Category Archives: Action
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, Arthur Conan Doyle
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, Jared Harris
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515091/
Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
Sherlock Holmes
Release 2009
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg, Lionel Wigram, Arthur Conan Doyle
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
Unknown
Release 2011
Genre Action, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Writers: Oliver Butcher, Stephen Cornwell, Didier Van Cauwelaert
Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401152/
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.
Real Steel
Release 2011
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
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Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: John Gatins, Dan Gilroy, Jeremy Leven, Richard Matheson
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433035/
Set in the near future, where robot boxing is a top sport, a struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
The Three Musketeers
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
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Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writers: Alex Litvak, Andrew Davies, Alexandre Dumas père
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Helen George, Christian Oliver, Luke Evans
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1509767/
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
Mission: Impossible III
Release 2006
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: J.J. Abrams
Writers: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams, Bruce Geller
Stars: Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames, Billy Crudup, Michelle Monaghan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317919/
Ethan Hunt comes face to face with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer while trying to keep his identity secret in order to protect his girlfriend.
Mission: Impossible
Release 1996
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: Brian De Palma
Writers: Bruce Geller, David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne
Stars: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117060/
An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Release 2011
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Director: Brad Bird
Writers: Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Bruce Geller
Stars: Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Michael Nyqvist
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229238/
The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.
Mission: Impossible II
Release 2000
Genre Action, Adventure, Thriller
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Director: John Woo
Writers: Bruce Geller, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Robert Towne
Stars: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120755/
A secret agent is sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera"
I Am Number Four
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Marti Noxon, Jobie Hughes, James Frey
Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer, Dianna Agron, Callan McAuliffe
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464540/
Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story.