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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film
An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South Central Los Angeles. T has done well for himself—he buys a fancy new car every year, wears expensive suits, and lives in an upscale apartment.
Comedy, Crime
FBI agent Joe Devine has been undercover, trying to infiltrate the mob. Deep on assignment, he loses a finger, and on his return home he's told his dog killed herself out of loneliness. Reassigned to Rhode Island, Devine has come up with an elaborate scheme to take down infamous mob boss John Gotti.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, thriller film
A former CIA agent and ex-Special Forces member Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes), is in a rehab program, haunted by a botched mission in Bosnia which resulted in the execution of his best friend Scott (Cristian Solimeno). While in a restaurant waiting for his girlfriend, Baltimore Police Detective Amy Knight (Jacqueline Obradors), who happens to be Scott's sister, he is mistakenly believed to be a CIA agent involved with a stolen military experimental truth serum. He is abducted by the real thieves and injected with the drug, which makes him relive the moments from the failed Bosnian mission and not able to discern who are his allies and who are…
Action, Comedy horror, Horror, mockbuster, Splatter Film, thriller film, Zombie, zombie comedy
After his mother Nancy Lincoln turns into a zombie, 10-year-old Abraham Lincoln sees his father Thomas Lincoln commit suicide at her bedside. Taking up a scythe, the distraught young Abe beheads her. He then joins others in his community in containing a local zombie outbreak.
Drama, Science fiction
Marine scientists prepare to leave their underwater ocean lab after an extended stay performing oceanographic research. An underwater earthquake interrupts their plans. Dr.
Action, Comedy, Drama, Dystopian, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, thriller film
In Lapland, playboy physicist Jerry Cornelius attends the funeral of his father, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who has developed the "Final Programme"—a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being. He is questioned by Dr Smiles, who wants to retrieve microfilm which he knows is in the Cornelius family home in England. Cornelius, a conspicuous counter-culture dandy with a fondness for chocolate biscuits and alcohol, threatens to blow up the family house.
Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, spy film
After scientists accidentally spill a deadly chemical into the ocean that will eventually kill all life on earth, a group of aliens offer to help humanity. They offer a choice: the 'Good Package' to clean up the mess, or the 'Big Gun', a weapon capable of destroying the planet. The aliens only ask for a glass of water in return, which must be delivered by CIA agent Pillbox, the only human they entirely trust.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
The Day follows a group of five survivors in a post-apocalyptic world as they travel through a bleak environment in an attempt to find food, shelter, and a safe place to stop running from tribes of savage cannibals that roam the country-side. They hope to plant two jars of seeds that they either stole or found during their journey. There was at some point twelve in their group, but it is not known how the others died or how long the remaining five have been on the run.
Action, Biography, Gangster Film, Heist
André Stander is an officer for the South African Police, newly married with a rising reputation as the youngest captain on the force. In 1976, he and his partner are assigned along with other officers to a protest duty in the wake of the Soweto uprising. In the chaos of one of the peaceful protests in Thembisa, Stander shoots and kills a young, unarmed protester, which deeply affects him and causes him to become disillusioned with the apartheid system.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Having survived the assassination attempt at the end of Black Caesar, Tommy Gibbs takes on corrupt New York District Attorney James DiAngelo, who had sought to jail Gibbs and his father, Papa Gibbs, in order to monopolize the illicit drug trade. Gibbs decides to eliminate drug pushing from the streets of Harlem, while continuing to carry out his other illicit enterprises. Gibbs falls in love with Sister Jennifer, a woman who works with Reverend Rufus, a former pimp who has found a religious calling.
Action Comedy, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Parody, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
A nuclear war breaks out, expending the world's entire nuclear arsenal, except for one missile. Two children, Philip Chandler (John Stockwell) and Marlowe Hammer (Michael Dudikoff), are left in a fallout shelter cut into the side of a wooded mountain. The pair grow up in the shelter, with 1950s detective fiction and swing music as the guiding force in their learning.
Caper-Movie, Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy
Simon Garden, a well-meaning but ineffectual probation officer who suffers from hypoglycemia, is transferred to Manchester, where he develops romantic feelings for an attractive WPC, Emma. Following a police pursuit, Kirsty, a young juvenile delinquent, crashes her car and is rescued by Detective Inspector Burton, who then charges her with concealing Class A drugs in a toy. After Kirsty protests her innocence about the drugs, Simon, handling her case, becomes suspicious of Burton when he notices the toy in his possession.
