Sean Connery
1) Outland
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Sean Connery stars as Federal District Marshal William T. O'Niel, assigned to a mining outpost on the Jovian moon Io. The highly productive titanium mine seems to be the backwater of the universe, but the miners are killing each other in strangely psychotic ways. Now, hired assassins are trying to kill O'Niel to bury the secret his investigation has revealed ... and there's no one he can call for help in this far end of the solar system.
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Michael Caine star in director John Huston's sweeping homage to adventure movies--THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.Author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) tells this tale of two men in search of fame and fortune: Daniel Dravot (Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Caine) set out on a quest that takes them on a series of adventures leading to the remote mountains of Afghanistan, high at the top of the world. The local...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down star in this adventure based on history's first train robbery. Connery is Edward Pierce, a master thief who conceives a plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. But to pull off the most daring heist in history, Pierce must join forces with a safecracker (Sutherland) and his own beautiful girlfriend (Down) in a series of intricately plotted thefts that will test all of their...
4) Meteor
Pub. Date
1979.
Description
Outer space can hardly contain all the stars that round out the extraordinary cast in this thriller: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard and Henry Fonda. Dr. Paul Bradley (Connery) is summoned to Washington by NASA chief Harold Sherwood (Malden) who informs him that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. The only chance to destroy the meteor is to work with the Soviets, revealing to them top...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Description
A larger-than-life depiction of Al Capone, the warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago ... and Eliot Ness, the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. In this classic confrontation between good and evil, Ness learns, with the help of a cop named Malone, how to beat the mob by shooting fast and shooting first.
7) Medicine man
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Sean Connery plays Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist racing against time in his bold research for a cure against cancer. Set deep in the forbidding, Amazon rain forest, this action-packed hit follows Campbell hot on the trail of an amazing discovery - but the eccentric recluse soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure!
8) First Knight
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of battles, courage, of the undeniable love that brought an entire kingdom to its knees...and the undying passion that made it live forever.
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Anna Karenina is the young wife of Alexis Karenin, a Russian diplomat. She is on a mission of mercy to help her brother patch things up with his wife after an injudicious affair. While helping her brother, Anna meets the dashing officer, Count Alexis Vronsky. Anna is soon swept off her feet by Vronsky and begins an affair of her own. When Karenin finds out, he offers to forgive Anna is she will leave Vronsky. She refuses. It is a decision that will...
12) Highlander
Pub. Date
2002, c1986
Description
Sword and sorcery drama about immortal Scotsmen from the 16th century battling for supremecy in modern day New York City.
Pub. Date
[2001], p2000
Description
Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
14) Just cause
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A Harvard Law School professor reopens a murder investigation on behalf of a Death Row inmate who claims he was forced by a sinister lawman to confess to a crime he didn't commit. On the surface, it seems to be a straight-ahead case of the prisoner's guilt or innocence. But nothing really lies on the surface of this mystery, set in the Florida swamplands.
15) A bridge too far
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
16) Thunderball
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special 007 ed.
Description
Agent 007 goes above the call of duty and to the bottom of the ocean to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
17) Dr. No
Pub. Date
[c1997]
Description
James Bond, Agent 007, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a British secret service agent.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Based on a Rudyard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, John Huston's film of The Man Who Would be King earns its crown as "an epic like no other. One of the screen's great adventure yarns" (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic). Sean Connery and Michael Caine -- chins out, shoulders squared and with a sly wink -- star as British Sargeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men...
19) The Russia house
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer both deliver exceptional performances as two people - he from England, she from Russia - caught up in a world of spies and politics, whose love could prove fatal to them both. When Katya, a beautiful Russian book editor attempts to send British publisher Barley Blair a manuscript written by "DANTE", a noted Soviet scientist, she unwittingly involves him in a world of international espionage. Having met Blair at...
20) The Rock
Series
Criterion collection volume 108
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs \out.