De Palma's heist: the wire drop into Langley and a train through the Chunnel.
A Comanche hunter against a Predator in 1719; the series at its leanest.
Cruise on the outside of the Burj Khalifa, and the sandstorm chase.
A motorbike off a Norwegian cliff and a train falling into a ravine, carriage by carriage.
Philip Seymour Hoffman as an arms dealer, an ambush on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and a swing between Shanghai rooftops.
A standalone case six years after the series ended, with a psychic ex-priest and bodies under the West Virginia snow.
The Entity story ends with a dive into a sunken submarine and a fight between two biplanes.
A second shark off Amity and a police chief nobody believes twice; the best regarded of the three sequels.
McClane goes to Moscow for his imprisoned son, who turns out to be CIA, and the two end up at Chernobyl.
A coordinated attack shuts down American infrastructure and McClane escorts the programmer who wrote part of the code.
The Wachowskis' first feature: an ex-convict and a mobster's girlfriend plan to take two million dollars of laundered money out from under him.
The stairs at Sacre-Coeur and a duel at dawn; three hours and worth it.
John Woo takes over: free climbing above Utah, a stolen virus and a motorbike duel outside Sydney.
Made between seasons five and six: a bomb in Dallas, a corn field full of domes and a ship under the Antarctic ice.
Hanging off an Airbus at take-off, and an assassination staged at the Vienna opera.
Ellen Brody decides the shark is hunting her family and follows her son to the Bahamas; the worst reviewed film in the series.
A structural engineer has the prison's blueprints tattooed over his body and gets himself sent inside to break his brother out.
A young great white gets inside SeaWorld Orlando and its mother comes after it; shot for cardboard 3-D glasses.
A bomber calling himself Simon walks McClane and a Harlem shopkeeper through riddles while the Federal Reserve is emptied.
Mercenaries seize the control tower at Washington Dulles on Christmas Eve and start bringing aircraft down.
A mute woman runs floating fishing huts and a fugitive arrives; the film that shocked Venice.
A hitman's routine, his mistakes and his internal monologue, to the Smiths.
Jodie Foster and her daughter locked in a safe room with three burglars outside.
A woman released after thirteen years for a murder she did not commit collects her debts.
A man goes to his dead lover's farm and is kept there by the brother.
A brutal debt collector meets a woman claiming to be his mother; the Golden Lion of 2012.
A shooting in the DMZ investigated from both sides; the film that made Park's name in Korea.
A deaf man kidnaps a child to pay for his sister's kidney; the first of the revenge trilogy.
A film director, his trans sister and an obsessive lover; Almodovar's breakthrough in Spain.
Excommunicado in New York, with horses, dogs and a knife-throwing library.
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