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Plot Summary:
When his sister Betsy packs up and leaves the family's Montana cattle ranch to find fame and fortune in Hollywood, her brother Jim decides to follow after her to make sure she doesn't get into trouble. He's a little too late, however, since almost as soon as she gets off the bus, Betsy has her belongings stolen, then gets kidnapped, gang-raped, and is sold to a pimp to work for him as a prostitute. It is now up to Jim, with help from social worker Lynn, to rescue his sister and set things right.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Peace Killers (1971)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Kristy and Jeffrey are buying supplies at a remote desert gas station when some members of a biker gang come cruising in. The bikers recognize Kristy, who used to be the main squeeze of the gang's leader before she ran away. The pair get away, but the bikers find out that they're living in a nearby commune, and start making their battle plans to bring Kristy back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Dirt Gang (1972)
Plot Summary:
A film crew shooting in the desert is terrorized by a vicious outlaw motorcycle gang (on dirt bikes, no less) who are after the women in the company.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Breathing Fire (1991)
Plot Summary:
Michael, a Vietnam vet with two kids, pulls off a bank heist with his gang, which includes the bank's manager. To ensure the loyalty of everyone involved, Mike makes a special set of keys, so that the hiding place for the loot can only be opened if all the members are present. The bank manager, however, gets cold feet and tries to back out, so Mike and his buddies kill him and his wife. His daughter, however, gets hold of the key and runs for help to David, one of her father's old friends who also happens to be a Vietnam vet and a former comrade of Michael's. Will David be able to protect his friend's daughter?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Hurricane Smith (1992)
Plot Summary:
An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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The Don of the Dons (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Don of Dons is a forced love story with murderous pulp action. Mr. Brown, a man that is pushed beyond his limits must find a mythical figure only known as the Mad Sam. If he fails, the gangsters that have kidnapped the love of his life will kill her. Accompanied by his wild friend Esteban, the two must race against time to find a man that may or may not exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Instant Justice (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scott is a US Marine who travels Spain to see his sister Kim, after many years of separation. But she is dead, and there is nothing else to arrive him. Alone in the Madrid's streets, Scott will search for the killers, will try to reveal the reason of the murder of his dear sister, and for revenge for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Gibraltar
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ginger (1971)
Plot Summary:
The police suspect that a drug and forced-prostitution ring is behind the recent spate of kidnappings and disappearances, but so far they've been unable to infiltrate the suspects gang. To break the case, they recruit Ginger, a young woman from an upper-class family to act as bait for the kidnappers and hopefully lead the police to their hideout. It may sound like a foolproof plan to the police, but Ginger's the one who has to risk it all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, independent film, sexy
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War Party (1988)
Plot Summary:
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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East End Hustle (1976)
Plot Summary:
Group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, rough, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, cult film
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Warriors (1994)
Plot Summary:
A government-trained killing machine must turn his lethal skills against his top-secret squad's AWOL leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Traffickers (2012)
Plot Summary:
After his best friend dies in an unexpected accident, black market dealer Young-gyu decides to wash his hands off his illegal activities and start a new life with his girlfriend Yu-ri. But his dream stalls when he learns that Yu-ri needs money for her father's surgery. To help her out, Young-gyu decides to do the job one last time. His smuggling ring operates out of a boat that runs between Korea and China, picking victims from its voyager pool and harvesting their organs. Meanwhile, a married couple, Sang-ho and Chae-hee, boards Young-gyu's passenger boat heading to Weihai, China. That very evening, just when the boat enters international sea waters where countries' laws cannot be enforced, Chae-hee goes missing and all her pictures and belongings vanishes without a trace. Young-gyu finds Yu-ri on the same ship, and she claims to be the only witness to Chae-hee's disappearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, captivating
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Poongsan (2011)
Plot Summary:
Poongsan has the unenviable - and death-defying - job of delivering messages across the North and South Korean border to separated families. When South Korean government agents ask him to smuggle in In-ok, the lover of a high-ranking North Korean defector, into the South, the damsel and rescuer fall in love instead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, romantic, touching, serious
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Live! (2010)
Plot Summary:
Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the forth, Andrey. Kind-hearted Michail helps Andrey escape and together they run from the villains who chase them. Thus, two totally different men start a long and dangerous journey together, constantly arguing with each other regarding their ideology, morals and opinions about life. But life will put everything on its place and make the men understand who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, exciting, clever, contemplative, stylized
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The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jake Carter and another former Marine, Luke Trapper, join forces to rescue a kidnapped girl from a gang of international criminals.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, tense, brutal, serious, captivating, cliffhanger, psychotronic
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The Local (2008)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Blood and Rain (2009)
Plot Summary:
Taxi driver Jose begins his night shift bent on revenge after his brother's murder at the hands pf a violent gang. But when an accident brings him unexpectedly closer to his party-girl fare Angela, the damaged pair must struggle against forces already set in motion, drawing them inexorably into the rain soaked underworld of Bogota.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric
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The Russian Specialist (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, satanic, perverse, action packed
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Jailbait (1993)
Plot Summary:
Action - 17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the killers both want her. - C. Thomas Howell, Renée Humphrey, Krista Errickson.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Back to Even (1998)
Plot Summary:
When an expert counterfeiter finds himself in debt to a dangerous bookie and on the run from the mob, he races to clear his name and settle the score.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Go with Peace Jamil (2008)
Plot Summary:
An Arabic tale that takes place in Scandinavia. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one's own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is fighting the war of his life; a war within himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative
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Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)
Plot Summary:
To stamp out the threat of nuclear war, a special ops team must travel to North Korea to carry out a covert mission to destroy a nuclear power plant. Everything does not go as planned. Their communications are cut off and they must remember their survival training to get them through.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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 Alien Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
1990s. Gangster Kiev. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "The Stranger." As the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, her testimony could damage some important people.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, rough, captivating, suspenseful, fast, realistic
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Urgency (2011)
Plot Summary:
Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in the next half hour. Doomed to hear Tony goes in search of money, but soon realizes that the kidnapping was not connected with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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The City Is Mine (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Fast Lane (2010)
Plot Summary:
A high-speed accident on the freeways of Los Angeles reveals a turf war between two competing car theft rings of sexy all-girl crews. Brandy Martinez, a young streetwise cop is assigned by lieutenant Baynes (Steven Bauer) to go undercover and infiltrate one of the crews. When Brandy falls for Carlo, an undercover cop also investigating the gangs, the two find themselves in the middle of a treacherous game of survival with everything exploding around them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Extreme Honor (2001)
Plot Summary:
A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, 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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Consignment (2007)
Plot Summary:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Stryker (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense, bleak, independent film