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After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.
Subgenre: | psychological |
Themes: | dying motherself sacrificesuicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper rifleu.s. soldierparent child relationshipsnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | landmine explosionu.s. marineassassination attemptshooting oneself in the headdrinking own urinefailed missionsuspected terroristman in uniformphysicalberberleg blown offanimal bitesleep deprivationsurvivebarroom brawl β¦return homefirefightminefielddehydrationdrinking urinesunburnperseverancesandstormwar on terrorismlandminestakeoutmarinestrandedminimal castabusive fatherbar fightanimal attackwoundexploding bodyassassinationsurvivalhallucinationbattleflashback (See All) |
Chris Kyle was nothing more than a Texan man who dreamed of becoming a cowboy, but in his thirties he found out that maybe his life needed something different, something where he could express his real talent, something that could help America in its fight against terrorism. So he joined the SEALs i β¦n order to become a sniper. After marrying, Kyle and the other members of the team are called for their first tour of Iraq. Kyle's struggle isn't with his missions, but about his relationship with the reality of the war and, once returned at home, how he manages to handle it with his urban life, his wife and kids. (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. marineassassination attemptsandstormmarineexploding bodybattleflashback |
The city of Spokane, Washington is awakened by a North Korean paratrooper invasion. Marine Corps veteran Jed Eckert and his civilian brother, Matt, escape with a group of friends to an isolated cabin in the woods, where they witness the execution of their father at the hands of the ruthless Captain β¦Cho. The brothers unite with their friends to form a guerrilla resistance group--the Wolverines--to drive the invaders from their home. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | u.s. marineassassination attemptfirefightmarineexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
1945, in World War II Germany, the tough Sergeant Don 'Wardaddy' Collier commands a tank and survives a German attack with his veteran crew composed of Boyd 'Bible' Swan, Trini 'Gordo' Garcia and Grady 'Coon-Ass' Travis. He receives a rookie soldier Norman Ellison as the substitute for his deceased β¦gunner and he tries to harden the youth along the way. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Characters: | u.s. soldiersnipersoldier |
Story: | firefightlandmineexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
The mercenary Royce; the military Isabelle; the Russian soldier Nikolai; the San Quentin criminal Stans; the Sierra Leone militia Mombasa; the drug lord Cuchillo; the Yakuza Hanzo; and the Doctor Edwin awake in free fall but they succeed to open their parachutes landing in a jungle. Soon they find t β¦hat they are on another planet and they are prey of aliens in a deadly hunting game, and they need to join forces to destroy their predators and survive. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Story: | leg blown offsurviveanimal attackexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of t β¦he future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptfirefightexploding bodyassassinationbattle |
The second chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga. Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable β¦obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all. (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Story: | sandstormexploding bodysurvivalhallucinationbattleflashback |
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and almost everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of actio β¦n and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper rifle |
Story: | assassination attemptsandstormlandmineexploding bodysurvivalhallucinationflashback |
Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tac β¦tics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is. (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | soldier |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptsuspected terroristsleep deprivationwar on terrorismexploding bodyassassination |
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and β¦ the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | animal attackexploding bodysurvivalhallucinationbattleflashback |
During World War II when the Americans needed to find a secure method of communicating they devised a code using the Navajo language. So Navajos were recruited to become what they call code talkers. They would be assigned to a unit and would communicate with other units using the code so that even t β¦hough the enemy could listen they couldn't understand what they were saying. And to insure that the code is protected men are assigned to protect it at all costs. One of these men is Joe Enders, a man who sustained an injury that can make him unfit for duty but he manages to avoid it and is told of his duty and that the man he is suppose to protect is Ben Yahzee. Initially there is tension but the two men learn to get along. (Read More)
Characters: | u.s. soldiersniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. marineminefieldlandminewoundexploding bodybattleflashback |
A washed up monster chaser convinces the U.S. Government to fund a trip to an unexplored island in the South Pacific. Under the guise of geological research, the team travels to "Skull Island". Upon arrival, the group discover that their mission may be complicated by the wildlife which inhabits the β¦island. The beautiful vistas and deadly creatures create a visually stunning experience that is sure to keep your attention. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | sniper rifleu.s. soldiersnipersoldier |
Story: | marinestrandedbar fightexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
