Action


AIR FORCE 2
CRASH & BYRNES CYBORG 2

DEADLY GAME THE GHOST A GOOD NIGHT TO DIE

HOPE RANCH LOYAL OPPOSITION METAL MAYHEM aka GEN-Y COPS

PHANTOM BELOW PIT FIGHTER RED TEAM

SNOWMAN'S PASS SWEET DECEPTION







Air Force 2

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

When the Vice President's plane goes down near a remote South American island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Secret Service agent and a press secretary to infiltrate the camp and save him.

Cast:
Mariel Hemingway
David Keith
Jill Bennett
David Millbern

Director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith




 







Cyborg 2 (aka Glass Shadow)

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

In the year 2074, the PinWheel Corporation creates an 'almost-human' cyborg, Cassandra Reese, who is designed specifically to "work" her way into another manufacturer's headquarters and then self-destruct.  When she starts to have feelings for Colson Ricks, who also works for PinWheel, her creators send a 'Cyborg Tracker' after both of them to stop their path of destruction.


Cast:
Angelina Jolie
Jack Palance
Billy Drago
Elias Koteas
Karen Shepherd



Director:
Michael Schroeder



 






Phantom Below

Genre: Action




Synopsis:

In the cold, dark waters of the Sea of Japan, a U.S. sub falls victim to a surprise attack.  Sailors are injured, lives are lost, and the ship is destroyed.  Although nothing appeared on radar, Commander Hable is certain he saw an enemy sub submerging just before the attack.  Back at the base, the Navy brass determines it was a missile attack.  When Hable insists it was as sub, they think he's crazy and relieve him of duty.

Needed for a top secret mission, they reinstate him.  Once on board, he's determined to find the phantom.  Using experimental equipment, a crew member reports strange movement underwater.  Hable realizes it's a new secret weapon, a stealth sub.  Knowing it will follow him to the fleet, he abandons the mission, disobeys orders and changes course, drawing the stealth sub into battle.  But now, how will he destroy an enemy he can't even see?


Cast:
Adrian Paul
Catherine Dent
Kent McCord
Mike Doyle
Matthew St. Patrick

Director:
Brian Trenchard-Smith


 







Pit Fighter

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

The Mexican region of San Cristobel de Las Casas is a hotbed of turmoil and unrest. The top betting sport is pit fighting, a deadly game that matches man against man in a fight to submission. The local champion is a calm and quiet man named Jack. For five years Jack has been defeating all comers with amazing efficiency, but with no memory of any prior life. He doesn’t even know his real name. All he has are buried images of desperately chasing a beautiful woman named Marianne. Jack donates his winnings to the needy, and lives a clean and healthy life – a good man.

All is peaceful until a string of events reunites Jack and Marianne. Jack slowly pieces the fractured memories of his life through the shadowy characters who knew him in the past. Jack learns he was a criminal, an evil and cruel man. His memories were of hunting Marianne, not loving her. Jack realizes there’s only one way to win redemption, atoning for the sins of a life he doesn’t remember. He must go after the very underworld figures who once guided him, the men that made him who he once was.

Cast:
Dominique Vandenberg
Steve Bauer
Stana Katic
Tim Murphy
Catherine Munden

Director: Jesse Johnson

 






Snowman's Pass

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

A rock-climbing couple, Brian and Diana, become engaged on a bluff overlooking the infamous Snowman’s Pass. But the happiness is cut short when Brian falls to his death and his body disappears.  Three years later, a subdued and lonely Diana meets Curt, a man who hires her as a guide to lead him and his men through Snowman’s Pass. Curt owns a company that uses satellite imagery to find people and artifacts. He guarantees that he can help her find Brian’s body.

All is not what it seems with Curt and his men. They’re after the lost treasure of Snowman's Pass, a half ton of gold hidden since 1860. Curt needs Diana to lead him into remote areas where the satellite suggests gold might be. Once they find it, they’ll eliminate her.  Diana discovers the deception and is forced to run for her life, being tracked by both the men and the unblinking satellite eye in the sky. Stuck on a remote part of the mountain with no one to save her, she must rely on her wits and skill in order to survive.

