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Action, spy film, thriller film
Harry Palmer is forced into early retirement from MI5. He receives a telephone call offering a mysterious job opportunity. Later he is given an air ticket to Saint Petersburg and on arrival is met by a young man named Nikolai.
Action, Drama, Gangster Film
Three former prisoners - Troy, Mad Dog and Diesel - are hired to kidnap a baby and share a big ransom payment.
Action, American football film, disaster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
An unknown sniper (Warren Miller) positions himself at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before a professional football championship dubbed "Championship X" (Ten) between Baltimore and Los Angeles, similar to the Super Bowl. He is spotted by a Goodyear Blimp camera. Police and a SWAT team are immediately called in by stadium manager Sam McKeever (Martin Balsam).
Action, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film
When Jane Jones, a beautiful but troubled American backpacking her way through Hong Kong, successfully fends off three thugs trying to rob her, it draws the attention of Shu, a female fighting champion. Shu recruits and trains Jane to fight in the vicious, all-female underground martial arts tournament known as The Kumite. After months of rigorous training, Jane is ready to face off against her killer rivals, including the apprentice of Shu’s nemesis, a Shaolin master.
Action, Martial arts
Jeff Sanders leads a double life. By day, he is a construction worker; by night, he is a skilled practitioner and master of American Kenpo. Jeff's background is revealed; after losing his mother as a child, he became an outcast and frequently lashed out at his family and society in an attempt to assuage his anger.
Action, Adventure, Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, ninja film, thriller film
Paul Racine, a tech executive from New York City, is on a business trip to Nagoya. He meets a woman, Kirina, in the hotel lounge, and they have a one-night stand. After they part ways, Kirina is approached by Kinjo and two henchmen.
Adventure, Horror, Science fiction
In his primitive laboratory somewhere in the Peruvian jungle, mad scientist Alexander Thorkel attempts to shrink all of humanity to reduce its impact on the environment. At one point, he summons a team of expert biologists from America to examine a specimen in his microscope, since his eyesight is too poor for him to do so himself. One of them identifies iron crystal contamination, much to Thorkel's satisfaction.
Adventure, Classical Western, Western
At West Point Military Academy in 1854, Cadet Carl Rader (Van Heflin), an agent of John Brown, is dishonorably discharged for instigating a brawl among the cadets after distributing anti-slavery pamphlets which his classmates disapprove of—due to the controversial nature of the pamphlets (some believed the issue of slavery to be one that would inevitably resolve itself) and the U.S. Army's position against the pursuit of ideological causes while serving. Following the brawl, Rader's classmates Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and George Custer (Ronald Reagan) become second lieutenants and are posted to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, the most…
Action, crime thriller film
Detective Tyler Burke and his two men Gideon and Saul kill drug dealer George Freemont after destroying evidence showing Burke distributing narcotics. Meanwhile, Detective John Shaw returns to active duty at his precinct after the death of his partner, Ray Jones, in which Shaw was shot and sidelined with post traumatic stress disorder. He is met by his supervisor Captain Ellen Matthews, recent police academy graduate Officer Jenny Taylor and Burke, who is being hailed for busting Freemont.
disaster film, Drama
The SS Claridon is an aging transpacific ocean liner, scheduled to be scrapped after just a few more voyages. Cliff (Robert Stack) and Laurie Henderson (Dorothy Malone), and their daughter, Jill (Tammy Marihugh), are relocating to Tokyo and decide to sail there on board the ship. A fire in the boiler room is extinguished, but not before a boiler fuel supply valve is fused open.
Action, thriller film
A retired Provisional Irish Republican Army member (Morgan) witnesses the accidental killing of his pregnant wife and escapes, wounded and presumed dead, to 1970s London to plot his revenge.
