| Biography: Sylvester Stallone became one of Hollywood's highest paid actors, usually playing monosyllablic, antisociety, underdog heroes. While Stallone has attempted to extend his range into film comedies and drama, his real box office success continues in action films. |
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| Jack Carter (Michael Caine) — a vindictive and amoral London gangster — returns to his home town of Newcastle after his brother dies in a car accident. Carter, however, is convinced that he was murdered, and begins an investigation into Newcastle's criminal underworld. When Carter is ordered to leave town by the minions of a shadowy mob boss, his suspicious become confirmed, and he begins his brutal vengeance. Search keywords
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Categories: 1971, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, UK
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| In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propaganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer (Football) game. The Prisoners agree, planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp. Search keywords
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Categories: 1981, Action, Sport, USA, War
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| Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob. Search keywords
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Categories: 1978, Drama, USA
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| A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, detective Emilien's wife has just announced that she's pregnant, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again with a reporter there to record it all, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Action, Comedy, France
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| Policemen have always been the idols of Freddy Heflin. Due to being slightly deaf, Heflin could never pass the physical to become a police officer himself. However, because of his friendly, amiable nature, he's managed to get himself elected Sheriff of a small New Jersey county outside of New York City, and he lives in a town where many NYPD cops also live. Mo Tilden is an Internal Affairs investigator for the NYPD, and his investigation of some crooked cops leads him to this small town, and to Sheriff Freddy Heflin. Heflin begins to help Tilden, and discovers that some of his heroes may have feet of clay... Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| In this action-packed drama, a group of people who have completed a therapy program to overcome their severe fear of flying celebrate with a group flight to L.A. However, they soon discover that there are perfectly good reasons to be afraid of airliners - a group of terrorists hijack the jet, murdering the pilot and threatening to kill all the passengers with chemical weapons. With the captain's chair empty, one of the passengers is forced to bring the plane safely to the ground. Search keywords
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Categories: 1989, Action, USA
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| This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - _Murder, My Sweet (1944)_ (qv), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma. Search keywords
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Categories: 1975, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day. Search keywords
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Categories: 1989, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| When a bunch of runaway robbers in a getaway car hit the tunnel connecting Manhatten and New Jersey. Trouble strikes when they hit a truck full of explosions. After the impact, the tunnel is left weakened and blocked off by both exits, but leaving some survivors. When Kit Latura was about to drive into the tunnel he see the impact and knows he gotta take action. He is given the job, and is sent into the tunnel, but time is running out. Can he get the survivors out before the tunnel fills up? Search keywords
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Categories: 1996, Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Action, Australia, Canada, Sport, USA
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| World heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Balboa returns home to Philadelphia to a hero's welcome after defeating Ivan Drago in a brutal match. Rocky soon discovers that his match with Drago has left him with damage to his brain, and his fortune, which he had entrusted to his wife Adrian's brother Paulie, has been squandered by an incompetent accountant. In debt to the IRS, Rocky is forced to sell most of his possessions, including his mansion. Rocky, Adrian, and their son Rocky Balboa Jr, move back to Rocky's old neighborhood in South Philadelphia. Adjustment to the dramatically different lifestyle proves to be more difficult for Rocky Balboa Jr than it is for Rocky and Adrian. Junior quickly becomes involved with a bad crowd, and encounters a bully. Meanwhile, financially desperate Rocky is tempted to re-enter the ring when shady promoter George Washington Duke offers him a huge amount of money to defend his title. Adrian insists that Rocky not risk his life by returning to the ring. Rocky's financial future looks bleak, until he is approached by a young boxer named Tommy "Machine" Gunn, who idolizes Rocky and begs Rocky to help him train. Rocky agrees to train Tommy, but this hurts Rocky's relationship with Junior, who believes Rocky is neglecting him in favor of Tommy. Junior becomes even more deeply involved with the bad crowd that he has fallen into. Junior even undergoes training and beats up the bully who was harassing him. After Tommy wins his first few matches, he starts becoming arrogant. When Tommy, who wants a high profile match against a champion, arrogantly decides that Rocky is not moving him up quickly enough, an impatient Tommy turns his back on Rocky and hires Duke as his new manager. While this gives Rocky and Junior the chance they need to work things out with each other, Tommy wins a belt, and still doesn't have the respect that he's arrogantly looking for because fans always boo him. Duke tells Tommy that the only way to get the respect Tommy wants would be to beat Rocky one-on-one, so Duke and Tommy find Rocky at a bar, and Tommy challenges Rocky to a street fight that may put Rocky's life on the line. Search keywords
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Categories: 1990, Action, Sport, USA
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| The 'Italian Stallion', Rocky Balboa, is an aspiring boxer in downtown Philadelphia. His one chance to make a better life for himself is through his boxing and Adrian, a girl who works in the local pet store. Through a publicity stunt, Rocky is set up to fight Apollo Creed, the current heavyweight champion who is already set to win. But Rocky really needs to triumph, against all the odds... Search keywords
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Categories: 1976, Action, Sport, USA
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| Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, around the individuality fighting. He falls in love with princess Bala, and persuades his Krieger-Ameise-Freund-Weber to switch places with him for one day, so that he can see again princess Bala. The result of it throws Z in a bigger adventure than he one day dreamt possibly.