In Alaska, a team of oil workers board a flight home; however, they cross a storm and the airplane crashes. Only seven workers survive in the wilderness and John Ottway, who is a huntsman that kills wolves to protect the workers, assumes leadership of the group. Shortly after they learn that they ar β¦e surrounded by a pack of wolves and Ottway advises that they should seek protection in the woods. But while they walk through the heavy snow, they are chased and attacked by the carnivorous mammals. (Read More)
Characters: | sniper rifle |
Story: | survivestrandedbar fightsurvivalhallucinationflashback |
Civil Unrest in the European country of Moldova has US forces engaging the insurgents however there is a new threat who has decided both are their enemy. This new threat resides in an alternative spectrum that makes them invisible to the naked eye and instant death to anyone confronting them. Locals β¦ believe they are Spirits of War but others believe they are superior arms technology fabricated by the Moldova government.. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Story: | minefieldlandmineexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert merce β¦naries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal. With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won't leave the planet without Riddick's head as their trophy. (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesniper |
Story: | survivesandstormanimal attackexploding bodysurvivalflashback |
Marcus Luttrell, a Navy Seal, and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. After running into mountain herders and capturing them, they were left with no choice but to follow their rules of engagement or be imprisoned. Now Marcus and hi β¦s team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | snipersoldier |
Story: | firefightwar on terrorismwoundsurvivalbattleflashback |
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in our current day bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | soldier |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptsandstormassassinationhallucinationbattleflashback |
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, wit β¦h the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country. (Read More)
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. marinemarineexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993. On this date nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali β¦warlord. This led to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Army Ranges, US Special Forces, and hundreds of Somali gunmen; resulting in the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters. The film focuses on the heroic efforts of various Rangers to get to the downed black hawks, centering on SSG Eversmann, leading the Ranger unit Chalk Four to the first black hawk crash site, Chief Warrant Officer Durant who was captured after being the only survivor of the second black hawk crash, as well as many others who were involved. (Read More)
Characters: | u.s. soldiersnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. marinefirefightmarineexploding bodybattle |
Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam combat. He then returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. Hodges in β¦no position to decline: Childers heroically saved his life back in Vietnam. (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | marinebattle |
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptlandmineexploding bodysurvival |
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring β¦out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything? (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | assassination attemptwoundexploding bodyassassinationflashback |
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this dis β¦ease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | exploding bodysurvivalbattleflashback |
A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, working for an unknown client, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's (Sean Penn's) successful kill shot forces him to go into hiding to protect himself and the members of the team from retribution. This includes abruptly abandoning his girlfr β¦iend who has no idea what is going on. The assassination, paid for by a foreign mining company, triggers wide spread chaos and death in an already inflamed Congo. Terrier returns to the Congo years later working for an NGO, but eventually finds himself to be the target of a paid hit squad somehow connected to the ministers assassination. This leads to immediate deaths and the endangerment of the people working around him, and forces him back into hiding. In trying to discover who has put a price on his head, he begins to reconnect to the members of his old assassination team, including his old girlfriend. Always aware there is no path to redemption for his crimes, he is also periodically incapacitated by a type of accumulated and evolving physical brain damage caused by the hard knocks of his occupation. Unexpectedly, given the time that has elapsed, his reconnection to his old assassination team exposes additional intrigues with immediate deadly consequences. All of his years spent in hiding, have merely delayed the twisted end game that now enfolds. (Read More)
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | physicallandminebar fightanimal attackassassinationflashback |
A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | sandstormstrandedsurvival |
A young girl (Baby Doll) is locked away in a mental asylum by her abusive stepfather where she will undergo a lobotomy in five days' time. Faced with unimaginable odds, she retreats to a fantastical world in her imagination where she and four other female inmates at the asylum, plot to escape the fa β¦cility. The lines between reality and fantasy blur as Baby Doll and her four companions, as well as a mysterious guide, fight to retrieve the five items they need that will allow them to break free from their captors before it's too late... (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Story: | animal attackexploding bodyhallucinationbattleflashback |
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is P β¦am, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die? (Read More)
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | minimal castflashback |
