2010s
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Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
Kubo and the Two Strings
★ 7.9 14 ratings
Travis Knight actor: Art Parkinson / Charlize Theron …
other title: Kubo e la spada magica / Kubo - Den Modige Samurai …
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
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Black Cobra (2012)
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Scott Donovan / Lilly Melgar actor: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Jeff Wolfe …
other title: Black Cobra - Schwarze Diamanten / When the Cobra Strikes
One man travels across country, smuggling illegal black diamonds to sell in order to pay for his father's pardon in South Africa. When he arrives to the United States to finalize what appeared to be a simple transaction he is soon double-crossed and becomes caught up in a contraband forcing him to overcome an opponent far more lethal and deadlier than he has ever met.
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Security (2017)
Security
Alain Desrochers actor: Antonio Banderas / Ben Kingsley …
other title: Assalto ao Shopping
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
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Tomb Invader (2018)
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James Thomas actor: Gina Vitori / Tammy Klein …
other title: Invasores de tumbas
Archaeologist Alabama Channing sets off to uncover the ancient tomb of Quin Shi Haung, which promises riches and answers to family mysteries.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
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Mark Hartley actor: Molly Ringwald / Dolph Lundgren …
other title: The Electric Boogaloo / Electric Boogaloo …
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
To watch Nov. 16, 2025
Produced by the same folks who made the excellent 'Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks' (2019) seen in #KungFuSat

Maybe future viewing for #MondayActionMovie ? ;)
2010s Documentary CannonFilms
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Four Lions (2010)
Four Lions
★ 8.1 7 ratings
Chris Morris actor: Riz Ahmed / Nigel Lindsay …
other title: Quatro leões / We Are Four Lions …
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.
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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Serge Ou actor: Alan Hofmanis / Alien Ness …
other title: Pugni d'acciaio e calci kung fu
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road
★ 8.3 57 ratings
George Miller actor: Edward Thomas Hardy / Charlize Theron …
other title: Mad Max 4: Fury Road / Mad Max‬: Estrada da Fúria …
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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Rigor Mortis (2013)
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★ 7.5 13 ratings
Juno Mak actor: Chin Siu-Ho / Anthony Chan Yau …
other title: Il cacciatore di vampiri / Rigor Mortis - Leichenstarre …
When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampires: or Jiāngshī. Elsewhere in the building, a woman turns to a specialist in black magic to bring her husband back to life.
Watched
Oct. 31, 2021
Serious horror homage to the comedy horror "goengsi" (biting undead) films of the 80s, many of whose actors feature in this.
2010s Goengsi HongKong Horror 殭屍
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The Wind (2018)
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Emma Tammi actor: Caitlin Gerard / Ashley Zukerman …
other title: Terre maudite / Tierra maldita
Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events.
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White Men Are Black Men Too
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Young Fathers genre: Electronic / Hip Hop
release date 2015-04-06 publisher: Just Isn't Music / Big Dada
White Men Are Black Men Too is the second studio album by Scottish indie group Young Fathers. It was released on Big Dada on 6 April 2015. It peaked at number 41 on the UK Albums Chart.
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Somewhere I Belong
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Karen Mok genre: Pop
release date 2013-01-18 publisher: Universal
Karen Joy Morris (Chinese: 莫文蔚; pinyin: Mò Wénwèi; born 2 June 1970), better known as Karen Mok, is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is considered one of the leading East Asian pop singers and actresses with a career spanning three decades. Mok is the first female Hong Kong singer to win the Golden Melody Award, and to date has won it three times.
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
★ 7.8 30 ratings
Alejandro G. Iñárritu actor: Michael Keaton / Emma Stone …
other title: Birdman / Birdman o (l'imprevedibile virtù dell'ignoranza) …
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
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Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Bone Tomahawk
★ 6.8 5 ratings
S. Craig Zahler actor: Kurt Russell / Patrick Wilson …
other title: A Desaparecida, o Aleijado e os Trogloditas
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.