Foxy Brown (1974)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder, Terry Carter
Director: Jack Hill
Mexican Sunrise (2007)
Action | Drama | Thriller
In less than 24 hours Ryan will be a married man, and in order to celebrate his last night of freedom, Ryan's friends have arranged an elaborate bachelor party blowout across the Mexican border. But somewhere along the journey everything falls apart. Now as one man struggles for survival after being stuffed into a barrel and buried alive, the grim events of that fateful evening unfold in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards that will leave the viewer guessing until the crucial final seconds.
Starring: Armand Assante, Jordan Belfi, William Gregory Lee, Reed Frerichs, Tom Tartamella, Drew Powell
Director: Rowdy Stovall
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Run-down Precinct 13 is closing its doors forever. But everything changes when a high-security prison transport bus arrives with some of Detroit's most lethal prisoners. Soon, the only thing more dangerous than the criminals on the inside is the rogue gang on the outside. And if they're going to survive the night, two men on opposite sides of the law will have to work together to battle an enemy who doesn't follow the code of cop or criminal.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
The Steel Helmet (1951)
Action | Drama | War
During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers. The group stumbles upon a Buddhist temple where they decide to hold up, believing it to be empty…
Starring: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo, William Chun
Director: Samuel Fuller
Sahara (1943)
Action | Drama | War
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are greatly in need of water.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Richard Aherne, Dan Duryea
Director: Zoltan Korda
Man of the House (2005)
Action | Comedy
A Texas Ranger must protect a group of cheerleaders who have witnessed a murder.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Christina Milian, Cedric the Entertainer, Paula Garcés, Monica Keena, Kelli Garner
Director: Stephen Herek
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Action | Adventure | Romance | War
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and Vickers promises to revenge the dead.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven
Director: Michael Curtiz
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Action | Thriller
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President, and avert an even bigger disaster.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Dylan McDermott, Rick Yune
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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
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Heroes of the East / Drunk Shaolin Challenges Ninja / Zhong hua zhang fu (1978)
Action | Drama
A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted by the others. He must then prove how good Chinese Kung Fu really is through a series of duels with the seven Japanese martial artists who come to meet the challenge.
Starring: Chia Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
A Dark Truth / The Truth (2012)
Action | Thriller
A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.
Starring: Kim Coates, Forest Whitaker, Kevin Durand, Andy Garcia, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria, Devon Bostick
Director: Damian Lee
The Art of War II: Betrayal / The Art of War 2 (2008)
Action | Thriller
When Agent Neil Shaw comes out of hiding to vindicate his former mentor's murder, he winds up on the trail of betrayal and lethal corruption. Under the charge of his friend and a senatorial candidate, his mission is to set things straight. But when more people turn up dead, Shaw realizes that he's been set up as bait.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Lochlyn Munro, Athena Karkanis, Winston Rekert, Ryan McDonald, Rachel Hayward, Scott Heindl
Director: Josef Rusnak
The Host (2013)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Max Irons, Rachel Roberts, Marcus Lyle Brown
Director: Andrew Niccol
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The Legend of Zorro / The Mask of Zorro 2 (2005)
Action | Adventure | Western
After fighting to help California become the 31st state of the Union, Zorro must live up to the promise he made his wife Elena – to give up his secret identity and live a normal life as Alejandro de la Vega. When he hesitates, it threatens to tear them apart. Now, the same forces that conspired to keep California from becoming part of the United States are plotting to unleash a threat that has been 500 years in the making, a threat that could change the course of history forever. And only Zorro can stop it.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Adrian Alonso
Director: Martin Campbell
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Western
It has been 20 years since Don Diego de la Vega successfully fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Imprisoned for two decades, he now must find a successor to stop Don Rafael Montero–the powerful, former Spanish governor of Alta California who cost de la Vega his freedom, his wife, Esperanza, and his daughter, Elena–who is making plans to purchase California from Mexico's president, General Santa Anna. Alejandro Murieta, a bandit with a troubled past, is transformed by Don Diego into a new Zorro who he hopes will help him foil Montero's schemes once and for all. Tracing the heroic story of these highly-charged relationships, the tale follows the new Zorro as he assumes de la Vega's mantle and enters into a romantic relationship with a woman close to his predecessor's heart…
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Stuart Wilson, Matt Letscher, Tony Amendola
Director: Martin Campbell
A Viking Saga: The Darkest Day (2013)
Action | Adventure | Thriller
Inspired by true events. Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne – a book of great beauty and power – to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture. On his way to the monastery, he meets a fierce and skilled swordsman who answers his prayers and dedicates his life to protecting Hereward while he delivers the book. In the midst of their journey, they are confronted by Vikings ready to kill in order to get what they want, leaving Hereward and his protector at their mercy.
Starring: Michael Jibson, Mark Lewis Jones, Marc Pickering, Joshua Richards, Paul Jibson, Elen Rhys
Director: Chris Crow
Dead Man Down (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two strangers are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard, Armand Assante, Isabelle Huppert
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Edge of the Empire (2010)
Action
"Edge Of The Empire" is based on a 1973 novel by Sanya Pholprasit. Set in southern Mongolia over 1,000 years ago, a small tribe called Tai was a colony under the power of the Great Han who enslaved them. Oppressed by the Han, the Tai unites to strike back for their freedom, justice, and country. This Thai historical epic revolves around heroes who sacrificed themselves to fight against the invasion of intruders and sought for the freedom of the country.
Starring: Ad Carabao, Sara Legge, Arnut Rapanit, Lalisa Sontirod, Than Thanakorn
Director: Nirattisai Kaljareuk
Nowhere to Hide
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A chase film in which cops try to catch a master of disguise. This is a film as much about the joy of filmmaking as it is about a deadly pursuit.
Starring: Joong-Hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-gun Jang, Ji-Woo Choi
Director: Myung-se Lee
14 Blades / Jin yi wei (2010)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
At the dawn of the Ming Dynasty, in order to consolidate all power and keep his bloodline on the throne, the Emperor established a secure system of defence for himself by taking young orphans off the street and training them to the highest martial arts standards to become his secret guards. Called Jinyiwei (the Brocade Guards), these warriors operated under their own code of law, led by the most skilled of their number, Qinglong. Bestowed upon him as leader is a box containing 14 steel blades, eight of which are to be used for interrogation and the remaining six for execution. When the Imperial Court is usurped by the evil eunuch Jia, Qinglong is assigned to steal a list identifying those still loyal to the Emperor. But unknown to him, the Jinyiwei themselves have fallen under the control of Jia, who, in league with an exiled noble, Prince Qing, is plotting to rebel against the Emperor and seize power.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Zhao Wei, Chun Wu, Kate Tsui, Yuwu Qi, Ma Wu, Sammo Hung
Director: Daniel Lee
