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  • George Sherman – Johnny Dark (1954)

    1951-1960ActionClassicsGeorge ShermanUSA

    Plot:
    Tony Curtis stars as Johnny Dark, a moody automobile designer. Rejected by a major auto firm because of his “radical” notions, Johnny sets out to prove the efficiency of his cars on the racetrack. He is aided and abetted by pretty Piper Laurie and less pretty Paul Kelly, while motor mogul Sidney Blackmer fumes and fusses until he realizes that Johnny’s designs will save his company. Most of the film is devoted to a marathon race, pitting Johnny against his friendly enemy Don Taylor. Johnny Dark is a must for racing buffs, as well as a prime example of Tony Curtis in his beefcake period.Read More »

  • Andrew Lau – Bat sei ching mai AKA Bullets of Love (2001)

    Andrew Lau2001-2010ActionDramaHong Kong

    Sam, a Hong Kong cop, has busted crime lord Night. Ann, Sam’s girlfriend, is the prosecuting witness. Night is jailed for five years. On a trip to Paris, Ann is killed by an assassin. Sam quits the force and two years later, runs a bar on Lamma Island with his uncles. One day, a Japanese tourist who looks exactly like Ann arrives. Sam and the lady soon fall in love. However, that love is shortened when she holds a dark past and after a successful appeal, Night is back and out for revenge.Read More »

  • Jun’ya Satô – Gorugo 13 AKA Golgo 13 (1973)

    1971-1980ActionJapanJun'ya SatôThriller

    Golgo 13 travels to the underworld of Tehran, Iran, to track down a shadowy target… Max Boa, the boss of an international crime syndicate that smuggles weapons and drugs and kidnaps women. But Boa catches wind of the cold-blooded killing machine’s intentions and has his organization go on the offense. When a mesmerizing game between murderers begins, the only result can be kill or be killed!Read More »

  • Sam Peckinpah – The Osterman Weekend (1983)

    1981-1990ActionSam PeckinpahThrillerUSA

    Quote:
    Based on the best selling novel by Robert Ludlum, “The Osterman Weekend” is a convoluted tale of paranoia, revenge and media manipulation. John Tanner (Rutger Hauer) is a crusading TV journalist. His specialty is interviewing men of power and decimating them on national TV. Lawrence Fassett (John Hurt) is a CIA field agent whose wife was murdered by the KGB. He uncovers a spy ring called Omega. Three Americans are selling secrets to the Soviets. The three Americans are all college friends of John Tanner. Bernie Osterman (Craig T. Nelson) is a TV writer. Richard Tremayne (Dennis Hopper) is a doctor with a coked out wife named Virginia (Helen Shaver). Joseph Cardone (Chris Sarandon) is a powerful lawyer. His wife Betty (Cassie Yates) doesn’t mind the corners he cuts in order to provide the good life. Tanner and his friends have annual get-togethers to play hard. The reunions are called Ostermans in honor of the first host. Maxwell Danforth (Burt Lancaster) is the head of the CIA. Fassett has convinced Danforth that the CIA should use Tanner to get close to his friends and possibly turn one of them. The politically ambitious Danforth agrees. Tanner is convinced and allows his home to be bugged in order to uncover the spies. Tanner’s wife Ali (Meg Foster) is kept out of the loop until it is too late.Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet – The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet AKA L’extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet (2013)

    Jean-Pierre Jeunet2011-2020ActionAdventureFrance

    Synopsis
    A 12-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family’s ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.Read More »

  • Kôsuke Hishinuma – Kunoichi ninpô-chô: Kage no tsuki AKA Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles 9 (2011)

    2011-2020ActionCampJapanKôsuke Hishinuma

    Quote:
    It takes place in the 1730’s, when Shogun Yoshimune and his deputy, Muneharu, were struggling for control. As a way of fomenting dissent by embarrassing him, Muneharu drags out the Shogun’s former concubines; to stop this, Yoshimune sends a group of his top female ninjas, under Tsurugi (Abe), to kill the women before Munharu’s men can get to them, triggering a ninja war. Complicating matters, turns out one of the concubines may have had a bastard son by Yoshimune, and whoever gets proof of that lineage will really hold the whip hand.Read More »

  • S.S. Rajamouli – Bāhubali: The Beginning AKA Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)

    2011-2020ActionDramaIndiaS.S. Rajamouli

    A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.This is part 1 of a 2 part period drama. Part 1 shows the brothers Baahubali and Bhallaladeva fight for the throne to Mahishmathi Kingdom.Read More »

  • Ferdinando Baldi – Texas, addio AKA Goodbye Texas (1966)

    1961-1970ActionEuro WesternsFerdinando BaldiItalyWestern

    The tough gun-man Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job as a town sheriff to go to Mexico to find the man, Cisco, who killed his father many years ago. He and his younger brother arrive in a small town where everybody is afraid of Cisco who has become the local landowner. But there is a secret. It turns out that Cisco is the father of Burt’s younger brother and Cisco are craving for respect from his “son”. Burt Sullivan joins forces with the local townspeople to stop and bring Cisco back to his punishment in Texas…Read More »

  • Robert Vernay – Passeport diplomatique agent K 8 (1965)

    France1961-1970ActionRobert VernayThriller

    The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. She is persuaded to take a necklace through customs on her diplomatic passport. But it’s a trap, she finds out that it contained microfilm and the young girl is forced to work for the spies from the East…taking part in a plot to kidnap a scientist…Read More »

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