Action, Adventure, disaster film, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction
Four strangers use their faith to go to Mexico before the Mayan calendar ends in 2012.
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
The film is set in an apocalyptic future where large swaths of North America have been turned into inhospitable desert and the United States has been assimilated into a Western bloc called the North Hemi. In order to survive North Hemi has begun plans to manufacture "mini-megs" called Mega-Robotic Assault System-2 (MRAS-2), miniature versions of giant "mega-robots" that resemble mechanized scorpions. The only working MRAS-2 is being used by Captain Drake and copilot Stumpy to conduct tours and deliver supplies.
Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
Willie Dynamite appears as the film's opening credits begin, with Martha Reeves singing the title song, 'Willie Dynamite.' Willie is driving his 'pimped-out' purple Cadillac on the streets of midtown Manhattan. The front license plate reading the first part of his nickname - 'Willie,' and the back license plate reading the second part - 'Dynamite.' Willie's destination is a midtown hotel, to collect payment from his women - who work the midtown hotels, attracting the many businessmen, conventioneers, who are looking for sex. Willie's 'stable' of seven women are of all ethnicities, dressed in vibrant outfits.
Action, exploitation film, prison film
Blossom, a buxom bad girl, is the rough-and-ready girlfriend of a radical guerrilla leader, Django. She keeps her relationship a secret, but is also quick to start a fight without knowing it. However, when Django's mercenary friends itch for some female companionship, she softens and the two devise a plan to liberate the inmates of a local women's prison, where the inmates are kept barefoot and subjected to brutally hard labor.
Drama, Western
Trappers with government support force the Yellow Hands Sioux off their sacred land. The Indians retreat, but await supernatural punishment to descend on their usurpers. John Morgan, 8th Earl of Kildare, who had lived with the tribe for years and is known as Horse, leaves his English fiancée and estate and returns to America, where he discovers the Yellow Hand people have been largely massacred or put into slavery by the unscrupulous white traders and their Indian cohorts.
Action, Crime, thriller film
A DEA SWAT team, led by elite DEA agent James Baker (Michael Jai White), assaults a Mexican cartel's drug lab. The bad guys are taken out in the ensuing gun fight, but Baker inadvertently kills three hostages, a mother and her two daughters. As a result of PTSD-induced hallucinations, nightmares, and not being able to differentiate between reality and illusion, Baker is sent home to recover.
Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, Police Film
Over a period of several days, detectives in the Boston Police Department's 87th Precinct investigate a variety of cases. Detective Steve Carella goes undercover as a homeless man to investigate a spate of attacks in which homeless men have been set on fire. In an alleyway two youths approach him, throw flammable liquid over him, and set him alight.
Action
The film stars Carnahan and the film's other producer Dan Leis as two salesmen of a failing used car dealership who are paid $250,000 to allow a 1965 Pontiac LeMans convertible onto the dealership lot for two days. They later find out that the vehicle may have been stolen, which results in a chase and the car being held for ransom.
Adventure, buddy film, Drama, romance film
"Big John" McMasters and "Square John"/"Shorty" Sand are two down-on-their-luck oil wildcatters who join forces. Without enough money, they steal drilling equipment from a skeptical Luther Aldrich. Their well proves a bust and they have to hastily depart when Aldrich shows up with the sheriff to take back his property.
Action
Lukas was forced to flee South Africa after the death of his wife. He now lives with his daughter in his home country, Belgium, and works as a bouncer at a nightclub. One night, Lukas is forced to restrain a patron, who subsequently badly injures himself attempting to attack Lukas.
Comedy, Crime Comedy
Larry Stalder is a small-town deputy who dreams of becoming an FBI agent. He witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman named Madeleine. The "kidnappers" turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago.
disaster film, Drama, katastrophe
After the failure of both engines of his passenger jet during take-off, pilot Jack Savage (Rod Taylor) successfully belly lands the plane along what initially appears to be an open stretch of beach. However, it uncontrollably skids into a pier, exploding and killing all but one aboard, stewardess Martha Webster (Susanne Pleshette). Early in the investigation, it is discovered that one engine failed after ingesting a seagull, while the other is mysteriously mechanically sound.