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In AD 922, Arab courtier Ahmad Ibn Fadlan accompanies a party of Vikings to the barbaric North. Ibn Fadlan is appalled by the Vikings customs-- their wanton sexuality, their disregard for cleanliness, their cold-blooded human sacrifices. And then he learns the horrifying truth: he has been enlisted to combat a terror that slaughters the Vikings and devours their flesh. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | John McTiernan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Antonio Banderas , Tony Curran , Omar Sharif |
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|  | | A History Of Violence | | | | Plot Summary
Based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence is the tale of Tom Stall. Tom is a loving family man and well-respected citizen of a small Indiana town. But when two savage criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all that media attention has the likes of mobsters showing up at his doorstep, charging that Tom is someone else they've been looking for. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history that no one knows about? Either way, someone's about to find out if there's a history of violence. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | David Cronenberg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | William Hurt, Ed Harris, Maria Bello, Viggo Mortensen |
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|  | | AEon Flux | | | | Plot Summary
The sci-fi actioner is set 400 years in the future, when disease has wiped out the majority of the earth's population except for one walled, protected city-state, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. The story centers on Aeon Flux(Theron), the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, led by The Handler(Frances McDormand). When Aeon is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets... |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Karyn Kusama | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Frances McDormand, Jonny Lee Miller, Pete Postlethwaite |
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|  | | After The Sunset | | | | Plot Summary
After a successful last score, a master thief (Brosnan) retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Brett Ratner | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek , Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris, Chris Penn |
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|  | | Alamo | | | | Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23-March 6, 1836) where 183 Texans (American-born Texans) and Tejanos (Mexican-born Texans) commanded by Colonel Travis, along with Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie, were besieged in an abandoned mission outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under the personal command of the dictator of Mexico, General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto (April 21, 1836) where General Sam Houston's rag-tag army of Texans took on and defeated Santa Anna's army which led to the indepedence of Texas. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | John Lee Hancock | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric |
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|  | | Alexander | | | | Plot Summary
Conquering 90% of the known world by the age of 25, Alexander the Great (Farrell) led his armies through 22,000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years. Coming out of tiny Macedonia, Alexander led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, drove west to Egypt, and finally made his way east to India. This film will concentrate on those eight years of battles, as well as his relationship with his boyhood friend and battle mate, Hephaestion. Alexander died young, of illness, at 33. Alexander's conquests paved the way for the spread of Greek culture (facilitating the spread of Christianity centuries later), and removed many of the obstacles that might have prevented the expansion of the Roman Empire. In other words, the world we know today might never have been if not for Alexander's bloody, yet unifying, conquest. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Oliver Stone | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Anthony Hopkins , Angelina Jolie , Val Kilmer, Christopher Plummer , Colin Farrell |
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|  | | Any Given Sunday | | | | Plot Summary
When a devastating hit knocks a professional football legend and quarterback Cap Rooney (Denis Quaid) out of the game, a young, unknown third-stringer is called in to replace him. Having ridden the bench for years because of a string of bad luck stories and perhaps insufficient character, Willie Beaman (Jamie Foxx) seizes what may be his last chance, and lights up the field with a raw display of athletic prowess. His stunning performance over several games is so outstanding and fresh it seems to augur a new era in the history of this Miami franchise, and forces aging coach Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino) to reevaluate his time-tested values and strategies and begin to confront the fact that the game, as well as post-modern life may be passing him by. Adding to the pressure on D'Amato to win at any cost is the aggressive young President/Co-owner of the team, Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz), now coming into her own after her father's death. Christina's driving desire to prove herself in a male dominated world is intensified by her focus on the marketing and business of football, in which all coaches and players are merely properties. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Oliver Stone | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Al Pacino , Cameron Diaz , Dennis Quaid ... , James Woods , Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J ... |
