Tag Archives: general

D.A.R.Y.L.

IMDB Rating: 5.50
2854 votes

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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.
Actors
Joyce RichardsonMary Beth Hurt
Andy RichardsonMichael McKean
Dr. Ellen LambKathryn Walker
Also posted in 1985, Family, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Iron Man

IMDB Rating: 8.20
56926 votes

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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.
Actors
Tony Stark/Iron ManRobert Downey Jr.
Col. James 'Rhodey' RhodesTerrence Howard
Obadiah Stane/Iron MongerJeff Bridges
Also posted in 2008, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lawrence of Arabia

IMDB Rating: 8.60
36024 votes

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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
Actors
T.E. LawrencePeter O'Toole
Prince FeisalAlec Guinness
Auda abu TayiAnthony Quinn
Also posted in 1962, Adventure, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

007 GoldenEye

IMDB Rating: 7.10
48389 votes

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James Bond has a mission to recover the 'Goldeneye' access key. A Russian computer programmer called Natalya Siminova survives a murder spree by Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov. Bond must work with Natalya to find this key and uncovers a sinister secret. His fellow agent, Alec Trevelyan who was believed to have been shot and killed 9 years ago re-surfaces. Bond soon realizes that Trevelyan is behind everything. Bond must now battle his former friend, in order to stop him from destroying London with the Goldeneye satellite.
Actors
James BondPierce Brosnan
Alec TrevelyanSean Bean
Natalya Fyodorovna SemyonovaIzabella Scorupco
Also posted in 1995, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Commando

IMDB Rating: 6.10
25301 votes

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A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix' friend General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.
Actors
John MatrixArnold Schwarzenegger
CindyRae Dawn Chong
AriusDan Hedaya
Also posted in 1985, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Die Another Day

IMDB Rating: 6.10
47485 votes

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Pierce Brosnan gives one last mission as James Bond. Starting off in North Korea, Bond is betrayed and captured. 14 months later, Bond is set free, but traded for Zao (Yune) who was captured by MI6. When back in his world, Bond sets off to track down Zao. Bond gets caught up in yet another scheme which sends him to millionaire Gustav Graves (Stephens). Another MI6 agent known as Miranda Frost (Pike) is also posing as a friend of Graves. Bond is invited to a presentation held by Graves about a satellite found in space which can project a huge laser beam. Bond must stop this madman with a fellow American agent, known as Jinx (Berry). Whilst Bond tries to stop Graves and Zao, will he finally reveal who betrayed him?
Actors
James BondPierce Brosnan
JinxHalle Berry
Gustav GravesToby Stephens
Also posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

IMDB Rating: 3.50
6070 votes

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After a violent combat against the bugs in their planet, with many casualties of humans under the command of a coward officer, a group of troopers looks for shelter in an abandoned military post. The psychic Pvt. Lei Sahara (Colleen Porch) finds and releases Capt. V.J. Dax (Richard Burgi), who was left behind locked in a cell by his troop, after killing a general. Dax and two privates, in a daring mission, save Gen. J. G. Shepherd (Ed Lauter) and some soldiers from an attack of the bugs, and Shepherd gives him a command position. While waiting for rescue, some troopers are invaded through their mouths by small bugs that took control of their brains. When Gen. Shepherd is possessed by one creature, Dax and Sahara try to prevent him getting back to the Federation.
Actors
Pvt. Ottis BrickBilly Brown
Capt. V.J. DaxRichard Burgi
Pvt. Billie OtterCy Carter
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Universal Soldier: The Return

IMDB Rating: 3.20
7237 votes

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Universal Soldier II continues the story of Luc Deveraux, who has survived his experiences as a Universal Soldier, recovered, and is now working as a technical expert on a government project to revive and improve the Universal Soldier training program. When S.E.T.H., the supercomputer controlling the Soldiers, goes haywire and takes over, Luc is the only one who can battle this elite team of deadly, near-perfect warriors.
Actors
Luc DeverauxJean-Claude Van Damme
S.E.T.H.Michael Jai White
Dr. Dylan CotnerXander Berkeley
Also posted in 1999, Action, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Saving Private Ryan

IMDB Rating: 8.40
172681 votes

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Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...
Actors
Captain John H. MillerTom Hanks
Sergeant Mike HorvathTom Sizemore
Pvt. Richard ReibenEdward Burns
Also posted in 1998, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (1)

The General’s Daughter

IMDB Rating: 6.00
17000 votes

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Military police detectives Paul Brenner and Sarah Sunhill investigate a horrifically bizarre rape and murder of a respected female Pysch-Ops officer who is also the daughter of a renowned retiring general. Yet the case becomes more complicated when the autopsy showed no evidence of sexual assault. Furthermore, that is but the beginning of the twists when they discover the victim's secret life, her past and a disturbing determination by senior staff to keep this investigation short and quiet.
Actors
Warr. Off. Paul Brenner/Sgt. Frank WhiteJohn Travolta
Warr. Off. Sara SunhillMadeleine Stowe
Lt. Gen. Joseph CampbellJames Cromwell
Also posted in 1999, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)
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