Die Hard: With a Vengeance
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
Director: John McTiernan
Stars: Anthony Peck Bruce Willis Colleen Camp Graham Greene Jeremy Irons Kevin Chamberlin Larry Bryggman Nicholas Wyman Sam Phillips Samuel L. Jackson
Die Hard 2
Off-duty cop John McClane is gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when, on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation’s capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, holding thousands of holiday travelers hostage. Renegade military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer plot to rescue a drug lord from justice and are prepared for every contingency except one: McClane’s smart-mouthed heroics.
Director: Renny Harlin
Stars: Art Evans Bonnie Bedelia Bruce Willis Dennis Franz Franco Nero Fred Dalton Thompson John Amos Reginald VelJohnson William Atherton William Sadler
Die Hard
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
Director: John McTiernan
Stars: Alan Rickman Alexander Godunov Bonnie Bedelia Bruce Willis Clarence Gilyard Jr. De'voreaux White Hart Bochner Paul Gleason Reginald VelJohnson William Atherton
Rebirth of Mothra III
To save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
Director: Okihiro Yoneda
Stars: Aki Hano Atsushi Ônita Kôichi Ueda Megumi Kobayashi Misato Tate Sayaka Yamaguchi Shirô Namiki Tsutomu Kitagawa
Rebirth of Mothra II
Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
Director: Kunio Miyoshi
Stars: Aki Hano Atsushi Okuno Hajime Okayama Hikari Mitsushima Maho Nonami Masaki Otake Megumi Kobayashi Mizuho Yoshida Sayaka Yamaguchi Shimada Maganao
Rebirth of Mothra
A new Mothra takes to the air and must battle Death Ghidora to save humanity.
Director: Okihiro Yoneda
Stars: Aki Hano Hiroko Tanaka Hitomi Takahashi Kazuki Futami Kenjirô Nashimoto Megumi Kobayashi Sayaka Yamaguchi
Shin Godzilla
From the mind behind Evangelion comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes. If you would like to see our review of the film, click here.
Director: Hideaki Anno
Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa Issey Takahashi Kanji Tsuda Kengo Kora Mikako Ichikawa Satomi Ishihara Satoru Matsuo Shinya Tsukamoto Toru Nomaguchi Yutaka Takenouchi
Godzilla: Final Wars
Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to vanquish the monsters and aliens to rescue the world in the ultimate "Save the Earth" battle.
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Stars: Akira Takarada Don Frye Kane Kosugi Kazuki Kitamura Kumi Mizuno Maki Mizuno Masahiro Matsuoka Masanobu Takashima Masatō Ibu Rei Kikukawa
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, Godzilla is once again on the rampage, and Mechagodzilla is Japan's only defense.
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Stars: Akira Nakao Hiroshi Koizumi Koh Takasugi Kôichi Ueda Miho Yoshioka Mitzuki Koga Noboru Kaneko Norman England Tsutomu Kitagawa Yumiko Shaku
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
After the appearance of a new Gojira (Godzilla), the Japanese government builds a robotic Godzilla from the bones of the original monster that attacked Tokyo in 1954 to stop the beast.
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Stars: Akira Nakao Kana Onodera Koh Takasugi Kôichi Ueda Kumi Mizuno Shin Takuma Tsutomu Kitagawa Yumiko Shaku
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
Three ancient guardian beasts awaken to protect Japan against Godzilla.
Director: Shusuke Kaneko
Stars: Chiharu Niiyama Hiroyuki Watanabe Kaho Minami Kunio Murai Masahiro Kobayashi Ryûdô Uzaki Shin'ya Ohwada Shingo Katsurayama Shirô Sano Takashi Nishina
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Godzilla returns to terrorize Japan! This time, however, Japan has two new weapons to defend themselves. The Gryphon, a high-tech ship, and the Dimension Tide, a device that creates artificial black holes! During a test of the Dimension Tide, eggs appear in the city of Shibuya and hatch into terrifying Meganurons! These creatures need water to grow and flood the city of Shibuya by breaking underground water veins. As they multiply and grow, they start to feed on the energy of humans. After gathering enough energy, they transform in to giant dragonfly monsters called Meganuras! And now they target Godzilla for energy to feed to the larva of their queen, which eventually hatches into the terrifying 60-meter Megaguirus who also begins to attack Godzilla for his energy. Now a 3-way battle between Godzilla, the Megaguirus, and humans begins! Will Godzilla win? Will humanity survive?
