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Director: Andy Sidaris    More Info
Starring: Erik Estrada, Dona Speir, Roberta Vasquez, Bruce Pehhall, Cynthia Brimhall, William Bumiller, Devin DeVasquez, Michael Shane, Phyllis Davis, Chuck McCann

 Here's yet another of Andy Sidaris' low budget action films featuring scantily clad Playboy Playmates. Arms dealer Juan "Jack of Diamonds" Degas (Eric Estrada) decides to use Hawaii's island of Molokai as a refueling stop for his smuggling operation. But our federal agent babes are hot on the trail. Yes, it's a bomb, but you just have to like some of the explosions, etc.

Director: Stuart Orme    More Info
Starring: Edward Woodward, John Hillerman, Anthony Andrews, Kim Thomson, Peter Jeffrey, Warren Clarke, Terence Lodge, Christopher Fairbank, Harry Audley, David Sibley

 Sherlock Holmes' nemesis Professor Moriarty (Anthony Andrews) is back in business after escaping from jail and then stealing secret government documents from Sherlock's brother, Mycroft (Peter Jeffrey), while kidnapping Mycroft in the process. Made-for-TV.

Director: Bruce Malmuth    More Info
Starring: Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, Frederick Coffin, William Sadler, Bonnie Burroughs, Zachary Rosencrantz, Dean Norris, Branscombe Richmond, Robert LaSardo, Ernie Lively

 A cop, Mason Storm (Steven Seagal), who has evidence of political corruption is shot and left for dead. His partner, Lt. Kevin O'Malley (Frederick Coffin) allows the assassins to think he died, but, instead, Storm survives in a coma in a nursing home for seven years. When he regains consciousness, Storm plots his revenge.

Director: John McTiernan    More Info
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Richard Jordan, Tim Curry, Joss Ackland, Courtney B. Vance, Jeffrey Jones

 Something strange is happening in the U.S.S.R. submarine force: the CIA suspects that one of its submarine captains, Commander Marko Ramius (Sean Connery), is leading his submarine, Red October, on a mission that will start World War III. The U.S. Navy knows the submarine is headed their way, but they can only surmise why. Only one person, CIA operative Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), comes up with another reason for the mission of Red October. He believes that Ramius is planning to defect and is assigned the job of going out there to find out what is really going on.

Director: Ivan Reitman    More Info
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Richard Tyson, Carroll Baker, Cathy Moriarty, Park Overall, Richard Portnow, Angela Bassett

 L.A. cop John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is gathering evidence to convict psychopathic drug lord Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson) and his cold-blooded mother Eleanor (Carroll Baker). After learning that Crisp is searching for his ex-wife (Penelope Ann Miller) and young son (Joseph and Christian Cousins), Kimble heads to Astoria, Oregon, with his partner Phoebe O'Hara (Pamela Reed) where he believes the son is a kindergarten student. Although mother and son have assumed different identities, Kimble is banking on the fact that getting close to the situation will lead him to Crisp. Phoebe has teaching credentials and plans to teach in the Astoria kindergarten class, but she gets food poisoning, and Kimble ends up going undercover as the kindergarten teacher.

Director: Abel Ferrara    More Info
Starring: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes, Janet Julian, Joey Chin, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Calderon, Steve Buscemi

 Drug kingpin Frank White (Christopher Walken) returns to the streets of New York from a long stint in prison and again takes up his old trade. He and his gang have many enemies; both police and rivals don't like his multi-racial gang. This time, Frank has a new goal: he wants to help the poor by building a big hospital in their neighborhood. Extremely violent.

Director: Paul Mayersberg    More Info
Starring: Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, Lisa Eilbacher, Arabella Holzbog, James Ryan, John Saxon, Duncan Regehr, Henry Cele

 A freelance, Vietnam veteran pilot, Johnny Congo (Lance Henriksen), is hired by rich businessman Yasujiro Endo (John Fujioka), who is descended from Samurai warriors, to fly him and his party to Africa. When the group is captured, Johnny sets out to rescue them.

Director: Sheldon Lettich    More Info
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson, Lawrence Bender, Brian Thompson, Voyo Goric, Michel Qissi, George McDaniel

 Lyon (Jean-Claude Van Damme) walks out on the French Foreign Legion and heads for Los Angeles where he becomes a street fighter avenging the drug-related killing of his brother.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones    More Info
Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Sean Astin, Harry Connick Jr., John Lithgow, David Strathairn, Jane Horrocks

 This story is based on the true experiences of the 10 men who made up the crew of the "Memphis Belle," a giant World War II B-17 bomber. These airmen are participating in their 25th mission and have been promised that they will be sent home following this mission involving the bombing of Bremen, Germany. Their leader is Capt. Dennis Dearborn (Matthew Modine), and their commanding officer Col. Craig Harriman (David Strathairn) and public relations specialist Lt. Col. Bruce Derringer (John Lithgow) nervously wait for their return knowing that if things go wrong many will be killed.

