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Plot Summary:
Matador chronicles the unlikely rise of Tony "Matador" Bravo, a popular soccer star who comes to be known as much for his playboy antics off the field as his dynamic moves on it. But what his fans and family don't realize is that it's all a cover—in truth, he is a skilled covert operative executing missions for a little-known branch of the CIA. “Matador” has the kind of fame and notoriety that affords him access to powerful circles of corruption and villainy. But, in balancing the dueling roles in which he's been cast, he will be forced to confront the question of his true identity… and it is this mission which will prove to be his most dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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The Killers Edge (1991)
Plot Summary:
A cop teams up with an FBI agent to track down a counterfeiter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lucha Underground (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lucha Underground introduces U.S. audiences to the high-flying, explosive moves of lucha libre. An ancient combat tradition, watch as good and evil wage war in a gritty battleground called “The Temple.”.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, semi serious, serious
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3 Musketeers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alexandra D'Artagnan, junior member of NSA uncovers a conspiracy that the goal is to assassinate the American president. Alexandra has secured the support of three famous and notorious international spies in order to stop the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mockbuster
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Beatdown (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon soon gets involved in the local underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Drake Colby, a former MMA champion, Brandon devises a scheme to bring a massive payday, if they are able to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic
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Cutaway (2000)
Plot Summary:
The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line, a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he "disconnects" from his position of infiltrated agent, "connecting" with the team.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, sentimental, sincere, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Dead Drop (2013)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a murderous rampage while trying to uncover the truth. Who threw him from the plane? Was it his best friend?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, action adventure, independent film
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Flikken Maastricht (2007)
Plot Summary:
Former Amsterdam police detective Floris Wolfs has been transferred to the police department of the south-Dutch country town Maastricht. His metropolitan experience nicely complements the local expertise of his new country colleagues, who know the folks. Slowly he fits in, while solving countless crimes together with his female partner Eva van Dongen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Plot Summary:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, rough, realistic
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No Limit (2012)
Plot Summary:
A terminally ill French secret service agent is hired by Hydra, a mysterious black ops organization set up by the government, to fight crime by any means necessary and receive experimental treatment in return. Also, his daughter hates him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, realistic
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April Rain (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an eclectic group of terrorists plot to attack the United States from within, it's up to a quasi-military special investigative unit to identify, infiltrate and neutralize the threat.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, independent film
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Agent X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, political, action adventure
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Plot Summary:
When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs) and cutthroat gangsters with a penchant for murder Hawkins must risk everything in the most deadly race of his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, action packed, fast
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Mission Park (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from the rough side of town grow apart when two are consumed by a life of crime, and the other two become FBI agents sent deep undercover - to bring down those childhood friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, crime drama, serious, independent film
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The Kill Reflex (1989)
Plot Summary:
Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from the police department, he vows to continue his mission to find the persons responsible for the assassination. Maud Adams plays his new police woman partner, who falls in love with him during their investigations. 'Soda Cracker' also has to deal with the fact that many of the police officers on the squad may be corrupt, and tries to break down the criminal network whilst finding evidence against Ivan Moss.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mask of the Ninja (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo's wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, crime drama
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Chosen (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ian Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and a picture of a stranger, along with instructions to kill the pictured person. He is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and discovers that he has been chosen by a mysterious organization known as The Watchers to participate in a lethal game.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological thriller, teen, suspenseful, exciting, mind bending
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Undercovers (2010)
Plot Summary:
Five years after leaving the CIA to open a catering company, Steven and Samantha Bloom are recruited back into the agency by Carlton Shaw. They take on special missions the average agent cannot handle. Having made a pact to never discuss their pasts with each other, the Blooms find surprising new things about their spouse in the course of each mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, semi serious, sexy, fast
