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Action movies
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After escaping from a desert planet, Escaped convict Richard B. Riddick and his two companions, Jack and Imam are captured by a crew of bounty hunters of the vessel "Kublah-Khan" commanded by a imperial woman named Antonia Chillingsworth and her chief henchman Junner. Riddick discovers Chillingsworth has her own museum on-board and she collects the galaxy's most-wanted criminals and instead of delivering them to penal colonies and claiming the bounty, Chillingsworth turns them into living statues and Riddick has become the latest addition to her collection. |
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James Bond Adventure. A British spy-ship, the St. Georges, accidently hits a mine and sinks near a Warsaw Pact country. On aboard is ATAC, a communications device that could order Western subs to attack friendly areas. 007 is sent to recover the ATAC and the Russians, interested in getting ATAC, send a message to their local "contact". Bond's investigations leads to Greece and he meets Melina Havelock, out for revenge, as the "Contact" has had her parents murdered. Bond also meets Aristotle Kristatos and Milos Colombo (known as "The Dove") and evidence leads that one of them is the Russian's "Contact" but both accuses the other. Melina and Bond sets out to recover the ATAC and not only goes up against the "Contract" but also against Bibi, a young ice-skater, who has a major crush on 007... |
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In this urban action thriller New York police dept. detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis), is a hard-drinking cop, assigned to deliver a small-time convict to the court sixteen blocks far from the jail in less than 2 hours. The task seems to be simple, but there are some powerful people who don't want this prisoner to be delivered to the court house. Bruce Willis's Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... |
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This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series. After five years of chasing paranormal activity, the X-Files are closed by the government. Special FBI agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) now do the "down to earth" work. When a bomb threatens the Dallas Federal Building, Mulder and Scully locate the device but are unable to prevent the explosion. After the bomb destroys the building, Mulder soon learns that the destruction of the building was the work of the government... Deadly secret buried in a cave in Texas is being unleashed, mankind is under the deadly virus threat. Meanwhile, Mulder gets more and more information confirming his suspicions about the veiled alien activity on Earth and the secret, international cabal of men protecting those mysteries.
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
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The movie continues where the last one with Marty stuck in 1955. But Doc Brown sent him a letter from 1855 through Western Union, that told him that after the Delorean was struck by lightning he was sent to 1855 and was unable to repair it, but has managed to bury it somewhere, where Marty can get to it in 1955 and hopefully the younger version of himself can repair it so he can drive it back to 1985 and then destroy it. But after finding it, Marty discovers that shortly after sending the letter Doc would be shot by an outlaw, Mad Dog Tannen. Marty then goes back to 1885 to save him and meets his ancestors. After finding the Doc, they were about to leave when Marty told the Doc that upon arriving the Delorean's gas tank was punctured, so they don't have any gasoline to run the car, which means they have to find some way to get the car to 88 mph. They decide to try pushing it with a locomotive. And things are fine except for the fact that Tannen, who had it in for Doc, now has it for Marty and has challenged him to gunfight on the day that they are going to leave, and Doc is smitten with Clara Clayton, the new school teacher. |
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. |
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While Ben is presenting new information about John Wilkes Booth and the 18 pages missing from Booth's diary, one man stands up and presents a missing page of John Wilkes Booth's diary. Thomas Gates, Ben's great-grandfather, is mentioned in the page. It shows that Ben's great-grandfather could have been a person involved with Abraham Lincoln's murder. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley to Buckingham Palace(which they break into). It takes them to a book in the White House(which they break into also)and they even steal a page from the book. But in order to see more from the book, their choice is either get elected president or kidnap the President of the United States. Which do they choose? It's obvious. The conspiracy then crosses to Mount Rushmore and they even mention the JFK conspiracy. Could Ben clear his family's name? Or will his family be known as the descendant of Abraham Licoln's murderer? |
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A close friend of the President and his family are murdered aboard their yacht in the Caribbean, setting off a chain of events that leads Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of the C.I.A., into a dangerous confrontation with the Colombian drug cartel. |
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive. |
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Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an ex-LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved to a smaller town with his family due to dramatic hostage situation he was unable to solve properly: a young mother and her child were killed. Now he is a police officer in a quiet town of Bristo Camino, where he serves as a chief of a police. When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home intending to steal their car, they involuntarily pick the wrong house on the wrong day. Panicked, the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. He is about to take situation off his hands, but a house belongs to a corrupt accountant, cops are in over their heads, so Talley should take the situation under his control again in order to save his own family. The point is that the compound has digital information inside, which is time sensitive and invaluable to the mysterious criminals and critical to the enterprise the accountant is connected with. They will stop at nothing to get what belongs to them, and Talley finds himself being between a rock and a hard place. |
