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Action, Adventure, Science fiction
In 1938, Lieutenant Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are part of the crew of a dirigible flying over the North Pole. They are caught in a savage storm and crash. They are ordered to release the experimental Nirvano Gas, which (unbeknownst to them) will put them in suspended animation until they are rescued.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Groteske, Satire, Tragicomedy
In 1958 Long Beach, California, Melba Stokes is a beauty salon owner, living with her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl. They flee when landlord Mr. Albertson comes to demand the back rent and repossess their belongings.
Action
A botched mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia that results in a fatality leads to the disbanding of a CIA Global Response team led by Jake Alexander (Steven Seagal) and whose remaining members include Sonia Dekker (Sonia Couling), Tom Benton (Byron Gibson), Maria Lopez (Mica Javier), and Ben Harrison (Jai Day). Against CIA Agent Jessica Thompson's orders, the team continues their hunt for arms dealer Gino Orsetti (Edoardo Costa), with the financial assistance of Hong Kong-based magnate Katarina Sokolov (Evgeniya Akhremenko). While in Bangkok, Tom secures a meeting with Orsetti by posing as an interested buyer in the organs he offers for sale.
war film
The film and book are based on the story of the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment which included men from the King's estate at Sandringham House who had initially been formed in a "Sandringham Company". The battalion suffered heavy losses in action at Gallipoli on 12 August 1915 and a myth grew up later that the unit had advanced into a mist and simply disappeared. The film dramatises these events and the origins of the myth back home, in the process following an investigator sent after the war on behalf of the royal family to find the truth about the company's fate.
Action, Science fiction
In 2036, an android named Max 404, and his creator, Dr. Daniel, reside aboard a remote space station. Although Max is a machine, he has a growing interest in all things human, especially sex.
Action, Crime, thriller film
On Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, a dispatched LASD Sheriff named Kimble is shot dead by an armed criminal, who robbed a convenience store and also killed its African-American owner minutes earlier. The alcoholic, hard-driven LASD Detective Jerry Beck is tasked with the investigation. While examining police records, he comes across a person of interest named Bobby Burns, who has recently been paroled from a four-year robbery sentence.
Action, Crime, Drama, exploitation film
Maggie transfers from across town to a new high school that is essentially run by the Silver Daggers, a rough, hierarchical male gang, and their female counterparts, the Dagger Debs. A confrontation between the Dagger Debs and a repo man gets all the female members — and Maggie — arrested. Because Maggie is new, a lecherous lesbian warden at the juvenile detention center threatens to physically abuse her.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Captain C. F. "Hawk" Hawkens (Vince Edwards), a former Space Service Colonel turned pirate, leads his crew on a mission to steal a freighter owned by an interstellar corporation simply referred to as "The Company".
Action, Adventure, animated film, Computeranimation, fantasy film, mystery film, Science fiction
Arkie lives with her father Blister, a giant octopus, on the Peninsula. They help plants recover from the loss of electricity that affects them. Meanwhile in the City of Light, Dr.
Action, Horror, thriller film, Treasure hunt
Caine, a gunrunner, becomes stranded in a small port on the Red Sea. While there, he meets an attractive woman, Anna, who propositions him to dive into shark-infested waters off the coast. Though she alleges the purpose of the dive is scientific research, Caine eventually realizes that the woman and her partner are actually treasure hunters, and sees an opportunity to utilize the riches from the wreck they hope to raid to compensate for the earlier loss of his cargo.
Action
The movie takes place in and around an unfinished city skyscraper, the "Algonquin", where a sniper/spotter team set up a firing platform on a top floor. The two arrive independently of each other, two of the Agency's assassins. As they meet, they recognize each other, as they have been on a mission together before.
Action, Martial arts, Science fiction
Kan Fung, who escaped from the organization responsible for his superhuman abilities, seeks a geneticist capable of curing him. He decides to use his powers for the greater good, adopting the moniker Black Mask. Meanwhile, Lang, another high-ranking member of the organization, is hired to find and kill Black Mask.
