4 Movies Directed by J.J. Abrams

Mission: Impossible III

Mission: Impossible III

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-05-05

Languages:

English, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Czech

Countries:

USA, Germany, China

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (231998 Reviews)

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Cast:

Writer:

Alex Kurtzman

Roberto Orci

J.J. Abrams

Bruce Geller (television series)

Fullplot:

Super-spy Ethan Hunt has retired from active duty to train new IMF agents. But he is called back into action to confront the toughest villain he's ever faced - Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no remorse and no conscience. Hunt assembles his team: his old friend Luther Strickell, transportation expert Declan, and background operative Zhen. They are to rescue one of his very own trainees, Lindsey who was kidnapped while on a surveillance detail of Davian. It soon becomes evident that Davian is well-protected, well-connected, and downright malicious. This forces Hunt to extend his journey back into the field in order to rescue his wife, Julia, and uncover IMF double agents in the process.

Star Trek

Star Trek

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-05-08

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Germany

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(471510 Reviews)

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Orci

Alex Kurtzman

Gene Roddenberry (television series "Star Trek")

Fullplot:

On the day of James Kirk's birth, his father dies on his ship in a last stand against a mysterious alien time-traveling vessel looking for Ambassador Spock, who, in this time, is also a child on Vulcan disdained by his neighbors for his half-human heritage. Twenty-five years later, Kirk has grown into a young troublemaker. Challenged by Captain Christopher Pike to realize his potential in Starfleet, he comes to annoy instructors like young Commander Spock. Suddenly, there is an emergency at Vulcan and the newly commissioned USS Enterprise is crewed with promising cadets like Nyota Uhura, Hikaru Sulu, Pavel Chekov and even Kirk himself, thanks to Leonard McCoy's medical trickery. Together, this crew will have an adventure in the final frontier where the old legend is altered forever as a new version of it begins.

Star Trek Into Darkness

Star Trek Into Darkness

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-05-16

Languages:

English, Klingon

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

132 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (361747 Reviews)

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Orci

Alex Kurtzman

Damon Lindelof

Gene Roddenberry (television series "Star Trek")

Fullplot:

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

Super 8

Super 8

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-06-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (268055 Reviews)

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Fullplot:

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

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