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And..Action! Vol. V
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Another Playlist dedicated to Action Movies and TV shows that I like


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Movie: Once Upon a Time in Shanghai ( 2014 )
A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive.
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Movie: Police Story: Lockdown ( 2013 )
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
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Movie: Special ID ( 2013 )
A cop goes undercover in a ruthless underworld organization to stop a gang leader, only to put himself in great danger after being exposed by his former protégé and best friend.
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Movie: Flu ( 2013 )
Chaos ensues when a lethal, airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.
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Movie: Badges of Fury ( 2013 )
In just 3 days, three cases of Smiling Murder shock Hong Kong. The young detective Wang Bu'er and his buddy Huang Feihong embark on an investigation full of excitement and unexpected events.
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Movie: The Baytown Outlaws ( 2013 )
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her godson from an abusive stepfather, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
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Movie: Ostwind ( 2013 )
A girl who thinks is not good at doing anything has to stay for the holidays with her grandmother at a riding stable. There she discovers her interest in horses, riding and more and what she is good in.
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Movie: The Berlin File ( 2013 )
Jong-seong, a North Korean ghost agent, interrupts an illegal arms sale in Berlin. A notorious North Korean agent tests the loyalties of everyone involved as Jong-Seong prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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Movie: Erased ( 2012 )
An ex-CIA agent and his estranged daughter are forced on the run when his employers erase all records of his existence, and mark them both for termination as part of a wide-reaching international conspiracy.
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Movie: Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed ( 2012 )
On August 15, 1944 the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team (PRCT) jumped over the south of France. Their mission was to support and protect the Allied Troops marching to Berlin. Landing in enemy territory, they fell under immediate attack. In their effort to complete the mission and rendez-vous with their unit, three isolated paratroopers come across a group of French resistants in desperate need. They decide to help liberate some of the captive Partisans. Doing so they will risk their lives.
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Movie: El Gringo ( 2012 )
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000, and a bloody past, finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
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Movie: Nightfall ( 2012 )
An old but serious miscarriage of justice clouds a current police investigation looking into the death of a mutilated corpse.
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Movie: Rebellion ( 2011 )
Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.
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Movie: Bodyguard ( 2011 )
The daughter of a wealthy nobleman secretly falls in love with her bodyguard.
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Movie: Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World ( 2011 )
A retired spy is called back into action, and to bond with her new step-children, she invites them along for the adventure to stop the evil Timekeeper from taking over the world.
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Movie: Blackthorn ( 2011 )
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
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Movie: Cross ( 2011 )
Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross. Callan continues to fight evil... Now, joined by a team of weapons experts, Callan battles an unstoppable empire in Los Angeles.
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Movie: Tracker ( 2011 )
An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When faced with the life changing decision to turn him in or set him free only one man will walk away alive.
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TV Show: XIII: The Series ( 2011 )
XIII: The Series is a follow up to the TV movie: XIII: The Prodigy. A man suffering from amnesia tries to uncover his past in this action filled canadian show.
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Movie: Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe ( 2011 )
As informal punishment for an unwitting affair with admiral Gregory Maitland's adulterous wife, Sam Axe, a US Navy Commander, was sent to Colombia to observe the suspected rebel movement Espada Ardiente ('Burning Sword'). Now he's under investigation for allegedly consorting with those alleged terrorists. He explains how he discovered that his Colombian army liaison Comandante Veracruz was the real drug dealers cahoot, who pailed on framing Axe and presumably innocent farmers for the bombing of an American-run Andes clinic. Sam escaped and tried to help the civilians and forces CIA observers to demand urgent help. He even found a trump card to avoid conviction for his illegal methods and a favorable discharge.
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Movie: The Big Bang ( 2011 )
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper, but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian boxer, three brash LAPD detectives, an aged billionaire looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net thirty million dollars and just might explain everything.
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Movie: Minds in the Water ( 2011 )
5 years in the making, Minds In The Water is the story of one surfer's international journey to help protect dolphins, whales and their ocean environment. Shot on location in Australia, the Galapagos, Chile and Japan, the film captures a key moment in one person's life when apathy is no longer an option. Pro surfer Dave Rastovich went from observer to activist when he embarked on a personal mission to help stop the worldwide commercial slaughter of dolphins and whales. While unsure at first, Rasta quickly found his activist sea legs and helped build a core team of filmmakers, journalists, musicians, eco-pirates and celebrity surfers to help spread the message. All this has been documented in the film, Minds In The Water.
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Movie: The Way Back ( 2010 )
Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.
