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Western
Bounty hunter Morgan "Morg" Hickman arrives in a small town with the body of an outlaw, seeking the bounty. While the general townsfolk openly abhor Morg, young sheriff Ben Owens, while angry with Morg for not bringing the wanted man in alive, also admires him for taking everything in his stride and knowing how to handle dangerous situations. Owens has a steady girl called Millie.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, romance film, sword and sorcery film
The world of Ura is ravaged by its two suns, turning it into a desert. There, two rival warlords of a village, Zeg and Bal Caz, constantly fight against each other in a battle over the only wellspring in the village of Yamatar. The mercenary Kain, who was once a member of a now extinct ancient order of holy warriors known as the Homeraks, arrives at the town and announces that his skills are for hire to the highest bidder.
Action, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, musical film, romantic comedy
Steve Grayson is a generous NASCAR race car driver with a heart of gold who feels compelled to bail friends and acquaintances out of financial hardship. However, Steve's manager and best friend Kenny Donford, a compulsive gambler, had been mismanaging Steve's winnings to support his gambling habits, landing Steve in deep trouble with the IRS for nonpayment of back taxes and causing many of Steve's valuable possessions to be repossessed. This proves to be a problem for Steve in his efforts to continue racing competitively and support those who depend on his intense generosity.
Action, Horror, independent film, kaiju, Science fiction, thriller film
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life mankind never expected aliens, which devastated human civilization into anarchy, would be killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city; apparently replacements for the walkers in the original attack having more legs.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
A young man named Abel narrowly escapes Caracas, Venezuela, after it is overtaken by rebels. He decides to seek revenge, as his father, the former minister of war, was killed. After getting supplies, he takes a canoe to the far shore, where he is nearly killed by a jaguar, but he is saved by the native people.
Action, Drama, sport film
Joe Maloney (Brad Pitt) is a straight A student vying for an athletic scholarship to Stanford University. He lives with his mother (Carrie Snodgress) in a trailer park in Gardena, CA. His well laid plans for the future are thrown into turmoil when his troubled younger brother Billy (Rick Schroder) is released from a juvenile detention facility following his arrest for stealing a car and comes to live with them back home.
Action, Drama, historical film, thriller film
On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. With the permission of President Idi Amin (Julius Harris), the terrorists divert the airliner and its hostages to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. After identifying Israeli passengers, the non-Jewish passengers are freed while a series of demands are made, including the release of 40 Palestinian militants held in Israel, in exchange for the hostages.
Action, thriller film
Action, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller film
Richard Lieberman, the scientist in charge at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, gives a press conference with his colleagues Jock Galvin, Dave, Matt and Nancy, and their boss, Michael Eldridge, to present their new virtual imagery simulator VIRGIL, which Eldridge claims will greatly aid in their research. Reporter Maggie Chin asks about the possibility of an eruption, which Rick dismisses as a remote possibility. After an earthquake triggers a tsunami on one of the park's lakes, Maggie interviews Kenneth "Ken" Wylie on TV about his new book on volcanoes.
Action, Comedy, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime, Road Movie
Huey Walker is a hippie and a former New Left radical (in the vein of Abbie Hoffman) who has been on the run from the law for 20 years for something he did not do: disconnecting Spiro Agnew's train car in Spokane, Washington. John Buckner is an FBI agent who is set to transport Walker back to Spokane for trial. Their journey forces them to cross paths with a corrupt Sheriff Hightower and the two end up fleeing for their lives.
Western
After her young son is killed in a bank robbery, the widowed dance-hall hostess Kit Tilden is determined to bury him beside his father in Siringo, now deserted and located in Apache territory. Yellowleg, the ex-Union army sergeant who accidentally killed her son, decides to help take the body across the desert to be buried, whether Kit wants help or not. He forces the other two bank robbers — Turk, a Confederate deserter; and Billy, a shootist — to accompany them.
Adventure
Balam is the son of the ruler of a Mayan city-state whose people use wooden swords with obsidian edges. His father is killed in battle against metal-blade armed rivals led by Hunac Ceel. Balam succeeds to the throne, but is convinced by his advisers, including the head priest, to lead his followers away from the Yucatán, sail to the American Gulf Coast region, so they might regain their strength and fight again another day.
