Action movies

Watchmen (2009)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Danny Woodburn | Apollonia Vanova | Nhi Do | Tony Ali | Jay Brazeau | Chris Burns | Billy Crudup | Matt Drake | Ron Fassler | Matt Frewer | L. Harvey Gold | Matthew Goode
Directors: Zack Snyder
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A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.

XIII (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action
Countries: Canada | France
Actors: Stephen Dorff | Val Kilmer | Jessalyn Gilsig | Stephen McHattie | Caterina Murino | Cedric Smith | John Bourgeois | Mimi Kuzyk | Greg Bryk | Julie McLeod | Jacqueline Pillon | Nigel Shawn Williams | Andrew Jackson | Hrant Alianak | Ted Atherton
Directors: Duane Clark
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The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Independence Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man washed up on a beach. The young man (Dorff) cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity. The only clue is a tattoo on his neck, “XIII”. Meanwhile, in the Whitehouse, government intelligence is still conducting the search for the President’s killer. With the elections just weeks away, a confirmed suspect could swing the vote for the administration. Hours after XIII’s location is picked up by covert intelligence, elite special ops forces are swarming the couple’s house in Cape Fear. Running on adrenaline and instinct, XIII tactically takes out the soldiers one by one. On the run, clinging to one desperate clue after another, XIII begins to piece back his life, fragments of his memory returning. Finally captured, he learns that he has been given a stolen identity and placed undercover to flush out a group of conspirators threatening to overthrow the government. Ensconced within the highest echelons of power the conspirators run their own security agency alongside the Government’s. Both are out to find him. The only way for XIII to get his own life back is to play bait. A dangerous game, especially when you don’t know who you really are.

Twin Daggers (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action
Countries: China
Actors: Rhett Giles | Veronica Bero | Coco Su
Directors: Keun-Hou Chen
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In the 1930s a famous Los Angeles underworld hitman Scholar (Rhett Giles) and a band of trained assassins are hired by the exotic and beautiful Kay (Coco Su) to avenge her parents; death by the hands of her equally stunning twin sister. Traveling to Shanghai Scholar finds the twin sister Sue (Coco Su) has taken over the family fortunes and lifestyle. He finds himself falling for his target. Instead of killing her he chooses to save her from his fellow assassins (Veronica Bero Joey Covington Vasilios Elovalis) by taking them out one-by-one. Torn between his commitment to his paying client and his romantic feelings for her sister Scholar enters into a dangerous liaison with both unable to trust either one and unable to let them go…

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | John Goodman | Joe Morton | Nia Peeples | Kathleen Freeman | J. Evan Bonifant | Frank Oz | Steve Lawrence | Darrell Hammond | Erykah Badu | Walter Levine | Tom Davis | Shann Johnson | B.B. King | Gloria Slade
Directors: John Landis
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Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a battle of the bands against the Louisiana Gators led by B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, and others.

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: John Belushi | Dan Aykroyd | James Brown | Cab Calloway | Ray Charles | Aretha Franklin | Steve Cropper | Donald Dunn | Murphy Dunne | Willie Hall | Tom Malone | Lou Marini | Matt Murphy | Alan Rubin | Carrie Fisher
Directors: John Landis
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Clash of the Titans (1981)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Laurence Olivier | Claire Bloom | Maggie Smith | Ursula Andress | Jack Gwillim | Susan Fleetwood | Pat Roach | Harry Hamlin | Judi Bowker | Burgess Meredith | Siân Phillips | Flora Robson | Anna Manahan | Freda Jackson | Tim Pigott-Smith
Directors: Desmond Davis
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By answering a seemingly impossible riddle, Perseus, the son of Zeus, wins the hand of the Princess Andromeda in marriage. Trouble appears in the shape of Calibos, the princess’s former love, and his mother, the Goddess Thetis. In order that the dreaded Kraken not be released, Andromeda has to be sacrificed and Perseus searches for the Medusa; her head is the only thing that can stop the Kraken.

Death Toll (2007)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action
Countries: USA
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips | DMX | Keshia Knight Pulliam | Leila Arcieri | Eric F. Adams | Gene Christensen | Jarred Coates | Zacharias Foppe | Jeff Galpin | Dan Garcia | Oneal A. Isaac | Albert 'Dat Tim' Johnson | Armando Leduc | Dallas Montgomery | Alec Rayme
Directors: Phenomenon
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New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the “Murder Capital of the Country.” Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city’s law enforcement, neighborhoods and its people. Illustrating this dark chapter in the city’s history is “Death Toll”.

Desert Saints (2000)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Brent Roam | Shawn Woods | Christopher Bersh | Kiefer Sutherland | Rachel Ticotin | Beth Grant | Zach Chapman | Jamey Sheridan | Leslie Stefanson | Melora Walters | Buddy Quaid | Keith Diamond | Bill Sage | Aliza Waksal | Alan Gelfant
Directors: Richard Greenberg
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Kill Switch (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Holly Dignard | Karyn Michelle Baltzer | Chris Thomas King | Philip Granger | Jerry Rector | Michael Bendner | Chris Bradford | Matt Brett | Mark Collie | David Patrick Green | Finn Michael | Phillip Mitchell | J. Anthony Pena | Holly Eglington
Directors: Jeff King
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A troubled detective travels to Memphis in order to track down a pair of serial killers.

Anaconda 3: The Offspring (2008)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror
Countries: Romania | USA
Actors: Crystal Allen | David Hasselhoff | John Rhys-Davies | Patrick Regis | Anthony Green | Vasile Albinet | Zoltan Butuc | Serban Celea | Mihaela Elena Oros
Directors: Don E. FauntLeRoy
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A mercenary-for-hire accepts a mission from a billionaire to capture a dangerous snake that could possibly help cure a terminal illness.