Michael Byrne’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Michael Byrne has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Recurring themes

The Warriors
1979
Action · Thriller

Ninja Assassin
2009
Action · Adventure

Naked Weapon
2002
Action · Drama

Kali: Avenging Angel
2024
Action · Thriller

Project Silence
2024
Thriller · Action

The Street Fighter
1974
Action · Crime

Babylon A.D.
2008
Action · Adventure

Gantz
2010
Horror · Action

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Dir. Jack Gold · With Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick
A duo of bisexual female vampires prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce and murder in the English countryside.
Dir. José Ramón Larraz · With Marianne Morris, Anulka Dziubinska, Murray Brown

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Šerbedžija

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Dir. Bryan Singer · With Brad Renfro, Ian McKellen, Bruce Davison
On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.
Dir. Chris Nahon · With Gianna Jun, Allison Miller, Liam Cunningham

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
Dir. Guy Hamilton · With Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Barbara Bach
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
Dir. Steve Barker · With Catherine Steadman, Richard Coyle, Ali Craig

The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel.
Dir. Gavin Scott · With Joan Allen, Julianna Margulies, Anjelica Huston
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.
Dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel · With Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Charles Edwards

In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.
Dir. Roger Christian · With John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker