Django Unchained (2012)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Western
With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Hard Eight / Sydney (1996)
Crime | Drama
John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney's fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, F. William Parker
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Fresh (1994)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded housing project with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers who Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants out.
Starring: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright, José Zúñiga
Director: Boaz Yakin
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The 85th Annual Academy Awards 2013 (TV 2013)
Awards
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony (referred to as The Oscars), honoring the best films of 2012 in the United States, took place February 24, 2013. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented its annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2012 in the United States. The ceremony was held at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. Seth MacFarlane hosted the Academy Awards for the first time.
Life of Pi won four awards (the most for the evening) including Best Director for Ang Lee, and Argo won three awards including Best Picture. Les Misérables also won three awards; Django Unchained, Lincoln and Skyfall won two awards each. Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. Daniel Day-Lewis won a third Best Actor (the most for any actor) for his role as President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeremy Renner, Anne Hathaway, Channing Tatum, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Downey Jr., Eddie Redmayne, Russell Crowe, Samuel L. Jackson, Helena Bonham Carter, Chris Evans, Charlize Theron, Samantha Barks, Sacha Baron Cohen, Meryl Streep, Aaron Tveit, Seth MacFarlane, Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Gere, Renée Zellweger, Christopher Plummer, Barbra Streisand, Jean Dujardin, Queen Latifah, Octavia Spencer, Adele, Norah Jones, Shirley Bassey, Kirk Kelly
Director: Don Mischer
Loaded Weapon 1 / National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Action | Comedy | Crime
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland, Frank McRae, William Shatner
Director: Gene Quintano
Freedomland (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council a horrific tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides Dempsy's urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where she lives. She claims she was forced out of her car by a black man, but during the interrogation Council senses he's not getting the whole story. Only after hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her four-year-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car. Led by activist Karen Collucci, members of the communities of Dempsy and Gannon unite in a search for the missing child, but the criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects soon ignites long-simmering racial tensions between the two towns.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe
Director: Joe Roth
Zambezia / Adventures in Zambezia (2012)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
Set in a bustling bird city on the edge of the majestic Victoria Falls, "Zambezia" is the story of Kai – a naïve, but high-spirited young falcon who travels to the bird city of "Zambezia" where he discovers the truth about his origins and, in defending the city, learns how to be part of a community.
Starring: Jeremy Suarez, Abigail Breslin, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, Samuel L. Jackson, Corey Burton, Jim Cummings
Director: Wayne Thornley
The 51st State / Formula 51 (2001)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula – a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Nigel Whitmey, Robert Jezek, Meat Loaf
Director: Ronny Yu
1408 (2007)
Horror | Thriller
Horror novelist Mike Enslin believes only in what he can see with his own two eyes. But after a string of best-sellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he has no real proof of life-afterlife. But Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel. Defying the warnings of the hotel manager, the author is the first person in years to stay in the reputedly haunted room. Another best-seller may be imminent, but first he must go from skeptic to true believer-and ultimately, survivor…
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, Tony Shalhoub
Director: Mikael Håfström
Jumper (2008)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
From the director of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' comes the evolution of extreme – a high-powered shot of adrenaline that stretches the very limits of imagination. David Rice is a young man who knows no boundaries – a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to any place on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into the midst of an ancient war while being hunted by a bloodthirsty band of zealots sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David's extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival. Based on the best selling science-fiction novel by Steven Gould.
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Michael Rooker
Director: Doug Liman
The Avengers (2012)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The S.H.I.E.L.D. agency brings together a team of superhumans to help save the Earth from annihilation by extraterrestrial invaders.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cobie Smulders, Clark Gregg, Stellan Skarsgård
Director: Joss Whedon
Meeting Evil (2012)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family
Starring: Luke Wilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Leslie Bibb, Peyton List, Tracie Thoms
Director: Chris Fisher
Changing Lanes (2002)
Drama | Thriller
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self absorption and a spark of anger will cause the two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changes forever. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck star in a provocative and gripping drama that exposes the best and worst in all of us.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt
Director: Roger Michell
Fury / The Samaritan (2012)
Thriller
After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Kirby, Ruth Negga
Director: David Weaver
S.W.A.T. (2003)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Jim Street (Colin Farrell) is a former S.W.A.T. team member, who along with his partner Brian Gamble (Jeremy Renner), is thrown off the team in the aftermath of a controversial decision they made during a robbery/hostage standoff. Gamble quits the force in disgust, but for Street, being a policeman is his life and he agrees to a demotion, hoping to someday have the chance to redeem himself and once again wear the privileged S.W.A.T. uniform. He gets that chance when team commander Dan "Hondo" Harrelson (Samuel L. Jackson) is assigned to recruit and train five top-notch officers for a new Special Weapons and Tactics unit. After weeks of rigorous physical training, the new team is immediately thrown into action when a notorious drug lord, offers a $100 million bounty to anyone who can free him from police custody. As they escort the kingpin out of Los Angeles into the hands of the Feds, the S.W.A.T. team is pursued by a ruthless and well-armed band of mercenaries.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles
Director: Clark Johnson
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
The winds of political change are rumbling through the halls of the Capitol as a popular President is being targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. Only two people stand between anarchy and freedom: One of them, Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), has just survived a hit on the National Security Agency's top-secret headquarters and is on the run. The other, a decorated Special Ops soldier, Darius Stone (Ice Cube), sits under close guard in a military prison. Gibbons once again finds himself in need of an outsider and Stone is his man. The new xXx agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.
Starring: Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Strauss, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Lee Tamahori
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xXx (2002)
Action | Crime | Thriller
From Revolution Studios and and Sony Pictures, Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when crack NSA Agent Gibbsons convinces Cage to infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring, this new breed of secret agent (codename: XXX) takes down the enemies of justice with a vengeance in this high-octane, turbo-charged thrill-ride from the acclaimed director of The Fast and the Furious.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Trejo
Director: Rob Cohen
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Crime | Thriller
An inside look at a memorable community of criminals. Prizefighter Butch Coolidge has decided to stop payment on a deal he's made with the devil. Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue. Meanwhile, two career criminals, Vincent Vega and Jules, go about their daily business of shooting up other crooks who are late on payments to their boss. While one is asked to babysit their boss' dangerously pretty young wife, the other suddenly realizes that he must give up his life of crime.
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Uma Thurman
Director: Quentin Tarantino
The Sunset Limited (2011)
Drama
The Sunset Limited is a searing, two character drama that mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between two strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. The story focuses on two very different men – a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones), who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, the Sunset Limited. As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. As their philosophical debate progresses, each spar passionately to defend their personal credo and convert the other.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Arena (2011)
Action | Thriller
David Lord finds himself forced into the savage world of a modern gladiatorial arena, where men fight to the death for the entertainment of the online masses.
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kellan Lutz, Johnny Messner
Director: Jonah Loop
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