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Total Recall
(2012)
Kurt Wimmer (screenplay), Mark Bomback (screenplay), Ronald Shusett (screen story by), Dan O'Bannon (screen story by), Jon Povill (screen story by)
1 win & 5 nominations.
A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
Total Recall
(1990)
Philip K. Dick (short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"), Ronald Shusett (screenplay), Dan O'Bannon (screenplay), Gary Goldman (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 14 nominations.
Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.
TRON: Legacy
(2010)
Edward Kitsis (screenplay), Adam Horowitz (screenplay), Edward Kitsis (story), Adam Horowitz (story), Brian Klugman (story), Lee Sternthal (story), Steven Lisberger (characters), Bonnie MacBird (characters)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 45 nominations.
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 20 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. Meanwhile, the malevolent program CLU, who dominates the digital world, plans to invade the real world and will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.
Tropic Thunder
(2008)
Justin Theroux (screenplay), Ben Stiller (screenplay), Etan Cohen (screenplay), Ben Stiller (story), Justin Theroux (story)
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 10 wins & 37 nominations.
Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
Underworld
(2003)
Kevin Grevioux (story), Len Wiseman (story), Danny McBride (story), Danny McBride (screenplay)
1 win & 8 nominations.
A war has been raging between the Vampires and Lycan for centuries, Selene (Beckinsale) is a death dealer, assigned to hunt down and eradicate the last of the Lycan. When she comes across Michael Corvin (Speedman) who holds the key to end the war she must decide where her allegiances will lie.
Underworld: Evolution
(2006)
Danny McBride (screenplay), Len Wiseman (story), Danny McBride (story), Kevin Grevioux (characters), Len Wiseman (characters), Danny McBride (characters)
2 wins & 6 nominations.
Underworld: Evolution continues the saga of war between the vampires and the Lycans. The film goes back to the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes as Selene, the beautiful vampire heroine, and Michael, the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. This will be a modern tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love, which takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution.
Unknown
(2011)
Oliver Butcher (screenplay), Stephen Cornwell (screenplay), Didier Van Cauwelaert (novel)
3 nominations.
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
V for Vendetta
(2005)
Lilly Wachowski (screenplay), Lana Wachowski (screenplay), David Lloyd (graphic novel art)
7 wins & 27 nominations.
In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.
Vantage Point
(2008)
Barry L. Levy
2 wins & 2 nominations.
The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?
Versus
(2000)
Ryûhei Kitamura, Yudai Yamaguchi
1 win.
Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.
Vertical Limit
(2000)
Robert King (story), Robert King (screenplay), Terry Hayes (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations.
A climber must rescue his sister on top of K2, one of the world's biggest mountains.
Violent Cop
(1989)
Hisashi Nozawa (original writer)
3 wins & 1 nomination.
A violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.
Wanted
(2008)
Michael Brandt (screenplay), Derek Haas (screenplay), Chris Morgan (screenplay), Michael Brandt (story), Derek Haas (story), Mark Millar (comic book series), J.G. Jones (comic book series)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 19 nominations.
A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.
Watchmen
(2009)
David Hayter (screenplay), Alex Tse (screenplay), Dave Gibbons (graphic novel illustrator)
12 wins & 20 nominations.
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.
Welcome to the Punch
(2013)
Eran Creevy
1 win.
When a notorious criminal is forced to return to London, it gives a detective one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Wild Card
(2015)
William Goldman (screenplay), William Goldman (novel)
N/A
Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing.
World War Z
(2013)
Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay), Drew Goddard (screenplay), Damon Lindelof (screenplay), Matthew Michael Carnahan (screen story), J. Michael Straczynski (screen story), Max Brooks (based on the novel by)
3 wins & 21 nominations.
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
xXx
(2002)
Rich Wilkes
4 wins & 13 nominations.
An extreme sports athlete, Xander Cage, is recruited by the government on a special mission.
Yakuza Apocalypse
(2015)
Yoshitaka Yamaguchi (screenplay)
1 nomination.
In the ruthless underground world of the yakuza, no one is more legendary than boss Kamiura. Rumored to be invincible, the truth is he is a vampire-a bloodsucking yakuza vampire boss! Among Kamiura's gang is Kageyama, his most loyal underling. However, the others in the gang view Kageyama with disdain and ridicule him for his inability to get tattooed due to sensitive skin. One day, assassins aware of boss Kamiura's secret arrive from abroad and deliver him an ultimatum: Return to the international syndicate he left years ago, or die. Kamiura refuses and, during a fierce battle with anime-otaku martial-arts expert Kyoken, is torn limb from limb. With his dying breath, Kamiura bites Kageyama, passing on his vampire powers to the unsuspecting yakuza. As he begins to awaken to his newfound abilities, Kageyama's desire to avenge the murder of boss Kamiura sets him on a course for a violent confrontation with Kaeru-kun, the foreign syndicate's mysterious and seemingly unstoppable leader!