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1. Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)

R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs.

Directors: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer | Stars: Julius LeFlore, RCB, Roddy Piper, William Smith

Votes: 7,318

2. Tenement (1985)

X | 94 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A drug selling and violent street-gang terrorize the renters of a big trashy apartment-house.

Director: Roberta Findlay | Stars: Joe Lynn, Mina Bern, Walter Bryant, Corinne Chateau

Votes: 1,020

3. Sonny Boy (1989)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A small-town crime boss accepts delivery of a stolen car, only to find there's a baby in the back-seat. He and his transgender wife cut out the boy's tongue and raise him as a mute ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Martin Carroll | Stars: David Carradine, Paul L. Smith, Brad Dourif, Conrad Janis

Votes: 969

4. Vigilante (1982)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After his wife and son got brutalized by a street gang, and a corrupt criminal justice system puts the perpetrators back on the street, a NYC factory worker teams up with a vigilante group to find some measure of bloody justice.

Director: William Lustig | Stars: Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright, Rutanya Alda

Votes: 4,538

5. Tuff Turf (1985)

R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

37 Metascore

The new kid in school must battle a gang of street toughs after stealing the gang leader's girl.

Director: Fritz Kiersch | Stars: James Spader, Kim Richards, Paul Mones, Matt Clark

Votes: 5,938 | Gross: $9.40M

6. The Exterminator (1980)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York City. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York City into a great war zone, and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James

Votes: 6,562

7. Savage Dawn (1985)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Action

A vicious biker gang is intent on destroying a small town in Arizona. A war veteran visiting an old friend and a few locals with nothing to lose go to war with the gang's ruthless leader.

Director: Simon Nuchtern | Stars: George Kennedy, Richard Lynch, Karen Black, Claudia Udy

Votes: 825

8. Blastfighter (1984)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former policeman sets out to unleash violent vengeance upon deer poachers when they rape and kill his long lost daughter.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentina Forte, George Eastman, Stefano Mingardo

Votes: 1,472

9. Alley Cat (1984)

R | 82 min | Action

A martial artist stops a street gang from stealing her car, but her grandmother ends up being killed by the same gang. She witnesses firsthand how corrupt and inept law enforcement is, and decides to take matters into her own hands.

Directors: Victor M. Ordonez, Ed Palmos, Al Valletta | Stars: Karin Mani, Robert Torti, Britt Helfer, Michael Wayne

Votes: 1,052

10. The Principal (1987)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

37 Metascore

A teacher is assigned to be the principal of a violent, crime-ridden high school.

Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Jim Belushi, Louis Gossett Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright

Votes: 11,808 | Gross: $19.73M

11. The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999 TV Movie)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Karl Thomasson finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a lesson, and get revenge, on the brash football jocks responsible.

Director: Robert Radler | Stars: Treat Williams, David Jensen, Barbara Jane Reams, Brian Simpson

Votes: 1,936

12. The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998 TV Movie)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A mercenary masquerades as a teacher in order to enter a tough urban school and wreak his revenge upon his brother's killer.

Director: Steven Pearl | Stars: Owen Stadele, Edoardo Ballerini, Christopher Cousins, Chuck Jeffreys

Votes: 3,332

13. The Substitute (1996)

R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama

41 Metascore

Shale's Mercenary team is retired after a (not so) covert mission in Cuba. He becomes a substitute teacher at his teacher fiancee's Miami high school to get those behind kneecapping her. His team helps him.

Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Tom Berenger, Raymond Cruz, William Forsythe, Luis Guzmán

Votes: 15,687 | Gross: $14.75M

14. The Replacement Killers (1998)

R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

42 Metascore

A troubled hitman seeks aid from a forger to help him get papers to China. However, the drug lord has hired replacements to finish the job, and kill the hitman.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang

Votes: 30,529 | Gross: $18.97M

15. Metro (1997)

R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

41 Metascore

A Hostage Negotiator teams up with a Sharpshooter to bring down a dangerous jewel thief.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Kim Miyori, Art Evans

Votes: 29,088 | Gross: $31.99M

16. Nails (1992 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Cop breaks all the rules to go after a gang of drug dealers.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Anne Archer, Tomas Milian, Keith David

Votes: 486

17. The Program (1993)

R | 112 min | Action, Drama, Romance

51 Metascore

Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer

Votes: 11,586 | Gross: $23.00M

18. Blood Games (1990)

R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

When an all girl baseball team beats a group of rowdy rednecks from a small town, they soon find themselves the prey in a deadly bounty hunt. Now they are playing for their lives. In HD.

