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Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn't succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doomsday machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to wipe out whole c β¦ities and even whole countries... With about 22 assassins from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to find Dreyfus alone and put him back in the mental asylum. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | blackmailescapekidnapping |
Locations: | gay barcastleenglandmotorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpolicemandetectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | laughing gasunited nations buildinginterrupted by telephonefingernails on chalkboardscientist's daughterfalling out of a windowstepping on a rakewhoopee cushionkiss on both cheeksferocious dogcanopy bedpole vaultfitness centerpink pantherdeath ray β¦fur hatbird poopsplashed with watersoap bubblefunny accentwaiting in lineoktoberfesttwitchnitrous oxidepipe organmoatrussian spyshot in the buttdrawbridgebrass bandbriefcase of moneycollege footballgrappling hookperiscopecroquetanimated title sequencegrand pianoclarinetpassenger traincatapultnunchuckssuit of armormunich germanymacehunchbackswanthronetrenchcoattreadmillwest germanyoval officelighting a cigarettefur coatfamous scorepunching bagferris wheeltransvestismbubble bathblackboardfalling into waterrestroompistol whippipe smokingriding a bicyclefifth partparrotlaughinghit on the headmental hospitalbutlerrowboattarget practicecrossbowwatching televisionwhite housegoatimpersonationblockbusterfarcefalling down stairsfireplacesilencerbank robberychickenamerican flagstabbed in the backfive word titlebrunettedisguisebound and gaggedcolor in titlehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel (See All) |
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for Switzerland, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is β¦ going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is... (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Characters: | policemandetectivepolice |
Story: | pink pantheranimated title sequencesuit of armortrenchcoatfur coatfamous scoreblockbusterfarcecolor in title |
A gun-for-hire "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe. But even 47 couldn' β¦t anticipate a "random equation" in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman. (Read More)
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpolice |
Story: | briefcase of moneypassenger trainrestroomimpersonationsilencerstabbed in the backhandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosion |
Now that Dom and Letty are on their honeymoon and Brian and Mia have retired from the game-and the rest of the crew has been exonerated-the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life. But when a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime he can't seem to escape and a betraya β¦l of those closest to him, they will face trials that will test them as never before. From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, the elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage... and to bring home the man who made them a family. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperfather daughter relationship |
Story: | nitrous oxidepistol whipblockbusterfalling down stairssilenceramerican flagstabbed in the backdisguisebound and gaggedhandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
Retired CIA agent Frank Moses is in love with Sarah Ross and enjoying their normal life. Out of the blue, Marvin Boggs meets Frank in the supermarket and tells that Wikileaks has released the information that they had participated and know the whereabouts of the Nightshade, a portable nuclear weapon β¦ that was smuggled in pieces and hidden in Russia. Now the top agents in the world are under contract to seek them out to discover where Nightshade is. The trio travels to Paris and teams-up with the Russian Katja to track down the former Russian Agent 'The Frog' to get more information about the operation. They learn that the brilliant inventor Dr. Edward Bailey might know where the weapon is. They discover that Bailey has been interned in an asylum in London by the MI-6 for thirty-two years and the British Victoria joins the team. They rescue Bailey and find that the nuclear device is hidden in the Kremlin. Soon the dangerous South Korean Han joins the group expecting to retrieve the weapon. But dangerous killer Jack Horton is hunting Frank down and will not stop until he recovers the nuclear bomb. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | pistol whipmental hospitaltarget practicesilencerstabbed in the backdisguisebound and gaggedcolor in titlehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
After having been rewarded for solving the mystery of the Pink Panther Diamond, inspector Jacques Clouseau has been assigned to minor tasks by his boss inspector Dreyfus so as not to have him in his way anymore. Unfortunately, the famous diamond has once again been stolen as have many other artifact β¦s in a series of burglaries around the world. His past success will enable inspector Clouseau to be part of the dream team comprised of the greatest detectives of the affected countries, where he will be able to display his numerous talents across the world. (Read More)
Characters: | policemandetectivepolice |
Story: | pink pantheranimated title sequencetrenchcoatfamous scorefalling down stairsfireplacedisguisecolor in titlesequel |
Frank (Bruce Willis) is retired, bored, and lonely living off his government pension in a nondescript suburb in an equally nondescript house. The only joy in Frank's life is his calls to the government pension processing center when he gets to talk to his case worker, Sarah (Mary-Louis Parker). Sara β¦h is as bored and lonely as Frank and marks her conversations with the unknown Frank and her spy novels as the only things fun in her life. When something in Frank's past forces Frank back into his old line of work and puts an unwitting Sarah in the middle of the intrigue, Frank and Sarah begin a journey into Frank's past and the people he used to work with. Like Frank they are all RED ... Retired Extremely Dangerous. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailkidnapping |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperpolice |
Story: | punching bagcrossbowwhite houseimpersonationfireplacesilenceramerican flagdisguisebound and gaggedcolor in titlehandcuffsexplosion |
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: | blackmailkidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperpolicemanpolice |
Story: | silenceramerican flagstabbed in the backdisguisebound and gaggedbombslow motion sceneexplosion |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n β¦ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailescapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | sniperdetectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | grappling hookfamous scorelaughingbutlerwatching televisionblockbusterfalling down stairssilencerbank robberydisguisebound and gaggedhandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosion β¦sequel (See All) |
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, Maria, the tough but uneducated daughter of a fa β¦rmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, Maria and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options? (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailescape |
Characters: | hitmandetectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | grappling hookfalling into waterpipe smokingtarget practicecrossbowbank robberydisguisehandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosion |
Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC's Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back - 200 years in the future, by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempt to overthrow the oppressive government. When he goes off on his ow β¦n, he begins to explore this brave new world, which has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Characters: | policemanpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | clarinetimpersonationfarcechickendisguisebound and gaggedexplosion |
Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president's closest friends and his family are m β¦urdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels. Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses an agent in the field and a friend of his wife's, who was the murdered agent's secretary, is murdered that same day. Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | oval officetarget practicewhite houseblockbustersilenceramerican flagdisguisebombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
The RIDE ALONG 2 sequel picks up about a year after our heroes' last adventure. Plans for a quick trip to Miami go bad. With the wedding upcoming, James reluctantly takes Ben with him to Miami to follow up on a lead connected to a drug ring case he's been trying to crack. In Miami, they meet Maya, a β¦ no-BS homicide detective who lets them know Miami is her turf. They also encounter AJ, a shady cocky computer hacker who reveals evidence that implicates a well-respected local businessman, the wealthy Antonio Pope. Pope harbors a vicious streak and rules South Florida's drug trade. If Ben and James can convince the authorities that Pope is a brutal crime boss they'll stop his spree. If they fail, well there may not be a wedding after all. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice |
Story: | pistol whipsilencerchickendisguisehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to β¦give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperpolicemanpolice |
Story: | pink pantheranimated title sequencemacetrenchcoatgoatfarcedisguise |
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open β¦is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time? (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperpolice |
Story: | drawbridgepipe smokingimpersonationblockbusterfarcefalling down stairschickenamerican flaghandcuffsbombexplosion |
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)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmandetectivepolice |
Story: | target practicesilencerdisguisebombslow motion sceneexplosion |
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of β¦ the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning? (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | russian spytarget practicewhite houseamerican flagdisguisehandcuffsbombexplosion |
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. A young man with a troubled past pretends to be a police officer working on the case with Wing, β¦to get him back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Characters: | sniperdetectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | punching bagfifth parttarget practicefalling down stairsbank robberydisguisehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi β¦s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | hitmanpolicemandetectivepolice |
Story: | briefcase of moneyfalling down stairsbound and gaggedhandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosion |
Michael Mason, a pick-pocket living in Paris steals a bag with a teddy bear in it. Not realizing the toy contains a timed bomb, he tosses it aside on a busy street. A few seconds later it explodes, killing four people. CCTV footage reveals Masons face and the French police tag him as a terrorist thr β¦eat. The explosion, although botched, was set up by a select group of the French Interior Ministry as a decoy so they can make a half billion dollar digital transfer from a bank, (closed on French National Day) -hence the title Bastille Day. In a separate CIA investigation the unruly agent Sean Briar, discovers the real story behind Masons "terrorist attack". The two men, on different sides of the law, collaborate to bring the corrupt members of the Ministry down. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | sniperdetectivepolice |
Story: | falling down stairsbank robberysilencerdisguisehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosion |
Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the β¦ toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex's street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit... (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | kidnapping |
Characters: | police |
Story: | parrotfalling down stairsfireplacesilencerdisguisebound and gaggedslow motion scenesequel |
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiri β¦ng in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client. (Read More)
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmandetective |
Story: | briefcase of moneybubble bathpistol whipparrottarget practicesilencer |
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violen β¦t war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | sniperfather daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | munich germanywest germanytarget practicebank robberydisguisehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosion |
To payoff his second girlfriend's debt, hitman Melvin Smiley undertakes a kidnapping job with his usual associates. In a world of prospective Jewish in-laws and late movie fees, the hitman falls in love with the victim and must settle the score with those out to double-cross him.
