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Film · 10 connectionsA maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.
Directed byDeran Sarafian
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1993 · 110 min · Crime · Drama · Other
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
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1997 · 119 min · Action · Crime · Thriller
Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
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1995 · 91 min · Action
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
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1997 · 124 min · Action · Thriller
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
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2000 · 104 min · Action · TV Movie · Thriller
The successful undercover agent Victor Cooper is assigned for his ninth mission: to find how the loadings of drug is being brought to Miami. He suspects that the drug is coming through the air and joins a team of sky diving, under the leadership of Red Line, a fanatic and considered the athlete number one in this sport in the world. Due to his profile of winner, Vic gets involved with the group and he "disconnects" from his position of infiltrated agent, "connecting" with the team.
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1988 · 98 min · Action · Drama · Thriller
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
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1994 · 101 min · Action · Crime · Thriller
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
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1991 · 91 min · Action · Adventure
Men from Russia and the United States join forces to prevent a powerful drug ring from achieving global domination.
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1993 · 108 min · Action · Crime · Drama · Thriller
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?
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1991 · 89 min · Action · Thriller
Underground fighter James Thayer's loyalties are tested when he is recruited by a secretive agency to take down a drug trafficking ring operated by the man who trained him.
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