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Comedy, romantic comedy, Superhero
Steve Nichols is a struggling New York City actor who accepts the job of posing as comic-book hero for the needs of a film's promotion. After he stops a robbery while wearing the "Captain Avenger" costume, his life becomes unexpectedly complicated. Nichols decides to continue "playing" superhero and discovers that a hero's life is more complex than he expected.
Western
In the 1880s, Griff Bonnell, and his brothers, Wes and Chico, arrive in the town of Tombstone in Cochise County, Arizona. Griff is a reformed gunslinger, now working for the Attorney General's office, looking to arrest Howard Swain for mail robbery. Swain is one of landowner Jessica Drummond's forty hired guns.
Action, Comedy, Spaghetti Western, Western
Bill San Antonio accuses his old friend and partner Cat of cheating at cards. Bill's henchman, Bud, tosses a gun to Cat. Bill orders the others out and tells his henchman Bud to set fire to the house.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Jacob, who is the son of a deceased police officer, is employed as a bank manager. He is married to Christina, and they have a daughter, Sophia, who is very ill from an extremely aggressive form of Type 1 diabetes. As a result of Sophia's mounting medical bills, they are struggling financially.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Secret Agent, thriller film
Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is contacted by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) who, believing her husband Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) to be deceased, coerces her to try to locate Henry's confession notebooks. Fay is launched into a world of espionage as she travels to Paris to retrieve some of the journals, each having mysteriously appeared in the hands of the most unlikely of people. Simon Grim, Fay's brother and Nobel Prize–winning poet, remains home with his sister's son, the CIA agent, and his publisher.
Aliens, Comedy, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
The film opens with a security guard named Dennis investigating a deserted film vault at an old movie studio. While inside, his fantasy of being a rock star comes to life, but he dies while performing on stage. His boss, Mr.
Action, Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
Alex Lee is a bank employee struggling to pay the mortgage on her beachfront home in Los Angeles. As a result, she secretly moonlights at night as a high-class call girl under the alias 'Joanna'. Her most frequent client is Bruno Buckingham, an eccentric but dangerous money launderer who enjoys engaging in sadomasochism with Alex as a dominatrix.
Comedy, hood film
Working out of their van, Black (Master P) and Blue (Johnson) deal in TV sets and boomboxes, but then a driver mistakenly drops off a cell phone shipment. Business is on the upswing, but then the local crime boss, Roscoe, and his enforcer, T-Lay (Tom Lister Jr.), have a deal go sour and blame Black and Blue.
Action, war film
During the Vietnam War, a group of soldiers on a mission to gain intelligence materials, encounter enemy Vietcong (VC) forces in the extensive underground tunnel complexes that the VC have constructed below ground across South Vietnam during the conflict.
Action, Western
During the American Civil War, fur trappers Jed Cooper, Gus and Mungo are returning from a trapping expedition with a load of furs when they are surrounded by a large party of Indians, who ask them to hand over their guns, which they do. When the Indians ask for more, Gus says to give them their horses and the furs. Jed is reluctant to give away such valuable items but Gus says it is either that or be killed.
Action, Horror, Zombie
In a covert biological weapons laboratory in the Philippines, scientists work on a serum called Death One, which reanimates the dead. When Dr. Alan Holder and his assistant Norma experiment on a deceased human test subject, the corpse reanimates and reacts violently, prompting Dr.
Action, Drama, war film
The pilots of No. 303 Squadron RAF, part of the Free Polish Air Force, have escaped from Europe, following the Nazi invasions of Poland and France, to join the Royal Air Force. Czech Josef František, refusing to become a bomber pilot, invites himself into the newly formed unit.
Action, Martial arts
In the small town of Liberty, a vicious group of neo-Nazis terrorizes the populace, most recently murdering an African-American pastor and setting fire to his church. While visiting his sister and brother-in-law in Liberty, Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee) crosses paths with the group's leader Donnie Hansen (Mark Rolston), and is drawn into the conflict when his sister is attacked in their car. Later, the group attempts to harass schoolteacher Margo Preston (Gina Gershon) at a 4-H fair, but Tommy intervenes and fends them off.
disaster film, Drama, Natural Disaster
A storm surge travels between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, raising sea levels at the same time as the spring tide. Several parts of Scotland are devastated as a result, including Wick. The Met Office's head forecaster, Keith Hopkins, mistakenly believes the storm will head towards the Netherlands.