Z ist gerade eine andere Ameise in einer Kolonie von Millionen, um die Individualität kämpfend. Er verliebt sich in Prinzessin Bala, und überzeugt seinen Krieger-Ameise-Freund-Weber, Plätze mit ihm seit einem Tag zu schalten, so dass er Prinzessin Bala wieder sehen kann. Das Ergebnis davon wirft Z in ein größeres Abenteuer, als er jemals möglich träumte. Search keywords
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Categories: 1998, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, USA
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| Stallone plays a poli that is undone after testifying a brutal scene in the work. He registers in a clinic of rehabilitation that specializes in the police officers dealing. Soon, he thinks that his patients of the same type are being murdered one after other.
Stallone juega a un poli que viene deshecho después de atestiguar una escena brutal en el trabajo. Él se registra en una clínica de rehabilitación que se especializa en el trato de policías. Pronto, él encuentra que sus pacientes del mismo tipo están siendo asesinados uno tras otro. Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Drama, Germany, Horror, Thriller, USA
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| Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a fighting truck driver who tries to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife he tries to pay compensation with his son whom he left behind some years earlier. On her first meeting his son does not think too high of him, until he comes into the national arm, the competition struggles in Las Vegas.
Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) ist ein kämpfender Lastkraftwagenfahrer, der versucht, sein Leben wieder aufzubauen. Nach dem Tod seiner Ex-Frau versucht er, mit seinem Sohn Schadenersatz zu leisten, den er einige Jahre früher zurückließ. Auf ihre erste Sitzung denkt sein Sohn zu hoch an ihn nicht, bis er in den nationalen Arm eingeht, der Konkurrenz in Las Vegas ringt. Search keywords
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Categories: 1987, Action, Drama, USA
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| John Rambo is a Veteran of thrown off course Vietnam. He is traveling asking for lift of the city the city to see friends of the war. A sheriff tries to do it license city and when he refuses, detains it for the vagrancy. While in the chain, a deputy takes they are delighted with his abuse. The escapes of Rambo showing his old Vietnam fighting with skills and they take to the wood like the sheriff and the deputies try it and find it in his element. The things go out out of the control as the old commander of Colonel Trautman Rambo it seems to spill the light in the situation.
John Rambo é um Veterano de Vietnam desorientado. Ele está viajando pedindo carona da cidade à cidade para ver amigos da guerra. Um xerife tenta fazê-lo cidade de licença e quando ele se recusa, detém-o pela vadiação. Enquanto na cadeia, um deputado toma deleitam-se com o abuso dele. As fugas de Rambo mostrando o seu velho Vietnam lutando com habilidades e tomam às madeiras como o xerife e os deputados tentam-no e encontram-no no seu elemento. As coisas saem fora do controle como o velho comandante do Coronel Trautman Rambo parece derramar a luz na situação. Search keywords
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Categories: 1982, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| John Rambo becomes from the prison of his former superior, colonels Samuel Troutman for a top secret operation remotely to bring back held POW'S in Vietnam still. The instruction of Rambo should take only pictures of that where the POWs are held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs from Vietnam. Put together with the female Vietnamese Freiheitskämpfer-Company Bao Rambo undertakes a mission to save the POWs which are held by the sadistic Vietnamese captain Vinh and his Russian companion, lieutenant-colonel Padovsky. Rambo falls in love with the Company Bao, and if Company Bao is killed by captain Vinh, Rambo, revenge wants, he starts killing every enemy by view, while he still concentrates upon his intentions to save the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials who are involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdocks, one of the superiors of Rambo.