Action, fantasy film, Japanese Animation Film
As an adaptation of Bayonetta rather than a direct translation, Bloody Fate's storyline follows the events and characters of the game with some slight changes to locales, order and details. After waking from 500 years of slumber at the bottom of a lake, with no memory of her life before, the Umbra Witch Bayonetta embarks on a journey to rediscover her identity and her past, while battling the angelic hordes of Paradiso (Heaven). Bayonetta's journey takes her to the isolated European city of Vigrid, where she confronts the last Lumen Sage, Balder.
Comedy, Drama, Western
Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an American fur trapper, is on his way to sell the hides he has amassed over the winter. He encounters a group of Kiowa Indians led by Two Crows (Armando Silvestre), who take his furs. In exchange, they give a disgusted Bass a slave, Joseph Lee (Ossie Davis), whom they had taken from a group of Comanches.
Action, thriller film
Deacon, a former black-ops agent, is in Manila, Philippines awaiting an operation to donate his kidney to his dying niece. He awakens the day after the procedure to find he is a victim of organ theft. Stitched up and furious, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in search of his stolen kidney and carves a blood-soaked path through the darkest corners of the city – brothels, fight clubs, back-alley black markets and elite billionaire estates.
Western
In 1867, a gang led by James "Stretch" Dawson (Gregory Peck) robs a bank and, chased by soldiers, choose to cross the salt flats of Death Valley. After an arduous journey, collapsing from heat and dehydration, the outlaws come upon a ghost town called Yellow Sky and its only residents, a tough young woman called Mike (Anne Baxter) and her gold prospector grandfather (James Barton). Stretch is attracted to Mike.
Adventure, Pirate Film, Treasure hunt
thumb|Lobby card Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) arrives and drunkenly talks about treasure. Soon after, Bones is visited by Black Dog (Charles McNaughton) then Pew (William V.
Adventure, Science fiction, science fiction action film
In 2030, a mission to Mars goes awry when a crewed shuttle disappears under mysterious circumstances. Six years later, United Space Planetary Corporation mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson finds herself subordinate to ARTI, an artificial intelligence system, as she lands a rover (which she nicknames "Little Red") on Mars. While Mack is distrustful of ARTI, her sister and supervisor, Lena, insists that the AI will succeed where human controllers have failed.
Action Comedy, Science fiction
Space Cop, a highly disgruntled, impulsive, and destructive police officer from the future of 2058 (the future of space), accidentally travels back in time to 2007 after a pursuit through space causes him to travel through a time rift. He then spends eight years as a member of the Milwaukee Police Department. After encountering two alien criminals he comes across during a heist at a cryonic storage facility, he is teamed up with a comparatively more methodical and by-the-book police officer from the past who is accidentally unfrozen in the present.
Action, children's film, Christmas film, Comedy
The movie starts off with Elizabeth writing a letter to Santa, explaining that the citizens of Lakeville have left because of an evil scientist named Ebner Frost, who plans to buy the orphanage. He bullies Mr. Rini into selling his shoe store with the help of his henchmen, Drs.
Action Comedy, Superhero
In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invents a device known as Titan Badge, which offers humans superpowers by altering the wearer’s DNA. He gave three Badges to two down-on-their-luck children, and one adult— creating America's most famous family of superheroes, which included telepath Vista, super-strong Ansel, and teleporter Maya. But over the years, as egos bruised and resentments developed, the professor replaced the team with newer members.
Action, Adventure, Horror, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Dyanne Thorne reprises her role as the title character, but in this installment, Ilsa, referred to as "Comrade Colonel," oversees a 1953 Siberian gulag that mentally and physically breaks down male political prisoners in the waning days of Stalinism.
Action, Military Film, war film
Sergeant Jake Chandler, an expert sniper, joins Sergeant Vic Mosby with the Delta Force during an overwatch mission to extract an American Congressman who is being held by the Taliban in a remote Afghan village. At first, the rescue mission is successful until a firefight breaks out. Evac is called in but Chandler and his spotter Pvt.
comedy thriller, Crime, Drama, Secret Agent, thriller film, war film
The gang of big-shot Broadway gambler Alfred "Gloves" Donahue, at a restaurant, plays with military toys, imagining fighting Hitler. The restaurant gives Gloves a cheesecake not made by Mr. Miller, a baker who makes Gloves' favorite cheesecake, and Donahue is unhappy.