Thriller
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An Eye for an Eye (1981) IMDb WikiData TMDB
An Eye for an Eye
director: Steve Carver actor: Chuck Norris / Christopher Lee …
other title: Triade chiama canale 6 / Olho por Olho …
Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
April 5, 2026 watched
As an action fan, I've seen some real dreck. But this was actually a pretty well made thriller.

Sure it has its fair share of tropes, the fights aren't the most impressive I've seen, and I saw the twist coming a mile off, but it was coherent and well-paced and kept me engaged. After having just seen Norris in Slaughter in San Francisco and Lee in Starship Invasions, An Eye for An Eye was a relief!

(NB brief but delightful hamming from Stuart Pankin.)

Missed watching it in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, caught up with it later.
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Appointment with Crime (1946) IMDb WikiData
Appointment with Crime
director: John Harlow actor: William Hartnell / Raymond Lovell …
other title: Cita con el crímen
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Infested (2023) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Vermines
director: Sébastien Vaniček actor: Théo Christine / Sofia Lesaffre …
other title: Vermin / Spiders - Ihr Biss ist der Tod …
Residents of a rundown French apartment building battle against an army of deadly, rapidly reproducing spiders.
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Send Help (2026) KevGa-NeoDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Send Help
6.9 (9 ratings) director: Sam Raimi actor: Rachel McAdams / Dylan O'Brien …
other title: Socorro! / SEND HELP (Enviad ayuda) …
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
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Land of the Free (1998) IMDb WikiData
Land of the Free
director: Jerry Jameson actor: Jeff Speakman / William Shatner …
other title: Land of the Free - Tödliche Ideale / Universal Fighter …
A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities, he puts himself and his family in danger of being killed.
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Glass (2019) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Glass
7.6 (9 ratings) director: M. Night Shyamalan actor: James McAvoy / Bruce Willis …
other title: Glass (Cristal)
In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
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The Capture (2019) TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Capture
9.4 (7 ratings) director: Ben Chanan actor: Holliday Grainger / Ben Miles …
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
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Looker (1981) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Looker
director: Michael Crichton actor: Albert Finney / James Coburn …
other title: Troppo belle per vivere / Kein Mord von der Stange …
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
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Peking Opera Blues (1986) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
刀馬旦
8.0 (5 ratings) director: Tsui Hark actor: Brigitte Lin / Sally Yeh …
other title: Peking Action Blues / Peking opera blues
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pat Neil—embark on a daring quest filled with intrigue and betrayal, challenging societal norms amidst political turmoil and the vibrant world of Peking Opera.
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Oldboy (2003) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb NeoDB Test
올드보이
7.7 (22 ratings) director: Park Chan-wook actor: Choi Min-sik / Yoo Ji-tae …
other title: Old Boy / Oldboy: Hævnen …
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
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M (1931) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
8.0 (6 ratings) director: Fritz Lang actor: Peter Lorre / Ellen Widmann …
other title: M - Il mostro di Düsseldorf / Matou …
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
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The Killer Elite (1975) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Killer Elite
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: James Caan / Robert Duvall …
other title: Killer Elite / Assassinos de Elite …
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut …
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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Strongroom (1962) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Strongroom
director: Vernon Sewell actor: Colin Gordon / John Chappell …
other title: La camera blindata
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan to release the pair has gone wrong, they return to the bank to try and release them before the police turn up.
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The Seven-Ups (1973) IMDb WikiData
The Seven-Ups
director: Philip D'Antoni actor: Roy Scheider / Jerry Leon …
other title: Squadra speciale / O Esquadrão Indomável …
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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Shaft (1971) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Shaft
director: Gordon Parks actor: Richard Roundtree / Moses Gunn …
other title: Shaft il detective / John Shaft - detektiv i aktion …
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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The Dry (2021) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Dry
director: Robert Connolly actor: Eric Bana / Genevieve O'Reilly …
other title: Chi è senza peccato - The Dry / Canicule …
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound — the unsolved death of a teenage girl.