Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.

Betrayed

1988

English

♡ 15

36%

Costa-Gavras Director

Robert Minkoff as Bit

Stephen E. Miller as Buster

Robert Swan as Dean

Richard Libertini as Sam Kraus

An FBI agent posing as a combine driver becomes romantically involved with a Midwest farmer who lives a double life as a white supremacist.

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

2011

English

7.1

♡ 3

88%

Marshall Curry Director

Dan Rather as Self

Chuck Tilby as Self - Captain, Eugene Police Department

Chuck Wert as Self - Executive Vice President, Superior Lumber

Don Rice as Self - Manager, Jefferson Poplar Farms

Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who was brought up on terrorism charges for his involvement with the radical group.

The Newburgh Sting

2014

English

7.3

♡ 2

91%

Documentary

terrorism

Kate Davis Director

Just 60 miles north of New York City sits the poverty-stricken town of Newburgh, where, in 2009, four men were arrested for a plan to bomb two Jewish centers in the Bronx. But their leader, a suspicious Pakistani businessman planted by the government as an informant, led these men straight into the hands of the authorities. With endless footage gathered from hidden cameras, directors David Heilbroner and Kate Davis investigate just what homegrown terrorism truly means in this shocking and galvanizing exposé.

Bad Company

2018

English

4.9

♡ 6

33%

Robin Christian Director

William Atherton as

Booboo Stewart as Camino

Fivel Stewart as Lea

Kyle Massey as Mack

Troubled teens in a 2nd chance 'bootcamp' program encounter a group of terrorists trying to take out a rural nuclear power plant. Stuck in remote area with no skills or communication to the outside world, the teens find they are the only thing that can stop a nuclear threat.

Rosebud

1975

English

5.2

♡ 1

44%

israeli–palestinian conflict

mediterranean

palestinian-israeli conflict

Otto Preminger Director

Richard Attenborough as Edward Sloat

Raf Vallone as George Nikolaos

Kim Cattrall as Joyce Donnovan

Peter O'Toole as Larry Martin

In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.

9/11: The Falling Man

2006

English

7.2

♡ 4

Henry Singer Director

Steven Mackintosh as Narrator

Eric Lipton as Self

Iliana Guibert as Self

An examination of an image - a falling man from the North Tower, frozen in mid air - circulated by the press immediately after the September 11 attacks, the public's reaction, and why it was later deemed un-newsworthy.

The Oath

2010

English

7.2

♡ 1

88%

Laura Poitras Director

Osama bin Laden as Self

Salim Hamdan as Self

Abu Jandal as Self

Troy Lebane as Voice of Habeeb

Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Black Sunday

1977

English

6.8

♡ 13

76%

american football stadium

John Frankenheimer Director

Walter Gotell as Colonel Riat

Tom McFadden as Farley

Terry Bradshaw as Self

Robert Patten as Vickers

An Israeli anti-terrorist agent must stop a disgruntled Vietnam vet cooperating in a Black September PLO plot to commit a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl.

16 Acres

2012

English

6.6

100%

Richard Hankin Director

Rosaleen Tallon as Self - Activist

Kenneth Ringler as Self - Former Executive Director, Port Authority

Michael Bloomberg as Self - Mayor, New York City

Raphael Vinoly as Self - Think Architects

The dramatic inside story of the monumental collision of interests at Ground Zero in the decade after 9/11.

The Elite

2001

English

3.6

♡ 3

Terry Cunningham Director

Robin Givens as Ashe

William Smith as Colonel Shaw

Steven Williams as McKay

Florin Busuioc as Red

After the murder of their families by a terrorist bomb, five young adults are trained as a hi-tech, anti-terrorist team with a mission to search and destroy high-profile terrorist groups.

Heval

2021

English

6.5

♡ 1

86%

Adam R. Wood Director

William Denjoy as Self

Jason Fritz as Self

Nuri Mahmoud as Self

Keith Caraway as Self

When a British-born actor abandons his Hollywood career to volunteer to Join the Kurdish YPG to fight ISIS in Syria, many see him as a selfless hero battling America's most insidious enemy. But others think he's a hot-tempered narcissist, staging a publicity stunt to further his career - and when his service ends, neither the UK nor the US welcome him back. Through incisive interviews with the actor, his supporters, his detractors, and top-tier experts - and featuring the actor's own jaw-dropping helmet-cam video of deadly battles with and interrogations of ISIS fighters - Heval gives viewers unprecedented access into a war against evil and one man's controversial role in it.