Cast:
Nicole Eggert
Marc Singer

Director:
Rex Piano

 







Crash & Byrnes

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

Terrorists threaten to destroy a major city somewhere in the United States.  Two mismatched agents are reluctantly teamed to put a stop to this devastation.  Jack “Crash” Riley, an ex-CIA agent, knows the rules and how to break them.  Roman Byrnes, a DEA agent from London assigned to partner with Crash, doesn’t know the rules – he makes up his own.  From the moment they’re paired together, these two “lethal weapons” are constantly at odds. 

Infamous terrorist Lisette comes out of hiding to issue an ultimatum – the CIA must kill the President or she will unleash the deadliest virus known to mankind!  Faced with this most difficult assignment, Crash & Byrnes must find a way to work together long enough to halt this mass destruction.

Cast:
Wolf Larson
Steven Williams
Sandra Lilly Lindquist
Greg Ellis
Joanna Pacula

Director: Jon Hess


 







Deadly Game

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

Norm, a cop with a career on the skids, has the seemingly straightforward task of protecting Nathan, a 12 year old runaway who witnessed a murder.  Nathan proves to be quite a handful.  He handcuffs Norm to his bed, steals his credit cards, and runs.  Meanwhile, a master criminal gets a tip about Nathan from a corrupt cop and the hunt for the boy begins. 

Norm’s frantic search for the boy turns into a game of hide and seek.  Both their lives are now at stake.  In the course of this deadly game, they form an unusual bond.  As the game concludes, Norm finds that he has the capacity for transformation, and the ability to help bring hope and meaning to Nathan’s life.


Cast:
Tim Matheson
Carol Alt
Catherine Oxenberg
Ed Marinaro
William Katt

Director:
Jeffrey Reiner








The Ghost

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

A beautiful assassin, Jing, owes her life to the Chinese Tong.  She is fiercely loyal to their criminal family.  Skilled in weapons and martial arts, she is the ultimate killing machine.

Jing contemplates a dangerous mission involving a renegade Tong lord and goes undercover as an internet bride in Los Angeles.  The renegade Tong continues his hunt for her, using every resource, including his corrupt relationships with the police and a team of bounty hunters. 

Eventually, Jing realizes that she and the renegade Tong are moving toward a final climactic battle – and that she will not be able to rest until one of them is dead.


Cast:
Michael Madsen
Chung Lai
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Richard Hatch
Brad Douriff

Director:
Douglas Jackson

 







A Good Night to Die

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

Ronnie, a career hit man in New York, is having a bad day.  His apprentice, August, has killed the wrong man.  Mob boss Madison has put out a hit contract on August.  Ronnie vows to keep August alive and somehow redeem himself at the same time.  He agrees to do a favor for Madison to save August’s life.

At the end of the day, everything comes down to loyalty and friendship.  Ronnie soon discovers that no one can be totally trusted, and things are not always as they seem in this fast-paced, Pulp Fiction style comedic thriller.  Action with a sly smile.

Cast:
Michael Rapaport
Gary Stretch, Seymour Cassell
Deborah Harry, Ally Sheedy
James Russo, Frank Whaley
Robin Givens, Ralph Macchio

Director:
Craig Singer

 







Hope Ranch

Genre: Action




Synopsis:

A tough, burned-out cop, J.T., realizes he will never clean up the streets of Los Angeles – so he spends all his money on a cattle ranch, intended to house violent juvenile offenders rejected by the system.  He takes in three teens.

Armed with a game plan of tough love and hard work, J.T. uses two ex-cons to bully the kids into working like real cowboys.  Handsome ex-con Colt and prankster Shorty are stern, strong, and smarter than the teens thought.  Forced to get along and to do hard work, the teens are rewarded for good behavior.  Two of them begin to fall in line.  The third, Keith, plans to rob the ranch and escape with the help of his brother and his thugs.

