On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked Flight 139, an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. Two of the terrorists are West Germans named Wilfried Boese and Halima, and the other two are Palestinians. After landing to refuel in Libya, the four hijackers force the airliner to take off once again.
James, a man with nothing to lose, owes his life to his older brother Frankie, who took the rap for a crime they did together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around: he manages to get a job as a mechanic, and begins courting his girlfriend Emily, a police dispatcher. Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets and pulls his brother into a heist to serve as wheel man.
Link Jones rides into Crosscut, Texas to have a bite to eat, then catch a train to Fort Worth, where he intends to use the savings of his community of Good Hope to hire a schoolteacher. On the train platform Sam Beasley speaks briefly with Link, rousing the suspicions of the town marshal, Sam being a known gambler and con man. When the lawman remarks that Link looks familiar, he gives a false name, Henry Wright.
D.E.A. agent Shane Tanner is the son of a legendary cooler named James Dalton. Nate Tanner is Shane's uncle, and the owner of the Black Pelican, a bar located in Nate's new permanent home of Tyree, Louisiana.
In Los Angeles, divorced editor Carol Hunnicut is on a blind date at a hotel restaurant with widowed lawyer Michael Tarlow, when a waiter delivers a message for him to phone a client. Tarlow goes to his suite to make the call and invites her to come with him. While Hunnicut watches from a darkened room, the client, crime boss Leo Watts, unexpectedly arrives in person along with a gunman, Jack Wootton.
Action, Christmas film, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Once a celebrated race car driver, Brent Magna returns to a ransacked home and the horrifying discovery that his wife, Leanne, is missing. A chilling phone call soon follows from a mysterious man known only as The Voice, who claims responsibility for Leanne's abduction. The Voice reveals out a terrifying ultimatum: Magna must execute a set of dangerous tasks without fail if he ever wants to see his wife again.
Junior "JR" Bonner is a rodeo cowboy who is slightly past his prime, although he will not admit it. Junior is first seen taping up his injuries after an unsuccessful ride on an ornery bull named Sunshine. He returns home to Prescott for the Independence Day parade and rodeo.
Action, Drama, Martial arts, neo-noir, thriller film
One evening, at his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu studio, martial arts teacher Mike Terry is approached by attorney Laura Black, who accidentally sideswiped his car. Policeman Joe Collins, one of Mike's students, sees that Laura is distressed and tries to take her coat. Startled, she grabs Joe's gun, and it goes off, shattering the studio's front window.
Trip Carlyle and his elder brother, K.C. are motocross bikers following their father's dream to win the Supercross Championship. The Carlyle brothers clean swimming pools as a part-time job.
Tommy Gibbs is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named Jack McKinney. As an adult, he joins the New York mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem.
In late 19th century Mexico, Federales capture Quintero (Fernando Rey), a revolutionary who attempts to rally those opposing the dictatorship of President Díaz. Before going to prison, Quintero gives his lieutenant, Maximiliano O'Leary (Reni Santoni), $600 () with which to continue the cause. Bandit chief Carlos Lobero (Frank Silvera) demands that the money be used for guns and ammunition, but Max instead crosses the border in search of Chris Adams (George Kennedy): a legendary, American gunman whom his cousin had told him about.
A group of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, who are themselves tied into law enforcement agencies and criminal underworlds alike and who also control the international media with their billions, have devised the ultimate entertainment for themselves, simply referred to as "The Tournament." The Tournament takes place at intervals of every 7 years in an unspecified location, usually a large city. The "Contestants" volunteer, but due to the nature of the tournament, they are some of the toughest or craziest individuals on the planet. They are expected to kill, and only the last surviving combatant will win the cash prize of $10…
Johannesburg, 1973. A tunnel collapse at the Sonderditch gold mine is no accident. It was actually a failed plan by an international syndicate to manipulate gold prices.
Corey Webster is an amateur skateboarder from out of town who is staying in Los Angeles with friends in hopes of competing and winning a downhill competition for which he has been training. During his stay in LA, he falls for a beautiful blonde named Chrissy, who happens to be the younger sister of Hook, the leader of "The Daggers," a tough punk rock skateboard gang in the Los Angeles/Venice Beach areas. Chrissy is not a Dagger but has come from her home in Indiana to stay with her brother in L.A.
The movie opens to a narration (by Ron O'Neal) detailing the poor economic state of a gang-ridden Gary, Indiana. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches to the base of operations for the Rebels, a local street gang, and a one-on-one basketball game between a Rebels gang member and a local boy named Kenny Thompson.
Charged with a murder he did not commit, truck driver Frank Webster has broken out of jail. While on the run toward the Mexico–United States border, and the subject of radio news reports, he is cornered in a small Southern California coffee shop by a zealous citizen who is suspicious of the stranger. Frank manages to escape and, as he gets away, kidnaps a young woman named Connie.
In France just prior to the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette asks her cousin Noël, the Marquis de Maynes, to uncover the identity of "Marcus Brutus", a dangerous pamphleteer rousing hatred of the aristocracy. She also pressures de Maynes to marry to preserve his line, and at his request for her to choose his bride, he is introduced to Aline de Gavrilac, one of the Queen's wards. Meanwhile, minor nobleman André Moreau kidnaps his beloved Lénore to keep her from marrying another man.
1885, Arizona. Following mistreatment by Indian agency authorities, Ulzana breaks out of the San Carlos Indian Reservation with a small Chiricahua war party. When news reaches Fort Lowell, the commanding officer sends riders out to alert the local settlers, but both troopers are ambushed separately; one is dragged away, while the other kills the woman he is escorting and then himself.
Granger, a former Special Forces soldier living in modern-day Vancouver, is sent on a quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy. He is forcibly pulled into a time portal in his home after fighting off a small group of hooded assassins who try to kill him. He finds himself several hundred years in the past during the middle ages, in the forested war-torn Kingdom of Ehb.
An anonymous criminal plants a bomb under the chair of an ex-hacker, and forces him to break into high-level banking institutions. The bomber forces Orlando to carry out a series of increasingly complex cyber-intrusions, threatening to detonate the device if he refuses or attempts to escape. As Orlando works to outsmart the attacker, a bomb-squad veteran, Wallace Reed, attempts to locate the anonymous criminal and defuse the situation from outside.
Based on actual events of the early twentieth century, the story concerns a grueling cross-country horse race in 1906, with a winner-take-all prize of $2,000 ($ today), and the way it affects the lives of its various participants. The fifteen colorful contestants include: two former Rough Riders named Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews who can't let friendship come between them if they intend to win; Miss Jones, a lady of little virtue; Carbo, a punk kid; Mister, an old cowhand in poor health; Sir Harry Norfolk, an English gentleman who's competing just for the sheer sport of it all; and a Mexican with a toothache who literally needs to bite…
In 1916, young aristocrat Manfred von Richthofen is serving as a pilot with a fighter division of the Imperial German Air Service along the Western Front. After dropping a wreath over the funeral of an Allied pilot, Richthofen and his fellow pilots Werner Voss and Jewish Friedrich Sternberg encounter a squadron of the Royal Flying Corps led by Captain Lanoe Hawker. Richthofen shoots down Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown.
In 1917, four World War I Australian cavalrymen – Frank, Scotty, Chiller, and Tas – serve in Palestine as part of the 4th Light Horse Brigade, a unit of the British and Commonwealth forces. When Frank dies, he is replaced by Dave. Dave finds himself unable to fire his weapon in combat and is transferred to the Medical Corps, where he will not need to carry a weapon, but will still be exposed to the fighting.
