Movies tagged as "loan shark"

Armageddon [1998, USA ] starting from $1.99

It's Closer Than You Think.

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Stormare, Ken Hudson Campbell, Jessica Steen, Keith David, Chris Ellis, Jason Isaacs Directors: Michael Bay, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity's last chance...

Danny the Dog [2005, UK, USA, France ] starting from $1.99

Serve No Master

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon, Vincent Regan, Dylan Brown, Tamer Hassan, Michael Jenn, Phyllida Law, Carole Ann Wilson, Michael Ian Lambert, Jaclyn Tze Wey, Puthirith Chou, Tony Theng, Owen Lay Directors: Louis Leterrier, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.

Get Shorty [1995, USA ] starting from $1.99

Attitude Plays a Part.

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: James Gandolfini, David Paymer, Rene Russo, Dennis Farina, Danny DeVito, John Travolta, Delroy Lindo, Martin Ferrero, Miguel Sandoval, Jon Gries, Linda Hart, Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.

Money Train [1995, USA ] starting from $1.99

Get on, or GET OUT THE WAY!

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Blake, Chris Cooper, Joe Grifasi, Scott Sowers, Skipp Sudduth, Vincent Laresca, Nelson Vasquez, Vincent Patrick, Aida Turturro, Alvaleta Guess, Vincent Pastore, David Tawil Directors: Joseph Ruben, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Two foster brothers (Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes) work as transit cops. While one's life is as good as it gets, the other's is a pit. After losing his job, getting dumped by his brother, and getting the crap kicked out of him by a loan shark for the umpteenth time, He implements his plan to steal the "money train," a train carrying the New York Subway's weekly revenue. But when things go awry, will his brother be able to save him in time?

Redbelt [2008, USA ] starting from $1.99

There's always a way out. You just have to find it.

Genres: Action, Drama Actors: Jeffrey Addiss, Joseph Alfieri, Tim Allen, Douglas Barcellos, Craig Collington Bator, Matt Cable, Ryan Everett Canfield, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Randy Couture, Steve DeCastro, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Justin Fair, Scott Farrell, Hugh Fitzgerald, Mike Goldberg Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.

Revolver [2005, UK, France ] starting from $1.99

The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, André Benjamin, Vincent Pastore, Faruk Pruti, Shend, Bill Moody, Jimmy Flint, Bruce Wang, Tony Tang, George Sweeney, Martin Herdman, Tony Denham, Trevor Stuart, Gary Tang Directors: Guy Ritchie, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Jake Green is a hotshot gambler, long on audacity and short on common sense. He's rarely allowed to play in any casino because he is a winner. Jake has taken in so much money over the years, he is the only client of his accountant and older brother Billy. One night, Jake, Billy and their other brother Joe are invited to sit in on a private game, where Jake is expected to lose to Dorothy Macha, a crime boss and local casino owner who can't play for squat, but always wins because people are too scared to beat him. Jake isn't afraid of Macha, and not only beats Dorothy in a quick game of chance, but takes every possible opportunity to insult the man. Jake and his brothers leave the game, and Macha puts out the order for a hit on Jake, who ends up working for and being protected by a pair of brothers, Avi and Zack, who are out to take Macha down.

Rounders [1998, USA ] starting from $1.99

You've got to play the hand you're dealt.

Genres: Drama Actors: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Paul Cicero, John Turturro, Ray Iannicelli, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, Merwin Goldsmith, John Malkovich, Martin Landau, Sonny Zito, Michael Rispoli, Mal Z. Lawrence, Melina Kanakaredes, Josh Mostel, Directors: John Dahl Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A young man (Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.

Rundown, The [2003, USA ] starting from $1.99

Bulls, guns, whips, gold and one sacred cat

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller Actors: Chris Rock, The Rock, Seann William Scott, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Walken, Ewen Bremner, Jon Gries, William Lucking, Ernie Reyes Jr., Stuart F. Wilson, Dennis Keiffer, Garrett Warren, Toby Holguin, Paul S. Power, Stephen Bishop, Chuck Norman Directors: Peter Berg, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-"retrieval expert" Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy's ne'er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won't let Beck leave with Travis.