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- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsKen WahlMatt FrewerHarley Jane KozakA group of embittered ex-cops use a chemical spill to raid the banks and homes of Beverly Hills.
- DirectorGodfrey HoStarsPierre KirbyJean PaulSean OdellAs he struggles to rescue his kidnapped family, a martial arts expert vows to seek revenge against the abductors.
- DirectorGodfrey HoStarsPierre KirbyEdowan BersmeaDewey BosworthEthan, a young man, is beaten while his father is killed by a group of thieves. With the help of an undertaker, Ethan trains in kung fu by fighting the dead. Meanwhile, an American Ninja, Dragon, must fend off against the thieves and their ninja henchmen. It is soon that Dragon and Ethan team up to defeat the thieves and the ninjas.
- DirectorGary ShermanStarsRutger HauerGene SimmonsRobert GuillaumeBounty hunter Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by the C.I.A. to get the terrorist behind the bombing of a Los Angeles, California movie theater. Nick quit the C.I.A. because he couldn't trust them. Can they be trusted now, and can he stop the terrorists?
- DirectorTerry LeonardStarsFred DryerBrian KeithJoseph GianGunnery Sergeant Burns reports for duty to an American Embassy in the Middle East. However due to the 'enlightened' views of the Ambassador, the marine security detachment he is in charge of is severely restricted in their functions and presence to avoid upsetting the host government. As a result, when terrorists attack the compound, they are able to kidnap hostages and escape with little opposition. Burns ignores the Ambassador's restrictions, and throws the rule books out the window, as he becomes a one man army in an attempt to rescue the hostages, and wipe out the terrorists.
- DirectorCraig R. BaxleyStarsCarl WeathersCraig T. NelsonVanityVengeance drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power-hungry auto magnate who is systematically eliminating his competition.
- DirectorAaron NorrisStarsTony PierceRobert F. LyonsMichael DudikoffA young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander
- DirectorJames GlickenhausStarsRobert GintySamantha EggarChristopher GeorgeA man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York City. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York City into a great war zone, and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
- DirectorMark BuntzmanStarsRobert GintyMario Van PeeblesDeborah GeffnerThe flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York City of a drug lord and his gang.
- DirectorPerry LangStarsDolph LundgrenCharlotte LewisBD WongA former Special Ops soldier leads a group of mercenaries to an island in the South China Sea: their mission is obtain the rights to the unusual treasure that the island beholds.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsDolph LundgrenBrandon LeeCary-Hiroyuki TagawaTwo L.A. cops with opposing views on what is the best way to uphold the law have to work together to bring down the Yakuza, while trying to protect a beautiful woman.
- DirectorSteve CohenStarsBilly BlanksRoddy PiperRichard NortonElmo Freech is a private investigator who is contacted by CIA agent John Portland, who suffers from amnesia, to reveal a dubious case of drug smuggling involving big fish from Washington, D.C. and the CIA.
- DirectorRobert RadlerStarsBilly BlanksKenn ScottChristine TaylorAn ex-policeman/school janitor (Billy Blanks) shows a new student (Kenn Scott) how to defend himself from a martial-arts bully.
- DirectorDan NeiraStarsShin'ichi ChibaRoddy PiperMeg FosterRowdy Roddy Piper and Sonny Chiba battle an army of immortal ninja warriors.
- DirectorKristine PetersonStarsMark DacascosJames RyanGeoff MeedAfter David Sloan is murdered, it's up to kick-boxing champ Matt Reeves to avenge him.
- DirectorChristophe GansStarsJulie CondraKevan OhtsjiMark DacascosA woman sees an assassin outside San Francisco killing yakuza men and later in Vancouver. She's been told that he leaves no witness. Will she be his next victim or...?
- DirectorAaron NorrisStarsChuck NorrisCalvin LevelsChristopher NeameTwo Chicago cops (Chuck Norris, Calvin Levels) investigate a murder until they encounter an ancient demon.
- DirectorAaron NorrisStarsChuck NorrisJohn P. RyanBilly DragoWhen DEA agents are taken captive by a ruthless South American kingpin, the Delta Force is reunited to rescue them in this sequel to the 1986 film.
- DirectorJoseph ZitoStarsChuck NorrisRichard LynchMelissa ProphetA one-man army comes to the rescue when the United States are invaded by communists.
- DirectorDaniel Petrie Jr.StarsSean AstinWil WheatonKeith CooganA group of troublemaking boys decide to take a stand when terrorists seize control of their boarding school.
- DirectorSheldon LettichStarsJean-Claude Van DammeGeoffrey LewisAlonna ShawTwin brothers are separated when their parents are murdered but 25 years later they re-unite in order to avenge their parents' death.
- DirectorEric KarsonStarsShô KosugiJean-Claude Van DammeDoran ClarkCIA agent must outrace KGB agent in searching of super weapon lost in Mediterranean.
- DirectorJoseph MerhiStarsSam J. JonesSherrie RoseJason LivelyThree determined cops are recruited to take down a notorious crime lord.
- DirectorFred WilliamsonStarsFred WilliamsonBo SvensonHenry SilvaAn army colonel and a seasoned mercenary have three days to rescue a kidnapped ambassador from the drug lord who kidnapped him.
- DirectorRobert RadlerStarsEric RobertsJames Earl JonesSally KirklandA team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country - can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
- DirectorRobert RadlerStarsEric RobertsPhillip RheeChris PennThe Colosseum is the fighting arena owned by the champion Bracus. Now after the death of their friend, Tommy Lee and Alex Grady want revenge.
- DirectorPhillip RheeStarsPhillip RheeChristopher McDonaldGina GershonA martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.
- DirectorCirio H. SantiagoStarsBrad JohnsonVernon WellsKevin DuffisLt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American POWs in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless soldiers on motorcycles.
- DirectorJohn GlenStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Rachel McLishPaul FreemanChappy discovers a drug-smuggling scheme at his own air base. It turns out that the lives of some village people in Peru are at stake, and he decides to fly there with ancient airplanes and friends to free them.
- DirectorRobert ClouseStarsCynthia RothrockRichard NortonKeith CookeA police woman, expert and instructor in martial arts, leaves the city to stay with her dad, sheriff in a town with peace and quiet - or so she thinks. She gets plenty opportunities to show her martial arts skills.
- DirectorRobert ClouseStarsCynthia RothrockRichard NortonKeith CookeThis time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a prize on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China, one of the masters of the martial arts.
- DirectorSteve CohenStarsChad McQueenCynthia RothrockDavid CarradineTwo cops who are martial arts experts team up to stop a criminal organization headed by a ruthless boss who's also a martial artist.
- DirectorDeran SarafianStarsChristopher LambertMario Van PeeblesDenis LearyUSD400,000,000 is stolen and a drug lord wants it back. The killed thief's brother is broken out of prison by a DEA bounty hunter to help find the money boat. The body count continues in Latin America.
- DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsShô KosugiKeith VitaliVirgil FryeAfter ninjas killed his family, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life. He opens a doll shop but is unwittingly importing heroin in the dolls. When his friend betrays him, Cho must prepare for the ultimate battle.
- DirectorSam FirstenbergStarsNick CassavetesEric DouglasMike NorrisA terrorist places an atomic bomb somewhere in an American metropolis. The U.S. president has no choice but to call in the Delta Force.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsRutger HauerTerry O'QuinnBrandon CallA blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
- DirectorRobert MandelStarsTom BerengerRaymond CruzWilliam ForsytheShale's Mercenary team is retired after a (not so) covert mission in Cuba. He becomes a substitute teacher at his teacher fiancee's Miami high school to get those behind kneecapping her. His team helps him.
- DirectorJames GlickenhausStarsPeter WellerSam ElliottRichard BrooksA legal aid attorney and renegade cop team up to stop a corrupt cop.
- DirectorÉlie ChouraquiStarsScott GlennJade MalleJoe PesciA former CIA agent, John Creasy, is hired as a bodyguard for a girl in Italy, who becomes the daughter he never had. When she is abducted, Creasy's fiery rage is unleashed, and despite being badly wounded, embarks on a bloody revenge spree.
- DirectorCharles Martin SmithStarsPeter WellerRobert HaysCharles Martin SmithTwo bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
- DirectorDavid GreenStarsNicolas CageTommy Lee JonesSean YoungElite Apache helicopter pilots are tasked with destroying powerful armed drug cartels operating in South America.
- DirectorGraham BakerStarsJohn StamosJohn StockwellTeri PoloThe US Army recruits a delinquent biker to train their new motorcycle squad for an important mission.
