Posts Tagged ‘mercenary’

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Guinness, Alec | Quinn, Anthony | Hawkins, Jack | Sharif, Omar | Ferrer, José | Quayle, Anthony | Rains, Claude | Kennedy, Arthur | Wolfit, Donald | Johar, I.S. | Ratib, Gamil | Ray, Michel | Dimech, John | Mohyeddin, Zia
Directors: Lean, David
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Mercenary for Justice (2006)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: South Africa | USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Lord, Jacqueline | Smith, Roger Guenveur | Goss, Luke | Williams, Michael K. | Galley, Adrian | Kirkwood, Langley | Bieldt, Vivian | Price, Verity | Young, Bruce | Butler, Peter | Valley-Omar, Farouk | Mogoje, Tumi | Peters, Faye | Nkweta, Zaa
Directors: FauntLeRoy, Don E.
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Seagal plays a CIA covert operative who is forced into helping a team of mercenaries stage a jailbreak for a wealthy client when his best friend’s wife and son are kidnapped by the same mercenaries. All the while the CIA are in pursuit in an attempt to silence Seagal.

Under Fire (1983)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Nolte, Nick | Harris, Ed | Hackman, Gene | Cassidy, Joanna | Martínez, Alma | Palance, Holly | Laboriel, Ella | Zarzosa, Samuel | Zarzosa, Jonathan | Picasso, Raul | Doria, Oswaldo | Elizondo, Fernando | Camp, Hamilton | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Masur, Richard
Directors: Spottiswoode, Roger
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Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it’s often hard for him to stay neutral. When the Guerillas have him take a picture of the leader Rafael, who’s believed to be dead, he gets drawn into the happenings. Together with his reporter friends Claire and Alex he has to hide from the army.

Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: George, Chief Dan | Locke, Sondra | McKinney, Bill | Vernon, John | Trueman, Paula | Bottoms, Sam | Keams, Geraldine | Parfrey, Woodrow | Jameson, Joyce | Wooley, Sheb | Dano, Royal | Clark, Matt | Verros, John | Sampson, Will
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer in the days near the end of the Civil War. After his home is burned and his family murdered, he hardens into a human bullet - dedicated to destroying the renegades who took his “life.” He joins a band of unreconstructed rebel guerilla fighters who continue to fight the Union - even after the official surrender of the Confederacy - an action which makes them, legally, outlaws. Josey is driven by vengeance, but after a while, that’s not enough. Back before his own personal Holocaust, he had been a builder - of home, family, farm, and life. And no matter how much ice he’s wrapped himself in, down inside there’s still the soul of a living man. While Wales exists, he’s pulled by this hidden yearning to Live. Each day offers him chances to remember, to assuage his yearning, to begin again. And the movie shows us how Josey Wales - a mere seeker of vengeance - learns to live again, rededicated to the values he chose so long ago.

Man on Fire (2004)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | UK | USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Fanning, Dakota | Anthony, Marc | Mitchell, Radha | Walken, Christopher | Giannini, Giancarlo | Ticotin, Rachel | Ochoa, Jesús | Rourke, Mickey | Peláez, Angelina | Sánchez Parra, Gustavo | Camilo, Gero | Hernández, Rosa María | Del Castillo, Heriberto | Zaragoza, Mario
Directors: Scott, Tony
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy’s friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy’s new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.

Legionnaire (1998)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Damme, Jean-Claude | Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Adewale | Berkoff, Steven | Farrell, Nicholas | Carter, Jim | Sofrenovic, Ana | Caltagirone, Daniel | Long, Joseph | Kalli, Mario | Montana, Joe | Romer, Kim | Bro, Anders Peter | Kynman, Paul | Pickering, Vincent | Triggelis, Takis
Directors: MacDonald, Peter
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At the height of its glory, the French Foreign Legion was made up of men widely regarded as the scum of the earth. It was a mercenary army posted to colonies in Northern Africa and Southern Asia…but its soldiers swore no allegiance to France, only to the legion and to each other. The legion asked no questions about a man’s past…nor did it offer much hope for his future. It was a hard way to get a second chance in life…

Blood Diamond (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Hounsou, Djimon | Connelly, Jennifer | Kuypers, Kagiso | Vosloo, Arnold | Coleman, Antony | Mabhena, Benu | Lukola, Anointing | Harewood, David | Wallace, Basil | Mistry, Jimi | Sheen, Michael | Weyers, Marius | Collins, Stephen | Mwine, Ntare
Directors: Zwick, Edward
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon’s family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.

Clear and Present Danger (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ford, Harrison | Dafoe, Willem | Archer, Anne | de Almeida, Joaquim | Czerny, Henry | Yulin, Harris | Moffat, Donald | Sandoval, Miguel | Bratt, Benjamin | Cruz, Raymond | Jones, Dean | Birch, Thora | Magnuson, Ann | Lange, Hope | Tammi, Tom
Directors: Noyce, Phillip
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Based upon the Tom Clancy novel of the same name, Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst, is thrust right in the middle of a power struggle within the Colombian drug cartel after one of the President’s “life long” friends is murdered, apparently in retaliation for stealing money as part of a money laundering scheme for the cartel. Jack is then appointed acting Deputy Director of Intelligence, CIA, upon the terminal illness of Admiral James Greer, former DDI, and quickly gets in over his head due to his political naivete. The situation rapidly deteriorates when some of the presidents men convince the President to conduct covert actions against the cartel, in direct violation of congress. Felix Cortez, the security chief of Ernesto Escobeda, the “victim” of the missing money, is one of the cartel boss’s. Cortez tries to play both sides, appearing to inform Escobeda about the CIA’s involvement in the covert operations against him, while trying to orchestrate a coup to take over the cartel, with Cortez as it’s sole boss. James Cutter, the President’s National Security Advisor, makes his own deal with Cortez, with the Presidents knowledge, and halts communications to the covert troops still in Colombia, through the Deputy Director of Operations, CIA, Robert Ritter. Ryan ends up going to Colombia to rescue the covet ops troops with the help of field agent John Clark, but not before some fence mending between the two, being that Ritter blamed Ryan for the comm outage, with Clark’s men subsequently being captured by Cortez’s mercenaries.

Land of the Dead (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | USA
Actors: Baker, Simon | Leguizamo, John | Hopper, Dennis | Argento, Asia | Joy, Robert | Clark, Eugene | Boland, Joanne | Nappo, Tony | Baxter, Jennifer | Banks, Boyd | Geljo, Jasmin | McCabe, Max | Munch, Tony | Roberts, Shawn | Arce, Pedro Miguel
Directors: Romero, George A.
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The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.

Chronicles of Riddick, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Diesel, Vin | Feore, Colm | Newton, Thandie | Dench, Judi | Urban, Karl | Davalos, Alexa | Roache, Linus | Wageningen, Yorick van | Chinlund, Nick | David, Keith | Gibbon, Mark | Cross, Roger R. | Chen, Terry | Cox, Christina | Vonas, Nigel
Directors: Twohy, David
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Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. ‘Colm Feore’ (qv) plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. ‘Judi Dench’ (qv) is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.