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Domino

Action & Adventure

"I am a bounty hunter. Heads you live, tails you die." Based on the true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of actor Laurence Harvey, Domino follows the story of a bored young woman who decides to become a bounty hunter. What starts as a fun venture turns deadly when a masked gang robs an armored car for ten million dollars, starting a chain-reaction of non-stop action as the mob, the FBI, a TV producer, and a terminally-ill child all get caught up in the adventure. With high-octane thrills from director Tony Scott and a powerful lead performance from Keira Knightley, Domino has been called, "One of the most subversive films released by a major studio since Fight Club."

Memorial Day

Action & Adventure

Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey into Bud's complicated wartime past, but also into Kyle's wartime future. As the two men share parallel experiences in combat, they come to realize how that magical day on the porch shaped both of their lives.

Flyboys

Action & Adventure

Inspired by the true story of the legendary Lafayette Escadrille, this action-packed epic tells the tale of America’s first fighter pilots. These courageous young men distinguish themselves in a manner that none before them had dared, becoming the true heroes who experience triumph, tragedy, love, and loss amid the chaos of World War I.

War

Action & Adventure

India’s top agent Kabir (Hrithik Roshan) leads the Elite Shadow Unit of R&AW, a compact group of the crème de la crème of the armed forces who are personally trained by him and work with him on various high-risk missions across the world. Among Kabir and Colonel Luthra’s key targets are an international arms baron Rizwan Ilyasi who has been key in various acts of terrorism against the country. Khalid (Tiger Shroff) has fought his way up the ranks of the Indian armed forces. His greatest challenge and battle has been to fight against the sins of his father, once a decorated soldier working with Kabir who had turned a traitor. His ambition has been to join Kabir’s team to remove any stains on their family name. Kabir is not keen due to their past history, but Colonel Luthra requests him to, and gradually Kabir is also impressed by Khalid’s intense dedication and grit. Khalid becomes Kabir’s greatest soldier ever, flirting with death repeatedly in mission after mission as they go after the country’s enemies, including a mission against Rizwan Ilyasi that nearly kills Khalid. But Khalid’s greatest mission, his toughest yet, is still to come. When his own mentor Kabir turns rogue and starts to go after top officials and scientists and officers in the Indian establishment, targeting and executing them viciously across the world. Colonel Luthra is unsure if Khalid has it in him to go after Kabir. Is he clever enough to hunt the man who trained him, and even if he does get him, does he have it in him to put a bullet in his hero’s head? Luthra advises Khalid against the mission but he insists – he is the best protégé and the only one who can track the mentor. And only Kabir can answer the crucial question – why did he turn rogue? A vicious cat and mouse game ensues as protégé goes after mentor in a war that spills across the globe. As the chase unravels both Kabir and Khalid begin to finally realize, what desperate stakes really drive them in this terrifying war.

Murderer's Row

Action & Adventure

Leaving his incredible bachelor's dream world -- with its unique multi-purpose round bed, private swimming pool, and very private secretary Lovey Kravezit (Beverly Adams) -- former ICE counter-espionage agent Matt Helm (Dean Martin) answers the call of his former chief, MacConald (James Gregory). Armed with a fresh drink and an ominous assortment of super-weapons, Helm is sent to tangle with lovelies such as Susie (Ann-Margret), a hip-swinging Riviera discotheque-goer; Coco Duquette (Camilla Sparv), a sexy statuesque blonde; and the Slaygirls, twelve women with very little to hide. Coming up against Julian Wall (Karl Maiden), who has kidnapped an internationally renowned scientist, Helm becomes involved in a secret mission that includes blowing up an unknown place for a top-secret reason. But all secrets are revealed when Helm, in his efforts to rescue the scientist, finally corners Wall and his mob in a showdown that gives Matt a chance to prove his new super-weapons are an effective equalizer for the outnumbered agent. In the process of finding the missing man, Helm has more than enough ladies to love as he jets from challenge to challenge in America, England, and France.

The Offence

Action & Adventure

Sean Connery is Johnson, a hard-boiled British police detective who is overwhelmed by a child molestation case. His reaction during the interrogation is to kill the suspect, and he is suspended. He eventually emotionally completely falls apart, and it is hinted that his violent reaction to the suspect was due to his latent tendencies as a pedophile.

Detective Knight: Redemption

Action & Adventure

Bruce Willis stars as Detective James Knight in this second film of the action-packed trilogy. In custody in New York, Knight finds himself in the middle of a jailbreak led by The Christmas Bomber, a brutal fanatic whose Santa Claus disciples are terrorizing the city. With the promised return of his badge in exchange for taking out the terrorists, the steely-eyed Knight doles out mercy for the just…and merciless justice for all the rest.

