Machete
"machete" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Badland Hunters
Synopsis:
After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.
Starring:
Ma Dong-seok,
Jang Young-nam,
Ahn Ji-hye
Plot:
disaster,
post apocalypse,
apocalypse,
earthquake,
wasteland,
violence,
disaster action,
hunter,
doctor,
sequel
...
#2
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
Synopsis:
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
Starring:
Denzel Whitaker,
Laya DeLeon Hayes,
Chad L. Coleman
#3
The Wrath of Becky
Synopsis:
Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, 16-year-old Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman -- a kindred spirit named Elena. However, when a violent group known as the Noble Men break into their home, attack them and take their beloved dog, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones.
Starring:
Seann William Scott,
Lulu Wilson,
Courtney Gains
#4
The Wild Bunch
Synopsis:
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Starring:
L. Q. Jones,
Robert Ryan,
Ernest Borgnine
#5
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Synopsis:
Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
Starring:
Walter Huston,
Humphrey Bogart,
Bruce Bennett
Plot:
mexico,
gold,
sierra madre mountains,
greed,
mining,
paranoia,
desert,
national film registry,
afi,
year 1925
...
#6
The Rundown
Synopsis:
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Starring:
Seann William Scott,
Ewen Bremner,
Dwayne Johnson
Plot:
jungle,
bounty hunter,
brazil,
gold mine,
buddy,
tough guy,
surprise ending,
punch into the camera,
strip mine,
exploitation
...
#7
The Professionals
Synopsis:
An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Starring:
Jack Palance,
Ralph Bellamy,
Claudia Cardinale
Plot:
ammunition belt,
buxom,
breasts,
mexico,
mexican revolution,
ammo belt,
cartridge belt,
female feet,
barefoot woman,
train
...
#8
The Omega Man
Synopsis:
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Starring:
Charlton Heston,
Anthony Zerbe,
Brian Tochi
Plot:
plague,
post apocalypse,
based on novel,
global pandemic,
antidote,
albino,
dystopia,
mutant,
survival,
last man on earth
...
#9
The Magnificent Seven
Synopsis:
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Starring:
Horst Buchholz,
James Coburn,
Yul Brynner
#10
The Last House on the Left
Synopsis:
Two teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.
Starring:
Jeramie Rain,
Sandra Peabody,
Lucy Grantham
#11
Small Soldiers
Synopsis:
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
Starring:
Denis Leary,
David Cross,
Kirsten Dunst
#12
Romancing the Stone
Synopsis:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Starring:
Danny DeVito,
Michael Douglas,
Holland Taylor
Plot:
colombia,
treasure map,
romance novelist,
rescue mission,
emerald,
american abroad,
woman in jeopardy,
publisher,
love,
bus
...
#13
Papillon
Synopsis:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman,
Anthony Zerbe,
Steve McQueen
#14
Octopussy
Synopsis:
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Starring:
Steven Berkoff,
Roger Moore,
Louis Jourdan
Plot:
time bomb,
agent,
faberge egg,
circus,
india,
race against time,
official bond film,
secret agent,
cold war,
007
...
#15
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Synopsis:
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Starring:
Nick Moran,
Jason Statham,
Dexter Fletcher
Plot:
gangster,
dark comedy,
violence,
united kingdom,
shotgun,
money,
gang,
debt,
drugs,
drug dealer
...
#16
Live and Let Die
Synopsis:
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Starring:
Yaphet Kotto,
Bernard Lee,
Lois Maxwell
#17
Licence to Kill
Synopsis:
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
Starring:
Anthony Starke,
Robert Davi,
Benicio del Toro
#18
House of Flying Daggers
Synopsis:
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Starring:
Zhang Ziyi,
Andy Lau,
Takeshi Kaneshiro
#19
Hotel Rwanda
Synopsis:
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Starring:
Jean Reno,
Sophie Okonedo,
Nick Nolte
Plot:
rwanda,
brutality,
hatred,
mass killing,
hotel,
atrocity,
heap of corpses,
war criminal,
ethnic warfare,
cruelty
...
#20
George of the Jungle
Synopsis:
Deep in the African jungle, a baby named George, the sole survivor of a plane crash, is raised by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rain forest full of animal friends: Tookie, his big-beaked toucan messenger; Ape, a witty talking gorilla; and Shep, a peanut-loving pooch of an elephant. But when poachers mess with George's pals, the King Of Swing swings into action.
Starring:
Leslie Mann,
John Cleese,
Holland Taylor