Release Year: 2010

Country: USA

Runtime: 118 min

Languages: English

Director: Albert Hughes

Allen Hughes

Tagline: Some will kill to have it. He will kill to protect it.

Cast: Denzel Washington … Eli
Gary Oldman … Carnegie
Mila Kunis … Solara
Ray Stevenson … Redridge
Jennifer Beals … Claudia
Evan Jones … Martz
Joe Pingue … Hoyt
Frances de la Tour … Martha
Michael Gambon … George
Tom Waits … Engineer
Chris Browning … Hijack Leader
Richard Cetrone … Hijacker
Lateef Crowder … Highjacker / Construction Thug
Keith Davis … Hijacker
Don Tai … Hijacker (as Don Theerathada)

Plot: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Release Year: 2008

Country: Australia | USA

Runtime: 165 min

Languages: English | Aboriginal

Director:

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Writers: Stuart Beattie (screenplay) and Baz Luhrmann (screenplay) …

Cast: Shea Adams … Carney Boy #3
Eddie Baroo … Bull
Ray Barrett … Ramsden
Tony Barry … Sergeant Callahan
Jamal Bednarz-Metallah … Mission Boy
Damian Bradford … Constable #1
Bryan Brown … King Carney
Nathin Butler … Carney Boy #1
Tara Carpenter … Essential Services Woman
Rebecca Chatfield … Magarri's Niece
Lillian Crombie … Bandy Legs
Max Cullen … Old Drunk
Essie Davis … Cath Carney
Arthur Dignam … Father Benedict
Michelle Dyzla … Hairdresser

Plot: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 7 wins & 19 nominations

Release Year: 2008

Country: USA

Runtime: 115 min

Languages: English | Apache languages | Spanish

Director:

Tagline: Feelings get you killed.

Cast: Robert Jauregui … Marshall Jack Bell (as Bobby Jauregui)
Jeremy Irons … Randall Bragg
Timothy V. Murphy … Vince
Luce Rains … Dean
James Tarwater … Chalk (as Jim Tarwater)
Boyd Kestner … Bronc
Gabriel Marantz … Joe Whittfield
Ed Harris … Virgil Cole
Viggo Mortensen … Everett Hitch
Benjamin Rosenshein … Town Boy
Cerris Morgan-Moyer … Tilda
James Gammon … Earl May
Timothy Spall … Phil Olson
Tom Bower … Abner Raines
Erik J. Bockemeier … Fat Wallis

Plot: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Awards: 2 wins

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA | Canada

Runtime: 160 min

Languages: English | Danish

Director:

Tagline: Beyond the myth lies America's greatest betrayal.

Cast: Brad Pitt … Jesse James
Mary-Louise Parker … Zee James
Brooklynn Proulx … Mary James
Dustin Bollinger … Tim James
Casey Affleck … Robert Ford
Sam Rockwell … Charley Ford
Jeremy Renner … Wood Hite
Sam Shepard … Frank James
Garret Dillahunt … Ed Miller
Paul Schneider … Dick Liddil
Joel McNichol … Express Messenger
James Defelice … Baggagemaster (as James DeFelice)
J.C. Roberts … Engineer
Darrell Orydzuk … Ukranian Train Passenger
Jonathan Erich Drachenberg … Young Train Passenger

Plot: Robert Ford, who’s idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 19 nominations

Release Year: 2007

Country: Japan

Runtime: 121 min | (None):98 min (international cut version)

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: An epic tale of blood, lust and greed.

Writers: Takashi Miike (written by) & Masa Nakamura (written by)

Cast: Hideaki Ito … Gunman
Masanobu Ando … Yoichi
Kôichi Satô … Taira no Kiyomori
Kaori Momoi … Ruriko
Yusuke Iseya … Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Renji Ishibashi … Benkei
Yoshino Kimura … Shizuka
Quentin Tarantino … Piringo rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Takaaki Ishibashi
Teruyuki Kagawa … Sheriff
Taigi Kobayashi
Toshiyuki Nishida
Shun Oguri … Akira
Masato Sakai … Taira no Shigemori
Hideaki Sato
Christian Storms
Yôji Tanaka

Plot: A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth. add synopsis

Awards: 5 wins & 3 nominations

Release Year: 2007

Country: USA

Runtime: 122 min

Languages: English

Director:

Tagline: Time waits for one man

Cast: Russell Crowe … Ben Wade
Christian Bale … Dan Evans
Logan Lerman … William Evans
Dallas Roberts … Grayson Butterfield
Ben Foster … Charlie Prince
Peter Fonda … Byron McElroy
Vinessa Shaw … Emma Nelson
Alan Tudyk … Doc Potter
Luce Rains … Marshal Weathers
Gretchen Mol … Alice Evans
Lennie Loftin … Glen Hollander
Rio Alexander … Campos
Johnny Whitworth … Darden
Shawn Howell … Jackson (as Shawn D. Howell)
Pat Ricotti … Jorgensen

Plot: A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who’s awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 15 nominations

Release Year: 2004

Country: USA

Runtime: 137 min

Languages: English | Spanish

Director:

Tagline: You will never forget

Cast: Dennis Quaid … Sam Houston
Billy Bob Thornton … Davy Crockett
Jason Patric … James Bowie
Patrick Wilson … William Travis
Emilio Echevarría … Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
Jordi Mollà … Juan Seguin
Leon Rippy … Sgt. William Ward
Tom Davidson … Colonel Green Jameson
Marc Blucas … James Bonham
Robert Prentiss … Albert Grimes
Kevin Page … Micajah Autry
Joe Stevens … Mial Scurlock
Stephen Bruton … Captain Almeron Dickinson
Laura Clifton … Susanna Dickinson
Ricardo Chavira … Private Gregorio Esparza (as Ricardo S. Chavira)

Plot: Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. add synopsis

Awards: 1 nomination