Showdown
"showdown" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Inferno
Synopsis:
Eddie Lomax (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a drifter who has been in a suicidal funk since the death of his close friend Johnny (Danny Trejo). Riding his motorcycle into a small desert town where Johnny once lived, Lomax is confronted by a gang of toughs, who beat him and steal his bike. However, Lomax is not a man to take an injustice lying down, and soon he begins exacting a violent revenge on the …
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Jaime Pressly,
Danny Trejo
Plot:
male nudity,
nudity,
female nudity,
sex,
disembowelment,
gun,
man wrapped in a towel,
psychotronic film,
old man,
boobs
...
#2
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Synopsis:
Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
Starring:
Cary Elwes,
Eddie Marsan,
Aubrey Plaza
Plot:
spy,
undercover,
woman in a red dress,
red lips,
black comedy,
terrorist,
terrorism,
terrorist plot,
profanity,
vulgarity
...
#3
AKA
Synopsis:
A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss' young son.
Starring:
Sveva Alviti,
Eric Cantona,
Thibault de Montalembert
#4
Iron Man: Rise of Technovore
Synopsis:
Iron Man enlists the help of ruthless vigilante the Punisher to track down War Machine's murderer. All the while, he's being pursued by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Black Widow and Hawkeye, who suspect his involvement in a recent terrorist plot.
Starring:
Miyu Irino,
Miyuki Sawashiro,
Junko Minagawa
#5
The Mother
Synopsis:
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Starring:
Jennifer Lopez,
Omari Hardwick,
Gael García Bernal
Plot:
female protagonist,
assassin,
daughter,
danger,
fight,
one person army action,
children,
child,
escape,
martial arts action
...
#6
Ghosted
Synopsis:
Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie — but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world.
Starring:
Adrien Brody,
Marwan Kenzari,
Lizze Broadway
Plot:
shot in the head,
cactus,
gun,
shooting,
shot in head,
shot in chest,
girls with guns,
automatic rifle,
automatic pistol,
handgun
...
#7
You Only Live Twice
Synopsis:
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Starring:
Sean Connery,
Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell
#8
Yojimbo
Synopsis:
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and un…
Starring:
Eijirô Tôno,
Takashi Shimura,
Tatsuya Nakadai
Plot:
samurai,
gang war,
tough guy,
revolver,
bodyguard,
small town,
captive woman,
mother son reunion,
rivalry,
ronin
...
#9
X-Men
Synopsis:
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Starring:
James Marsden,
Ray Park,
Ian McKellen
#10
Winchester '73
Synopsis:
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps changing hands and touching a number of lives.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Shelley Winters,
John McIntire
#11
Willow
Synopsis:
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
Starring:
Val Kilmer,
Phil Fondacaro,
Warwick Davis
Plot:
baby,
prophecy,
journey,
little person,
magic,
chase,
showdown,
battle,
talking animal,
reluctant hero
...
#12
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
#13
West Side Story
Synopsis:
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, a gang of Polish-American teenagers called the Jets compete with a rival gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, the Sharks, to "own" the neighborhood streets. Tensions are high between the gangs but two kids, one from each rival gang, fall in love leading to tragedy.
Starring:
Rita Moreno,
Simon Oakland,
Ned Glass
#14
Wasabi
Synopsis:
Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.
Starring:
Jean Reno,
Carole Bouquet,
Yoshi Oida
Plot:
frenchman abroad,
hit with a golf ball,
dinner date,
will,
video arcade,
facial scar,
stadium,
sidekick,
kyoto japan,
wasabi
...
#15
Walking Tall
Synopsis:
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
Starring:
Ashley Scott,
Neal McDonough,
Dwayne Johnson
Plot:
pole dancing,
stripper,
hixploitation,
weapon,
broken bone,
knee injury,
slot machine,
memory,
good memory,
childhood memory
...
#16
Wait Until Dark
Synopsis:
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threate…
Starring:
Robby Benson,
Alan Arkin,
Richard Crenna
Plot:
apartment,
panic,
blind woman,
heroin,
doll,
blindness,
murder,
blind protagonist,
surveillance,
husband wife relationship
...
#17
U.S. Marshals
Synopsis:
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Joe Pantoliano
#18
Universal Soldier
Synopsis:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Jerry Orbach,
Dolph Lundgren
Plot:
soldier,
reporter,
scientist,
super soldier,
top secret,
female reporter,
vietnam war,
severed ear,
flashback,
vietnam
...
#19
Unforgiven
Synopsis:
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Morgan Freeman,
Frances Fisher
#20
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