Scanners (1981)

Summary: A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning" to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.

Release Date: January 14, 1981

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: David Cronenberg

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Filmplan International, Montreal Trust Company of Canada

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 20th Century Fox Video, Home Box Office (HBO), Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Encore Movie Channel, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,100,000

Domestic: $ 14,225,876

Taken (2008)

Summary: A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.

Release Date: January 30, 2009

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Pierre Morel

Writers: Luc Besson

, Robert Mark Kamen

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions, Canal+, TPS Star, M6, Seaside Film Taken, All Pictures Media, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox

Countries: United Kingdom, France, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Taken

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 145,000,989

International: $ 81,836,771

The Dark Tower (2017)

Summary: A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates o...

Release Date: August 04, 2017

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Nikolaj Arcel