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|  | | Apocalypse Now | | | | Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. We follow Captain Willard on his mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe. Notes taken by Coppola's wife have recently been used to create "Hearts Of Darkness" - a fascinating and revealing account of the making of this movie.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Francis Coppola | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Art Of War | | | | Plot Summary
Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Christian Duguay | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Wesley Snipes , Donald Sutherland , Michael Biehn |
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|  | | Attila The Hun | | | | Plot Summary
During the waning days of Roman Empire, the barbarian Huns are making their way torward Europe. A warrior named Attila violently assumes Hun leadership and unites the warring clans under his banner. But this is not enough for him, Attila seeks to form an empire, and he sees Rome, bristling under the leadership of the incompetent Caesar Valentian, ripe for the picking. In an attempt to quell a Hun invasion, ambitous Roman General Flavius Aetius attempts to form an alliance against Attila against their mutual enemy, Visigoth King Theodoric. But this plan backfires, and it soon becomes clear that a violent showdown between all three armies awaits. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Dick Lowry | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gerard Butler , Powers Boothe , Jonathan Hyde, Tim Curry |
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|  | | Avengers | | | | Plot Summary
British Ministry agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes), under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery) to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman), the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Jeremiah Chechik | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Basic | | | | Plot Summary
An Army sergeant (Samual Jackson) takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier (Brian Van Holt) killing another and carrying a wounded comrade (Giovanni Ribisi). As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer (Connie Nielsen) protests, but her commanding officer (Timothy Daly) nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent (John Travolta) to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John McTiernan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson |
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|  | | Batman | | | | Gotham City: dark, dangerous, 'protected' only by a mostly corrupt police department. Despite the best efforts of D.A. Harvey Dent and police commissioner Jim Gordon, the city becomes increasingly unsafe...until a Dark Knight arises. We all know criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot...so his disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He becomes a bat. Enter Vicky Vale, a prize-winning photo journalist who wants to uncover the secret of the mysterious "bat-man". And enter Jack Napier, one-time enforcer for Boss Grissom, horribly disfigured after a firefight in a chemical factory...who, devoid of the last vestiges of sanity, seizes control of Gotham's underworld as the psychotic, unpredictable Clown Prince of Crime...the Joker. Gotham's only hope, it seems, lies in this dark, brooding vigilante. And just how does billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne fit into all of this?
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Michael Keaton | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Batman Begins | | | | Plot Summary
A new restart of the "Batman" franchise under the helm of "Memento" Director Chris Nolan and more in tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organised crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Christopher Nolan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Christian Bale, Michael Caine , Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes |
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|  | | Battle Royale II | | | | Plot Summary
Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Kenta Fukasaku | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Behind Enemy Lines | | | | Plot Summary
Fighter navigator Chris Burnett wants out: he was looking for something more than the boring recon missions he's been flying. He finds himself flying the lone Christmas day mission over war-torn Bosnia. But when he talks pilot Stackhouse into flying slightly off-course to check out an interesting target, the two get shot down. Burnett is soon alone, trying to outrun a pursuing army, while commanding officer Reigert finds his rescue operation hamstrung by politics, forcing Burnett to run far out of his way. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Moore | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman |
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|  | | Big Trouble In Little China | | | | Plot Summary
When trucker Jack Burton agreed to take his friend Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for an immortal sorcerer named Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form. Now, Jack must save Wang's fiancee from Lo Pan and his henchmen, and win back his stolen truck. But how can he defeat an enemy who has no body? |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Carpenter | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Blade Trinity | | | | Plot Summary
As an apocalyptic event takes place that could shift the control of the planet Earth from the hands of humanity to the claws of vampires, the Daywalker, Blade (Snipes) is the only person who can turn the tide of the crisis against the undead blood suckers and prevent the world from becoming a "Planet of the Vampires". To make things a lot harder for Blade, the vampire leadership launches a public relations "smear campaign" against Blade, letting the world of humans know that he exists, so that the police start hunting him down, thinking he is some sort of horrible monster...
