Tag Archives: arms dealer

Jackie Brown

IMDB Rating: 7.50
53014 votes

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Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss' gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don't even know. Here's when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you're talking about him, you're dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That's when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max's help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff...
Actors
Denise Crosby
Jacqueline 'Jackie' BrownPam Grier
Ordell RobbieSamuel L. Jackson
Also posted in 1997, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mission: Impossible III

IMDB Rating: 6.90
35461 votes

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Former spy Ethan Hunt is called back into action to recover a missing IMF Agent. But complications arise when his fiancée is captured and he must fight to get her back.
Actors
Ethan HuntTom Cruise
Luther StickellVing Rhames
Benji DunnSimon Pegg
Also posted in 2006, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Syriana

IMDB Rating: 7.20
27052 votes

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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.
Actors
ArashKayvan Novak
Bob BarnesGeorge Clooney
Mohammed Sheik AgizaAmr Waked
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lord of War

IMDB Rating: 7.70
33996 votes

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This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Actors
Yuri OrlovNicolas Cage
Ava FontaineBridget Moynahan
Vitaly OrlovJared Leto
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The In-Laws

IMDB Rating: 5.60
4717 votes

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When prospective fathers-in-law Steve Tobias and Jerry Peyser meet for the first time to celebrate their children's upcoming marriage, the cake hits the fan. Dr. Jerome Peyser is a mild-mannered podiatrist with a well-organized daily routine designed to eliminate all possible sources of stress. Meanwhile, daredevil CIA operative Steve Tobias moves through life like a heat-seeking missile. His average day consists of dodging bullets, stealing private jets and negotiating with international arms smugglers. Now he's giving potential father-of-the-bride Jerry a serious case of pre-nuptial jitters. Steve's dramatic entrances and exits, his cryptic references to a Russian runaway named Olga and his fight with a gunman in a restaurant washroom causes Jerry to see a vision of his daughter's perfectly planned wedding blowing up in his face. As far as Jerry's concerned, letting Steve into his family takes til death do us part way too literally. Before he can say the wedding is off, Jerry suddenly finds himself embroiled in the chaos that follows in Steve's wake as he is dragged kicking and screaming into a series of perilous adventures that take the mismatched in-laws-to-be halfway around the world.
Actors
Steve TobiasMichael Douglas
Cherkasov's BodyguardMichael Bodnar
CherkasovVladimir Radian
Also posted in 2003, Action, Comedy | Comments (1)

Cradle 2 the Grave

IMDB Rating: 5.30
7280 votes

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When his daughter is kidnapped and held in exchange for priceless diamonds, the leader of a crew of highly skilled urban thieves (DMX) forges an unlikely alliance with a Taiwanese Intelligence officer (Jet Li) to rescue her. Their race against the clock to find the precious stones ultimately unravels a plot to distribute a deadly new weapon of war.
Actors
FaitDMX
SuJet Li
TommyAnthony Anderson
Also posted in 2003, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (2)

City of God

IMDB Rating: 8.80
37754 votes

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Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that—in the early 80's—became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film—only the narrator—he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Actors
Buscapé - RocketAlexandre Rodrigues
Zé Pequeno - Li'l ZéLeandro Firmino
Bené - BennyPhellipe Haagensen
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Fifth Element

IMDB Rating: 7.20
62610 votes

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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.
Actors
Korben DallasBruce Willis
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel ZorgGary Oldman
Father Vito CorneliusIan Holm
Also posted in 1997, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Living Daylights

IMDB Rating: 6.50
8700 votes

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After Bond helps Russian officer Georgi Koskov ('Jeroen Krabbe'(qv)) make a daring defection to the West, the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond leaps into action, following a trail that leads to the gorgeous Kara ('Maryam d'Abo'(qv)), who plays Bond as easily as she plays her Stradivari cello. As they unravel a complex weapons scheme with global implications, they are forced into hair-raising chases, a riveting jailbreak and an epic battle in the Afghanistan desert with tanks, airplanes and a legion of freedom fighters on horseback.
Actors
James BondTimothy Dalton
Kara MilovyMaryam d'Abo
General Georgi KoskovJeroen Krabbé
Also posted in 1987, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)