assassin vs. assassin, until he is surprised by a secret that changes everything he thought he knew. To complicate matters even more he begins to fall in love with his would-be target.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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White Ghost (1988)
Plot Summary:
July '72. Vietnam. Lt. Steve Shepard missing in action. Presumed dead...15 years later he's still there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, serious, realistic, cult film
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Game for Vultures (1979)
Plot Summary:
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Last American Soldier (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jungle action from the glorious period of Rambo ripoffs.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, cult classic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, cult film
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Rogue Warfare (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of military elite from the U.S., Russia, UK, China and France join forces to fight an elite underground terrorist network.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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The Dogs of War (1980)
Plot Summary:
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, intense, exciting, serious, realistic, political thriller, cult classic, action adventure, rough
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Sniper (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tough guy Thomas Beckett is an US soldier working in the Panamanian jungle. His job is to seek out rebels and remove them using his sniper skills. Beckett is notorious for losing his partners on such missions. This time he's accompanied by crack marksman Richard Miller.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, political thriller, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, stylized