Category Archives: Action

Independence Day

Release 1996

Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

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Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, Man's best weapon is the will to survive.

Noah

Release 2014

Genre Action, Adventure, Drama

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Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel
Stars: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959490/

A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Release 2014

Genre Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writers: Adam Cozad, David Koepp, Tom Clancy
Stars: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Lenn Kudrjawizki
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205537/

Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.

Tokarev

Release 2014

Genre Action, Crime, Thriller

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Director: Paco Cabezas
Writers: Jim Agnew, Sean Keller
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Rachel Nichols, Max Ryan, Michael McGrady, Peter Stormare
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401807/

When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.

Contract Killers

Release 2014

Genre Action, Thriller

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Director: Mathew John Pearson
Writers: Michael Yee
Stars: Renee Cataldo, Dallas Barnett, James Trevena-Brown, Rob Young, Scott Jackson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1928144/

Double-crossed by those he trusted the most, a newbie government hit man discovers that he's the target for the world's most dangerous assassin and so begins a ruthless game of kill first of be killed.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Release 2003

Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: Jonathan Mostow
Writers: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris, Tedi Sarafian
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, David Andrews
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/

A robotic warrior from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a 20-year old drifter and his future wife from an most advanced robotic assassin and to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Release 1991

Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron, William Wisher Jr.
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John, from a more advanced cyborg, made out of liquid metal.

Son of Batman

Release 2014

Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery

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Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writers: Bob Kane, Grant Morrison, Andy Kubert, James Robinson, Joe R. Lansdale, Neal Adams, Bob Brown, Bill Finger, Dick Giordano, Denny O'Neil, George Pérez, Frank Robbins, Jerry Robinson, Marv Wolfman
Stars: Jason O'Mara, Stuart Allan, Thomas Gibson, Morena Baccarin, Dee Bradley Baker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3139072/

Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group the League of Assassins.

Terminator

Release 1984

Genre Action, Sci-Fi

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Director: James Cameron
Writers: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher Jr.
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/

A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Release 2009

Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Director: Stephen Sommers
Writers: Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, Paul Lovett, Michael Gordon, Stephen Sommers
Stars: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher Eccleston, Grégory Fitoussi, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leo Howard
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1046173/

An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.