The Manchurian Candidate (
2004) | IMDb:
6.6
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Meryl Streep
,
Liev Schreiber
,
Jon Voight
,
Kimberly Elise
,
Jeffrey Wright
Paycheck (
2003) | IMDb:
6.3
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
Windtalkers (
2002) | IMDb:
6.1
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
,
Adam Beach
,
Peter Stormare
,
Noah Emmerich
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Brian Van Holt
Mission: Impossible II (
2000) | IMDb:
6.1
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Starring:
Tom Cruise
,
Dougray Scott
,
Thandiwe Newton
,
Ving Rhames
,
Richard Roxburgh
,
John Polson
Face/Off (
1997) | IMDb:
7.3
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Starring:
John Travolta
,
Nicolas Cage
,
Joan Allen
,
Alessandro Nivola
,
Gina Gershon
,
Dominique Swain
Beverly Hills Cop III (
1994) | IMDb:
5.5
When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returning to sunny Beverly Hills once more, Foley reunites with Detective Billy Rosewood to solve the case. Along with Billy's new partner, Detective Jon Flint, they discover that Wonder World is being used as a front for a massive counterfeiting ring.
Starring:
Eddie Murphy
,
Judge Reinhold
,
Hector Elizondo
,
Gilbert R. Hill
,
Timothy Carhart
,
Bronson Pinchot
Mother's Boys (
1993) | IMDb:
5.4
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
Starring:
Jamie Lee Curtis
,
Peter Gallagher
,
Joanne Whalley
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Luke Edwards
,
Joss Ackland
Child's Play (
1988) | IMDb:
6.6
An innocent-looking doll is inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who refuses to die.
Starring:
Catherine Hicks
,
Chris Sarandon
,
Alex Vincent
,
Brad Dourif
,
Dinah Manoff
,
Tommy Swerdlow
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (
1987) | IMDb:
7.6
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.