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Action, Drama
In 2005, close friends "Cal" (Jai Courtney), "Milk" (Beau Knapp), "Jaeger" (Finn Wittrock), "Snowball" (Arturo Castro) and "Oyster" (Nat Wolff) bowl at Westside Lanes in Bridgewater, NY. Their nicknames are carved into their respective balls. After some roughhousing, an employee named Tony threatens to have them removed, but they show him Cal's police badge.
Action, Drama, war film
A group of US Army soldiers, trained in underground warfare, arrive at base camp in the jungle of South Vietnam. The soldiers spend the first day and night getting to know each other. The next morning they begin to explore the Viet Cong's tunnel network at Củ Chi.
Action, Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, medieval film, period drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film, Sword-and-sandal
Usurper Sligon, a worshipper of the old Norse god pantheon, and other rebel Vikings have forced into exile the Christian royal family of the Viking kingdom of Scandia: King Aguar, his wife, and their son, Prince Valiant. The family comes under King Arthur's protection. After having grown to become a man, Valiant is sent to Camelot to train under the tutelage of Aguar's family friend, a knight of the Round Table, Sir Gawain.
Action, Crime
Daryl Cage is an Iowa farm boy whose parents send him to Los Angeles to live with his brother following their divorce. At the airport, Daryl's suitcase is switched with a drug kingpin's that is full of heroin. The gangster boss kills Cage's brother and his live-in girlfriend, but Daryl is framed for the crime.
Action, Adventure, Comedy horror, Science fiction
Daria and Tisa, two nubile female prisoners, clad only in rough-cut rabbit skin bikinis, break out of their cell in a space gulag, overpower their guards, and escape in a shuttlecraft. The ship mysteriously malfunctions and the girls crash land on a nearby habitable world where they become the guests of Zed, a man with a scarred face who lives in a large fortress. He is the planet’s sole sentient inhabitant and is guarded by two robots who also act as the fortress' keepers.
Action, Adventure, Fairy tale, fantasy film, Monumental Film, sexploitation film, sword and sorcery film
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. After giving birth to twin daughters, Mara and Mira, his wife refuses to tell Traigon which was born first. She flees with the young children and convinces a peasant to raise them as warrior boys; the pursuing Traigon inflicts a mortal wound upon her.
Action, thriller film
A power-hungry corporation has taken over the conventional prison system and made criminals the new law enforcers.
Crime, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
In August 1939, a motley group of travellers find themselves in a small hotel in Bavaria, awaiting a delayed train to Switzerland. They include a "much-married madcap American heiress", Amanda Metcalf-Mdivani-Von Hoffsteader-Kelly, and Robert Condon, a wise-cracking American photographer. That evening Amanda gets very drunk and is knocked unconscious.
Action, Drama, fantasy film
Eighteen months after the events of the previous film, the world has fallen into chaos. In the collapsing ruins of the White House, U.S. President Gerald Fitzhugh (Louis Gossett Jr.) videotapes a confession.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science fiction
Jeb rescues Max and the other children from the School. His son Ari is left behind and presumed dead. In the present, Max is seen waking up from a dream; upon waking up, she encounters other members of the Flock.
Action, Comedy horror, Horror, Parody, Science fiction, Vampire
In the year 1940, Blubberella is an obese vampire/human hybrid with a hatred of Adolf Hitler, and a soft spot for food. The rest of the film roughly follows the plot of Bloodrayne 3: The Third Reich, although some scenes are inserted for comedic purposes, such as a scene were Blubberella talks to her mum, and numerous jokes about sex, obesity and being gay.
Drama, Western
Relations are strained between sexually sadistic cattle baron Brandt Ruger and his wife Melissa when he leaves for a two-week hunting trip with some of his wealthy friends. Mistaking her for a schoolteacher, outlaw Frank Calder and his band of rustlers and thieves kidnap Melissa, not for ransom but because Calder wants to be taught how to read a book. Traveling by luxurious private train, the hunting party engages in debauchery with women, one of whom Ruger sadistically abuses.
