Category Archives: Action
The Hollow Point
Release 2016
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Writers: Nils Lyew
Stars: Lynn Collins, Patrick Wilson, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Jim Belushi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2918606/
A new sheriff of a small town along the U.S. & Mexico border investigates a drug cartel deal that went horribly wrong.
Kill Ratio
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Paul Tanter
Writers: Steven Palmer Peterson
Stars: Tom Hopper, Amy Huberman, Nick Dunning, Lacy Moore, Michelle Lehane
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5020372/
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country's ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
Contract to Kill
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Keoni Waxman
Stars: Steven Seagal, Russell Wong, Jemma Dallender, Mircea Drambareanu, Sergiu Costache
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5470222/
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time--and his luck--run out.
Spectral
Release 2016
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Nic Mathieu
Writers: Ian Fried, John Gatins, Jamie Moss, George Nolfi
Stars: Emily Mortimer, Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Bruce Greenwood
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106651/
A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.
The Magnificent Seven
Release 2016
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Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Nic Pizzolatto, Richard Wenk
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404435/
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
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.
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.