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Get Low (2010) Douban WikiData IMDb
Get Low
director: Aaron Schneider actor: Robert Duvall / Bill Murray …
other title: Get Low - A Lenda de Felix Bush / Am Ende des Weges …
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
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John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut …
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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The Killer Elite (1975) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Killer Elite
director: Sam Peckinpah actor: James Caan / Robert Duvall …
other title: Killer Elite / Assassinos de Elite …
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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Snakes on a Plane (2006) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Snakes on a Plane
director: David R. Ellis actor: Samuel L. Jackson / Julianna Margulies …
other title: Snakes On A Plane / Serpentes a Bordo …
FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witness to testify against a mob boss at an upcoming trial. An on-board assassin releases a crate full of hundreds of deadly venomous snakes in an attempt to eliminate the witness. Flynn and a host of frightened passengers and crew must band together to survive the slithery threat.
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Shaft (1971) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Shaft
director: Gordon Parks actor: Richard Roundtree / Moses Gunn …
other title: Shaft il detective / John Shaft - detektiv i aktion …
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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Rambo (2008) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
Rambo
director: Sylvester Stallone actor: Sylvester Stallone / Julie Benz …
other title: John Rambo
In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
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Rambo III (1988) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rambo III
director: Peter MacDonald actor: Sylvester Stallone / Richard Crenna …
other title: Rambo 3
Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
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Bad Santa (2003) IMDb WikiData
Bad Santa
director: Terry Zwigoff actor: Billy Bob Thornton / Tony Cox …
other title: Babbo bastardo / Bad Santa - O Anti-Pai Natal
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
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Reindeer Games (2000) IMDb WikiData
Reindeer Games
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Ben Affleck / Charlize Theron …
other title: Trappola criminale / Dobbeltspil …
After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
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Die Hard (1988) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
Die Hard
8.3 (14 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.
USA JohnMcTiernan Action BruceWillis 1980s
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) IMDb WikiData
The Long Kiss Goodnight
director: Renny Harlin actor: Geena Davis / Samuel L. Jackson …
other title: Spy / A Profissional …
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
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The Mad Bomber (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Mad Bomber
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Vince Edwards / Chuck Connors …
other title: Mad Bomber - L'uomo sputato dall'inferno / Aus der Hölle gespuckt …
Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Birdman of Alcatraz
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Karl Malden …
other title: L'uomo di Alcatraz / Manden fra Alcatraz …
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
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Stalag 17 (1953) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Stalag 17
director: Billy Wilder actor: William Holden / Robert Strauss …
other title: Bag pigtråd i Stalag 17 / Inferno nº 17 …
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
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Boiler Room (2000) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Boiler Room
director: Ben Younger actor: Giovanni Ribisi / Vin Diesel …
other title: 1 km da Wall Street / O Primeiro Milhão …
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Oct. 25, 2025 watched
Not bad, but not quite as good as the films it name-checks, like Wall Street and Glengarry Glenn Ross.

Watched in #FridayThrillerClub #WatchParty on Mastodon
GiovanniRibisi NickyKatt 2000s WatchParty Drama
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Money Monster (2016) TMDB IMDb
Money Monster
director: Jodie Foster actor: George Clooney / Julia Roberts …
other title: Money Monster - L'altra faccia del denaro / Jogo do Dinheiro
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
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The Deal (2005) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Deal
director: Harvey Kahn actor: Christian Slater / Selma Blair …
other title: The Deal - Il compromesso / Contrato de Risco …
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
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Wall Street (1987) IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Wall Street
director: Oliver Stone actor: Michael Douglas / Charlie Sheen …
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.