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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his fiesty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
23) Deliverance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Four ordinary men, in two canoes, descending a river they've only seen as a squiggly line on a map, determined to test themselves against a wilderness they only think they understand, must fight for their lives against some sadistic mountain men.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Alex O'Connell sets out to help combat the resurrected a Han Emperor. When Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. As the monarch...
26) Keanu
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Clarence and Rell, cousins who live in the city but are far from streetwise. When Rell's beloved kitten, Keanu, is catnapped, the hopelessly straight-laced pair must impersonate ruthless killers in order to infiltrate a street gang and retrieve the purloined feline. But the incredibly adorable kitten becomes so coveted that the fight over his custody creates a gang war, forcing our two unwitting heroes to take the law into their own hands.
27) Killer elite
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When two of the world's most elite operatives, Danny, a retired contract killer, and Hunter, his longtime mentor, go up against the cunning leader of a secret military society, their hunt takes them around the globe from Australia to Paris, London, and the Middle East. As the stakes rise along with the body count, Danny and Hunter are soon plunged into an action-packed game of cat and mouse where no one is what they seem.
28) Escape plan
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Ray Breslin, one of the world's foremost authorities on structural security, agrees to take on one last job: breaking out of an ultra-secret, high-tech facility called The Tomb. Deceived and wrongly imprisoned, Ray must recruit fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer to help devise a daring, nearly impossible plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built.
29) Fly away home
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A 13-year old girl and her estranged father learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them how to fly.
30) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
31) Ant-Man
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
32) Masterminds
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A night guard at a car company organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history for seventeen million. Only problem is he hands the money over to a group of double crossers and is set up to take the fall.
33) The double
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a United States Senator is brutally murdered, the evidence points to a Soviet assassin code-named Cassius, who was long-thought to be dead. Two men who know Cassius best are thrown together to catch him. Paul Shepherdson is a retired CIA operative who spent his career tracking Cassius around the globe. Ben Geary is a hotshot young FBI Agent and family man who has studied the killer's every move. Ben thinks he knows Cassius, but Paul knows he...
34) The last knights
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master.
Language
English
Description
"Experience mankind's greatest adventure. This thrilling sci-fi original is a breathtaking ride. Charlton Heston stars as Taylor, an astronaut who crash-lands on a mysterious world where intelligent apes rule, and hunt primitive, speechless humans for sport. Soon, Taylor's life depends on the kindness of the chimpanzee scientists Cornelius and Zira and his escape to the Forbidden Zone, where he uncovers an earth-shattering secret that may hold the...
36) John Wick
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
37) Bellflower
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalypse. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies.
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Four musketeers: Villainous Cardinal Richelieu continues his machinations to eliminate French Protestants, and England's Prime Minister, the Duke of Buckingham. Milady distracts D'Artagnan, kidnaps Constance, and is revealed as Athos' sworn enemy. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all!
The Three musketeers: The young ambitious Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An oral history of the film that has been hailed as the greatest action movie ever made features interviews with the cast and crew, including director George Miller and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
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