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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
Walter Krunk is a 35-year-old orphan who has lived in an orphanage since childhood. He has a friendship with a fellow orphan named Henry. During a play at the orphanage, Walter ruins the set by crashing into the set when his harness malfunctions.
Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Walter Weed, an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI, is informed of an assassination threat against him from a mysterious figure called Hal Leuco. Weed will be assassinated on April 19 at precisely 3:00 am. Several assassins have taken the contract, including Ariella Martinez, a femme fatale who kills her victims with exotic poisons; Finbar McTeague, nicknamed "The Surgeon" for brutally torturing his victims; Fritz Tremor and his children Lester, Kaitlyn, and Baby Boy; and Lazlo Soot, a sadistic master of disguise.
Action, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
Joe is a professional freelance contract killer who works strictly by the rules: never socializing outside his work, staying secluded in quiet spots, never interacting or meeting with his handlers and always leaving on time without a trace. He uses multiple aliases and usually hires small-time criminals such as, but not limited to young pickpockets who can speak some English, as his local help and middlemen between him and his handlers, always murdering them the end of the job to prevent any identification. He also carries a watch to perform a hit in specific time and correctly visualizes his every target.
Horror, action comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction film
Immediately after his apparent demise at the end of the previous film, a new Tall Man emerges from his dimension fork. Meanwhile, after being ejected from the hearse carrying Mike Pearson and Liz Reynolds, a surviving Reggie watches as the hearse explodes. Reggie finds Liz dead, but saves Mike from the Tall Man by threatening to kill them all with a grenade.
Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
Latigo Smith, a gambler and confidence man, is traveling by train in frontier-era Colorado with the rich and powerful Goldie. Goldie wants desperately to marry him, a fate he wants to avoid. He hands the train's headwaiter a generous tip to assist him off the train without letting Goldie realize that he is fleeing.
Western, Western film
In 1854 in Texas, the outlaw Butch Cavendish and his gang of outlaws are chasing a young Comanche boy named Tonto. He rides into a thicket and falls off his horse and down an embankment. John Reid, a boy who was already there, hides Tonto, and the outlaws kill everyone in the small village but John.
Action, Martial-Arts, Wǔxiá, action film
A narration tells of a legendary Indian Buddhist monk, Bodhi who found the art of Kung Fu and the belief that his mummified remains has mystical powers. The Dark Stone gang, having found that half of the remains are in the Prime Minister Zhang's hands, sends assassins to kill him and his son Renfeng. Dark Stone's top assassin, Drizzle steals the remains and flees.
Crime, buddy cop film, crime film, thriller film
Tough lieutenant Jim Brannigan of the Chicago Police Department is sent to London to extradite a notorious American mobster, Ben Larkin. Brannigan is assigned a local officer, Detective-Sergeant Jennifer Thatcher, to help while he is in London. But before Brannigan can collect his man, Larkin is kidnapped.
Psychodrama, action film, drama film, war film
After learning their unit will soon return home, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. William Marsh, Sergeant Vanessa Price, Specialists Tommy Yates and Jamal Aiken, and Private Jordan Owens participate in a final mission, to convoy medical supplies to a remote Iraqi village. The lead vehicles are trapped in a narrow street by an insurgent ambush and the remainder escape the initial barrage by taking a detour into an improvised explosive device.
Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film
The film runs two narratives simultaneously: the preparation for the escape and the escape itself. Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. When Perry receives his first letter in fourteen years, informing him that his cherished daughter is a drug addict and near death following an overdose, he starts to think about escaping.
Action, Horror, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller
Lunar is a small Nevada town kept alive by its military base (near Area 51) and urban folklore featuring aliens. One morning, local Phil is killed after a truck with no driver veers into his home. A transfer truck carrying frozen meats later starts swerving erratically.
Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Paul, a mechanic, speaks to his daughter Beth on video chat. Though she seems stressed and distracted, she says that she is fine. The two make plans for her coming visit back home after finals.
action film
In 1919, a community of Yolngu people in Arnhem Land are massacred in a police operation to punish unrelated Aboriginal men for killing a cow. Only two survive the attack: a warrior, Baywara, and his nephew, Gutjuk. World War I veteran and policeman, Travis, saves and takes Gutjuk to the East Alligator River Mission Outpost, handing him over to Claire.
Political Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller
While walking with the First Lady after exiting the Presidential motorcade, the president is shot by a man holding a camera. The president's main Secret Service agent, Alex Thomas, is grazed by the bullet that hits the president. Thomas and other Secret Service agents kill the shooter, but the president dies at the hospital.
Action, Detective Film, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Stanley White is New York City's most decorated police captain and a Vietnam War veteran assigned to New York City's Chinatown. His personal mission to crack down on Chinese organized crime causes him to neglect his wife, Connie. White comes into conflict with Joey Tai, a young man who ruthlessly rises to become the head of the Triads.
Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the Rettendon murders of three drug dealers in the village of Rettendon in Essex, England.
Western, Western film
Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) is found lying in the road in a weakened condition, without a horse. Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine) takes him to his ranch, where one of his workers Pinky (Rod Steiger), accuses Jubal of smelling of sheep dip and burns his clothes after Jubal falls asleep in a bunk. Horgan is married to an attractive, younger woman named Mae (Valerie French) whom he met in Canada.
action film, comedy film, spy film
Eighteen-year-old Michael Corben of Detroit, Michigan, is a handsome underachiever slacker. Rather than attending his high school French class, he spends all of his time drinking and partying, until graduation arrives, when all of his debauchery catches up to him and he learns that he cannot graduate without a French credit. He has only one more chance to obtain the credit: the French teacher, Mrs.
Action, Secret Agent
A group of officers based in the Citadel, a top-secret CIA–Five Eyes black site in Jordan, must fight for their lives in a cat-and-mouse game against Hatchet, a brilliant and infamous high-value detainee, who got himself on the black site on purpose. This would also lead him to escape from Abigail Trent, who joins the CIA to find out who is responsible for destroying a hospital that killed her husband and daughter.
Thriller, rape and revenge film
Adam, a 23-year-old self-employed security technician, is hired by businesswoman Alice Comfort to set up a security system in her flat. After finishing the work, Adam falls asleep on her roof-garden. When Alice arrives home and finds him there, she impulsively asks him to accompany her to a housewarming party for her boss.
Action Comedy, action film, adventure film, comedy film, pirate film
High school student Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) misses the plane he was supposed to be on with his rich girlfriend and her family on the way to a Caribbean vacation during a school break. He flies there alone, and runs into a series of characters and misadventures as he tries to catch up. Ganja-smoking island natives give Dan a lift in their vehicle, but they don't quite make it as the family takes off on a chartered yacht.
Western, Western film
Clay Lomax is released from prison after serving seven years for robbing a bank. He goes looking for his former crime partner, Sam Foley, who shot Lomax in the back as they ran from the bank and left him to be arrested. Learning of his release, Foley hires a trio of young thugs—Pepe, Skeeter and Bobby Jay Jones— for the promise of $100 (5 double eagle gold pieces) to track Lomax's movements.
Action, Military Film, action film, thriller film
In March 1991 during the Gulf War, United States Marine Gunnery Sergeant James Dunn, a sniper, received orders to eliminate an Iraqi courier. When Dunn discovered the courier was a ten-year-old boy, he refused, leading to a confrontation with his commanding officer who threatened to execute him for insubordination. In the ensuing struggle, the lieutenant was accidentally killed.
Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, thriller film
Kevin “Stretch” Brzyzowski (Wilson) is a failed actor turned limo driver in Los Angeles who is addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and gambling. One day, he is thrown from his car in an accident. Miraculously uninjured, he confronts the other driver, Candace (Decker), only to fall instantly in love.