Themes: | kidnapping |
Characters: | hitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | falling down stairssilencerbound and gaggedbombslow motion sceneexplosion |
A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of h β¦is grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind... (Read More)
Themes: | kidnapping |
Locations: | castle |
Characters: | police |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | hunchbackblackboardblockbusterfarcefireplace |
HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck. He is the culmination of decades of research and forty-six earlier Agent clones -- β¦ endowing him with unprecedented strength, speed, stamina and intelligence. His latest target is a mega-corporation that plans to unlock the secret of Agent 47's past to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Teaming up with a young woman who may hold the secret to overcoming their powerful and clandestine enemies, 47 confronts stunning revelations about his own origins and squares off in an epic battle with his deadliest foe. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | pistol whipfalling down stairssilencerdisguisehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosion |
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | sniperdetectivepolice |
Story: | pistol whipsilenceramerican flaghandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosion |
Set in Scotland in a rugged and mythical time, "Brave" features Merida, an aspiring archer and impetuous daughter of royalty. Merida makes a reckless choice that unleashes unintended peril and forces her to spring into action to set things right.
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | castle |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | thronerowboattarget practicefalling down stairsfireplacechickenslow motion scene |
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpoliceman |
Story: | target practicefalling down stairssilencerstabbed in the backslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther β¦Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailescape |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmandetectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | white housesilencerdisguisehandcuffs |
MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's a football hooligan (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby has everything a man from the poor English fishing town of Grimsby could want - 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in northern England (Rebel β¦ Wilson). There's only one thing missing in his life: his little brother, Sebastian. After they were adopted by different families as children, Nobby spent 28 years searching for him. Upon hearing of his location, Nobby sets off to reunite with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | englandmotorcyclehotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpolicemanfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | pistol whipfarcefalling down stairssilencerdisguiseslow motion sceneexplosion |
San Francisco Police Inspector 'Dirty' Harry Callahan and his new partner, Early Smith have been temporarily reassigned from Homicide to Stakeout Duty. You Meanwhile, those of the city's criminals who manage to avoid punishment by the courts are nevertheless being killed by unknown assassins. Callah β¦an begins to investigate the murders despite orders from his superior officer, Lieutenant Briggs. A man has to know his limitations... (Read More)
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | hitmandetectivepolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | pistol whiptarget practicefalling down stairssilencerdisguisebombexplosionsequel |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | ferris wheelwhite houseimpersonationsilencerdisguisehandcuffsexplosion |
David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. Day in and day out he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other people's money with no escape in sight. The only glimmer of excitement is his fli β¦rtatious work crush Kelly Campbell who soon lures him into the scheme of a lifetime. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash...only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. With the bandits blowing the millions on lavish and ridiculous luxuries, they leave behind a glaring trail of evidence. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hilarious hit man, Mike McKinney, and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpolice |
Story: | target practicefarcedisguisebound and gaggedhandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosion |
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, β¦ they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | kidnapping |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | detectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | college footballgrappling hookpistol whipdisguisehandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requir β¦ing genuine courage. (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | castle |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | catapultthronelaughingcrossbowgoatstabbed in the backbound and gaggedexplosion |
After witnessing the brutal murders of a convenience store owner and his son, firefighter Jeremy Coleman barely escapes with his life. As he is forced to testify against the crime lord, Hagan, he is placed in the witness protection program under the watch of the U.S. Marshals. When his new identity β¦becomes compromised Jeremy is forced to take an unexpected course of action in order to get his life back and save the lives of those he loves. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperhitmanpolicemandetective |
Story: | target practicesilencerdisguisebound and gaggedslow motion sceneexplosion |
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He β¦ needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperfather daughter relationship |
Story: | falling down stairssilencerdisguisehandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosion |
Batman, the costumed crime-fighter who prowls the night skies in Gotham City, soon finds there's another vigilante in town knocking off prominent mob figures. Despite the scythe-like blade for a hand, a mechanical voice and the cloud of smoke that follows the figure wherever it goes, the police and β¦outraged officials mistake the homicidal crusader for Batman himself and demand that the city's longtime hero be brought to justice. Meanwhile, Andrea Beaumont returns to town. She is the lost love of Bruce Wayne, the billionaire playboy who is Batman's alter ego, and was an integral part of Wayne's decision ten years earlier to don the cape and cowl. Now, she is back in his life and is no less a disruption than the return of his old archenemy, The Joker, who has a stake in seeing the annihilation of this new vigilante, whoever it proves to be. (Read More)
Themes: | escape |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | hitmandetectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | grappling hooklaughingmental hospitalbutlerfireplacedisguisebound and gaggedbombexplosion |
Set in the 1970s in a metropolis called "Bay City," this is the tale of two police detective partners, Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson, and Dave Starsky, who always seem to get the toughest cases from their boss, Captain Dobey, rely on omniscient street informer Huggy Bear and race to the scene of the crimes β¦ in their souped-up 1974 Ford Torino hot rod, telling the story of their first big case (as a prequel to the TV show), which involved a former college campus drug dealer who went on to become a white collar criminal. (Read More)
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | sniperhitmandetectivefather daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | silencerdisguiseexplosion |
Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an L.A.P.D. detecti β¦ve... (Read More)
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Themes: | escape |
Characters: | policemandetectivepolice |
Story: | farcedisguisecolor in titlehandcuffsexplosion |
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Themes: | escape |
Characters: | hitmanpolice |
Story: | fur hatanimated title sequencecrossbowsilencerbombexplosion |
Loosely based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the worlds' most elite operatives - Danny, a ruthless killer-for-hire ('Jason Statham' (qv)) and Hunter, his longtime mentor ('Robert De Niro' (qv)) - against the cunning leader of a secret society of former Special Air Service operatives('Cliv β¦e Owen'). Covering the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East, Danny and Hunter are plunged into a highly dangerous game of revenge and deception - where things are not always what they appear to be. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | motorcyclehotel |
Characters: | hitman |
Story: | briefcase of moneypistol whiptarget practicesilencerdisguiseexplosion |
In Ruggsville, Texas, the police under the command of Sheriff John Quincy Wydell attack the house of the sadistic serial killers Firefly family (a.k.a. The Devil's Reject) and they arrest mother Firefly, but Otis B. Driftwood and Baby Firefly escape from the siege. Tiny is wandering nearby the house β¦ and also escapes. Otis and Baby call their patriarch, the mad clown Captain Spaulding and they schedule to reunite at an isolated motel in the desert. When Otis and Baby arrive, they kidnap two families of singers, using sadism and violence against the harmless persons. Meanwhile, Sheriff Wydell promises to capture and kill the runaways, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, the Deputy George Wydell. (Read More)
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | suit of armorpistol whipwatching televisionchickenstabbed in the backbound and gaggedhandcuffsslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
Oscar night. Who will win? Who will lose? And will someone please kick that numbskull off stage? Wait! That's no ordinary numbskull. That's Lt. Frank Drebin, crashing the ceremonies to stop a terrorist plot that could mean curtains for him -- or will a simple window shade be enough?
Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
Characters: | detectivepolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | farcedisguisehandcuffsbombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
Arthur (aka Wart) is a young boy who aspires to be a knight's squire. On a hunting trip he falls in on Merlin, a powerful but amnesiac wizard who has plans for Wart beyond mere squiredom. He starts by trying to give Wart an education (whatever that is), believing that once one has an education, one β¦can go anywhere. Needless to say, it doesn't quite work out that way. (Read More)
Locations: | castleengland |
Story: | throneblackboardgoatblockbusterchickenfive word title |
Sherlock Holmes ('Robert Downey Jr.' (qv)) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson ('Jude Law' (qv)), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty ('Jared Harris (I)' (qv)), with the help of Holmes' older brother Mycroft Holmes ('Stephen Fry (I)' (qv)) and a gypsy named Simza ('Noomi Rap β¦ace' (qv)). (Read More)
Locations: | castlehotel |
Characters: | sniper |
Story: | passenger trainpipe smokingsilencerdisguisebombslow motion sceneexplosionsequel |
An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his crack-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.
Themes: | escapekidnapping |
Locations: | gay bar |
Characters: | sniperhitmanfather daughter relationshippolice |
Story: | white housesilencerhandcuffs |
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and β¦is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailkidnapping |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | detectivefather daughter relationship |
Story: | hit on the headfarcedisguisehandcuffsslow motion scene |
Christian Wolff is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King, star β¦ting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise. (Read More)
Themes: | blackmailescape |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | sniperhitman |
Story: | pistol whiptarget practicewhite housesilenceramerican flagstabbed in the backhandcuffsslow motion scene |