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Ear β¦th's dominant species. (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Characters: | sniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | assassination attemptanimal attackexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexp β¦ected way. (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | soldier |
Story: | survivestrandedanimal attacksurvivalbattle |
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant, James, takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge, by reckless β¦ly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat, behaving as if he's indifferent to death. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos, and James' true character reveals itself in a way that will change each man forever. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper rifleu.s. soldiersniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | dehydrationexploding body |
Former CIA analyst, Jack Ryan is in England with his family on vacation when he suddenly witnesses an explosion outside Buckingham Palace. It is revealed that some people are trying to abduct a member of the Royal Family but Jack intervenes, killing one of them and capturing the other, and stops the β¦ plan in its tracks. Afterwards, he learns that they're Irish revolutionaries and the two men are brothers. During his court hearing the one that's still alive vows to get back at Jack but is sentenced and that seems to be the end of it. However, whilst the man is being transported, he is broken out. Jack learns of this but doesn't think there's anything to worry about. But, when he is at the Naval Academy someone tries to kill him. He learns that they are also going after his family and so he rushes to find them, safe but having also been the victims of a failed assassination. That's when Jack decides to rejoin the CIA, and they try to find the man before he makes another attempt. (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | assassination attemptassassinationsurvivalbattle |
Counter-terrorist Jack Quinn misses his target, Stavros, on the eve of his final mission. From there, he is sent to "The Colony", a rebirth for presumed-dead assassins. He breaks free from there, and seeks the aid of Yaz, a weapons dealer, for his final battle with Stavros.
Themes: | suicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | landmineexploding bodybattle |
On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survival. They live, not only with the fear of discovery, contending with neighboring Soviet parti β¦sans and knowing whom to trust but also take the responsibility of looking after a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. Women, men, children, the elderly and the young alike are all hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold and unforgiving forests in the darkest times of German-occupied Eastern Europe. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | landmineanimal attackexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
Libya, 2012. At an unofficial CIA base in Benghazi a group of ex-military contractors are providing security. In the aftermath of Gaddafi's downfall a power vacuum exists and the climate is volatile. Military weapons are freely available. The US Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, makes a visit to t β¦he area, staying in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, the Ambassador's compound is attacked by hordes of heavily armed locals. The only forces willing and able to defend it are six CIA contractors. (Read More)
Characters: | sniper riflesoldierhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | u.s. marinefirefightexploding bodysurvivalbattle |
On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers from two commercial expeditions start their final ascent toward the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. With little warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by β¦man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | survivestrandedsurvivalhallucinationbattle |
Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight, in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its police force which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptexploding bodyhallucinationbattleflashback |
Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world's great marksmen and the son of a Congressional Medal of Honoree, is a loner living in the Rockies. He's left the military, having been hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years before, when he's recruited by a colonel to help find a way that the Pre β¦sident of the US might be assassinated in one of three cities in the next two weeks. He does his work, but the shot is fired notwithstanding and Bob Lee is quickly the fall guy: wounded and hunted by thousands, he goes to ground and, aided by two unlikely allies, searches for the truth and for those who double-crossed him. All roads lead back to Ethiopia. (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesniper |
Story: | u.s. marineexploding bodyassassinationflashback |
Themes: | suicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesniper |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptassassinationsurvivalflashback |
Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 day β¦s of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go? (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper rifleu.s. soldiersniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | sandstormwoundflashback |
Set, the merciless god of darkness, has taken over the throne of Egypt and plunged the once peaceful and prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. Few dare to rebel against him. A young thief, whose love was taken captive by the god, seeks to dethrone and defeat Set with the aid of the powerful god β¦ Horus. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | soldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | assassination attemptsandstormanimal attacksurvivalbattleflashback |
A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971. Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorienting, alien and deadly landscape.
