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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 148.

Stratton (2017)

Action, action thriller, thriller film

After a failed mission to destroy an Iranian bioweapon, British Special Boat Service operator Sergeant John Stratton (Dominic Cooper), working for the Intelligence Detachment in Northern Ireland, tracks down the terrorist cell who used the mission as cover to steal the weapon for their own purposes. Due to the failed mission, Stratton suspects a mole. His boss Sumner recognizes the terrorist leader as Grigory Barovsky, a Russian spy, presumed dead for nearly twenty years.

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Savage Streets (1984)

Action, exploitation film, rape and revenge film, thriller film

Rebellious high-school student Brenda spends an evening on Hollywood Boulevard with her group of friends known as the Satins: Rachel, Stella, Francine Ramirez, Stevie and Maria. Accompanying them is Brenda's younger, innocent deaf-mute sister, Heather, of whom Brenda has grown extremely protective following their father's death. A reckless drug-dealing gang known as the Scars, which consists of Jake, Vince, Red and Fargo, nearly run the girls down on a street corner in Jake's convertible, causing Heather to fall to the ground.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Adventure, Drama, Historie, swashbuckler film

thumb|upright=1.2|Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon in The Scarlet Pimpernel In 1792, shortly before the Reign of Terror, select French aristocrats are being saved from death by a secret band of English noblemen. The Scarlet Pimpernel, their mysterious leader, is Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English baronet and friend of the Prince of Wales. Sir Percy cultivates the image of a fop to conceal his identity.

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Truck Turner (1974)

Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, thriller film

Mack "Truck" Turner (Hayes) is a former professional football player who becomes a Los Angeles–based bounty hunter after an injury. Truck visits his girlfriend, Annie (Annazette Chase), who is in jail and wants to leave LA when released. Truck and his partner Jerry Barnes go to collect their bounty from Nate Dinwiddie, a bail bondsman, who refers them to Fogarty (Dick Miller), a bail bondsman after a pimp who skipped bail named Gator.

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The Man (2005)

Action, Action Comedy, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime

In Detroit, a federal armory of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is robbed of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. An ATF agent was killed, and he and his partner Agent Derrick Vann are suspected to have been in on the robbery. Vann, attempting to clear his name, sets up a buy.

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Gabriel (2007)

Action, Horror

Since the beginning of time, Heaven and Hell have fought over Purgatory and the souls trapped inside it. Each side has sent seven warriors: archangels (Arcs) from Heaven, fallen angels (Fallen) from Hell. They must assume human form to enter purgatory.

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Drum (1976)

Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, LGBTQ-related film

Drum is born in Havana to a white prostitute, who raises him with her black lesbian lover. Drum grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves to the brink of death for the entertainment of the owners, one of whom is a gay Frenchman named Bernard DeMarigny. DeMarigny wants to have sex with Drum.

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The Reivers (1969)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama

Set in 1905, the film follows the exploits of the likable but raffish Boon Hoggenbeck, who takes an interest in a new car, a new 1905 Winton Flyer owned by Boss, patriarch of the McCaslin family, who live in the Mississippi area where Boon lives. When the taking of the car, first by Boon, then by Ned — who are reivers, or thieves — leads to a public brawl, the local magistrate lets them off on a bond that Boss pays on the condition that both men stay out of trouble and far away from the car while he is away with family to attend a funeral. Boon violates the condition when he takes the car again to go to Memphis to see his love interest,…

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Gen¹³ (1998)

science fiction action film, Superhero, teen film

College student Caitlin Fairchild is offered a scholarship by the National Security Committee to attend a secret military school set in a U.S. desert base. While there, she meets new friends Percival Chang (Grunge) and Roxanne Spaulding (Freefall).

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Lord Jim (1965)

Adventure, Drama

In 1899, Jim is a promising young English merchant seaman who rises to first officer under Captain Charles Marlow. Jim is injured and left at Java. When he is fit again, he signs on with the first available ship, a dilapidated freighter called the SS Patna, crammed with hundreds of Muslims on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

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Wrecker (2015)

Action, Horror, thriller film

A husband and wife driving a 1973 Ford Torino station wagon become stranded on a stretch of road known as Devil's Pass. When their cell phone reception cuts out, they wait for help. Elsewhere, Emily joins her friend Leslie on a road trip after she becomes frustrated with her boyfriend, whom she believes may have cheated on her.

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Ninja III: The Domination (1985)

Action, Horror, Martial arts, ninja film

Christie Ryder (Dickey), a telephone linewoman and aerobics instructor, is possessed by the evil spirit of a fallen ninja warrior she encounters. The spirit uses her body to carry out his revenge on the police officers who killed him. One of them is Billy Secord (Bennett), who catches Christie's eye yet cannot explain her preoccupation with Japanese culture or help her with her sudden blackouts.

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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)

Action, Science fiction, spy film

Oscar Goldman is reluctantly attending a gala banquet at The Pentagon to celebrate the upcoming "World Unity Games" unhappy that he now has to practice détente with former enemies in the era of glasnost. Also at the gala, Steve Austin is nervously preparing to propose to his love interest Jaime Sommers (a secret which his colleagues all seem to know). Just as he is about to ask the question, the building is put on alert when a masked person infiltrates the building, breaks into an office, and steals top secret information from the computer system.

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Lightning Jack (1994)

Comedy, Western

Lightning Jack Kane, a long-sighted Australian outlaw in the American west, lives with his horse, Mate. After the rest of his gang is killed in a robbery-gone-wrong, Jack survives only to read of the events in the newspaper that he was nothing next to others. Annoyed at not being recognised as an outlaw, Jack attempts a robbery by himself, and ends up taking young mute Ben Doyle as a hostage.

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It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955)

Action, Adventure, B movie, disaster film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film

A nuclear submarine on its shakedown cruise in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews, comes into contact with a massive sonar return. Unable to outrun or outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and returns to Pearl Harbor. Tissue from a huge sea creature is discovered jammed in the submarine's dive planes.

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Dark Horse (2011)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama

Abe (Jordan Gelber), a man in his thirties who lives at home with his parents, meets suicidal Miranda (Selma Blair) who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career and a divorce. While waiting outside Miranda's house for their first date, Marie (his secretary) runs up and tells him to give up on pursuing the girl as he has no shot, but then he wakes with a start revealing it was a dream. At several points in the film Marie (his secretary who says she had twin children who would have been Abe's age but died) turns up in unexpected places and talks with him, often to discourage him from pursuing a relationship with…

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The Reunion (2011)

Action

After the death of her father, Nina (Amy Smart) is charged with fulfilling his last wish – to bring her three brothers back together... Sam (John Cena), a hardened cop currently on suspension; Leo (Ethan Embry), a loudmouthed overbearing bail bondsman; and Douglas (Boyd Holbrook), a handsome 20-year-old thief fresh out of jail. When Leo discovers the con he pledged a lot of money for is suspected of kidnapping one of the wealthiest men in the country, he convinces his two brothers to join him on what will become a dangerous, yet exhilarating adventure.

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The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

Crime, Detective, Drama, Secret Agent, spy film

Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization. Quiller leaves the Konigshof Hotel in West Berlin and confronts a man who has been following him, learning that it is his minder, Hengel. Hengel gives Quiller the few items found on his dead predecessor: a bowling alley ticket, a swimming pool ticket and a newspaper article about a Nazi war criminal found teaching at a school.

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