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Stars: Kôichi Ueda Kouichi Yamadera Masatō Ibu Misato Tanaka Shosuke Tanihara Toshiyuki Nagashima Tsutomu Kitagawa Yuriko Hoshi Yuusaku Yara
Godzilla 2000: Millennium
Godzilla saves Tokyo from a flying saucer that transforms into the beast Orga.
Director: Takao Okawara
Stars: Bengaru Hiroshi Abe Ken'ichi Nagira Mayu Suzuki Naomi Nishida Sakae Kimura Shirô Namiki Shirô Sano Takehiro Murata Takeshi Ôbayashi
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
The aftermath of the Oxygen Destroyer brings forth Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing Godzilla, who is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown.
Director: Takao Okawara
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Akira Nakao Kenpachirô Satsuma Megumi Odaka Ryo Hariya Saburo Shinoda Sayaka Osawa Takuro Tatsumi Yasufumi Hayashi Yôko Ishino
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
When Mothra went into outer space to stop a meteor from reaching Earth, she accidentally took cells from Godzilla and the remaining cells from Biollante that inhabited our atmosphere. The combined cells went through a black hole and created a new creature, Space Godzilla. Space Godzilla heads to Earth to confront Godzilla, Junior Godzilla, and the new G-Force robot, MOGERA.
Director: Kensho Yamashita
Stars: Akira Emoto Akira Nakao Jun Hashizume Keiko Imamura Kenji Sahara Megumi Odaka Sayaka Osawa Towako Yoshikawa Yosuke Saito Zenkichi Yoneyama
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
The United Nations assembles the ultimate weapon to defeat Godzilla, while scientists discover a fresh pteranodon egg on a remote Japanese island.
Director: Takao Okawara
Stars: Akira Nakao Kenji Sahara Kôichi Ueda Leo Meneghetti Masahiro Takashima Megumi Odaka Ryoko Sano Sayaka Osawa Shinobu Nakayama Yûsuke Kawazu
Godzilla vs. Mothra
The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. The Cosmos, as the girls are called, offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately, Godzilla also appears and a three way battle begins that threatens to destroy Japan.
Director: Takao Okawara
Stars: Akiji Kobayashi Akira Takarada Keiko Imamura Kenpachirô Satsuma Makoto Ohtake Megumi Odaka Saburo Shinoda Satomi Kobayashi Takehiro Murata Tetsuya Bessho
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Time travelers from the 23rd century return to 1992 to warn Japan that Godzilla will cause a catastrophic nuclear incident in the 21st century and suggest a way to rid the world of him forever. They intend to go back to 1944, to Ragos Island, where a dinosaur was exposed to radiation from the Bikini H-Bomb test and became Godzilla. Upon completion of this task, King Gidorâ appears in 1992 and the visitors' true plan is discovered. They wish to destroy Japan so it will not become the dominant economic force. Luckily for the Japanese, Godzilla was still created and will now fight Gidorâ.
Director: Kazuki Ōmori
Stars: Akiji Kobayashi Anna Nakagawa Katsuhiko Sasaki Kenji Sahara Kôichi Ueda Kosuke Toyohara Megumi Odaka Sô Yamamura Tokuma Nishioka Yoshio Tsuchiya
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Dr. Shiragami combines the DNA of roses with some extracted from Godzilla's cells. He names his creation "Biollante".
Director: Kazuki Ōmori
Stars: Kazuma Matsubara Kōji Takahashi Kunihiko Mitamura Masanobu Takashima Megumi Odaka Ryunosuke Kaneda Tôru Minegishi Toshiyuki Nagashima Yasunori Yuge Yoshiko Tanaka
Godzilla 1985
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
Director: R.J. Kizer, Koji Hashimoto
Stars: Eitarô Ozawa Hiroshi Koizumi Junkichi Orimoto Kei Satō Keiju Kobayashi Ken Tanaka Mizuho Suzuki Shin Takuma Taketoshi Naitô Yasuko Sawaguchi
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Godzilla comes to the rescue when an alien race rebuilds Mechagodzilla to destroy Earth's cities. A traitorous scientist gives them a second weapon: Titanosaurus.
