Missed this one.
Missed this one.
Death Before Dishonor
Does "Die Hard" count? They pretended to be terrorists, though they were only thieves.
Yippee ki yay...
The Dancer Upstairs...Nice movie..
Worth watching the rest of the movie, though.
They live to terrorize. They can't be stopped.
You thought you got rid of them once....
One scene I hate in that movie is a scene wher Jamie Lee has an Uzi (or Tech-9, or some such), which she drops at the top of some stairs. As the gun rolls down the stairs, it fires repeatedly, which is completely unrealistic, and intended, IMHO to reinforce an irrational fear of guns.
The Little Drummer Girl--Diane Keaton is recruited to infiltrate a Palestinian terrorist cell by Israeli Intelligence. Adapted from a John Le Carre novel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087629/
Raid on Entebbe (1977) Great made for TV drama about the rescue of Israeli hostages. The movie starred the late Peter Finch.
It involves a group of peacenik domestic (US) terrorists who build an atomic bomb and then park it in a boat in Charleston harbor, threatening to detonate it if the US doesn't begin to unilaterally dismantle its nuclear weapons.
But even though that's the plot, and it's done very well, it's only secondarily "about" terrorism -- primarily it's about the media. The entire film (which was a TV movie) is done to look like wall-to-wall TV news coverage of the unfolding events. (And it's done realistically enough that it touched off a bit of a "War of the Worlds" type panic among some viewers.) It even begins with a scene from a fake "soap opera", and then after 10-20 seconds a "special bulletin" card flashes up on the screen (thus the title), followed by the "crisis news" coverage which makes up the rest of the film.
The film does a great job of showing how TV news not only *covers* events, it also very much *shapes* them, *participates* in them, and often *facilitates* them.
The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - The Final Insult
Frank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards.
Arlington Road (1997) Jeff Bridges suspects neighbor Timothy Bottoms of terrorist activity. Unfortunately the bad guys win in this one.
Airport (a guy tries to blow up an airliner with the bomb in his attache case)
Team America
Invasion USA (1984) Another fun movie with Chuck Norris saving America from an invasion by terrorists from the Commie countries. Pure Reagan-era kick-ass mayhem.
Munich (2005), heard it was making a lot of people mad in the middle east, so it might be good.
What? No one has mentioned "The Final Option," aka "Who Dares Wins," based on the SAS take down of the Iranian embassy? I'm still trying to find a copy - I've seen it twice, years ago, and thought it was a pretty good movie.
Snip:
Warning signs are already out and should be for the coming Steven Spielberg movie on the Israeli effort to hunt down those who participated in, or planned the Munich massacre in 1972.
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So the slaughter of Israel’s Olympic athletes is a “tragedy” and Israel’s response to capture or kill those responsible is classified as a “horrific episode”, which over time raised “troubling doubts” among the Israelis involved.
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Spielberg seems to believe that the Israeli Palestinian conflict is resolvable, if only the two sides talked a bit more with each other, and stopped fighting.