Director Joe Carnahan (1969)

Copshop (2021), an  American action thriller directed by Joe Carnahan and written by Kurt McLeod and Carnahan, is based on a story by McLeod and Mark Williams. The film follows con artist and fixer Teddy Murretto as he evades capture in a stolen unmarked police car. However, his getaway vehicle breaks down near a Nevada casino. In the midst of a brawl outside the establishment, Murretto deceives rookie police officer Valerie Young by sucker-punching her and getting her to ...

In Joe Carnahan’s sci-fi action film, Boss Level (2020), Roy Pulver, a retired Delta Force soldier living in Atlanta, is trapped in a time loop. After experiencing the same events repeatedly, he has become familiar with the day’s routines and can predict when danger will strike. His day starts at 07:00 AM when he wakes up and must quickly avoid an assassin in his apartment. This is followed by an attack from a gunman in a helicopter outside his window, leading him to escape his apartment before it explodes. As the morning goes on, he successfully evades more assassins but struggles to survive an assault at ...

In the survival thriller film The Grey (2011), co-written, produced and directed by Joe Carnahan, John Ottway is a sharpshooter protecting staff from frequent grey wolf attacks at a remote Alaskan oil facility. After losing his wife to a terminal illness, Ottway becomes depressed and indifferent towards life. On his final day of work, he contemplates suicide before boarding a flight back to Anchorage with his coworkers. Unfortunately, the plane crashes in an icy wilderness and Ottway must survive alongside John Diaz, Jerome Talget, Pete Henwick, Todd Flannery, Jackson ...

Smokin’ Aces (2006) is a thrilling American action film written and directed by Joe Carnahan. Infamous Las Vegas magician and aspiring criminal, Buddy ‘Aces’ Israel, finds himself holed up in a Lake Tahoe hotel while his agent negotiates for him to receive immunity from the FBI. With mob boss Primo Sparazza offering a million-dollar reward for Israel’s heart, various hitmen have been summoned to collect the bounty: master of disguise Lazlo Soot, contract killers Sharice Watters and Georgia Sykes (hired by Sparazza’s right-hand man), mercenary Pasquale Acosta, and three merciless neo-Nazis ...