A Guide To The 2018 AVN Award Nominees: Best Action/Thriller

Check Out The Best in Porn's Action/Thriller Features!

I watch a whole lot of porno as part of my daily life/career and I am a proud voter in the AVN Awards each and every year. This year, AVN created a new "Best Action/Thriller" category to accommodate this year's very creative plot-based features. Take some time to check out these very engaging features.

Agent 69, Adam & Eve Pictures

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Eva Lovia is the lead as a beautiful secret agent trying to keep the world safe from dangerous hacker Elsa Jean. Directed by Jay Allan, Lovia works with fuck buddy/fellow agent/AVN Hall of Famer Mick Blue to keep top military secrets from falling into Jean's treacherous hands.

The Altar of Aphrodite, Kelly Madison Productions

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Angela White stars as an investigative reporter who finds herself professionally shunned for her relentless investigations of an underground sex cult known as The Altar of Aphrodite. This is Kelly Madison Productions' very first plot-based feature, it is directed by Andy Zane and I freakin' adore it. Don't miss this one. You can watch it in our store or over at the Pornfidelity website.

Blood Sisters, Digital Playground

In this very interesting family drama, corrupt mayor Ramon Nomar ends up placing his daughters Luna Star and Gina Valentina and their stepmom Ariella Ferrera in a moral quandary over how to live and cope with all of the shady dealings that daddy does. It's directed by Vic Lagina and AVN Hall of Famer Toni Ribas is up for Best Actor for his work in this.

Crash, Wicked Pictures

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Directed by AVN Hall of Famer Jonathan Morgan, this feature stars Alexa Grace as a newly engaged woman who finds all of the old secrets of her life coming to the surface after she gets into and barely survives a car accident. Grace's double life is certainly news to her fiance Lucas Frost in this thriller. It is a story well told.

Extradition, Girlsway

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This all-girl feature directed by Alan E. (AKA Stills By Alan) uses the American war on drugs as the dramatic fuel of its storyline. Senator's daughter Abella Danger is taken hostage by cartel leader Luna Star, federal special agent Sarah Vandella rescues Mexican hostage Kat Dior and all are willing to give the fucks of their lives to survive the violence around them. There's some hot stuff in this one.

From Beyond, Wicked Pictures

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Chanel Preston stars as a widow who receives ghostly, life-saving message from her late, apparently murdered husband Ryan McLane in this supernatural, romantic thriller directed by Stormy Daniels. 

An Inconvenient Mistress, Wicked Pictures

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Wicked Pictures contract star jessica drake plays a woman who takes some info she gets from financier Ryan Driller during their torrid affair and decides to profit off of it. The Securities Exchange Commission gets involved and the drama goes full bore in this feature directed by AVN Hall of Famer Brad Armstrong.

Lay Her Down, Digital Playground

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This horror feature starts with teen Aubrey Rose getting murdered by all of her friends in a group after she is caught documenting all of their bad girl habits and affairs. After the murder, all involved find themselves getting killed one by one in this engaging thriller.

My Killer Girlfriend, Burning Angel

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AVN Hall of Famer Joanna Angel stars in and directs this story of a lonely woman who finds love online and that new, secretive girlfriend Carmen Caliente just is not who she at first seems to be in this supernatural, gory thriller. 

Pussy or Lead, Brazzers

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Curvy beauty Bridgette B. stars in the lead role of an ambitious criminal who seeks an alliance with drug lord Ramon Nomar in this feature directed by AVN Hall of Famer Toni Ribas. Abigail Mac gives an excellent performance here as an undercover cop willing to do whatever it takes to make a bust. 

Quest, Digital Playground

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Gal pals Aria Alexander, Brett Rossi, Jada Stevens and Kleio Valentien find themselves in a Dungeons and Dragons-like adventure with real consequences in this fantasy feature directed by Holly Randall.

Takers, Wicked Pictures

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In this futuristic thriller directed by AVN Hall of Famer Brad Armstrong, there is a black market for organs and sexy killers Asa Akira, Ana Foxxx and Kleio Valentien seduce men so that they can murder them and steal their parts so that they can be sold to the highest bidder. Ouch!

Transmission, Girlsway

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Director Alan E. (AKA Stills By Alan) does excellent sci-fi features and this is a very fun, all-girl one. Hillary Scott stars a scientist who discovers that aliens are absolutely a real thing and immediately experiences the government's wrath over her findings.

Vampires, Girlsway

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Abigail Mac and Mac's blind stepsister Shyla Jennings fight off a group of vampires lead by spooky Jelena Jensen and these vampires aren't interested in blood. They want lesbian orgasms instead in this sexy feature directed by Alan E. (AKA Stills By Alan).

Vendetta, Wicked Pictures

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Wicked contract star Stormy Daniels stars in, directs, and wrote this very well-done feature about a woman stuck in a bad marriage with a rich, bad man.

The image of Lauren Phillips getting fucked by Seth Gamble above is from Wicked Pictures' "Crash".

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