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Escape from L.A.

IMDB Rating: 5.10
17869 votes

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Sequel to "Escape From New York". In 2000, a huge earthquake hits Los Angeles which causes the whole city to be now situated on an island. In that year the new life-term US President, an out-spoken moralist declares that all people not conforming to the high morals he sets for the country will be deported to the Los Angeles island. Like New York, a wall is built, guards posted to stop any escapes and if sent there - you can't return to the US. In 2013, Cuervo Jones, a terrorist invades the dreams of the President's daughter, Utopia, and brainwashes her into stealing a device from a weapons establishment and runs with Cuervo to the island. Snake Plissken, hero of Escape From New York, is forced again to go to the island to get the device by the President (who doesn't care if Utopia returns or not.) and he is poisoned to ensure his co-operation. Like New York, Los Angeles is now a decaying city, a hot-bed of scum and weirdos and Snake has 9 hours to find the device and Utopia, and get out before the poison kicks in.
Actors
Snake PlisskenKurt Russell
UtopiaA.J. Langer
Map to the Stars EddieSteve Buscemi
Also posted in 1996, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Warriors

IMDB Rating: 7.60
18493 votes

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Cyrus, the messianic leader of the largest gang in New York, declares a truce and calls a summit with all the major gangs in attendance. During the meeting, he expresses his wish to unify all the gangs into one large super-gang. During the summit, Cyrus is assasinated and the murder is pinned on a member of a gang known as the Warriors. Now, all the other gangs are hunting the Warriors down before they can prove their innocence. "CAN YOU DIG IT?"
Actors
SwanMichael Beck
AjaxJames Remar
CleonDorsey Wright
Also posted in 1979, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

A Man Apart

IMDB Rating: 5.70
10875 votes

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Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks are members of the DEA who are fighting an ongoing drug war on the California/Mexico border, they are most successful at it because of their edge of growing up on the street and being thugs converted to cops. The DEA busts one of the major players by the name of "Memo" Lucero and imprison him in the United States but then a major player named Diablo then takes over the business and now he is now the major player targeted by Vetter and his team. But when Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible and in the process has to seek help from the imprisoned Lucero in order to catch Diablo. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when all Vetter can focus on is revenge...
Actors
Sean VetterVin Diesel
Demetrius HicksLarenz Tate
Hollywood JackTimothy Olyphant
Also posted in 2003, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Comments (0)

Here on Earth

IMDB Rating: 4.50
4025 votes

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The lives of three young people - a rich student, a girl from the "wrong side of the tracks" and her boyfriend - unexpectedly intersect during one fateful summer in the romantic drama "Here on Earth." Kelley Morse (Chris Klein), who is cocky and brash, normally would never have crossed paths with the residents of a small town near his posh private school. But when he takes his shiny new Mercedes out for a drive, he locks horns with some of the locals, including Jasper (Josh Hartnett). As Jasper's willful girlfriend Samantha (Leelee Sobieski) looks on, Kelley and Jasper engage in a dangerous car race that turns disastrous, leaving a popular diner owned by Samantha's mother in ruins. Kelley and Jasper are sentenced to a creatively ironic but fitting punishment: They must help rebuild the diner. Not only does this ruin Kelley's summer plans, he also must board at the home of his rival, Jasper. Kelley begins to fulfill his "sentence," but refuses to have anything to do with Jasper and his parents. When Kelley again encounters Samantha, the attraction is immediate and strong. First love blossoms in the Berkshire woods ("a little bit of heaven, here on earth," Samantha calls the pastoral setting), angering Jasper, who has known Samantha practically his entire life. These new feelings and the romantic triangle that develops are only the beginning of a new journey for Kelley, Samantha and Jasper, as they ultimately make life-changing discoveries about themselves and each other.
Actors
Kelvin 'Kelley' MorseChris Klein
Samantha 'Sam' CavanaughLeelee Sobieski
Jasper ArnoldJosh Hartnett
Also posted in 2000, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

Romeo Is Bleeding

IMDB Rating: 6.20
5217 votes

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A corrupt New York police officer's double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to catch up with him when he's bribed to kill a deadly female Russian assassin in custody while keeping his lifestyle a secret from both his wife and teenage mistress.
Actors
JackGary Oldman
WaiterWallace Wood
SheriJuliette Lewis
Also posted in 1993, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

One Way

IMDB Rating: 6.10
699 votes

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In New York, the competent creative director of Birk Advertising Eddie Shneider is living a successful moment of his professional life and is engaged and has just proposed Judy Birk, the daughter of the owner of the company where he works. Eddie is also a wolf and very successful with many women, and is having an affair with a neighbor of the street where he lives with Judy. When he gets the account of the greatest American airline for his company, he is promoted to partner and he celebrates with his assistant and friend Angelina Sable in a lunch party in a restaurant. After hours, when they are in the garage, Angeline notes that she had forgotten her car keys in the office, and when she returns, she is violently raped by the despicable brother of Judy, Anthony Birk. On the next morning, when Eddie arrives in the garage, he finds the traumatized Angeline on the floor and he takes her to a hospital. He returns to the company and Anthony blackmails Eddie with pictures of his many affairs. Eddie has to take a side between his career and engagement and his friendship with Angeline.
Actors
Eddie ShneiderTil Schweiger
Angelina SableLauren Lee Smith
Anthony BirkSebastien Roberts
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Twilight Zone: The Movie

IMDB Rating: 6.30
9227 votes

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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood's famous directors based on TV's most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode "A Quality of Mercy") a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940's France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of 'Kick the Can') an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of 'It's a Good Life') a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy's imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.
Actors
PassengerDan Aykroyd
Ambulance DriverDan Aykroyd
Car DriverAlbert Brooks
Also posted in 1983, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Modesty Blaise

IMDB Rating: 5.10
779 votes

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Great Britain is giving 50 million pounds worth of diamonds to a Middle East sheik in return for oil concessions. There are rumors of a plot by arch-criminal Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) to steal the diamonds, so the Secret Service Chief (Harry Andrews) seeks the help of sexy spy Modesty Blaise (Monica Vitti), who brings along her sidekick Willie Garvin (Terence Stamp).
Actors
Modesty BlaiseMonica Vitti
Willie GarvinTerence Stamp
GabrielDirk Bogarde
Also posted in 1966, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | Comments (0)

Kiss the Girls

IMDB Rating: 6.40
16980 votes

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Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece. Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan, Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym "Casanova".
Actors
Morgan Freeman
Ashley Judd
Cary Elwes
Also posted in 1997, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Speed

IMDB Rating: 7.20
63349 votes

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Bomber Terrorist's (Dennis Hopper) elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer (Keanu Reeves) tries to unload any passengers off, Payne (Hopper) will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's (Keanu's) superior, and Jeff Daniels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb.
Actors
Officer Jack TravenKeanu Reeves
Howard PayneDennis Hopper
Annie PorterSandra Bullock
Also posted in 1994, Action, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)
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