Released Date:
1982-04-02
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (13275 Reviews)
Director:
John MackenzieHarold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Released Date:
1987-08-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (6597 Reviews)
Director:
John MackenzieGenres:
ThrillerGeorge Axelrod (screen story)
Richard Burridge (additional material)
Frederick Forsyth (screenplay)
Frederick Forsyth (novel)
KGB agent Major Valeri Petrofsky has been reassigned at the request of the KGB Chairman for a secret mission wherein he is sent to England to establish a residence near an American military base and receive various items from couriers from the USSR. John Preston is the top British spy catcher, currently at odds with his superior because he doesn't lick his boots. After he conducts an operation without his superior's permission caused his superior some embarrassment, he is reassigned to the menial task of overseeing airports and ports. One day one the couriers Petrofsky was expecting comes off a freighter has an accident which leaves him dead. Preston is informed by the pathologist that the man is not a seaman so Preston goes through his things and finds that he was carrying something which he is told is an atomic bomb component. Preston now suspects that someone is bringing in parts for an atomic bomb, his superior doesn't want to let Preston be proven right so he doesn't authorize further action and suspends Preston. But a man who works with intelligence approaches Preston saying he might be right because a sleeper transmitter went active twice once probably to alert Moscow that he is in place and the second sent after the man's death probably to inform that the component he was delivering wasn't received. So the man offers to let Preston find the man who is bringing in the bomb. And back in the USSR, Petrofsky's boss is so disgruntled that Petrofsky and so much of his department's resources are being taken by the Chairman for his op, that he calls his old friend, the Vice-Chairman of the KGB, to find out what's going on because he believes that the Chairman wouldn't be able to do any of these things without his friend's input. But his friend is just as incredulous as he is. So he tries to find out what the Chairman is up to.
Released Date:
1990-03-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (744 Reviews)
Director:
John MackenzieJere Cunningham (story)
Jere Cunningham (screenplay)
Thomas Lee Wright (screenplay)
George Armitage (screenplay)
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly becomes three when one is killed early) band together to fight the drug ring undercover. They gain capital for weapons by ripping off minor drug dealers. Then well-armed they go after the kingpin (Boyd).
Released Date:
1996-06-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (518 Reviews)
Director:
John MackenzieWhen stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port.
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