The Passenger (1975), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937), Spy (2015), The Living Daylights (1987), Breakheart Pass (1976), White Boy Rick (2018), The Ghost Train (1941) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gun Running movies.
Storyline: A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. When the journalist notices that they have a similar appearance, he assumes the recently deceased's identity and accepts the consequences that it brings.—MuzikJunky
Plot Keywords: reporter, arms dealer, love interest, wife, police detective, tense, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term "friends" is suspect. As a small time hood, Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate, he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank robbing/kidnapping hoodlum chums. But who else is dealing with the feds? Who gets the blame for snitching on the bank robbers?—MovieMaster
Plot Keywords: gunrunner, bank robber, bar owner, informant, brooding, tense, diner ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.—D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: stationmaster, loser, sidekick, gunrunner, goon, amusing, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions. But when her partner falls off the grid and another top agent is compromised, she volunteers to go deep undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent a global crisis.
Plot Keywords: cia analyst, agent, gunrunner, undercover agent, co-worker, director, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.
Plot Keywords: james bond, secret agent, assassin, sexy woman, kgb agent, commander, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a sudden outbreak of diphtheria, the authorities dispatch an express train carrying reinforcement soldiers and medical supplies through the frozen West across the Rocky Mountains to aid the remote garrison of Fort Humboldt. Along with the troops, there are also aboard Governor Richard Fairchild; the outpost commander's daughter, Marica; the squad's captain, Major Claremont; the U.S. Marshal, Pearce, and his mysterious prisoner, John Deakin. Indeed, this was supposed to be a routine operation; however, before long, in this confined but well-guarded place, missing officers and unexplained deaths start to shroud the mission with mystery and suspicion, as an unstoppable unknown killer is picking them off one by one. Who is the murderer in their midst?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: outlaw, marshal, governor, mistress, federal agent, soldier, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, WHITE BOY RICK is based on the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe Jr., who became an undercover police informant and later a drug dealer, before he was abandoned by his handlers.
Plot Keywords: father, teenager, drug dealer, gunrunner, federal agent, informant, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers.—Neil Bridger
Plot Keywords: train conductor, stationmaster, train passenger, doctor, arms dealer, performer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Remake of "To Have and Have Not" based on Hemingway short story. Plot reset to early days of Cuban revolution. A charter boat skipper gets entangled in gunrunning scheme to get money to pay off debts. Sort of a sea-going film noir with bad girl, smarmy villain, and the "innocent" drawn into wrong side of law by circumstances.—<rita.richardson@arch2nara.gov>
Plot Keywords: skipper, arms dealer, wife, first mate, revolutionary, femme fatale, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them. He develops an interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: military officer, intelligence officer, revolutionary, girlfriend, gunrunner, frenchman, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
Plot Keywords: police officer, irishman, visitor, young man, zealot, impostor, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Importing illegal automatic weapons for resale is a big business and Moe is the middleman. Even with the huge monetary rewards available, he finds that his love life is suffering and he is looking for that special someone. When he finds her, he wants to become respectable and marry, but it seems that business and a double date conspire to end this romantic relationship once and for all.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: arms dealer, love interest, sister, mother, detective, partner, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Plot Keywords: detective, mother, girlfriend, gunrunner, boss, amusing, heartwarming ...
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