This is the story of a foppish English gentleman whose foremost passion is fashion. He often goes yachting. More than once he travels to France in disguise to save the French nobility from Madame Guillotine. This story premiered as a movie in 1935 with Leslie Howard as The Pimpernel.
In 1982 Anthony Andrew played the role and in 1999 Richard E. Grant was the hero and Martin Shaw the villain Chauvelin.
2. Outvoted Message:
Answer: Minority Report
With the emergence of three precognitive talents (people who can see the future, at least in fragments) came the ability to prevent murders from being committed. The Pre-Crime Division receives reports from the precognitives and catches the would-be murderer before he kills anyone.
The system is thought to be perfect - until the Captain in charge of the division is accused of murdering a man he's never seen before. Now the Captain must prove his innocence before his men can catch him. The movie was premiered in 2002 and starred Tom Cruise.
3. The Company:
Answer: The Firm
A young lawyer is offered the perfect job, with the perfect house, the perfect car, the perfect colleagues. It doesn't take very long before he realises that even this perfect world has flaws. Soon he is running for is life. This movie from 1993 stars Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman.
4. Evidence of Vitality:
Answer: Proof of Life
An engineer is abducted in the jungle of Tecala. A hostage negotiator is sent by his company to negotiate his release, much to the relief of the engineer's wife. Soon a problem arises: the company hasn't paid their insurance, so the negotiator is ordered home. Now the wife must find another way to get her husband back. This movie from 2000 starred Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe.
5. Phantom:
Answer: Ghost
A story about love beyond death. When Sam is killed on the way home from the theatre, he decides to hang around to protect his beloved Molly. Soon his protection is needed, when the murderer shows up in Molly's apartment. But how can a ghost protect anybody, when he can't touch a thing? Sam must find someone who can teach him to move objects in the physical world.
This movie from 1990 stars Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.
6. The Runaway:
Answer: The Fugitive
Dr. Richard Kimble is accused of killing his wife. He claims a one-armed man did it. Nobody believes him. When an accident offers him the opportunity to escape, he runs. Now Kimble is hunting the one-armed man and everybody else is hunting Kimble. This movie from 1993 stars Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones.
7. Elite Weapon:
Answer: Top Gun
At Top Gun, the finest Naval Aviators meet to become even better. The competition is fierce and suddenly an accident happens and one of them dies. One of the pilots has trouble dealing with the situation and this causes problems when a number of them suddenly find themselves in a real battle. This movie from 1986 stars Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer.
Note: The answer could also be Best Defense, a movie with Dudley Moore from 1984 (Thanks to jgranade for mantioning this option).
8. Deadly Sword:
Answer: Lethal Weapon
An old cop and a crazy cop are made partners and have to learn to trust each other. This isn't easy when one is only thinking of retiring and the other want to kill himself. The case of a girl's drug-induced fall to her death needs their attention, though. When her father dies as well and the older cop's daughter is abducted, the two cops agree that they have worse enemies than each other. This movie from 1987 stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and was followed by several sequels.
Another possible answer is the 2000 movie "Fatal Blade" (a.k.a. Gedo)
9. Lords of the World:
Answer: Masters of the Universe
A young woman (Courteney Cox) and her boyfriend find a strange instrument, which they think is a fancy Japanese synthesizer. What they've found is "The Cosmic Key": it can open a door to any place in the universe with the right tune. Soon they're in the middle of the fight between good and evil: the fight between on one side He-Man (Dolph Lundgren), Man-At-Arms and friends and on the other Skeletor and Evil-Lyn.
The movie was first released in 1987.
10. The Chase for Scarlet Month:
Answer: The Hunt for Red October
The Russians have developed an extremely quiet submarine, armed it with a lot of nuclear missiles, manned it with some of their finest officers, including Captain Marko Ramius who had a great part in building it. The submarine is ordered north to a test area, but never arrives there. Ramius wants to go to America, but why? And will the Russians or the Americans manage to stop him before he gets there? This movie from 1990 is based on a novel by Tom Clancy and stars Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery.
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