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Action
Alex Cardo wakes up late one night after having dreams of the Kumite years prior. He goes into his 10-year-old son Jason's bedroom to find his son still awake, reading. After questioning him, Jason reveals that he has been suspended for fighting in school.
Action, Crime, Drama
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter arrests contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to help the police to destroy the South's most powerful crime ring. When the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland is identified as an informant, the two team up to fight the mob and catch the crime boss who ordered the hit.
Action, Blaxploitation, Martial arts
The Mafia have learned of the construction of a new civic center, and have bought up all the land at the intended building site except for a karate dojo owned by "Pop" Byrd, who refuses to give up his property. The Don contacts an indebted drug dealer named "Pinky", who had laundered $250,000 from the Mafia that he'd subsequently loaned to Pop Byrd in order to get the dojo built. The Don orders Pinky to either get his money back or repossess the property.
Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, thriller film
Mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated New York City Police Department detective lieutenant, has a dark side and a partnership with certain organized crime figures. Brennan executes a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens witnesses to testify that he acted in self-defense. The head of the District Attorney's Homicide Bureau, Kevin Quinn, assigns the case to Deputy District Attorney Aloysius "Al" Francis Reilly, a young lawyer and past police officer and the son of an NYCPD cop killed in the line of duty.
Comedy
Jesse paraglides into a town on the American frontier run by a saloon owner named Seaweedhead Greaser, a tyrant who collects the town's taxes while keeping his mother and favorite mariachi band in cages, and suffers from chronic constipation. Jesse has amnesia and remembers nothing except that he is anticipated by talent agent Morris, telling people that he's on his way to Jerusalem, where he will become a singer, dancer and actor. Greaser murders his son, Lamy Homo Greaser, for being a homosexual, and Jesse resurrects the dead man.
Drama, thriller film
Andy Bowman persuades her sister Laura, who is a doctor, to go on a trip with her to Burma. Laura, whose husband and son were murdered, is deeply depressed. One night, unable to sleep due to nightmares, Laura leaves her Rangoon hotel and is caught up in an anti-government protest.
Adventure, swashbuckler film
On the eve of his return to Spain from Alta California, Diego de la Vega meets his old friend Miguel de la Serna, who is about to take up the governorship of Nueva Aragón. His uncle Don Fernando has died of “malaria” in a malaria-free region, being replaced by the dictatorial and unscrupulous Colonel Huerta. Diego warns, in vain, the idealistic Miguel that Nueva Aragón is ruled by greed and hatred; later that very evening, Miguel is assassinated by Huerta's underlings.
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Young Robert Fitzooth, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father Sir Hugh at King Richard's palace. On the way home, Sir Hugh is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, taking on the name Robin Hood and gathering together his band of Merry Men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge Sir Hugh's death and to help the people of the land whom Prince John is over taxing.
Action, Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
Jay Killian is a senior member of the Secret Service. On the day before the Inauguration of the new president, Killian has just returned from a six-week sick leave. He is given a new assignment: to protect the First Lady, Lara Royce Craig.
Action, Animal horror, Horror, kaiju, monster film, Science fiction
Danish miner Svend Viltorft digs up a section of a giant reptile's tail from the frozen grounds in Lapland, where he and other miners are drilling. The section is flown to the Denmark's Aquarium in Copenhagen, where it is preserved in a cold room for scientific study. But due to mishandling, the room is left open and the section begins to thaw, only for scientists to find that it is starting to regenerate.
Action, crossover fiction, Science fiction
A mysterious rift begins to open in the skies of Manhattan. Meanwhile, former agent of peacekeeping organization, Providence, Rex Salazar is sparring against fellow agent, Agent Six, while musing about his need for a theme song, before getting the alert about the rift. Providence appears on the scene to stop the rift, but are unable to do anything before Rex arrives with Six and Bobo.
