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Plot Summary:
Judge Somnath lives with his wife, three sons, and a daughter. Two of his sons, Vikram and Mohan are married, while his daughter, Kaamna, and youngest son, Ravi, are of marriageable age. Somnath had wanted his sons to be a doctor, police officer, and a Judge. While Vikram is a surgeon, Mohan's a Police Inspector, & Ravi is now studying law and on his way to become a lawyer and then a Judge like his dad. This family does have a dark secret. Ravi is prone to losing his temper, so much so that he gets out of control, and has killed someone in his childhood. When Kaamna gets raped, the family are reluctant to tell Ravi. When they do they do convince him to control himself, while Mohan gets an arrest warrant for Vinod, Kaamna's molester. Things do not go smoothly in court as the matter is put off for several months and then Somnath and Kaamna are killed in a bomb explosion. Now Mohan and Vikram handcuff Ravi on their balcony while they finalize the funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
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Sainik (1993)
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Lieutenant Suraj Dutt has been in the Indian army for years. It is now time for him to take a leave of absence so that he can meet his father, Retired Colonel Yashpal Dutt, and sister, Minni. He travels home, and on the way rescues some school children held hostage by a group of armed men. The media portrays him as a hero, and it is here that he meets with a young woman named Alka, and both fall in love with each other. Alka and Suraj get the approval of their respective families' and get married. Minni also gets married to a young man named Vijay Ghai. Shortly after the marriage, Suraj leaves his pregnant wife and re-joins duty at the border. His father is the first one to get the news that he is missing, believed dead. He decides to keep his news from Alka and Minni. What Yashpal does not know that both Minni and Alka have already received this devastating news - and both have decided to keep a brave front and also hide it from each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, weeping, crying
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Fighting Mad (1976)
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An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties. Eventually the take-charge no-nonsense Tom Hunter exacts a harsh revenge on the villains with the help of his bow and arrow.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: political, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Rolling Vengeance (1987)
Plot Summary:
A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Narasimhudu (2005)
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Narasimhudu (NTR)'s parents die at a young age and he is adopted by the villagers of Kondaveedu, who all take up the responsibility of bringing him up. The sons of JD (Puneet Issar) and Pothuraju (Kalabhavan Mani) rape an 11-year-old in the village. Narasimhudu who is also the caretaker of the village, vows to take revenge on the big people and their sons for committing the heinous crime.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: crying, weeping
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Pratibandh (1990)
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Film starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla and Rami Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Krishna (1996)
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Sunil lives a poor life-style with his mom and sister. His passion is to pilot plane and he goes for training to become a successful pilot, but in the process he got himself entangled in a drug deal which changes his entire concept of life and engulfs his loved ones forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: epic
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Tarazu (1997)
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Police Inspector Ram Yadav is a honest, handsome, and incorruptible young man. He lives with his sister-in-law, Shakuntala, and elder brother, Raj . A lovely yet petty thief, Pooja admires Ram so much that she moves in to his house in the guise of a maid-servant, and eventually claims that she is to bear his child. Ram, unable to handle this, agrees to marry her. His duties and investigation lead him to suspect the renowed and influential Appa Rao. Appa Rao is engraged at Ram, and watches and waits for an opportunity to strike back at him. Janardan (Mohnish Behl), Appa Rao's spoiled and way-ward son, initially attempts to pick up a college-girl, when she refuses and humiliates him publicly, he retaliates by setting her on fire in broad daylight, in front of several college students. No one is bold enough to stop Janardan, nor even attempt to save the girl. When Ram finds out, he immediately arrests Janardan and holds him in custody.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
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Sapoot (1996)
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Film starring Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Karisma Kapoor.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
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Kanoon (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man plots revenge on a killer who slaughtered his family. Starring Ajay Devgn and Urmila Matondkar!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min
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Indra: The Tiger (2002)
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Indra opens in a village in Andhra Pradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rival. After the funeral, no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
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Yodha (1991)