Director: Bob Bralver    More Info
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Savina Gersak, Robert Mitchum, Pamela Ludwig, Timothy Brown, Lezlie Deane, Steve Ingrassia, Cynthia Szigeti, Dee Dee Rescher

 Lara (Savina Gersak) has had enough of her policeman husband, Lawson (Michael Dudikoff), and takes off. Unfortunately, she picks up a psycho mass murderer (Mark Hamill), who takes polaroid pictures of his victims and collects eyeballs for souvenirs. Lawson is soon hot on the trail to effect a rescue. The film sat on the shelf for five years before release.

Director: Roland Emmerich    More Info
Starring: Michael Pare, Lisa Eichhorn, Dean Devlin, Brian Thompson, Malcolm McDowell, Stephen Geoffreys, Leon Rippy, Jochen Nickel, Mehmet Yilmaz, Roscoe Lee Brown

 Earth's mineral deposits have been depleted in the year 2038, and mining companies are getting their minerals from other planets and moons. When its shuttles are hijacked, one major company sends an investigator, Felix Stone (Michael Pare), who goes undercover as a prison inmate to find out what's going on.

Director: Peter Hyams    More Info
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh, Susan Hogan, Nigel Bennett, J.A. Preston, Harris Yulin, B.A. "Smitty Smith

 Los Angeles District Attorney Caulfield (Gene Hackman) is responsible for protecting Carol (Anne Archer) so that she can testify as a witness to a mob killing. Caulfield and fellow policeman Dominick Benti (M. Emmet Walsh) arrive at the cabin where Carol has been hiding. Unfortunately, hit men have tracked them to the cabin, and they kill Benti. Caulfield and Carol escape by boarding a train in the run for their lives with hit man Nelson (James Sikking) in pursuit.

Director: Lewis Teague    More Info
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly, Bill Paxton, Dennis Haysbert, Paul Sanchez, Nicholas Kadi, Ronald G. Joseph

 Navy SEALS, led by Lt. Dale Hawkins (Charlie Sheen) and Lt. James Curran (Michael Biehn), come to the rescue when Mid-East terrorists get their hands on U.S. missiles. Hawkins and Curran are rivals, and each uses his own unique methods to locate the stolen missiles. With help from journalist Claire Varrens (Joanne Whalley), they do finally find the weapons.

Director: Lucas Lo    More Info
Starring: Loren Avedon, Joseph Campanella, Keith Vitali, Wanda Acuna, Luke Askew, Sherrie Rose, Mark Russo, Rion Hunter, David Michael Sterling, Philip Benson

 When terrorist Franco (Rion Hunter) kills retired CIA agent John Alexander (Joseph Campanella), his sons Will (Loren Avedon) and Casey (Keith Vitali) seek revenge. Will goes undercover and joins Franco's organization where he receives orders to kill Casey. He fakes Casey's death and then continues the battle, which offers no retreat and no surrender.

Director: John Woo    More Info
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Chu Kong, Kenneth Tsang, John Woo, David Wu

 John Woo moves away from his violent films for this action/comedy caper. A trio of art thieves was brought up by a foster father and crime boss (Kenneth Tsang). They steal and romance their way across Europe and are on the verge of quitting the business. But when their foster father insists they steal a "cursed" painting and they are double-crossed, a new strategy must be developed.

Director: Jackie Chan    More Info
Starring: Jackie Chan, Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo, Shoko Ikeda, Aldo Sambrell, Ken Goodman, Jonathan Isgar, Bruce Fontaine, Wayne Archer, Brandon Charles

 Jackie Chan's expertise at stunt work is dazzlingly displayed in this action film in which he takes on the role of Asian Hawk and teams up with three women–Ada (Carol Cheng), Momoko (Shoko Ikeda), and Elsa (Eva Cobo)–to find World War II Nazi gold, which was hidden in the Sahara desert. They run into major problems from Adolph (Aldo Sambrell) and a group of mercenaries who are determined to find the gold and will stop at nothing to obtain it.

Director: Mamoru Oshii    More Info
Starring: David Jarvis, Briony Glassco, Peter Marinker, Sharon Holm, Edward Glen, William Roberts, Blair Fairman, Mac McDougall, Martin McDougall, Don Fellows

 In this, the first of a Japanese animated series, giant Labor robots working on a massive reclamation project go on a rampage, and police investigators are assigned to find out what is going on. It seems that the software programmed into thousands of robots worldwide contain a virus that is about to cause major problems. But the genius who programmed the robots committed suicide, and the race is on to prevent the catastrophe. Excellent animation.

Director: Stephen Hopkins    More Info
Starring: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, Robert Davi, Adam Baldwin, Morton Downey Jr., Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo

 Set in 1997 (at the time–the future), the Predator (Kevin Peter Hall) has relocated to Los Angeles, and LAPD Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) and his partners–Danny (Ruben Blades), Leona (Maria Conchita Alonso), and Jerry (Bill Paxton)–set out to stop the havoc being wreaked on Los Angeles citizens. FBI investigator Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) warns Harrigan and his team to stay out of it, but his advice goes unheeded. More people are killed, including some of Harrigan's team, before Harrigan confronts the Predator, injures it, and becomes the hunter rather than the hunted.

