Bill Paxton
1) Nightcrawler
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A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
2) Haywire
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After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead, by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary.
3) True lies
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Harry Tasker is a top spy for the ultra-secret Omega Sector, but his wife thinks he's just a boring computer salesman. Then his two lives collide when he and his wife find themselves kidnapped by international terrorists.
4) Aliens
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Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.
5) Tombstone
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.
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In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah Connor protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
7) Trespass
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Shout select volume 24
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English
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When two firefighters looking through the rubble of a fire discover a map leading to stolen gold, they set out to find the treasure in an abandoned apartment building occupied by a vicious gang.
8) Next of kin
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Truman Gates, a cop from Appalachia, hunts for his brother's killers in Chicago.
9) Near dark
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"Country boy Caleb Colton (Adian Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls--but when he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted. Mae is no ordinary girl, Caleb soon learns; she is part of an outlaw band of vampires, and their love is about to lure him into a terrifying world of bloodlust, mayhem and absolute horror. Will Caleb pay the ultimate price for love and eternal...
10) The terminator
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In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
11) Frailty
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The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons". Now, years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death.
12) Alien quadrilogy
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English
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Includes 2-disc versions of: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, plus a bonus disc loaded with special features. Includes the original theatrical versions and the extended cuts of each Alien film.
13) Predator 2
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English
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The deadly invisible Predator is unleashed in another jungle, the urban jungle of Los Angeles. A police lieutenant mistakenly concludes that mangled bodies found by the police are the work of feuding gangs. Instead, he finds himself confronting a savage alien who has come from a distant world to hunt humans for sport.
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After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead, by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. Special features included.
15) Trespass (DVD)
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Two firemen find a map that leads to stolen gold in an abandoned factory. The factory is in the turf of a local gang and the firemen witness a shooting. The gang spots them and they argue about how to get rid of the trespassers.
16) One false move
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Criterion collection volume 1187
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English
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A small-town police chief concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman caught in the middle.
17) Resistance
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When American fighter pilot Ted is shot down on a reconnaissance mission over occupied Belgium, local underground members hide him in a secret room belonging to a resistance leader and his wife. As she nurses the injured pilot back to health, the two slowly fall in love, But when the affair is uncovered, a shocking act of betrayal threatens them and the resistance movement, forcing the officer to make a choice that will change their lives - and the...
18) Aliens (Blu-ray)
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Ripley returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story about the Alien encounter is met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of high-tech marines back to LV-426; and this time it's war! Bonus features included.
19) One false move
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After two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state, their beautiful accomplice unwittingly leads them into a trap.