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Drama
Between drought and a cattle plague, Missie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell) takes up a teaching position to help support her husband Willie (Logan Bartholomew) and their two children. They have a young son Mattie, and a baby daughter Kathy. They also have a teenage boy called Jeff who they took in when he was eleven-years-old, when his older brother Sonny had been shot dead in the previous film, Love's Long Journey, and Jeff didn't have any other family.
Adventure, Biography, Pirate Film
Keelboat Race Tennessee frontiersman Davy Crockett and his best friend George "Georgie" Russell are transporting pelts to Maysville, Kentucky, after a successful season of trapping and hunting. On the Ohio River, they encounter Mike Fink, the self-proclaimed "king of the river". Fink refuses to take Crockett and Russell downriver on his keelboat unless they pay his toll, which they cannot afford.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties.
Action, Dystopian, Science fiction, thriller film
In a dystopian North America in 2044, war and environmental degradation have led to the almost complete abandonment of cities and to the establishment of a totalitarian military dictatorship called the "Regime". Niska and her eleven year old daughter Waseese live in the woods. While hunting for food, Waseese's leg is seriously injured after stepping on a trap.
fantasy film
Jack Woods is an American businessman on holiday in Ireland. During a hike, he sees Irish beauty Kathleen Fitzpatrick swimming naked. Kathleen catches him and chases him off, but Jack is smitten with her beauty.
Action, Crime
Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter, novelist, and ex-policeman, to return five journals stolen from his safe. St.
Action, Classical Western, Drama, romance film, Western
In 1856, ambitious freight company/pack mule line and store owner Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews) agrees to escort Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward) from the bustling seaport town of Portland home to the (real life) rough-hewn mining settlement of rustic log buildings of Jacksonville, (Jackson County), in the old Oregon Territory, along with his latest shipment of goods. Lucy is engaged to Logan's best friend, George Camrose (Brian Donlevy). The night before they depart, however, Logan has to defend himself from a sneak attack while he was sleeping in his hotel room; though it was too dark to be sure, later throwing the burglar out the broken…
Adventure, buddy film, Family Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
A freighter explodes off the coast of North Africa under mysterious circumstances. All hands are accounted for save for stowaways Jeff Peters and Orville 'Turkey' Jackson, the latter's smoking habit causing the explosion. Upon reaching land, Orville reminds Jeff of his promise to Aunt Lucy to take care of him, but Jeff says she died before he could agree to it.
Action
Action, Drama, Dystopian, Science fiction
Nine years after David Herdeg was transported through time from 1943 to 1984, he has settled down in modern California. He married Allison Hayes, and together they had a son named Benjamin, but Allison has since passed away. Left a single father, David faces several hardships: his business is slowly failing, Ben's school attendance has dropped, and banks are threatening to foreclose on his home.
Action
Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer, volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own the right to control the communication between the South and North. French spy Michael is ordered to go to North Africa and win the competition, so that France can control the mineral resources of Africa.
Action, Adventure, monster film, Science fiction
Mission control personnel on Earth monitor the rocket ship Mars Rocket 1 (MR-1) as it approaches Earth orbit following the first crewed expedition to Mars. Personnel are surprised to see the ship on their monitors, for they believed that the vehicle had become lost or destroyed in space. Ground technicians are unable, though, to make contact with anyone on MR-1, so they guide the rocket by remote control to a safe Nevada landing.
Action, Crime
The charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). After a complex and violent bank robbery, they are hunted by the Paris police, led by the sadistic cop Christini (Tchéky Karyo), who wants to catch Dobermann at any cost. He manages to catch another gang member Olivier, who is also a transvestite going by the name of Sonia.
Comedy, Western
In the 1880s, Jonathan Tibbs, son of a family of English gunsmiths, has no interest in the family business and prefers inventing gadgets, in particular a steam-powered horseless carriage. Threatened with disinheritance if he does not report for work, he discovers that the company is not doing very well, and concludes that someone must expand their sales. He reads in his newspaper about the wide use of guns in the American West and decides to go there himself to sell firearms to the locals.
Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Comedy, Horror, Splatter Film, Zombie
Western
The Outsider takes place in Montana in the late 19th century. At the beginning of the movie, Ben Yoder (Brett Tucker) is preparing to leave his house on a rainy day. His young son, Benjo (Thomas Curtis) wants to go with him, but Ben tells him to stay home, "to protect your mother"—his wife, Rebecca (Naomi Watts).
Drama, Western
Harry Collings and Arch Harris are two saddle tramps who have spent seven years wandering through the American Southwest. Along with a younger companion, Dan Griffen, while fishing they catch the corpse of a small white child from a river. Harry returns the body to the water and it is swept away.
Action, Science fiction
Solo is an android designed as a military killing machine. He is sent to Central America by General Haynes to battle guerrilla insurgents, but a flaw develops in his programming, and he develops a conscience and compassion. His developers try to take him back for deprogramming, but he flees to the jungle in a helicopter.
Western
An ex-Confederate States Army officer (Richard Boone) named Jim Lassiter, who has been avenging himself on Apache Indians for their massacring of his family, recovers a stolen new-type U.S. Army repeating rifle from some Apaches he has killed. The U.S.
Drama, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Sir George is the foster son of Sybil, an elderly, somewhat ineffectual sorceress. She brought him up after his "royal parents died of the plague" in his infancy. George has fallen in love with the Princess Helene, but she is kidnapped by the wizard Lodac, who brazenly informs her father that he intends to feed her to his pet dragon in seven days, in revenge for the death of his sister.
Action, Science fiction, Superhero
Despite its leader, Lyle Stenning, being held in prison, the paramilitary criminal organization known as "Fortress" has become active again after ten years. Adhering to the creed "America for Americans" and vowing to focus on domestic rather than international action, Fortress has begun a campaign of terror by attacking munitions depots to steal automatic weapons and explosives. Stenning, who was captured by Steve Austin, also wants to acquire the secrets of bionics to further his goals.
Action, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
Fishermen John Crankton is killed by an unseen animal. The next day, medical examiner Sam Rivers and biologist Mary Callahan travel into the bayou to investigate John's mysterious death. Having grown up in the area, Sam is comfortable in his surroundings while Mary is not.
Action, drama television series
Action, Adventure, Drama, fiction film, war film, Western
Following the surrender of the great leader Geronimo, Massai — the last Apache warrior — is captured and sent on a prison train to a reservation in Florida. But he manages to escape and heads back to his homeland to win back his woman and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas, though.