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Suraj Singh is addicted to drugs and as a result witnessed his girlfriend being raped in front of his eyes with him being helpless, from here on he vows to put an end to all drug dealers and started to work as a hit man for an underworld don, Daaga also known as Justice Dharmesh Agnihotri. He also meets and make enemy with a lawyer, Karan Srivastav, who is looking for the murderer of his father, journalist Chandrakant. As time proceeds, Suraj and Karan would frequently get into brawls in front of the society to the extent that each of them will now do anything to kill the other. Unknown to both that one person is responsible for there lives being upside down and he is under the veil of respectability - non other than Justice Dharmesh Agnihotri alias Dagga.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
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Hukumat (1987)
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The town of Shantinagar is terrorized by D.B.D.N who likes to kill people for his will. A daredevil cop enters the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Spadikam (1995)
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Chacko Master is a school headmaster in Mathematics. He is a very strict teacher and does not go easy with his own son Thomas.When Thomas realizes that the school language headmaster was biased against him as told by Chacko in giving him a low grade, he leaves home. After 14 years, Thomas returns to his village,now the owner of a stone quarry and a rowdy who has a number of unresolved cases on his head. How the father and son realize their mistakes and bonds together forms the rest of the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Jai Kishen (1994)
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Inspector Pratap Singh is killed, while one of his son's, Kishen, goes missing, and the other, Jai, loses his vision. His wife is the only witness to his brutal death at the hands of three criminal dons. Years later, Kishen and Jai have both grown up. While Jai has mastered self-defence and use of a sword, Kishen is a career thief. When Kishen unknowlingly double-crosses one of the three dons, who were responsible for killing his dad, he puts the entire family to risk, as the criminal dons will not hesitate to wipe the entire family from the face of this Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
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Akela (1991)
Plot Summary:
The 7th film of Ramesh Sippy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mass (2004)
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Mass (Akkineni Nagarjuna) is an orphan, who bonds well with his landlord's son Adi (Sunil). He is behind a collegian Anjali (Jyothika) who happens to be the daughter of Vizag city's mafia don Satya (Raghuvaran). This restricts her from falling for him, as it would land him in danger but she finally gives in. She suggests that he ties the knot immediately before her brother (Rahul Dev) and father try separating them. The gangsters in the process kill Mass's best friend Adi (Sunil) when he tries to stop them when they try separating the lead pair, before their marriage. The hero moves into Vizag and stays in an apartment hiding his identity to take revenge on the mafia dons. Finally his quest for revenge is complete, and also he eliminates the anti-social elements in the society by killing them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
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Jigarwala (1991)
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Murder and political intrigue kick off a chain reaction of revenge in a small Indian village when the local zamindar, Dhurjan Singh (Amrish Puri), is convicted and jailed for killing Ranjeet (Biswajeet), a villager who opposed his policies. The animosity only intensifies when Dhurjan is released from prison and learns his son has been murdered in his absence. Anil Kapoor and Gulshan Grover co-star.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
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Tejasvini (1994)
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India's capital Delhi is the center-point of this story, depicted as a degenerate and corrupt city with Members of Parliament with big criminal rap sheets, ruling the roost, transferring or killing honest police officers, promotion their own corrupt cops, openly collecting weekly bribes (haftas) from local businesses, pimps, prostitutes ET AL, even openly holding an auction for bidders to bid for areas for black-marketing purposes. Lala Khurana is the uncrowned king of Delhi and he runs it with the help of a Member of Parliament, & the Director General of Police. His advocate Chintamani Chaubey wants him to contest the next elections, ensuring his win, and making his own laws, appointing his own police officers, who will do his bidding, carrying on without any checks and balance. Khurana likes this idea, but feels he is getting too old, but would like his son, Devendra Kumar, to run and be the next State Chief Minister.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
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Jai Ho (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jai Ho is an upcoming Bollywood action Drama film starring Salman Khan and Tabu in lead roles. It is a remake of Telugu film Stalin starring Chiranjeevi in the lead role.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, fast, exciting, social
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Simha (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film starts with the story of the younger Bala Krishna (Srimannarayana) working as a college professor. As usual the best looking girl of the college (Janaki played by Sneha Ullal) falls in love with Srimannarayana (the monkish protector of justice); reasons for that are comprehendible only by someone who had seen enough Telugu films (Bala Krishna films in particular). As the first half progresses the screenplay tells us that Janaki’s and Srimmanarayna’s pasts are related and the flashback starts occupying the screen. The daddy Bala Krishna with Nayanatara next to him and Kota Srinivas Rao playing the bad guy in a war between good and evil about the welfare of the region is the film’s flashback.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crying
