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Action, Crime
After an increasing number of his clients fail to make good on their payments, Mr Thigo decides to take matters into his own hands, travelling to London to make an example of local bad boy and debtor Nick. Thigo gives Nick just 24 hours to pay back the £100,000 he owes, and, as an incentive, Thigo holds Nick's wheelchair-using mother hostage. Since Nick is already financially challenged, he is forced to be creative in order to come up with the money.
Action, Western
Clay Santell has his horse stolen and stops in the town of Sutterville. He is mistaken by townspeople for a murderer named Travers, and is handed over to Marshal Harry Deckett. Deckett knows the truth but decides to kill Clay and pass him off as the real Travers to enhance his reputation and collect the reward money.
fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Queen Ma’at finds her kingdom of Abelar under attack when treasure seekers accidentally open the tomb of vampire queen Xia. The Queen sends her half-sister, Princess Tanis, to the outlaw city of Douras to find her real father so he can save the kingdom. Meanwhile, servant girl Kara who shares the same father as Tanis but with a different mother, Xia, discovers that Xia is really a vampire and begins hunting Tanis.
Drama, war film
thumb|The full film It is 1948. American airmen based in Hawaii are flown to Germany, where their job will be to fly C-54 aircraft to provide food and other urgent supplies to those sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets have blocked the Western Allies' access by railway, road, and canal, in order to force out the western Allies and give the Soviets, who are occupying the Eastern sector, full control of the city.
Adventure
The Sheriff of Nottingham plans to confiscate the estate of the Lord of Bawtry, a nobleman who has died on a crusade. The archbishop of Canterbury, acting as regent or viceroy on behalf of King Richard the Lionheart (who is also on a crusade), speaks against the plan and the sheriff plots to eliminate him. Robin Hood is asked to kill the archbishop for the plotters, led by the Earl of Newark and Lord Melton, but when he realises who the intended target is, Robin Hood resolves to help the archbishop instead.
Adventure, Comedy, romance film
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.
Action Comedy
A Ming Dynasty officer, He Ying, was tasked with bringing a mythical time traveling device from India with a LINGA back to the Ming emperor. He was betrayed, and subsequently frozen. He Ying, Sao and Niehu were frozen during a fight.
Action, Adventure, Horror
In British East Africa in the early 20th century, thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make the project a formidable task. Bob Hayward and Dr. Angus McLean lead the mission.
Crime, thriller film
The film follows a series of encounters of a group of patrolling Police Tactical Unit troopers during one night, which starts off when the patrol-team tries to help a sergeant of the District Anti-Triad Squad of the Hong Kong Police Force, Lo Sa, to retrieve his lost service-issue revolver after he was assaulted by a group of triad members. The films portrays the police officers' use of extra-legal means to achieve the results of investigations and reveals the complex relationships between criminals and police officers, the hostility amongst criminals themselves and even the rivalry among different bureaux within the Hong Kong Police Force.
Action, Adventure, Martial arts, ninja film
Lee Reyes plays Hiro, Master Tetsu's grandnephew, who is the last of the true ninja. His granduncle sends him to apprentice under Joe Kastle, who is the American Ninja, to gain experience. Hiro cares only for his Game Gear and has little interest in the ways of the ninja.
biographical television program, drama television series, miniseries
The film tells the true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) and his 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. The story begins with him planning the expedition and finding sponsors, particularly Sir James Caird. Shackleton's goal is to drive dog sled teams from one side of Antarctica to the other, which would make Britain the first nation to undertake such a trans-continental journey.
Action, thriller film
It should be an easy day's work for former black ops operative Cross and his partner Manning. They and their group have been hired to oversee and orchestrate the decommissioning of a secret military penal facility, and organize the transport of the inmates to their new civilian prison. Cross shows who's boss early on by beating up a large inmate who steps out of line, while Manning is given the task of running the prison's garbage facility.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Parody
The story is a satire of the outlaw biker film genre. It follows two biker gangs, one male and one female. The male biker gang are the "Born Losers".
