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The Terminator(1984)

1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.8/5 (with 6,004 votes)

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

Directed by James Cameron - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Earl Boen, Lance Henriksen, ...
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Ghostbusters II(1989)

1h 48min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 1,927 votes)

Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.

Directed by Ivan Reitman - With Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, ...
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)

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| 2h 17min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 5,943 votes)

Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get the rid of rebellion leader John Connor, this time targeting the boy himself. However, the rebellion has sent a reprogrammed terminator to protect Connor.

Directed by James Cameron - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Earl Boen, Joe Morton, ...

The Mask(1994)

1h 41min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 4,750 votes)

When timid bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss discovers a magical mask containing the spirit of the Norse god Loki, his entire life changes. While wearing the mask, Ipkiss becomes a supernatural playboy exuding charm and confidence which allows him to catch the eye of local nightclub singer Tina Carlyle. Unfortunately, under the mask's influence, Ipkiss also robs a bank, which angers junior crime lord Dorian Tyrell, whose goons get blamed for the heist.

Directed by Chuck Russell - With Jim Carrey, Peter Riegert, Pedro Castillo, Amy Yasbeck, Orestes Matacena, Ben Stein, ...

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines(2003)

16
| 1h 49min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 3,080 votes)

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

Directed by Jonathan Mostow - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken, Earl Boen, Christopher Lawford, ...
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The Crow(1994)

15
| 1h 42min | Fantasy, Action, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,684 votes)

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.

Directed by Alex Proyas - With Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Massee, ...

Invasion(2020)

2h 9min | Science Fiction, Drama, Action
3.5/5 (with 339 votes)

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?

Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk - With Alexander Petrov, Irina Starshenbaum, Oleg Menshikov, Rinal Möxämmätef

Catwoman(2004)

PG
| 1h 44min | Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Crime
2.3/5 (with 1,518 votes)

Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat — and she's eager to use her new skills... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse", handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail, fascinated by both of her personas.

Directed by Pitof - With Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson, Frances Conroy, Alex Borstein, ...

Son of the Mask(2005)

1h 34min | Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family, Adventure
2.1/5 (with 847 votes)

Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.

Directed by Lawrence Guterman - With Jamie Kennedy, Alan Cumming, Traylor Howard, Steven Wright, Kal Penn, Bob Hoskins, ...

Rumble in the Bronx(1995)

1h 44min | Crime, Action, Comedy, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 404 votes)

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Directed by Stanley Tong - With Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Garvin Cross, Marc Akerstream, ...

Equilibrium(2002)

16
| 1h 47min | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 2,098 votes)

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

Directed by Kurt Wimmer - With Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus Macfadyen, Sean Bean, William Fichtner, ...

Escape from New York(1981)

15
| 1h 39min | Science Fiction, Action
3.5/5 (with 1,330 votes)

In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Ernest Borgnine, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton, ...
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Attraction(2017)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love, Science Fiction, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 340 votes)

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk - With Oleg Menshikov, Alexander Petrov, Sergei Garmash, Lyudmila Maksakova, Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Möxämmätef, ...

The Specialist(1994)

1h 50min | Action, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 589 votes)

May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of Quick's is assigned to protect one of Quick's potential victims, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues.

Directed by Luis Llosa - With Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm(1993)

1h 16min | Action, Animation, Crime, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 488 votes)

When a powerful criminal, who is connected to Bruce Wayne's ex-girlfriend, blames the Dark Knight for killing a crime lord, Batman decides to fight against him.

Directed by Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm - With Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Stacy Keach, Abe Vigoda, Mark Hamill, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., ...
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Miami Vice(2006)

16
| 2h 12min | Action, Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 809 votes)

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Directed by Michael Mann - With Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Barry Shabaka Henley, ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze(1991)

1h 28min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 469 votes)

The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new mutants.

Directed by Michael Pressman - With Kevin Clash, Paige Turco, François Chau, David Warner, Toshishiro Obata, Ernie Reyes, ...

Daylight(1996)

1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 663 votes)

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

Directed by Rob Cohen - With Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Jay O. Sanders, Karen Young, ...

The Negotiator(1998)

16
| 2h 20min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 911 votes)

The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that might clear him, he takes everyone in the office hostage and demands that another well-known negotiator be brought in to handle the situation and secretly investigate the conspiracy.

Directed by F. Gary Gray - With Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, John Spencer, J. T. Walsh, Ron Rifkin, ...

My Neighbors the Yamadas(1999)

1h 44min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 206 votes)

The Yamadas are a typical middle class Japanese family in urban Tokyo and this film shows us a variety of episodes of their lives. With tales that range from the humorous to the heartbreaking, we see this family cope with life's little conflicts, problems, and joys in their own way.

Directed by Isao Takahata

Dick Tracy(1990)

1h 45min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 407 votes)

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Directed by Warren Beatty - With Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, Madonna, James Caan, Seymour Cassel, Dick Van Dyke, ...

Hard to Kill(1990)

16
| 1h 36min | Action
3.0/5 (with 258 votes)

Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death.

Directed by Bruce Malmuth - With Steven Seagal, William Sadler, Kelly Le Brock, Frederick Coffin, Branscombe Richmond, Dean Norris, ...

Metro(1997)

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| 1h 57min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 232 votes)

Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.

Directed by Thomas Carter - With Eddie Murphy, Michael Wincott, Michael Rapaport, Carmen Ejogo, Donal Logue, Denis Arndt, ...
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The Powerpuff Girls Movie(2002)

1h 17min | Animation, Action, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 123 votes)

Based on the hit animated television series, this feature film adaptation tells the story of how Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup - three exuberant young girls - obtain their unique powers, become superheroes and join forces to foil evil mutant monkey Mojo Jojo's plan to take over the world.

Directed by Craig McCracken

A Chorus Line(1985)

12
| 1h 53min | Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 75 votes)

A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach. After the initial eliminations, seventeen hopefuls remain, among them Cassie, who once had a tempestuous romantic relationship with Zach. She is desperate enough for work to humble herself and audition for him; whether he's willing to let professionalism overcome his personal feelings about their past remains to be seen.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Sharon Brown, Vicki Frederick, Janet Jones, Audrey Landers, ...

Knock Off(1998)

1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 141 votes)

Marcus Ray, a sales representative for "V SIX" jeans, and his partner, Tommy Hendricks, are about to be busted for selling "knock off" jeans. Their American contact, Karan Leigh, who by the way is not only their employer but a CIA agent sent to find the mole in their operation, is threatening them with a jail term if they do not prove their innocence.

Directed by Tsui Hark - With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lela Rochon, Michael Wong, Rob Schneider, Paul Sorvino, Dennis Chan, ...

Tekkonkinkreet(2006)

1h 43min | Animation, Crime, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 151 votes)

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

Directed by Michael Arias

Code of Silence(1985)

1h 41min | Action, Crime
2.9/5 (with 81 votes)

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Directed by Andrew Davis - With Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Dennis Farina, Allen Hamilton, Molly Hagan, ...
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The Air I Breathe(2007)

1h 35min | Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 152 votes)

A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star falls prey to a crime boss; a doctor must save the love of his life.

Directed by Jieho Lee - With Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Clark Gregg, ...

The Crow: Wicked Prayer(2005)

1h 39min | Action, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
1.8/5 (with 78 votes)

When ex-convict Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered on a reservation by a local gang of satanists, he's brought back by the Crow to seek vengence.

Directed by Lance Mungia - With Edward Furlong, David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tito Ortiz, Marcus Chong, ...
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