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V for Vendetta
2005 film directed by James McTeigue
300
2007 film directed by Zack Snyder
The Mask
1994 film directed by Chuck Russell
Sin City
2005 film directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez
Kingsman: The Secret Service
2014 film by Matthew Vaughn
The Crow
1994 superhero film directed by Alex Proyas
Kick-Ass
2010 film directed by Matthew Vaughn
RED
2010 film directed by Robert Schwentke
Hellboy
2004 film directed by Guillermo del Toro
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
2013 film by Abdellatif Kechiche
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2010 film directed by Edgar Wright
The Addams Family
1991 film by Barry Sonnenfeld
Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer () is a 2013 post-apocalyptic action thriller film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film was directed by Bong Joon Ho and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson. An international co-production, the film marks Bong's English-language debut; almost 85% of the film's dialogue is in English.
Wanted
2008 film directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
2017 film directed by Matthew Vaughn
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008 film directed by Guillermo del Toro
Garfield: The Movie
2004 film by Peter Hewitt
The King's Man
2021 film directed by Matthew Vaughn
Casper
1995 American fantasy film directed by Brad Silberling
Judge Dredd
1995 film directed by Danny Cannon
Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 film directed by Luc Besson
A History of Violence
2005 film by David Cronenberg
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
2014 US science fiction/martial arts film directed by Jonathan Liebesman
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003 film directed by Stephen Norrington
Hercules
2014 film directed by Brett Ratner
The Death of Stalin
2017 film directed by Armando Iannucci
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
2006 film directed by Tim Hill
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016 film directed by Dave Green
Kick-Ass 2
2013 film directed by Jeff Wadlow
Red Sonja
1985 film by Richard Fleischer
30 Days of Night
2007 vampire horror film directed by David Slade
Addams Family Values
1993 film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Barbarella
1968 film directed by Roger Vadim
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller
From Hell
2001 film by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
RED 2
2013 film by Dean Parisot
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1990 film directed by Steve Barron
Dick Tracy
1990 film directed by Warren Beatty
Hellboy
2019 film directed by Neil Marshall
2 Guns
2013 film by Baltasar Kormákur
Dredd
Dredd is a 2012 science fiction action film directed by Pete Travis and written and produced by Alex Garland. It is based on the 2000 AD comic strip Judge Dredd and its eponymous character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra. Karl Urban stars as Judge Dredd, a law enforcer given the power of judge, jury, and executioner in a vast, dystopic metropolis called Mega-City One that lies in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Dredd and his rookie partner, Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby), are forced to bring order to a 200-storey high-rise block of apartments and deal with its resident drug lord, Ma-
Timecop
Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action film directed by Peter Hyams and co-written by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden. Richardson also served as executive producer. The film is based on Timecop, a story created by Richardson, written by Verheiden, and drawn by Ron Randall, which appeared in the anthology comic Dark Horse Comics, published by Dark Horse Comics. It is the first installment in the Timecop franchise.
Richie Rich
1994 film directed by Donald Petrie
Atomic Blonde
2017 film by David Leitch
Annie
2014 film directed by Will Gluck
Extraction
2020 film directed by Sam Hargrave
Ghost World
2001 film by Terry Zwigoff
Surrogates
Surrogates is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on the 2005–2006 comic book series The Surrogates. Directed by Jonathan Mostow, it stars Bruce Willis as Tom Greer, an FBI agent who ventures out into the real world to investigate the murder of surrogates (humanoid remote-controlled robots). It also stars Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, Boris Kodjoe, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames.
Flash Gordon
1980 film by Mike Hodges
Popeye
1980 film by Robert Altman
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2010 French fantasy adventure film by Luc Besson
Bullet to the Head
2012 film directed by Walter Hill
Son of the Mask
2005 film by Lawrence Guterman
The Killer
2023 film directed by David Fincher
The Losers
2010 film directed by Sylvain White
Bloodshot
2020 film directed by Dave Wilson
Marry Me
2022 film directed by Kat Coiro
Old
2021 film directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Marmaduke
2010 film directed by Tom Dey
R.I.P.D.
R.I.P.D.: Rest in Peace Department, or simply R.I.P.D., is a 2013 American supernatural action comedy film starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds. The film was directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi based on the 1999 comic book R.I.P.D. by Peter M. Lenkov and Lucas Marangon. The film also stars Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Stéphanie Szostak, and Marisa Miller.