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
Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Fantasy
Years ago, to protect their village Konohagakure rom the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, Naruto's parents exchange their lives and seal Hayakawa in their newborn son Naruto. Peace returned to their village. In the present day, the peace in the village abruptly ends when the ninja group "Akatsuki" appears in front of Naruto. Naruto foils their attack, but he feels lonely without having a family. Suddenly, a man with a mask appears and creates an illusion to Naruto and Sakura.
Starring: Junko Takeuchi, Chie Nakamura, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Emi Shinohara, Kazuhiko Inoue, Noriaki Sugiyama, Naoya Uchida
Director: Hayato Date
Titan A.E. (2000)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi
In 3028, after the Earth is destroyed by an invading alien race, a tiny number of surviving humans roam the universe in ragtag spaceships, trying to find each other and maintain some sense of community. Shortly before the final destruction of the planet, Cale was given a map that would guide him to a space station called Titan, secretly constructed as a last hope in the event of alien Armageddon. Cale sets out in search of Titan, with the help of his friend Korso, the beautiful Akima, and a crew of friendly aliens.
Starring: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Ron Perlman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Art Vitello
Defiance (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Set on a future Earth, Defiance introduces players and viewers to a world where humans and aliens live together on a planet ravaged by decades of war and transformed by alien terra-forming machines. It centers on Jeb Nolan, the law-keeper in a bustling frontier boomtown that is one of the new world’s few oasis of civility and inclusion. Nolan is a former Marine who fought in the alien conflict and suffered the loss of his wife and child in the war. The trauma transformed him into a lone wanderer in the wilds of this new and dangerous world.
Starring: Grant Bowler, Stephanie Leonidas, Graham Greene, Dewshane Williams, Julie Benz, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Jesse Rath, Trenna Keating, Nicole Muñoz, Jessica Nichols, Kevin Shand, Mia Kirshner, Justin Rain, Noah Danby, Wayne Curnew
Creator: Kevin Murphy, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Clark Perry, Michael Taylor
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen / Le avventure del Barone di Munchausen (1988)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
An extraordinary, fantasy filled masterpiece, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen highlights the amazing journeys of Baron Munchausen, who sets sail in a hot air balloon in search of his old comrades-at-arms. In his travels, the Baron journeys to the moon, visits Venus and Vulcan, and lands in the belly of a giant sea monster and that's just the beginning!
Starring: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Jonathan Pryce, Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed
Director: Terry Gilliam
Bekushiru: 2077 Nihon sakoku / Vexille (2007)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
The veil is breached. Japan is infiltrated by agents of the organization S.W.O.R.D., a fighting force operating outside of the protection of the United States and her allies. Their mission: Determine if the Japanese are developing banned robotic bio-technology, forbidden due to its threat to humankind. In the battle between machine and man, humanity stands to suffer most.
Starring: Meisa Kuroki, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Romi Park, Shosuke Tanihara
Director: Fumihiko Sori
Hunted (TV Series 2012- )
Action | Drama
Meet Sam. A spy. A hunter. And herself hunted by an enemy more ruthless and determined than any she's ever known. Sam has been running from her past her entire life but when she returns to Byzantium, the organization that employs her, and begins to pursue her pursuer, she will discover the only way to escape that past… is to confront it.
Starring: Melissa George, Adam Rayner, Morven Christie, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Dillane, Patrick Malahide, Stephen Campbell Moore, Oscar Kennedy, Lex Shrapnel, Tom Beard
Creator: Frank Spotnitz
Un Plan Parfait / Fly Me to the Moon (2012)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
A successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Dany Boon
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
GoldenEye / Golden Eye (1995)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Pierce Brosnan ignites the screen as James Bond in this explosive, thrill-packed adventure that pits him against a vengeful adversary who controls an awesome space weapon capable of global destruction.
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen, Judi Dench, Joe Don Baker
Director: Martin Campbell
Shaitan (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
After the passing of her mother, and the entry of a step-mother, Amrita Jayshankar retreats into herself. Her father is summoned to her school and is told that his daughter may require counseling, but he refuses to believe and instead makes a donation to the school. Then Amrita meets with three males and a female, namely Zuben, Dushant Sahu, Karan Chaudhary; and Tanya Sharma respectively. Together they live it up with drugs and alcohol until things get out of control when they accidentally kill a couple. A corrupt police constable demands Rs.25 Lakhs to eliminate their involvement. Unable to come up with so much cash, the five decide to fake a kidnapping, demand the cash from Amrita's father, and clear their respective names. Amrita accordingly goes 'missing', and her father involves the police, who assign this case to once-suspended police inspector, Arvind Mathur. With the media getting involved, Arvind begins his investigation, but will soon find it hampered – complicating not only his assignment – but also his personal life.
Starring: Kalki Koechlin, Shiv Pandit, Gulshan Devaiah, Rajeev Khandelwal, Neil Bhoopalam, Kirti Kulhari, Raj Kumar Yadav, Rajat Barmecha, Nikhil Chinappa
Director: Bejoy Nambiar
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
Action | Drama
Jason Stillwell, a Bruce Lee fan, is beaten numerous times and trains from the ghost of Lee. Jason then must use his newly acquired skills to save Seattle from a crime syndicate, whose top martial artist is the deadly Ivan.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kurt McKinney, J.W. Fails, Kathie Sileno, Tai Chung Kim
Director: Corey Yuen
Miami Supercops / Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
Action | Comedy | Crime
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, C.B. Seay, William Jim, Ken Ceresne
Director: Bruno Corbucci
Nan bei Shao Lin / Shaolin Temple 3: Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)
Action
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are chased all over by soldiers. Meanwhile, one of the southerners turns out to be a cross-dressed woman, who is also discovered to wear a footbell to match Jet Li's, meaning they are somehow slated for an arranged marriage.
Starring: Jet Li, Qiuyan Huang, Qingfu Pan, Hu Jian Qiang, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu, Jianwen Zhang
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, Bill Paxton, Michael C. Gwynne
Director: John Mackenzie
Frankenstein's Army / Army of Frankenstein (2013)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Toward the end of World War II, Russian soldiers pushing into eastern Germany stumble across a secret Nazi lab, one that has unearthed and begun experimenting with the journal of one Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The scientists have used the legendary Frankenstein's work to assemble an army of super-soldiers stitched together from the body parts of their fallen comrades — a desperate Hitler's last ghastly ploy to escape defeat.
Starring: Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury, Luke Newberry, Hon Ping Tang, Andrei Zayats, Mark Stevenson
Director: Richard Raaphorst
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Hammer of the Gods (2013)
Action
In Viking Britain in 871 AD, A young Viking warrior, Steinar, is sent by his father the king on a quest to find his estranged brother, who was banished from the kingdom many years before. Steinar's epic journey across terrifyingly hostile territory allows him to emerge as the man his father wants him to be.
Starring: Charlie Bewley, Clive Standen, James Cosmo, Elliot Cowan, Glynis Barber
Director: Farren Blackburn
Dark Angel (1990)
Action | Crime | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Houston cop Jack Caine is a not-by-the books police officer investigating the death of several people, including his partner, by a gang called the "White Boys." All the victims seemed to have died of drug overdoses, but Jack thinks that there is something more sinister afoot. His investigation reveals a plot by aliens who use the bodies to extract a chemical that is sold to addicts on their home planet.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Jim Haynie, Michael J. Pollard, Jesse Vint, Al Leong
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Beaufort (2007)
Action | Drama | War
The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.
Starring: Alon Aboutboul, Adi Adouan, Yaakov Ahimeir
Director: Joseph Cedar