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Movie: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within ( 2010 )
After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
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Movie: Kick-Ass ( 2010 )
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
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Movie: Shank ( 2010 )
An action film for the youth generation, set in a decaying future London. A gang set out on a chase to avenge the murder of one of their own.
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Movie: The Bounty Hunter ( 2010 )
Milo Boyd, a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly. He thinks all that's ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other - until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough - staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher.
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Movie: True Legend ( 2010 )
Su Qi-Er retired from his life as a renowned Qing dynasty general in order to pursue his dream of a family and his own martial arts school. However, Su's peaceful life is shattered when his vengeful adopted brother, Yuan Lie, kidnaps his son and leaves Su for dead. Saved from his demise by his wife Ying and the reclusive doctor Yu, Su resolves to perfect his technique so that he may defeat Yuan Lie and reunite his family. Suffering from visions that he aided in his training by two of the "Eight Immortals" in the form of the mystical "God of Wushu" and the eccentric "Old Sage" master of Drunken Boxing. He embarks on the path that would eventually give rise to the legend of the "King of Beggars."
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Movie: Shoot First and Pray You Live (Because Luck Has Nothing to Do with It) ( 2010 )
Tale of vengeance -- outlaw style -- as Red Pierre hunts down legendary gunman Bob McGurk to avenge the murder of his Mother and Father.
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Movie: Jeon Woochi ( 2009 )
Jeon Woo-chi, an undisciplined womanizing Taoist from the Joseon era, ends up in present day Korea causing mayhem with his knack for magic.
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Movie: The Land That Time Forgot ( 2009 )
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
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Movie: Ghajini ( 2008 )
A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.
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Movie: Hide ( 2008 )
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde - with a twist - that follows two lovers down a path of destruction, mayhem, and murder as they live in a world where it is acceptable to take whatever they want with murderous consequences.
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Movie: 24: Redemption ( 2008 )
Former Federal Agent Jack Bauer confronts African dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
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TV Show: XIII: The Conspiracy ( 2008 )
Based on a Belgian comic book and a Ubisoft video game, this action mini-series is about a massive governmental conspiracy involving the assassination of the first female U.S. president. A man is found washed up on a beach with his memory gone. When elite special ops forces detect his location and track him down, he instinctively kills them one by one. Driven by the need to recover his memory...
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Movie: No Bad Days ( 2008 )
Set in the exotic terrain of the Yucatan Peninsula, NO BAD DAYS is an action/adventure film that manifests all the qualities that make for an entertaining and captivating film. The fast-pace style makes for a surprise at every turn, while the charisma and chemistry of the main characters create a romantic subplot. The story begins when evil tomb-raiders rob precious Mayan artifacts and soon face their most difficult opponent an unpredictable, rugged, ex-military operative who discovers his true self after ending 5 years in hiding. Our hero finds himself being chased through jungles, spying in underground waterways, and falling in love with an attractive, yet stubborn American woman searching for her missing mother, an archeologist who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. This gripping, action-packed, humorous tale peaks in one of the most unique and alluring tropical locations in the world, leading the two heroes on a crusade against evil forces even greater than they anticipated.
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Movie: Shaolin Girl ( 2008 )
A Shaolin-trainer young woman returns to Japan to resuscitate her grandfather's defunct martial arts school.
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Movie: The Chaser ( 2008 )
A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.
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Movie: Strength and Honour ( 2007 )
A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.
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Movie: Sands of Oblivion ( 2007 )
In 1923, legendary film Director Cecil B. DeMille finished the epic film, The Ten Commandments (1923). After filming was completed, he bulldozed the sets into the Guadalupe Sand Dunes of the central California coast. His reasons for doing so were very mysterious. This story gives a fictional explanation as to why he did it. There was a legitimate Egyptian artifact amongst the props, but they didn't know which one was trapping the spirit of an Egyptian avenging god. Mysterious murders and accidents while making the film brings things back to the surface today, and it starts all over again.
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Movie: Redline ( 2007 )
A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast--finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competitions organized by exotic car fanatics.
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Movie: Bridge to Terabithia ( 2007 )
A preteen's life turns upside down when he befriends the new girl in school and they imagine a whole new fantasy world to escape reality.
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Movie: The Contract ( 2006 )
A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans.
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Movie: The Russian Specialist ( 2006 )
A Russian ex-Spetsnaz working as a mechanic in LA accepts a job freeing a kidnapped woman in Saint Petersburg, as the mob boss also killed his wife and son 7 years ago. The body count begins.
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Movie: Shadowless Sword ( 2005 )
So-ha, a deadly female warrior, is sent to find a exiled prince after the Killer Blade Army killed the royal family.
