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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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Final Mission (1984)
Plot Summary:
When his family are murdered Vietnam War veteran, Vince Deacon, tracks down the man responsible for the murders and to get his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Action, Crime, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Stone (1974)
Plot Summary:
In this classic Aussie counterculture flick, an undercover narc named Stone (Ken Shorter) is dispatched to infiltrate a satanic biker gang after one of its members witnesses a political assassination -- and the killer decides to take out the whole crew. Stone learns to live by a twisted code of honor based on fast riding and fast living but realizes that if his cover gets blown, his fellow riders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, hood, cult classic, rough, serious, realistic, saga, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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Youth of the Beast (1963)
Plot Summary:
To infiltrate a criminal organization responsible for the death of one of his colleagues, the Detective Tajima adopts the behavior of of a brutal thug and plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, bloody, crime drama, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Fighting Madam 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mona, Billy and Elaine are a tough trio known as the "Angels." While they are on vacation in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), they find out that one of Billy's school-chums is now a gun-runner plotting a revolution in Malaysia with his private army. The Angels decide it is up to them to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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High Risk (1981)
Plot Summary:
Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, poliziottesco, eighties
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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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Maniac Cop (1988)
Plot Summary:
In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own wife. To prove his innocence, he has to investigate on his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult horror, classic horror, psychological thriller, retro
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Billa II (2012)
Plot Summary:
David Billa a refugee comes to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and his journey begins into crime. Initially he starts as a local diamond smuggler. He eventually meets Abbasi, an underworld don in Goa and helps him out in a deal and wins his favor. For one of Abbasi's deals Billa goes to Georgia where he meets a ruthless international don Demitri. They get acquainted that creates a rift between Abbasi and Billa. A challenge is thrown by Billa to Abbasi and he starts building his own empire, which eventually results in Billa crossing swords with Demitri himself. The bloody battle begins in Goa and ends in Georgia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (1989)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark (Chow Yun-Fat), travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, heroic, crime drama, cult classic, stylized
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The Sunset Warrior (1984)
Plot Summary:
Thai government hires group of Chinese mercenaries to capture a powerful druglord from Golden Triangle. The mercenaries manage to capture the druglord, but his men are trying to set him free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bloody, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, cult film
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Marines (2003)
Plot Summary:
The cold war is over. East and West are fighting together against illegal secretly heavily armed terrorists, criminals and resistance fighters. During one of these missions, four soldiers are kidnapped and seems like a great international crisis to emerge. The highest military bosses in America and Russia are in panic. The well-known cover-up must offer a solution. But ... Marines are not just aside and decisions without official support to do everything to liberate their comrades. Additional help comes from an unexpected angle, but whether this will be enough.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Air Strike (2003)
Plot Summary:
En plein coeur de l'Europe de l'Est, dans une ancienne république du bloc communiste. Un puissant cartel de la drogue organise des raids destinés à destabiliser le pouvoir en place afin de prendre progressivement le contrôle de la région. Seul moyen de mettre fin aux ambitions de cette dangereuse organisation : l'emploi de la force militaire. En l'occurence, l'intervention d'une escadrille d'hélicoptères de combat commandée par le ranger Ben Garrett.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, realistic
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Tunnel Rats (2008)
Plot Summary:
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspense, controversial, exciting, suspenseful, splatter, independent film, cult film
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Hit Team (2001)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop badly injured in a raid is blamed for the raid's failure and thrown out of the police department. His injuries result in his being paralyzed form the waist down, and doctors tell him that if he doesn't have an operation within a few months, the paralysis will be permanent. His friends in the police department decide that, since the underworld was responsible for their friend's injuries, the money for the operation should come from them, and they set out to get it.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Road of No Return (2009)
Plot Summary:
Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
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Kill 'em All (2012)
Plot Summary:
Captured international assassins are locked up inside a high-tech bunker known as the Killing Chamber. To break out of this concrete hell they must duel each other, fight deadly ninjas and battle against gangs of masked maniacs. And... if they survive this, they will have to confront Snakehead: the lethal, deranged top dog who will stop at nothing to kill 'em all!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
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Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart (2011)
Plot Summary:
An aggressive police officer tries to solve the mystery behind consecutive murders. While doing so, he must fight against his inner demons.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic
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The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)
Plot Summary:
She returns for more street fighting.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Mafia (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic, neo noir
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Crazy Six (1997)
Plot Summary:
In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Slovakia, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film, futuristic
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The Hunt for Eagle One (2006)
Plot Summary:
A group of US Marines are sent to rescue captured a US Marine and a Filipino Captain while stopping a group of Al-Qaeda-backed local rebels from launching biological weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994)
Plot Summary:
A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, detective
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Bang Rajan (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no support from the Royal army, the villagers drives the invading Burmese away many times until their names have become legendary during the time. As each subsequent battles becomes fiercer, the villagers tries to forge a canon to battle the enemy in a final battle where everyone, women and children included, die in combat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, captivating, epic
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Underground (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've got to take the prize...but there can be only one winner.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Bad Country (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
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Black November (2012)
Plot Summary:
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an American oil executive and demands that his corporation end the destruction and pollution. Inspired by true events, Black November is the gripping story of how a community rises up and takes drastic measures to make sure their voices are heard.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious
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Battle of the Commandos (1969)
Plot Summary:
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, War
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, macaroni combat, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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A Taste of Hell (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Philippines during WW II, two U.S. Army officers are caught and shot by a Japanese officer. One survives and soon joins with a guerrilla troop to battle the enemy... and get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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Once Upon a Time in Shanghai (2014)
Plot Summary:
A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. Remake of The Boxer From Shantung.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, fast
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The Dead Lands (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hongi, a Maori chieftain’s teenage son, must avenge his father’s murder in order to bring peace and honour to the souls of his loved ones after his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery. Vastly outnumbered by a band of villains led by Wirepa, Hongi’s only hope is to pass through the feared and forbidden “Dead Lands” and forge an uneasy alliance with a mysterious warrior, a ruthless fighter who has ruled the area for years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic