David Koepp
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM NETFLIX AND ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING DIRECTOR KATHRYN BIGELOW
"Fantastic story, a real page-turner. Impossible to put down." – Stephen King
From the author of Cold Storage comes a riveting, eerily plausible thriller, told with the menace and flair of Under the Dome or Project Hail Mary, in which a worldwide cataclysm plays out in the lives of one complicated
...Author
Language
English
Description
When Pentagon bio-terror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a solar storm knocks out the power across the globe, Aubrey Wheeler, in Aurora, Illinois, becomes the fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood, while across the country, her brother, a Silicon Valley CEO, hunkers down in his gilded desert bunker, leading to a long-overdue reckoning between siblings"--
Publisher
LucasFilm
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After serving in Afghanistan, a young Jack Ryan becomes an analyst in the Financial Intelligence Unit of the CIA under the guardianship of his handler, Harper. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from analyst to spy, fighting to save his own life and those of countless others. Meanwhile, he is also trying to protect his relationship with his fiancee Cathy.
7) The mummy
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancee...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure.
10) Jurassic Park
Language
English
Formats
Description
Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history with director Steven Spielberg's ultimate thrill ride, Jurassic Park. Featuring Academy Award winning visual effects and groundbreaking filmmaking, this epic film is sheer movie-making magic that was 65 million years in the making. Jurassic Park takes you to an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the...
Language
English
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free but now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...
12) The mummy
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thought safely entombed deep beneath the desert, an ancient princess whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day. Her malevolence has grown over millennia and with it come terrors that defy human comprehension.
13) Inferno
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Sienna Brooks, a doctor he hopes will help him recover his memories. Together, they race across Europe and against the clock to stop a madman from unleashing a global virus that would wipe out half of the world's population.--
14) Ghost town
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After dying and coming back to life during surgery, a dentist discovers he has the ability to see ghosts and becomes involved in a romantic scheme between one ghost and his widow.
16) Mortdecai
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caddish art dealer Charlie Mortdecai is enlisted by the MI5 to help them recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that will lead them to lost Nazi gold.
17) Premium rush
Publisher
Columbia
Language
English
Description
A bike messenger in Manhattan attempts to deliver a mysterious letter to Chinatown while evading a malevolent detective who wants to intercept it.
18) The paper
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Portrays one day in the life of a New York newspaper, showing the cutthroat world of print journalism.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ethan Hunt is an American secret agent who is framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt hotly races to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, and drawing one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.