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Comedy, Crime Comedy, LGBTQ-related film
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former San Francisco burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her. A dentist, Dr. Cynthia Sheldrake, hires Bernice to break into her ex-husband Christopher's home and steal back her jewelry.
Classical Western, Drama, Western
In the town of Cottonwood Springs, Texas at the turn of the century, Marshal Frank Patch is an Old West style lawman in a community determined to move beyond its rough past into the 20th century. When Patch kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town council decides it is time for the marshal to retire so that a modern police force can be established in the town. Patch refuses, reminding the citizens that when he took the job, the agreement was he could have it as long as he wanted- and he still wanted the job.
Action, association football film, Crime, Drama, independent film
Cass is based on the true story of the life of Cass Pennant, adapted from his book. The film tells of how he was adopted by an elderly white couple in 1958 and brought up in Slade Green, an all-white area of London. Cass is forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis from local children, who also ridicule his feminine-sounding name, "Carol", a name given to him at birth.
Adventure, Drama
Alan Block is a teenage city slicker with his whole summer planned out. That is, until his parents introduce him to Vic, a charming wilderness survival guide. Vic convinces them that six weeks off the grid is exactly what Alan needs to become a man.
Action, Crime, Science fiction
The story follows Frank Warren (Hauer), a jewel thief and electronics expert who is betrayed by his accomplices after a successful diamond heist. Frank is sentenced to Camp Holliday, an experimental prison where inmates are fitted with explosive electronic collars linked to unknown partners. If linked inmates are separated by more than 100 yards, both collars detonate.
Action, Martial arts, thriller film
American FBI agent David Brandt is working undercover under the identity of Nick Davis, a former convict who died in solitary confinement, at a warehouse in Los Angeles that the Tendo crime family owns in order to infiltrate their operations. After Brandt saves the life of one of the family's leaders, Shuji Sawamoto, Sawamoto welcomes him into the criminal organization. As part of his introduction, Sawamoto takes Brandt to witness the execution of Okazai, an alleged traitor, via woodchipper then stops the execution at the last minute.
Action, thriller film
A plane carrying 50 pounds of pure heroin in sealed packets crashes near the US-Canada border. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers prepare to search for the plane, but a group of criminals led by the unstable Xander (Van Damme) kill them and take the coordinates for the crash: a lake just off King's Island. On the island, ex-Navy SEAL Henry Taylor (Scott) works as a forest ranger.
Adventure, Biography, children's film, Western
Creek Indian Wars Two Tennessee wilderness settlers, Davy Crockett and his best friend George Russell (son of Captain William Russell and Agness H. Mccollough), volunteer to fight with General Andrew Jackson and Major Tobias Norton in the Creek War (1813-1814). They return home after a successful battle, to make sure their families have enough provisions for the winter, rejoining a short time later to find the Americans at a stalemate against the Creeks, with Jackson having gone to New Orleans.
Action, Drama
At a racetrack, aging drag racing star Lonnie "Lucky Man" Johnson makes engine refinements to his car, which is sponsored by the international oil company Fast Company (FastCo). On its first test run it blows up, but Lonnie escapes unhurt. FastCo team boss Phil Adamson is not impressed, telling the head mechanic, Elder, that the team can't afford to win if it breaks the budget.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, crime thriller film, Detective, Drama, mystery film, neo-noir
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is tranquilized, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa, assuming the identity of an indigenous language-speaking itinerant worker. His job is to help break a criminal ring that is smuggling immigrants into Europe, then exploiting them. But the villains are tipped off that he is on his way.
Action, Crime
Ex-Special Forces operative Doc Alexander works as a fixer, upholding a secret truce between his old colleague, corrupt Governor of Oklahoma Richard Jeffs, and Mexican drug cartel head Lalo Prado, who helped get Jeffs elected. Jeffs breaks the truce with new tough-on-cartel crime policies, leading to the execution of Lalo's brother Juan during a police raid. Swearing revenge, Lalo sends his half-brother Cuco after Jeffs; Cuco kidnaps Doc's daughter Nell, demanding that Doc kill Jeffs and bring his head in exchange for her return.
Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy
When the police discover that mob hitman Horace Osborn has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robbersons' home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone and his young partner Tony Moore are assigned to the stakeout, but now it is a question of whether Jake can last long enough to capture the bad guys.
Anti-War Film, Drama, war film
In the closing days of World War II, Irish crewman Murphy is the sole survivor of the crew of merchant ship Mount Kyle, which had been sunk by a Nazi German U-boat and the survivors machine-gunned in the water. Murphy reaches the shore and finds a missionary settlement on the Orinoco in Venezuela, where he is treated by the pacifist Quaker Dr. Hayden.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Mikey and his stepmother Rose are contract killers and lovers. The two continue with their line of work even though Rose is suffering from cancer. Organized crime kingpin Clayton suspects that his pregnant wife Vicki may have been unfaithful, so he hires Mikey and Rose to kill her.
Drama, teen film
Malachy McKinny is a straight-A teenager working at the Titanic Leisureplex, a sports training complex owned and run by Dave. His best friend is Luke, a drug dealer living with his drug-addicted father. The two boys find themselves entranced by Michelle, a beautiful and charismatic teen who has just moved from London to live with her father, Dave.
Action
The Jesuit, a former gang enforcer who has been wrongly imprisoned, seeks revenge after his ex-wife is murdered by her vicious new husband, who kidnaps his son and takes him to Mexico. Joined by a stripper named Inez, he embarks on a quest to get his son back and avenge his fallen life.
Comedy, Silly Movie
The film tells about some ski school instructors who ally with an evil land developer to try to sabotage the ski patrol and convince the Forest Service to cancel the owner's lease on the ski area. At the end, though, the leader of the Forest Service recognizes the evil ski school's scheme and everything backfires.
Action, buddy film, Comedy, mystery film
Qin Feng thought he was going to attend his distant uncle Tang Ren's wedding, which turned out to be a hoax. Tang Ren had deceived Qin Feng to come to New York for another purpose. The godfather of Chinatown, Uncle Qi, gathered the world's best detectives from an app called Crimaster (which allows real detectives to upload their cases for the online community to solve them) and sets up a competition to locate his grandson's killer within one week for a reward of five million dollars.
Action, Adventure
In the midst of a deadly pandemic caused by a virus that makes the infected patients violent and zombie-like, which originates from the DMZ and which has already devastated the U.S. and North Korea, a man awakes in a blood-soaked bed at a motel room in Seoul with a cross-shaped scar on the back of his head. CIA agents arrive and demand he reveal the location of Dr.
Drama, Western
Karl Westover, a post-Civil War Texas farm boy, accidentally kills his brother-in-law and flees to Mexico. He is met by the outlaw Barbarosa. Barbarosa takes pity on Karl and shows him how to live as an outlaw adventurer.
Action, Science fiction
An American Special Forces soldier, serving in Kenya, suffers memory loss after being knocked unconscious during a battle with highly electrified bipedal robotic machines. He later wakes up in a jail cell wearing tattered fatigues and unaware of anything but memories of intense pain. He meets Nadia, a French foreign aid military doctor in the adjacent cell who tells him he "sounds American" and they were taken prisoner by a gang of xenophobic thugs.
Action
While on Wire Room duty – a high-tech command center surveilling the most dangerous criminals – a federal agent listens in as the target is attacked in his home by a hit squad. Without burning the wire yet, he must protect the investigation and the target's life from the confines of a room fifty miles away.
Action, Action Comedy, Science fiction, Secret Agent
Extreme sport lover Zhao Feng gets involved in illegal international trade by accident. So he follows an international special agent Bruce to Budapest. Together with a crappy police officer Miao Yan, a non-professional scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV, they form an amateur unit.
Action, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film
Former US Secret Service agent Captain Matt Hunter has retired to his family's ranch in Louisiana and Texas, with his sister Sarah and grandfather. They drive to New Orleans and meet Matt's old military comrade and local politician Larry Richards. Larry, Matt and their families ride in Larry's float in the Mardi Gras parade.