Movies directed by John McTiernan

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Rene Russo | Denis Leary | Ben Gazzara | Frankie Faison | Fritz Weaver | Charles Keating | Mark Margolis | Faye Dunaway | Michael Lombard | Bill Ambrozy | Michael Bahr | Robert D. Novak | Joe H. Lamb | James Saito
Directors: John McTiernan
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Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can’t get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.

Basic (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: John Travolta | Connie Nielsen | Samuel L. Jackson | Timothy Daly | Giovanni Ribisi | Brian Van Holt | Taye Diggs | Dash Mihok | Cristián de la Fuente | Roselyn Sanchez | Harry Connick Jr. | Georgia Hausserman | Margaret Travolta | Dena Johnston | Nick Loren
Directors: John McTiernan
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An Army sergeant (Samual Jackson) takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier (Brian Van Holt) killing another and carrying a wounded comrade (Giovanni Ribisi). As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer (Connie Nielsen) protests, but her commanding officer (Timothy Daly) nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent (John Travolta) to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting.

Die Hard (1988)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Reginald VelJohnson | Reginald Johnson | Bonnie Bedelia | Alexander Godunov | Paul Gleason | William Atherton | De'voreaux White | Hart Bochner | Alan Rickman | Dennis Hayden | Clarence Gilyard Jr. | Bruno Doyon | Andreas Wisniewski | James Shigeta | Robert Davi
Directors: John McTiernan
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New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John’s wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn’t think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn’t happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don’t even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly’s boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building’s safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it’ll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it’s up to John to rescue the hostages.

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Alec Baldwin | Scott Glenn | Sam Neill | James Earl Jones | Joss Ackland | Richard Jordan | Peter Firth | Tim Curry | Courtney B. Vance | Stellan Skarsgård | Jeffrey Jones | Timothy Carhart | Larry Ferguson | Fred Dalton Thompson
Directors: John McTiernan
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Based on the Best Selling novel by Tom Clancy this film tells the story of Captain Marko Ramius, the skipper of the Soviet Union’s newest nuclear sub. Jack Ryan of the CIA gets involved in a tense, tangled hunt for this sub, when Ramius defects, taking the “Red October” with him. The story is an action packed techno-thriller.

Predator (1987)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Carl Weathers | Elpidia Carrillo | Bill Duke | Jesse Ventura | Sonny Landham | Richard Chaves | R.G. Armstrong | Shane Black | Kevin Peter Hall
Directors: John McTiernan
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Dutch (Arnlod Schwarzenegger) and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists. By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists’ camp. After that’s over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods. It isn’t long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna (Elpidia Carrillo), are the only people left and fighting for their lives. But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine. What’s been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls. And human beings are the new species he has discovered.

Last Action Hero (1993)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis | Arnold Schwarzenegger | F. Murray Abraham | Austin O'Brien | Art Carney | Charles Dance | Frank McRae | Tom Noonan | Robert Prosky | Anthony Quinn | Mercedes Ruehl | Ian McKellen | Professor Toru Tanaka | Joan Plowright | Jason Kelly | Noah Emmerich
Directors: John McTiernan
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Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater’s world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater’s enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny’s world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Jeremy Irons | Samuel L. Jackson | Graham Greene | Colleen Camp | Larry Bryggman | Anthony Peck | Nicholas Wyman | Sam Phillips | Kevin Chamberlin | Sharon Washington | Stephen Pearlman | Michael Alexander Jackson | Aldis Hodge | Mischa Hausserman
Directors: John McTiernan
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A man calling himself “Simon” begins a reign of terror in the streets of New York: he threatens to detonate bombs around the city unless Detective John McClane cooperates in a game of “Simon Says”. McClane has a bad hangover and a bad attitude, and isn’t in the mood for games, especially this one.