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Movie: The Legend of Zorro ( 2005 )
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) and his wife, Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), to take action.
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Movie: Pros and Ex-Cons ( 2005 )
After completing their job, two ex-cons, are quickly informed that they have assassinated the wrong individual. With the stakes high they must quickly correct their mistake before covers are blown and innocent lives are lost.
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Movie: A Bittersweet Life ( 2005 )
Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't proceed by his boss's orders.
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Movie: The Hidden Blade ( 2004 )
A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.
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Movie: Red Water ( 2003 )
In the quiet waters of the Mississippi, body parts are being discovered. No one knows what is behind it all, until a huge man eating bull shark turns up. This bull shark is different, as it can breath in fresh water, making a deadly encounter between anyone who comes before it. John Sanders must now try and reach the surface, with his ex-wife and whilst being held hostage.
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Movie: Memories of Murder ( 2003 )
In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.
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Movie: The Recruit ( 2003 )
A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in the Agency.
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TV Show: Boomtown ( 2002 )
Each episode of this series, set in present day Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.
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Movie: The Tuxedo ( 2002 )
A hapless chauffeur must take a comatose Secret Agent's place using his special gadget-laden tuxedo.
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Movie: Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams ( 2002 )
The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.
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Movie: Stark Raving Mad ( 2002 )
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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Movie: Crocodile 2: Death Swamp ( 2002 )
A criminal carrying stolen money and gold hijacks a plane that crashes in a Mexican swamp, where the survivors are terrorized by a giant crocodile.
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Movie: Versus ( 2002 )
There are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side. These are concealed from all human beings. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal.... The forest of resurrection.
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Movie: Devious Beings ( 2002 )
Longstanding friendships are severely tested when three buddies who grew up together botch a drug deal and get played.
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Movie: Spy Kids ( 2001 )
Using high tech gadgets, two kids have to save their reactivated OSS top spy parents when they're taken by an evil, high tech enemy.
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Movie: Crocodile ( 2000 )
A group of college friends are attacked by a giant man-eating crocodile while on spring break.
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TV Show: Jason and the Argonauts ( 2000 )
Jason and the Argonauts is based on the classic myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. At a young age, Jason witnesses the brutal deposement and murder of his father at the hands of his uncle Pelias. Twenty years later, Jason returns home to claim his rightful place as king, but Pelias orders him to be executed, and in order to save himself Jason is forced to go on a dangerous quest to find the legendary Golden Fleece. So Jason gathers a motley crew of men and sets sail on the Argos. This Hallmark Production was created as a two part mini-series event, starring Jason London as Jason and Jolene Blalock as Medea.
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TV Show: Arabian Nights ( 2000 )
To cure a prince's murderous madness, Scheherezade tells him a series of wonderous stories.
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Movie: Tokyo Raiders ( 2000 )
Is anyone who he says he is in this caper that moves from Hong Kong and Las Vegas to Tokyo? Ken doesn't show up in Vegas for his wedding; his disconsolate bride, Macy, heads home for Hong Kong and finds John, an interior decorator, waiving a check of Ken's that has bounced. She leaves immediately for Tokyo to find her businessman boyfriend, and John tags along. Ken's flat is teeming with members of the Ito gang, who are also looking for Ken. John and Macy escape, with the help of a crew of look-alike cuties who work for Lin, who claims to be a private investigator. He too is looking for Ken. Where is Ken, why has he disappeared, and who will find him first?
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Movie: Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding ( 1999 )
Life could be just great for bank robber Keek: His buddy Kalle is doing time for their last coup, while Keek has to retain the loot. Kalle will spend two more years in jail, so Keek is not exactly bothered by the fact that he has lost most of the money betting on horse races. But then Kalle watches a porn video 'starring' his wife and he breaks free to take revenge. Suddenly, Keek is in desperate need of cash and even the weirdest scheme seems promising.
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Movie: The Negotiator ( 1998 )
In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.
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Movie: The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1998 )
The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?
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Movie: Mean Guns ( 1997 )
100 people, who have betrayed The Syndicate, are gathered in a prison opening the next day. They are given weapons and 6 hours to kill each other. The 3 remaining share $10,000,000.
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Movie: Mortal Kombat: Annihilation ( 1997 )
A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.
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Movie: The Peacemaker ( 1997 )
A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.
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Movie: Robinson Crusoe ( 1997 )
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesmen to their gods. Over time, their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
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Movie: Murder at 1600 ( 1997 )
A young woman is murdered in the White House. Homicide detective Regis/W.Snipes investigates while Secret Service works against him. He's assigned agent Chance/D.Lane. She eventually cooperates after a man's framed.
