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Action, Comedy, Secret Agent
Jane and Jefferson Blue are a wise-cracking couple of spies for an unnamed U.S. covert organization on maternity leave in New Orleans with their baby daughter whom they dote on (though they are unable to agree on whether her name should be Louise Jane or Jane Louise). With the baby's arrival, they have decided to move on to "Chapter Two" of their marriage, retiring from field assignment in an attempt to give their daughter a normal life.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, spy film, thriller film
In 1914, Imperial German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of mysterious assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British Intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black notebook are in danger. He turns to Richard Hannay, a mining engineer who is visiting Great Britain for a short time before returning to the Union of South Africa, who happens to be staying in a flat in the same building.
Action, thriller film
In August 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, the German military decides to move captured treasure, paintings, and about 25 tons of gold ingots from Paris to a safe location. The gold is then transported to the small Bosnian town of Bosansko Grahovo, where it is put into the bank vault. German forces arrest all the townspeople while a little boy escapes as they execute the townspeople.
Action, Adventure, Drama, romance film, swashbuckler film
D'Artagnan, an inexperienced Gascon youth, travels to Paris to join the elite King's Musketeers. On his way, he encounters a mysterious lady at a roadside inn. When he picks a fight with one of her escorts, she becomes suspicious and has him knocked unconscious.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set two years before the pilot episode, the film is narrated by Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), a US Navy SEAL Commander, who is being questioned by Admiral Lawrence (John Diehl) about a mission in Colombia. Sam reveals that he had unwittingly had an affair with a superior's wife (Chandra West) and that he was punished with a dangerous mission: to track down a terrorist group known as the Espada Ardiente and assess the need for American support against them. In Colombia, Sam meets his new team, including Commandante Veracruz (Pedro Pascal), then goes to a local clinic to tell them that they're in danger only to be brushed off by the two…
Action, Adventure, Martial arts
While working undercover at Ayers Rock, Inspector Bob Taylor of the Australian Federal Narcotics Bureau confronts Win Chan, a Chinese drug courier, and his partner; Chan gives chase, leading to a fight on top of the site during which Taylor eventually bests him, while his partner is killed when his car crashes and explodes after being pursued by a police helicopter. Due to Chan's refusal to cooperate and inability to speak English, the Royal Hong Kong Police Force assigns one of its Special Branch's finest officers, Inspector Fang Sing Leng — who is not only a polyglot but also a deadly master of kung fu and sharpshooting — to assist…
Action Comedy, Blaxploitation, buddy cop film, Comedy, comedy thriller, thriller film
Deke "Reverend" O'Malley, a con man, is selling shares at a Harlem rally, for the purchase of a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. During the rally, several masked gunmen jump out of a meat truck and steal $87,000 in donated cash from the back of an armored car. Two Harlem detectives, "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin Ed" Johnson, chase the car, and a bale of cotton falls out of the vehicle, unremarked at the time.
Western
thumb|upright=1.1|Joan Collins and Gregory Peck in a film still Jim Douglass is a rancher pursuing four outlaws he is convinced murdered his wife six months before. He rides into Rio Arriba, where these four men, Alfonso Parral, Bill Zachary, Ed Taylor and Lujan, are in jail awaiting execution for an unrelated murder and is allowed to see them by Sheriff Eloy Sanchez. In town, Douglass meets Josefa Velarde, whom he met and fell in love with nearly five years previously in New Orleans.
Action
Chan Foh To is a junkyard mechanic and a part-time race car driver who helps the Hong Kong Police Force in their crackdown on illegal street racing in the country. One night, while helping news reporter Amy Yip and Mr. Lam after their Mitsubishi FTO runs out of gasoline, Chan commandeers the car with Amy inside to chase after a speeding black Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 driven by the dangerous criminal driver Warner "Cougar" Kaugman.
Classical Western, Western
In 1866, remorseful former border raider Glyn McLyntock is guiding a wagon train of settlers to Oregon. While he is checking the trail ahead, he rescues Emerson Cole from being lynched for stealing a horse. Laura Baile, one of the pioneers, fancies McLyntock.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction
After being snubbed before a weekend getaway by his teaching assistant, socially awkward professor of physics Tarl Cabot accidentally unlocks the magical properties of a ring that transports him to the planet Gor. After his arrival, Cabot encounters a village being attacked by the army of the tyrannical self-appointed priest-king Sarm. Sarm's forces are invading neighboring settlements in an effort to retrieve the Home Stone, a mystical object that creates pathways between Gor and distant Earth.
