My opinion on what the best action movies are. Some new, some old...all great!
Dredd (2012)
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Mega City One is a vast, violent metropolis where felons rule the streets. The only law lies with...
John Wick (2014)
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John Wick is a feared ex-hitman and an expert assassin who receives a beagle puppy as a final gift...
John Wick Keanu Reeves Action Revenge
The Raid (2011)
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In a high-rise building, a rookie S.W.A.T. team member named Rama and the rest of his elite squad...
Martial arts Pencak Silat Redemption
Die Hard (1988)
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During his estranged wife's Christmas party in a Los Angeles skyscraper, NYPD cop John McClane faces...
Aliens (1986)
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James Cameron's sequel to the highly successful 'Alien'. Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole...
Alien Xenomorph
Wow, going through this list is a lot of fun. So many great films released in one year. We certainly don't have years like this any more. Which is your favorite?
The Blues Brothers (1980)
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The Blues Brothers Unrated Version stars comic icons John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the...
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker...
Star Wars
The Shining (1980)
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The winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel brings his wife and child—the latter of whom...
Friday the 13th (1980)
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A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a...
Camp Slasher
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Thought I would do a more recent one of these since all my old lists make me feel like an old man. Lots of good films too.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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In German-occupied France during the Second World War, a team of Jewish-American soldiers and a...
Moon (2009)
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Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint...
Avatar (2009)
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A hybrid human-alien called an Avatar is created to facilitate communication with the indigenous...
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
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After being destroyed by the FBI, murderer Jason Voorhees returns from the dead and possesses the...
Slasher Hockey mask Supernatural Possession
The Skeleton Key (2005)
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A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...
Sinister (2012)
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A true-crime author named Ellison Oswalt moves with his family to a house where another family was...
Supernatural Ghost Horror
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When you look at this list, it's hard to believe all these great movies came out the same year. There sure aren't years like this any more. Time to revisit one of these classics!
Ladyhawke (1985)
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In medieval times, a youthful pickpocket befriends a strange knight who is on a mysterious quest....
Brazil (1985)
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Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through...
Spies Like Us (1985)
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Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd star in this Cold War farce as two complete misfits who aspire to spy...
Brewster's Millions (1985)
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Richard Pryor is Montgomery Brewster, a minor league baseball pitcher who discovers he has to blow...
A View to a Kill (1985)
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James Bond is sent to Siberia, where he finds 003 buried by an avalanche and recovers a microchip...
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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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After the rebels are overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker...
Star Wars
Halloween (1978)
8.4
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On Halloween night, 1963, a young boy named Michael Myers murdered his older sister with a kitchen...
Slasher
Aliens (1986)
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James Cameron's sequel to the highly successful 'Alien'. Officer Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole...
Alien Xenomorph
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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In future Britain, Alex DeLarge, a charismatic and psychopath delinquent, who likes to practice...
Blade Runner (1982)
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In a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, an ex-Blade Runner named Rick Deckard is called back on the...
Cyberpunk Tech noir Neo-noir
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You may not remember, but 1996 had some great film releases. Here are some of my favorites. Which one is your favorite?
Courage Under Fire (1996)
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During the 1991 Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) accidentally...
The Birdcage (1996)
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In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles," engaged couple Val Goldman (Dan...
Evita (1996)
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Eva Duarte Peron rises from poverty to become an Argentinian actress and the wife of powerful...
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My list of 'Classic' films I believe that everyone should have a gander at.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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From a novella by best-selling author Stephen King comes this poignant tale of the human spirit. ...
Stand by Me (1986)
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In a small Oregon town over Labor Day weekend in 1959, four young friends—Gordie, Chris, Teddy,...
Coming-of-age
Dirty Dancing (1987)
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Baby (Jennifer Grey) is one listless summer away from the Peace Corps. Hoping to enjoy her youth...
Snatch (2001)
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Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers,...
Trading Places (1983)
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A vagrant and snobby businessman exchange positions with each other as a test of human nature on a...
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
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Animated musical space family comedy from the same team who brought you the original Lego Movie...
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by...
Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
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Death makes a killer comeback. Sequel to the 2017 film 'Happy Death Day'.
How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
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From DreamWorks Animation comes the highly anticipated culmination of one of the most popular...
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Suicide Squad (2016)
6.2
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A team of criminal antiheroes, composed of Deadshot, Harley Quinn, El Diablo, Captain Boomerang,...
DCEU DC
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
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After Chris Gardner uses his all of his lifesavings on a failed business, he is left with little...