The President of the USA goes to Moscow and gives a stirring speech outlining the USA’s new “Zero-tolerance” policy with respect to terrorism. On the flight home, terrorists take over Air Force One (the President’s official plane) and take the passengers (including his wife and daughter) hostage. The terrorists plan to execute one hostage every half-hour unless/until their demands are met. However, the President is a former Medal of Honor winner, so the terrorists may be in for a surprise…

Wolfgang Petersen
Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson
23 Jul 1997 (USA, Germany)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 10 nominations.

When Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, he discovers he is a descendant of the secret Assassins society.
Justin Kurzel
Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson
21 Dec 2016 (UK, France, Hong Kong, USA)

Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is – through director Paul Greengrass’s distinctive lens – simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller, and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips’ unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.

Paul Greengrass
Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman
11 Oct 2013 (USA)
Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 129 nominations.

An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter’s fourth largest moon.

Sebastián Cordero
Daniel Wu, Sharlto Copley, Christian Camargo, Karolina Wydra
27 Jun 2013 (USA)
2 nominations.

A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

Alfonso Cuarón
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen
27 Sep 2013 (UK, USA)
Won 7 Oscars. Another 205 wins & 164 nominations.

Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonizing Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.
Mark Elijah Rosenberg
Mark Strong, Sanaa Lathan, Luke Wilson, Charles Baker
03 Jun 2016 (USA)
1 win.

Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
Elizabeth Wood
Morgan Saylor, Brian ‘Sene’ Marc, Justin Bartha, Chris Noth
26 Aug 2016 (USA)
1 win & 2 nominations.

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Gavin O’Connor
Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal
14 Oct 2016 (USA)

Two Chinese merchant ships were attacked in Mekong river and 13 crews were killed. Thai policemen found 9 hundred thousand crystal meth on the ships. This new shocked China. Gang Gao, the leader of Narcotics Corps in Yun Nan province was assigned to lead a special team to Golden Triangle to investigate. Cooperated with a informer, Fanxin Wu, Gao discovered that 13 crew member were brutally murdered and framed up. Gao and Wu decided to fight for justice out of China no matter what it takes.
Dante Lam
Wenjuan Feng, Baoguo Chen, Xudong Wu, Wu Linkai
30 Sep 2016 (China, Hong Kong)

In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with its size or sheer depth of its drilling. However, the project for the BP oil company is beset with technical difficulties to the point where the general operational supervisor, Jimmy Harrell, and his Chief Electrical Engineer, Mike Williams, are concerned potentially dangerous trouble is brewing. Unfortunately, visiting BP executives, frustrated by the project’s long delays, order curtailed site inspections and slanted system tests to make up for lost time even as Harrell, Williams and his team helplessly protest for the sake of proper safety. On April 20, the workers’ fears are realized in the worst possible way when the rig’s various structural and system flaws spark a catastrophic cascade of failures that would create a massive blowout and explosion that threatens them all, even as it also begins the worst environmental disaster in US history.
Peter Berg
Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont
29 Sep 2016 (Hong Kong, USA)
1 win.

A young immigrant falls in love with a NRI who wanted to marry any British person, not a typical brown Indian. But she falls in love with that young musician, but this love story ends with a breakup. Then that man, fed up with life with vast emotion joins Indian army bomb squad, where he flirts with death everyday. A young discovery channel journalist approaches his team to cover bomb squad story but falls in love with him.
Yash Chopra
Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher
13 Nov 2012 (India)
13 wins & 18 nominations.

Veer Pratap Singh (Shah Rukh Khan) is an officer and pilot in the Indian Air Force who one day meets a beautiful Pakistani heiress, Zaara Hayaat Khan (Preity Zinta), as she travels to a small Indian village to scatter the ashes of one of her family’s loyal servants. Veer has family in the village, and while most Indians show no affection for Pakistanis, his aunt and uncle are willing to take Zaara in for the night. It isn’t long before Veer finds himself falling for her; however, Veer learns that Zaara is engaged to another man, Raza (Manoj Bajpai), a cruel and humorless Pakistani. A friend of Zaara contacts Veer and tells him that Zaara wants out of her engagement and has strong feelings for him, but when he comes to her rescue, matters take a turn for the worse and Veer winds up in jail. Twenty years later, Veer is still behind bars, and finds that his case is being given a new trial, but while he has a new chance at freedom, he discovers his lawyer will be going up against a state attorney who has never lost a case.
Yash Chopra
Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukerji, Kiron Kher
12 Nov 2004 (India)
21 wins & 29 nominations.