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Blue Thunder (1984)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, vintage
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My Own Worst Enemy (2008)
Plot Summary:
My Own Worst Enemy is an American television drama that aired on NBC in 2008. It premiered on October 13 and ended on December 15 after 9 episodes. The series was produced by Universal Media Studios. Jason Smilovic was the executive producer; David Semel was the director and executive producer. The final episode ended with a cliff-hanger, and the major plot lines ended without resolution. The series followed the life of American secret agent Edward Albright and his cover, Henry Spivey, who had no knowledge of his double life. Albright, played by Christian Slater, was implanted with a chip allowing his handlers to physically switch Albright's personality to that of his cover. However, in the pilot episode, there was a malfunction which caused Albright's personalities to switch at random, revealing his secret life to his alias. Henry was then thrown into the highly dangerous life of Edward, with no real way for the two to communicate except through short cell phone video messages. General Motors was a promotional sponsor of the show, and the new SUV model Chevrolet Traverse, along with the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, appeared as cars for the program's characters via a product placement agreement.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, offbeat, fast
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Tell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, independent film
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Project: S.E.R.A. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Follows Gillian Eames and Lieutenant Riggins as they race against the clock to stop the black market sale of a highly volatile biological agent that was originally designed by the military to expedite the recovery of soldiers wounded on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Black Scorpion (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, detective, serious, psychotronic, weird, campy
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Plot Summary:
Drive is an American action drama television series set against the backdrop of an illegal cross-country automobile road race, focusing on the willing and unwilling competitors and, as the plot develops, the unseen puppet masters who sponsor the race. Minear has described the show's thematic tone by saying "a secret, illegal, underground road race can be anything from Cannonball Run to The Game to North by Northwest to Magnolia-on-wheels. Ours is all those things.".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, anime, surprise ending, twist ending, hispanic
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Switch (2013)
Plot Summary:
In search of an ancient Chinese scroll, a Chinese agent battles against Japanese Yakuzas and British mercenaries.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, realistic, fast
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Legends (2014)
Plot Summary:
Working for the FBI's Deep Cover Operations division, Martin Odum can transform himself into a different person -- whether it's an assignment as a Serbian extremist, a corrupt Chicago police officer, a British special forces colonel, or a legendary computer hacker. But when he learns that his life, itself, may be a lie, he faces the demands of his job and a desire to solve the mystery of his identity. And given the choice between the two, Odum doesn't always make the right decision. From the producers of "Homeland," "Legends" is based on Robert Littell's award-winning book.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective, action adventure, gloomy
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Mann & Machine (1992)
Plot Summary:
Mann & Machine is an American science fiction/police drama series that aired for nine episodes on NBC from April 5, 1992 to July 14, 1992.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, futuristic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Flash (1990)
Plot Summary:
The Flash is a 1990 American television series that starred John Wesley Shipp as the superhero, the Flash, and co-starred Amanda Pays. The series was developed from the DC Comics characters by the writing team of Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, and produced by their company, Pet Fly Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. Composer Danny Elfman wrote the show’s title theme, and Stan Winston Studios built the costume.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, tense, captivating, epic, saga, detective, humorous
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Dark Blue (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dark Blue was an action/drama television series which premiered on TNT on July 15, 2009, at 10 pm. It ended its run on September 15, 2010. The series is set in Los Angeles, California. It revolves around Carter Shaw, the leader of an undercover unit. He is an officer who has dedicated his life to taking down the worst criminals in L.A., and this dedication has cost him his marriage. His team includes Ty Curtis, a newlywed who struggles between his job and his new life; Dean Bendis, an officer who is so deep in his undercover role that his team is no longer sure which side he is on; and Jaimie Allen, a green patrol cop recruited into the undercover unit because of her dark past and criminal skills.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, crime drama, exciting
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Gang Related (2014)
Plot Summary:
Every villain has a noble cause, and every hero has a dark side. Detective Ryan Lopez is a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force. What the world doesn't know is that long before Ryan became a cop, he pledged allegiance to a different band of brothers – a powerful Latino gang called Los Angelicos. When Ryan's best friend and police partner is senselessly killed by a notorious gang member, Ryan teams up with longtime Task Force member Cassius Green who has been at the forefront of the city's war on organized crime. In this war between law enforcement and gangs, the series explores how only people who really know the streets can win the battle on the streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, detective
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Intelligence (2014)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on a high-tech intelligence operative who is enhanced with a super-computer microchip in his brain, and the director of the elite government cyber-security agency who supports him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, detective, stylized