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Action, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, nunsploitation, vigilante film
A young Mexican nun, named Sister Sarah, is neglected and abused by a corrupt priest who produces and distributes heroin. After a bad drug deal, she is handed over to thugs to be used as an instrument as sex for money. On the verge of death after being heavily drugged and wounded and raped, the nun receives a commandment from God to take revenge.
Horror, Military Film, Mysterie, Occult Horror, war film
An elite group of Special Ops soldiers, led by Captain "Mack", are sent by Dr. Elissa Cardell, a CIA operative, to rescue her father, scientist Lee Wesley, from an archaeological dig in the Middle Eastern desert. The dig site was a suspected bunker for WMDs.
Action, Ghost, Zombie
At a bar in Arizona, Fred "Rabbit" Smith is handcuffed by Federal Marshals Jack La Roca and Stephanie, assigned to bring Rabbit to Los Angeles to testify against mobster Benny "The Buzzsaw" Buffalino. Rabbit is being hunted by hitmen contracted by Benny and led by Sergei. Jack calls for a car driven by four other marshals to pick them up before Sergei's men arrive.
Action, Drama, hood film
Beans, an inmate in prison and head of the ABM gang, writes a letter from prison, expressing his hatred and telling someone that if they're reading it, he is now free. He then recaps the first film. One night, Beans is arrested for drug trafficking and attempted murder of drug runner C-Zer.
Action, crime thriller film, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Ty Hackett (Columbus Short), a former armed service veteran is a member of Eagle Shield security in one of their many armored transportation teams. He is the legal guardian of younger brother Jimmy (Andre Kinney) after the death of their parents. He is receiving constant letters about impending foreclosure on his home and the state is considering the placement of Jimmy in a foster home, due to his truancy and Ty's inability to adequately care for him.
Action, Anti-War Film, Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film, war film
In 2007, during the Iraq War, a Georgian contingent of the coalition forces saves the life of American reporter Thomas Anders, although one of his colleagues, Miriam Eisner, is killed in the process. One year later, in 2008, he returns to Los Angeles, California but soon goes to Georgia on the advice of some of his friends in Tbilisi, who suspect that a large conflict is brewing. He, along with his cameraman Sebastian Ganz, delve deeper into Georgian life as conflict escalates and they get caught in the crossfire when an air raid strikes a local wedding they stumble upon.
war film
During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young Royal Navy officer on five days' leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London. Halfway through their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England. When Saville proposes, she accepts, but on the day they are due to go back to Portsmouth, she changes her mind, asking Saville to realise that neither he nor she could bear being parted for the long periods he would be at sea.
Action, Science fiction, speculative fiction
A robotics company is hired by a corrupt CIA Major (Neal McDonough) trying to position themselves to win a lucrative military contract. The company illegally airdrops four prototype robots into the middle of the Golden triangle to perform a live field test on unsuspecting drug traffickers. However, a group of volunteer doctors witness the robots going rogue, killing an entire village, and become hunted by the robots to cover it up.
Classical Western, Comedy, Western
Calamity Jane is busted out of a sheriff's jail by a couple of government agents under Governor Johnson and Commissioner of Internal Affairs Emerson. Johnson and Emerson wish to hire her to uncover white traders illegally selling guns to an Indian tribe near Buffalo Flats, one of the frontier areas; because the agents they previously sent to investigate have turned up dead, they feel they need a new approach and have conceived a plan to use Jane, both as a woman and skilled gunfighter. In return for her services, Johnson and Emerson offer her a full pardon for her past crimes.
Action, Crime
Sean Haggerty is a pilot who transports cocaine across the United States border. Over the course of his final day on the job, he must successfully navigate both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Cartel, while simultaneously salvaging his fraught marriage.
Drama, war film
In 1915, at the airfield in France of 59 Squadron Royal Flying Corps, Major Brand, the squadron leader and his adjutant Phipps anxiously await the return of the dawn patrol. Brand is near his breaking point. He has lost 16 pilots in the previous two weeks, nearly all of them young replacements with little training and no combat experience.
