griggs's - Mayhem 2025: (Ranked) List
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"Greener Grass" is a film quite unlike anything you've seen before! Writers, directors and stars Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe have created a hilariously deadpan hellscape of competitive suburbia with a boldly stylized absurdist chain of events that unfurls with increasing fervour after one 'soccer mom' gifts another her infant daughter just to be polite... - Director:
- Jocelyn DeBoer
- Cast:
- Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett
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Nikita (1990)La Femme Nikita
After being convicted of killing a cop, street-tough Nikita (Anne Parillaud) must choose between her own execution or training with a top-secret government agency to become an assassin. Given a new identity, new skills, and a new life by her mentor Bob (Tcheky Karyo), Nikita becomes "Josephine", a seductive, sophisticated knockout who's also a brutally efficient killing machine. - Director:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana
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"Deadbeat at Dawn " follows the story of Goose (Jim Van Bebber) - a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the criminal life behind. Coerced into taking part in one last heist by his former gang, who, in his absence have formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goose sees an opportunity to exact a brutal and bloody revenge. - Director:
- Jim Van Bebber
- Cast:
- Paul Harper, Jim Van Bebber, Megan Murphy
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No Way Out (1987)Deceit
Imagine being a hunter leading highly-trained bloodhounds in pursuit of a killer...and the trail leads directly to you! In a fit of rage, Secretary of Defence David Brice (Gene Hackman) murders his mistress. To keep a lid on the scandal, Brice's loyal aide (Will Patton), creates the perfect cover-up: he "invents" a more enticing killer - a Russian spy - and then enlists naval commander Tom Farrcll (Kevin Costner) to find him. But as a chilling twist of fate would have it, Farrell also has a strong connection to the victim... and now all the clues he's been hired to uncover are leading straight to him! In a desperate race against time, Farrcll's search for the killer is not only a matter of national security, but also a matter of saving his own hide. - Director:
- Roger Donaldson
- Cast:
- Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young
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Being a teenage girl in the valley is never easy. Peer pressure, social awkwardness, alienation, boyfriend trouble, ignorant parents and the apocalypse. Yes, the apocalypse. When squabbling teenage sisters Reggie and Sam wake up one morning to find the human race has been thrown into extinction, they decide to track down a radio signal and hopefully other survivors. It's a journey fraught with flesh eating zombies, demented scientists and 1980s teenage girls brandishing machine guns. Who the hell said Armageddon couldn't be fun? - Director:
- Thom Eberhardt
- Cast:
- Catherine Mary Stewart, Steve LaBeau, Chris Chesser
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Way of the Gun (2000)A sangre fria
Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-calibre crooks soon run into major problems. Realizing too late that they're in over their heads, the kidnappers fight to keep their plan from unraveling amid a rising tide of bloodshed, mind games and greed. - Director:
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Cast:
- Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis
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The Raid (2011)Serbuan Maut / The Raid: Redemption
Deep in the heart of one of Jakarta's most deprived slums stands an impenetrable high-rise apartment block. To most it is 30 floors of Hell to be avoided at all costs but for many of the city's most dangerous killers and gangsters, including the area's most notorious crime lord, it is a fortress-like safe house protecting them from the law. Even for the bravest and most experienced police officers it is considered a no-go area. In a desperate bid to flush these violent criminals and their leader from their haven once and for all, an elite SWAT team is tasked with infiltrating the building and raiding the apartments floor by floor, taking out anyone who stands in their way. Cloaked under the cover of predawn darkness, the SWAT members make their move and enter the block not realising that this is the easier part of the mission. Once inside, it soon becomes terrifyingly apparent that the real problem at hand is surviving long enough to be able to get out again. - Director:
- Gareth Evans
- Cast:
- Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy
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When Big Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) and son Big Brayden (Sky Elobar) meet lonely tourist Janet on Big Ronnie's Disco Walking Tour, the best and only Disco Walking Tour in the city, a fight for Janet's heart erupts between father and son. To make matters worse, a grease-slathered monster is roaming the streets, searching for his next unsuspecting victim. Who will win Janet's heart and can they escape the oily clutches of the infamous Greasy Strangler? - Director:
- Jim Hosking
- Cast:
- Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo
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An incedendiary array of stars - including Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys and Common - make Smokin' Aces the most explosive action DVD of the year, from Joe Carnahan, the acclaimed director of Narc. When a Mob boss takes out a million dollar hit on Buddy 'Aces' Israel - a sleazy Vegas showman turned FBI snitch - the Feds place Buddy in protective custody at a penthouse hide-out. While Buddy kills time with hookers, booze and drugs, an outrageous rogue's gallery of ultra-violent mobsters, smoking hot assassins and ruthless hit men are bring chainsaws, grenades, shotguns, knives and more to the hunt to rub out Aces and collect that cool million bucks. - Director:
