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Plot: DEA agent Max Payne (Wahlberg) seeks revenge after the Mafia kills his family. During the course of his investigation he teams up with Mona (Kunis), an assassin seeking revenge for the murder of her sister. Based on the video game series by Rockstar Games.

Plot: New York, 1988: A crimewave is sweeping the city, killing policemen at the rate of two a month. Bobby (Phoenix) tries to stay out of things, but when his brother (Wahlberg), a Police Lieutenant, is wounded and he finds out his father (Duvall), a legendary Deputy Chief, could be next, he can no longer stay neutral…so joins forces with his brother for an all-out assault on gangsters like Nezhinsky (Veadov) and his organization.

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Plot: When the plants of the world begin releasing a toxin that causes people to commit violent suicide, a man (Wahlberg) and his estranged wife (Deschanel) are among the survivors who desperately search for a safe haven.

Plot: Ex-Marine Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) is approached and asked to plot a sharpshooter attack on the President Of The US. He does so, after being assured the plan he draws up is to be used to prevent such a sniper attack from happening. When he is double-crossed and framed for the shooting of a diplomat, Swagger has to uncover who set him up - and why. Kinda hard to do, since the whole country is on the lookout for him.

Plot: After a years-long losing streak, new Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermiel (Kinnear) held open tryouts in 1975, looking to boost up morale. Long time fan Vince Papale (Wahlberg), a 30-year old bartender, showed up…and history was made. Based on a true story.

Plot: Charlie Croker (Wahlberg) and his crew of expert thieves head to Rio de Janeiro to pull off another heist in this follow up to 2003’s The Italian Job.

Plot: Bobby (Wahlberg), Angel (Gibson), Jack (Hedlund) and Jeremiah (Benjamin) were all adopted by the same woman in Detroit. When their mother is murdered, they reunite to search for her killer. But when they start knocking on doors, they discover that they are in for a lot more than they bargained for.

Plot: In this remake of the 1968 film with the same name, six con men pull off the heist of their lives - 35 million dollars in gold bricks - in Venice, Italy. Everything goes off without a hitch, until they are betrayed by one of their own, who takes the loot, kills one of them, and leaves the rest for dead. A year later, the four surviving members track their betrayer down, anxious to settle the score.