Action, Drama, thriller film
In 1954 Macon County, Georgia, brothers Chris (Alan Vint) and Wayne Dixon (Jesse Vint) from Chicago are on a two-week spree of cheap thrills throughout the South before their upcoming stint in the Air Force. Wayne entered the service when Chris was given the option of military duty in lieu of prison as the result of an earlier episode with the law. Driving through Louisiana, the brothers pick up hitchhiker Jenny Scott (Cheryl Waters), a pretty blond with a shady backstory that she would rather not discuss.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Animation, Dystopian, Time travel
In the present day, Dexter's rival Mandark attempts to steal Dexter's invention, the Neurotomic Protocore. Mandark is thwarted by Dexter, who then returns to work in his lab. After being annoyed by his sister Dee Dee, he tells her to go away, leading her to inadvertently enter a time machine in the lab.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, spy film
Coming to the assistance of a nanny who is almost killed during a bungled hit-and-run assassination attempt, Richard Hannay is surprised to find that there is no baby in her pram. Curious, he meets her at the Palace Music Hall where she has gone to see the act of Mr Memory. Afterwards, she goes back to Hannay's flat with him, where she reveals that she is a spy working for British Intelligence following a group called "The Thirty-Nine Steps"; all they know about their elusive leader is that he is missing the tip of a finger.
Action, Comedy, Crime
Dealing with his guilt after being forced to kill his assassin coworkers, Mike Fallon moves to the island of Malta to decompress and get away from London, finding work as a hitman-for-hire in nearby countries and keeping martial artist Wong Siu-ling on his payroll to fight him at random times and keep his skills sharp. One night, Mike runs into his old friend Finicky Fred, who informs him that their former boss Big Ray lost his assassin's bar after Mike's vengeful rampage. Fred is also out of money because he gave a large sum to a woman with whom he fell in love online.
Adventure, Biography, Drama
On May 19, 1927, after waiting a week for the rain to stop on Long Island, New York, pilot Charles A. "Slim" Lindbergh tries to sleep in a hotel near Roosevelt Field before his transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. His friend Frank Mahoney guards his hotel-room door from reporters.
Action, fantasy film, medieval film, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, swashbuckler film
A year before his death, Sir Bowen visits the cave of his long-dead dragon friend Draco and finds an egg. He entrusts it to the monastery of his friend Brother Gilbert. Aware of a prophecy stating that "a dragon's heart could doom mankind when a two-tailed comet blazed across the night sky", the friars pledge to hide the dragon until the comet passes, with Friar Peter protecting and teaching him for 20 years.
Action, Adventure, Comedy
An office team go on a two-day team-building seminar on a tropical island. The group includes Chris, a meek office worker and Eagle Scout; Phil, a manipulative bully who steals his ideas; Lisa, an HR manager and Chris' love interest; and Jared, a sarcastic slacker. However, when the pilot is found dead and Storm, their ex-Marine guide, is mauled by a tiger, the office workers must fend for themselves.
Action, Crime, Drama, hood film, romance film, thriller film
Ex-con Otis Samuel Sr. or "O2" on account of his ability to vanish from a crime scene like oxygen, has done his time and is determined to stay out of trouble and never leave his young son, Otis, Jr. When Otis arrives late to pick up Junior from school, he pledges that he will always return for Junior.
Drama, Western
Pacer Burton is the son of a Kiowa mother and a Texan father working as a rancher. His family, including a half-brother, Clint, live a typical life on the Texan frontier. Life becomes anything but typical when a nearby tribe of Kiowa begin raiding neighboring homesteads.
Action, Gangster Film, thriller film
Harris is a London crime boss, with Neelyn as his main enforcer. They fly to West Virginia after Harris strikes a deal with an old and valued friend, an American oilman named Preston. Stakes are high with Preston genuinely concerned with keeping his operation environmentally clean.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, Superhero
Scientist Peyton Westlake is still searching for the key to creating a permanent liquid-skin formula to mend his burned face and body, and continues to operate as the vigilante "Darkman." He interrupts a criminal exchange spearheaded by power-hungry businessman and crime boss Peter Rooker, who becomes fascinated by Westlake's superhuman strength and agility. Westlake is later approached by Dr. Bridget Thorne, one of the physicians who saved his life after the brutal attack that scarred him years earlier.
Action, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In 1982, a Soviet moon lander crashes into the Bering Sea. In 2015, biology professor Stephen and graduate students Ronelle and Sadie go on an experimental tour to study the effects of global warming on whales. Sadie's grandfather, Graff, takes them to sea in his fishing trawler Harbinger, crewed by Bowman, Roland, Big G, Dock, Svetlana and Atka.
Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama
The narrative of the miniseries primarily follows Attila the Hun (reigned 434–453) during his rise to power, violent unification of the Hunnic tribes, and subsequent campaigns, first against the Eastern Roman Empire, and later against the Visigoths and the Western Roman Empire. A parallel narrative follows Roman general Flavius Aetius, Attila's primary antagonist, who works vigorously to keep the Western Roman Empire intact despite factional politics, a weak emperor, and a steady stream of barbarian invasions.