Category Archives: Action
Collide
Release 2016
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Director: Eran Creevy
Writers: F. Scott Frazier, Eran Creevy
Stars: Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley, Nadia Hilker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126235/
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne high-speed Autobahn.
Max Steel
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
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Director: Stewart Hendler
Writers: Christopher Yost
Stars: Ben Winchell, Josh Brener, Maria Bello, Andy Garcia, Ana Villafañe
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1472584/
The adventures of teenager Max McGrath and his alien companion, Steel, who must harness and combine their tremendous new powers to evolve into the turbo-charged superhero Max Steel.
The Hollow Point
Release 2016
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Writers: Nils Lyew
Stars: Lynn Collins, Patrick Wilson, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Jim Belushi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2918606/
A new sheriff of a small town along the U.S. & Mexico border investigates a drug cartel deal that went horribly wrong.
Kill Ratio
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Paul Tanter
Writers: Steven Palmer Peterson
Stars: Tom Hopper, Amy Huberman, Nick Dunning, Lacy Moore, Michelle Lehane
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5020372/
An attack on the new President of a fledgling Eastern European democracy pits an American covert operative against the country's ruthless military leader determined to seize control of the government.
Contract to Kill
Release 2016
Genre Action
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Director: Keoni Waxman
Stars: Steven Seagal, Russell Wong, Jemma Dallender, Mircea Drambareanu, Sergiu Costache
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5470222/
Harmon is a CIA/DEA enforcer investigating Arab terrorists captured in Mexico. With his team--seductive FBI agent Zara and spy-drone pilot Sharp--he flies to Istanbul and uncovers a brutal plot: Islamic extremists plan to use Sonora drug-smuggling routes to bring deadly weapons, and leaders, into the U.S. To prevent an attack on America, Harmon must turn these two savage forces against one another before his time--and his luck--run out.
Spectral
Release 2016
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Nic Mathieu
Writers: Ian Fried, John Gatins, Jamie Moss, George Nolfi
Stars: Emily Mortimer, Clayne Crawford, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Bruce Greenwood
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106651/
A sci-fi/thriller story centered on a special-ops team that is dispatched to fight supernatural beings.
The Magnificent Seven
Release 2016
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Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Nic Pizzolatto, Richard Wenk
Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404435/
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
The Accountant
Release 2016
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Gavin O'Connor
Writers: Bill Dubuque
Stars: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140479/
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Inferno
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Ron Howard
Writers: Dan Brown, David Koepp
Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Irrfan Khan, Sidse Babett Knudsen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3062096/
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Ben-Hur
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
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Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writers: Lew Wallace, Keith R. Clarke, John Ridley
Stars: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2638144/
Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.