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Programmed to Kill (1987) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Programmed to Kill
director: Allan Holzman actor: Robert Ginty / Sandahl Bergman
other title: Projeto Sibertron: Programada para Morrer / Retaliator
A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
Convict 762 (1997) IMDb WikiData
Convict 762
director: Luca Bercovici actor: Frank Zagarino / Shannon Sturges
A spaceship with an all female crew runs into a meteor field because of a navigational mistake. They lose a lot of their fuel and realise they cant get home on what they've got. They are forced to land on a planet which has been reformed into one of the most dangerous penal colonies in the universe in order to refuel. Once there they realise only two men are left on the planet and they are engaged in hand to hand combat. The women cant figure out which one of the men is the officer and which one has systematically slaughtered the rest of the inmates. One by one each of the women is killed. Just who is Convict 762?
Lockout (2012) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lockout
director: Stephen St. Leger / James Mather actor: Guy Pearce / Maggie Grace
other title: Lockout - Máxima Segurança / Lock Out
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.
Spoiler (1998) IMDb WikiData
Spoiler
director: Jeff Burr actor: Gary Daniels / Meg Foster
other title: Spoiler - Verdammt im Eis / Spoiler – Verdammt im Eis
Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
Fortress (1992) IMDb WikiData
Fortress
director: Stuart Gordon actor: Christopher Lambert / Kurtwood Smith
other title: 2013 - La fortezza / Fangeborgen
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
No Escape (1994) IMDb WikiData
No Escape
director: Martin Campbell actor: Ray Liotta / Lance Henriksen
other title: Fuga da Absolom / Flugten fra Absolom
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
Wedlock (1991) IMDb WikiData
Wedlock
director: Lewis Teague actor: Rutger Hauer / Mimi Rogers
other title: Sotto massima sorveglianza / Peligrosamente unidos
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
DNA (1997) IMDb WikiData
DNA
director: William Mesa actor: Mark Dacascos / Jürgen Prochnow
other title: DNA. Una storia che non deve accadere / D.N.A. Genetic Code - Dem Grauen ausgeliefert
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
Lady Battle Cop (1990) IMDb WikiData
女バトルコップ
director: Akihisa Okamoto actor: Azusa Nakamura / Kisuke Yamashita
other title: Lady Battlecop / 女バトルコップ
When a four-man terrorist group known as Team Phantom begins raising havoc in downtown Tokyo, the city is in desperate need of a hero. An unexpected champion appears in the form of Lady Battle Cop, a former female tennis champion who has been transformed into a seemingly unstoppable cyborg.
Future Kick (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Future Kick
director: Damian Klaus actor: Don Wilson / Meg Foster
other title: Futurekick / Kickboxer 2025
In the far-flung future of 2025, where man is a victim of his own technology and corporations deal to a black market that trades in human body parts, a cyborg bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy woman to find out who murdered her husband.
Retroactive (1997) IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB
Retroactive
director: 路易斯·莫纽 actor: 凯莉·特拉维斯 / 詹姆斯·贝鲁什
other title: 极速凶间 / 레트로액티브
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003) IMDb WikiData
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision
director: Steve Boyum actor: Jason Scott Lee / Thomas Ian Griffith
other title: Timecop 2 - Entscheidung in Berlin / Timecop 2 : La Décision de Berlin
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another Tec operative stops him but kills the woman he loves in the process.
Terminus (1987) WikiData IMDb
Terminus
director: Pierre-William Glenn actor: Johnny Hallyday / Karen Allen
A lone driver navigates a high-tech truck through dangerous territory in a deadly cross-country racing sport. After the guidance system fails, a new driver must bond with the truck's AI while dodging attacks and uncovering sinister plots.
Nov. 12, 2025 watched
Mad Max influenced-sci-fi that's an incomprehensible mess by the end of which I didn't know or care what happened to the characters.

Only earns that half-star by having Jürgen Prochnow in a red troll wig.
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The Silencers (1996) IMDb
The Silencers
director: Richard Pepin actor: Jack Scalia / Dennis Christopher
other title: Assassini silenziosi / Dark Force - Lautlos kommt der Tod
U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which suppresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from the U.S. Secret Service will confront them and discover the sinister truth. The only person that can help him comes from another world.
Freejack (1992) NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
Freejack
director: Geoff Murphy actor: Emilio Estevez / Mick Jagger
other title: Freejack - In fuga nel futuro / Corrida Contra o Futuro
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Magic Crystal (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
魔翡翠
director: Wong Jing actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Andy Lau
other title: El cristal mágico / The Magic Crystal
Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.
Eliminators (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Eliminators
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Andrew Prine / Denise Crosby
other title: Destroyers / Decapitron
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Sept. 4, 2025 watched
The plot, the acting, the effects, the pacing... none of them were anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. They were often downright good. Is this movie... kind of great???
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Escape from New York (1981) TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Escape from New York
6.6 (5 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Kurt Russell / Lee Van Cleef
other title: 1997: Fuga da New York / Flugtaktion New York
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Aug. 19, 2025 watched
Another collaboration between Kurt and John that somewhat presciently explores the rise of the incarceral state and authoritarianism in the US. With plenty of great action scenes to boot.

Rewatched in #MondayActionMovie #WatchParty on Mastodon
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