Action
Agent John Keller goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament, the Kumite, arranged by a man named Justin Caesar, where the prisoners are forced to fight to the death. The tournament has only one rule: There are no rules.
Western
A prologue explains the role of the bounty hunter. A wanted criminal named Burch tries to ambush bounty hunter Jim Kipp, but Kipp gets the better of him. Kipp takes Burch's corpse into town to collect the reward.
Action, Horror, Science fiction
David Kellum, a young veterinarian intern, discovers during one of his classes that he can read and control minds of others. When he moves from his country home to the city to continue his studies, he finds difficulty in controlling this abilit: the congestion of many minds and the ability to hear voices overwhelm him. Stumbling across a store robbery, David kills the gunman by causing his head to explode.
Action, Science fiction
In 2278, the planet Centauri Prime is in flames. Londo Mollari, the emperor of the Centauri Republic, tells two children, Luc and Lyssa, the story of the Earth-Minbari War, which took place 35 years ago while he was a diplomatic liaison to Earth. In 2243, the human race, emboldened by recent victories, is rapidly expanding into space.
Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film
Frank Falenczyk is a hit man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. He has a drinking problem, as a result of which he messes up the critical assignment of preventing Eddie O'Leary, from a rival family, getting on a train bound for New York and organising the Chinese against them in town. As this has put the family business in peril, Frank's uncle Roman Krzeminski, head of the family, sends him to San Francisco to get on Alcoholics Anonymous with the order that if he doesn't participate in the AA programme, he will no longer work for the family.
Adventure, disaster film, Drama
Nine passengers board a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Panama City: wealthy Judson Ellis and Alice Melhorne, eloping because their parents disapprove; an elderly couple, Professor Henry Spengler and his wife Martha; Tommy Mulvaney, the young son of a gangster, and his escort, gunman Pete; Peggy Nolan, a woman with a shady past; and Vasquez, an anarchist being extradited and facing a death sentence for killing a high-ranking politician, and his guard, Crimp. The crew consists of pilot Bill, co-pilot Joe Brooks, and steward Larry. thumb|upright=1.4|left|From left to right: Chester Morris, John Carradine, Lucille Ball and Joseph…
Action, Crime, thriller film
For years Kevin Mitnick -– the most notorious computer hacker in the nation -- had eluded Federal agents while using the latest electronic gadgetry to break into countless computers and gain access to sensitive and valuable information. But when he breaches the system of leading computer crimes expert Tsutomu Shimomura, it sets off an epic chase through cyberspace between a pair of hard-driven geniuses operating on different sides of the law.
Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film
An experimental submarine, the Siren II, with an experienced NATO crew, is sent to find out what happened to the missing Siren I. Wick Hayes, the designer of the sub, blames the Contek corporation's modifications to his original design. The Siren II is captained by experienced officer Captain Randolph Phillips.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Action, Action Comedy, Drama, thriller film, vigilante film
After the events of the previous film, Vietnam War veteran and Los Angeles resident Frank Vega has opened a community boxing center and coaches young boxers. He shares his building with liquor store owner Bernie Pope, a grumpy old man who has agoraphobia. Frank mentors Manny Parks, his star pupil who is preparing for his professional boxing debut.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film
Turaga Vakama narrates the story of a land before Mata Nui, called Metru Nui. There, the Toa heroes fell in battle one by one, as a relentless shadow sought to conquer the great city. Lhikan, the last remaining Toa, travels throughout the entire city, giving Toa stones containing fractions of his own power to six Matorans from each of the city's different regions: Nokama, Onewa, Whenua, Matau, Nuju, and Vakama.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Heist, spy film
Nick Lassiter (Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion, and after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforcement plant, British law enforcement and the FBI blackmail Lassiter to break into the German embassy and steal $10 million in Nazi diamonds from a German spy (Lauren Hutton), but first he must locate their hiding place. The gems are en route to South America and will be sold to help finance Hitler's military buildup.
Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
The film opens with the text: It is the day after tomorrow. The ultimate nuclear defense system has been perfected. Security has been achieved.