Action
A commando unit led by Alpha (Michael Eklund) and his ruthless right-hand man Omega (Marrese Crump) takes control of a Phoenix, Arizona sports arena during the season opener of the fictional National Basketball League, pitting the hometown Falcons against the New York Knights. Alpha is a disgraced counterterrorist with a grudge towards arena owner and new media billionaire Diana Smart (Sabryn Rock), who funded an investigation into his unit's abuse of power. Security guard and former US Army Special Forces veteran Jesse Freeman (Michael Jai White) teams with the arena's janitor Gus (Gary Owen) in an attempt to stop the assailants and…
Action, Martial arts, ninja film
British Colonel Scarf Mulgrew threatens to nuke New York City unless he is paid 50 million dollars. Agents Sean Davidson, Carl Brackston and Joe Armstrong, a former special forces commando now working as a teacher with the Peace Corps, team up to save the city. The action takes place in Lesotho, and includes a Middle Eastern sheikh who is training a team of ninjas in the countryside.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Paramedic Nick Malloy finds himself playing a game called 12 Rounds with his wife Sarah's life on the line. As the game unfolds, Detectives McKenzie and Sykes are investigating an ambulance explosion, and while Sykes immediately blames Nick, McKenzie has her doubts. Meanwhile, Nick begins to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and finds out he was at the right place at the right time a year ago.
Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film
Sally Jones is the sole teacher of a one-room school in the Outback, where she has nine pupils ranging in age from six to sixteen. One ordinary day, the younger children claim to have seen cartoon characters on the edges of the school playground. Sally dismisses this as fantasy, until four armed men wearing Halloween masks enter the school, led by a man Sally calls "Father Christmas" due to his Father Christmas mask.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist
Michael Lynch is one of Dublin's most notorious criminals. He has two wives, sisters Christine and Lisa, as well as many children. When he is not spending time with his family, he is plotting heists with his gang.
Action, Blaxploitation, prison film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Brought to a women's prison in a tropical country, Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) and Karen Brent (Margaret Markov), a prostitute and a revolutionary respectively, butt heads and cause enough trouble to warrant a transfer to a maximum-security prison. An attack by Karen's rebel friends allows them to escape, albeit chained together. The pair struggle to evade the army, led by Captain Cruz (Eddie Garcia), who enlists the help of a gang led by Ruben (Sid Haig).
Action, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film, Vampire
Aspiring filmmaker Sean is working as a freelance driver to make ends meet. He is assigned to deliver an expensive Mercedes-Benz from Los Angeles all the way to its owner in Miami, which will also allow him to attend the wedding of his sister. He's given strict instructions not to damage the vehicle or pick up any hitchhikers.
Action, Adventure, Dystopian
The plot, which takes place in an alternate storyline between the events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, begins with Anna Williams setting up a decoy for her sister, Nina Williams, who is currently working with the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Jin Kazama. Anna, on the other hand, works for Jin's father, Kazuya Mishima and its rival organization, G Corporation. Both are seeking information about a student named Shin Kamiya, and Anna dispatches a Chinese student, Ling Xiaoyu to act as a spy, while Jin sends humanoid Russian AI robot Alisa Bosconovitch for a similar purpose.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Western
Set in the late 1860s in the Kansas Territory shortly after the American Civil War, a former soldier named Buck leads wagon trains of African Americans from Louisiana west to the unsettled territories of Kansas. In order to ensure safe passage and food for his company, Buck negotiates with the Native Americans in the area. He pays them, and in turn they allow him to kill limited numbers of buffalo to eat, and to pass through their land providing they do it quickly.
Action, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, thriller film
In 1983 Amsterdam, wannabe gangster friends Willem Holleeder, Cor van Hout, Jan Boellard, Martin Erkamps, and Frans Meijer kidnap Heineken owner Freddy Heineken in an attempt to obtain a high ransom for his return. Heineken's family pays the ransom, he is released and Willem and Cor flee to Paris and go into hiding. Cor calls his wife Sonja, leading to the kidnappers' capture.
Action, Adventure, fan film, fantasy film, romance film
In the late Third Age, Sauron's power is increasing, and he has sent his Orcs to seek out the remnants of the bloodline of Elendil, kept alive in the Dúnedain. Dirhael, his wife Ivorwen and their daughter Gilraen are fleeing from an attack on their village when they are ambushed by Orcs on a forest road, and saved by a group of rangers led by Arathorn. Not having any place safer to go, the refugees go with Arathorn to Taurdal, the village led by his father and Chieftain of the Dúnedain, Arador.
Action, Adventure, Historie, Martial arts
The film is set in the early 20th century. Wong Fei-hung, along with his romantic interest 13th Aunt and apprentice Clubfoot, travels from China to America to visit another of his apprentices, "Bucktooth" So, who has recently opened a branch of Po-chi-lam, Wong's traditional Chinese medicine clinic, in San Francisco. While travelling by carriage across the wilderness, they pick up a friendly cowboy, Billy, who is almost dying of thirst.