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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film
The film establishes Jean-Claude Van Damme playing himself as an out-of-luck actor. He is out of money; his agent cannot find him a decent production; and the judge in a custody battle is inclined to give custody of his daughter over to his ex-wife. His own daughter rejects him as a father.
Adventure, drama film, war film
During the Peninsular War, Napoleon's armies overrun Spain. An enormous siege cannon, belonging to the Spanish army, is abandoned when it slows down the army's retreat. French cavalrymen are dispatched to find it.
action film, horror film, thriller film
Five friends go on vacation in Mexico for partying and diving. During a shark-diving excursion, they discover cartel cocaine, which puts them in the crosshairs of armed criminals. Tatiana (Laura Marano) and Kaley end up trapped in a shark cage underwater, and the cartel forces them to retrieve a bag of drugs from the ocean floor.
Action, Horror, Thriller
The film opens with a point-of-view shot, as a murderer surveys Amsterdam's canals at night. He slips into the back of a Chinese restaurant, steals a butcher's knife, and stalks his first victim, a prostitute. After she fights off a taxi driver, the killer stabs her and drags her body into the water, watched by a homeless person.
Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
In 1987, NASA astronaut Captain William "Buck" Rogers is piloting a compact, one-man space shuttle Ranger 3 when he flies into an unexpected space phenomenon and is frozen for 504 years. In the year 2491, his shuttle is found drifting in space by the alien flagship Draconia, which is headed to Earth for a trade conference, under the command of Princess Ardala and her aide-de-camp, Kane, a former native of Earth. Rogers is revived from his cryogenic sleep and is questioned by the princess and Kane.
Action, buddy cop film
In 1991, after taking down the Katana crime organization, LAPD Detective Joe Marshall plans to settle down with his girlfriend Jennifer when she is suddenly murdered by a young boy at a park. Twenty-five years later, Katana boss Fuj Fujiyama has successfully rebuilt his syndicate into a powerful multi-national organization, but is caught up in the midst of a gang war with the Shinjuku and Ginza clans. He informs his Vice President Doggé Sakamoto and subordinates that the war has awakened a long-missing Joe, and they must defeat him in order to secure the future of the clan.
Action, Mysterie
A shipping company employs a team of four people (a journalist, a psychic, a meteorologist, and an oceanographer) to discover the secret of the Bermuda Triangle. With the help of a Greenpeace survivor and a tycoon they ultimately find out the truth about a high-tech underwater facility operated by the United States Navy and its relation to the Philadelphia Experiment, determining that the Triangle is a wormhole. They close the Triangle, destroying it forever, but their efforts at closing the wormhole also disrupt time and cause the Triangle never to have existed in the first place, with everyone who was taken being returned and living out…
Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a brutal and experienced yakuza enforcer whose boss was killed and whose clan was defeated in a criminal war with a rival family. Surviving clan members have few options: either to join the winners, reconciling with shame and distrust, or to die by committing seppuku. Yamamoto, however, decides to escape to Los Angeles along with his associate Kato (Susumu Terajima).
Political Thriller, drama film, spy film
Joseph Rearden, a petty criminal-turned-agent for British intelligence, arrives in London. There, MI5 officer Mackintosh and his deputy, Mrs. Smith, inform Rearden of a way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service.
Military Film, Romance Film, action film, drama film, romance film
A Soviet Air Force jet lands on a U.S. Air Force air base in Alaska. The Air Force base commander, Colonel Jim Shannon, is surprised to discover that the pilot is a woman, Lieutenant Anna Marladovna, who asks for asylum, but refuses to disclose military information.
Action, Sport, historical film
During the 1983 World Rally Championship, intense rivalry develops between the team Audi Sport GmbH led by Roland Gumpert, with their AWD Audi Quattro, and the team Lancia Abarth under the leadership of Cesare Fiorio with their two-wheel drive Lancia Rally 037. The German team is the favourite to win. With only 103 models of Lancia Rally 037 models built, team Lancia subverts the required homologation minimum of 200 by presenting the same vehicles twice but on two different locations, Fiorio treating the two inspectors at lunch while the vehicles are moved.
Destiny, drama film, romance film
In the summer of 1953, Canadian bush pilot Charlie Halliday, a brash, former Second World War bomber pilot based in Yellowknife, is flying a routine job in the Queen Maud Gulf on the Arctic Ocean when he encounters a small band of Inuit who plead for his help. They are traveling with a sick young woman, Kanaalaq, and they ask Charlie to fly her to a hospital. Charlie suspects she has tuberculosis.
Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film
On the morning of February 28, 1997, various residents of Los Angeles go about their morning: LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division Detective Frank McGregor, dissatisfied with the stresses of policing, prepares to retire; Metropolitan Division SWAT Officer Donnie Anderson struggles with the recent death of his father, a 31-year LAPD veteran; Officers Henry Jones and Nicole Gomez detain a gangster, Ramon, on a domestic dispute call, and Jones brings him on patrol to convince him to reform himself; Officer Jake Harris field trains rookie Officer Bobby Martinez; KTTV journalist Kate discusses media treatment of police with McGregor regarding a case…
Adventure, action film, adventure film, comedy film
In outer space, a United States-owned satellite explodes due to a malfunction. One of its last remaining pieces, a surveillance beacon, falls to Earth and lands in Australia, only to be swallowed by a large crocodile. At the CIA, Agent Buckwhiler and Deputy Director Reynolds reveal that, in the wrong hands, the beacon's data could change the axis of power in the world, so they send two agents, Robert Wheeler and Vaughn Archer, to Australia to retrieve the beacon.
Adventure, Animation, action film, fantasy film
Tom (voiced by Bill Kopp) and Jerry are evicted from their house by Tom's owner after they destroy it during one of their usual chases. Upon seeing an ad for the "Fabulous Super Race", a reality race show, they build their vehicles from a junkyard before heading to Globwobbler Studios in Hollywood, California, and entering themselves in the race. The other racers in the line include elderly Grammy and her pet dog Squirty; dark lord and florist Gorthan; superstar Steed Dirkly; single mother of four Soccer Mom; and scientist Dr.
Thriller, action film, drama film
Velvet Von Ragnar is a powerful murderous psychopathic gang leader, but also a hermaphrodite who prides himself on being both a man and a woman. He's holding a gang rally where he announces his plans to poison the water supply and pipeline of a major US city. However, top US secret agent and double-O counterpart Drew Stargrove steals a key component he needs to pull this off.
Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
A retired CIA agent paints as a hobby. But his past has come back to haunt him, as a mysterious woman shows up. He must find the way to evade the incoming threat in forms of some trained op recruits.
Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Ryan Weaver, an accused serial killer and rapist, is arrested in New York City despite his claims of innocence. Even though police lieutenant Aldo Hines broke protocol during the arrest by assaulting Weaver, the authorities have enough hard evidence to have him extradited to Los Angeles to face trial. Weaver and another prisoner, a bank robber named Stubbs, are escorted by four U.S.
Romantic Comedy, Thriller, action film, comedy drama, comedy thriller, romantic comedy, romantic drama film
Chicago native Charlie Countryman is greeted in a hospital by his deceased mother after she is taken off life support. She requests him to go to Bucharest, Romania, and he complies despite his initial reservations. During his flight he bonds with Victor, a Romanian man who is returning home after attending a Chicago Cubs game.
Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, heist film, romance film, romantic comedy
Working as a toll collector on a lonely highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry is a man seemingly without ambition, dreams or purpose; a man sleepwalking his way through life. His wife Debbie is not happy with the situation. One morning Eddie, a friend, drops by to ask Henry to join a baseball game.
Action, Found Footage, Thriller
Used to encountering scammers online, four young adults come up with a plan to try to steal cryptocurrencies from Don Heard, a tech billionaire.
Animation, Komödie
One night at a fast-food chicken restaurant named Poultry Palace, Bonnie does not like the Zurg belt buckle toy she receives as her kids' meal toy. She asks if she could instead acquire a Mini Buzz Lightyear toy, but the cashier tells her the restaurant's supply of them has run out, and that the items in the display cabinet are unavailable, being for display only. A Mini Buzz Lightyear complains to a Mini Zurg that they will never be played with, but Mini Zurg prefers to stay because he doesn't want to get in trouble with anyone at Poultry Palace.
Action, Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, police film
NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been under pressure from the senior officers in the New York City police force because his team of renegade policemen, known as the "seven-ups" (so called because most criminals they arrest receive sentences from seven years and up) have been using unorthodox methods to arrest criminals; this is illustrated as the team ransacks an antiques store that is a front for the running of counterfeit money. Buddy received information about the counterfeit ring from his regular snitch & childhood friend, informant Vito Lucia. There has been a growing rash of kidnappings of organized crime figures and white-collar…
Action, action film
Gabriel Tancredi, a former Marine turned mob enforcer, breaks his code of conduct to save a police officer, Vanessa, who witnessed a failed assassination attempt ordered by Arnold Solomon, his friend and ruthless mob boss.