Category: Action
Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines / Clash of Empires (2011)
Action | Adventure
The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines (released in Malaysia as "Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa") is an adventure feature film set against the backdrop of ancient Malay, Roman and Chinese civilizations. It tells the tale of the journey of Merong Mahawangsa escorting a Roman prince to wed a beautiful Chinese princess during the 2nd century. Featuring an international cast, The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines combines elements of romance, adventure, coupled with a strong dose of hand-to-hand combat & martial arts.
Starring: Stephen Rahman Hughes, Gavin Stenhouse, Jing Lusi
Director: Yusry Abd Halim
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Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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Dragon Lord / Long xiao ye (1982)
Action | Comedy | Sport
The rich Wang has a son, Cowboy, who is the friend of Dragon Ho. One day we find Ho and Cowboy playing truant from their studies. The two young men are attracted by the beautiful Alice. Dared by Cowboy, Ho tries to get a love letter to her house by attaching it to a kite. The kite is blown off-course and Ho chases after it, desperate to recover his letter. The chase ends in a usually deserted house where Ho is surprised by imperial guards packing the treasure. Big Boss lets his go after Cowboy's father pleads for him. In the confusion, tiger manages to steal some of the treasure…
Starring: Jackie Chan, Corey Yuen, Hark-On Fung, Wai-Man Chan, Paul Chang, Kang-Yeh Cheng, Wah Cheung
Director: Jackie Chan
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Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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The Magnificent Butcher / Lin Shi Rong (1979)
Action | Comedy
Lam sai-wing is the mischievous student of Wong Fei-hung. His eagerness to help others often lands himself in some precarious situations. He mistakenly befriends the only son of Master Kao from the Five Dragons School who then frames him for the murder of his God sister. Master Kao upon hearing his God daughter and his only son's death seeks Wing to avenger their cruel death…
Starring: Sammo Hung, Hoi Sang Lee, Pai Wei, Biao Yuen, Tak-Hing Kwan
Director: Sammo Hung, Woo-ping Yuen
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Tags: Biao Yuen, Hoi Sang Lee, Pai Wei, Sammo Hung, Tak-Hing Kwan, Woo-ping Yuen
Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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Dragons Forever / Fei lung mang jeung (1988)
Action | Comedy | Romance
Hotshot lawyer is hired by a mysterious chemistry factory to dig up dirt on an inconvenient fishery seeking damaging court action. Sidekick Hung and professional crook. Yuen swiftly sprint to Chan's aid. Ironically the gang finds their toughness softening in the face of two gorgeous ladies at the fishery. They inadvertently hit a center nerve of the chemical factory when they unmask the hideous fade of a narcotic syndicate.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen, Pauline Yeung, Deannie Yip, Wah Yuen
Director: Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen
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Tags: Biao Yuen, Corey Yuen, Deannie Yip, Jackie Chan, Pauline Yeung, Sammo Hung, Wah Yuen
Posted on January 22, 2013 |
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Airbag (1997)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Mommy's boy Juantxo is engaged. Dragged to the party by his friends Konradin and Paco, he loses his expensive wedding ring inside the body of a prostitute. Mafioso whorehouse owner Villambrosa finds the ring. Meanwhile Villambrosa's rival gangster Souza sends "femme fatale" Fatima to check things out. Juantxo and his friends are trying to get the ring back and in the process get involved in the war between gangs…
Starring: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Karra Elejalde, Alberto San Juan, Manuel Manquiña, Maria de Medeiros
Director: Juanma Bajo Ulloa
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Tags: Alberto San Juan, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Karra Elejalde, Manuel Manquiña, Maria de Medeiros
Posted on January 22, 2013 |
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The Adventurers / Da mao xian jia (1995)
Action | Drama
Andy Lau seeks revenge in The Adventurers, a continent-jumping action-adventure directed by ace Hong Kong filmmaker Ringo Lam!
