Category Archives: Action
Cowboys & Aliens
Release 2011
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Jon Favreau
Writers: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Steve Oedekerk, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Stars: Daniel Craig, Abigail Spencer, Buck Taylor, Matthew Taylor, Cooper Taylor
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/
A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.
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"