- Joe Carnahan
- Cast:
- Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta
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In Japan, the sworn brotherhood of the Yakuza is described as being "thicker than the blood of kindred brothers". With his life under threat, disgraced Yakuza hard man Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) escapes to Los Angeles in search of his half-brother Ken (Claude Maki), a small-time drug dealer. Unable to speak the language and confused by his surrounding, Yamamoto teams up with Ken and his friend and fellow gang-member Denny (Omar Epps). Soon Yamamoto finds himself back in the old routine. His ruthless efficiency in terrorising and killing rival gang members shocks even the blood hardened Americans, and before long Yamamoto's gang is strong enough to join forces with a rival Japanese crime lord called Shirase (Masaya Katô). The gang is now too big to be ignored, and they are quickly warned off by the Mafia. Yamamoto realises that there can be no turning back and as events draw towards their inevitable conclusion, the Yakuza learns that only Denny understands the ancient code of the "brotherhood". - Director:
- Takeshi Kitano
- Cast:
- Takeshi Kitano, Claude Maki, Omar Epps
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Layer Cake (2004)L4yer Cake
From the producer of 'Snatch', Matthew Vaughn makes his directorial debut in the stylish crime thriller 'Layer Cake'. Based upon J.J. Connolly's London crime novel, 'Layer Cake' is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However big boss Jimmy price (Kenneth Cranham) hands down a tough assignment: find the missing daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward (Michael Gambon). Complicating matters are millions of pounds worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal Serbian gang and a whole series of double crossing. When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, he (Craig) has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin... - Director:
- Matthew Vaughn
- Cast:
- Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon
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The Last Boy Scout (1991)El último Boy Scout
Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans star as a seedy detective and a disgraced quarterback, teaming to dodge ambushes, fire off one-liners and bust chops. When the going gets tough, they get tougher. And funnier. They came to play. And to settle a score in this raging fireball where bigger is better, hits are harder and bad guys end up deader. - Director:
- Tony Scott
- Cast:
- Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field
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Still traumatised by the loss of her husband, well-meaning social worker Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer) throws herself into her latest assignment: the case of "Baby", a 21-year-old man with the mind of an infant who crawls, cries and has yet to make it out of nappies. But Baby's family the tyrannical Mama Wadsworth (Ruth Roman) and her two demented daughters aren't the only ones with a warped conception of familial relations, and the full horror only begins when Ann sets her sights on liberating the drooling man-child...and in so doing unleashes the wrath of the Wadsworth women. - Director:
- Ted Post
- Cast:
- Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill
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The Night Comes for Us (2018)Malam Datang untuk Kita
Practically on a whim, a Triad enforcer Ito (Joe Taslim) goes rogue and slaughters gangland soldiers to protect a young girl Reina (Asha Kenyeri Bermudez); meanwhile, a friend from the old gang Arian (Iko Uwais) is ordered to kill him, sending the pair on a corpse-strewn collision course. A rampaging, hyperkinetic, carnage-filled beast of an action film, as breathlessly creative in its sensory assault techniques as it is in its whirling, thrashing choreography, a ballet of blood-soaked brutality. A sensational showcase for its stylish performers - Taslim and Uwais, of course, who have an unforgettable knock-down-drag-out showdown at the end, but don't sleep on what the ladies (Julie Estelle) are capable of, as their three-way clash is potentially its equal. The plot is a simple mechanism (though still unclear at times), characters are presented in minimalist terms, and it's a bit exhausting (if not desensitizing) at length - not to mention entirely unrealistic (Deadpool couldn't recover from some of the non-fatal blows received by the main characters) - but there's no denying the tremendous craftsmanship, skill, and visceral effect. - Director:
- Timo Tjahjanto
- Cast:
- Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Sunny Pang
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Bellflower follows best friends Woodrow and Aiden as they venture out into the world to begin their adult lives. All of their free time is spent building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in the hope that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa". While waiting for the world to end, Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love. He and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of love and hate, betrayal, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies. Often life's simplest and most obvious truths are the hardest to see, but once you've burned everything to the ground it may be the only thing left standing. - Director:
- Evan Glodell
- Cast:
- Evan Glodell, Tyler Dawson, Jessie Wiseman
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