A young great white gets inside SeaWorld Orlando and its mother comes after it; shot for cardboard 3-D glasses.
John Woo takes over: free climbing above Utah, a stolen virus and a motorbike duel outside Sydney.
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.
Made between seasons five and six: a bomb in Dallas, a corn field full of domes and a ship under the Antarctic ice.
A second shark off Amity and a police chief nobody believes twice; the best regarded of the three sequels.
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.
The stairs at Sacre-Coeur and a duel at dawn; three hours and worth it.
A bomber calling himself Simon walks McClane and a Harlem shopkeeper through riddles while the Federal Reserve is emptied.
The Entity story ends with a dive into a sunken submarine and a fight between two biplanes.
A structural engineer has the prison's blueprints tattooed over his body and gets himself sent inside to break his brother out.
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.
A standalone case six years after the series ended, with a psychic ex-priest and bodies under the West Virginia snow.
Mercenaries seize the control tower at Washington Dulles on Christmas Eve and start bringing aircraft down.
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.
Cruise on the outside of the Burj Khalifa, and the sandstorm chase.
A retired bullfighter and a lawyer share a taste for killing; Banderas early.
A deaf man kidnaps a child to pay for his sister's kidney; the first of the revenge trilogy.
A hitman's routine, his mistakes and his internal monologue, to the Smiths.
They killed his dog. Eighty-one bodies and a new action grammar.
The Continental's rules, a marker called in and a hall of mirrors in Rome.
Jodie Foster and her daughter locked in a safe room with three burglars outside.
A brutal debt collector meets a woman claiming to be his mother; the Golden Lion of 2012.
Fincher's Lisbeth Salander, with a Reznor score and the coldest Sweden on film.
A woman released after thirteen years for a murder she did not commit collects her debts.
A film director, his trans sister and an obsessive lover; Almodovar's breakthrough in Spain.
A convict is sent back to find the virus that emptied the world; Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.
A shooting binds five lives across twenty years of Spain.
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