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A Pistol for Ringo (1965)
, 1h38Directed by Duccio Tessari
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Christmas films
Actors Giuliano Gemma, Nieves Navarro, Fernando Sancho, José Manuel Martín, Lorella De Luca, Antonio Casas
The film opens as the films protagonist, a gunfighter known as "Angel Face" or Ringo, kills four men in a gunfight. He is then arrested for manslaughter and locked up in the city jail where he awaits trial.
King's Ransom (2005)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Donald Faison, Kellita Smith, Nicole Ari Parker, Charlie Murphy
Malcolm King (Anderson) is a wealthy, selfish, obnoxious businessman who is about to divorce his wife Renee (Smith). She plans to ruin him financially during the court proceedings, and King is willing to do anything to protect his fortune.
Why Me? (1990)
, 1h27Directed by Gene Quintano
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Heist films
Actors Christophe Lambert, Kim Greist, Christopher Lloyd, J. T. Walsh, Rebecca Herbst, Tony Plana
Quand Gus et Bruno, braqueurs de coffres forts professionnels, ont vidé leur énième bijouterie, ils auraient dû se renseigner avant sur ce qu'ils risquaient d'y trouver. En l'occurrence, il s'agit la du "Brasier Byzantin", une pierre mythique qui intéresse aussi bien les turcs, la CIA, les truands de la ville. La course-poursuite s'engage...
The Maiden Heist (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Hewitt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, William H. Macy, Marcia Gay Harden, Wynn Everett, Breckin Meyer
Roger (Christopher Walken) is a security guard at an art museum who is only rarely in motion, opting rather to stare at his favorite painting, The Lonely Maiden, a beautiful woman staring forlornly out into the distance. Despite the fact he has a wife, Rose (Marcia Gay Harden), he's become rather obsessed with the painting. Rose wants Roger to retire so they can move to Florida. One afternoon, Roger learns that several pieces including The Lonely Maiden are to be permanently moved to another museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Unable to follow the maiden, Roger falls into despair until he meets Charles (Morgan Freeman), another guard who has a similar attraction to a painting on another floor of a woman with cats.
A Perfect Plan (2012)
, 1h44Directed by Pascal Chaumeil
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, Alice Pol, Robert Plagnol, Jonathan Cohen, Étienne Chicot
Isabelle (Diane Kruger) is prepared to marry Pierre (Robert Plagnol), the man she has loved for the past ten years. First she has to overcome a curse that her female family members have been battling for years—that all their first marriages end in divorce. Isabelle comes up with the perfect plan. She will marry a stranger and get a quick divorce to avoid the curse and be happily married forever the second time. She flies to Copenhagen and finds the perfect pigeon in Jean Yves (Dany Boon), an editor for the Guide du Routard, but her plans are complicated when he believes that she is in love with him. When Isabelle's arranged marriage goes awry, she tracks down the pigeon in hopes she can somehow marry him and divorce him without too much trouble. When he travels to Kenya, she follows him in the hope that he will sign her divorce papers.
Convoy Busters (1978)
, 1h41Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Olga Karlatos, Maurizio Merli, Massimo Serato, Mario Feliciani, Andrea Aureli
Une série de meurtres oriente le commissaire Olmi sur la piste d’un trafic de diamants. Dans un climat de corruption généralisée, sa volonté d’incriminer un haut fonctionnaire des douanes, Degan, est soumise à rude épreuve. Ses méthodes brutales lui font cependant commettre l’irréparable et cette bavure achève de discréditer son enquête. Muté dans une bourgade d’apparence paisible, il est de nouveau confronté à la pègre locale.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
, 2h50Directed by Richard Attenborough, Sidney Hayers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Pont, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Byrne, Edward Fox
The film begins with a montage of archival film footage narrated by a Dutch woman, Kate ter Horst, describing the state of affairs in September 1944. The Allied advance is being slowed by overextended supply lines.
My Blue Heaven (1990)
, 1h37Directed by Herbert Ross
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Carol Kane, Bill Irwin, Melanie Mayron
Vincent "Vinnie" Antonelli (Steve Martin) is a former mobster recently inducted into the Witness Protection Program with his wife, Linda. The two are under the watchful eye of Barney Coopersmith (Rick Moranis). Vinnie and Barney soon find common ground when both of their wives leave them due to their lifestyles. When he succeeds in getting Vinnie to a suburb in California and a private house, Barney has one more problem: he must make sure the jovial and sometimes mischievous Vinnie conforms to Witness Protection protocol until he is sent to Federal Court to testify against mob kingpins. Doing this is not as simple as it appears to be.