Manhunt: The Inside Story of the Hunt for Bin Laden

2013

English

6.7

♡ 5

Greg Barker Director

Barack Obama as Self

Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi as Self

Susan Hasler as Self

Barbara Sude as Self

An espionage tale from inside the CIA's long conflict against Al Qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against Osama bin Laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.

Infidel

2019

English

♡ 19

58%

Cyrus Nowrasteh Director

Terence Maynard as Cameron Dell

Jim Caviezel as Doug Rawlins

Hal Ozsan as Ramzi

J.R. Cacia as Sgt Knebel

An American is kidnapped while attending a conference in Cairo and ends up in prison in Iran on spying charges. His wife goes to Iran, determined to get him out.

Held for Ransom

2019

Danish

7.6

♡ 4

100%

76%

Action

affectation

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Niels Arden Oplev Director

Sofia Danu as Aya

Esben Smed as Daniel Rye

Toby Kebbell as James Foley

Amir El-Masry as John

HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with James, and the nightmare of the Rye family back home in Denmark as they try to do everything in their power to save their son. At the center of this crisis, we find hostage negotiator, Arthur, who plays a pivotal role in securing Daniel’s release.

Universal Soldier: Regeneration

2009

English

5.3

♡ 25

34%

John Hyams Director

Dolph Lundgren as Andrew Scott

Stephen Chang as General

Jean-Claude Van Damme as Luc Deveraux

Kristopher Van Varenberg as Miles

When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a next-generation "UniSol" that seems almost unstoppable.

Under the Dog

2016

Japanese

5.7

♡ 11

Masahiro Andô Director

Asami Seto as Anthea Kallenberg

Naomi Ohzora as Estella

Rumi Okubo as Hana Togetsu

Koki Uchiyama as Shunichi Nanase

The story takes place within Neo Tokyo in the year 2025, five years after a severe terrorist attack at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Students possessing special abilities are forced into serving an elite anti-terrorist unit created by the United Nations, fighting against threats including other ability users. If these agents fail their mission, they will be killed along with their families, who have bombs planted within their heads. One member of this covert ops unit, a Swedish girl by the name of Anthea Kallenberg, seeks to find who she really is.

Pursuit

1972

English

5.8

♡ 4

Michael Crichton Director

Quinn K. Redeker as Captain Morrison

Joseph Wiseman as Dr. Nordman

Len Wayland as Karley

William Windom as Robert Phillips

What begins as a routine investigation quickly escalates into a heartstopping race to save millions from certain death in this taut and gripping thriller. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, ER) "makes an impressive directorial debut" (The Hollywood Reporter) in this deadly cat-and-mouse game in which the stakes couldn't be higher! When government agent Steven Graves (Ben Gazzara) investigates political extremist James Wright (E.G. Marshall), he uncovers a diabolical plot to blast lethal nerve gas into San Diego during the Republican Convention. What's worse, a computer hacker (Martin Sheen) has provided Wright with a psychological profile to help him outwit Graves. As Wright ingeniously eludes Graves, can Graves find a way to stop him before the ultimate nightmare begins?

Secret Defense

2008

French

6.3

♡ 3

Philippe Haïm Director

Simon Abkarian as Al Barad

Aurélien Wiik as Jérémy

Rachida Brakni as Leïla / Chadia

Salem Kali as Salem

In France, terrorist groups and intelligence agencies battle in a merciless war everyday, in the name of radically opposed ideologies. Yet, terrorist and secret agents lead almost the same lives. Condemned to secrecy, these masters of manipulation follow the same methods. Alex and Al Barad are two of them. The former is the head of the D.G.S.E.'s (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure, the French equivalent of the CIA or the MI6) counter-terrorism unit while the latter reigns over a terrorist network, and both fight using the most ruthless of weapons: human beings.

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