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1) John Wick
Pub. Date
2015
Description
When sadistic young thugs senselessly attack a brilliantly lethal ex-assassin, they have no idea that they've just awakened the boogeyman. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, Wick embarks on a merciless rampage, hunting down his adversaries with the skill and ruthlessness that made him an underworld legend.
2) The protégé
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna is the world's most skilled contract killer. However, when Moody is brutally killed, she vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows.
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Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Paulina Salas, thinks she recognizes another man--the one who raped and tortured her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention center years before.--From publisher description.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Vigilante Robert McCall is continuing his life of helping ordinary citizens find justice in everyday situations before a close friend of his is murdered by a mysterious group of criminals for seemingly no reason. The plot shifts as he then makes it his goal to find out what happened to his friend and deliver justice on her behalf, sending him on a wild goose chase to figure out who these people are, why they would harm his friend, and if there is...
6) Wrath of man
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A man must move hundreds of millions of dollars for an armored truck company in Los Angeles.
7) Moving on
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
9) Overboard
Publisher
Pantelion Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When Leonardo, a wealthy businessman, has a yachting accident and develops amnesia, an ill-treated employee exacts some revenge. Kate is a single mom who manages to convince Leonardo that she is his wife. Hilarity ensues as Leonardo must take on the task of helping Kate raise her three daughters. Will Kate's plan succeed to perfection, or will she discover that Leonardo isn't such a bad guy after all? It's classic role reversal in this remake of an...
10) Cold pursuit
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Nels Coxman is a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels's search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way.
11) The mummy
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Set in the 1920s, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Jonathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Imhotep, a former high priest to the pharoah, wants not only to use Evelyn's...
12) Deadpool
Series
X-Men film volume 8
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
13) My cousin Rachel
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The movie is based on the 1951 novel by Daphne Du Maurier and tells the story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian
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In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany.
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals...
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Based on a true story and actual events in the life of Ukrainian sniper Mykola Voronin. In 2014, after invading soldiers kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground, a Ukrainian physics teacher renounces his peaceful way of life, enlists in the military, and becomes a skilled sniper. Vowing revenge for both his wife and his fallen instructor and friend, he must find the elite Russian soldiers responsible and eliminate them one by one.
17) The Paper Tigers
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny, Hing, and Jim were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring, and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges if they are to honorably defend his legacy....
18) Nobody
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch's long-simmering...
20) Peppermint
Description
Young mother Riley North awakens from a coma after her husband and daughter are killed in a brutal attack on the family. When the system frustratingly shields the murderers, Riley transform herself from a citizen to an urban guerrilla to methodically deliver her personal brand of justice.
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