The 51st State (also known as Formula 51) is a 2001 British/Canadian action comedy film directed by Ronny Yu, written by Stel Pavlou, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Ricky Tomlinson, Sean Pertwee, Rhys Ifans,Stephen Walters and Meat Loaf. The film follows the story of an American master chemist (Jackson) who heads to Britain to sell his formula for a powerful new drug. All does not go as planned and the chemist soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit.
Open Range is a 2003 American western film directed and co-produced by Kevin Costner, starring Robert Duvall and Costner, with Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, and Michael Jeter appearing in supporting roles. The film was the final on-screen appearance of Jeter, who died before it was released, and the film was dedicated to Jeter's memory, as well as to Costner's parents, Bill and Sharon.
The film was a box office success and was critically favored.
A rash of cattle rustling leads to a range war, centered on the disputed grazing rights to a fertile canyon. Hostilities escalate with the arrival of a gunman, who disrupts both sides in the conflict
Robert Preston as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita') Robert Sterling as Tom Cloud Chill Wills as Sam Beers Cathy Downs as Kathleen Boyce John Litel as John Gall Jack Elam as Earl Boyce Don Haggerty as Sheriff Elmer Gall Stanley Price as Steve Fletcher Clem Fuller as Turkey Frank Cordell as Jim Strake Dave Kashner as Gill Bassen (The Whip) John Drew Barrymore as Jeff Cloud - the Younger Brother
The Trench is a 1999 independent war film directed by William Boyd and starring Paul Nicholls and Daniel Craig. It depicts the experiences of a group of young British soldiers in the 48 hours leading up to the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Director: William Boyd Writer: William Boyd Stars: Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, Julian Rhind-Tutt Danny Dyer, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw
Sky Riders (also known as Assault on the Forbidden Fortress) is a 1976 American action film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring James Coburn, Susannah York and Robert Culp.[2][3]
The rescue sequences were filmed in Meteora in Greece where the finale of the later James Bond film For Your Eyes Only was also set later in 1981.
High Flight is a 1957, CinemaScope, British, cold war drama film in Technicolor, directed by John Gilling and featuring Ray Milland, Bernard Lee and Leslie Phillips. High Flight was filmed with the co-operation of the Royal Air Force (RAF). The title of the film was derived from the poem of the same title by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., an American aviator who flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and lost his life in 1941 over RAF Cranwell, where much of the film was shot.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American action comedy film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The film stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a bored upper middle class married couple surprised to learn that they are assassins belonging to competing agencies, and that they have been assigned to kill each other. Besides being a box office hit, Mr. & Mrs. Smith also established Pitt and Jolie's relationship.
Escape Plan is a 2013 American prison action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and co-starring Jim Caviezel, 50 Cent, Vinnie Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio and Amy Ryan. It was directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström, and written by Miles Chapman and Jason Keller (under the anagram pen-name 'Arnell Jesko'). The first film to pair up Stallone and Schwarzenegger as co-leads, it follows Stallone's character Ray Breslin, a structural engineer who is incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, aided in his escape by fellow inmate Emil Rottmayer, portrayed by Schwarzenegger. The film is the first installment of the Escape Plan film series. Former prosecutor Ray Breslin co-owns Breslin-Clark, a security firm specializing in testing supermax prisons. Posing as an 'inmate' to study facilities from within and exploit weaknesses to escape, Breslin is driven by the murders of his wife and child by an escaped convict he had successfully prosecuted.
Flood is a 2007 British disaster film, directed by Tony Mitchell. It features Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, David Suchet and Tom Courtenay, and is based on the 2002 novel of the same name by Richard Doyle. A storm surge travels between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, raising sea levels and coinciding with the spring tide. Several parts of Scotland are devastated, including Wick. The Met Office's head forecaster, Keith Hopkins, mistakenly believes the storm will head towards Holland and is guilt-ridden by Deputy Prime Minister Campbell when he critiques the failed forecasts. Professor Leonard Morrison proves that the approaching surge of water will break through the Thames Barrier and flood London in the next three hours. Leonard had focused his life around the belief that the barrier was built in the wrong area, and turned his son Rob into a bitter man.
The Final Countdown is a 1980 alternate history science fiction war film about a modern nuclear-powered super - aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the infamous December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Produced by Peter Vincent Douglas with director, producer, actor and Troma Entertainment founder Lloyd Kaufman and directed by Don Taylor the film contains an ensemble cast with Kirk Douglas as naval warship / aircraft carrier commander, Martin Sheen as a visiting U.S. Defense Department consultant / evaluating efficiency expert as a supporting role, and James Farentino as a naval air squadron chief, Katharine Ross as secretary/aide to a passing U.S. Senator on vacation offshore from Hawaii in 1941, and Charles Durning as the passing by U.S. Senator (1941) in roles of secondary importance.
This was the final film by the director Don Taylor, and one of the last action roles by Kirk Douglas (before suffering a debilitating stroke that impaired his speaking abilities (but not his mind) for the last four decades of his life before he died at age 103, a centenarian in 2020). Kaufman himself served also as an associate producer and also minor acting role.