Category: Action
Posted on September 12, 2012 |
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Spartacus: Vengeance (TV Series 2010-2013)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus, a Thracian warrior captured by Romans, is enslaved into a gladiator training school owned by Batiatus and his wife Lucretia. He is forced to fight daily for his life against deadly foes, under the brutal whip of trainer Doctore. Against all odds, Spartacus' rebellious instincts, his intense love for his wife Sura and his powerful fighting skills drive him to win a series of near-impossible battles – setting in motion a revolution against the tyranny of Rome. To survive, he must become more than a man, more than a gladiator. He must become a legend.
Starring: Andy Whitfield, Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, John Hannah, Peter Mensah, Nick Tarabay, Viva Bianca
Creator: Steven S. DeKnight
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Posted on September 12, 2012 |
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The Cold Light of Day (2012)
Action | Thriller
Story of Will Shaw, a young Wall Street trader whose family is kidnapped on a vacation to Spain. He's left with only hours to find them, uncover a government conspiracy and the connection between their disappearance and his father's secrets.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui, Roschdy Zem, Joseph Mawle
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
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Tags: Bruce Willis, Henry Cavill, Joseph Mawle, Mabrouk El Mechri, Roschdy Zem, Sigourney Weaver, Verónica Echegui
Posted on September 12, 2012 |
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Alone in the Dark (2005)
Action | Horror
Based on the video game, Alone in the Dark focuses on Edward Carnby, a detective of the paranormal, who slowly unravels a mysterious events with deadly results.
Starring: Christian Slater, Tara Reid, Stephen Dorff, Frank C. Turner, Matthew Walker, Will Sanderson, Mark Acheson, Darren Shahlavi, Karin Konoval
Director: Uwe Boll
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Posted on September 11, 2012 |
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Triple Tap / Cheung wong chi wong (2010)
Action | Thriller
Champion competitive marksman Ken comes across an armoured Van Robbery. He sees a policeman help hostage and shoots and kills four of the robbers. One of the robbers escapes and the policeman survives. The case is handled by Jerry Chang, whom Ken knows from having recetly beaten him in a shooting match. Ken is found not guilty in court. Soon after, Ken is attacked by the escaped robber Pang Tao. Their confrontation reveals a very different background story and brings about a myriad of lies and traps and changes in relationships as Jerry and Ken try to outsmart each other.
Starring: Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Charlene Choi, Bingbing Li, Alex Fong, Suet Lam, Chapman To
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
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Tags: Alex Fong, Bingbing Li, Chapman To, Charlene Choi, Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Suet Lam, Tung-Shing Yee
Posted on September 11, 2012 |
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Big Momma's House 2 / Big Mama 2 (2006)
Action | Comedy | Thriller
Undercover Agent Malcolm Turner is back and this time he's out to expose the suspected designer of a deadly computer "worm" that would allow outside forces access to sophistical and critical government intelligence files. But unfortunately, the only way the crafty agent can get next to the worm's creator, Tom Fuller, is to access the programmer's Orange County home as the new "nanny" to Fuller and his wife Leah's children: toddler Andrew and his two older sisters, Carrie and Molly. This means that Malcolm must once again rely on his sure-fire alter ego, the take-no-prisoners Hattie Mae Pierce, a.k.a. "Big Momma," to bring down the bad guys and prove that a woman's work is never done! But once undercover, the job proves another tough juggling act for Big Momma as "she" must manage the hectic lives of the three Fuller kids, keep up with their myriad of daily activities…
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter
Director: John Whitesell
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Posted on September 11, 2012 |
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Big Momma's House / Big Mama (2000)
Action | Comedy | Crime
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time…
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti
Director: Raja Gosnell
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Posted on September 11, 2012 |
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Hitman / Sat sau ji wong (1998)
Action | Comedy
A dying old man hires a mysterious rogue assassin known as the 'King of Assassins' to kill the former yakuza boss who murdered his family during the Sino-Japanese war. Ironically, the yakuza boss forsees his own death and establishes a $100 million dollar revenge fund to reward the person who kills the instigator.
Starring: Jet Li, Eric Tsang, Simon Yam, Gigi Leung, Keiji Sato
Director: Wei Tang
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Posted on September 10, 2012 |
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Men in Black 3 / MIIIB (2012)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Agent Jay travels back in time to 1969, where he teams up with a younger version of Agent Kay to stop an evil alien from destroying the future.
Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Emma Thompson, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Posted on September 10, 2012 |
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Cyborg Girl / Boku no kanojo wa saibôgu (2008)
Action | Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
A lonesome college student, Jiro, is spending his 20th birthday alone, when suddenly, a beautiful girl turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good-fortune in meeting her. But his happiness does not last long as she disappears as suddenly as she appeared. A year later, on his 21st birthday, Jiro runs into her again at the same restaurant, where she saves him and countless others from a crazy assassin. She looks the same, but this time she is somehow different. It is the beginning of a relationship that would change his life forever.
Starring: Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide
Director: Jae-young Kwak
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Posted on September 9, 2012 |
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Murder 2 (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A former police officer gets hired by a gangster to trace missing call girls and their abductor.