Action, Comedy, Italo-Western
The first film in the trilogy, God Forgives . . .
Action, Classical Western, Western
Howard Nightingale (Douglas), a U.S. marshal, leads an elite uniformed posse to track down and capture infamous train robber Jack Strawhorn (Bruce Dern). He is doing so to further his political career, as he is running to become a U.
Action, Science fiction
Count Draculon (Adam Brooks) and his Nazi vampire forces seek to take over Earth during the Hell Wars. A soldier (Matthew Kennedy) is killed attempting to fight the Count, then transformed into Manborg after his body is fitted with robotics. After Manborg becomes active in Mega-Death City, he meets with resistance fighters against Count Draculon.
Adventure, Drama, Military Film
thumb|thumbtime=14|Beau Geste (1926) Major de Beaujolais leads a French Foreign Legion battalion across the Sahara desert to relieve Fort Zinderneuf, reportedly besieged by Arabs. When he arrives, he receives no response from the Legionnaires manning the walls, only a single shot. He realizes they are dead.
Adventure, children's film, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
In Jamaica in 1718, a band of pirates led by Captain "Red" Ned Lynch oppose the greedy acting Governor, the evil Lord Durant. Durant has illegally and ruthlessly imprisoned his Lord High Justice James Barnet (taking over the role himself), taken his possessions and lands, and mercilessly evicted the judge's wife and daughter. Mrs.
Action, Historie
On the eve of the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, as Nazi presence and anti-Semitic laws increase in Budapest, Jewish radio repair shop owner József sends home the two young men who work for him, Elek Cohen and Ferenc Jacobson. They obtain forged baptismal certificates from a Catholic priest and urge their families to use them to escape Hungary when they themselves are forced to join the Hungarian labour service, in which Jewish men are brutally treated, shot if they cannot keep up or are injured while doing work. Meanwhile, Carl Lutz runs the Swiss diplomatic office at the Glass House in Budapest.
Action, Adventure, Drama, Historie
During the 13th century, Zakhar Berkut and his wife Rada lead a group of high-landers in the Carpathian Mountains in a village of Tukhlia, today in Stryi Raion. Unfortunately, their tranquil existence is soon threatened by Burunda Khan, a powerful Mongolian general who leads his massive armies west in search of new lands to conquer. Forced to protect their village, Zakhar and Rada send their sons, Ivan and Maksym, to ask for help from Tugar Vovk, a wealthy boyar, who has recently arrived from Daniel of Galicia.
Action, Drama, exploitation film, sexploitation film
A TV news program produces a segment on Terminal Island, a prison island established after the U.S. Supreme Court abolished the death penalty. First-degree murderers are incarcerated in the island to serve their sentences and fend for themselves.
Action, Drama, war film
During World War II, a Basque farmer is asked by the French resistance to help a fleeing scientist and his family escape across the Pyrenees Mountains to safety in neutral Spain. On his trail are a group of Germans, led by a sadistic SS officer.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy
Paula Tracey, an adventurous and fearless girl, is the daughter of veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracey. Dr.
Drama, war film
In Korea, U.S. Army Sergeant Zack survives a massacre of American prisoners of war by the Korean People's Army after his M1 helmet saves him from a bullet intended for his head. Left bound and injured as the sole survivor of his surrendered unit, Zack struggles to climb a steep hill and freezes at the approach of a Buddhist boy with a gun who frees him and treats his wounds with sulfa powder.
Action, thriller film
The film follows Nick, a blue-collar ex-con who lives in a small town in the Alabama countryside. When Sloan, an insidious figure from his past, shows up and kills his wife, it sends Nick's world into a tailspin. Hell-bent on revenge, he tracks down Sloan and his gang, all the while having to deal with his father-in-law, the local sheriff Frank, who is forced to wrestle with his own morality in the midst of his daughter's murder.