Jon Gries
1) Taken 3
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Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
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"Napoleon Dynamite is a new kind of hero, complete with a tight 'fro, sweet moon boots, and skills that can't be topped. Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his brother Kip and avoiding his scheming Uncle Rico. When two new friends enter Napoleon's life -- shy Deb and mustachioed Pedro -- the trio launches a campaign to elect Pedro for class president and make the student body's wildest dreams come true. But if Pedro...
3) Taken 2
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Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
4) Taken
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Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan...
5) The rundown
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Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the U.S. until...
6) Endgame
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Since he was five years old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose finds himself in the spotlight and has the chance to use his skills as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals.
7) Stick it
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Haley Graham is a rebellious ex-gymnast-turned-juvenile delinquent who is forced to enroll at an elite gymnastics academy, the VGA in Houston, Texas. The facility is run by the legendary Olympic gymnast Burt Vickerman. But Haley is not welcomed into the academy by the other gymnasts who despise her for walking out on her Junior Olympic team years earlier during a competition, costing them the gold medal. Vickerman takes it upon himself to coach Haley...
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When a plane carrying Charlie Halliday and a sick, Inuit woman, Kanaalay, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst. While serarch parties try to locate the plance, Charlie decides to trek overland promising the woman he will return with help. Despite her sickness, she follows Charlie. Kanaalay teaches him the skills he will need in order to survive and he comes to respect her wisdom and her spirit.
9) Taken
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Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex-CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan...
10) Stick it
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A comedy filled with twists and turns that puts the competitive world of gymnastics on its head.
Talented but rebellious Haley Graham walked out on the gymnastics championships two years before but after a run-in with the law is forced to return to the rigid rules and a hard-nosed coach.
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Teenage girls are mysteriously disappearing in the small town of Goshen, Indiana. No one seems to care. After revealing to her best friend Sarah that she has been meeting men online, Jillian goes missing. Now, the only clues to her whereabouts are her diary and a cryptic video message that has been sent from her cell phone.
13) Good intentions
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Meet Etta Milford. Loving wife. Doting mother. Armed robber. With their savings gone, her husband suspicious, and their children out of control, she concocts a scheme to get back their money and save her family. There are just a few things she has to do first, including blackmailing the sheriff, holding up the grocery store, and getting some much-needed advice from the stripper at the Shangri-la.
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Martin is a brash radio personality who always speaks his mind, often to the frustration of his long-suffering girl friend Gina. His buddies Tommy and Cole are always on hand to lend support, especially when Martin locks horns with Pam, his girl friend's co-worker. Of course, there's always Martin's overprotective mother and his next door neighbors.
15) A true story
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Matt and Mike are two broke Hollywood writing partners and best friends, waiting for their big break. When Mike's bombshell, man-eating ex-girlfriend comes back into his life, Matt will do anything to save his only friend from another broken heart, including jeopardizing their friendship and dreams of Hollywood success.
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Features two comedy-horror films from the mid-1980s: TerrorVision and The Video Dead. In TerrorVision, a family receives a new satellite TV system that beams signals from an alien planet. The aliens use the signal to get rid of their garbage, but trouble arrives on Earth when the signal sends a human-eating garbage monster! In The Video Dead, teenagers Jeff and Zoe must avert crisis when their TV starts spewing zombies into the world of the living!...
17) The pretender
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The pretender 2001: Picking up where the television series left off, this movie features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally escaped from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow pretender from his past.
The pretender, the island of the haunted: Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about...
18) Kill me again
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A down-and-out private eye is hired by a sexy femme fatale who seduces him, double crosses him, and sets him up for trouble with the law, her ex-boyfriend, and the mob.
19) Bad turn worse
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After a weekend of partying with stolen money, three Texas teens find themselves indebted to a sociopathic criminal named Giff. To pay their debt, Giff forces the teens to steal from his boss, a money-laundering gangster named Big Red. Things go from bad to worse when betrayal, distrust, and corruption complicate an already dangerous plan.
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Henry Heath, a grieving lawman whose daughter has recently died, is assigned custody of the ghoulish Jean Baptiste, a notorious robber of 300 graves. Against the perilous Utah desert terrain, the contempt of an entire community, and his own prejudice, Heath must somehow keep a marked man alive.