Starring: Jaqueline Fernandes, Yana Gupta, Emraan Hashmi, Amardeep Jha, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Director: Mohit Suri
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Tags: Amardeep Jha, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal, Emraan Hashmi, Jaqueline Fernandes, Mohit Suri, Yana Gupta
Posted on September 7, 2012 |
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The Getaway (1972)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Master thief Doc McCoy knows his wife has been in bed with the local political boss in order to spring him from jail. What he can't know is the sinister succession of double-crosses that will sour the deal once he's on the outside – and executing the ultimate robbery. Fasten your seat belts and join Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw in a supreme action thriller based on Jim Thompson's novel. Sam Peckinpah directed, filming on locations across Texas and in sequence – from the opening inside Hunstville State Prison to the explosive El Paso border climax. Once The Getaway starts, there's no escaping its breathless intensity.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Posted on September 7, 2012 |
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The Prey / La Proie (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
Franck Adrien is serving a prison sentence for robbery. When he learns that his wife is in financial difficulty he confides in his cellmate, Jean-Louis Maurel, the location of the booty of his last heist. Maurel is due to be released soon and Franck is certain that he can trust him to come to his wife's rescue…
Starring: Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Stéphane Debac, Sergi López, Natacha Régnier, Serge Hazanavicius, Zinedine Soualem, Caterina Murino
Director: Eric Valette
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Tags: Albert Dupontel, Alice Taglioni, Caterina Murino, Eric Valette, Natacha Régnier, Serge Hazanavicius, Sergi López, Stéphane Debac, Zinedine Soualem
Posted on September 7, 2012 |
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Robotropolis (2011)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A group of reporters are covering the unveiling of a new facility that is completely maintained by robot prototypes. When one of the robots goes haywire, the reporters find themselves not just reporting on the malfunction, but fighting for their lives.
Starring: Zoe Naylor, Graham Sibley, Edward Foy, Lani John Tupu, Jourdan Lee
Director: Christopher Hatton
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Posted on September 4, 2012 |
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Pour la peau d'un flic / For a Cop's Hide (1981)
Action | Crime | Romance | Thriller
Once a regular cop, Choucas now works as a private investigator, using methods his former colleagues would revile him for. One day, he receives a visit from an old lady, Madame Pigot, who asks him to look into the disappearance of her blind daughter. Choucas accepts the apparently anodyne case but soon finds he may be in for more than he bargained. First he is assaulted by a mysterious stranger and then Madame Pigot is shot dead just before she can give him vital information relating to her daughter. Then, when he is set up for killing a police commissioner, Choucas realises that he has been caught up in a very deadly game of cat and mouse. But who are his opponents and why are they so keen to have him killed…?
Starring: Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Daniel Ceccaldi, Jean-Pierre Darras, Michel Auclair
Director: Alain Delon
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Posted on September 4, 2012 |
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Collision Earth (2011)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When the sun converts to a magnetar for a short time, the planet Mercury is thrown out of orbit (along with a spaceship exploring it) and set on a collision course for Earth. Can a disgraced scientist manage to use his failed weapon system, Project 7, to save our planet?
Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Diane Farr, Chad Krowchuk, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Adam Greydon Reid, Andrew Airlie, David Lewis
Director: Paul Ziller
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Posted on September 4, 2012 |
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Extreme Rage / A Man Apart (2003)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Sean Vetter and his partner Demetrius Hicks came up on the mean streets of Los Angeles but now work together as DEA agents, fighting a seven-year war to stem the virulent drug pipeline along the US/Mexico border. Dubbed "the gunslingers'" for their tough street tactics, their perseverance pays off when they take down notorious Baja Cartel kingpin Memo Lucero Geno.With Lucero locked away in a maximum security prison, Vetter is finally able to go home to his wife, Stacy, a sanctuary from the harsh realities of his job. But in the wake of Lucero's arrest, a mysterious figure, known only as Diablo, emerges to violently claim the Baja Cartel. And when Vetter and Hicks set their sights on identifying and stopping this dangerous and elusive new player, Diablo makes the fight personal– robbing Vetter of the one person who gives his life meaning–Stacy. With nothing to lose, Vetter pulls out every hidden resource at his disposal to bring Diablo down–including an unlikely alliance with the jailed Cartel boss Lucero. He will stop at nothing to avenge his wife's murder, edging dangerously close to the line between justice and lawlessness, even if it sets him at odds with the police unit to which he has dedicated his life.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Larenz Tate, Timothy Olyphant, Jacqueline Obradors
Director: F. Gary Gray
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Posted on September 4, 2012 |
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The Qwaser of Stigmata : Portrait of the Empress / Seikon no Kueisā: Joō no Enpuresu (2010)
Action | Animation | Anime | Drama | Sci-Fi
This OVA is a parallel story that happened between the episodes 10 and 11 of the anime series "Seikon no Qwaser", that's why it's also considered as the episode 10.5. The story focuses on Ekaterina Kurae.
Director: Hiraku Kaneko
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Posted on September 3, 2012 |
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Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Sam Claflin
Director: Rupert Sanders
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Posted on September 3, 2012 |
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Lord of War (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chance leads Yuri Orlov to discover his one talent – illegal arms dealing. With his brother's help, he reaches the top of the trade, supplying anyone whose check clears. His skills and quick wits bring him everything he's ever wanted – and help him elude a persistent Interpol agent. But at the peak of his prowess, he discovers his customers might demand more than he can give…and those he's trying to protect could become deadly liabilities.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ian Holm, Ethan Hawke
Director: Andrew Niccol
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Posted on September 3, 2012 |
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Under Siege 2 / Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
Action | Thriller
Maniacal techno-expert Travis Dane hijacks a train and converts it into a command center. He seizes control of a satellite super-weapon and threatens to destroy Washington, D.C., unless his one-billion dollar demand is met. Unfortunately for him, however, Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal) happens to be on board, travelling with his niece, Sarah, and is the only man between Dane and the obliteration of three million people.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Katherine Heigl, Everett McGill, Morris Chestnut, Nick Mancuso
Director: Geoff Murphy
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