John Rambo wird vom Gefängnis von seinem ehemaligen Vorgesetzten, Obersten Samuel Troutman für eine streng geheime Operation entfernt, um in Vietnam noch gehaltenen POW'S zurückzubringen. Die Anweisung von Rambo soll nur Bilder dessen nehmen, wo die POWs gehalten werden, aber Rambo will den POWs aus Vietnam bekommen. Zusammengetan mit der weiblichen vietnamesischen Freiheitskämpfer-Company Bao unternimmt Rambo eine Mission, den POWs zu retten, die vom sadistischen vietnamesischen Kapitän Vinh und seinem russischen Kameraden, Oberstleutnant Padovsky gehalten werden. Rambo verliebt sich in die Company Bao, und wenn Company Bao wird von Kapitän Vinh, Rambo getötet, Rache will, so fängt er an, jeden Feind in Sicht zu töten, indem er sich noch auf seine Absichten konzentriert, den POWs zu retten. Es gibt auch korrupte amerikanische Beamte, die an der Mission, einschließlich Marshall Murdocks, einen der Vorgesetzten von Rambo beteiligt sind. Search keywords
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Categories: 1985, Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| Angelo "snapping" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: He would leave the world of the crime and become an honest enterpriser. To have in spite of, no experience in forming the money on a legal fashion, tackles Snap to keep his promise. He confronts with numerous problems: The followers who know nothing but crime, the policemen who are persuaded that he incubates a production plan, and Oskar who has got just his pregnant daughter.
Angelo "Schnappen" Provolone machte seinen sterbenden Vater eine Versprechung auf seinem Sterbebett: Er würde die Welt des Verbrechens verlassen und ein ehrlicher Unternehmer werden. Trotz, keine Erfahrung im Bilden des Geldes auf eine gesetzliche Mode zu haben, nimmt Schnappen in Angriff, um seine Versprechung zu behalten. Er konfrontiert mit zahlreichen Problemen: Gefolgsmänner, die nichts als Verbrechen, die Polizisten wissen, die überzeugt sind, dass er einen Produktionsplan, und Oskar ausbrütet, der gerade seine schwangere Tochter bekommen hat. Search keywords
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Categories: 1991, Comedy, Crime, USA
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| They indicated that the ancient upper Viêt Nam de John Rambo, colonel Samuel Trautman, leads a mission to help the rebels Mujahedeen who struggle against the Soviet plague of Afghanistan, but the Buddhist Rambo pulls down the request of Trautman which Rambo draws of embarrassment. When mission goes the belly above and Trautman is taken away and is tortured by Russian Colonel Zaysen, Rambo throws an effort of rescue and of the allies himself with the rebels Mujahedeen and accepts their assistant in fact to try to save Trautman de Zaysen.
On a désigné que l'ancien Viêt Nam de John Rambo supérieur, Colonel Samuel Trautman, mène une mission d'aider les rebelles Mujahedeen qui luttent contre l'invasion soviétique de l'Afghanistan, mais le bouddhiste Rambo rabat la demande de Trautman que Rambo tire d'embarras. Quand la mission va le ventre en haut et Trautman sont enlevés et torturés par Colonel russe Zaysen, Rambo lance un effort de sauvetage et des alliés lui-même avec les rebelles Mujahedeen et reçoit leur aide dans le fait d'essayer de sauver Trautman de Zaysen. Search keywords
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Categories: 1988, Action, USA, War
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| A woman who discovered recently that she is the daughter of Angelo, chief of principal mafia, decides to free the vengeance when he is killed by a hired assassin. She is helped by his loyal bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in the love.
Uma mulher que descobriu recentemente que ela é a filha de Angelo, chefe de máfia principal, decide desafogar a vingança quando ele é morto por um capanga. Ela é ajudada pelo seu guarda-costas fiel, com que ela logo cai no amor. Search keywords
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Categories: 2002, Action, Comedy, Crime, USA
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