John Woo's first film has all the hallmarks of his later brand of violent, choreographed gunplay. A revenge actioner with Chow Yun Fat as Mark, who teams up with his imprisoned friend's brother, a cop, to defeat his previous bosses, the notorious yakuza crimelords. Action packed. find out more...

The morally vacuous tale of an architect who goes on a gun-happy vigilante mission after his wife is murdered and his daughter assaulted to the point of catatonia (by a very sleazy looking Jeff Goldblum in his first screen role). Stalking the dark and dingy streets of a New York, where every shadowy corner hides a low-life punk willing to kill you for your loose change, Bronson dispenses his own inimitable brand of justice. Despite its age 'Death Wish' still has the power to pack a punch and its find out more...

 

Revered Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and his second in command Aspirante Matias are facing tough times within the corrupt political system of Rio de Janeiro. Following the bloody aftermath of a disastrously handled prison riot, Nascimento gets caught in a lethal political dispute that involves not only government officials, but also the find out more...

When San Francisco's criminal underworld starts getting wiped out you'd think Dirty Harry would be raising his glass in drunken (soon to be unemployed) admiration, but no... Harry's outraged... ‘cause these boys are breaking the law and if there's one thing the monosyllabic Harry can't abide it's law breakers. Lean, hard, brutal and still a PC vacuum "Magnum Force" is either an iconic action thriller or a liberal abomination…. depending upon which side of the fence you're peering over. find out more...

Max Payne is an NYPD police detective who has been unable to focus on a case or connect with another human being since the brutal murder of his wife and child. When Max's police ID is found next to a beautiful corpse he suddenly finds himself directly involved in the dark underworld that is somehow linked to the murder of his family. His only clues are a winged tattoo and a new and highly addictive street drug which causes terrifying and nightmarish hallucinations. The deeper Max digs, the more find out more...

Joey Gazelle is a caring family guy, he's also a mobster flunky, then one fateful day he decides to hang on to a gun used in a mob killing and his two worlds collide, because, unfortunately for Joey, his young son's best mate uses the gun to shoot his abusive father, a man linked to the Russian mafia, and our dubious hero has very little time to the find the weapon and the child. No attempt has been made to create this non-stop movie for the under 18 market, so, if you like fast, brutal, violent find out more...

Dirty Harry part three sticks ridgedly to the formula of it's predecessors, with old Clint as the bad-ass-San-Fran cop, relentlessly at odds with his superiors and generally going around looking mean. This time Harry battles to save the city from a supposed gang of trigger-happy killer-kiddywinks, and in the mean time has to grapple with his new FEMALE partner! find out more...

Some vengeful cops think that they're in a revenge flick and infiltrate a run-down tower block to knock off a tooled-up criminal gang. However Judgement Day arrives, the dead rise up and the two groups must work together for survival.
The plot is a return to zombie basics, a small group in a limited space (tower block) struggling to survive against the mindless hungry masses, and there is lots of violence, lots of guns - no namby-pamby Gothic vampires - and 'La Horde' is extremely funny. find out more...

John Woo's 1989 Hong Kong action classic, a stylish bullet-riddled elegy to friendship under fire, firmly established him as the maestro of mayhem and brought him wide-spread recognition in the West. Superstar Chow Yun-Fat, Asia's king of cool, plays the most charming hit man ever, but when one of his killings leaves an innocent nightclub singer blinded he dedicates his life to giving her back her sight. Danny Lee is the cop on his tail, but the two adversaries become unlikely comrades when the find out more...

Crusading frontier policeman Captain Stanley captures the fugitive Burns brothers, Charley and Mikey, at the scene of a bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur, in order to avoid the execution of Mikey, Stanley retreats to an old jailhouse and awaits the bloody outcome. Director John Hillcoat's second collaboration with Nick Cave (here contributing the film's screenplay and soundtrack), is a taut and often brutal character study of desperation ami find out more...