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Action Comedy, comedy television program
Loner Sam Larson has written a fictional novel, Memoirs of an International Assassin, but is struggling with the last line. After his friend Amos, a self-described former Mossad analyst, tells him a wild story about an assassin named Ghost, Larson incorporates this into his novel. Published online, it is reclassified as nonfiction, retitled True Memoirs of an International Assassin.
Action, Adventure, war film
In 1964, mercenary Bruce Curry is publicly hired by Congolese President Ubi to rescue European residents from an isolated mining town about to be attacked by rebel Simbas. However, his real mission is to retrieve $50 million of diamonds from a mine company's vault. Curry's group includes his black friend Ruffo and alcoholic Doctor Wreid.
Action, Science fiction
A satellite, just launched from a Space Shuttle orbiter, collides with an unidentified object, which, after being spotted on radar moving at great speeds, had positioned itself just over the ship. The collision kills an astronaut in the launch bay. The events are witnessed by Bancroft and Price, the astronauts aboard.
monster film
Eight teenagers, including Brady, Claire, Duncan, Kit, Annabelle, Sunny, Foster, and Hubs, are going on a weekend boat trip on a remote lake in Southern California for spring break. As the group is about to depart on their boat, Sheriff Bowman warns them to be sensible and stay out of danger. After a day of partying, the group has a bonfire, where Kit tells them a local story about how in the early 20th century, a hotel owner named Harlan featured a crocodile named Flat Dog at his hotel.
Action, Anti-War Film, Drama, war film
The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II. Captain Ernest Gordon was a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who fought in several battles in the Malayan Campaign and the Battle of Singapore before being captured and made a prisoner of war by the Japanese.
Action, animated film, Cartoon, Science fiction, teen film
Dr. Drakken has been developing a new and elaborate master plan to take over the world. Among the plan's stages are the procurement of a new toy design stolen from Japanese developer Nakasumi, the creation of synthodrone androids, and a bizarre research project investigating the lifestyle of teenage girls.
Action Comedy, Comedy
While police officer James Coffee enjoys his new relationship with Vanessa Manning, her beloved 12-year-old son Kareem plots their break-up. Attempting to scare away his mom's boyfriend for good, Kareem, whose father (Vanessa's husband) died of cancer, tries to hire criminal fugitive Orlando Johnson to take him out. Before doing so, he both witnesses a shooting and accidentally exposes a secret network of criminal activity involving drugs and dirty cops, which makes his family its latest target.
Action Comedy, Adventure, chick flick, Drama, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film, monster film, musical film, supernatural horror film, teen film
Clawdeen Wolf is now a famous monster for saving Monster High from Edward "Eddy" Hyde Jr. She arrives at Draculaura's back to school party with Frankie Stein, and is unhappy about the fame. Her boyfriend Deuce Gorgon tells her that's what popularity is like.
Action
Natasha Martin is an auto mechanic and aspiring musician who is invited to join music producer Infamous aboard his private jet en route to Las Vegas in appreciation of her services on his Ford GT. She is also a highly skilled race car driver, but is haunted by memories of her father's death at a NASCAR race many years ago. Meanwhile, on another side of town, USAF veteran Carlo, returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, meets up with his brother Jason before heading to Vegas themselves.
Action
Two years ago, Michelle Miller's husband Jeffrey died in a bomb explosion in front of her while serving in Afghanistan. She now works as a casualty surgeon at Mercy Hospital, and lives with her son Bobby. Meanwhile, FBI agents McBride and Ellis have arrested Ryan Quinn, a member of the Irish mob the Quinn Gang Brotherhood.
Action, Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film
Evan Lake is a highly decorated veteran CIA agent and Intelligence Star recipient reduced to a desk job at Langley with his protege and close friend Milton "Milt" Schultz. Twenty-two years ago during an op in Africa, Lake was captured by terrorist Muhammad Banir and tortured by having his head repeatedly bashed and having his ear mutilated. During the extraction and ensuing explosion, Banir went missing and was presumed dead, although Lake never believed it and has obsessively tried to find Banir ever since.
