Thriller & action pack : 8 movies
(DVD)

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BIRTHDAY GIRL: A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride. Stars Nicole Kidman, Vincent Cassel, Ben Chaplin.

AMERICAN GUN: When his daughter is shot just before Christmas, Martin Tillman journeys across the U.S. using the gun's serial number to track down the truth behind Penny's killing. Stars: James Coburn, Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain.

TOO YOUNG TO DIE: An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story. Stars: Michael Tucker, Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING [PART 1 & 2]: undreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traffic. In Prague, Czech Republic, the single mother Helena is seduced by a successful handsome man and travels with him to spend a weekend in Vienna, Austria; in Kiev, Ukraine, the sixteen-year-old Nadia is selected by a model agency and travels to the United States with the other selected candidates; in Manila, Philippines, the twelve-year-old American tourist Annie Gray is abducted in front of her parents. In common, the girls become victims of a powerful international network of sex traffickers leaded by the powerful Sergei Karpovich. In New York, after the third death of young Eastern European prostitutes, the obstinate Russian-American NYPD agent Kate Morozov convinces the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chief Bill Meehan to hire her, promising him that she would fight against this type of crime and that he would not regret. Stars: Lynne Adams, Sarah Allen, Andreas Apergis.

K2: Feature film about the adventure of two friends who risk climbing K2, the legendary "savage mountain", in Northern Pakistan, the most dangerous mountain in the world. The attorney Taylor Brooks and the professor and family man Harold "H" Jameson are best friends and climbers. Harold is married with Cindy and they have a baby son, and Taylor is a selfish womanizer. One day, they save the life of the famous climber Phillip Claiborne and most of his team after an avalanche during a climbing. On the funeral of the two climbers that had died, Taylor asks Claiborne to take Harold and him to complete his team on his next expedition, when Claiborne expects to climb the K2, the second highest mountain on Earth. Soon they travel to Pakistan and they have trouble first when the porters unexpectedly decide to return and then when Claiborne becomes sick with the altitude. Claiborne calls of the climbing, but Taylor and Harold are decided to reach the top of the world at any cost. Stars: Starring Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Raymond J. Barry and Patricia Charbonneau.

ESCAPE FROM ALASKA: Duncan is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman. Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R. Lee Ermey, C. Thomas Howell, John Ashton.

EVEREST: An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return to Base Camp. It also shows many of the challenges the group faced, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, treacherous ice walls, and a deadly blizzard. Stars: Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa.

Rated R.

DVD.