Drama, war film
Captain Karl Ehrlich is the master of the aging German steam freighter Ergenstrasse, home port Hamburg, docked at Sydney, Australia, on the eve of the Second World War. Ehrlich is a former German Navy officer, who lost his command after refusing to support the Nazi regime. As his ship prepares for sea to avoid internment, Erlich meets with an old friend, British Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Jeff Napier, and Napier's German fiancée Elsa Keller.
disaster film, katastrophe
Shelby Gilmore, an international hotel magnate who owns the Kalaleu Gilmore, a resort hotel on a Pacific island, wants desperately to marry his secretary, Kay Kirby and proposes to her under the impression that she'll become his seventh wife. Kay is in love with Hank Anderson, an oil rigger whose scientists are warning him that the island's active volcano, Mauna Nui, is about to erupt. Shelby's partner is Bob Spangler, who inherited the island from his father, a sugar cane baron.
Action, Adventure
In a small Arizona town, the new kid, Kyle, finds himself saving one of his classmates, Jason, from a group of bullies and they quickly become friends. Jason takes Kyle to the local airport where his uncle Ed works, and they all go on a flight. Thrilled about the adventure, they plan to meet again the next morning at the airport.
Action, thriller film
In Honolulu, Hawaii, a man dumps containers into the ocean and then goes to meet with men in suits expecting to get paid. But because he dumped the containers and altered the schedule of those container shipments to the customer, he is killed. Menwhile, a couple, Sebastian and Dani, is dive surfing with a model.
Crime, trial film, Western
In 1881, Sergeant Braxton Rutledge of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, one of four colored regiments in the U.S. Army, is on trial for rape and murder.
Action, Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Eddie Jilette is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score. Eddie flees through the Louisiana bayous with Michel Duval, the beautiful Cajun mistress of a murderous crime lord who aims to destroy the Chicago detective before he can avenge his partner's murder. Michel and Eddie fall for each other, although they clash repeatedly while handcuffed together as they attempt to elude the brutal underworld figure and his henchmen.
Crime, Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, suspense film, thriller film
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico deputy sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body of Bob Spencer is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, authorities find a digested piece of paper with a phone number; Dolezal, posing as Spencer, calls the number and goes to a meeting, where he is robbed and instructed to meet gunrunner Gorman Lennox at a restaurant.
fantasy film, Mysterie, Western
Dr. Lao rides a golden donkey (implied to be The Golden Ass of Apuleius) into the small town of Abalone, Arizona and visits Edward Cunningham's newspaper to place a large advertisement for his traveling circus, which will play for two nights only. Although quiet, Abalone is not peaceful.
Action, Adventure, Drama
Shack (Ernest Borgnine) is a conductor on the Oregon, Pacific and Eastern Railroad, during the Great Depression. He zealously guards his freight train, the No. 19, against those trying to ride for free.
Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) is working as a postman and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with his life. He asks long-running school friend Jude (Jude Law) to help him into the North London criminal gang run by his uncle Ray (Ray Winstone). As Jonny gets more involved in the image of the criminal world, he starts making mistakes and through a mutual dislike for rival gangster Matthew (Rhys Ifans) inadvertently starts a war with the South London mob, headed up by Sean (Sean Pertwee).
Action, Comedy, Science fiction
Agent Maxwell Smart is called back into service in order to stop a nefarious KAOS terrorist plan from exploding a bomb that destroys only clothing, so as to leave KAOS as the only supplier of clothes to the entire world. Norman Saint-Sauvage, the KAOS fashion designer, finds everyone else's clothing designs gauche, so he builds a machine capable of cloning his favorite seamstress and implements the Nude Bombs. He wears a costume including thimbles over each finger, and his mountain lair is entered via a giant zipper.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime
John Smith is down on his luck. His girlfriend left him for a doctor. A hooker steals his wallet at an Apache Reservation casino.
war film
At Montigny, Meurthe-et-Moselle in 1944, infantry squad leader Sergeant Larkin is resting with his men after weeks at the front. A replacement named Private John Reese has been assigned to the platoon. Reese, a former master sergeant and Distinguished Service Cross recipient, was demoted after a court-martial.