 Diamonds Are Forever 1971  PG, 119 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Jimmy Dean, Charles Gray, Bruce Cabot, Bruce Glover, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Laurence Naismith, Lana Wood, Marc Lawrence, Putter Smith, Leonard Barr, Sid Haig
Diamonds have been stolen from South African mines, and James Bond (Sean Connery) goes undercover as diamond smuggler Peter Franks. The trail leads him to Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray) whose sinister plot to take over the world must be stopped at all cost. Bond joins forces with Tiffany Case (Jill St. John), and they try to stop hit men Wint (Bruce Glover) and Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith) and, in the process, prevent a space-orbiting laser from destroying Washington, D.C. Great special effects and lots of adventure.
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 For Your Eyes Only 1981  PG, 129 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Glen
Cast: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lois Maxwell, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover, Jill Bennett, Desmond Llewelyn, Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell
Roger Moore as James Bond captures the essence of a great spy story in which Bond must find the missing code that controls submarine-launched missiles.
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 GoldenEye 1995  PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Joe Don Baker, Tcheky Karyo, Famke Janssen, Samantha Bond, Desmond Llewelyn, Gottfried John, Alan Cumming, Michael Kitchen, Serena Gordon, Simon Kunz
It has been six years since the last James Bond film entry. GoldenEye is named after Ian Fleming's Jamaican estate, and Agent 007 (Pierce Brosnan in his debut as James Bond) is back in business with lots of gadgets, beautiful ladies, and location filming in Monte Carlo, the Caribbean, and St. Petersburg. In this film, 1990s' Russia is chaotic and filled with scheming military officers and an underworld syndicate. Great scene alert: Bond rolling a tank over St. Petersburg's cars.
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Licence to Kill 1989 PG-13, 133 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Glen
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe, Frank McRae, Everett McGill, Benicio Del Toro, Desmond Llewelyn, David Hedison, Wayne Newton, Anthony Starke, Robert Brown, Pedro Armendariz Jr., Priscilla Barnes
Timothy Dalton continues his James Bond portrayals in his second starring role as Agent 007. This time, he heads to Mexico to fight a drug empire after learning that drug dealer Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) has killed his CIA friend Felix Leiter's (David Hedison) bride on their honeymoon. Bond tracks down Sanchez, and the chase culminates on the highway and involves an oil tanker and a helicopter.
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 The Living Daylights 1987 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
Director: John Glen
Cast: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbe, Joe Don Baker, John Rhys-Davies, Art Malik, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Geoffrey Keen, Walter Gotell, Andreas Wisniewski, Thomas Wheatley, John Terry, Virginia Hey
Timothy Dalton takes on the role of James Bond, Agent 007, whose mission this time around is to help Soviet General Koskov (Jeroen Krabbe) defect from Russia. Problems ensue when Koskov is recaptured, and Bond, with beautiful cellist Kara (Maryam d'Abo) in tow, follows a trail that leads to arms dealer Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) in Soviet occupied Afghanistan.
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 The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 PG, 125 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Adventure
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, Britt Ekland, Herve Villechaize, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Marc Lawrence, Clifton James, Richard Loo, Soon-Tek Oh, Marne Maitland, Desmond Llewelyn, James Cossings, Yiu Lam Chan
In this ninth James Bond flick, Agent 007 (Roger Moore) ends up in Hong Kong, Thailand, and the South China Sea tracking down hit man Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) who uses custom-made gold bullets. A local British Intelligence agent, Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland), in her own clumsy way, tries to come to Bond's aid. But, her efforts often turn out to be more destructive than constructive in Bond's mission to thwart Scaramanga. Not one of the best of the Bond films, but there are some great stunts.
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 Moonraker 1979 PG, 126 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Clery, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Geoffrey Keen, Desmond Llewelyn, Emily Bolton, Toshiro Suga, Blanche Ravalec, Irka Bochenko, Leila Shenna, Mike Marshall
This is the 11th James Bond film, and it is filled with many stunts as Bond, Agent 007, (Roger Moore) investigates the theft of a space shuttle built by Drax Industries. Bond arrives at Drax Industries and meets NASA astronaut and CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) who has been investigating Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) for plotting to replace humans with a super race. As Bond and Goodhead attempt to protect the world from the evil outer-space tyrant Drax, they encounter many problems including traps and villains standing in their way.
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 Octopussy 1983  PG, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: John Glen
Cast: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan, Kristina Wayborn, Kabir Bedi, Steven Berkoff, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Robert Brown, Walter Gotell, David&Tony Meyer, Vigay Amritaj, Albert Moses, Geoffrey Keen, Douglas Wilmer
Roger Moore takes over the role of James Bond for the sixth time in this 13th movie of Agent 007 and his daring exploits. This time, Bond goes to East Berlin to investigate the murder of a fellow agent after he dropped off a Faberge egg at the British Embassy. The trail leads to a traveling circus whose assistant manager Kamal (Louis Jourdan) outbids Bond for the egg. Now, Bond follows Kamal to India where he meets beautiful circus leader Octopussy (Maud Adams) who uses the circus as the cover for her smuggling operations. Through his association with Octopussy, Bond figures out that the crazed Russian General Orlov (Steven Berkoff) is raising needed money by selling fake Faberge eggs to get needed money to pay for his plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in order to cripple Europe and defeat NATO.
