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  • Jeff Kanew – Gotcha! (1985)

    1981-1990ActionComedyJeff KanewUSA

    Jonathan plays a game called Gotcha in which he hunts and is hunted by other students with paint guns. After a big win, he goes off for a vacation in France where he meets the sexy Sasha who says she is only interested in him because he is a virgin. She takes him with her to East Germany where they are separated and he has to escape back to the west on his own, all the while being trailed by East German spies. He arrives home only to find the game is still going on, and a canister of film is in his backpack. Then Sasha re-appears.Read More »

  • Yimou Zhang – Xuan ya zhi shang AKA Cliff Walkers AKA Impasse (2021)

    2021-2030ActionChinaThrillerYimou Zhang

    In the 1930’s, four Chinese spies, Chuilang (Zhu Yawen), Lan (Liu Haocun), Zhang (Zhang Yi) and Yu (Quin Hailu) infiltrate Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Empire of Japan located in China. The Japanese had bombed an internment camp in Manchukuo to cover-up the existence of the camp. The four spies’ mission is to rescue a surviving prisoner who was held at an internment camp in hopes of exposing the truth around the world.Read More »

  • Michael Mak – San lau sing woo dip gim AKA Butterfly and Sword (1993)

    1991-2000ActionAdventureHong KongMichael Mak

    Dynamo Michelle Khan stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King’s empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Top fight action.Read More »

  • Yimou Zhang – Ying AKA Shadow (2018)

    2011-2020ActionChinaDramaYimou Zhang

    Set during China’s Three Kingdom’s era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king, violent and ambitious, of mysterious methods and motives; his general, a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace, who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called “Lord of all the world”, will be the characters around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.Read More »

  • Spencer Gordon Bennet – Pirates of the High Seas (1950)

    Spencer Gordon Bennet1941-1950ActionAdventureUSA

    15 Part Columbia serial starring Buster Crabbe concerns the search for 5 million dollars in diamonds that went missing at the close of the Second World War. Crabbe plays Jeff Drake who is summoned to a small south pacific island by a war time buddy who has run in a nest of vipers looking for the stolen gems. The story begins as Jeff is summoned to the island, and how he reluctantly heads out, the result not so much of wanting to help a friend, rather because several people, including his friends sister, all want to go to the island. Once he’s on his way Crabbe and his friends are beset by many of the usual and several unusual serial dangers.Read More »

  • Wilson Tong – Two Jolly Cops (1985)

    1981-1990ActionComedyHong KongWilson Tong

    Synopsis
    Rare action comedy from Hong Kong. A real gem. The Master Killer -Gordon Liu stars in this Hong Kong cop buddy movie as a detective, who is assigned to find an heiress to a fortune who has gone missing under suspicious circumstances. Non-stop laughs and action in this awesome modern day actioner.Read More »

  • Spencer Gordon Bennet – King of the Congo (1952)

    USA1951-1960ActionAdventureSpencer Gordon Bennet

    Plot
    The film series is a complicated serial with more twists than a maze that basically centers around a U.S. Air Force captain and his quest for missing microfilm that contains vital information. The heroic Buster Crabbe plays Captain Roger Drum, who shoots down an enemy plane on its way to Africa with the secret microfilm. Intent on revealing the subversive group that the message was for, Drum assumes the pilot’s identity and flies to Africa himself and crashes in the jungle. He is rescued by the pacific Rock People, led by Princess Phi (Gloria Dea), and is renamed Thunda, King of the Congo, after he rings a temple gong in alarm. With the subversives believing Thunda is their missing pilot and under constant attack by another tribe called the Cave Men, our hero plots to bring down the subversives who are searching for a new metal more radioactive than uranium. At the end, Thunda (or Drum) clear the jungle of villains and reunites the Rock People and Cave Men for well. From WikipediaRead More »

  • Stanislav Rostotskiy – A zori zdes tikhie AKA The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)

    1971-1980ActionStanislav RostotskiyUSSRWar

    Plot:
    When a detachment of German troops lands nearby, a group of five Russian anti-aircraft gunner women must warn their colleagues. But when they discover that saboteurs have destroyed their only means of communication, the ladies must take matters into their own hands by fighting the enemy soldiers themselves.Read More »

  • Kazuhiko Yamaguchi – Aku no shin’eitai AKA Troops of Darkness (1971)

    Kazuhiko Yamaguchi1971-1980ActionCampJapan

    A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.Read More »

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