All of these titles are currently (as of 2/17/16) priced at $10 to own in HD in Amazon’s Instant Video Store. Note: all descriptions are from IMDB.
X-Men (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
In a world where both Mutants and Humans fear each other, Marie, better known as Rogue, runs away from home and hitches a ride with another mutant, known as Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine.
Charles Xavier, who owns a school for young mutants, sends Storm and Cyclops to bring them back before it is too late.
Magneto, who believes a war is approaching, has an evil plan in mind, and needs young Rogue to help him.
– Written by Film_Fan
X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
Several months have passed since The X-Men defeated Magneto and imprisoned him in a seemingly impregnable plastic chamber. One day, a mutant by the name of Nightcrawler infiltrates the White House and attempts to assassinate the president, setting off a chain reaction of anti-mutant measures by the government.
Meanwhile, Logan is trying to discover his past. As scientist named William Stryker discovers Professor X’s secret school and Cerebro, Magneto’s partner, Mystique, is planning to break her leader out of prison.
But when Professor X’s school is attacked by Stryker’s forces, Logan, Rogue, Iceman and a few are lucky to escape. Those who remain meet in Boston, where they form an uneasy alliance with Magneto to stop Stryker and rescue Professor X.
– Written by John Wiggins
X-Men: The Last Stand (PG-13, 3.75/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
When a cure is created, which apparently can turn any mutant into a normal human being, there is outrage amongst the mutant community.
Whilst some mutants do like the idea of a cure, including Rogue, many mutants find that there shouldn’t be a cure. Magneto, who still believes a war is coming, recruits a large team of mutants to take down Warren Worthington II and his cure. Might seem easy for the X-Men to stop, but Magneto has a big advantage, which Wolverine doesn’t have.
Jean Grey has returned, and joined with Magneto. The Phoenix has woken within her, which has the ability to destroy anything in her past, even if that ‘anything’ is the X-Men.
– Written by Film_Fan
The Wolverine (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
In modern day Japan, Wolverine is out of his depth in an unknown world as he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed.
Vulnerable for the first time and pushed to his physical and emotional limits, he confronts not only lethal samurai steel but also his inner struggle against his own immortality, emerging more powerful than we have ever seen him before.
– Written by Twentieth Century Fox
X-Men: First Class (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time.
Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-MEN.
– Written by Twentieth Century Fox
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.
– Written by Twentieth Century Fox
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
At the story’s heart is Caesar (Andy Serkis), a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug.
Raised like a child by the drug’s creator, Will Rodman (James Franco) and a primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto), Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno.
Seeking justice for his fellow inmates, Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary – putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever.
– Written by emauger1
Hitman [Uncut] (R, 4.5/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
A gun-for-hire “Hitman” is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as ‘The Organization’ is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Eastern Europe.
But even 47 couldn’t anticipate a “random equation” in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman.
-Written by Anthony Pereyra
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (PG-13, 3.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.99 to own in HD)
Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as “The Fantom.”
This “League” comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo, vampiress Mina Harker, an invisible man named Rodney Skinner, American secret service agent Tom Sawyer, the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray, and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
– Written by Anonymous
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