The Other Guys (2010)
Action | Comedy | Crime
Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize — only things don't quite go as planned.
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson
Director: Adam McKay
Badges of Fury / Bu Er Shen Tan (2013)
Action | Comedy | Crime
When a spate of eerie murders erupts across HK two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. Young maverick WANG and grizzled vet HUANG who is fed up with his reckless younger partner always landing them in hot water. Reaching a dead end after discovering all the victims were former boyfriends of aspiring starlet LIU, the detectives must play a deadly game. One of them must go undercover as Liu's lover to lure the killer out.
Starring: Jet Li, Michelle Chen, Zhang Wen, Shishi Liu, Yan Liu, Aaron Shang, Collin Chou, Lik-Sun Fong, Stephen Fung, Grace Huang, Xiaoming Huang
Director: Tsz Ming Wong
House of Cards / Playing Lives (2013)
Action | Drama
An elite firm of assassins must face their own mortality as they are hunted down one by one by a mysterious assailant. Caught up in the drama is a disgraced journalist who is more connected to the assassins' world than he could ever know.
Starring: Ian Chinsee, Matthew Scully, Grace Endicott, Vincent B. Gorce, Anna Doody, Rebecca Elise Lamb, Darrell Plumridge
Director: Ian Chinsee
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N.Y.C. Underground / Brooklyn to Manhattan (2013)
Action | Thriller
While wealthy Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and their friends make the trek across town for a Brooklyn concert, they run into Simon, a notorious gangster. Dylan, in an ill-advised bid for a criminal relationship with Simon, sets up a drug deal. The deal soon goes awry, and a livid Simon wants them dead. In a desperate attempt to get back to Manhattan, the group must flee deeper and deeper into the belly of New York City's labyrinthine-like subway system in a terrifying life-or-death race against their pursuers.
Starring: Dania Ramirez, Sean Faris, Arielle Kebbel, Clayne Crawford, Evan Ross, Rob Mayes, Matt Servitto
Director: Jessy Terrero
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Billy the Kid (2013)
Action | Western
All hell breaks loose when a lone bounty hunter kills a member of an outlaw gang. As the gang seeks bloody revenge they kill, soon to be legendary, Billy the Kid's mother, leaving him to team up with the mysterious bounty hunter to enact vengeance on the outlaws. Soon he'll find his and the bounty hunter's lives are fatefully entwined in this shoot 'em up tale of gun smoke and justice in the old west.
Starring: Christopher Bowman, Cody McCarver, Jerry Chesser, Billy Joe Royal
Director: Christopher Forbes
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Shaolin Wooden Men / Shao Lin mu ren xiang (1976)
Action
Jackie witnesses his father's death by the skilled hands of a martial arts master with an unknown killing technique. Jackie vows to become a Shaolin monk and avenge his death (not very Buddhist of him…), but soon finds that he's the chump of the class. After befriending a variety of shaolin masters, each of whom teach Jackie a particular style of kung fu (drunken, killing, slippery snake, etc.), Jackie suddenly finds himself good enough to go give the beats to the 100 "wooden men" whom all shaolin (in this flick anyways) have to beat to get the funky haircut. Jackie then proceeds to go around laying the beats on everyone, but shows his humility and compassion at the end.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Kam Chiang, Jang Lee Hwang, Kong Kim, Yuen Lung, Tien Miao, Wei Ho Tu, Biao Yuen
Director: Chi-Hwa Chen
A Chinese Ghost Story / Sien lui yau wan III: Do do do III (1991)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
After having slept for a century, the Tree Devil, awakens to terrorize a wise High Priest and his student, who have happened upon the Orchid Temple.
Starring: Jacky Cheung, Yiu-Sing Cheung, Shun Lau, Siu-Ming Lau, Yuk-Ting Lau, Tony Leung, Nina Li Chi, Joey Wang
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
A Chinese Ghost Story II / Sien nui yau wan II yan gaan do (1990)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Ning, the naive young tax collector of "A Chinese Ghost Story", escapes from prison and seeks refuge in the Righteous Villa, a decaying mansion where he encounters two beautiful sisters and their father, who faces execution for attempting to expose traitors at the imperial court.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Michelle Reis, Jacky Cheung, Ma Wu
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
A Chinese Ghost Story / Sien nui yau wan (1987)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
A hapless tax collector takes shelter at an abandoned temple, the favorite haunting grounds of a 1000 year old adrogynous tree demon. Beset with perilous traps and temptations by deadly but seductive she-devils, the bumbling hero falls in love with a beautiful ghost, whose spirit is enslaved by the tree demon. The two lovers risk their eternal souls to escape the demon's wrath, searching for happiness together.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wang, Ma Wu
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Empire State (2013)
Action | Drama
A drama centered on two childhood friends who plan to rob an armored car depository, and the NYPD officer who stands in their way.