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | David S. Goyer | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Wesley Snipes , Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds |
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|  | | Bourne Supremacy | | | | Plot Summary
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent--who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names--the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Paul Greengrass | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Matt Damon , Franka Potente , Brian Cox , Julia Stiles |
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|  | | Bulletproof Monk | | | | Plot Summary
For 60 years a mysterious monk with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar is an unlikely candidate, a streetwise young man whose only interest is himself. But when he inadvertently saves the Bulletproof Monk from capture, the two become partners in a scheme to save the world from the scroll's most avid pursuer. Packed with spectacular special effects and martial arts action, the Monk, Kar, and a sexy Russian mob princess called Bad Girl must struggle to find, face, and fight the ultimate enemy. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Paul Hunter | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King, Mako |
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|  | | Carlito's Way | | | | Plot outline
In the late 1960s, Carlito Brigante (Hernandez) emerges as the heroin czar of Harlem |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Michael Scott Bregman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jay Hernandez, Luis Guzmán, Mario Van Peebles, Sean Combs |
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|  | | Collateral | | | | Plot Summary
Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten--until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral--an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Michael Mann | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith , Mark Ruffalo |
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|  | | Conan The Barbarian | | | | Plot Summary
A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery adventures. This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Milius | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Crossing Guard | | | | Plot Summary
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiralling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At he end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Sean Penn | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jack Nicholson , Anjelica Huston , Robin Wright, Priscilla Barnes, Kari Wuhrer |
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|  | | Dark Blue | | | | Plot Summary
Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of singlehanded "justice" on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ron Shelton | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Dark Waters | | | | A scientist breeds a special kind of shark - bigger and stronger; the perfect killing machine. The facility that holds them is no longer secure and they break out and head for the coastline and food...
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Philip J. Roth | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Desperado & El Mariachi | | | | Plot Summary
With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.
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El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Robert Rodriguez | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino, Cheech Marin, Carlos Gallardo |
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|  | | Dirty | | | | Plot outline
Two gangbangers-turned-cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Chris Fisher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Brittany Daniel, Keith David, Cuba Gooding Jr., Keith David, Cole Hauser |
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|  | | Dirty Dozen | | | | Plot Summary
A Major with an attitude problem and a history of getting things done is told to interview military prisoners with death sentences or long terms for a dangerous mission; To parachute behind enemy lines and cause havoc for the German Generals at a rest house on the eve of D-Day. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Robert Aldrich | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Lee Marvin , Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland |
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|  | | Domino | | | | Plot Summary
Based on the true story of Domino Harvey (Keira Knightley), daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society LA life, Domino leaves the glittarti behind and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley (Mickey Rourke) and his crew and becomes an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things really heat up when a gang of masked men begin a series of armored car heists, and before long the mob, a crazed TV producer, the FBI and a terminally ill child have all got caught up in the crazy situation. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Tony Scott | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke , Delroy Lindo , Brian Austin Green, Lucy Liu |
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|  | | Dragonheart | | | | Plot Summary
Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Rob Cohen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer , Jason Isaacs |
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|  | | Driven | | | | Plot Summary
Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly (Kip Pardue) has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry (Burt Reynolds) brings former racing star Joe Tanto (Sylvester Stallone) on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Renny Harlin | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sylvester Stallone |
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|  | | Fantastic Four | | | | Plot Summary
When an experimental space voyage goes awry, four people are changed by cosmic rays. Reed Richards, inventor and leader of the group gains the ability to stretch his body, and takes the name, Mr. Fantastic. His girlfriend, Sue Storm, gains the ability to turn invisible and create force fields, calling herself the Invisible Woman. Her younger brother Johnny Storm gains the ability to control fire, including covering his own body with flame, becoming the Human Torch. Pilot Ben Grimm is turned into a super-strong rock creature calling himself Thing. Together, they use their unique powers to explore the strange aspects of the world, and to foil the evil plans of Doctor Doom |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Tim Story | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ioan Gruffudd , Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington |
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|  | | Fast And The Furious | | | | Plot Summary
The Fast & The Furious is loosely based on an article in a magazine about street clubs that race Japanese cars late at night. The film stars Vin Diesel as Domenic Toretto, the leader of a street gang that is under suspicion of stealing expensive electronic equipment. Paul Walker plays an undercover police officer that attempts to find out who exactly is stealing the equipment, while falling for Domenic's younger sister played by Jordana Brewster.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Rob Cohen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Paul Walker, Vin Diesel , Michelle Rodriguez , Jordana Brewster |
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|  | | Fight Club | | | | Plot Summary
You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | David Fincher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Firewall | | | | With his family held for ransom, the head security executive for a global bank is commanded to loot his own business for millions in order to ensure his wife and children's safety. He then faces the demanding task of thwarting the kidnapper's grand scheme, which makes him look guilty of embezzlement. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Richard Loncraine | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Harrison Ford , Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen |
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|  | | Flight Plan | | | | In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in her desperate search. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Robert Schwentke | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard , Sean Bean, Erika Christensen, Haley Ramm |
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|  | | Four Brothers | | | | Plot Summary
After their adoptive mother is murdered during a grocery store hold-up, the Mercer brothers--hotheaded Bobby, hard-edged Angel, family man and businessman Jeremiah, and hard rocking Jack--reunite to take the matter of her death into their own hands. As they track down the killer, they quickly realize that their old ways of doing business have new consequences. Its not as predictable as you might think.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Singleton | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, Andre Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard, Sofía Vergara |
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|  | | Full Metal Jacket | | | | Plot Summary
A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in basic training under the command of the punishing Sgt. Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Stanley Kubrick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Goal | | | | Plot Summary
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer. However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until, one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Danny Cannon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane |
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|  | | Godzilla (Ishiro Honda)1954 | | | | Plot Summary
A 164-foot monster reptile with radioactive breath is revived, thanks to nuclear testing. It goes on a mad rampage, destroying Tokyo - how will they kill it ? |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Ishirô Honda | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Hard Boiled | | | | Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where the ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territoriality, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources gets closer to the ring leaders, and eventually must work directly with the inside man.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | John Woo | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Hard Rain | | | | Plot Summary
Set during a massive flood started by a dam accident in a small town, Christian Slater is an armored truck guard who gets robbed by Morgan Freeman. Slater gets away with all the money and hides it. In a panic, Slater tells the sheriff about the area he hid the money in and the sheriff locks him up. Now Slater has to get to the money and keep himself alive battling the sheriff, Morgan Freeman and his crew and the elements. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Mikael Salomon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver |
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|  | | Hellboy | | | | In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Guillermo del Toro | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ron Perlman , John Hurt , Selma Blair , Jeffrey Tambor |
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|  | | Hostage | | | |
Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of Los Angeles, and away from his wife and daughter. When a convenience store robbery goes wrong in his turf, the three perpetrators move in on an unsuspecting family. But the family's father has a secret which might compromise his kin, and one of the criminals is about to jump over the edge. Jeff Talley has to get everybody to survive the night......if he can. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Florent Siri | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bruce Willis, Ben Foster |
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|  | | Hulk | | | | Plot Summary
After a terrible accident of Bruce banner in the lab his extraordinary mind is now making him angry.He then figures out that David banner is his real father.Bruce has now turned into hulk and nothing can stop him for when he is angry.Betty is the only person that can stop him from being angry.Betty has now gone to the father to ask for help how to help him,but the father has now sent his super villian dogs like hulk to kill her,hulk is now the only person to stop the mutant dogs.David banner has now transformed himself into anything he touches and with evil power,hulk must now save the world and save the people.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Ang Lee | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly , Sam Elliott , Josh Lucas , Nick Nolte |
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|  | | Ice Cold in Alex | | | | Plot Summary