Starring: Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Chien-lien Wu, George Cheung
Director: Ringo Lam
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Posted on January 22, 2013 |
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Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft (2013)
Action
Jonah and Ella Mazer (Hansel and Gretel) were happy, normal teenagers sent to an elite boarding school. The Head Master, Sebastian, seems to know more about the brother and sister than they know about themselves. As both get to know their high school classmates, strange and frightening things begin to happen. When their new friends explain that they are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Hansel and Gretel to join them and complete a new generation of the Coven, both refuse to believe them. But it's not until Hansel discovers a message from his mother in an old leather-bound book of spells hidden in the school library, that he understands their true and dangerous destiny – slaying witches.
Starring: Booboo Stewart, Fivel Stewart, Vanessa Angel, Tyne Stecklein, Judy Norton, Cherie Currie, Courtney B Turk, Niclas Gillis, Zac Goodspeed
Director: David DeCoteau
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Tags: Booboo Stewart, Cherie Currie, Courtney B Turk, David DeCoteau, Fivel Stewart, Judy Norton, Niclas Gillis, Tyne Stecklein, Vanessa Angel, Zac Goodspeed
Posted on January 22, 2013 |
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Crowsnest (2012)
Action | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
This is a 'found-footage' movie from Canada about five young friends who go on a trip to a cabin back in 2011, but on the way (while filming it) they head off the beaten track to a place called Crowsnest where they have heard that you can buy beer for half price! They get the beer but at the same time they receive a warning to head back where they came from or they will die. But they don't take the warning too seriously and keep driving in to the forest. But they seem to be lost, then an RV hits one of them and all hell breaks loose. There's something about the people in the RV. Will the friends survive?
Starring: Mittita Barber, Aslam Husain, Victor Zinck Jr., Chelsey Reist, Christie Burke
Director: Brenton Spencer
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Posted on January 21, 2013 |
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101 Zombies / Broken Springs (2010)
Action | Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Three teenage boys have their world turned upside down by tainted moonshine. They must rescue their loved ones and battle a marauding horde of zombies while fighting their way out of town.
Starring: Teague Quillen, Travis Moody, Brandon Jenkins, Jake Lawson, W. Scott Parker III, Shannon Wallen, Hunter Roberts, Debbie Green
Director: Neeley Lawson
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Tags: Brandon Jenkins, Debbie Green, Hunter Roberts, Jake Lawson, Neeley Lawson, Shannon Wallen, Teague Quillen, Travis Moody, W. Scott Parker III
Posted on January 20, 2013 |
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Here Comes the Boom (2012)
Action | Comedy
A high school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extra-curricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school.
Starring: Kevin James, Henry Winkler, Salma Hayek, Greg Germann, Gary Valentine, Reggie Lee
Director: Frank Coraci
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Posted on January 20, 2013 |
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The Thieves / Dodookdeul (2012)
Action | Crime
In order to let things cool down from their latest heist, Popeye and his group of thieves go to Macao on a job. But the mastermind behind this job is none other than Popeye’s old partner Macao Park, who escaped with 68kg of gold several years ago on their last job together. But his plan takes an unexpected turn when Popeye brings Pepsi, an old flame of Park's, to settle the old score. Their target is a $20 million diamond known as 'Tear of the Sun', kept safely away in a casino to be sold by a notorious Chinese fence. While working together to steal this fabled diamond, they all have their own agenda to keep the diamond for themselves. But who will succeed and live to see another day?
Starring: Jung-Jae Lee, Yun-seok Kim, Gianna Jun, Angelica Lee, Simon Yam
Director: Dong-Hoon Choi
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Posted on January 20, 2013 |
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Yo-Yo Girl Cop / Sukeban Deka: Kôdo nêmu = Asamiya Saki (2006)
Action
Tough juvenile delinquent "K" (Matsûra Aya) is transferred from New York back to Japan where the police enlist her to become their newest bearer of the agent codename Asamiya Saki in exchange for the freedom of her imprisoned mother, a former Asamiya Saki herself. The police send her undercover to the trouble-ridden Seisen High School to investigate mysterious bombings linking to an underground Web site named Enola Gay. The website is counting down to an ominous event, and Asamiya Saki has only three days to solve the case.