- DirectorWilliam DearStarsRichard GriecoLinda HuntRoger ReesMichael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France, to graduate high school. He is, however, mistaken for an agent and people try to kill him. There are 007 style cars, cuties, crooks etc.
- DirectorRoger ChristianStarsSam ElliottCharles Martin SmithKelly BensonA mysterious bomber is planting explosive devices in Seattle, Washington. Since their quality takes too big a toll amongst Seattle Police bomb experts, John Pierce, former head of the Bomb Squad, reluctantly takes the job that will take him to face his worst nightmare.
- DirectorMark L. LesterStarsLou Diamond PhillipsScott GlennChelsea FieldA rogue cop joins an elite L.A.P.D. unit who secretly operate as a vigilante death squad, but soon begins to question their methods.
- DirectorSimon WincerStarsMickey RourkeDon JohnsonChelsea FieldTwo lone riders hold up a bank's armoured car to save their friend's bar from imminent foreclosure. Soon, the mission goes awry when they discover the vehicle's unexpected cargo.
- DirectorYossi WeinStarsFrank ZagarinoBilly DragoJenny McShaneThe peaceful existence of boat repairman Blake (Frank Zagarino) is destroyed when the Reverend James (Billy Drago) shows up with his disciples. Back in the days when Blake had been a member of an elite commando force, James had been his friend. But things have changed. Worried that Reverend James has fostered a cult and is planning on a mass suicide, the government sends spies to investigate. The government is also concerned because a prominent general's daughter is among the cultists. When the spies are killed, Blake is forced to reveal his true identity and join the fray to stop James and save the general's daughter.
- DirectorPeter MarisStarsBruce BoxleitnerBilly DragoTom BresnahanCole Hickel, a Marine, pursues his daughter's killer when he is allowed to go back to Paraguay because of "diplomatic immunity."
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsEric RobertsJeff FaheyPamela GidleyWildlife photographer Katy is sent to Africa by her fiance Dex, the CEO of the international company that publishes the magazine she works for, to take photos of a rare bird of prey previously thought to be extinct. There she meets Grant, a colleague who knows his way around the place, and falls for him hard. However, what she doesn't know is that she's the key pawn in a deadly international game of cat and mouse between the Interpol and an international criminal group.
- DirectorJohn IrvinStarsPatrick SwayzeLiam NeesonAdam BaldwinTruman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsBrian DennehyJoe PantolianoJeff Fahey4 LA cops are fighting the war on drugs. Corrupt superiors manage to break up their team when one of them gets killed. The 3 quit LAPD and continue investigating.
- DirectorR.J. KizerStarsMike NorrisBilly DragoChad McQueenWhen ex-Special Forces agent Matt Collins wins a survivalist competition, he becomes "the toughest man alive" - perfect fodder for perverse millionaire Danton Vachs, whose annual manhunt attracts the most vicious killers in the world.
- DirectorJ. Christian IngvordsenStarsLance HenriksenMartin KoveBilly DragoA renegade FBI agent sparks an explosive mob war between gangster crime lords Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz.
- DirectorJon HessStarsThomas Ian GriffithJames Earl JonesLance HenriksenA group of Chicago cops are involved in a raid from which $3,000,000 disappears. The local mob go after them and the body count starts to rise. The new Chief of Police makes it clear to the last remaining officer that he will look the other way if he takes the law into his own hands. When the policeman finds he can't follow through on this someone else does and he finds himself and his girl are being hunted by more or less everyone for their own reasons.
- DirectorJames BecketStarsThomas Ian GriffithCraig ShugartDavid EfronOn the eve of a big US-Japan trade summit, a reporter, Erica Boswell, gets a hot tip that the Japanese-American head of a big aerospace firm will be selling trade secrets to a Japanese contact. Intent on getting a scoop, Boswell hires private investigator John Blaylock to help her find out just what information is being handed over. In the course of snooping, the pair are discovered, but not before they learn that the Japanese contact is a member of the Yakuza. When the aerospace executive turns up dead after an apparent suicide, the investigators realize that some very big secrets are being kept by some very important people.
- DirectorTerence H. WinklessStarsDon WilsonJoe Mari AvellanaRob KamanDon Wilson plays retired kickboxer Jake Raye, who travels to Manila, where his brother is favored to win a kickboxing competition. His brother is killed, and Jake realizes he must enter the competition himself to flush out his brother's killer.