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria, but the problems just won't go away. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | J. Lee Thompson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | John Mills, Sylvia Syms , Anthony Quayle |
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|  | | In God's Hands | | | | Plot Summary
In God's Hands is the story of big wave riders that go all over the globe searching to ride bigger and bigger waves. The story mostly follows Shane Dorian and his obsession with surfing. It also follows how they train for waves like that. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Zalman King | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Inside Man | | | | "Inside Man" is the story of a tough cop, Detective Frazier (Denzel Washington), who matches wits with a clever bank robber, Dalton (Clive Owen). As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, a wild card emerges: Madaline (Jodie Foster), a power broker with a hidden agenda, who injects even more instability into an already volatile situation. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Spike Lee | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Denzel Washington, Clive Owen , Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe |
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|  | | Into The Blue | | | | Plot outline
A group of divers find themselves in deep trouble with a drug lord after they come upon the illicit cargo of a sunken airplane. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | John Stockwell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Paul Walker, Jessica Alba, Scott Caan, Ashley Scott, Josh Brolin |
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|  | | Island | | | | Plot Summary
Lincoln Six-Echo (McGregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island" - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson). Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Michael Bay | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan |
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|  | | King Arthur | | | | Plot Summary
Based on a more realistic portrayal of "Arthur" than has ever been presented onscreen. The film will focus on the history and politics of the period during which Arthur ruled -- when the Roman empire collapsed and skirmishes over power broke out in outlying countries -- as opposed to the mystical elements of the tale on which past Arthur films have focused.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Antoine Fuqua | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Clive Owen , Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley , Ray Winstone |
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|  | | King Kong | | | | Plot Summary
Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Peter Jackson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Naomi Watts , Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Colin Hanks |
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|  | | Kingdom Of Heaven | | | | Plot Summary
It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds. Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. Revealing himself as Balian's father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. In Jerusalem at that moment--between the Second and Third Crusades--a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military restraint of the legendary Muslim leader Saladin. But Baldwin's days are numbered, and strains of fanaticism, greed, and jealousy among the Crusaders threaten to shatter the truce. King Baldwin's vision of peace--a kingdom of heaven--is shared by a handful of knights, including Godfrey of Ibelin, who swear to uphold it with their lives and honor. As Godfrey passes his sword to his son, he also passes on that sacred oath: to protect the helpless, safeguard the peace, and work toward harmony between religions and cultures, so that a kingdom of heaven can flourish on earth. Balian takes the sword and steps into history. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ridley Scott | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Sheen , David Thewlis , Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom |
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|  | | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | | | | Plot Summary
A petty thief (Downey) posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl (Monaghan) and a detective (Kilmer) who's been training him for his upcoming role...
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Shane Black | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Shannyn Sossamon, Dash Mihok |
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|  | | La Mentale | | | | Plot Summary
Dris (Samuel Le Bihan) is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise (Marie Guillard) and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis (Samy Naceri), are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina (Clotilde Courau) to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Manuel Boursinhac | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Ladder 49 | | | | Plot Summary
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy (Travolta), probationary firefighter Jack Morrison (Phoenix) matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Jay Russell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Joaquin Phoenix , John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett |
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|  | | Lady Snowblood 2 Love Song Of Vengeance | | | | Plot Summary
Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Toshiya Fujita | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Lady Vengeance | | | |
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Lee Geum-Ja, at the age of 19, goes to prison for the murder and abduction of a child on behalf of her accomplice Mr. Baek, only to find out that she is betrayed. While in prison, she carefully prepares for her revenge by winning the hearts of her fellow inmates with her kindness, thus earning herself the nickname 'kind Ms. Geum-Ja'. Upon her release from prison after 13 years, she finally sets out to seek revenge on Baek, with the help of her former prison mates. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Chan-wook Park | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Legend Of Zoro | | | | Plot Summary
The Legendary Zorro goes off on another adventure to protect the future of California and its citizens. This time, he fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe that there's more to Armand than meets the eye, and our hero is intent on finding out what that is. Little does he know, there are others working to uncover certain truths as well. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Martin Campbell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Nick Chinlund |
