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Plot: Xander (Diesel) is a risk-taking bad boy. Turns out, that’s exactly the type of person the NSA is looking for. In his first assignment as new secret agent xXx, he must go to Prague and find out about as much information as he can about a secret organization.

Plot: When a hostage situation goes awry, Street (Farrell) is kicked off the LAPD S.W.A.T. team. Six months lather, Street, along with Deke (LL Cool J), Sanchez (Rodriguez), TJ (Charles) and Boxer (Van Holt) are assigned to a new S.W.A.T. team, headed by veteran Hondo (Jackson). The new team’s first assignment? Transport international terrorist Alex Montel (Martinez). Things start to go wrong immediately, as Montel offers a million dollars to anyone who can free him. Inspired by the 70’s television series.

Plot: Elmo McElroy (Jackson) got busted 30 years ago for drugs, right after graduating from college with a degree in pharmacology. Now, he’s invented a wonder drug: POS 51, supposedly the best drug ever - and all he has to do is live long enough to sell it.

Plot: When high-powered attorney Gavin Banok (Affleck) gets into a car accident with Doyle Gipson (Jackson), he doesn’t think much of it. Gavin tries to write a check to pay for the damages, but Gipson wants to exchange insurances. In a hurry, Gavin ends up leaving. When he gets to court (late), he realizes he has left a file with Doyle…and doesn’t even know his name.

Plot: Samantha (Davis) is just an ordinary small-town schoolteacher with a happy life. Thanks to a case of amnesia, she has no idea she used to be a government assassin. But, when her past starts to invade on her present, she, and a fly-by-night private investigator she’s hired (Jackson), will have to rely on her past training if they have any hope of staying alive.

Plot: Jack Ryan (Ford) is visiting England with his family when an unprecedented terrorist attack on the Royal Family happens right before his eyes. Unable to just stand by and watch it happen, Ryan gets involved, and kills one of the terrorists. Another terrorist, Sean Miller (Bean), is captured, and Ryan learns that Sean is brother to the man he killed. Now Sean is out for a little bit of payback, and Ryan will have to watch his (and his family’s) backs. Based on the novel by Tom Clancy.

Plot: It’s been 10 years since The Phantom Menace. As Obi Wan (Kenobi)searches for the mysterious figure who is trying to get the Ex-Queen of Naboo (now Senator) Amidala (Portman) killed, Anakin (Christensen) makes googly-eyes at, er, protects the Senator. Meanwhile, the Dark Side grows stronger, and Yoda and the other Jedi Masters try to find out who’s behind this new power.

Plot: The planet of Naboo is under attack by the Trade Federation, which is being run secretly by the Sith - the dark Jedis. Obi Wan (McGregor) and Qui Gon (Neeson) show up to negotiate a treaty between the Trade Federation and the Naboo. When negotiations fail, they must help Queen Amidala (Portman) defeat the Trade Federation for the control of the planet Naboo - and pick up a little boy named Anakin Skywalker (Lloyd) on the way.

Plot: New York City police detective John Shaft (Jackson) goes to investigate a racially-motivated murder. A waitress at the nightclub points out Wade (Bale), the son of a powerful real estate tycoon. After being freed on bail, Wade skips town for years. Now he’s back, and Shaft is looking for justice.

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Plot: A former rookie cop mysteriously returns from the dead as The Spirit (Macht) to fight crime from the shadows of Central City. His arch-enemy: The Octopus (Jackson), intent on destroying his beloved city. Based on the comic book series by Will Eisner.