Jan de Bont
1) Speed
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A mad bomber takes revenge against the police for a thwarted extortion attempt by putting a bomb on a Los Angeles city bus which will explode if it slows to under 50 mph.
Series
Language
English
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Description
A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius too.
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Archaeologist and explorer extrodinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on Pandora's...
5) Flatliners
Language
English
Description
An ambitious, charismatic medical student persuades two classmates to take part in an experiment to determine if there is life after death. Their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive, they haven't come back alone.
7) Twister
Language
English
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Description
A scientist is determined to discover a better way of predicting tornadoes with a device that shoots thousands of little trackers into the eye of the storm. Trouble is, getting it there is very dangerous.
8) Speed
Language
English
Description
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour--or the bomb will explode.
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
"Lara Croft, tomb raider": Archaeologist and explorer extraordinaire Lara Croft goes on a death-defying journey that leads her to her greatest challeng: The Triangle of Light. "Lara Croft, tomb raider: the cradle of life": Lara faces her most perilous mission: to recover what ancient civilizations eblieved to be the essence of all evil, Pandora's Box.
10) The haunting
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A professor lures three subjects to a mysterious mansion for an experiment which turns into a nightmare as the secrets of Hill House are revealed in this supernatural thriller.
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist and explorer extraordinaire Lara Croft journeys to a temple, in Greece, sunken underwater that leads to a sphere that contains the mythical Pandora's Box, only to have it stolen from her by Chen Lo, the leader of a Chinese crime syndicate, who's in league with a villain named Reiss who wants to use the Box as a doomsday weapon. Facing her greatest challenges yet, the intrepid tomb raider pursues Lo, in order to get her hands back on...
12) Equilibrium
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which prevents emotions. But a law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes "sense offenders" one day fails to take his drug, and for the first time begins experiencing emotions...