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|  | | Lord Of War | | | | Plot Summary
This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Andrew Niccol | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Ian Holm |
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|  | | Los Chicos De La Compania c | | | | Plot Summary
This war drama (which prefigures the later "Full Metal Jacket") follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Sidney J. Furie | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Master And Commander | | | | Plot Summary
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Russell Crowe brings great intensity to the role of Captain Jack Aubrey. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director Weir chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. The officers and the mates are well-known by the time the final battle comes. Paul Bettany offers a strong performance as the surgeon and naturalist who balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain's friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. The horrors of the injuries from the war are frequently implied, but vividly depicted in the reactions of the characters. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Peter Weir | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Russell Crowe , Paul Bettany |
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|  | | MI2 | | | | Plot Summary
IMF agent Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of a genetically created disease called 'Chimera'. His mission is made impossible due to the fact that he is not the only person after samples of the disease. He must also contest with a gang of international terrorists headed by a turned bad former IMF agent who has already managed to steal the cure called 'Bellerophon' and now need 'Chimera' to complete their grand plan of infecting the whole world. In order to infiltrate and locate the terrorist group he relies on the help of an international thief Nyah of whom he quickly develops a love interest. Time is not only running out for Agent Hunt to find and destroy 'Chimera' before the terrorists get their hands on it, but he must also find 'Bellerophon' so as to save his love interest who has already become infected by the disease from a terrible and rapid death. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Woo | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Mission: Impossible | | | | Plot Summary
This DePalma film is a big-screen remake of a prior American television show, modernized and updated with all of the eye-popping special effects that a Hollywood mega-budget can buy. The show's Jim Phelps is the leader of the 'Impossible Missions Force.' In this 'episode,' Ethan Hunt is the point man for an IMF mission to catch a spy in the act of stealing information about the 'covers' of many other covert operatives. In the tradition of the TV show, the viewer is led down many plot twists, turns, and reversals, while the IMF members employ the latest in technology, disguises, and spy gadgetry to accomplish their mission. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Brian De Palma | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Cruise |
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|  | | Murder At The Presidio | | | | Plot Summary
Based on the true story of the only homicide committed on the famed San Francisco Military base. A military Criminal Investigations Officer goes beyond his orders to get to the facts behind what appears to be a robbery-motivated killing. What he finds may well unravel his damaged mental health.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Fasano | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Lou Diamond Phillips, Jason Priestley |
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|  | | New World | | | | Plot outline
A Terrence Malick-scripted drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Terrence Malick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, David Thewlis, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Wes Studi |
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|  | | Ocean's Twelve | | | | Plot Summary
Set three years after "Ocean's 11," this sequel shows us Danny Ocean gathering up his complete gang of con artists and thieves from the first film in New York City before they all jet off to Amsterdam, Rome, and Paris to pull off three seperate heists. All the while, the boys must deal with increasing pressure from a very mad Terry Benedict, a dedicated Europol agent with a link to Rusty's past, and a mysterious French rival known as the "Night Fox." Will Ocean's crew reach their full potential and become the greatest thieves the world has ever known, or will they fall victim to Benedict's revenge? All bets are off. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Steven Soderbergh | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Brad Pitt , Catherine Zeta-Jones , George Clooney, Julia Roberts , Andy Garcia , Casey Affleck |
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|  | | One Night in Mongkok | | | | Mongkok, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, is the hotbed of illicit business. Lai Fu (Daniel Wu), a farm boy from Mainland China, is hired as a killer and is forced to enter into the coincidence of gangs of Mongkok. Lai Fu by chance meets a call girl from his home village, Dan (Cecilia Cheung), and saves her from the gangsters. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Tung-Shing Yee | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Paycheck | | | | Plot Summary
Jennings (Ben Afleck) is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by clients to take apart other companies technologies and find out how they work. He is hired to do a special job, against the advice of some of his associates. When the job is completed, all memory of what he has been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted for something he has no recollection of doing and has only a little time to work it out. He has sent himself 19 seemingly unconnected objects, before his memory was wiped, to allow him to put the puzzle together and discover just what has gone on and what he has done. But the authorities are after him and time is very quickly running out. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Woo | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart , Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti |
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|  | | Pirates Of The Caribbean Curse Of The Black Pearl | | | | Pirates of the Caribbean is a sweeping action-adventure story set in an era when villainous pirates scavenged the Caribbean seas. This roller coaster tale teams a young man, Will Turner, with an unlikely ally in rogue pirate Jack Sparrow. Together, they must battle a band of the world's most treacherous pirates, led by the cursed Captain Barbossa, in order to save Elizabeth, the love of Will's life, as well as recover the lost treasure that Jack seeks. Against improbable odds, they race towards a thrilling, climactic confrontation on the mysterious Isla de Muerta. Clashing their swords in fiece mortal combat, Will and Jack attempt to recapture The Black Pearl ship, save the British navy, and relinquish a fortune in forbidden treasure thereby lifting the curse of the Pirates of the Caribbean. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Gore Verbinski | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley , Jack Davenport , Jonathan Pryce |
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|  | | Ronin | | | | Plot Summary
Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. Dierdre (undoubtedly from Ireland) hires several Ronin to form a team in order to retrieve an important suitcase from a man who is about to sell it to the Russians. After the mission has been completed successfully, the suitcase immediately gets switched by a member of the team who seems to work into his own pocket. The complex net of everyone tricking everyone begins to surface slowly, and deadly... |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Frankenheimer | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert De Niro, Jean reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgard, Sean Bean, Jonathan Pryce |
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|  | | Saints And Soldiers | | | | Plot Summary
After surviving a massacre in Malmedy, a location behind the German army in Europe, four American soldiers with only one weapon rescue the British pilot Oberon Winley (Kirby Heyborn) in a tree and they move together, trying to reach the allied forces and save a great number of allied soldiers from a German attack with the information got by Winley in his flight. While marching, each soldier discloses inner secrets to the rest of the group. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ryan Little | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Corbin Allred, Alexander Niver |
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|  | | Scorpion King | | | | Plot Summary
In an ancient time, predating the pyramids, the evil king Memnon is using the psychic powers of his sorceress Cassandra to fortell his great victories. In a last ditch effort to stop Memnon from taking over the world, the leaders of the remaining free tribes hire the assassin Mathayus to kill the sorceress. But Mathayus ends up getting much more than he bargained for. Now with the help of the trickster Arpid, tribal leader Balthazar and an unexpected ally, it's up to Mathayus to fufill his destiny and become the great Scorpion King. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Chuck Russell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | The Rock , Michael Clarke Duncan |
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|  | | Serenity | | | | Plot Summary
The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River's safety. She then mutters "Miranda" and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what "Miranda" is and what the Alliance is hiding. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Joss Whedon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk , Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite |
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|  | | Sin City | | | | Plot Summary
Sin City is a violent city where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly. In this movie, we follow three stories, the central of which is Marv, a tough-as-nails and nearly impossible to kill street fighter who goes on a rampage of vengeance when a beautiful woman, Goldie (King), he sleeps with for only one night is killed while lying in bed with him. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Frank Miller | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Rosario Dawson, Jude Ciccolella |
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|  | | Sky Captain And The World Of Tommorrow | | | | Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world's scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it's up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Kerry Conran | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law , Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Bai Ling, Angelina Jolie |
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|  | | Spider-man 2 | | | | Plot Summary
Peter Parker's having a rough time. His double life as the superhero Spider-Man is having a devastating impact on his civilian life. Things are so bad he declares that he's quitting, and never putting on the suit again. However, his sense of duty forces him to become a hero again when the brilliant scientist Dr. Otto Octavius is deformed in an accident and becomes Dr. Octopus. With four metal tentacles sticking out of his back, he'll prove to be a more than worthy opponent for Spider-Man. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Sam Raimi | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco , Alfred Molina |
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|  | | Stealth | | | | Plot Summary
In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war... |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Rob Cohen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel , Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard |
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|  | | SWAT | | | | Plot Summary
An arrested drug kingpin is transported by a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team led by Jackson's character out of the city and into federal custody. Plans go awry when the kingpin offers $100 million to anyone who can free him.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Clark Johnson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Samuel L. Jackson , Colin Farrell |
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|  | | Thin Red Line | | | | Plot Summary
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Terrence Malick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sean Penn, Adrien Brody , Jim Caviezel, John Cusack, George Clooney , Jared Leto |
