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Plot Summary:
In 1942, the Chinese government received intelligence that the Japanese may be developing a dangerous biological weapon in a remote part of Burma.The Chinese Expeditionary Force, a secret specialized squad, is dispatched to the remote region to try to stop the Japanese actions. Led by the tough female commander, the highly trained soldiers can't seem to get along.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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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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The Proxy (2012)
Plot Summary:
An evil organisation that creates superpowered reanimated humans known as Proxies want to recover a flash drive contains secret data from Ashens, his neighbour Tom and a unique Proxy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration:
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Tough to Kill (1979)
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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Pandora: Beneath the Paradise (2023)
Plot Summary:
Hong Taera gets trapped in a fate like that of Pandora in Greek mythology. With a perfect husband and a lovely daughter, Taera leads a life envied by all. However, her repressed memories resurface. She sets out to take revenge and protect her beloved family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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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
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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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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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Wo shi te zhong bing (2011)
Plot Summary:
A tv series about Chinese army which also tells a romantic story.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Action, War
Country: China
Duration:
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Five (2016)
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Five military men from from different branches of the armed forces find themselves mysteriously locked in a room with four bullets and one gun and no clues.
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Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min
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Wolf 2039 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Second series of the WOLF franchise starts 25 years after the first outing. As alliances wear thin, and notions of global order are shattered, the world of 2039 is on the brink of total war. Dangerous technologies that exceed the grasp of humanity’s control threaten a frayed social fabric. The action-packed story will examine security and war in this near future world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Wolf (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tasked with risky missions across Turkey, members of a special-operations police unit confront danger and tragedy both on the field and at home.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
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The Lazarus Project (2022)
Plot Summary:
George wakes up to find himself several months in the past before being recruited for the Lazarus Project – a secret organisation that turns back time when the world is at threat of extinction.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: thrilling
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Sugarless (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shiiba Gaku has transferred to Kushima High School which is called ‘Windmill’ because of the windmill monument on its rooftop. His ambition is to get to the top of the school. Bad boys like Tobe, the leader of Hydra, a gang of delinquents; and Shiro, rumoured to be the strongest of the first year students, crowd the school grounds. Gaku immediately picks a fight with Shake who now reigns atop the windmill, but is cut off by students who demand that he defeat them first if he wants to take on Shake. There are those that falter at the sight of the wild look in Shiiba’s glare. However, someone lands a punch on Shiiba’s face. His nose bleeds and he goes out cold. Even the school beauty Suwa Haruka is stunned by Shiiba’s loss. On his first day, Shiiba meets first year student Marumo Taiji. Marumo is disinterested in fighting and asks Shiiba, who has been provoking but losing successive fights, if there is meaning in competing for the top. A brutal Oga intends to crush Marumo at his part-time job. At that moment, Shiiba challenges Oga to a fight too ….
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Quicksand (2023)
Plot Summary:
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Secret of Blood Island (1965)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Man to Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
From Kim Won Seok, the writer of Descendants of the Sun, a drama about a special bodyguard with a background in special investigations and the Hallyu star he is supposed to protect.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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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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SAS: Rogue Heroes (2022)
Plot Summary:
The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Our Girl (2013)
Plot Summary:
Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
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Time Is a Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1994, at the age of sixteen, Clotilde Idrissi suffered a road accident. Clotilde is the only survivor, unlike her brother Nicolas and his parents, who died instantly. Twenty-five years later, she returns to the scene of the tragedy with her husband and daughter. But strange incidents occur until a letter sent by his mother is received by Clotilde, when she thought she was dead. Therefore, she decided to find out what really happened during the accident and find out the truth and if her mother is alive 4.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paap (2019)
Plot Summary:
What's the reason for Parboni's return to her past? Will her family accept her this way? This Durga Puja, witness the drama that unfolds at the Chowdhury household as Parboni returns with a dreaded secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Lost Tomb 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
This drama is adaption of Kennedy Xu's novel series"Grave Robbers’ Chronicles". 50 years ago, a group of Changsha grave robbers dug out manuscripts of the location of treasures from Warring states, but an encounter with an undead rendered almost the whole group dead. In the present, the young grandchild of the sole survivor, Wu Xie, discovers a secret within his grandfather's notes. Together with his third uncle, Wu Sansheng, and a few other experienced tomb robbers, to search for the treasure. But what no one expected to find the intriguing mysteries that accompanied their tomb robbing adventure - just who was the owner of that tomb? Will they be able to find the real coffin? And just where will these puzzle lead the group?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (2020)
Plot Summary:
Yilong Zhu and Xiaotong are leading the cast! Let’s see the restart of these grave robbers. With mysteries unsolved, they’re gathering for adventure! On the way through all sorts of life and death, the secret about “the sound of the providence” is being uncovered step by step….
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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The Drug Hunter (2018)
Plot Summary:
An educated chemical engineer becomes an undercover officer against drug dealers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
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Ultimate Force (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ultimate Force is a British television drama series that was shown on ITV, which deals with the activities of the fictional Red Troop of the SAS. The programme started on 16 September 2002 and four series were produced.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cerebral
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The Unit (2006)
Plot Summary:
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scenic, thrilling, heroic, fast
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Strike Back (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: heroic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, erotic, sexy, dramatic
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Tarzan (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: vintage, wild
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Criminal Code (2023)
Plot Summary:
To crack the code of an investigation into a larger-than-life robbery, federal agents need to get creative.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of a UNSC military academy, a group of highborn cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the UNSC’s ongoing war with insurrectionists in the outer colonial planets. Among these cadets, Thomas Lasky struggles with his doubts about this war, and with the burden of expectations he may not be able to carry. As Lasky comes to terms with his potential as a military leader, the terrifying alien alliance known as the Covenant arrives and turns his world upside down. Inspired by the Master Chief, he must decide what it means to be a hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, talky, saga, brutal, exciting, light