Starring: Emma Roberts, Liam Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Nikki Reed, James Ransone, Michael Angarano
Director: Dito Montiel
Surviving Evil (2009)
Action | Horror | Thriller
A TV documentary crew arrive on a remote island in the Philippines to film a survival special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure proves to be more terrifying than they ever could have imagined.
Starring: Billy Zane, Christina Cole, Natalie Mendoza, Joel Torre, Louise Barnes, Colin Moss
Director: Terence Daw
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Star Trek Into Darkness / Star Trek XII (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Weller
Director: J.J. Abrams
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Redemption / Hummingbird (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Back home after a harrowing tour in Afghanistan and haunted by his dark past, veteran Joey Jones takes on an assumed identity and tries to atone. But when his pregnant girlfriend is murdered, he must risk stepping into the light to get revenge.
Starring: Jason Statham, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong, Agata Buzek, Ger Ryan
Director: Steve Knight
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Kevin Costner triumphs as the legendary Sherwood Forest outlaw leader in this epic adventure bringing a 12th-century medieval world to spectacular screen life. Enhancing the fun are 12 added minutes of footage not seen in theatres, especially more juicy malevolence of Robin Hoods archenemy, the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio also star in this lavish production lensed in Britain and France, where historic structures, majestic forests and vividly realistic recreations of Olde England combined to create a world at once ancient and ageless.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Geraldine McEwan
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Action | Thriller
Bobby Bishop (Sheen) is a special assistant to the President of the United States. Accidentally, he meets his friend professor Pochenko on the street. Pochenko has time to tell Bishop about some conspiracy in the White House but then immediately gets killed by an assassin. Now bad guys are after Bobby as the only man who knows about a plot. Bishop must now not only survive, but to stop the conspirators from achieving their goal. And he doesn't know whom to trust.
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Stephen Lang, Ben Gazzara, Nicholas Turturro
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Switch / Tian ji: Fu chun shan ju tu (2013)
Action
Xiao Jinhan a.k.a. X, a secret agent tracking down one half of an ancient Chinese painting, which was stolen in transit from the Taipei National Museum. He's not the only person interested in the painting, however – bleached blonde Japanese crime boss Yamamoto, with a bevy of handmaidens/bodyguards who double as roller-blading nurses and Olympic gymnasts in their spare time, has put his main squeeze Lisa on the job. A crazy wheelchair-bound harpy of an old lady who demands to be known as 'The Empress' also pops by to stir the pot. To further complicate an already nonsensical plot, Xiao's wife Yuyan leads the security team tasked with keeping the painting safe.
Starring: Andy Lau, Chiling Lin, Jingchu Zhang, Paul Philip Clark, Omar Bin Haider, Tianqi Shi, Gaowa Siqin, Dawei Tong
Director: Jay Sun
Strike Back (TV Series 2010- )
Action | Drama | Thriller
An adaptation of SAS soldier Chris Ryan's novel Strike Back. John Porter, a former SAS Sergeant, and Hugh Collinson, a Section 20 officer in the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) took part in a botched operation on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq where two soldiers in their unit were killed.
Starring: Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes, Rhashan Stone, Amanda Mealing
Creator: Andy Harries
Shootout at Wadala / S.A.W. (2013)
Action | Crime
The first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982. Based on a true story.
Starring: John Abraham, Manoj Bajpayee, Sophiya Chaudhary, Priyanka Chopra, Chetan Hansraj, Anil Kapoor
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Passenger 57 (1992)
Action | Thriller
An airline security expert must take action when he finds himself trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control of it.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Bruce Greenwood, Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Hooks
Director: Kevin Hooks
Schutzengel / The Guardians (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.
Starring: Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Karoline Schuch, Luna Schweiger, Herbert Knaup
Director: Til Schweiger
