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Crime, Crime Comedy, mystery film, romantic comedy
Phil Blackwood is an American mystery novelist who has fallen into a rut with predictable plots and declining sales. He is floundering attempting to write a new novel, well behind schedule, and wastes time watching trials in court, where he is known as a regular among other spectators. Blackwood is stunned when he sees a dazzling Romanian murder suspect named Nina Ionescu arraigned in the court.
Action, buddy film, Drama
T.J. Burke tires of his auto assembly worker job in Detroit, quits, and convinces his friend Dexter Rutecki to move with him to Aspen. After succeeding in the new instructor tryouts for the Aspen Ski School, they both become ski instructors, although T.J.
Action, Adventure, Detective, Drama, historical film
The action takes place six months after the surrender of Germany, when the trial of Nazi criminals begins. Soviet scout-translator Captain Igor Volgin receives letters from his artist brother Nikolai, who had been missing since 1942. The letters were addressed to his mother, who died in besieged Leningrad.
Comedy
The movie opens in the tiny country of Pottsylvania, where Fearless Leader concocts a plan to obtain a time-reversal microchip, invented by Professor Anton Paulovitch. He asks his top agent, Agent X, to find the professor, but Agent X suggests they send some patsies instead. Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale accept the assignment and are told to defect to America.
Action, Crime, mystery film, Science fiction
The masked Crimson Ghost is determined to steal the Cyclotrode X, a device designed to repel atomic bomb attacks and that can disable electrical devices. Its inventor, university professor Dr. Chambers, demonstrates its powers at a faculty meeting by having it detect and fell a model airplane.
fantasy film, Martial arts
At a martial arts tournament, fighters compete for the right to begin a quest to challenge Zetan, a famous wizard who possesses a special book of enlightenment that is supposed to contain all the world's wisdom. An arrogant barbarian fighter, Cord, defeats every opponent, but he is disqualified for fighting dishonorably. Cord decides to follow the eventual winner, Morthond, hoping that he can lead Cord to Zetan.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Joe Moran, an American living in France, must face his past when his wife Fabienne Martin and daughter Michèle are kidnapped by former fellow convicts turned narco-dealers he once double-crossed.
Action, Drama
Drug boss Mel sends his associates Tes, Dawn, and Kara to intercept a truck driver bringing rival drugs to a diner at night. The women wait for the driver at the diner, but when they fail to identify him, they draw guns on the diner's other occupants and demand if anyone knows who the driver is. Instead, a shootout ensues when Francine, the diner's owner, and Jesse, a patron, draw firearms of their own.
Adventure, teen film
Although Michael has become a more mature individual since the first film and shows more concern for others, he still feels that, by birthright, he deserves to start at the top of his father's law firm. Michael's father does offer him a position at the law firm: a clerking job, and explains that only after thorough knowledge of the firm, a law school graduation, and passing the state bar will he ever be considered for a partnership. Michael takes a summer vacation with Tommy to Australia.
children's film, Western
Eight-year-old twins Jessica and Susie Martin live with their widowed father Stephen in Philadelphia. One day they receive a letter from their late mother Sarah's godmother, Natty, inviting Sarah to help at her struggling dude ranch. Unaware of Sarah's death, Natty seeks help to keep the ranch afloat.
war film
During World War II, the submarine USS Thunderfish, under the command of Commander John T. "Pop" Perry, while on a special mission to the Philippines, is charged with rescuing a group of nuns and children, including a newborn infant nicknamed Butch, and transporting them to Pearl Harbor. On their way, the crew sights a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacks, but its torpedoes malfunction, exploding halfway to the target.
Action, war film
At the start of the Tet Offensive, a Marine Long Range Reconnaissance unit led by Sergeant Major Bill Hafner (R. Lee Ermey) and Corporal Joseph L. Di Nardo (Wings Hauser) come upon a village where the locals have been executed gruesomely for fraternizing with the US troops.
Action, Adventure, Horror, independent film, LGBTQ-related film, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
A group of wakeboarders is attacked and devoured by a two-headed great white shark. Meanwhile, Sea King, a Semester at Sea-like ship led by Professor Franklin Babish and his wife Anne, hits a dead shark, which becomes lodged in the boat's propeller, damaging the hull and causing the boat to take on water. The two-headed shark then attacks the boat and breaks the radio antenna, preventing the ship co-captain Laura from summoning help.
