John Woo
1) Windtalkers
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Description
In the Pacific theater during World War II, a Marine is assigned to protect a Navajo codetalker.
Description
A secret agent framed for the deaths of his team struggles to find out what really happened; when renegade Sean Ambrose threatens to release the deadly "Chimera" virus into the population, it is up to IMF agent Ethan Hunt to stop him; spy Ethan Hunt is called out of retirement to track down the villainous Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider; after breaking out of a Moscow prison, Ethan Hunt and his team track down a nuclear...
3) Broken arrow
Description
A bitter Air Force major steals two nuclear warheads to hold for ransom while his former partner and a national park ranger try to stop him.
4) Face/off
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Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The only other person who knows the bomb's location is Casor's...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Ethan Hunt is back and is partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
8) Paycheck
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when sucessfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing and has little time to work it out. Before his memory...
9) Face/off
Description
FBI Special Agent Sean Archer is trying to find a biological weapon that has been placed in Los Angeles by the sadistic terrorist-for-hire and criminal mastermind Castor Troy. Archer has been hunting Troy for the last 8 years and is consumed by revenge because Troy is responsible for the death of Archer's son. To do this, Archer must 'borrow' Troy's face using a surgical procedure to go undercover as Troy, but things go wrong when Troy assumes the...
10) Hard target
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
The thrill of the hunt. It's the ultimate drug, and the more intense the rush, the higher the price. Banking on this equation is sadistic mercenary Emil Fouchon, who is recruiting homeless combat veterans for the "amusement of his clients"--Bored tycoons who will pauy half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of all: man.
11) Red Cliff
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
In 208 A.D., General Cao Cao leads an army to destroy two warlords who stand in his way, but the warlords band together to take on the giant army and the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Hard Target Jean-Claude Van Damme teams up with acclaimed action director John Woo for this electrifying thriller that WGN Radio hails as "easily one of the year's best films!" Van Damme is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen) who recruits homeless combat veterans for the "amusement" of his clients - bored tycoons who will pay handsomely to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man. Laced with dark humor and slam-packed...
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"The epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power-hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao seeks permission from the Han Dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way, Liu Bei and Sun Quan. Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao's brutal, fast-approaching army, the warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign-unrivaled...
14) Broken Arrow
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A secret agent framed for the deaths of his team struggles to find out what really happened; when renegade Sean Ambrose threatens to release the deadly "Chimera" virus into the population, it is up to IMF agent Ethan Hunt to stop him; spy Ethan Hunt is called out of retirement to track down the villainous Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider; after breaking out of a Moscow prison, Ethan Hunt and his team track down a nuclear...
16) Hard Boiled
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Tequila is a die-hard cop, hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partner's death. To avenge his partner's murder, Tequila joins forces with a rebel cop, and then the body count soars.
18) Windtalkers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.
19) M:I-2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
IMF agent Ethan Hunt partners up with Nyah Hall to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world.
20) Windtalkers
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code that was never broken by the enemy.