Harrison Ford

River Phoenix

Helen Mirren

Martha Plimpton

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher, and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. Based on the novel by Paul Theroux.—Keith Loh

The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast (1986)

An 8 year old Amish boy and his mother are traveling to Philadelphia, on their way to visit the mother's sister. While waiting at the train station, the young boy witnesses a brutal murder inside one of the bathroom stalls. Police detective John Book is assigned to investigate the murder of the man, who was an undercover cop. Soon after, Book finds out that he's in great danger when the culprits know about his investigation and hides out in the Amish community. There, he learns the way of living among the Amish locals, which consists of non-violence and agriculture. Book soon starts a romance with the mother of the little boy, but their romance is forbidden by the Amish standards. But, it's not long before the bad guys find out Book's whereabouts.—blazesnakes9

Witness

Witness (1985)

Mayhem tells the story of a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Cho (Yeun) is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.—abothin

Mayhem

Mayhem (2017)

Sevilla, Andalucía (southern Spain). The neighborhood of Las 3.000 Viviendas (The 3,000 Homes or "The 3,000" for short) is a ruthless, cruel place where police, law and order have no power. In this underworld of drug and crime, Juan Santos is a con man with supervised freedom who steps out from jail for one day to celebrate with his wife Triana the First Communion of their only daughter Estrella. But during the celebration,, his younger brother Chico and Uncle Andrés appear as uninvited guests to offer Juan a business to take drugs back into the jail. Fearing to lose his prison privileges, Juan refuses, then when the three head back home, another car bangs into theirs, killing Estrella. At the same time, veteran cop Manuel Santacana and younger partner Eli arrive at a murder scene to investigate the killing of four Romanian drug traffickers, finding in it the cops Barroso and his new partner rookie Nando, Manuel's son, being notified about the car crash. Discovering that the car that killed Estrella is the same of the Romanians' killers, Juan meets his mother María, former Santos family mob boss expelled from The 3,000 by rival families Fortuna and Taboa, who helps Juan to avenge her granddaughter's death. Looking for clues, Eli and Manuel question a junkie named Maravilla, noticing the implication of Fortuna family, and start a strong police deployment to catch all them, but boss Gordo Fortuna and one of his sons escape while Juan, Andrés, and Chico are investigate by their own to find the guilty. helped by the neighbors, who point to a junkie named Kempes. However, all changes when Eli finds an unexpected dark relation between the crime with the own Barroso, despite Manuel's opposition by absence of physical evidence. Meanwhile, Triana thinks she's pregnant again, and Juan and his relatives looking for Fortuna family accepting be a drug mule to obtain information, Eli's attempts to know the truth better after he locates the long-time wanted Kempes, who blames Barroso and Nando as the Romanians' killers. But Eli's check of Kempes' cellphone discloses a new, darker implication between a third cop and the Taboa family that forces Eli to run to The 3,000 after she was shot, being saved by chance by Triana and Juan when she almost is killed by junkies. Telling the truth to Juan and Triana, Eli allies with the Santos as the last hope to reveal all, and Juan alerts the family to save them and concoct a revenge plot, in a race against time where there's no guarantee of survival.—Chockys

Adiós

Adiós (2019)

When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, Poon Shing-Fung, a bomb disposal officer, got caught in the blast and thus lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, who was found in a coma at the spot of a terrorist bombing attack, of being involved in several bombing attacks in the past two years. Poon can hardly remember his past and even his own identity due to Post Traumatic Amnesia. He plans to escape to find out the truth. Meanwhile, knowing the terrorist organization's schemes of destroying Hong Kong landmarks, Poon, as the key person between the police and the terrorist organization, would possibly save or destroy lives of the innocent civilians in the city.

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The Mosquito Coast

1986

Action/ Adventure/ Drama/ Thriller

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Duration: 117 min

IMDB Rating: 6.6

Language: en

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Plot Summary

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher, and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. Based on the novel by Paul Theroux.—Keith Loh

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