Director: Tanya Rosenberg | Stars: Gregory Scott Cummins, Laura Albert, Lee Benton, Ken Carpenter

Votes: 1,482

19. Toy Soldiers (1991)

R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

46 Metascore

A group of troublemaking boys decide to take a stand when terrorists seize control of their boarding school.

Director: Daniel Petrie Jr. | Stars: Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff

Votes: 25,031 | Gross: $15.07M

20. The Squeeze (1987)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A mysterious black box spells danger to a con man and female detective.

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Michael Keaton, Rae Dawn Chong, Ric Abernathy, Danny Aiello III

Votes: 1,458 | Gross: $2.23M

21. Watchers (1988)

R | 91 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A boy takes in a stray dog, later discovering that it is an ultra-intelligent runaway being stalked by a dangerous creature from the same genetic research lab.

Director: Jon Hess | Stars: Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Christopher Cary, Graeme Campbell

Votes: 4,701 | Gross: $0.94M

22. Dream Machine (1991)

PG | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Barry drives his parents to the airport, then tunes a rich woman's piano. He gets her cheating husband's Porsche. The husband's body's in the trunk. Then there's the fraternity's extreme initiation ritual. Will he get his dream girl?

Director: Lyman Dayton | Stars: Corey Haim, Evan Richards, Jeremy Slate, Randall England

Votes: 942

23. Angel 4: Undercover (1994)

R | 94 min | Action, Drama

Molly, now a police photographer, reconnects with an old friend. The friend is murdered, so Molly assumes the Angel identity to find the killer, searching clubs as a groupie.

Director: Richard Schenkman | Stars: Darlene Vogel, Shane Fraser, Alan Picardi, Samantha Phillips

Votes: 383

24. Watchers II (1990)

R | 101 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A genetically re-engineered dog develops a psychic link with a monster created in a lab experiment which goes awry.

Director: Thierry Notz | Stars: Marc Singer, Tracy Scoggins, Jonathan Farwell, Irene Miracle

Votes: 1,299

25. Watchers III (1994)

R | 84 min | Sci-Fi, Horror

When a new and dangerous "Outsider" chases an intelligent golden retriever in the South American jungles, Terror grips a team of ex-Military convicts sent to capture the creature.

Director: Jeremy Stanford | Stars: Wings Hauser, Gregory Scott Cummins, Daryl Keith Roach, John Linton

Votes: 858

26. Watchers Reborn (1998)

R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An extra-smart dog and detective team up to stop a DNA enhanced killer.

Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Mark Hamill, Lisa Wilcox, Stephen Macht, Gary Collins

Votes: 802

27. Ricochet (1991)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

49 Metascore

A District Attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak

Votes: 20,393 | Gross: $21.76M

28. Streetwalkin' (1985)

R | 86 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

53 Metascore

A high school dropout working as a street prostitute spends one night turning tricks and avoiding her emotionally unstable pimp who's starting to turn very violent.

Director: Joan Freeman | Stars: Melissa Leo, Randall Batinkoff, Dale Midkiff, Deborah Offner

Votes: 941

29. Tough Enough (1983)

PG | 106 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A C and W singer has a family to support so he boxes at a TOUGHMAN amateur boxing contest, hoping to win $5000 and maybe go on to the nationals and sing on national TV.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Carlene Watkins, Stan Shaw, Pam Grier

Votes: 938

30. Young Warriors (1983)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ... See full summary »

Directors: Lawrence David Foldes, Deran Sarafian | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Richard Roundtree, Lynda Day George, James Van Patten

Votes: 609 | Gross: $0.24M

31. Street Smart (1987)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

70 Metascore

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson

Votes: 3,812 | Gross: $1.12M

32. Fear (1988)

R | 96 min | Action

A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is ... See full summary »

Director: Robert A. Ferretti | Stars: Cliff De Young, Kay Lenz, Zoe Trilling, Scott Schwartz

Votes: 234

33. 48 Hrs. (1982)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

71 Metascore

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae

Votes: 85,308 | Gross: $78.87M

34. Another 48 Hrs. (1990)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

23 Metascore

Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond - this time to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe

Votes: 44,534 | Gross: $80.82M

35. Chained Heat (1983)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

30 Metascore

Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.

Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson

Votes: 2,631 | Gross: $6.15M

36. Victory at Entebbe (1976 TV Movie)

Unrated | 119 min | Action, Drama, History

In 1976, terrorists hijack an Air France airplane, and divert it to Uganda, where they demand to exchange their hostages for fellow terrorists held in Israeli jails.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Helmut Berger, Linda Blair, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss

Votes: 1,274

37. Ruckus (1980)

PG | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A Vietnam veteran passing through a small town is harassed by local bullies but he fights back, using his wartime skills, and triggers a full-scale police manhunt.

