5 Movies Directed by George P. Cosmatos

Of Unknown Origin

Of Unknown Origin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-11-24

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada, USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1589 Reviews)

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Chauncey G. Parker III (novel)

Brian Taggert (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that promotion, unaware that a certain inhabitant of his basement has other plans for his time. Bart goes a bit bonkers trying to kill this rat, destroying most of his house in the process. Certain allegorical elements tie the household conflict to the "rat race" in his office, but the main event is certainly the night-and-day contest of wills between man and rodent.

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-05-22

Languages:

English, Vietnamese

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (107047 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

David Morrell (characters)

Kevin Jarre (story)

Sylvester Stallone (screenplay)

James Cameron (screenplay)

Fullplot:

John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.

Cobra

Cobra

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1986-05-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (45103 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Paula Gosling (novel)

Sylvester Stallone (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A gang of neo-fascist thugs, led by the self-proclaimed 'Night Slasher', are breaking into people's homes & cars, then killing them at random. When of of these thugs holds up a food store & takes hostages, Lt. Marian Cobretti - an intense, take-no-prisoners cop, is brought onto the scene to end the hostage-taking. Ranting bizarrely about a 'New World', the man levels a sawed-off shotgun at Cobretti, who hits him with a knife, then guns him down when the man refuses to put down his weapon. Later that night, another murder occurs, attributed to the Night Slasher - and the next day, another one. This one is witnessed by a young woman, Ingrid Knutsen. She drives away before the thugs can kill her, but it isn't long before some creepy-looking people start making attempts on her life - and Cobretti's. Cobretti plans to move the only witness to the blood spree upstate, but with inside information, the thugs follow them. And a battle for survival rages between Cobretti and the thugs...

Leviathan

Leviathan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-03-17

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Italy

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (12017 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

David Webb Peoples (story)

David Webb Peoples (screenplay)

Jeb Stuart (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.

Tombstone

Tombstone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-12-25

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

130 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (88142 Reviews)

Fullplot:

After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.

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