Action, thriller film
Financial analyst Tom Weaver (Grayson McCouch) is a troubled man. He has recently broken off a potential affair with a co-worker named Rebecca. He is also arguing with himself if he wants to continue with a shady ten million dollar business deal with his boss.
Action, Martial arts
Negaal is a South African former kickboxer turned promoter who is gearing up to start his own kickboxing organization. When American champion David Sloane refuses to join, Negaal sends his Henchmen Moon, Bull, and Pinto in Los Angeles California to eliminate David. David manages to break Moon's leg but is ultimately killed by Bull and Pinto.
Action, Horror, Splatter Film
Boz, the leader of a psychotic gang, deals a powerful and addictive new drug called Hype. His members, dubbed Hypers, are completely hooked on his product so much he makes one of the members, Lucy, jump off a balcony to her death when he drops a vial of Hype off it. Lucy's younger sister Elizabeth, nicknamed Lizard, witnesses this and steals Boz's stash while fleeing from Boz when he catches her in the act.
Action, Adventure, Comedy drama, Drama, Motor-Bike Film
C.C. Ryder falls in with a biker gang in the desert, and then rescues Ann from trouble with the same gang. There next occurs a motocross race tied in with a fashion shoot.
katastrophe
In an unnamed U.S. city near the Canadian border, the corrupt mayor William Dudley has allowed an oil refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake, or reservoir. On one typically hot summer day, Herman Stover, a dangerously disturbed employee at the refinery, has been denied an expected promotion; additionally, finds himself fired after refusing a departmental transfer.
Action, Comedy, Dystopian, fiction film, Horror
Heidi lives in the mountains with her boyfriend Goat Peter and her grandfather Alpöhi. Goat Peter gets in the way of the Swiss president and cheese magnate Meili by selling his own cheese, which displeases the monopolist Meili. As punishment, Peter is executed in front of Heidi's eyes by Commander Knorr, Heidi is arrested and taken to a women's prison in the mountains.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
In ancient China, the emperor tasks his court doctor to discover the key to immortality, which leads the doctor briefly to Australia and an encounter with the Aboriginal people there, before he returns to China. In modern day, Luke and Ethan are researching the myth of the emperor and eternal life in remote China for business man Mason. They discover a cave and start their research but are then seemingly attacked by a group spiders.
Action, Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
In the fictional town of Glenview, Ohio, Evan Trautwig is a passionate volunteer in the community and senior manager of the local Costco. His life is changed when the store's night security guard is murdered. The local police have no leads and show no interest in investigating further.
Action, Crime, Noir
Dick Tracy, a supremely intelligent police detective, must solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces by the one known as Splitface. Suspects abound but Tracy must find the common link of extortion and revenge before more are killed. Tracy narrowly misses Splitface at the scene of his second murder, but does encounter a rooftop astronomer, Linwood J.Starling, and it seems unlikely that Splitface went unseen by him.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror
While wind-surfing near the seaside community of Port Harbor, a young man is killed by a giant great white shark. Horror author Peter Benton and professional shark hunter Ron Hamer realize the truth, but ambitious mayor William Wells refuses to accept that a shark threat exists, fearing that a cancelled wind-surfing regatta would derail his campaign to become state governor. Wells has shark nets installed, but the sounds of teenagers splashing in the surf leads the shark to rip through the nets.
Western
thumb|left|200 px|Clark Gable and María Elena Marqués in Across the Wide Missouri In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell meets with other mountain men, selling his furs, drinking and enjoying contests with his friends. He organizes a hunting brigade into the beaver-rich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish friend and former trading partner Brecan, who lives among the Blackfoot and warns him that the land belongs to them. Flint outbids Brecan for Kamiah, the granddaughter of Blackfoot medicine man Bear Ghost and adopted daughter of a Nez Perce chief, Looking…