Starring: Aya Matsuura, Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, Yui Okada, Yuki Saitô, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Riki Takeuchi, Makoto Sakamoto
Director: Kenta Fukasaku
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Tags: Aya Matsuura, Erika Miyoshi, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kenta Fukasaku, Makoto Sakamoto, Rika Ishikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Yui Okada, Yuki Saitô
Posted on January 20, 2013 |
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Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed / Saints and Soldiers 2 (2012)
Action | Drama | War
On August 15, 1944 the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Their mission was to support and protect the Allied Troops marching to Berlin. Landing in enemy territory, they fell under immediate attack. In their effort to complete the mission and rendez-vous with their unit, three isolated paratroopers come across a group of French resistants in desperate need. They decide to help liberate some of the captive Partisans. Doing so they will risk their lives.
Starring: Craig Conway, Simon Phillips, Gemma Atkinson, Alan Ford, Julian Glover, Mark Hamill
Director: Ryan Little
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Posted on January 19, 2013 |
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The Philly Kid (2012)
Action | Drama | Sport
A former NCAA champion wrestler is paroled after 10 years in prison. Now, to save a friend's life, in a series of cage fights he must agree to do the impossible – lose.
Starring: Wes Chatham, Devon Sawa, Sarah Butler, Neal McDonough, Michael Jai White
Director: Jason Connery
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Posted on January 18, 2013 |
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Triad / Zha Zhi (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
The 90's were the glory days for the Hong Kong Triads, an underground order that has stood the test of time, stemming from an offshoot of the Shaolin monks that fought as a resistance to overturn the government during the turn of the century. These gangs ruled the Hong Kong night for decades, through controlling prostitution, drug trades and illegal gambling. It was during the 90's when their lifestyle came under threat as the Hong Kong handover to China drew near… This is the story based on real events of a college graduate who chose a life of crime over a future of boundless potential to push the Triads through the tough times during the 90's into the new millennium.
Starring: Wai-Man Chan, Patrick Tam, Kwok Cheung Tsang, Edward Tsui, Michelle Wai, William Chan, Irene Wan
Director: Daniel Chan
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Posted on January 18, 2013 |
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Domino (2005)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A trademark Tony Scott film and starring Keira Knightley, Domino presents an entertaining mix of gritty action and a sharp visual style. The film is inspired by the life of Domino Harvey, a former model who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills life to become a bounty hunter.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Mena Suvari, Lucy Liu
Director: Tony Scott
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Posted on January 16, 2013 |
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Snabba Cash II / Easy Money 2 (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
JW – once promising Trading College with a big hunger for quick cash. Now, he pays the price; four years in Norrtälje Institution. Prison time is tough but JW has a plan on how he should get out of the criminal world and change your life right. But one day everything changes when a new deadly inmate comes to prison, a man from JW's violent past – Mrado Slovovic.
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Lisa Henni, Fares Fares
Director: Babak Najafi
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Posted on January 16, 2013 |
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The Core (2003)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.
Starring: Hillary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, DJ Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Jon Amiel
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Tags: Aaron Eckhart, Bruce Greenwood, Delroy Lindo, DJ Qualls, Hillary Swank, Jon Amiel, Richard Jenkins, Stanley Tucci
Posted on January 16, 2013 |
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Black's Game / Svartur á leik (2012)
Action | Crime | Thriller
In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of pushers that took control of Iceland's underworld.
Starring: Thor Kristjansson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Damon Younger, María Birta, Vignir Rafn Valþórsson, Egill Einarsson, Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson
Director: Óskar Thór Axelsson
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Tags: Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson, Damon Younger, Egill Einarsson, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, María Birta, Óskar Thór Axelsson, Thor Kristjansson, Vignir Rafn Valþórsson
Posted on January 15, 2013 |
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Counterpunch (2013)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
Based on a true story. A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle he gets a second shot at the championship title. As he is toe to toe in the ring with his competitor he'll throw all the punches and be the last man standing.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Steven Bauer, Alvaro Orlando, Oscar Torre, Camila Banus
Director: Kenneth Castillo
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Tags: Alvaro Orlando, Camila Banus, Danny Trejo, Kenneth Castillo, Oscar Torre, Steven Bauer