Action, thriller film
With the aid of a German nuclear physicist, dissident Russian General Konstantin Benin (Christopher Lee), a military casualty of the Soviet collapse, is conspiring to restore the Soviet Union to superpower status. His plan is to place a nuclear bomb on a train controlled by mercenaries, led by Alex Tierney (Ted Levine), bound for Iraq, forcing the Russian army to invade Iraq to recover it and once again mobilize its might - creating a new military union in the process. Malcolm Philpott (Patrick Stewart), the head of the United Nations Anti-Crime Organisation (UNACO), entrusts the mission of stopping the train and its deadly cargo to a…
Blaxploitation, exploitation film, Horror, Vampire
After Voodoo queen Mama Loa dies, her cult members vote adopted apprentice Lisa Fortier as her successor, leaving her arrogant biological son Willis outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Prince Mamuwalde, otherwise known as the vampire Blacula, from Ragman, the former shaman of the voodoo cult and uses voodoo to resurrect the vampire to do his bidding. However, while it brings Blacula back to life, he bites Willis upon awakening.
thriller film, Western
Shane Cooper, a young police officer, relocates to the small town of Red Hill with his pregnant wife Alice. On his first day on the job, he is shown hostility from William "Old Bill" Jones, the head of the police force, for being unable to find his gun and getting shot on duty when he could not bring himself to fire his weapon on an armed boy. Shortly afterwards, the police learn that Jimmy Conway, a convicted murderer who was arrested by Old Bill for killing his wife, has escaped from prison.
Comedy, Drama, Superhero, Tragicomedy
Dr. Park, a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington, a vigilante known as "Defendor", about his assault of a dry cleaning business owner. The story flashes back to Arthur's encounter with Dooney, a corrupt detective that Arthur believes is in the employ of his nemesis, "Captain Industry", who Arthur blames for his mother leaving him as a child and later dying from a drug overdose.
fantasy film, Superhero
Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien enter a Mayan temple, where they find Hellboy battling a gigantic zombie bat, and engage its zombie followers. The group are eventually able to defeat their opponents when Liz unleashes her pyrokinetic powers, although she is still unsure of her ability to control those powers. Meanwhile, Japanese folklore expert Professor Mitsuyasu Sakai obtains an ancient scroll.
Action Comedy, Comedy
A man, who is down on his luck, attempts to win a celebrity death pool by trying to kill David Hasselhoff. The prize is half a million dollars, which he can use to pay off a loan shark and get his life back on track.
Biography, Drama
The movie opens in 1923 with studio executive Frank N. Thayer receiving a letter in the mail, alongside a medallion of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Thayer then flashes back to the height of the Mexican Revolution.
Comedy drama, Crime, hood film
The story follows Kenneth (Adam Deacon) who likes to call himself "K". He has an ambition of becoming a grime MC, and has already created his debut mixtape, Feel The Pain. However, nobody has bought a single copy and Kenneth works, for now, at local supermarket Laimsbury's to help pay his family's rent.
Drama, war film
In 1943 during WWII, the lead platoon of the Texas Division is delivered by landing craft to a beach near Salerno, Italy. They make their way to a nearby wooded area, by which time their lieutenant, platoon sergeant, and medic have been killed, leaving in command Sergeant Eddie Porter, assisted by Sergeants Tyne and Ward. Their mission is to blow up a bridge and occupy a farmhouse, six miles away.
Action, mockbuster, Science fiction, thriller film
In 2009, a race of aliens piloting giant robots have conquered Earth and forced humanity to live underground. They have done this by altering the environment, causing constant rainfall and darkness. Over 300 years later, after many generations of living underground, a small group of human rebels plan to finally take back their world from the mechanical invaders.