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 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 PG, 142 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Cast: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Ilse Steppat, Gabriele Ferzetti, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, George Baker, Desmond Llewelyn, John Gay, Angela Scoular, Catherine Schell, Bernard Horsfall, Yuri Borionko, Virginia North
This is the sixth movie about James Bond, and George Lazenby does a good job in his role of Agent 007. Telly Savalas plays the bad guy who lives in Switzerland while he plots to gain world power through biological warfare. Excellent action scenes include a ski chase over the Alps.
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Pirates of Blood River 1962 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
Director: John Gilling
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Christopher Lee, Glenn Corbett, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Peter Arne, Michael Ripper, Jack Stewart, David Lodge, Marie Devereux, Diane Aubrey, Dennis Waterman, Desmond Llewelyn
Hammer Films presents this high-seas adventure about young Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) who is exiled by his father (Andrew Keir) to a penal colony. The penal colony is invaded by pirates led by Captain LaRoche (Christopher Lee), and Jonathan leads LaRoche and his pirate ship to his Caribbean home where LaRoche believes a treasure is buried. LaRoche takes control of the town while searching for the treasure, and many are killed in the process. Finally, LaRoache finds the treasure–a gold statue of Jonathan's grandfather–and attempts to haul it away. But, Jonathan and his cohorts attack the raft, the statue falls overboard and sinks to the bottom of the sea, La Roche is killed, and the survivors return home.
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 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 PG, 128 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Richard Kiel, Curt Jurgens, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Caroline Munro, Walter Gotell, Geoffrey Keen, George Baker, Michael Billington, Vernon Dobtcheff, Olga Bisera, Edward de Souza
Curt Jurgens stars as evil industrialist Karl Stromberg who wants to control an undersea kingdom. In order to accomplish his goal, Stromberg tries to manipulate both the Soviet and American submarine fleets. Not to worry, James Bond, Agent 007 (Roger Moore), teams up with sexy Russian agent Major Anya Amasova(Barbara Bach), and, together, they come to the rescue.
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Sword of Sherwood Forest 1960 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Terence Fisher
Cast: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Richard Pasco, Nigel Green, Sarah Branch, Jack Gwillim, Desmond Llewelyn, Oliver Reed, Vanda Godsell
This sequel to the Robin Hood stories features Richard Greene as Robin Hood, who leads his "merry men" in the fight to protect the fair maid, Marian (Sarah Branch), from the clutches of the evil Earl of Newark (Richard Pasco).
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 Thunderball 1965 PG, 129 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Luciana Paluzzi, Adolfo Celi, Bernard Lee, Rik Van Nutter, Martine Beswick, Guy Doleman, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Molly Peters, Roland Culver, Paul Stassino, Earl Cameron, Rose Alba
James Bond (Sean Connery) tries to abort a SPECTRE plot to use Miami as the target of an atomic bomb unless a ransom is paid. SPECTRE has hijacked a NATO plane that is carrying two nuclear bombs, and Bond heads to the Bahamas where he calls in American aqua-paratroopers for an underwater battle with SPECTRE scuba divers. Meanwhile, Bond takes on one-eyed villain Largo (Adolfo Celi)–with help from Largo's mistress Domino (Claudine Auger). Remade by Connery in 1983 as "Never Say Never Again." An Academy Award was received for Best Effects/Special Visual Effects.
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 Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Gotz Otto, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond, Joe Don Baker, Vincent Schiavelli, Ricky Jay, Colin Salmon, Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Fellowes, Terence Rigby
This top-flight James Bond adventure stars Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 battling media baron Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) who will stop at nothing to boost his ratings–even starting World War III as he and his cohorts plot to sink a British naval ship and then place the blame on China. Bond teams up with Chinese External Security Force agent Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) to bring an end to Carver's madness. Carver is married to Paris (Teri Hatcher) who just happens to be one of Bond's former lovers, and his superior, M (Judi Dench), ensures that the past relationship is exploited as Bond and Wai Lin go after the ruthless Carver.
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 A View to a Kill 1985 PG, 131 min.
Genre: Action
Director: John Glen
Cast: Roger Moore, Grace Jones, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Bauchau, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Walter Gotell, Dolph Lundgren
James Bond (Roger Moore) must fight off both Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) and May Day (Grace Jones) in this thriller about their planned destruction of Silicon Valley. Probably the weakest of the series and Moore's last film as Bond.
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 The World Is Not Enough 1999 PG-13, 128 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Adventure
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Samantha Bond, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese, Serena Scott Thomas, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Michael Kitchen, Colin Salmon, Goldie, David Calder
Pierce Brosnan takes on the James Bond role for the third time in this action-filled thriller. After Bond's friend Sir Robert King (David Calder) is killed at M16 headquarters, Bond takes on the mission of protecting King's daughter Electra (Sophie Marceau) who has inherited his oil rights. Bond teams up with nuclear weapons expert Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), and they investigate the plot of international terrorist Renard (Robert Carlyle) who feels no pain because a bullet lodged in his brain is robbing him of his senses. Renard has been instrumental in sabotaging a new King pipeline that is under construction, and Bond and Jones set out to stop his devious actions that could result in destroying Europe.
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| 1. Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
2. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
3. GoldenEye (1995)
4. Licence to Kill (1989)
5. The Living Daylights (1987)
6. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
7. Moonraker (1979)
8. Octopussy (1983)
9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
10. Pirates of Blood River (1962)
11. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
12. Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
13. Thunderball (1965)
14. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
15. A View to a Kill (1985)
16. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
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