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Rollerball
(1975)
William Harrison (screenplay)
Won 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Ronin
(1998)
J.D. Zeik (story), J.D. Zeik (screenplay), David Mamet (screenplay)
1 win & 4 nominations.
A freelancing former US intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.
R-Point
(2004)
Su-chang Kong, Yeong-woo Pil
1 win.
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead. The high-command assigns the veteran and decorated Lieutenant Choi Tae-in to lead a squad with eight other soldiers and rescue the missing soldiers from the R-Point. When they arrive in the location, they have a shooting and defeat a Vietnamese woman with a machine gun in a trench. Later, they find a tombstone telling that one hundred years ago, Chinese killed Vietnamese, dropped them in a lake and built a temple over the place, being a sacred location to the Vietnamese. While chasing the missing soldiers, weird things happen with the rescue team.
Run All Night
(2015)
Brad Ingelsby
N/A
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he and Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night.
Rush
(2013)
Peter Morgan
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 5 wins & 53 nominations.
Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.
Safe House
(2012)
David Guggenheim
1 win & 7 nominations.
Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA rookie who is manning a safe house in Cape Town, South Africa, when Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) the CIA's most wanted rogue agent is captured and taken to the safe house. During Frost's interrogation, the safe house is overtaken by mercenaries who want Frost. Weston and Frost escape and must stay out of the gunmen's sight until they can get to another safe house.
Saints and Soldiers
(2003)
Geoffrey Panos (story), Matt Whitaker
16 wins & 2 nominations.
After surviving a massacre in Malmedy, a location behind the German army in Europe, four American soldiers with only one weapon rescue the British pilot Oberon Winley (Kirby Heyborn) in a tree and they move together, trying to reach the allied forces and save a great number of allied soldiers from a German attack with the information got by Winley in his flight. While marching, each soldier discloses inner secrets to the rest of the group.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
(2010)
Michael Bacall (screenplay), Edgar Wright (screenplay), Bryan Lee O'Malley (Oni Press graphic novels)
16 wins & 56 nominations.
Scott Pilgrim must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes in order to win her heart.
Sherlock Holmes
(2009)
Michael Robert Johnson (screenplay), Anthony Peckham (screenplay), Simon Kinberg (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 27 nominations.
After finally catching serial killer and occult "sorcerer" Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with his partner's new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the dauntless detective must unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic - and the deadly embrace of temptress Irene Adler.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
(2011)
Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, Arthur Conan Doyle (characters: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson)
3 wins & 11 nominations.
Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) and his longtime trusted associate, Doctor Watson (Jude Law), take on their arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), with the help of Holmes' older brother Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry) and a gypsy named Simza (Noomi Rapace).
Shin Godzilla
(2016)
Hideaki Anno, Sean Whitley (english version)
13 wins & 9 nominations.
An unknown accident occurs in Tokyo Bay's Aqua Line, which causes an emergency cabinet to assemble. All of the sudden, a giant creature immediately appears, destroying town after town with its landing reaching the capital. This mysterious giant monster is named "Godzilla".
Shogun Assassin
(1980)
Robert Houston, Kazuo Koike (screenplay), Kazuo Koike (story), Goseki Kojima, David Weisman, Bobby White (subtitles)
N/A
Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore on his honor to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. The samurai roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun's three Masters of Death.
Shoot 'Em Up
(2007)
Michael Davis
3 nominations.
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Sicario
(2015)
Taylor Sheridan
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 139 nominations.
When drug violence worsens on the USA Mexico border, the FBI sends an idealistic agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) on a mission to eradicate a drug cartel responsible for a bomb that had killed members of her team.
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
(2018)
Taylor Sheridan
1 win & 8 nominations
In this adventure/drama, CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) enlists a mysterious operative to help investigate a Mexican drug cartel that has been smuggling terrorists into the U.S. Things escalate when the daughter of a top kingpin is abducted, forcing Graver and his partner to re-evaluate their mission.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
(2014)
Frank Miller, Frank Miller (graphic novels)
3 wins & 6 nominations.
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Skyline
(2010)
Joshua Cordes, Liam O'Donnell
N/A
Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.
Smokin' Aces
(2006)
Joe Carnahan
4 wins.
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
(2010)
Olatunde Osunsanmi (screenplay), Olumide Odebunmi (screenplay), Tom Abrams (screenplay), P.J. Pesce (screenplay), Olatunde Osunsanmi (story), Olumide Odebunmi (story), Joe Carnahan (story), Joe Carnahan (characters)
N/A
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique method of killing her prey, a power-tool wielding psychopath and a deadly master of disguise.
So Close
(2002)
Jeffrey Lau
2 nominations.
A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.