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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled '80s and '90s Hollywood--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme--and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, Rambo, and The Terminator. The Last Action Heroes opens in 1990, at the Cannes film festival, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone...
Publisher
Media Blasters, Inc
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
English
Description
Santiago, in his prime the greatest fisherman in the village, has gone 84 days without a catch. To the villagers, it is a fearful sign that he has lost his luck. To his daughter, it is clear that he should stop being stubbornly independent and come to live with her in Havana. Determined to prove them wrong, Santiago goes farther out to sea than ever before -- out to the battle of his life.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Arabic
Description
A young Swiss woman travels to her birthplace - an isolated settlement in the mountainous desert of Algeria - to find her biological mother. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society.
5) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Author
Series
Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military operations, action films engage the senses and, in doing so, allow viewers to embody combat roles. This book argues that through film the viewer adapts to an ecology of fear, one that reflects global panic at the near-constant threat of conflict and violence. Often overwhelming in its audiovisual assault, action cinema attempts to overpower our bodies...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
An oral history of the film that has been hailed as the greatest action movie ever made features interviews with the cast and crew, including director George Miller and stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
It won six Oscars, but it is a miracle Mad Max: Fury Road ever made it to the screen... or that anybody survived the production. Production stalled several times; the stars clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and director George Miller's...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
After barely escaping a Shanghai nightclub brawl, Indiana Jones crash-lands into the wilds of India where he uncovers a scheme that has enslaved a remote village's children. Indy must save the children and avoid becoming a slave himself to the evil Thuggee cult.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 19th century India, Errol Flynn is the dashing horse-trader and secret British agent who enlists the aid of Kim O'Hara (Dean Stockwell) to help thwart enemy forces rising against England. Kim launches a series of perilous experiences as a courier and a spy.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
With her father presumed dead, Lara must race to recover an ancient artifact that can alter space and time if not destroyed. She finds the key that will unlock the two sections that must be put together in order for the artifact to work. She must fight her nemeses in order to restore harmony and all before the planets and sun align.
12) Badges of fury
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When a spate of eerie murders erupts across HK two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. Young maverick Wang and grizzled vet Huang who is fed up with his reckless younger partner always landing them in hot water. Reaching a dead end after discovering all the victims were former boyfriends of aspiring starlet Liu, the detectives must play a deadly game. One of them must go undercover as Liu's lover to lure the killer out.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love.
14) Jurassic Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A wealthy entrepreneur invites a top paleontologist, a paleobotanist, a mathematician/theorist, and his two eager grandchildren to visit his secret island theme park featuring living dinosaurs cloned from prehistoric DNA.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2003, c1981
Language
English
Description
Indiana Jones, an archeologist, embarks on a thrilling quest to locate the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Accompanied by his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood, Indy must discover the Ark before the Nazis do, and he has to survive poison, traps, snakes and treachery to do so.
16) Vertical limit
Publisher
Columbia Triustar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
When mountain climbers are trapped by an avalanche on 28,250 foot-high mountain K2 in Pakistan, a rescue team races against time to save them.
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video and Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a Eurasian cameraman, Billy Kwan, with connections in high places. Hamilton soon gains an entree to Indonesian Communist Party leaders, as well as insight into Jakarta's grim realities on the eve of a major political upheaval.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan leave 19th century India and set out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold and priceless rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god.
20) Odd man out
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An IRA gunman, wounded and on the run in Belfast, is helped and hindered by a variety of people.
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