Behind Enemy Lines 2001  PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Moore
Cast: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith, Olek Krupa, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield, Eyal Podell, Vladimir Mashkov, Marko Igonda, Aernout Van Lynden, Sam Jaeger, Don Winston, Shane Johnson, Geoffrey Pierson
When the reconnaissance plane of two Navy Lieutenants–Chris Burnett (Owen Watson) and Jeremy Stackhouse (Charles Malik Whitfield)–is shot down by a SAM missile over Bosnia, Burnett and Stackhouse parachute to "safety." But, once on the ground, Stackhouse is murdered by Serbs, and Burnett begins a fight-to-the-death game of cat-and-mouse to evade capture. Meanwhile, his commanding officer (Gene Hackman) acts, against orders, to organize a rescue mission.
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 Flight of the Phoenix 2004  PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Moore
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Sticky Fingaz, Jacob Vargas, Hugh Laurie, Scott Michael Campbell, Kevork Malikyan, Jared Padalecki, Paul Ditchfield
In this remake of the 1966 film, Dennis Quaid plays Captain Frank Towns who pilots a cargo plane filled with oil workers that crashes in the desert. With no immediate hope of being rescued, the crew makes a plane out of metal scraps in an effort to rescue themselves.
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Max Payne 2008 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: John Moore
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kurylenko, Joel Gordon, Jamie Hector, Rothaford Gray, Andrew Friedman, Marianthi Evans, Nelly Furtado
Police detective Max Payne's (Mark Wahlberg) wife and baby were killed three years ago, and he is obsessed with finding the killer. He gets his first clue when Natasha (Olga Kurylenko) is murdered, and Max believes her murder is tied to that of his wife. He talks to Natasha's sister, Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), who leads him to a pharmaceutical company that makes drugs, which cause soldiers to hallucinate and believe that they are invincible. Now, Max is even more determined to uncover the truth as he searches New York City's dark streets stopping at nothing to deliver justice.
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 The Omen 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama
Director: John Moore
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, David Thewlis, Michael Gambon, Pete Postlethwaite, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Amy Huck, Bohumil Svarc, Carlo Sabatini, Reggie Austin, Predrag Bjelac, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Tomas Wooler
In this remake of the 1976 film by the same name, Robert and Katherine Thorne (Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles) adopt Damien who was born the same day that Katherine lost a baby during labor. Katherine was not told of the loss and believes that Damien is her natural-born son. The family moves to a large estate in London, and it does not take long for ghastly events to take over their lives. Could Damien be the devil incarnate?
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 Pitch Black 2000 R, 107 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller
Director: David Twohy
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Claudia Black, Rhiana Griffith, John Moore, Simon Burke, Les Chantery, Firass Dirani, Sam Sari, Ric Anderson, Vic Wilson
A space ship, "Hunter-Gratzner," is carrying an eclectic group of space travelers when it crash lands on an eerily barren planet. They are marooned, and the only member of the crew to survive is a pilot, Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell), who takes charge of the survivors. Out of the 40 people aboard, there are only 10 survivors, and they include a prisoner, Riddick (Vin Diesel), and police officer William J. Johns (Cole Hauser) who is transporting Riddick. Tensions reach new heights when it becomes apparent that lethal creatures prowl by night–stalking aliens. Riddick, who has eyes that can see in darkness, is the only one who can see the creatures, and the survivors realize that they must depend on Riddick if they are to escape the creatures that are eating them, one by one.
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| 1. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
2. Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
3. Max Payne (2008)
4. The Omen (2006)
5. Pitch Black (2000)
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