The Frisco Kid (1979)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Buddy films
Actors Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo, David Bradley
Rabbi Avram Belinski (Wilder) arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Belinski, an innocent, trusting, and inexperienced traveler, falls in with three con men, the brothers Matt and Darryl Diggs and their partner Mr. Jones, who trick him into helping pay for a wagon and supplies to go west, then brutally rob him and leave him and most of his belongings scattered along a deserted road in Pennsylvania.
Target of an Assassin (1977)
, 1h45Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin South africa
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Anthony Quinn, John Phillip Law, Joe Stewardson, Sandra Prinsloo, Marius Weyers, Regardt van den Bergh
The film is set in a South African hospital. Top-billed Anthony Quinn plays a male nurse, Hobday, assigned to care for a foreign President (Simon Sabela). With many threats against his well-being, the leader is heavily guarded around the clock. Hobday manages to kidnap his patient for strictly personal gain, unaware that a hired sniper is still attempting to take the life of the foreign leader while in Hobday's custody. This leads to a series of curious plot twists leading to a climactic scene with cable cars on a high plateau ridge.
Un sábado más (1988)
Directed by Sergio Véjar
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Pedro Fernández, Tatiana, José Elías Moreno, Adela Noriega, Gabriela Hassel
Martin is a dirt-bike racer living in a small town who goes up against a much richer boy, Diego who can afford the best of everything, including motorbikes and repair work. He is also in love with the rich kid's girlfriend, Tania, at least partly because he thinks the other boy doesn't appreciate her enough.
A Fine Mess (1986)
, 1h30Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about sexuality, Gangster films
Actors Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, María Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Edwards
While filming on location at a race track, womanizing bit actor Spencer Holden, who lives life on one scam after another, overhears a couple of inept thugs named Binky and Turnip while they dope a race horse with a supposed undetectable super stimulant. The thugs find out that Spence overheard them and will do anything to catch him to prevent him from going to the authorities with the information. Spence, however, enlists the help of his best friend, drive-in carhop and aspiring restaurateur Dennis Powell, to bet on the race with that horse so that they can make some guaranteed money. Spence and Dennis end up having to outrun not only the thugs, who manage to put a few bullet holes in Spence's car, but also the police after they find Spence's bullet-riddled car and after the race horse, Sorry Sue, dies from the drugs. The plot also includes an antique player piano of which Dennis comes into possession, sympathetic but naive auction house employee Ellen Frankenthaler who is attracted to Dennis, and exotically beautiful Claudia Pazzo who is interested in buying the piano and whom Spence can't resist.
The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
, 1h51Directed by Chang Cheh
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Jimmy Wang Yu, Lisa Chiao Chiao, Tien Feng, Huang Chung-hsin, Ku Feng, Yang Chih-ching
The Golden Sword school is attacked by bandits. The servant Fang Cheng sacrifices his life to protect his master Qi Ru Feng. In gratitude, Qi accepts the dying Fang Cheng's son, Fang Kang, as his student. Years later, Fang Kang is scorned by his snobbish fellow students because of his poor background. Deciding that he will only cause trouble for his master Fang Kang leaves the school only to run into his classmates and his master's spoiled daughter, Pei Er. In the ensuing fight Fang's right arm is cut off by Pei Er, who is angry at his indifference towards her. Stumbling away, Fang falls off a bridge into the passing boat of a peasant girl Xiao Man.
Undisputed (2002)
, 1h34Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise, Gangster films
Actors Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker, Jon Seda, Wes Studi
Undisputed heavyweight boxing champion George "Iceman" Chambers (Rhames) is convicted of rape and sentenced to a new prison in the desert called Sweetwater. The high-security facility is populated by hardened criminals. Unaware of the prison's ways and its unique hierarchy, the pompous and bratty Chambers tries to impress upon the inmates his status as a champion boxer.
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Prison films, Sports films, Films about suicide, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Combat libre
Actors Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Eli Danker, Ben Cross, Mark Ivanir, Ken Lerner
Visiting the Russian Federation for a series of boxing matches, George "Iceman" Chambers is subsequently framed for possession of cocaine and sent to prison. There, he discovers a series of illegal mixed martial arts matches dominated by inmate Yuri Boyka. The prison officials arrange these fights and place large side-bets to make a personal profit, often at the expense of the fighters. He shares a cell with Steven Parker, a British junkie. Mob boss Gaga and Warden Markov tell Chambers that if he fights Boyka, he will likely get an expedited appeal and early release. Chambers initially refuses, but after spending time in demeaning physical labor in the prison's sewer system and experiencing firsthand the brutality of the guards, he reluctantly agrees. He is rescued from both forms of humiliation by a wheelchair-bound inmate named Crot. Both fighters train hard for the match, though Chambers still relies on his boxing background while Boyka prepares a series of deadly kicks, throws, and grappling combinations designed to humiliate his opponent in the ring. Prior to the fight however, Boyka's gang force Steven, who is acting as Chambers' cornerman, to spike his water with a light sedative during the fight.