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The Perfect Weapon (1991)
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Jeff, a young delinquent, is enrolled by his father in a kenpo school, in the hopes of teaching the boy some self-discipline. Years later, Jeff's mentor, Kim, is being threatened by one of the Korean mafia families. Jeff tries to help his old friend, but is too late to prevent Kim's death at the hands of an unknown hitman. Vowing revenge, Jeff takes on all of the families, using his martial arts skills to find the man who killed his friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending, nostalgic
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The 2nd (2020)
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Secret-service agent Vic Davis is on his way to pick up his estranged son, Sean, from his college campus when he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes terrorist operation. His son's friend Erin Walton, the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Walton is the target, and this armed faction will stop at nothing to kidnap her and use her as leverage for a pending landmark legal case.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic, exciting, captivating, entertaining, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, independent film
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Bounty Tracker (1993)
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Almost the whole staff of a tax consultant office is slayed by a team of professional killers, only Paul Damone can escape. He didn't know that his partner used to wash gangster Louis Sarazin's money and had to testify as chief witness against him. Paul's brother Johnny, best bounty tracker of Boston, visits Paul to protect him, but can't prevent that he and his pregnant wife are targeted by the same team. Now Johnny's out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mahaan (2022)
Plot Summary:
A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a billionaire, does life give him a second chance to be a father?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece, cult film
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International Khiladi (1999)
Plot Summary:
International Khiladi is a Hindi action thriller film released in 1999. The film is directed by Umesh Mehra and It stars Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. The film want to done moderately at the box office. News Reporter Payal (Twinkle Khanna) and her camera-man have been assigned the task of interviewing the world's highest ranking criminal don, Devraj (Akshay Kumar), which they accept. In the process, Payal and Devraj fall in love with each other, much to the opposition of Bismillah (Mukesh Khanna), Devraj's guardian on one hand; and Police Inspector Amit (Rajat Bedi), and Payal's brother Ravi (Vivek Shaq) on the other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Allah-Rakha (1986)
Plot Summary:
Karim Khan is employed as driver for a gangster named Don, who has an accident with his car, and asks Karim to take the blame for it for a hefty sum of cash, which Karim does so, and is imprisoned. But Don does not fulfill his promise, and as a result, Karim's wife, Razia, and new-born son are left destitute. Razia complains to Police Inspector Anwar, who arrests Don and holds him in prison, pending his trial in court. When Anwar finds out that his new-born son, Iqbal, is in need of a pace-maker, which he is unable to afford, he makes a compromise with Don, who lets him have one. Iqbal undergoes surgery and a pace-maker number 786, considered lucky in Islamic faith, is attached to his tiny heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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Style (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jeetendra Kumar Makwana is employed full-time at a Call Center and works part-time teaching English. He is recruited by an attractive young woman, Pooja, to teach her Hinglish-speaking boss, Bhaiyaji, English. Jeetendra agrees to do so, falls in love with Pooja, and joins forces with her to steal a bag containing 25 Crore Rupees in cash. He will soon find out that Bhaiyaji is a hoodlum and extortionist known to the Police as Lakhan Singh.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, realistic, fast
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I'm the Expert, You're the Novice (1994)
Plot Summary:
A Bombay police officer seeks revenge when his brother is killed by a powerful underworld figure. Things get complicated when a matinee movie idol begins to tag along the policeman so he can research a movie role.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, remake of american film
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Tough and Deadly (1995)
Plot Summary:
A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Ghulam (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sidharth (Aamir Khan), is a Mumbai 'Tapori' and a boxing champion. His elder brother, Jai (Rajat Kapoor) works with Raunak Singh (Sharad Saxena), who now rules their "Basti" through terrorising its people and collecting 'Hafta' from local merchants. Sidharth idolized his father, a freedom fighter, whom he saw falling to his death as a child. This effects Sidharth through his adult life. Sidharth meets a young girl, Alisha (Ranee Mukherjee), who rides with a motorcycle gang and Charlie (Deepak Tijori), the gang leader. Sidharth also meets Hari, whose idealism reminds him of his father. Hari's social work in the community possess a threat to Raunak Singh's evil empire. What happens to Hari changes Sidharth's life forever. How Sidharth breaks Raunak Singh's chains of 'Ghulami' around the community forms the crux of the story. Featuring the superhit song "Aati Kya Khandala" sung by Aamir Khan.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspenseful, serious, captivating, inspirational, romantic, entertaining, sentimental, semi serious, remake of american film