- DirectorAndy BlumenthalStarsDon WilsonRina ReyesJoe Mari AvellanaKickboxing champion Jake Raye thought his fighting days were over, until a call from an old friend draws him to the Far East and into the hands of a madman. This time Jake's fighting for his life!
- DirectorOley SassoneStarsDon WilsonRichard RoundtreeGregory McKinneyJimmy Boland is a man unjustly accused of a brutal crime. Within the prison he must fight for survival, freedom and justice.
- DirectorPaul ZillerStarsDon WilsonCatya SassoonAmanda WyssWhen Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!
- DirectorJeff YonisStarsDon WilsonDenice DuffSteve JamesDon "The Dragon" Wilson struggles to regain his memory, not knowing who to trust, or even which side he's fighting on.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsDon WilsonMarcus AureliusMichael BlanksTerrorists take over a nuclear weapons launch site, but don't count on a humble military courier, who happens to be making a visit.
- DirectorJonathan WinfreyStarsDon WilsonJillian McWhirterJonathan PennerJim Trudell is a man pursued. Branded a cop-killer, he must fight simply to stay alive, and to clear his name - with the very police who framed him.
- DirectorRick JacobsonStarsDon WilsonJohn Patrick WhiteJillian McWhirterA former CIA agent (Wilson) lives a suburban life as a high school teacher with his teen son (White). When the agent is attacked by former allies because of knowledge he possesses and his son is kidnapped, he is forced back into the business and his son suddenly sees a side of his father that he never knew existed.
- DirectorDamian LeeStarsDon WilsonMichael Anderson Jr.Roddy PiperA local cop tries to save his father and several others who have been taken hostage by terrorists at Hoover Dam.
- DirectorJim WynorskiStarsCorey HaimAlan ThickeDick Van PattenA high school is taken over by terrorists with deadly far reaching intentions but one heroic, resourceful student decides to take the fight right to them.
- DirectorJim WynorskiStarsStacie RandallMatt McCoyMelissa BrasselleA female cop assigned to protect a dead drug dealer's girlfriend from mob assassins takes her to a home for battered wives. When revenge is the only option, the emotionally scarred women are forced to fight back.
- DirectorDavid HueyStarsGary DanielsKent DucanonLinda BennettA former cop who has become a professional bounty hunter tracks a serial killer who kills with his bare hands. When the killer learns that he is being tracked he starts tracking his hunter leading to the invariable martial arts showdown.
- DirectorRichard PepinStarsChad McQueenGary DanielsGeorge MurdockIn the near future, street gangs have their own city zones where cops can't go. Two tough cops are sent undercover in one of them to investigate an illegal cure for AIDS. But they must first fight in a deathmatch, and the match is fixed.
- DirectorCharla DriverStarsGary DanielsKen McLeodByron MannA dangerous drug lord; a renegade cop; the ultimate showdown.
- DirectorLawrence David FoldesStarsLinda BlairJames Van PattenRichard LynchCarla is devastated when her friend is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. After going to her father, a U.S. Senator, she gets her friends, and arms, to cross the border for a rescue mission.
- DirectorFerdinand FairfaxStarsKevin DillonChristine HarnosEdward AlbertA group of kids venture into enemy territory in an audacious attempt to rescue their Navy Seal fathers who were captured during a failed mission in North Korea.
- DirectorLawrence David FoldesDeran SarafianStarsErnest BorgnineRichard RoundtreeLynda Day GeorgeA young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a criminal act. In the meantime, Kevin debates the issue of violent crime in the U.S. with his teachers and others during the day. As Kevin and his gang head toward a final, bloody confrontation with the low-lifes who murdered his sister, other scenes show the difference between his character, now violent, and the normal people he is supposedly protecting.
- DirectorFrank A. CappelloStarsViggo MortensenRyo IshibashiMichael NouriAn American FBI agent is lured away by the Japanese Mafia--the Yakuza--in this action film.
- DirectorRoger NygardStarsMichael RookerRyo IshibashiDanielle HarrisBob Malone, a disgraced ex-cop who finds himself trapped between local homegrown thugs and the Japanese ganglords of the Yakuza when he investigates the frame-up that ruined his career.
- DirectorRod HolcombStarsJim BelushiMiguel FerrerPeter BoyleRoyce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for forming Black Hole disbands the organization, Royce's fellow Black Hole members plot revenge on the man responsible for them losing their jobs. Royce decides not to join them, instead deciding to thwart their attempts to exact revenge on the senator.