Director: Chu Yin-Ping    More Info
Starring: Jackie Chan, Barry Wong, Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Wang Yu, Ko Chun-hsiung, Tou Chung-Hua, Yeh Chuan Chen, Ken Lo

 A good cast contributes to this tale that is different from the martial arts flicks usually attributed to Jackie Chan–in fact, he is a supporting actor, though first-billed. A policeman (Tony Leung Kar-Fai) goes undercover in a prison to get the goods on a possibly corrupt warden. He finds that the warden fakes executions of inmates and then has them trained as assassins.

Director: Dennis Dugan    More Info
Starring: John Ritter, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, Gilbert Gottfried, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, Peter Jurasik, Charlotte Akin, Anna Marie Allred, Adam Anderly

 This movie is AWFUL–so terrible that it spawned a sequel, an animated TV series, and a TV movie. Ben (John Ritter) works for his father, Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tough–and crooked–sporting goods dealer. Ben and his wife (Amy Yasbeck) decide to adopt a son and are conned into taking Junior (Michael Oliver) from the orphanage. They have more than they can handle with the mean, destructive demon. And then there's the bow-tie killer. Low-class humor.

Director: Irvin Kershner    More Info
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, Dan O'Herlihy, Willard E. Pugh, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry, Robert DoQui, Gabriel Damon, Patricia Charbonneau

 The futuristic cyborg RoboCop (Peter Weller) again fights evil forces but is scheduled by OCP, the company that created Robocop, to be replaced by a more modern model: RoboCop 2. Cain (Tom Noonan) leads a drug ring and plans to get his hands on the drug Nuke and market it to Detroit's citizens. When RoboCop arrests Cain, Cain is injured and OCP designer Faxx (Belinda Bauer) secretly takes Cain's brain and inserts it into RoboCop 2. Now, the battle ensues as RoboCop must wipe out the evil, psychotic RoboCop 2. There is one more sequel.

Director: John G. Avildsen    More Info
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Tommy Morrison, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Richard Gant, Tony Burton, Jimmy Gambina, Delia Sheppard

 Director John G. Avildsen is back at the helm for this last (?) Rocky Balboa film. This time, Rocky Balboa is suffering brain damage caused by one too many fights. However, he is badly in need of funds–his wife Adrian (Talia Shire) is forced to go to work, and teenage son Rocky Jr. (Sage Stallone) is having problems adjusting to high school in Rocky's old, run-down neighborhood in Philadelphia. Tommy "Machine" Gunn (Tommy Morrison) asks Rocky to train him, and Rocky agrees. All goes well until Tommy leaves Rocky and signs a deal with boxing promoter George Washington Duke (Richard Gant), which leads to a street fight between Tommy and Rocky.

Director: Clint Eastwood    More Info
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Mara Corday, Marco Rodriguez, Pete Randall

 David Ackerman (Charlie Sheen) is the rookie assigned to tough cop Nick Pulovski (Clint Eastwood) as the replacement for Pulovski's slain partner. Even though he has been taken off the case, Pulovski is determined to avenge the dead partner's murder and is not going to let the German murderers Strom (Raul Julia) and Liesl (Sonia Braga) go free. He enlists Ackerman's help even though Ackerman has issues of his own including an unhappy girlfriend Sarah (Lara Flynn Boyle) and his estranged father Eugene (Tom Skerritt). Finally, when Pulovski is kidnapped by the murderers, it falls on Ackerman to solve the case and rescue his partner.

Director: Michael Herz    More Info
Starring: Rick Gianasi, Susan Byun, Bill Weeden, Thomas Crnkovich, Larry Robinson, Noble Lee Lester, Paul Rubin, Brick Bronsky, Pamela Alster, Shaler McClure

 L.A.P.D. detective Harry Griswold (Rick Gianasi) is assigned to investigate the murder of a Japanese Kabuki actor. While investigating, Griswold becomes possessed by the spirit of slain Japanese hero Sgt. Kabukiman (also played by Gianasi) who possessed ancient magical powers. Problems arise because Reginald Stuart (Bill Weeden), who is plotting to take over the city, wants him killed. Lotus (Susan Byun) helps train him to use his superpowers to battle Stuart's henchmen.

Director: Leon Ichaso    More Info
Starring: Ray Sharkey, R. Lee Ermey, Larry Manetti, Lisa Hartman, Joe Lala, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Roberto Escobar, Orestes Matacena, Nelson Oramas, Ruben Rabasa

 Miami ex-cop Dennis (Ray Sharkey) cannot seem to stay away from temptation when his greed takes over. He served a jail sentence for accepting bribes, and now, after being released from the pen, he tries to change his life around. This time, temptation comes in the form of a Cuban drug cartel operating out of Miami, and Dennis cuts himself in on an illegal deal. Not a good idea!