Unknown (2011)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
The Son of No One (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family.
Starring: Channing Tatum, Al Pacino, Juliette Binoche, James Ransone, Ray Liotta, Katie Holmes, Brian Gilbert
Director: Dito Montiel
War, Inc. (2008)
Action | Comedy | Thriller | War
War, Inc. is a political satire set in Turaqistan, a country occupied by a U.S. private corporation run by a former US Vice-President. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man, to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growing demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show Producer in order to pull off this latest hit, while maintaining his cover by organizing the high-profile wedding of Yonica Babyyeah, an outrageous Middle Eastern pop star, and keeping a sexy left wing reporter in check.
Starring: John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley
Director: Joshua Seftel
True Justice: Dark Vengeance (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Seattle's darkest criminals are forcing Elijah Kane and his hard knuckled team to work around the clock tracking down a meticulous 'Black Magic'-practicing killer, in the vagrant strip club underworld.
Starring: Steven Seagal, William Stewart, Alex Mallari Jr., J. Anthony Pena, Sarah Lind, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie
Director: Lauro Chartrand, Wayne Rose
True Justice: Brotherhood (2011)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Elijah Kane's (Steven Seagal) city is caught in the crossfire of a gang war between the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, when they attack the dangerous Mexican gang, MS-13, in Seattle and look to flip a profit doing so. While the gangs war on, a single man has taken the financial crisis personally when he holds his neighborhood bank hostage citing they took not only his house; but his life….
Starring: Steven Seagal, William Stewart, Alex Mallari Jr., J. Anthony Pena, Sarah Lind, Meghan Ory, Warren Christie
Director: Lauro Chartrand, Wayne Rose
Venus & Vegas (2010)
Action | Comedy | Crime
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…well it's a whole other matter when you live there! Eric (Eddie Guerra) and Tara (Jaime Pressly), a couple living in Vegas are really in need of a major event — to help them breakup already! He knows she's dating someone new, but can't let her go. Desperate to win back her heart, and convinced that his "unemployed" status is the cause of all their problems, Eric agrees to join his buddies Stu (Donald Faison) and Alex (Eddie Kaye Thomas), whose principle talents are scamming and avoiding adulthood, and with girlfriend problems of their own, when they discover the easy score of a lifetime-a boatload of casino chips sitting in a warehouse. The casino chips belong to old-school Vegas mobster Frank Santino (Jon Polito) and just happen to be counterfeit.
Starring: Eddie Kaye Thomas, Donald Faison, Eddie Guerra, Jaime Pressly, Abraham Benrubi, Molly Sims, Roselyn Sanchez
Director: Demian Lichtenstein
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The Nutcracker in 3D (2011)
Action | Family | Fantasy
Set in 1920's Vienna, this a tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Shirley Henderson, Aaron Michael Drozin, Charlie Rowe
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy
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Overheard 2 / Sit yan fung wan 2 (2011)
Action | Drama | Thriller
LAW Man-seng, a reputable security dealer was involved in a car accident. Police officer HO Chi-keung is assigned to the case when military surveillance devices were found in LAW's wrecked sports car. During the investigation, Ho finds that Law has some offshore funds of unknown sou rces and that an unknown person Joe is wiretapping not only Law, but other members of 'Landlord Club', a legendary club with members from top business tycoons and entrepreneurs in town.
Starring: Daniel Wu, Louis Koo, Ching Wan Lau, Michelle Ye, Yi Huang, Kenneth Tsang, Alex Fong, Fung Woo, Ying Kwan Lok, Wilfred Lau
Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Overheard / Sit yan fung wan (2009)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A major stock exchange in the world, Hong Kong attracts not only money but anyone who tries to manipulate the market. At the Hong Kong Police Force Commercial Crime Bureau, an operation is underway to infiltrate a trading company where a man nicknamed Boss is the chief suspect. The team, led by Inspector Leung (Lau Ching Wan) together with Yeung (Louis Koo) and Lam (Daniel Wu) installs bugs to monitor the communications. When crucial information on a surging share is intercepted, a moment of greed now puts them in a crossfire between the Bureau and the boss.