Director: Ishirō Honda
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Goro Mutsumi Katsuhiko Sasaki Katsumasa Uchida Kenji Sahara Shin Roppongi Tadao Nakamaru Tomoko Ai Tôru Ibuki Yasuko Agrawa
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Great monster fight sequences are a highlight of the 14th Godzilla film. Aliens armed with a mechanical Godzilla intend to take over the planet. The earthlings summon the legendary King Seesar to assist Godzilla in the battle to defend earth.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Beru-Bera Lin Daigo Kusano Goro Mutsumi Hiroshi Koizumi Kazuya Aoyama Masaaki Daimon Masao Imafuku Reiko Tajima Shin Kishida
Godzilla vs. Megalon
In his 13th film, Godzilla takes a supporting role to the far more prominently featured Jet Jaguar, an Ultra-Man like robot. Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race. Jet Jaguar decides to stop the attack by recruiting Godzilla and enlarging himself to Monster-size.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Stars: Fumiyo Ikeda Gentaro Nakajima Hiroyuki Kawase Kanta Mori Katsuhiko Sasaki Kotaro Tomita Robert Dunham Sakyo Mikami Ulf Otsuki Yutaka Hayashi
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Godzilla's 12th film. After a accepting a job at a monster-themed park, a man learns his new employers are actually aliens who plan to use Ghidorah and Gigan to destroy earth. Godzilla and Anguirus must battle them to defend earth.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Stars: Gen Shimizu Hiroshi Ishikawa Kuniko Ashihara Kunio Murai Minoru Takashima Tomoko Umeda Toshiaki Nishizawa Yuriko Hishimi Zan Fujita Zeko Nakamura
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Psychedelic animation and a flying Godzilla highlight the 11th Godzilla film. Spawned from earth's pollution, Hedorah destroys Japan, spews poison gas and fights Godzilla.
Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Stars: Akira Yamanouchi Eisaburo Komatsu Hiroyuki Kawase Keiko Mari Susumu Okabe Tadashi Okabe Toshie Kimura Toshio Shiba Wataru Ômae Yukihiko Gondô
All Monsters Attack
A bullied schoolboy dreams of traveling to Monster Island, where he befriends Godzilla's son, who is also having bully troubles.
Director: Ishirō Honda
Stars: Chôtarô Tôgin Hideyo Amamoto Kazuo Suzuki Kenji Sahara Machiko Naka Midori Uchiyama Sachio Sakai Shigeki Ishida Tomonori Yazaki Yoshifumi Tajima
Destroy All Monsters
The 9th Godzilla film was the last made by the original Godzilla creators, and was meant to be a grand finale. Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island and are using them to destroy earth's major cities. It is up to the daring crew of the super rocket ship X-2 to infiltrate the aliens' headquarters before the Earth monsters and King Ghidorah annihilate the planet.
Director: Ishirō Honda, Seiji Tani
Stars: Akira Kubo Andrew Hughes Chôtarô Tôgin Heihachirô Ôkawa Jun Tazaki Kenji Sahara Kyôko Ai Yoshifumi Tajima Yoshio Tsuchiya Yukiko Kobayashi
Son of Godzilla
The 8th Godzilla film is aimed at an even younger audience than its predecessors. In the South Seas, scientists conducting weather experiments encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking Godzilla's offspring.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Akira Kubo Bibari Maeda Ken'ichirô Maruyama Kenji Sahara Seishirô Kuno Susumu Kurobe Tadao Takashima Yasuhiko Saijô Yoshio Tsuchiya
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
The 7th film in the Godzilla series. After being caught in a storm in the south seas, several teenagers and thief arrive on an island where natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization. They also discover a sleeping Godzilla and decide to wake him up to aid in their plan to free the natives.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Akira Takarada Chôtarô Tôgin Hideo Sunazuka Ikio Sawamura Jun Tazaki Kumi Mizuno Tôru Ibuki Tôru Watanabe Yuko Bambi
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
The 5th film in the original Godzilla franchise marked a turning point in the series. Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra must put aside their quarrelsome ways to become allies and defend earth from 3 headed Dragon King Ghidorah.
