Category Archives: Action
Maleficent
Release 2014
Genre Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
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Director: Robert Stromberg
Writers: Linda Woolverton, Charles Perrault, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Erdman Penner, Joe Rinaldi, Winston Hibler, Bill Peet, Ted Sears, Ralph Wright, Milt Banta
Stars: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/
A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.
Brick Mansions
Release 2014
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Director: Camille Delamarre
Writers: Luc Besson, Bibi Naceri
Stars: Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Gouchy Boy, Catalina Denis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/
An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that's surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city.
Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge
Release 2014
Genre Action
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Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Writers: Nicole Jones-Dion
Stars: Kane Kosugi, Kelly Wenham, Gary Daniels, Rade Serbedzija, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3462696/
Suffering from amnesia, a young man trying to discover his true identity is kidnapped by an underground crime organization and turned into a ruthless assassin.
Deep Impact
Release 1998
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Mimi Leder
Writers: Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin
Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/
Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive?
Cloverfield
Release 2008
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Drew Goddard
Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
Armageddon
Release 1998
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Robert Roy Pool
Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.
Twister
Release 1996
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Jan de Bont
Writers: Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin
Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
The Day After Tomorrow
Release 2004
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Release 2005
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
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Director: Doug Liman
Writers: Simon Kinberg
Stars: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/
A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.
Wanted
Release 2008
Genre Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
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Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writers: Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Chris Morgan, Mark Millar, J.G. Jones
Stars: James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, Thomas Kretschmann
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493464/
A frustrated office worker learns that he is the son of a professional assassin, and that he shares his father's superhuman killing abilities.