Director: Max Kleven | Stars: Dirk Benedict, Linda Blair, Richard Farnsworth, Matt Clark

Votes: 798

38. Nightforce (1987 Video)

R | 87 min | Action, Drama

Carla is devastated when her friend is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. After going to her father, a U.S. Senator, she gets her friends, and arms, to cross the border for a rescue mission.

Director: Lawrence David Foldes | Stars: Linda Blair, James Van Patten, Richard Lynch, Chad McQueen

Votes: 374

39. SFX Retaliator (1987)

85 min | Action

Special effects producer Steve Baker helps a woman being chased by the Mafia, but then they follow him and his wife.

Director: Jun Gallardo | Stars: Christopher Mitchum, Gordon Mitchell, Linda Blair, David Light

Votes: 140

40. Silent Assassins (1988)

91 min | Action

The evil criminal leader Kendrick has kidnapped an elderly biochemist who holds the secret to creating a biological superweapon. The only person who can possibly stop Kendrick and his gang ... See full summary »

Directors: Lee Doo-yong, Scott Thomas | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Linda Blair, Jun Chong, Phillip Rhee

Votes: 312

41. W.B., Blue and the Bean (1989 Video)

R | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A trio of hapless bounty hunters are recruited by a shady bail bondsman to try to keep a witness in drug trial alive to testify.

Director: Max Kleven | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Linda Blair, Tony Brubaker, Thomas Rosales Jr.

Votes: 607

42. Double Blast (1994 Video)

PG | 89 min | Action, Drama

Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a female professor from gangsters, because they want a stone tablet that she has discovered which may lead to untold riches.

Director: Tim Spring | Stars: Linda Blair, Dale Cook, Joe Estevez, Lorne Berfield

Votes: 145

43. Cyclone (1987)

R | 89 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A young woman must deliver a top-secret motorcycle to the US military after the man assigned to deliver it, her lover, is murdered by enemy agents.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Ashley Ferrare, Dar Robinson

Votes: 1,147 | Gross: $0.04M

44. Battletruck (1982)

PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Post World War III futuristic tale of collapsed governments & bankrupt countries heralding a new lawless age.

Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, Bruno Lawrence

Votes: 1,532

45. Terminal Force (1989)

R | 84 min | Action, Drama

A trigger-happy cop agrees to work on a case during his suspension.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Richard Harrison, Troy Donahue, Dawn Wildsmith, John Henry Richardson

Votes: 175

46. Droid Gunner (1995)

R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A futuristic bounty hunter is assigned to track down four female androids smuggled to Earth for illicit purposes.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Marc Singer, Matthias Hues, Rochelle Swanson, Robin Clarke

Votes: 970

47. The Jackal (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama

36 Metascore

An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora

Votes: 124,195 | Gross: $54.93M

48. Blackout (1978)

R | 92 min | Action, Thriller

Thriller about four sadistic criminals who, after escaping during a transfer, take over a posh Manhattan apartment complex and start looting and terrorizing its occupants during New York City's famous 1977 blackout.

Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: James Mitchum, Robert Carradine, Belinda Montgomery, June Allyson

Votes: 482

49. Ronin (1998)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

67 Metascore

A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 195,212 | Gross: $41.62M

50. Quiet Cool (1986)

R | 80 min | Action

Joe Dylanne is a plainclothes NYC cop with a badge... and a robust personality. He always resorts to unconventional methods in order to capture the city's slickest criminals. When Dylanne ... See full summary »

Director: Clay Borris | Stars: James Remar, Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Coleman Howard, Jared Martin

Votes: 752 | Gross: $1.90M

51. Wedlock (I) (1991)

R | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.

Director: Lewis Teague | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen, James Remar

Votes: 9,154

52. Into the Night (1985)

R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

41 Metascore

After discovering that his wife is cheating on him, an insomniac aerospace engineer accidentally meets, and tries to help, a beautiful model on the run from some extremely dangerous people.

Director: John Landis | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stacey Pickren, Carmen Argenziano

Votes: 13,636 | Gross: $7.56M

53. The Last Match (1991)

R | 95 min | Action

Somewhere on an island in the Caribean a girl is imprisoned for owning drugs. As she is the daughter of a football team coach help is soon on the way: the entire team mounts an expedition to set her free.

Director: Fabrizio De Angelis | Stars: Oliver Tobias, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Napier, Henry Silva

Votes: 138

54. Extreme Prejudice (1987)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

51 Metascore

A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...

Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Maria Conchita Alonso

Votes: 8,766 | Gross: $11.31M

55. Hellfighters (1968)

G | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Divorced Chance Buckman fights international oil rig fires. An injury brings his daughter and to his dismay, she weds Greg, a team member. Chance gets a desk-job, so he and Madelyn remarry, but a Venezuelan oil rig fire reunites them.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles

Votes: 6,412

56. An Innocent Man (1989)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

39 Metascore

A man is framed by two corrupt cops for drugs. After he gets out of prison, he comes after them.

Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche

Votes: 7,649 | Gross: $20.05M

57. Escape from L.A. (1996)

R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

54 Metascore

Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, A.J. Langer

Votes: 80,576 | Gross: $25.48M

58. Backdraft (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

39 Metascore

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland

Votes: 87,872 | Gross: $77.87M

59. Last Light (1993 TV Movie)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A killer on death row finds an unlikely friend in a prison guard.

Director: Kiefer Sutherland | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland, Clancy Brown, Lynne Moody

Votes: 919

60. Blue City (1986)

R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

18 Metascore

A drifter returns to his Florida hometown only to discover that his father, the local mayor, was mysteriously murdered during his absence. Vowing to find the killer and avenge his father's death, he starts his own investigation.

Director: Michelle Manning | Stars: Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, David Caruso, Paul Winfield

Votes: 1,340 | Gross: $6.95M

61. Stone Cold (1991)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

42 Metascore

A tough Alabama cop is blackmailed by the FBI into going undercover in a violent Mississippi biker gang.

Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Arabella Holzbog

Votes: 10,040 | Gross: $9.29M

62. Eye of the Tiger (1986)

R | 92 min | Action, Drama

Returning home from prison, a Vietnam War veteran sets out to clean up his hometown which has come under the control of a violent motorcycle gang.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen

Votes: 2,517

63. Colors (1988)

R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

66 Metascore

An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control.

Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Randy Brooks

Votes: 29,834 | Gross: $46.62M

64. Bad Boys (1983)

R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

53 Metascore

Chicago crime kid Mick O'Brien is sent to reform school after accidentally killing a rival's kid brother.

Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody, Eric Gurry

Votes: 17,076 | Gross: $9.20M

65. Runaway Train (I) (1985)

R | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

67 Metascore

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner

Votes: 33,016 | Gross: $7.94M

66. State of Grace (1990)

R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

60 Metascore

A Boston cop is recruited to return to his hometown and infiltrate the mob ran by his best friend's brother.

Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright

Votes: 24,794 | Gross: $1.91M

67. The Rock (1996)

R | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

58 Metascore

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer

Votes: 358,236 | Gross: $134.07M

68. The Expert (1995)

R | 92 min | Action

Johnny's sister is brutally attacked and murdered by a sadistic serial killer. At the trial, he is sentenced to be electrocuted, but a bleeding heart liberal has the sentence commuted to a ... See full summary »

Directors: Rick Avery, William Lustig | Stars: Jeff Speakman, James Brolin, Michael Shaner, Alex Datcher

Votes: 733

69. The Wraith (1986)

PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Horror, Romance

39 Metascore

In a small town in Arizona, a mysterious man/spirit descends from the sky and manifests in a sports car and targets a local violent road-racing gang of motor heads, headed by a ruthless bully who'll do anything to get what he wants.

Director: Mike Marvin | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid

Votes: 19,254 | Gross: $3.50M

70. Angel (1983)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Molly, a high schooler, secretly earns her living as Angel, a street prostitute whose only family and friends are the ones she works with on the streets. She has to survive against a serial killer who is targeting people of her profession.

Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun

Votes: 4,594 | Gross: $17.49M

71. Avenging Angel (1985)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Molly, former prostitute, has managed to leave her street life with help from Lt. Andrews. She studies law and leads a normal life. When Andrews is killed by a brutal gang, she returns to the streets as Angel to find his killers.

Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Betsy Russell, Rory Calhoun, Susan Tyrrell, Ossie Davis

Votes: 1,966 | Gross: $5.62M

72. Angel III: The Final Chapter (1988)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama

Molly accidentally takes a picture of a woman who turns out to be her mother, who abandoned her fourteen years ago. She tracks her down, only to find that she has another daughter, and both are connected to a dangerous crime element.

Director: Tom DeSimone | Stars: Mitzi Kapture, Mark Blankfield, Emile Beaucard, Maud Adams

Votes: 922

73. Eliminators (1986)

PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.

Director: Peter Manoogian | Stars: Andrew Prine, Denise Crosby, Patrick Reynolds, Conan Lee

Votes: 2,511 | Gross: $4.60M



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