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Drama, Western
Stagecoach robber Bill Miner is caught and sent to prison for 33 years. He is finally released in 1901. He wanders around, a man out of place in the new century, until he sees one of the first films, The Great Train Robbery, and is inspired to copy it in real life.
Action, Adventure, Drama, spy film, war film
On November 17, 1941, on Governor's Island in New York City, Captain Rick Leland is court-martialed and discharged from the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry but is coldly rebuffed. Ostensibly on his way to China to fight for Chiang Kai-shek, he boards a Japanese ship, the Genoa Maru, sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Yokohama via the Panama Canal and Hawaii.
Action, Adventure, thriller film, Western
A man named Jackson wakes to find his home and barn burning; Mexican bandits have taken his wife. He manages to shoot one before he tries to dig something up in his barn, but is overcome by smoke. The next morning, neighbors wake him.
Drama, thriller film
In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War, Sir Robert Hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle, but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done. Because of his high status in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and cover it up as a hunting accident, but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off of a cliff to disguise the signs.
Classical Western, Western
Outnumbered but determined, the deputy marshal of Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, his older brother Virgil, who is the current city marshal, his younger brother Morgan, a Tombstone special police officer, and ally Doc Holliday, who was made an officer and given a badge for the occasion, confront and get the best of the Ike Clanton gang in a violent shootout at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona town of Tombstone. Clanton, a rustler, conspires to have the Earps charged with murder and tried in a court of law.
Action, bushranging film, Drama, Western
Dan Morgan witnesses a bloody massacre of Chinese immigrants on the goldfields and turns into a robber. He is arrested and sent to prison for six years where he is tormented and raped. He is let out on parole and becomes a bushranger, befriending an Aboriginal man, Billy.
Comedy
Best friends Joe Bill "Rack" Racklin (Toby Keith) and Lonnie Freeman (Rodney Carrington) are deputy sheriffs in the small town of Mangum, Oklahoma, who enjoy pig hunting and drinking at the local bar, the Thirsty Monkey. After his girlfriend Cammie (Gina Gershon) leaves him when he does not make time for her due to his job and hanging out with friends, Rack finds out that his old flame Annie Streets (Claire Forlani) has returned home from Chicago to care for her sick mother. Rack, Lonnie, and their friend and fellow deputy Skunk Tarver (Ted Nugent) arrest three local criminals and a Mexican drug lord, Tito Garza (Greg Serano), for…
Drama, war film
During the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, the Germans opened fire on their American prisoners of war, in what is known as the Malmedy massacre, killing many troops as they try to run away. Medic Steven Gould (Alexander Niver) manages to escape with Corporal Nathan 'Deacon' Greer (Corbin Allred). Gould and Deacon are joined by two other survivors, Shirl Kendrick (Larry Bagby), a member in Gould's division, and Deacon's close friend Sergeant Gordon Gunderson (Peter Asle Holden).
Crime, Drama
A corrupt and greedy businessman, Carl Ridley (Bill Paxton), is running from the government, with his 18-year-old daughter Pippa (Agnes Bruckner) in tow. Pippa is not happy to leave her friends and comfortable life in Miami for the Cayman Islands. Arriving in the islands, Ridley is preoccupied.
Action, Crime, Drama
In Los Angeles, trade union lawyer named Walter Deaney kills a burglar in his house. Only an unorthodox plainclothes detective named Mitchell believes that Deaney is guilty of something more than self-defense, but police chief Albert Pallin tells him that Deaney is wanted for "every federal law violation in the book" and is therefore "FBI property." To keep Mitchell away from Deaney, the Chief orders him to stake out the home of James Arthur Cummins, a wealthy man with ties to the mob whose "big scene" is the import and export of stolen merchandise. Mitchell initially is unconcerned with Cummins and focuses primarily on Deaney.
Action, speculative fiction, thriller film
In Jerusalem, rabbi Rostenburg designs software to decode prophecies hidden within the Torah. Rostenburg handwrites each one in a journal. One of the prophecies says that he is about to die; he tears the page containing the final code from his journal and hides it.
