Cannon
"cannon" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Last Sentinel
Synopsis:
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived and as the empty weeks turn to months, paranoia descends, testing relationships to breaking point...
Starring:
Kate Bosworth,
Thomas Kretschmann,
Lucien Laviscount
#2
Windtalkers
Synopsis:
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Nicolas Cage,
Peter Stormare
Plot:
navajo indian,
year 1944,
saipan,
military,
japanese army,
japanese soldier,
arizona,
tortoise,
semper fi,
bigotry
...
#3
Wild Wild West
Synopsis:
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President U.S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.
Starring:
Will Smith,
Kenneth Branagh,
Kevin Kline
#4
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Synopsis:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Christopher Lloyd,
Charles Fleischer
#5
Under Siege
Synopsis:
Disgruntled ex-CIA operative Strannix, his assistant Krill and their group of terrorists seize the battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback -- an error that could be fatal.
Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones,
Raymond Cruz,
Erika Eleniak
#6
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Synopsis:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Jeff Bridges
#7
The Patriot
Synopsis:
After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.
Starring:
Joely Richardson,
Jason Isaacs,
Mel Gibson
#8
The Man in the Iron Mask
Synopsis:
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Starring:
Hugh Laurie,
Jeremy Irons,
John Malkovich
Plot:
17th century,
france,
twin,
musketeer,
three musketeers,
two brothers,
outnumbered,
death scene,
twin brothers,
masquerade ball
...
#9
The Longest Day
Synopsis:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Starring:
Arletty,
Jean-Louis Barrault,
Richard Burton
#10
The Leopard
Synopsis:
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comf…
Starring:
Pierre Clémenti,
Claudia Cardinale,
Burt Lancaster
Plot:
prince,
1860s,
sicily,
aristocracy,
19th century,
battle,
nobility,
revolution,
palermo italy,
social change
...
#11
The Last of the Mohicans
Synopsis:
In war-torn Colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, Cora Munro, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers, including Hawkeye, a rugged frontiersman and the adopted son of the Mohicans comes to their rescue. A passionate roma…
Starring:
Wes Studi,
Russell Means,
Steven Waddington
#12
The Guns of Navarone
Synopsis:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Starring:
Richard Harris,
David Niven,
Gregory Peck
Plot:
blockbuster,
tied to chair,
strapped to a chair,
behind enemy lines,
island,
nazi,
german,
german soldier,
traitor,
greek
...
#13
The Great Dictator
Synopsis:
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Starring:
Billy Gilbert,
Charlie Chaplin,
Paulette Goddard
#14
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Synopsis:
While the Civil War rages on, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Aldo Giuffrè,
Luigi Pistilli
#15
The General
Synopsis:
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Starring:
Buster Keaton,
Joe Keaton,
Marion Mack
Plot:
train,
confederate army,
national film registry,
army,
spy,
rescue,
escape,
civil war,
soldier,
union army
...
#16
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Synopsis:
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
Starring:
Ronald Lacey,
Roman Polanski,
Jack MacGowran
Plot:
vampire,
vampire hunter,
vampire slayer,
castle,
transylvania,
bat,
gothic horror,
cult film,
undead,
lechery
...
#17
The Empire Strikes Back
Synopsis:
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Starring:
Billy Dee Williams,
Harrison Ford,
Mark Hamill
#18
The Dirty Dozen
Synopsis:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Starring:
Richard Jaeckel,
George Kennedy,
Jim Brown
#19
The Beguiled
Synopsis:
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Melody Thomas Scott,
Pamelyn Ferdin
#20
The Alamo
Synopsis:
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Starring:
Ken Curtis,
John Wayne,
Laurence Harvey
Plot:
dynamite,
cannon,
siege,
epic,
explosion,
battle,
courage,
battle of the alamo,
texas revolution,
year 1836
...