Action, thriller film
British Home Secretary Stella Simmons drives home one night while engaging in an affair with the Prime Minister when a mysterious man remotely hijacks her self-driving car. After Stella realises the car has been hijacked she begins trying to escape before the mysterious man calls her. She is told that if she does anything wrong or calls the police he will swerve the car into a wall killing everyone inside.
Action
Similar to the first movie, the protagonist ex-bounty hunter Will (Randy Orton) finds himself in a game of death with several other contestants and is forced to rely on his skills and wits to survive.
Action, Adventure, Horror, Science fiction
The Southern Sun is a generation ship, a spacefaring vessel that contains a large number of people, whose mission is to colonize a new world. Its voyage from its original homeworld (implied to be Earth) has lasted thirteen generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground. This does not please Elijah Kalgan, chief of the Enforcers, the ship's security team.
Action, Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, flashback film, neo-noir, Science fiction
In a future Paris, 22-year-old scientist Ilona Tasuiev, who works for the megacorporation Avalon, is kidnapped. Meanwhile, police captain Barthélémy Karas defuses a hostage situation by killing the hostage-takers. Afterwards Karas is given the job of solving the mystery surrounding Ilona's disappearance.
Action, Ghost, Horror, Redsploitation, Slasher
When Zoe tells her mother that she wants to move in with her long-distance boyfriend, her mother is reluctant to let her drive by herself since she is deaf and would be unable to call for assistance if she needed it. Despite her reservations, Zoe's mother allows her to go alone which proves to have disastrous consequences when, in the course of bravely helping an injured reservation Indian, Zoe is abducted and brutally gang raped by about ten members of a degenerate local gang, descendants of the people who wiped out the Apache tribe inhabiting the lands over two hundred years ago. The preserved skull of the Apache chief is kept by them…
Action, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
The film starts in a room full of bomb making material and newspaper articles about LTTE bombings in Sri Lanka, the screen then cuts to a typical busy morning in Colombo. "The Man" (Ben Kingsley) plants five bombs around the city; on a public bus, in a shopping mall and the Polgoda police station, on an intercity train, and at the Katukurunda Airfield. The man then establishes his mini control station on top a skyscraper in Dehiwala and calls the police chief Morris Da Silva (Ben Cross) and informs him that if four prisoners are not released, the bombs will be detonated.
Action, Crime, Drama, spy film, thriller film
Following the events of Page Eight, ex-MI5 officer Johnny Worricker is in hiding on the Turks and Caicos Islands under the alias of Tom Eliot. A seemingly chance encounter with Curtis Pelissier leads Worricker to a dinner with several shady American businessmen who comprise a company called Gladstone. The following morning, one of the businessmen is found dead on the beach in suspicious circumstances; Melanie Fall, a Gladstone liaison, seems to know more than she lets on.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, thriller film
As Credit International bank teller Kaitlin Nest prepares to end her shift, a customer, Tripp Kennedy, approaches her and requests to have a $100 bill broken up into a specific configuration of coins. As he flirts with her, the bank is simultaneously stuck up by two groups of criminals; three high-tech professionals - Darrien, Weinstein and Gates - and two unmasked rednecks - "Peanut Butter" and "Jelly." While the trio wants to rob the vault, the duo simply wants the ATMs. A bystander named Jack Hayes is fatally shot and a crossfire gunfight is initiated.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, natural horror film, television film, thriller film
30 years after the events of the first film, a group of seagulls stand together on a coast. A fisherman uses his net to take a dead bird from the water, unaware of a swarm of seagulls flying toward his boat. Crows join the seagulls to attack and kill the fisherman.
Action Comedy, Adventure, Coming-of-age, fantasy film, Martial arts
Jack Bronson is a teenager who spends his free time playing warrior video games and working at a Chinese curios and antiques shop. His mother is trying to sell the house they live in before it goes into foreclosure. When Jack goes to a biking park, Travis, a neighborhood bully and his friends chase after him and he hides inside his bosses shop and helps out.
Action, LGBTQ-related film
Erika is struggling to make money running a photography studio to support her family. The problem is exacerbated when her nephew is diagnosed with a rare condition that may lead to blindness. One day, her former best friend Emman suddenly shows up.