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|  | | Three Musketeers | | | | Plot Summary
A Disney-ized retelling of Dumas' classic swashbuckling story of three swordsmen plus one of the disbanded French king's guard who seek to save their King from the scheming of the Cardinal Richelieu. Jokes and stunts are the expected fare in this light-hearted and jaunty adventure. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Stephen Herek | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Charlie Sheen , Kiefer Sutherland , Oliver Platt |
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|  | | Timeline | | | | Plot Summary
In the heart of the beautiful and historically rich Dordogne Valley of France, a team of archaeology students and their professor diligently work to uncover the ruins of a 14th-century castle. For Professor Edward Johnston (Billy Connolly), the project is the culmination of a lifelong dream. Aided by assistant professor Andre Marek (Gerard Butler), his son Chris (Paul Walker) and students Kate (Frances O'Connor), Stern (Ethan Embry) and François (Rossif Sutherland), Johnston has made major strides in unearthing not only La Roque Castle but also a monastery and structures from the surrounding village of Castlegard. But things are about to go haywire... Suspicious of the dig's benefactor, International Technology Corporation (ITC) and the man who runs it, Robert Doniger (David Thewlis), Professor Johnston heads to ITC headquarters in New Mexico to get some answers, and while he's away, his students discover a chamber that has been sealed for more than 600 years. Marek and Kate descend into the unstable room, and just before a near disastrous cave-in, they make two startling discoveries -- a bifocal lens, which couldn't have been invented before the chamber was sealed, and even more intriguing, a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357...from Professor Johnston! Determined to solve the mystery, the students head for ITC headquarters, where they are stunned to learn of Doniger's new invention -- a machine that can actually transmit three-dimensional objects through space. Although he meant for the device to revolutionize shipping, Doniger inadvertently opened a wormhole that leads directly to the 14th century, and Professor Johnston, who had insisted on experiencing the discovery himself, is now trapped in a vicious French vs. English feudal war! Can Johnston's loyal students survive one of the most violent battles in world history... and make it back to the 21st century alive? |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Richard Donner | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Paul Walker , Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis , Michael Sheen |
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|  | | Top Gun | | | | Plot Summary
Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Tony Scott | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Troy | | | | In the year 1193 B.C., Paris, a prince of Troy woos Helen, Queen of Sparta, away from her husband, Menelaus, setting the kingdoms of Mycenae Greece at war with Troy. The Greeks sail to Troy and lay siege. Achilles was the greatest hero among the Greeks, while Hector, the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy, embodied the hopes of the people of his city.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Wolfgang Petersen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Brian Cox, Brad Pitt, Brendan Gleeson, Diane Kruger, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom |
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|  | | Versus | | | | Plot Summary
A pair of escaped convicts meet up with a group of gangsters by a remote forest road. After an arguement over a girl the mobsters have kidnapped, shots are fired and one of the gangsters is killed. The standoff is cut short, however, when the dead man suddenly springs to life and starts trying to kill his former friends. The zombie eventually goes down in a hail bullets, but their problems aren't over. It seems the gangsters have been using this forest to dispose of of their victims, all of whom are now looking to settle some old scores. Even if they get through this mess, there is still the question of why they've arranged to meet the convicts out here, and why they've brought along the girl. How are they connected to the dead bodies coming back to life? |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Ryuhei Kitamura | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Vertical Limit | | | | Plot Summary
A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world's second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), and her summit team (Bill Paxton and Nicholas Lea) in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), to ascend the chilling might of the world's most feared peak to save her. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Martin Campbell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Chris O'Donnell , Robin Tunney, Izabella Scorupco, Bill Paxton, Alexander Siddig |
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|  | | Wages Of Fear | | | | Plot Summary
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerene are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivallry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Henri-Georges Clouzot | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Warriors Of Heaven And Earth | | | | Plot outline
A Japanese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ping He | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Way Of The Gun | | | | Plot Summary
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.
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| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Christopher McQuarrie | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | James Caan, Benicio Del Toro , Taye Diggs , Juliette Lewis , Ryan Phillippe |
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|  | | XXX | | | | Plot Summary
Vin Diesel plays Xander Cage. He's your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Rob Cohen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Vin Diesel , Asia Argento , Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson, Danny Trejo, Eve |
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|  | | Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo | | | | Plot Summary
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations. |
| Genre: | Action | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Kihachi Okamoto | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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