Bravery
"bravery" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Red Dawn
Synopsis:
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Starring:
Harry Dean Stanton,
Lea Thompson,
Patrick Swayze
#2
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
#3
Zulu
Synopsis:
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
Starring:
Patrick Magee,
Michael Caine,
Jack Hawkins
#4
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
...
#5
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
#6
We Were Soldiers
Synopsis:
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Starring:
Clark Gregg,
Chris Klein,
Jsu Garcia
Plot:
battle,
soldier,
vietnam war,
helicopter,
reporter,
based on true story,
french soldier,
french military,
wound,
battalion
...
#7
Weird Science
Synopsis:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
Starring:
Bill Paxton,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Anthony Michael Hall
#8
Volcano
Synopsis:
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Starring:
Keith David,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Don Cheadle
#9
The Wages of Fear
Synopsis:
In the South American jungle, supplies of nitroglycerine are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers on the rough remote roads where the slightest jolt can result in death.
Starring:
Yves Montand,
Véra Clouzot,
Charles Vanel
Plot:
oil company,
unemployment,
oil,
risk,
vibration,
explosion,
nitroglycerin,
risk taking,
shifting gears,
mountain road
...
#10
The Poseidon Adventure
Synopsis:
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Starring:
Shelley Winters,
Leslie Nielsen,
Jack Albertson
#11
The Karate Kid
Synopsis:
After some violent confrontations with his new classmates, Daniel LaRusso learns karate from Japanese handyman Mr. Miyagi, in order to defend himself.
Starring:
Elisabeth Shue,
Pat Morita,
Ralph Macchio
Plot:
karate,
teenager,
training,
fight,
paint,
martial arts,
karate student,
bonsai,
newcomer,
master apprentice relationship
...
#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 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
...
#14
The Butterfly Effect
Synopsis:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.
Starring:
Eric Stoltz,
Amy Smart,
Logan Lerman
#15
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Synopsis:
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Starring:
Jack Hawkins,
Alec Guinness,
William Holden
#16
Street Fighter
Synopsis:
Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Wes Studi,
Damian Chapa
#17
Straw Dogs
Synopsis:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexu…
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman,
Susan George,
Peter Vaughan
Plot:
rape,
home invasion,
outsider,
sexual assault,
small town,
sexual violence,
hanged cat,
breasts,
trauma,
rural setting
...
#18
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Synopsis:
A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of the hijacker, it's up to the one cop on vacation, and his soon to be fiancé (hopefully) Annie, to regain control of it before it kills the passengers and causes an environmental disaster. Insurmountable and daunting tasks awaits them on their peril…
Starring:
Willem Dafoe,
Temuera Morrison,
Sandra Bullock
#19
Spaceballs
Synopsis:
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Starring:
Mel Brooks,
Rick Moranis,
Bill Pullman
#20
River of No Return
Synopsis:
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Starring:
Will Wright,
Marilyn Monroe,
Robert Mitchum
Plot:
song,
singer,
indian attack,
dubbed singing,
damsel in distress,
deception,
saloon girl,
tent city,
greed,
prospector
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