5.9

Le piège américain

2008, Canada

• Actors: Rémy Girard, Gérard Darmon, Colm Feore, Joe Cobden, Janet Lane, Tony Calabretta, Serge Houde, Dino Tavarone, Jeff Boudreault, Denis Gravereaux, Matthew Boylan, Bill Lake, James Bradford, Manuel Tardis, Philip Riccio, Sean Brison, Jim Adhi Limas, Danny Blanco, William Thurlow, Paulina B. Abarca, Luc Proulx, Andrew Johnston, Larry Day, Annick Desmarais, Kamala Brownrigg, Yuri D. Cervantes, Diana Diaz, Claire Gagnon, Gene Kevin Hames Jr., James Hébert
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Charles Binamé
• Available languages:
  • French French.

It is the mid-1960s. The Cold War is raging. The world is still reeling from the assassination of JFK - but has yet to lose his kid brother Bobby. In the midst of all this, a reluctant hero by the name of Lucien Rivard becomes enmeshed in a web of global political intrigue and corruption. The United States, Russia and France are embroiled in a strategic battle over Third World natural resources. To keep the upper hand, each of their secret services has joined forces with various organized crime factions. Lucien is the go-between, travelling to the casinos of Havana, the night clubs of Dallas, the seedy heroin labs of Marseille, the tropical jungles of Indonesia and the urban jungles of New Orleans and Montreal. As tensions heat up, he becomes a secret weapon for a black ops organization over which he has no control - and an unwitting protagonist as a tragic chain of events begins to unfold before his very eyes.

  6.0

Punisher: War Zone

2007, USA, Canada, Germany

• Actors: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Doug Hutchison, Colin Salmon, Wayne Knight, Dash Mihok, Julie Benz, Stephanie Janusauskas, Mark Camacho, Romano Orzari, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Larry Day, Ron Lea, Tony Calabretta, T.J. Storm, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, David Vadim, John Dunn-Hill, Niko Nikolov, Aubert Pallascio, Francis B. Goldberg, Pat Fry, Robert Harrop, Linda Smith, Lynne De Bel, Bill Hall, Matt Holland, Bjanka Murgel, Brent Skagford, James Murray
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Lexi Alexander
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Frank Castle, the ex-military man whose family was killed by criminals, who became a vigilante known as the Punisher, goes after a whole mob family and gets everyone except enforcer Billy Russoti. He tracks Russoti down and chases him into a vat that is used for crushing bottles. Frank turns on the crusher hoping it would take care of him but it doesn't. He survives but sustains very severe injuries that even with plastic surgery his face looks like a jigsaw puzzle. So he decides to adopt the name Jigsaw. Frank who killed one of Russoti's people who unknown to him is an undercover Fed, decides to pack it in. But when he learns Russoti didn't die and is looking for the money he entrusted to the Fed and will go looking for it at his home which means his family is in danger. So Frank tries to save them. But Russoti wants revenge on Frank so he breaks out his brother who is so crazed that he is committed to an asylum, to deal with him. And also another Fed who's a friend of the man Frank killed wants him too.

  6.3

The Day After Tomorrow

2003, USA

• Actors: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Tamlyn Tomita, Sasha Roiz, Ian Holm, Nassim Sharara, Carl Alacchi, Kenneth Welsh, Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah, Robin Wilcock, Jason Blicker, Kenneth Moskow, Tim Hamaguchi, Glenn Plummer, Adrian Lester, Richard McMillan, Nestor Serrano, Sylvain Landry, Christopher Britton, Vlasta Vrana, Pauline Little, Alan Fawcett, Howard Bilerman, John Maclaren
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Roland Emmerich
• Available languages:
  • English English.

As Paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall was in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has been sheared off. But what he did not know is that this event would trigger a massive climate shift that would effect the world population. Meanwhile, his son, Sam was with friends in New York to attend an event. There they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 weeks, and after a series of weather related disasters that occurred over the world. Everybody soon realizes that the world is going to enter a new ice age, as the rest of the world population tries to evacuate to the warm climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York, who have to survive not only a massive wave, but freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them.

  5.5

No Good Deed

2002, Germany, USA

• Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Doug Hutchison, Joss Ackland, Grace Zabriskie, Jonathan Higgins, Shannon Lawson, Robert Welch, Francis X. McCarthy, Noël Burton, Roberto Blizzard, Shawn Roberts, Terence Bowman, Robert Brewster, Peter Blascke, Jennifer Seguin, Larry Day, Andrew Campbell, Carole B. Thomas, Tony Calabretta, Joris Jarsky, Richard Jutras, John Sanford Moore, Emily VanCamp
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
• Director(s): Bob Rafelson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

About a police detective, Jack, who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend, Erin, is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who we discover is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical cellist. She finds Jack's captivity an irresistible turn-on and he can't figure out if she's for real, or manipulating him, too. Before the gang returns, Jack and Erin's connection intensifies and who ends up with the money is anyone's guess.

  6.5

Heist

2001, Canada, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, Patti LuPone, Alan Bilzerian, Richard L. Friedman, Robert Lussier, Mark Camacho, Michelle Sweeney, Elyzabeth Walling, Mike Tsar, Jim Frangione, Christopher Kaldor, Danny Blanco, Zodia McLean, Andreas Apergis, Tony Calabretta, Ted Whittall, Guy Sprung, Richard Zeman, Don Jordan, Pierre LeBlanc, Richard Robitaille, Greg Goossen, Charles S. Doucet, Bill Rowat, Benz Antoine
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): David Mamet
• Available languages:
  • English English.

David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected.

  5.5

The Art of War

2000, USA, Canada

• Actors: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Biehn, Donald Sutherland, Liliana Komorowska, James Hong, Paul Hopkins, Glen Chin, Ron Yuan, Bonnie Mak, Uni Park, Erin Selby, Fernando Chien, Paul Wu, Noël Burton, Andrew Peplowski, Andrew Nichols, Mike Tsar, Steven P. Park, Yardly Kavanagh, Frank Schorpion, Fred Bessa, Terry Simpson, Tony Calabretta, Fred Lee, Wei Feng Tang, Phong Doan Huy
• Genre: Action, Thriller
• Director(s): Christian Duguay
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.

  6.6

Waking the Dead

2000, USA

• Actors: Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll, Jennifer Connelly, Maxine Guess, Paul Hipp, Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane, Ed Harris, Robert Harding, Janet McTeer, Molly Parker, Larry Marshall, Don Jordan, Caroline Sabourin, Stanley Anderson, Patricia Gage, John Carroll Lynch, Bruce Dinsmore, Mimi Kuzyk, Tony Calabretta, Walter Massey, Norris Domingue, Dean Hagopian, Bernard Behrens, Philip Williams, Sharon Washington, Ranee Lee, Zoe Sakellaropoulo
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Keith Gordon
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician - in 1972 he's serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who devotes her life to helping others - unfortunately she's killed in an explosion while assisting members of the Chilean resistance. Nine years later, in the middle of a congressional election, Fielding is suddenly flooded with thoughts and visions of his lost love.