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Code of Silence (1985) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Code of Silence
director: Andrew Davis actor: Chuck Norris / Mike Genovese …
other title: Il codice del silenzio / Politiets Hemmelige Våben …
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.
Jan. 11, 2026 watched
Why have Chuck Norris in a movie and NOT have him Chuck Norris the hell out of the baddies??? There was ONE punch in the 1st hour, and ONE actual fight scene in the last half-hour.

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party

Legit stream in MX:
Jan 2026: Prime (careful, there are two versions, one is dubbed)
1980s Action AndrewDavis ChuckNorris DennisFarina
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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Rambo: First Blood Part II
director: George P. Cosmatos actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna …
other title: Rambo 2 - La vendetta / Rambo - First Blood 2 …
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
Jan. 10, 2026 watched
Bombastic right-wing fantasy with one bemulleted, besteroided manly man single-handedly undoing the US defeat in Vietnam caused by, you know, people not "Real American" enough. (Yeah, my comment's a little bit political. But just a tiny sliver compared to the politics of the Rambo franchise.) But I loves me some action!

Re-watched in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon
1980s Action CharlesNapier GeorgeCheung GeorgePCosmatos
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Hot Shots! (1991) IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData
Hot Shots!
7.0 (7 ratings) director: Jim Abrahams actor: Charlie Sheen / Cary Elwes …
other title: Ases Pelos Ares / Hot Shots! - Die Mutter aller Filme …
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Jan. 9, 2026 watched
Parody of films like 'Top Gun', from Jim Abrahams of 'Airplane' fame. Not quite the same standard but a lot of LOL moments.

Watched in #Comedon watch partyy on Mastodon
1990s CaryElwes CharlieSheen Comedon Comedy
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Joker's Poltergeist (2015) IMDb
Joker's Poltergeist
director: Christopher S. Lind actor: Eric Roberts / Lacy Marie Meyer …
other title: American Poltergeist 4 - The Curse Of The Joker
After a clown-masked assailant guns down Aurora's Place, the resident theater owner fights to re-open her business.
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Clue (1985) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Clue
7.5 (6 ratings) director: Jonathan Lynn actor: Tim Curry / Eileen Brennan …
other title: Signori, il delitto è servito / Clue - O Jogo do Crime …
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
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Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
霹靂十傑
director: Lau Kar-Leung actor: Hsiao Ho / Gordon Liu Chia-Hui …
other title: I discepoli della 36a camera / Die Erben der 36 Kammern der Shaolin …
Monk San Te tries to support and protect Shaolin and her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials.
Jan. 4, 2026 watched
A bit more comic than the first film, and focused more on Fong Saiyuk (Hsiao Ho) than San Te (Gordon Liu).

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
1980s GordonLiu HongKong HsiaoHo KungFu
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
少林三十六房
director: Lau Kar-Leung actor: Gordon Liu Chia-Hui / Lo Lieh …
other title: 36ª camera dello Shaolin / A Câmara 36 de Shaolin …
During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.
Jan. 3, 2026 watched
Absolute classic of kung fu movies by Lau Karleung, starring Gordon Liu & Lo Lieh.

First watched in the 90s, rewatched ahead of #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon showing the loose sequel Disciples of the 36th Chamber.

Legit stream (as of Dec 2025):
https://youtu.be/NH4tL14PZvg
1970s GordonLiu HongKong KungFu LauKarleung
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First Blood (1982) Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB
First Blood
8.0 (5 ratings) director: Ted Kotcheff actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna …
other title: Rambo / A Fúria do Herói …
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
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The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) WikiData NeoDB IMDb TMDB
The Lavender Hill Mob
director: Charles Crichton actor: Alec Guinness / Stanley Holloway …
other title: L'incredibile avventura di Mr. Holland / Masser af guld …
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
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Time Trackers (1989) WikiData IMDb
Time Trackers
director: Howard R. Cohen actor: Ned Beatty / Wil Shriner …
When an evil scientist steals his colleague's time machine his colleague's beautiful, brilliant daughter, aided by an L.A. cop and a hapless admirer, pursues him back to twelfth century England where - disguised as a damsel in distress - she enlists the help of a knight errant whose secret past holds the key to her future.
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Time Walker (1982) IMDb WikiData
Time Walker
director: Tom Kennedy actor: Ben Murphy / Nina Axelrod …
other title: Pasajero del Tiempo / Time walker (Pasajero del tiempo) …
From deep within the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, Professor Douglas McCadden ships the coffin of Ankh-Vanharis to the California Institute of Sciences where X-rays reveal five diamond-like crystals hidden within the coffin. Technician Peter Sharpe steals the crystals but doesn't notice that the powerful X-ray has revived a green fungus. When the coffin is opened at a university press conference, the reporters uncover more than they bargained for. The mummy has disappeared... and the Time Walker is alive again!
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Four Rooms (1995) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Rooms
director: Allison Anders / Alexandre Rockwell … actor: Tim Roth / Jennifer Beals …
other title: 4 Quartos / Groom Service
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
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Maximum Impact (2017) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Максимальный удар
director: Andrzej Bartkowiak actor: Alexander Nevsky / Mark Dacascos …
other title: Máximo impacto / Максимальный удар
The agents of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the US Secret Service are forced to work together to prevent a full-scale international crisis.
Dec. 28, 2025 watched
The FSB are the good guys! Rashist money bought a lot of foreign B-listers, but not much of a movie.

Mark Dacascos at least enjoys himself hamming it up as an "evil Jean-Claude Van Johnson", a fading martial arts star who has become a hitman with a penchant for terrible disguises & accents. I'd pay to see him in "Shaolin Cop"!

Kelly Hu gorgeous & confident, but we never got a fight with her & Mark.

Alexander Nevsky shows all the charisma of a block of wood.

Tom Arnold, Eric Roberts, Danny Trejo, Bai Ling, Matthias Hues & Billy Baldwin showed up to collect their cheques. Actually, I don't think Billy even showed up, just did it remotely.

https://watch.mometu.com/feature/maximum-impact
2010s Action ActionComedy AlexanderNevsky AlphonsoMcAuley
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
director: John R. Leonetti actor: Robin Shou / Talisa Soto …
other title: Mortal Kombat - Distruzione totale / Combate Mortal 2: Aniquilação …
A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth.
Dec. 28, 2025 watched
They blew the whole budget on techno & cheesy CGI, leaving nothing for screenwriting.

Shot on location in "Wales, England" :D

Watched in #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon
1990s Action BrianThompson Fantasy JamesRemar
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Die Hard (1988) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Die Hard
8.2 (13 ratings) director: John McTiernan actor: Bruce Willis / Alan Rickman …
other title: Trappola di cristallo / Assalto ao Arranha-Céus …
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Dec. 27, 2025 watched
One of my all time faves! An action movie with just the right sprinkling of vulnerability, character and humour.

1st watched in the cinema, in Leicester Square.
Last rewatched: in #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
1980s Action AlanRickman BruceWillis Faves
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Black Christmas (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Black Christmas
director: Bob Clark actor: Olivia Hussey / Keir Dullea …
other title: Black Christmas (Un Natale rosso sangue) / En morder i dit hus …
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
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Evil of Dracula (1974) TMDB IMDb WikiData
血を吸う薔薇
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Mariko Mochizuki …
other title: La rosa che succhia il sangue / Chi o suu bara …
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
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Trading Places (1983) TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Trading Places
6.8 (5 ratings) director: John Landis actor: Dan Aykroyd / Eddie Murphy …
other title: Una poltrona per due / Bossen og bumsen …
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.