Keith’s plans do not go as expected when the thugs show up and capture the ranch’s cook and her daughter.  JT, the cons, and the two reformed teens fight back, but the thugs are stronger and are professionally armed.  Keith must make a choice to take the easy way out, or to fight for what’s right.

Cast:
Bruce Boxleitner
Lorenzo Lamas
Barry Corbin
Brian Gross
Richard Lee Jackson, Gail O'Grady

Director: Rex Piano



 







Metal Mayhem
aka Gen-Y Cops

Genre: Action




Synopsis:

Ian, an American FBI agent, has been assigned to protect RS1, a lethal attack robot designed to replace human soldiers in the battlefield and save millions of lives.  A team of young cops in Hong Kong, Match, Alien, and Edison, are also assigned to security.  Match and Edison don’t get along – that makes this assignment more difficult.  Edison also has a rivalry with Ian over the affections of Jane, an American agent.

Kurt, an old school friend, arrives from America to visit Edison.  In reality, Kurt is a key figure in an attempt to steal RS1.  Kurt drugs and manipulates Edison into activating RS1 and, in a showdown with the local police, it appears that Edison is guilty.  He manages to escape, knowing that he will have to prove his own innocence.  But his former friends are hot on his trail.  When Kurt uses RS1 to wage war on Hong Kong, Ian and the Hong Kong cops must team up with Edison to fight one of the most lethal weapons ever devised.


Cast:
Paul Rudd
Stephen Fung
Sam Lee
Edison Chen
Maggie Q

Director:
Benny Chan








Red Team

Genre: Action


Synopsis:

Jason Chandler, a dedicated young FBI agent, specializes in tracking down the most notorious serial killers in America.  New to the force, he becomes suspicious of a developing pattern in the number of accidental deaths and disappearances of several prime serial killer suspects.  With the help of his former mentor, Jason collects facts to help support his theory.  He is soon lured into the highly secretive FBI operational unit known as Red Team. 

Once involved, Jason quickly realizes that, for all intents and purposes, Red Team is an execution squad established to wield ultimate vigilante-like vengeance.  Judge, jury, and due process of the law have been clinically discarded, as have the suspects.  This creates a very dangerous dilemma for Jason.  If he goes along with Red Team’s philosophy and actions, he’s a criminal.  If not, he’s a dead man.

Cast:
Patrick Muldoon
Cathy Moriarty
Fred Ward
Tim Thomerson
C. Thomas Howell

Director:
Jeremy Haft

 







Loyal Opposition

Genre: Action



Synopsis:

During what should be a quiet Memorial Day weekend, the President of the United States secretly faces a military crisis in the Middle East.  His overzealous Chairman of the Joint Chiefs incites a mutiny within the White House, holding staff members hostage, before proceeding to take command of a covert military operation. 

Meanwhile, a determined Secret Service agent teams with the female Vice President in an effort to avert a global firestorm and restore order to the American Government.   It’s Die Hard at the White House.  Tense and unrelenting action with a topical twist.  An excellent film.

Cast:
Joan Van Ark
Nick Mancuso
Corbin Bernsen
Rick Springfield
Lloyd Bochner

Director:
Mark Sobel


 







Sweet Deception

Genre: Action


Synopsis:

Risa Stanton has it all.  Married to handsome and successful businessman Fin Gallagher, she cares for, and loves, his daughter Anita.  Risa lives a jet-set lifestyle most of us can only dream about.  Her lifestyle comes crashing down around her, however, when she returns home from a dinner party and finds Fin dead.  She finds herself arrested for his murder.  The gun was hers, and an angry phone message helps to provide motive.  Risa is sentenced to die.

On her way to prison, Risa’s prison bus is hijacked.  Realizing this could be the only chance to find the real killer and clear her name, she flees.  In disguise, she makes her way back to the city, where she finds Fin has been leading a double life.  With the police in hot pursuit, she frantically must unravel her husband’s secrets and learn the truth before it catches up with her.`

Cast:
Joanna Pacula
Rob Stewart
Kate Jackson
Jack Scalia
Joan Collins

Director:
Timothy Bond


 






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