Posts Tagged ‘assassin’

The Woman in Green (1945)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Basil Rathbone | Nigel Bruce | Hillary Brooke | Henry Daniell | Paul Cavanagh | Matthew Boulton | Eve Amber | Frederick Worlock | Tom Bryson | Sally Shepherd | Mary Gordon | John Burton | Harold De Becker | Leslie Denison | Tony Ellis
Directors: Roy William Neill
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Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamoruos woman. The fiendish Dr Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is belived to be involved.

War (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jet Li | Jason Statham | John Lone | Devon Aoki | Luis Guzmán | Saul Rubinek | Ryo Ishibashi | Sung Kang | Mathew St. Patrick | Nadine Velazquez | Andrea Roth | Kenneth Choi | Mark Cheng | Kane Kosugi | Kennedy Montano
Directors: Philip G. Atwell
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After his partner Tom Wynne (Terry Chen) and family are killed apparently by the infamous and elusive assassin Rogue (Jet Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) becomes obsessed with revenge as his world unravels into a vortex of guilt and betrayal. Rogue eventually resurfaces to settle a score of his own, setting off a bloody crime war between Asian mob rivals Chang (John Lone) of the Triad’s and Yakuza boss Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). When Jack and Rogue finally come face to face, the ultimate truth of their pasts will be revealed.

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Jaime Pressly | Holly Valance | Sarah Carter | Devon Aoki | Natassia Malthe | Eric Roberts | Matthew Marsden | Brian J. White | Collin Chou | Kane Kosugi | Derek Boyer | Martin Crewes | Steve Howey | Song Lin | Fang Liu
Directors: Corey Yuen
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A number of fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. They travel to the tournament island by plane, until they have to jump out mid-flight with parachutes, and then have until sundown to reach the main island to be entered into the tournament. Fighters are then pooled against one another in a knock-out style tournament, with the loser of a battle sent home, and the winner progressing to the subsequent round. The plot revolves around four female fighters who begin as rivals, but subsequently find themselves teaming up against another force.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

The Poet (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Austria | Germany | UK
Actors: Dougray Scott | Laura Harring | Jürgen Prochnow | Andrew Lee Potts | Erika Marozsán | Mavie Hörbiger | Miguel Herz-Kestranek | Peter Mouka | Hary Prinz | Rudy Ruggiero | Fanny Gatibelza | Gunther Gillian | Jürgen Kloth | Klaus Nierhoff | Siegfried Polap
Directors: Paul Hills
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A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Wright | Pablo Schreiber | Anthony Mackie | Dorian Missick | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Teddy Dunn | Joaquin Perez-Campbell | Tim Artz | Denzel Washington | Robyn Hitchcock | Liev Schreiber | Antoine Taylor | Joseph Alessi | Raymond Anthony Thomas | Bill Irwin
Directors: Jonathan Demme
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

The 007 Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Moore | Christopher Lee | Britt Ekland | Maud Adams | Hervé Villechaize | Clifton James | Richard Loo | Soon-Tek Oh | Marc Lawrence | Bernard Lee | Lois Maxwell | Marne Maitland | Desmond Llewelyn | James Cossins | Yiu Lam Chan
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga, he realises that he is highly respected by the killer, but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?

Stormbreaker (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Sarah Bolger | Robbie Coltrane | Stephen Fry | Damian Lewis | Ewan McGregor | Bill Nighy | Sophie Okonedo | Alex Pettyfer | Missi Pyle | Mickey Rourke | Andy Serkis | Alicia Silverstone | Ashley Walters | Alex Barrett | Richard Huw
Directors: Geoffrey Sax
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Based on the first of the best-selling series of Alex Rider novels by Anthony Horowitz, STORMBREAKER introduces the reluctant teenage super-spy to cinema audiences. After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old hero is forced by the Special OperationsDivision of Britain’s secret intelligence service, MI6, for a mission which will save millions of lives.

Collateral (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Cruise | Jamie Foxx | Jada Pinkett Smith | Mark Ruffalo | Peter Berg | Bruce McGill | Irma P. Hall | Barry Shabaka Henley | Richard T. Jones | Klea Scott | Bodhi Elfman | Debi Mazar | Javier Bardem | Emilio Rivera | Jamie McBride
Directors: Michael Mann
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he’s long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they’re about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max’ taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent’s survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

The Living Daylights (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Timothy Dalton | Maryam d'Abo | Jeroen Krabbé | Joe Don Baker | John Rhys-Davies | Art Malik | Andreas Wisniewski | Thomas Wheatley | Desmond Llewelyn | Robert Brown | Geoffrey Keen | Walter Gotell | Caroline Bliss | John Terry | Virginia Hey
Directors: John Glen
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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.