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Backdraft is a dangerous phenomenon which can appear during a fire. Two brothers had lost their father, who was a firefighter and was killed by the backdraft. Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) are two firemen, their every day's work is complicated with the longtime conflict between them. It turns out to be that the last fires were initiated by an unknown incendiary, and the younger brother leaves the command to help the police to catch the maniac. |
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of singlehanded "justice" on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. |
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An American cardio surgeon, Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford), has come to Paris, the City of Lights, with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. "I love Paris," he is singing while taking a shower. But when his wife unexpectedly disappears from their hotel room and doesn't return after several hours, Walker begins to fear the city. He embarks on a frantic, extremely dangerous quest for his adorable wife and finds himself plagued by misunderstandings, laissez-faire police officers and painstaking bureaucrats who offer him little help. The only person who may hold clues to finding the anxious Walker's wife is Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a streetwise sexy gamine. |
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This time, the Man of Steel has his hands full with a trio of super-powered villains who escape from their Phantom Zone prison (remember the weird flying diamond-shaped mirror that scooped them up from the planet Krypton?) and land on Earth, where all three have powers to rival Superman's own. How does it all come out? With a fabulous duel above the streets of Metropolis, and a startling plot twist that neatly ties in Superman's explosive past. Arch-criminal Lex Luthor plays both ends gleefully against the middle in hopes of a modest reward: Australia. |
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At the end of World War 2 Hitler tried to find an ideal weapon and turned to the powers of darkness. Ritual, started by the occult monk and the Nazi scientists, was interrupted by American agents, who had found a horned demonic child at the place where the ritual was held. Later, the benevolent Professor Bruttenholm raised the demonic child called Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to be a hero, who helps to investigate the supernatural in Dr. Bruttenholm's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). Along with the amphibious psychic Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce) and the fire-throwing Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Hellboy is joined by new recruit John Myers (Rupert Evans), a naive and idealistic FBI agent. Evil monk rises again, putting mankind on a brink of destruction as he has drawn a new demonic being called Samael into our world. Meanwhile, a love triangle emerges in the story as Myers, the FBI agent becomes Hellboy's rival for Liz's affections. Guillermo del Toro's wisecracking and eccentric film is based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola. |
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Movie based on the television series finds Jim Phelps and his team charged with stopping a traitor from stealing and selling classified material. Everything was going well until the man they are following and all of the team are inexplicably killed except for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to meet him when he discovers that the whole mission was to ferret a mole that they have been suspicious of for some time. The Director shows evidence that hints that Ethan's the one they have been looking for but Ethan knows that he is not, so he escapes. Ethan then arranges to meet the buyer and whom he warns against using the material he has and when they meet he offers to get what he paid for in exchange for telling whom the mole is. Ethan, along with Phelps' wife Claire recruits two disavowed agents to help him which won't be easy. |
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Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner) is back from Arabian capture, and what he sees? His patrimonial castle is ruined, and his father is killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Robin vows to wreck revenge upon the murderer and makes up a company of thieves, robbers and other criminals to dwell in the great Sherwood Forest: There he will rob the wealth nobility for the profit of poor people. Moreover, Robin's beloved woman is being courted by detestable sheriff, and he should rid her of this rascal. This movie is recommended for all family to see; Kevin Costner looks organic playing the role of generous robber. |
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In ancient Egypt, high priest Imhotep started a forbidden relationship with Anck Su Namun, Pharaoh Seti's Mistress. When Seti finds out about what's going on, Imhotep and his loved one stab him, but can't escape the trustworthy guards: Anck Su Namnun chooses to commit suicide while Imhotep is bestowed with the Hom-Dai, the most feared curse of all: He is mummified alive in Hamunaptra, the city of the Dead. More than thirty-six centuries later, in 1923, to be exact, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Johnathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they and a rivaling group of careless American adventurers free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Now, with the ancient and quite agile high priest on the loose, the adventurers and scientists face not only a dangerous enemy, but also a massive threat to today's world: Imhotep wants to bring Ankh-su-namun back to life by using Evelyn's body, but he also wants to rid the world of the disbelieving crowd of democracy-supporters to be able to enforce his tyrannic dictatorship. |
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Johnny Utah, a freshman at FBI's bank-robbery crew, goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of surfers he suspects can be the infamous ex-president-robbers. To infiltrate them, he has got to learn to surf, something his boss doesn't like very much. |
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