Category Archives: Action
The Accountant
Release 2016
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writers: Bill Dubuque
Stars: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140479/
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Inferno
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Dan Brown, David Koepp
Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3062096/
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Ben-Hur
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
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Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writers: Lew Wallace, Keith R. Clarke, John Ridley
Stars: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2638144/
Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.
Eliminators
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: James Nunn
Writers: Nathan Brookes, Bobby Lee Darby
Stars: Scott Adkins, Stu Bennett, Daniel Caltagirone, James Cosmo, Mem Ferda
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4587366/
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.
Masterminds
Release 2016
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Director: Jared Hess
Writers: Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Emily Spivey
Stars: Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Owen Wilson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461150/
A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery.
Officer Downe
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Shawn Crahan
Writers: Joe Casey
Stars: Alison Lohman, Kim Coates, Sam Witwer, Lauren Luna Vélez, Lindsay Pulsipher
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4439102/
Based on the graphic novel, a police officer who can't be stopped by death returns to the streets time and time again to fight crime.
True Memoirs of an International Assassin
Release 2016
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Director: Jeff Wadlow
Writers: Jeff Morris
Stars: Kevin James, Kim Coates, Maurice Compte, Zulay Henao, Andrew Howard
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542768/
After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.
Hands of Stone
Release 2016
Genre Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
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Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz
Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Robert De Niro, Usher Raymond, Rubén Blades, Ana de Armas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1781827/
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
Army of One(2016)
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Larry Charles
Writers: Rajiv Joseph, Scott Rothman
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Denis O'Hare, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rainn Wilson, Russell Brand
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4382824/
An American civilian sets out on his own to find Osama Bin Laden.
In a Valley of Violence
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Ti West
Stars: Karen Gillan, Ethan Hawke, Taissa Farmiga, John Travolta, Burn Gorman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3608930/
A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.