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Movie: Shadow Conspiracy ( 1997 )
Bishop, trusted advisor to the president, has shots fired at him when Pachenko comes to him about a traitor in highest level of government. He gets away from the cold blooded assassin twice. Will he find the traitor before getting killed?
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Movie: Daylight ( 1996 )
Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.
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Movie: Kidnapped ( 1995 )
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
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Movie: Mortal Kombat ( 1995 )
Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world.
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Movie: Peace Hotel ( 1995 )
Set circa 1930, "The King of Killers", a one-man killing machine who, after his wife's murder, has decided to set up the "Peace Hotel", a sanctuary where anyone can stay and be protected from those who want to harm them. Although he has pledged never to kick anyone out of the Peace Hotel, he is put to the test when a penniless female swindler, who is wanted by a vicious gang for murdering their boss, shows up. Now he has to decide whether to risk an all-out war with the gang, or whether to ask her to leave the hotel.
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Movie: My Father is a Hero ( 1995 )
An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
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Movie: Maverick ( 1994 )
Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.
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Movie: The New Legend of Shaolin ( 1994 )
A young father and his infant son are beset by forces of evil and corruption. They wander China, upholding their sense of honor and protecting the weak. When they are forced into combat, spectacular and hilarious fast-motion kung fu sequences follow. In the end, they must call on all of their abilities in a battle royale, to attempt to vanquish a supernatural man-monster or die trying.
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Movie: Tai-Chi Master ( 1993 )
Two friends, ex Shaolin monks, part ways as they brush with the ongoing rebellion against the government. The ambitious one rises up to be a powerful military commander, while his betrayed friend resorts to learn the calm ways of Tai Chi.
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Movie: The Three Musketeers ( 1993 )
A 90s retelling of the classic story.
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Movie: White Sands ( 1992 )
A small southwestern town Sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and five hundred thousand dollars. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an F.B.I. investigation.
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Movie: Bullet in the Head ( 1990 )
When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
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Movie: God of Gamblers ( 1989 )
A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities.
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Movie: An Innocent Man ( 1989 )
A man is framed by two corrupt cops for drugs. After he gets out of prison, he comes after them.
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Movie: Brenda Starr ( 1989 )
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the "Brenda Starr" strip for the papers. When Brenda comes to life in the strip and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the strip. To get her back, and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip. In her world, Brenda Starr is the Ace Reporter for the New York Flash. She is talented, fearless, smart, and a very snappy dresser. The only competition she has is from the rival paper's top reporter Libby Lipscomb. Brenda heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist with a secret formula which will create cheap and powerful gas from ordinary water.
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TV Show: The Dirtwater Dynasty ( 1988 )
The Dirtwater Dynasty is the story of embittered rivalry, triumph and despair, spanning three generations and eight decades. Born in the London slums in 1878, Richard Eastwick comes to Australia at age 20, with nothing but a handful of courage and a dream. He acquires land, marries and raises a family, makes loyal friends and bitter enemies. Two world wars and the economic depression take their toll on his family and his land and cattle ranching empire but his dream to create a dynasty gives him a reason to continue.
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Movie: Shoot to Kill ( 1988 )
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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Movie: Amsterdamned ( 1988 )
A hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.
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Movie: Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1987 )
The bounty hunter Nick is offered $250,000 by CIA to get the terrorist behind the bombing of an LA movie theater. Nick quit CIA - he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now and can he stop the terrorists before...?
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Movie: The Millionaires' Express ( 1986 )
Multi-genre flick (western, martial arts, comedy, adventure, etc.) with an all-star cast about a man who returns to his home town, buys everything in sight, and tries to improve its municipal (and his personal) profits by sabotaging a train so the passengers all have to stop in his town and spend lots o' money! Throw in various subplots involving some Japanese swordsmen, some bungling bankrobbers (one of whom is the head of security), and a gang of no-goods who try to mess up the town.
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Movie: The Aviator ( 1985 )
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
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Movie: ffolkes ( 1980 )
When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.
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Movie: Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women ( 1979 )
Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. They discover that it's inhabited by women. Women who don't trust men. They try to get them to help them.
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Movie: Bear Island ( 1979 )
On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.
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Movie: Telefon ( 1977 )
A Russian officer is sent to the U.S. to try and stop sleeper agents who will mindlessly attack government entities when they hear certain coded words.
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Movie: Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo ( 1970 )
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
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Movie: Jûsan-nin no shikaku ( 1963 )
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.
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Movie: Harakiri ( 1962 )
An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.