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Colombiana, the Glossary

Colombiana is a 2011 French English-language action thriller film co-written and produced by Luc Besson and directed by Olivier Megaton.^[1]

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Films about Colombian drug cartels
Films directed by Olivier Megaton
Films scored by Nathaniel Méchaly
Films with screenplays by Robert Mark Kamen
French vigilante films
Parkour in film

Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Affif Ben Badra

Affif Ben Badra (sometimes credited as Afif Ben Badra or Ben Badra, born 1960) is an actor and stuntman currently living in France.

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Amandla Stenberg

Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress.

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Ariel Zeitoun

Ariel Zeitoun (born 26 September 1949) is a French director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Beto Benites

Beto Benites (born c. 1970) is a Peruvian actor, casting director, and producer.

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Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Callum Blue

Daniel James Callum Blue (born 19 August 1977) is an English actor.

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Camille Delamarre

Camille Delamarre is a French film editor and director, best known for directing The Transporter Refueled and Brick Mansions.

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Cattleya

Cattleya is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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CineEurope

CineEurope (formerly Cinema Expo International) is the longest running European trade show and convention for the cinema industry.

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Claudia Puig

Claudia Puig (born September 10, 1956) is an American entertainment journalist and film critic.

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Cliff Curtis

Cliff Curtis (born July 27 1968) is a New Zealand actor.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Colombia in popular culture

The depiction of Colombia in popular culture, especially the portrayal of Colombian people in film and fiction, has been asserted by Colombian organizations and government to be largely negative and has raised concerns that it reinforces, or even engenders, societal prejudice and discrimination due to association with narco-trafficking, terrorism, illegal immigration and other criminal elements, poverty and welfare.

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Contract killing

Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people.

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Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Cynthia Addai-Robinson (born January 12, 1985) is an American actress.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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EuropaCorp

EuropaCorp S.A. (stylised in opening logo as EUROPA CORP. until 2022) is a French motion picture company headquartered in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, and one of a few full service independent studios that both produces and distributes feature films. Colombiana and EuropaCorp are EuropaCorp films.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Gaumont Film Company

The Gaumont Film Company, often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).

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Glamour (magazine)

Glamour (stylized in all caps) is a multinational online women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications and based in New York City.

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Global North and Global South

Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics.

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Graham McTavish

Graham McTavish (born 4 January 1961) is a Scottish actor and author.

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Groupe Canal+

Groupe Canal+, also known as Canal+ Group in English, is a French media and telecommunications conglomerate based in Paris, owned and controlled by Vivendi.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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Jesse Borrego

Jesse Borrego (born August 1, 1962) is an American actor best known for his roles as Cruz Candelaria in Blood In Blood Out, Jesse V. Velasquez in Fame, Gael Ortega in 24, and George King in Dexter.

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Jordi Mollà

Jordi Mollà Perales is a Spanish actor, artist, writer, and filmmaker.

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La Femme Nikita (film)

La Femme Nikita, also called Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. Colombiana and La Femme Nikita (film) are films produced by Luc Besson, films with screenplays by Luc Besson, French action thriller films and Girls with guns films.

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Léon: The Professional

Léon: The Professional (titled Leon outside the United States) is a 1994 English-language French action-thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. Colombiana and Léon: The Professional are English-language French films, films with screenplays by Luc Besson, French action thriller films and French films about revenge.

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Lennie James

Lennie Michael James (born 11 October 1965) is a British actor, screenwriter, and playwright.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Luc Besson

Luc Paul Maurice Besson (born 18 March 1959) is a French filmmaker.

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Max Martini

Maximilian Carlo Martini (born December 11, 1969) is an American actor, writer, and director known for his roles as Corporal Fred Henderson in Saving Private Ryan, Wiley in Level 9, First Sergeant Sid Wojo in The Great Raid, and as Master Sergeant Mack Gerhardt in the CBS military drama television series The Unit.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michael Vartan

Michael Vartan is a French-American actor, known for his role as Michael Vaughn on the ABC television action drama Alias, his role on the TNT medical drama Hawthorne, and his role on the E! drama The Arrangement as Terence Anderson.

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Nathaniel Méchaly

Nathaniel Méchaly (born 1972) is a French musician and film composer.

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Ofelia Medina

María Ofelia Medina Torres (born 4 March 1950), more commonly known by her stage name Ofelia Medina, is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films.

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Olivier Megaton

Olivier Megaton (born Olivier Fontana; 6 August 1965) is a French director, writer, and editor who directed the films The Red Siren, Transporter 3, Colombiana, Taken 2 and Taken 3.

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Robert Mark Kamen

Robert Mark Kamen (born October 9, 1947) is an American screenwriter, best known as creator of ''The Karate Kid'' franchise, as well as for his later collaborations with French filmmaker Luc Besson, which includes the screenplay for The Fifth Element (originally devised by Besson) and the Transporter and Taken franchises.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Sam Douglas

Sam Douglas (born Douglas Samuel Waters; 17 June 1957) is a British actor best known for his role as private detective Scott Shelby in the PlayStation 3 video game Heavy Rain, as King Herod in The Bible miniseries for the History Channel, and as Rosebud in the movie Snatch.

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Senses of Cinema

Senses of Cinema is a quarterly online film magazine founded in 1999 by filmmaker Bill Mousoulis.

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SmartMedia is an obsolete flash memory card standard owned by Toshiba, with capacities ranging from 2 MB to 128 MB.

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A spin-off or spinoff is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work.

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TF1 Group

TF1 Group (Groupe TF1) is a French media holding company.

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The Debt (2010 film)

The Debt is a 2010 remake of the 2007 Israeli thriller film Ha-Hov, directed by John Madden from a screenplay by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan.

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The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, and Chris Tucker. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. Colombiana and the Fifth Element are English-language French films, films with screenplays by Luc Besson and films with screenplays by Robert Mark Kamen.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombiana

Also known as Cataleya Restrepo, Colombiana (film), Columbiana (film).

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Colombiana, the Glossary

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See also

Films about Colombian drug cartels

Films directed by Olivier Megaton

Films scored by Nathaniel Méchaly

Films with screenplays by Robert Mark Kamen

French vigilante films

Parkour in film

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