Kiefer Sutherland
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after the murder of his wife, Jack Bauer is estranged from his daughter, Kim and no longer works for the CIA's Los Angeles Counter Terrorit Unit. But, a phone call from the President of the United States sends a reluctant Jack back to CT"U for a briefing. There the head of CTU secretly tells him about a terrorist plot involving the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles within the net 24 hours. Although hesistant to get involved,...
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been three years since CTU agent, Jack Bauer thwarted a terrorist attempt to plunge the United States into war. Now he's back in L.A. after working undercover for six months bringing down drug lord Ramon Salazar. But then the FBI receives a phone call threatening the release of a deadly virus in Los Angeles if Salazar isn't released from prison within six hours. As CTU races to locate the virus, Jack realizes that the only way to prevent additional...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Although fired from CTU, Jack Bauer is thrust back into action after a deadly terrorist strike and the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense. But it's soon apparent that the kidnapping is part of a much larger plan, for every time Jack thinks he's averted disaster, a new and more ominous plot is uncovered. As CTU races to figure out the terrorists' true objective, it becomes clear that the events of the day have been years in...
5) The wild
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When a lion on display at a New York City zoo is separated from his son, he enlists his fellow zoo animals and goes on a quest to bring him back.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Based on actual events that happened during World War II when 61,000 Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to build the Thailand-Burma Railway - better known to the soldiers as the "Railway of Death". This is the story of a Scottish regiment forced to help construct the infamous railway and how they had to fight to survive and ultimately forgive their brutal captors.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Susan, B.O.B., the Missing Link, and Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D., are back as special operatives dispatched to investigate a mysterious alien presence on Halloween. As the night unravels the innocent-looking pumpkins are revealed for what they really are: mutant aliens! Luckily the monsters are there to smash the mutants' wicked scheme to take over Earth.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The plan was simple enough. Crash a big drug deal. Hold up the boss. Make off with the cash. Simple enough ... until an undercover cop takes a fatal bullet. Now four small-time crooks are on the run -- with a suitcase full of cocaine, two yuppie hostages, and too many secrets to keep.
9) Pompeii
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
10) The sentinel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An innocent Secret Service agent who flunks a lie detector test about an imminent presidential assassination goes on the run, bringing two relentless federal investigators on his trail.
11) The Contractor
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a special forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
12) Beat
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of some of the most influential writers of the Beat generation", focusing especially on William Burroughs and his common-law wife Joan Vollmer -- Container.
13) Dark city
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When John Murdoch awakens in a strange hotel room, he finds that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The problem is he can't remember a thing. Pursued by the police and haunted by the Strangers, mysterious beings who possess the ability to stop time and alter reality, he seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. But in a city where reality is the ultimate illusion, discovering the truth could be fatal.
14) 24: Season five
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination.
15) River queen
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An Irish woman is caught in the middle of the war between the British and the Maori during the colonization of New Zealand in the 1860s.
16) A few good men
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
17) Mirrors
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A disgraced former cop takes a routine job guarding the charred ruins of a once-famous department store (which had once been a psychiatric hospital). But the terrifying images he sees in the store's ornate mirrors will send him on a pulse-pounding mission to unravel the secrets of the building's past--before they destroy his entire life!
18) 24: Season one
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Bauer, head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, is thrust into a 24-hour marathon of death, deception and terror as he struggles to prevent the assassination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Susan Murphy gets turned into a giant monster on her wedding day when a meteorite from outer space hits her. She is taken to a secret government compound where she meets a ragtag group of monsters also rounded up over the years. As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger, on a desperate order from The President, the motley group of Monsters are called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The replacement killers (1998, extended cut, 96 min.): After he betrays Mr. Wei, the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son's death, professional killer John Lee goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of beautiful document forger Meg Coburn, Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are victimized by his betrayal. But Wei's army of replacement killers is hot on his trail and now both he and Meg are targets of their impressive...