Iceman 1984  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Fred Schepisi
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn, Philip Akin, Danny Glover, Amelia Hall, Stephen E. Miller, James Tolkan
After being frozen for 40,000 years, a Neanderthal man (John Lone), is brought back to life and befriended by Doctor Stanley Shephard (Timothy Hutton) who teaches him the art of communication in the modern-day world.
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 King Kong 1976  PG, 134 min.
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Romance
Director: John Guillermin
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Julius Harris, Jack O'Halloran, Ed Lauter, John Agar, Dennis Fimple, Jorge Moreno, Mario Gallo, John Lone, Garry Walberg, Keny Long
Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) is an oil magnate sailing to a Pacific island looking for petroleum. Also on board is stowaway paleontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) who warns that prehistoric monsters inhabit the island. While still heading for the island, they pick up Dwan (Jessica Lange, in her film debut) who has been shipwrecked. They arrive on the island, run into King Kong, and Dwan becomes the object of Kong's attention. Wilson locks Kong up in the cargo hold of the ship and brings him to New York City where Kong escapes and climbs the World Trade Center looking for safety.
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The Last Emperor 1987  PG-13, 164 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Victor Wong, Maggie Han, Lisa Lu, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Tsou Tijger
The last imperial ruler of China, Pu Yi (John Lone), led the most unusual of lives. At three-years old, he was named Emperor and was not allowed to leave Peking. After World War II, the Communists put him in prison for 10 years until his release at which time he became an ordinary citizen serving under Mao Tse Tung. This film won an impressive nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director.
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M. Butterfly 1993 R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: David Cronenberg
Cast: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson, Annabel Leventon, Shizuko Hoshi, Vernon Dobtcheff, Tristram Jellinek, Richard McMillan, David Hemblen, David Neal, Damir Andrei, Antony Parr, Margaret Ma, Philip McGough
While impersonating a woman, Song Liling (John Lone) is an opera singer who manages to have an 18-year love affair with French Embassy accountant Rene Gallimard (Jeremy Irons). When Gallimard is promoted to vice consul, Song spies on him for the Communists. Finally, Gallimard sees Song nude and flees from the relationship. Later, Gallimard is arrested and put on trial for treason, and the affair with Song is revealed while Gallimard maintains that he had no idea of the ruse.
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The Moderns 1988  R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Rudolph
Cast: Keith Carradine, Linda Florentino, Genevieve Bujold, Geraldine Chaplin, Wallace Shawn, John Lone, Kevin J. O'Connor, Gailard Sartain, David Stein, Elsa Raven
A group of American artists converged on Paris in the 1920s and helped to begin the period of modern art. This is the story of the fascinating world of artists, gallery owners, and patrons of the arts–including their loves and indiscretions.
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Rush Hour 2 2001 PG-13, 85 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, John Lone, Zhang Ziyi, Roselyn Sanchez, Harris Yulin, Alan King, Kenneth Tsang, Lisa Lo Cicero, Don Cheadle, Maggie Q, Mei Melancon, Patricia Chan, Lucy Lin, Cindy Lu
LAPD Detective James Carter (Chris Tucker) visits Hong Kong with his friend, Detective Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), where they just happen to get involved in an investigation tracking down smugglers and counterfeiters who have set off a bomb killing two U.S. Customs agents. Jackie Chan, as usual, is fun to watch, and Chris Tucker provides the right chemistry as Chan's joke-cracking cohort.
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The Shadow 1994 PG-13, 105 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Penelope Ann Miller, John Lone, Jonathan Winters, Ian McKellen, Peter Boyle, Tim Curry, James Hong, John Kapelos, Andre Gregory
Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin) is the rich playboy "who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men" and becomes the Shadow to weed out undesirable elements from society. To effect his change into the Shadow, Cranston "clouds men's minds" to make himself invisible (except for his shadow). In this film, Shiwan Khan (John Lone) has a bomb with which he threatens all of civilization, and the Shadow must come to the rescue.
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War 2007  R, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller
aka: Rogue Assassin
Director: Philip G. Atwell
Cast: Jet Li, Jason Statham, John Lone, Devon Aoki, Luis Guzman, Saul Rubinek, Ryo Ishibashi, Sung Kang, Mathew St. Patrick, Nadine Velazquez, Andrea Roth, Kane Kosugi, Terry Chen
FBI Special Agent Jack Crawford's (Jason Statham) partner (Terry Chen) and family are brutally killed in their home, and Crawford sets out for revenge. The killer left a clue–a uranium bullet in a titanium shell–that is the trademark of Japanese assassin Rogue (Jet Li). Crawford's investigation continues for three years, and now he is in charge of the Asian Organized Crime Unit. As Crawford's investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that Rogue is working on both sides in an age-old feud between the Japanese Yakuza boss, Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi), and the Chinese Triad mob leader, Chang (John Lone). Now, Rogue does not appear to be what he seems, and Crawford must figure why Rogue appears to be playing one side against the other.
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| 1. Iceman (1984)
2. King Kong (1976)
3. The Last Emperor (1987)
4. M. Butterfly (1993)
5. The Moderns (1988)
6. Rush Hour 2 (2001)
7. The Shadow (1994)
8. War (2007)
aka: Rogue Assassin
9. The Year of the Dragon (1985)
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