Action, Science fiction, Superhero
Steve Rogers (Reb Brown) is first shown sketching a portrait of Mrs. Shaw (Susan French), who complains to him about a gang of muggers who have been stealing the proceeds from cashed Social Security checks; she denies having cashed hers. He bids her to do this in order to set a trap for the muggers and springs the trap as Captain America.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A down-on-her-luck Los Angeles businesswoman-turned-prostitute, known only by her street name Princess, walks the Sunset Boulevard to support herself and her young daughter Lisa. As she prepares Lisa for a trip to see her grandmother in San Diego, Princess receives a distressed telephone call from her friend and coworker, Ginger Grady, who is hiding in a motel from her abusive pimp Ramrod, a misogynistic psychopath. Shortly thereafter, Ramrod tracks Ginger down and coaxes her to open the door under the guise of an apology.
Comedy, Western
Partners Quincy Drew, a white man and Jason O'Rourke, a Black man (who was born free and is well-educated), travel from town to town in Missouri and Kansas during the late slavery era. They had first met when Quincy had sold Jason a horse that had been stolen from the local sheriff. They meet again in jail after pulling various con jobs and develop a con together in which Quincy claims to be a down-on-his-luck enslaver who is selling his last slave.
Science fiction
Wanda Saknussemm is a nerdy social misfit with large glasses and an unusually squeaky voice who lives in Los Angeles and works at a diner. After being dumped by her boyfriend for "not having a sense of adventure," Wanda is informed by letter that her father, an archaeologist, fell into a bottomless pit and died. She flies to Zamboanga, North Africa ("Deepest Africa," says the envelope's return address).
Action, fantasy film, Superhero
In 1939, shown in a series of flashbacks played in reverse chronological order, Professor Trevor Bruttenholm investigates a series of murders in Eastern Europe. Erzsebet Ondrushko, a vampire who bathed in the blood of innocents to stay young, was responsible. She had sold her soul to the Queen of Witches, the goddess Hecate, and most recently kidnapped the fiancée of one of the townsmen.
Action, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, thriller film
Freddy is on the run with a bag full of cash after a robbery of his crime boss. Badly wounded and betrayed by his father, Freddy gets on a dirty bus where he meets a mysterious girl and a creepy one.
Action, Adventure
In Colombia, an American engineer named Harry Burck is overseeing the opening of his company's water pipeline. In the middle of the unveiling ceremony, a group of rebels arrives to kidnap an American diplomat who is in attendance. In the process, Harry is also kidnapped.
Action, Bad Cop, Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, mystery film, Police Film, thriller film
Roland Dalton is a burned-out, mild-mannered Manhattan public defender, and his last case before leaving legal aid is crack dealer Michael Jones, accused of shooting to death police officer Patrick O'Leary in Central Park. According to Jones, the shooting was in self-defense and Officer O'Leary was a "Blue Jean Cop" (an opportunistic police officer who robs drug dealers). Being a creature of habit, Dalton seeks the truth to his mysterious case and looks to Richie Marks, a renegade loner NYPD narcotics detective.
Action, Adventure
Rich heiress Diamond surprises her three best friends – adrenaline junkie Ryder, struggling actress Ezra, and independent art curator Daisy – by revealing that her father has agreed to let them borrow his jet and vacation estate in Thailand for a girls' trip. While flying across the ocean, Diamond spends some time with their pilot, Jasper, and the two find themselves instantly attracted to each other. Not long after they settle in, the girls head out on the town, but quickly run into trouble when strange men accost Daisy and start threatening her with a gun.
Action, disaster film, Drama, Natural Disaster
At 1:16 p.m. on a Fall afternoon in 1996, Bob Iverson, a storm chaser with the Kansas State Tornado Center relaying information to the National Weather Service on a chase assignment, is driving down a country road in rural Central Nebraska to track a supercell thunderstorm. While observing the storm, Bob spots a tornado touching down almost a mile south of his location; he warns a family living nearby, right as their daughter Sarah, arrives home from school, about the oncoming twister, which sends them running into their root cellar before it destroys their farm.
Action, Horror, Zombie
Set between the events of Dead Rising 2 and 3, the story continues where Watchtower left off. Chase catches Lyons' crimes on camera; however, his boss refused to broadcast it due to fear the military will come and kill them. Lyons sends his agents to kill Chase; however, Chase escapes.
Action, Martial arts
Having been framed for murder by Tong Po, David Sloan has spent the last two years in prison, while his wife Vicky has become the sexual captive of his old nemesis, who has become one of the most powerful drug lords in Mexico. After receiving explicit photos of his wife, David meets with a DEA official, Casey Ford, who informs David that Po is hosting a martial arts tournament at his private compound, with the winner earning a match against Po and a $1 million cash prize. Knowing the history between them, Casey offers to release David if he will enter the tournament and eliminate Po himself.