Director: Ishirō Honda
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Akiko Wakabayashi Emi Ito Hiroshi Koizumi Hisaya Itô Minoru Takada Takashi Shimura Yōsuke Natsuki Yumi Ito Yuriko Hoshi
Mothra vs. Godzilla
The 4th film in the Godzilla franchise restores the serious tone of the original Godzilla film. A greedy developer has placed huge machines to suck dry a part of the ocean near Tokyo so he can build luxury condos. After a storm, a giant egg washes up on a nearby beach. The developer's plans go awry when he disrupts Godzilla's rest and the monster goes stomping through Tokyo. It's up to Mothra defend its egg and Japan from Godzilla. One of the most popular films in the original Godzilla series.
Director: Ishirō Honda
Stars: Akira Takarada Emi Ito Hiroshi Koizumi Jun Tazaki Kenji Sahara Kenzô Tabu Yoshifumi Tajima Yû Fujiki Yumi Ito Yuriko Hoshi
King Kong vs. Godzilla
After a 7 year hiatus, Godzilla returned to the screen to take on King Kong in the 3rd film in the Godzilla franchise. A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently revived Godzilla.
Director: Ishirō Honda
Stars: Akemi Negishi Akihiko Hirata Akiko Wakabayashi Ichirô Arishima Jun Tazaki Kenji Sahara Mie Hama Tadao Takashima Yoshio Kosugi Yû Fujiki
Godzilla Raids Again
In a hastily produced first-sequel to the classic "Gojira", two pilots race back to Japan to inform the government that two giants monsters are on the loose. Soon, the two monsters arrive in Osaka where they resume their battle.
Director: Motoyoshi Oda
Stars: Hiroshi Koizumi Masao Shimizu Mayuri Mokushô Minoru Chiaki Minosuke Yamada Seijirô Onda Setsuko Wakayama Sonosuke Sawamura Takashi Shimura Yoshio Tsuchiya
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Director: Ishirō Honda, Terry O. Morse
Stars: Akihiko Hirata Akira Takarada Frank Iwanaga Fuyuki Murakami James Hong Momoko Kôchi Raymond Burr Ren Yamamoto Sachio Sakai Takashi Shimura
Godzilla
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan, destroying everything within its reach. The team chases the monster to Madison Square Garden, where a brutal battle ensues.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Stars: Arabella Field Doug Savant Hank Azaria Harry Shearer Jean Reno Kevin Dunn Maria Pitillo Matthew Broderick Michael Lerner Vicki Lewis
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.
Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Alfred Molina Ben Kingsley Gemma Arterton Gísli Örn Garðarsson Jake Gyllenhaal Reece Ritchie Richard Coyle Ronald Pickup Steve Toussaint Toby Kebbell
Dredd
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
Director: Pete Travis
Stars: Deobia Oparei Domhnall Gleeson Jason Cope Karl Urban Langley Kirkwood Lena Headey Olivia Thirlby Rakie Ayola Warrick Grier Wood Harris
Judge Dredd
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Director: Danny Cannon
Stars: Armand Assante Balthazar Getty Christopher Adamson Diane Lane Joan Chen Joanna Miles Jürgen Prochnow Max von Sydow Rob Schneider Sylvester Stallone
Riddick
Betrayed and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance.
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Bokeem Woodbine Dave Bautista Jordi Mollà Karl Urban Katee Sackhoff Keri Hilson Neil Napier Noah Danby Nolan Gerard Funk Vin Diesel
The Chronicles of Riddick
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Alexa Davalos Colm Feore Karl Urban Keith David Linus Roache Nick Chinlund Roger Cross Thandie Newton Vin Diesel Yorick van Wageningen
Pitch Black
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Claudia Black Cole Hauser John Moore Keith David Les Chantery Lewis Fitz-Gerald Radha Mitchell Rhiana Griffith Simon Burke Vin Diesel
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Arthur Angel Ben Barnes Gary Sweet Georgie Henley Shane Rangi Simon Pegg Skandar Keynes Tilda Swinton Tony Nixon Will Poulter
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful cast of new characters, including Trufflehunter the badger and Nikabrik the dwarf, the Pevensie clan embarks on an incredible quest to ensure that Narnia is returned to its rightful heir.
Director: Andrew Adamson
Stars: Alicia Borrachero Anna Popplewell Ben Barnes Georgie Henley Peter Dinklage Sergio Castellitto Skandar Keynes Vincent Grass Warwick Davis William Moseley
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.
Director: Andrew Adamson
Stars: Anna Popplewell Georgie Henley James Cosmo James McAvoy Jim Broadbent Kiran Shah Liam Neeson Skandar Keynes Tilda Swinton William Moseley