Starring: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Jingchu Zhang, Alex Fong, Michael Wong, Waise Lee
Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Hooked on the Game / Na igre (2009) (2009)
Action | Sci-Fi
After a stunning victory at a cyber sport tournament, the winning gamers are awarded CDs with a brand new game. After playing this game, each of them is affected with some force, turning their gaming abilities into real ones. They each become the best fighters, shooters and racers in real life. However, this does not go unnoticed. Through blackmail, cheating and bribes, authorities offer the gamers a "job". But as soon as the lies are revealed it becomes clear that they are not heroes saving their country but nothing more than paid assassins. Moreover, the producer of the game is keeping many more of the same CDs, so many more "heroes" like themselves could also be produced. Now the gamers have to find the CDs and either destroy them or create an army of gamers and rule over all. The team becomes divided into two, each pitted against the other.
Starring: Sergey Chirkov, Marina Petrenko, Pavel Priluchnyy, Evgeniy Kharlanov, Tikhon Zhiznevskiy, Nodar Siradze, Aleksey Bardukov, Agniya Ditkovskite
Director: Pavel Sanaev
L'animal / The Animal / Stuntwoman (1977)
Action | Comedy | Romance
A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari. Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval, Raymond Gérôme, Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday
Director: Claude Zidi
The Wages of Fear / Le salaire de la peur (1953)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their explosive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France's legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Starring: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Blood and Bone (2009)
Action | Drama | Thriller
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
Starring: Michael Jai White, Julian Sands, Eamonn Walker, Dante Basco, Nona Gaye
Director: Ben Ramsey
Caprica (TV Series 2009 )
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Set nearly 60 years before the events depicted in Battlestar Galactica, Caprica tells the story of how the Cylons came to be, set against the backdrop of the Greystones and the Adamas, two families that are changed in an act of tragedy that takes the lives of their daughters.
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Alessandra Torresani, Magda Apanowicz, Paula Malcomson, Sasha Roiz, Polly Walker
Creator: Remi Aubuchon, Ronald D. Moore
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
In the epic finale, the battle between the good and evil forces of the wizarding world escalates into an all-out war. The stakes have never been higher and no one is safe. But it is Harry Potter who may be called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice as he draws closer to the climactic showdown with Lord Voldemort. It all ends here.
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman
Director: David Yates
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Flic ou voyou / Cop or Hood (1979)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti", he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Julie Jézéquel
Director: Georges Lautner
The Pacific (TV mini-series 2010)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
The Pacific is a sister to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers. It focuses on the United States Marine Corps' actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War. Whereas Band of Brothers followed one Army infantry company through the European Theater, The Pacific follows three Marines (Eugene Sledge, Robert Leckie and John Basilone) in separate combat actions.
Starring: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Ben Chisholm, Chris Milligan
Creator: Bruce McKenna
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Band of Brothers (TV mini-series 2001)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Steven E. Ambrose. The Series dramatically re-creates the path of Easy Company, an elite paratrooper unit, from their basic training at Camp Toccoa in Georgia in 1942, to D-Day, to their critical involvement in the Battle of the Bulge, through their triumph at the close of the war.
Starring: Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, Shane Taylor, Donnie Wahlberg, Peter Youngblood Hills
Creator: Erik Jendresen
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (TV mini-series 2011)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Before Spartacus struck down his first opponent in the arena, there were many gladiators who passed though the gates onto the sand.'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena' tells the story of the original Champion of the House of Batiatus: Gannicus in a more ruthless time before Spartacus' arrival where honor was just finding it's way into the arena.
Starring: John Hannah, Manu Bennett, Peter Mensah, Dustin Clare, Nick Tarabay, Lucy Lawless, Craig Walsh Wrightson
Creater: Steven S. DeKnight
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (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