Action Comedy, Crime Comedy
Riko and Kane are two friends that live together in an East London flat and dream of being taken seriously as roadmen. They owe a debt of £15,000 to a local Indian crime family, the Patels. Kane failed to get the money when, when unsuccessfully attempting to sell drugs to a Somalian gang, was instead beaten up.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film
Geneticist Nathan Sands and his daughter Nicole are hired by the U.S. Navy to create a new weapon; they create an intelligent shark that has the tentacles of an octopus, dubbed S-11, controlling the creature using electromagnetic pulses with a device attached to its head. During one of the test missions, S-11 discards the device before traveling to Mexican waters to find food.
Action, Crime
Tim Kearney is a prison inmate who is recruited by federal agent Tad Gruzsa to impersonate drug dealer Bobby Z, so that Tim can be exchanged for Tad's colleague held hostage by drug kingpin Don Huertero. But at the exchange, just as Tim walks towards Huertero, Tad shoots at Tim and misses. Realizing that he was never expected to make it out of the exchange alive, Tim escapes.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film, Sword-and-sandal
The film is set in a heroic fantasy world. The Ragnicks, a tribe of peaceful travelling entertainers, are attacked by the evil tyrant Kadar, who takes their queen Canary hostage. Canary, however, manages to hide her magic ruby, the lucky jewel of the Ragnicks which Kadar seeks to bolster his power.
Action, Dystopian, Science fiction
The year is 2050, during the final years of the human race. In the United Corporations of America, which is plagued by overpopulation and an unemployment rate of 99.993%, the Death Race provides both entertainment and population control. Spanning from Old New York to New Los Angeles, the current Death Race features reigning champion Frankenstein, genetically engineered athlete Jed Perfectus, hip-hop sensation Minerva Jefferson, female cultist Tammy the Terrorist and the evil, black, artificially intelligent, self-driving car ABE.
Action, mystery film, thriller film
Border Patrol agents Bobby Logan and Ernie Wyatt are planting motion sensors in a remote area of the Texas desert when they stumble across what appears to be a decades-old Jeep buried in the sand. Upon excavating the vehicle, they find an intact skeleton in the driver's seat, a toolbox containing $800,000 in unused 10 and 20 dollar bills, and a hunting case containing a scoped sniper rifle with matching ammunition. The skeleton is accompanied by a wallet, containing the driver's license of a Michael J.
Action, Political Thriller
Set in Washington, D.C., this film documents an attempted power grab by White House Chief of Staff Jacob Conrad. Bobby Bishop is a special aide to the President of the United States who finds out about a plot to assassinate the President from a former professor. Bobby's old professor is murdered shortly thereafter and Bobby is left to try to uncover the conspiracy on his own.
Action, Adventure, thriller film
In 1977 Africa, veteran mercenary Allen Faulkner leads fifty hired soldiers in a mission to rescue deposed President Julius Limbani. After rescuing the president, the team is double-crossed and Faulkner's men are attacked in the open by a hostile airplane. Faulkner tries to escape with a handful of survivors in an antique Dakota aeroplane.
found footage film, hood film
Three college students drive to the Bluff, a westside Atlanta neighborhood, intending to buy some drugs from a dealer. Clearly naive, they joke about flirting in hopes of getting free drugs, and reassure one another that they have nothing to fear. One of the students holds a camera with the hope of filming the encounter.
Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, Family Comedy
In an alternate futuristic society where humans and dinosaurs co-exist, a tough police detective named Katie Coltrane (Whoopi Goldberg) is paired with a Tyrannosaurus named Theodore Rex (George Newbern) to find the killer of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, leading them to a ruthless billionaire bent on killing off humankind by creating a new ice age. This is explained in the first 10 seconds by scrolling text. The film opens on a black and white scene, a dark villain, Mr.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, who were so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents. They can be activated only by a special code phrase, a line from the Robert Frost poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" – followed by the agent's real first name. Their mission was to sabotage crucial parts of the civil and military infrastructure in the event of war.
Comedy
In the Soviet Union on the eve of Perestroika, groups of potential Soviet spies are trained in a town made up to pass for "Indian Springs", Nebraska. The denizens of the town speak perfect English and go about their days as Americans to train the cadets to fit into American society. One of the trainers in this town, KGB agent Bob Smith, feels that the training is substandard as the town has failed to develop culturally since its inception and is stuck in the 1950s.
Action, Crime
Seattle cop Cliff Garret is severely wounded in a drug bust gone bad—shot by his corrupt partner Ronny "Del" Delany. Garret dies momentarily in the emergency room, but is revived with a defibrillator. His police supervisor, Chambers, has the hospital conceal his survival, and Garret is given a new identity.