Dreamcatcher (2003)

Hook (1991)

Summary: When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Release Date: December 11, 1991

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: J.M. Barrie

, James V. Hart

, Nick Castle

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: G

Production: Amblin Entertainment, TriStar Pictures, Allied Stars Ltd.

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, ABC Family, BYUtv, Discovery Family Channel, Disney Channel, Freeform, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 70,000,000

Domestic: $ 119,654,823

International: $ 181,200,000

Suicide Squad (2016)

Summary: A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse.

Release Date: August 05, 2016

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: David Ayer

Writers: David Ayer

, John Ostrander

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Atlas Entertainment, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, Warner Bros., DC Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, HBO Max, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: DC Extended Universe

Movie budget: $ 175,000,000

Domestic: $ 325,100,054

International: $ 424,100,000

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Summary: In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?

Release Date: March 02, 1990

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Director: John McTiernan

Writers: Tom Clancy

, Larry Ferguson

, Donald E. Stewart

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Mace Neufeld Productions, Nina Saxon Film Design

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Philips

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Jack Ryan

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 122,012,643

International: $ 78,500,000

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

Summary: The "universal soldiers" must fight the whole army, when the military's supercomputer S.E.T.H gets out of control.

Release Date: August 20, 1999

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Director: Mic Rodgers

Writers: Richard Rothstein

, Christopher Leitch

, Dean Devlin

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: TriStar Pictures, Baumgarten-Prophet Entertainment, IndieProd Company Productions, Long Road Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Universal Soldier

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,667,893

John Carter (2012)

Summary: A war-weary former army captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions.

Release Date: March 09, 2012

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Andrew Stanton

Writers: Andrew Stanton

, Mark Andrews

, Michael Chabon

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Prana Studios

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Zavvi Entertainment Group, Disney+, Nickelodeon Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000,000

Domestic: $ 73,078,100

International: $ 211,061,000

Jungle (2017)

Summary: A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.

Release Date: October 20, 2017

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography

Director: Greg McLean

Writers: Yossi Ghinsberg

, Justin Monjo

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Babber Films, Cutting Edge Group, Screen Australia

Distributor: Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: Australia, United Kingdom

Language: English

Vanguard (2020)

Summary: Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.

Release Date: November 20, 2020

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Stanley Tong

Writers: Stanley Tong

, Tiffany Tong

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: China Film (Shanghai) International Media Co., China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Epitome Capital, Epitome, Shenzhen Media Film & Television, Tencent Pictures

Distributor: Discovery Force Channel, Gravitas Ventures, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 793,525

International: $ 50,073,376

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

Summary: The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.

Release Date: July 02, 2003

Genres: Adventure, Family, Animation

Directors: Patrick Gilmore

, Tim Johnson

Writer: John Logan

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: G

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, DreamWorks Animation

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Pictures

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,483,452

International: $ 54,289,625

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Summary: Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Release Date: May 20, 2011

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Rob Marshall

Writers: Ted Elliott

, Terry Rossio

, Stuart Beattie

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Moving Picture Company (MPC)

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, ABC Family, Hotstar, Disney+

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000,000

Domestic: $ 241,071,802

International: $ 805,649,464

The Darkest Minds (2018)

Summary: After a disease kills 98% of children, the survivors develop powers and are declared a threat. 16-year-old Ruby, escapes the government facility and joins a group of rebel teenagers ready to fight the government forces out to get ...

Release Date: August 03, 2018

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Writers: Chad Hodge

, Alexandra Bracken

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: 21 Laps Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 34,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,695,691

International: $ 28,446,688

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Underwater (2020)

Summary: A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Release Date: January 10, 2020

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: William Eubank

Writers: Brian Duffield

, Adam Cozad

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Chernin Entertainment, TSG Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,291,078

International: $ 23,591,850

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Tears of the Sun (2003)

Summary: A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.

Release Date: March 07, 2003

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Writers: Alex Lasker

, Patrick Cirillo

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cheyenne Enterprises, Michael Lobell Productions, Revolution Studios

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 75,000,000

Domestic: $ 43,734,876

International: $ 42,733,286

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Rollerball (1975)

Summary: In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

Release Date: June 25, 1975

Genres: Action, Sport, Sci-Fi

Director: Norman Jewison

Writer: William Harrison

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Algonquin, United Artists

Distributor: CBS, VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Twilight Time, Scorpion Releasing, Scream Factory

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Red Riding Hood (2011)

Summary: Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure.

Release Date: March 11, 2011

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Writer: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Appian Way

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 42,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,662,162

International: $ 52,598,214

Firestarter (1984)

Summary: A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.

Release Date: May 11, 1984

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Mark L. Lester

Writers: Stephen King

, Stanley Mann

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures, WGN, MCA/Universal Home Video, Image Entertainment, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Scream Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,080,167

The Fourth Protocol (1987)

Summary: John Preston is a British Agent with the task of preventing the Russians detonating a nuclear explosion next to an American base in the UK. The Russians are hoping this will shatter the "special relationship" between the two count...

Release Date: August 28, 1987

Genre: Thriller

Director: John Mackenzie

Writers: George Axelrod

, Richard Burridge

, Frederick Forsyth

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fourth Protocol, The Rank Organisation

Distributor: Lorimar, Lorimar Home Video, Image Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Carlton International Media, Granada International Media, ITV Studios Global Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,423,831

Lock Up (1989)

Summary: With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

Release Date: August 04, 1989

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: John Flynn

Writers: Richard Smith

, Jeb Stuart

, Henry Rosenbaum

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: White Eagle, Carolco Pictures, Gordon Company

Distributor: TriStar Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 24,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,099,847