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Meltdown

IMDB Rating: 5.70
982 votes

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After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?
Also posted in 1995, Action | Comments (0)

True Lies

IMDB Rating: 7.00
35072 votes

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Harry Tasker is a spy. Presently, he is working on a case involving nuclear warheads in the possession of terrorists. Now his wife doesn't know what he does; as far as she is concerned, he is a computer salesman. Now Harry came close to apprehending the leader of the terrorists but he got away and knows who he is. While Harry tries to pick up his trail, he inadvertently overhead his wife, Helen talking about having a "boyfriend". So, he uses his resources to find out who this guy is. And he learns that he is a car salesman pretending to be what Harry is. When Helen goes to one of their rendezvous, Harry stages an attack on them. He then from behind a shroud, that she could be sent to prison unless she does something for them--plant a bug in a guy's phone. Now she does what she is told but unknown to her the man in the room is Harry, she was about to leave when the terrorists break into the room and take them away. It is there that she finds out who and what Harry is, and it's a good thing cause the terrorists plan to kill when they are through with them.
Actors
Charlton Heston
Harry TaskerArnold Schwarzenegger
Helen TaskerJamie Lee Curtis
Also posted in 1994, Action, Adventure, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Rambo III

IMDB Rating: 4.10
9056 votes

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John Rambo's former Vietnam superior, Colonel Samuel Trautman, has been assigned to lead a mission to help the Mujahedeen rebels who are fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo turns down Trautman's request that Rambo help out. When the mission goes belly up and Trautman is kidnapped and tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo launches a rescue effort and allies himself with the Mujahedeen rebels and gets their help in trying to rescue Trautman from Zaysen.
Actors
John J. RamboSylvester Stallone
Col. Samuel TrautmanRichard Crenna
Col. ZaysenMarc de Jonge
Also posted in 1988, Action, War | Comments (0)

Aliens

IMDB Rating: 8.30
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More than a half-century after the events of 'Alien', Warrant Officer Ripley - the sole survivor of the Nostromo - is discovered adrift in the shuttle she used to escape. By now, the Company - Ripley's employer - has colonized the planet where the alien was found. Intent on covering up its illegal actions of years before, the Company strips Ripley of her flight officer's license. But when transmissions from the colony stop without warning, she is called into action again - this time with a group of Space Marines. Now the alien menace is hundreds of times larger, more insidious, and all but invincible. The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.
Actors
Ellen RipleySigourney Weaver
Rebecca 'Newt' JordenCarrie Henn
Cpl. Dwayne HicksMichael Biehn
Also posted in 1986, Action, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Alien

IMDB Rating: 8.40
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While returning from a deep-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a supposed SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet's surface, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the transmission - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of strange alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the crew takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems well again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the crew finds itself in serious trouble...
Actors
DallasTom Skerritt
RipleySigourney Weaver
LambertVeronica Cartwright
Also posted in 1979, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

007 The Spy Who Loved Me

IMDB Rating: 7.00
9446 votes

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Both the British and Russians are amazed when a submarine from each country disappears and the only link is a microfilm detailing the movements of the British submarine meaning that somehow a submarine can be tracked via it's "wake". The British sends agent James Bond and the Russians send Major Anya Amasova, otherwise known as "Triple-X". After first fighting against each other over the microfilm, the two agents are ordered to work together against the real enemy, mad shipping billionaire Carl Stromberg who plans to use the submarines to destroy the world via nuclear missiles so that any survivors are forced to live in Stromberg's dream world beneath the sea. However James must also defend himself against Anya as she finds out that James had killed her lover on a previous mission...
Actors
James BondRoger Moore
Maj. Anya AmasovaBarbara Bach
Karl StrombergCurd Jürgens
Also posted in 1977, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

007 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

IMDB Rating: 6.80
8464 votes

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The most emotional adventure of his career begins for James Bond on a deserted beach where a young woman tries to drown herself. He rescues the girl and for his trouble is attacked by two toughs - the girl's bodyguards. It soon becomes much bigger for 007 - the girl is Teresa Draco, daughter of crime boss Marc Ange Draco, who wants James to marry his wayward daughter, and in return he can provide 007 with information on an even more dangerous criminal leader - Ernst Stavro Bloefeld of SPECTRE. But both James and Teresa find more than they ever bargained for when their paths collide in a vicious pursuit in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland, an enormous avalanche, and a smuggling ring for germ warfare against the West by Blofeld, who proves most difficult to kill and who exacts a revenge that James can never forget - or forgive.
Actors
Commander James Bond, Agent 007George Lazenby
Contessa Teresa 'Tracy' Di VicenzoDiana Rigg
Ernst Stavro BlofeldTelly Savalas
Also posted in 1969, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)