One Ranger

Action & Adventure

British Intelligence meets Texas Justice in this white-knuckle action-thriller. A gunslinging Texas ranger (Thomas Jane) tracks a bank robber (Dean Jagger) across the desert— only to discover he's an international terrorist set on detonating a bomb in the heart of London. When the lawman's partner is killed, he is drawn into partnership with a British intelligence agent (Dominique Tipper) and her boss (John Malkovich) to bring the outlaw to justice — dead or alive.

After Earth

Action & Adventure

One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.

Desperate Measures

Action & Adventure

Michael Keaton and Andy Garcia go head to head in this riveting thriller about a cop forced to protect a vicious killer. It's a parent's worst nightmare and a cop's harshest test: Frank Conner (Garcia) is a dedicated officer and devoted father. He'll do anything to find a bone-marrow donor for his dying son, including break into the FBI's computer and solicit the help of a ruthless killer (Keaton). But when the killer escapes from the prison hospital, leaving scorched bodies in his wake, Frank must endanger innocent people or kill the only man who can save his son.

The Golden Compass

Action & Adventure

In a wondrous parallel world where witches soar the skies and Ice Bears rule the frozen North, one special girl is destined to hold the fate of the universe in her hands. When Lyra Belacqua (Dakota Blue Richards) becomes the keeper of the Golden Compass, she discovers that her world – and all those beyond – is threatened by the secret plans of Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman). With the help of Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig) and a group of unlikely allies ready to stand at her side, Lyra embarks on an extraordinary quest that celebrates friendship and courage against all odds.

Congo (1995)

Action & Adventure

From Jurassic Park and Westworld creator Michael Crichton comes an epic adventure filled with state-of-the-art technology and primal fear. They have eluded heat-seeking missiles, gone eyeball-to-eyeball with enraged 5,000-pound hippos, and hacked through a jungle curtain. Now a gorilla named Amy will lead a University experiment team back to her home—the fabled Lost City of Zinj. But what they don't know can be fatal, and once humans enter this world, they’ll be the endangered species.

Never Back Down

Action & Adventure

Jake (Faris), full of anger after his father's death, is just starting to find a place for himself at his new Orlando high school - until Ryan (Giagandet), head of an underground MMA fight club, picks Jake out as a prime opponent. After being trounced by Ryan in front of the entire school, Jake begins training under the firm, moral guidance of a MMA master (Hounsou), where he learns how to fight...and how to avoid a fight. But it becomes obvious that a rematch will be inevitable if Jake wants to stop Ryan and his bullying, once and for all.

Shanghai Knights

Action & Adventure

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Skiptrace

Action & Adventure

For years, by-the-book Hong Kong detective Benny Chan (Jackie Chan) has tried to avenge his partner’s murder at the hands of a drug lord. When Benny learns that freewheeling American gambler Connor Watts (Johnny Knoxville) has the evidence he needs, he teams with Connor to get justice. Now all Benny and Connor have to do is survive the fight of their lives—and each other!

The Ant Bully

Action & Adventure

The park battle continues!After a new boy in the city, Lucas Nickel, gets bullied by one of the kids in the neighborhood, he frustrates his innocent ants hill in his yard. But diligent ants will not tolerate much. In revenge for him, they made him big and tried to taste him "life in a colony!" Here in a strange new world, Lucas learns the meaning of true friendship, looks at a different view of life and finally has the courage to defend himself in this emotional story of a young boy embarking on a wonderful journey.

Time Bandits

Action & Adventure

In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they plunder treasure from Napoleon (Ian Holm) and Agamemnon (Sean Connery)?but the Evil Genius (David Warner) is watching their every move. Featuring a darkly playful script by Gilliam and his Monty Python cohort Michael Palin (who also appears in the film), Time Bandits is at once a giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire of technology gone awry.

Felon

Action & Adventure

A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murderer (Val Kilmer) and subjected to brutal beatings orchestrated by the sadistic head prison guard (Harold Perrineau), Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life and must become the toughest Felon of them all if he's to survive the block. For what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And in state prison, only the strongest will survive.

Death Race 2 (Unrated)

Action & Adventure

In the world’s most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive — or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) discovers there’s a price on his head, his only hope is to survive a twisted race against an army of hardened criminals and tricked-out cars. Also starring Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames, Death Race 2 tells the explosive story of how the legendary race began. Strap yourself in for the insane, Unrated version with even more carnage and mayhem!

Shadow

Action & Adventure

With SHADOW, director Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) once again pushes the boundaries of wuxia action to create a film like no other, masterfully painting a canvas of inky blacks and greys punctuated with bursts of color from the blood of the defeated. In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a "shadow", a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

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