Action, Crime, neo-noir, thriller film
<!--Plot is more than 700 words; per [[WP:FILMPLOT]], summaries for feature films should be between 400 and 700 words.--> Elderly gangster Robert Dragna recruits professional killer Jack to pick up a bag and wait for his arrival at a motel. Robert Dragna stresses that Jack is not to open the bag or allow anyone to view its contents under any circumstances, illustrating his point with a piece of broccoli. Confused as to why Dragna wants him to do such an apparently easy job, Jack presses for more details, but Dragna only reiterates the rules.
Comedy drama, Crime, romance film, teen film, thriller film, Tragicomedy
Andrew Morenski and two others, all stockbrokers, have passed bogus bonds for a mobster awaiting trial. After an evening out at a bar, one of them is killed in his home. The next morning, the FBI take the other two into protective custody.
Action, biopunk, Science fiction
Following the failure of the original Universal Soldier program, the budget has been cut by the government. On orders from a mysterious CIA director, a crooked security consultant Otto Mazur, leads a gang of mercenaries who take control of a new line of Universal Soldiers. Mazur plans to sell fifty of them to a wealthy Asian client.
Action, Comedy, fantasy film, Superhero
The film follows Sergeant Detective Harry Griswold, a clumsy N.Y.P.D. cop investigating a string of murders involving kabuki actors and their families. While attending an amateur kabuki play, he witnesses thugs gunning down the entire cast.
Adventure, Comedy, family film, mystery film
Deliveryman "Mad" Max Grabelski (Daniel Stern) is charged with delivering packages to millionaire Reinhart Bragdon (Anthony Heald) for $50 tips. During a late night delivery, Max accidentally stumbles across a fire in Bragdon's mansion and is cornered by FBI Agent Palmer (Jon Polito), but accidentally picks up Agent Palmer's gun and manages to escape. Max later sees a news report in which Palmer claims that Bragdon was killed in the fire, which was set up by Max to stop him from exposing a money-laundering conspiracy.
Action
U.S. Marine Corps Captain Brad Paxton is living with his wife Kate, an archeologist, and a daughter in New York City. He is still haunted by the nightmare of his service in Syria.
Action, Drama, Martial arts, ninja film, thriller film
Casey Bowman is an American orphan, who is adopted into a martial arts dojo in Japan. Due to his perseverance and desire to master bushido, Casey earns the respect of his Sensei Takeda and his daughter Namiko. However, the dojo's top student Masazuka becomes bitter over Namiko's friendship with Casey.
Action, Drama, war film
Nick Gunar, an ex-soldier, is down and out in Chicago in a typically cold winter. When two men offer him a job on a tropical island, he reluctantly agrees and gathers together a group of soldier friends also down on their luck. They arrive in the Far East and come up against the evil Keefer, who was with Nick in Angola.
Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster
USGS scientist Emily Schiffman theorizes that a series of minor earthquakes are building up to a super quake that will sink the entire city of Los Angeles into a lava-filled chasm. Engineer Jack, whose deep fracking company is responsible for the quakes, feels obligated to help. He and Emily race through the increasingly damaged city in hopes of diverting the epicenter to Long Beach and potentially saving millions of lives, including Jack's daughter.
Adventure, Crime, Drama, romance film
Jane Hoyt arrives in Hong Kong, looking for her husband, reckless photojournalist Louis. He entered Communist China without a visa and was imprisoned as a suspected spy. She sees Hong Kong Marine Police Inspector Merryweather, who found Hoyt's cameras on the junk that took him into China.
Drama, war film
During World War II, British Squadron Leader Lane-Ferris is badly wounded when a German interceptor attacks his bomber en route to a German railway junction at Schneidemühl. Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes assumes command and carries out the mission.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family Comedy, Japanese Animation Film, Science fiction
During a battle with Dr. Animo, Ben Kirby Tennyson's destruction of the scientist's "DNA bomb" accidentally sets off a self-destruct protocol in the Omnitrix. Its activation alerts Tetrax , who travels with his alien blob-like pilot Gluto to Earth in order to retrieve Ben.
mystery film, thriller film
Stone Alexander is a six-year-old boy whose mother has died giving birth to his younger brother, David. During a party at his influential father's home, Stone is left alone with David, who is in his crib. As Stone stares into the fireplace, a fiery force possesses him.