Characters: | soldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | survivewoundsurvivalbattle |
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John β¦ convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive. (Read More)
Characters: | sniper rifleparent child relationshipsniperhusband wife relationship |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | survivebattle |
The G.I. Joe team is framed for crimes against the country by Zartan, disguised as the President, and Cobra Commander has all the world leaders under his influence, with their advanced warheads headed towards innocent populaces around the world. Outnumbered and outgunned, the surviving team members β¦form a plan with their original leader, General Joseph Colton, to rescue the President and face off Cobra Commander, his accomplices and the world leaders. (Read More)
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldier |
Story: | assassination attemptexploding bodysurvivalbattleflashback |
In modern day Japan, Wolverine is out of his depth in an unknown world as he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also hi β¦s inner struggle against his own near-immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Characters: | soldier |
Period: | 2010s |
Story: | assassination attemptphysicalbar fighthallucinationbattleflashback |
The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy across the globe for centuries, including Kaulder, β¦ a valiant warrior who managed to slay the all-powerful Queen Witch, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the Queen curses Kaulder with her own immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Today Kaulder is the only one of his kind remaining, and has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones. However, unbeknownst to Kaulder, the Queen Witch is resurrected and seeks revenge on her killer causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race. (Read More)
Characters: | soldier |
Story: | assassination attemptbar fightexploding bodyassassinationsurvivalhallucinationbattleflashback |
Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort a β¦re two Indians, George and his sister, Martha, who came with the place, Chaplain Toffler, Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Windigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature. (Read More)
Characters: | u.s. soldiersoldier |
Story: | survivewoundsurvivalhallucinationbattleflashback |
In 2044, solar storms have killed 99.7 % of the world's population and only 21 million people survive. The ROC Corporation has designed and built robots called Automata Pilgrim 7000 to help to rebuild the world. These robots have two security protocols; they can neither harm humans nor alter themsel β¦ves or other robots. When police officer Sean Wallace shoots a robot and claims that it was altering itself, ROC insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is placed in charge of the investigation. Soon he believes that there is a "clocksmith" illegally modifying the robots. Jacq wants to live in the coast and asks his boss and friend Robert Bold to transfer him with his pregnant wife Rachel Vaucan to the coast. Robert offers the possibility if Jacq resolves the case. Jacq and Wallace go to a brothel where the modified robot Cleo attends and Wallace shoots its leg, expecting that the owner will lead them to the clocksmith. They meet Dupre but she is not the clocksmith that is modifying the robots. Soon Jacq discovers who is the responsible for modifying the robots but the Powers that Be in ROC believe that Jacq is the one to be blamed. (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Locations: | desert |
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | assassination attemptleg blown offsurvivesurvivalflashback |
A State Department employee newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the U.S. That puts her right in the line of fire and she is targeted for death and framed for crimes. Discredited, she is forced to go on the run while she tries to clear β¦her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve in Times Square. (Read More)
Characters: | sniper riflesniper |
Story: | assassination attemptmarinesurvivalbattleflashback |
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Inspector Lee and Detective Carter are back in action as they head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders. Lee also holds secret meetings with a United Nations authority, but his personal struggles with a Ch β¦inese criminal mastermind named Kenji, which reveals that it's Lee's long-lost...brother. But their race will take them across the city, from the depths of the Paris underground to the breathtaking heights of the Eiffel Tower, as they fight to outrun the world's most deadly criminals and save the day. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesniperhusband wife relationship |
Story: | assassination attemptassassination |
Jarrod and his pregnant girlfriend Elaine travel to Los Angeles to meet his old friend and successful entrepreneur Terry, and his wife Candice. Terry gives a party in his apartment for Jarrod and offers a job position to him in LA. Terry's assistant and lover Denise (Crystal Reed) and his friend Ray β¦ (Neil Hopkins) sleep on the couch in the living room, but in the dawn of the next morning, the group is awakened by mysterious beams of blue light. Ray stares at the light and is taken by the mysterious force. The group of friends try to escape from the alien invaders. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrificesuicide |
Characters: | sniper riflesnipersoldierhusband wife relationship |
Story: | exploding bodysurvival |