Ip Man (Chinese: 叶问 / 葉問) is a 2008 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and teacher of martial artist legend Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War. The film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen as the titual character, with martial arts choreography by Sammo Hung. The film co-stars Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Lam Ka-tung, Xing Yu, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, and Tenma Shibuya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ip_Man_(film)

Gas Food Lodging is a 1992 American drama film written and directed by Allison Anders, based on the novel Don't Look and It Won't Hurt by Richard Peck. Starring Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, and Fairuza Balk, the film follows a waitress trying to find romance while raising two daughters in a trailer park in a small desert town in New Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Food_Lodging

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1240902

For the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon tonight, it's the Cannon Pictures martial arts flick American Samurai (1992, director's cut 2025), with David Bradley (from American Ninja ... I'm sensing a theme here), and "introducing Martial Arts Sensation Mark Dacascos"! Woohoo!

Join us as we watch the movie (on Youtube or other sources) and comment live on Mastodon, with the hashtag #MondayActionMovie.

Summary

When a father passes on the traditional family sword to one of his two adopted sons, the other--in a fit of jealous rage--joins a yakuza drug smuggling mob. When the other son decides to find him and set things straight, things don't seem to go as smoothly as he planned, and a misunderstanding leads the stepbrothers into a Turkish arena to battle swordsmen from around the world.

Trailer

• Youtube

Info

• Wikipedia

• IMDb 4.9/10

Legit Stream & Download Finders

• NoBrainsCellsLeft Search

• Just Watch (adjust for your country)

Full Movie

• Youtube - Director's Cut (2025) uploaded by the director himself, 1 hour 30 minutes

• Fawesome - 1 hour 34 minutes

• Mometu - 1 hour 34 minutes

Time: Monday 8th September, 8pm US ET

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch Party Info

It's time for an AMERICAN SAMURAI - the 2025 Director's Cut (?!)

Join #MondayActionMovie veteran David "Cyborg Cop" Bradley and "introducing" Mark Dacascos (yay!) in a Cannon film -- so you KNOW it's quality! https://youtu.be/3kN7kRoruNo

NOTE: Also available free on Fawesome at https://fawesome.tv/movies/10451662/american-samurai BUT there are an extra 5 minutes somewhere -- who knows where

Join us and throw virtual popcorn at the screen along with the MAM gang!

Watch party announcement

• Direct link

• Fedv.link (will open the link via your preferred instance of Mastodon)

Watch Party Calendar

• Info on this and other events

A triptaminic blend of images with a vivid, perpetual sci-fi blue backdrop transports us to the dark side of the moon, where a humanity in search of freedom is forced to land after their spacecraft malfunctions. Their utopian dream leads the descendants of these pioneers to deify one of their own, Jerzy, calling him the "Old Man". Years later, Marek arrives from Earth, mistaken for a reincarnation of the Old Man, and is tasked with helping the population against mutants called "Szerny": "Bird-Men".

Wondering if other sources of free streaming VOD movies are acceptable here? There are multiple, legal AFAIK ones, although almost always with geo-restrictions of some kind.

E.g. Could I cross-post this here?

• !action_movies - [Full movie] The Hit (1984) Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth

Some example sources:

• Plex
• Tubi
• Fawesome
• Mometu
• TheArchive.tv
• Filmzie
• Flixhouse
• FreeMovies+
• Mercado Play
• iQiyi

Links etc here:

• !action_movies - Free, legal streaming action movies & shows

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/16380-when-worlds-collide

This version is oddly widescreen but it's very watchable.

I was finding some ICP videos for [email protected] and the youtube algorithm served this up to me...

...the film follows an emotionally stunted aunt attempting to form a relationship with her teenage niece who wants to run away from home and become a Juggalo. ... The film received positive reviews from critics, with [Taylor] Schilling's performance singled out for praise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(2018_film)

video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEvYn2H2WNw

The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agency's elitist espionage program as its token black. After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters". As a story of one man's reaction to white ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.

A cute and funny animated movie from Shunji Iwai the description is taken from Anilist

Hana to Alice Satsujin Jiken

A prequel to the 2004 live action film "Hana to Alice." Hana to Alice Satsujin Jiken (The Case of Hana & Alice) will tell the story of how the two female high school leads in the first Hana & Alice live-action film met. 51-year-old film director Iwai (All About Lily Chou-Chou, Swallowtail Butterfly) conceived, wrote, and directed the original 2004 live-action film.

Quadrophenia is a 1979 British drama film, based on the Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name. It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature directing debut. The film, set in London in 1964, depicts a period of emotional turmoil in the life of Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels), a young mod who escapes from his dead-end job as a postroom boy by dancing, partying, taking amphetamines, riding his scooter and brawling with rockers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia_(film)

Cyber City is an early 90's Cyberpunk anime, released as 3 separate OVA's. This the UK dub version, which oddly has American voice actors, but using UK English idioms.

It's surprisingly well dubbed for the era, with only a mild-ish amount of cheese and speedracer style run-on sentences. The animation and 80's hair metal soundtrack is pretty great too.

Deep Red (Italian: Profondo rosso), also known as The Hatchet Murders, is a 1975 Italian giallo film directed by Dario Argento and co-written by Argento and Bernardino Zapponi. It stars David Hemmings as a musician who investigates a series of murders performed by a mysterious figure wearing black leather gloves. The cast also stars Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, and Clara Calamai. The film's score was composed and performed by Goblin, the first in a long-running collaboration with Argento.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Red

Rotten Tomatoes Wikipedia

The Circus is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman. The ringmaster of an impoverished circus hires Chaplin's Little Tramp as a clown, but discovers that he can only be funny unintentionally.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circus_(1928_film)

Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes

Haven't watched it yet so here is the Wikipedia article.

Woman in the Moon (German Frau im Mond) is a German science fiction silent film that premiered 15 October 1929 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin to an audience of 2,000. It is often considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. It was directed by Fritz Lang, and written by his wife Thea von Harbou, based on her 1928 novel The Rocket to the Moon. It was released in the US as By Rocket to the Moon and in the UK as Girl in the Moon. The basics of rocket travel were presented to a mass audience for the first time by this film, including the use of a multi-stage rocket. The film was shot between October 1928 and June 1929 at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg near Berlin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_the_Moon

imagines a rivalry between two 18th century Vienna composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Hulce) and Antonio Salieri (Abraham). Salieri struggles to reconcile his professional admiration and jealous hatred for Mozart, and resolves to ruin Mozart's career as his vengeance against God.
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It was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, including eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director), and a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film. Abraham and Hulce were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Abraham winning. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it 53rd on its 100 Years... 100 Movies list. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Amadeus holds a score of 90% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 154 reviews, with an average rating of 8.9/10. The site's consensus states: "Amadeus' liberties with history may rankle some, but the creative marriage of Miloš Forman and Peter Shaffer yields a divinely diabolical myth of genius and mediocrity, buoyed by inspired casting and Mozart's rapturous music."[18] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 87 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)

NOTE: this is the Director's Cut.

Dr. Strangelove parodies Cold War fears of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and stars Peter Sellers (portraying three different characters), .,.. The story concerns an insane brigadier general of the United States Air Force who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States (Sellers), his scientific advisor Dr. Strangelove (Sellers), a Royal Air Force exchange officer (Sellers), and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Scott) as they attempt to stop the crew of a B-52 from bombing the Soviet Union and starting a nuclear war.
The film is widely considered Kubrick's magnum opus, as well as one of the best comedy films and one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove