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Action, Drama, thriller film
A veteran FBI agent negotiates the release of a bus load of hard of hearing school children taken hostage by three desperate escaped convicts. After an auto accident that attracted police attention, the criminals hijacked the bus and took refuge in an abandoned slaughterhouse. Agent Potter's last assignment resulted in partial failure and a Congressional hearing that stained his reputation.
Action, Crime
Biography, Drama, historical film, Justice Drama, Political Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
In South Africa in 1980, Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man, is accused of carrying out a terrorist bombing. Afrikaner police officer Nic Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack against the Secunda CTL synthetic fuel refinery, which is the largest coal liquefaction plant in the world. Patrick is unwillingly swept into Vos's investigation due to his inability to provide a satisfactory explanation for his whereabouts at the time of the bombing (he was actually having an affair with a woman not his wife).
Action, fantasy film, Horror, monster film
A reporter visits David Fielding in a psychiatric hospital for a follow-up story on the deaths of his three friends exactly one year and one day ago. David is catatonic but attacks the reporter when shown a photo of Dr. Watermann, his former professor.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Slim, Frank, Otis and Alex are a group of youthful bank robbers, who commit their crimes anonymously and in innovative ways involving extreme sports, such as skating and snowboarding. The group evades capture from the police, led by "hardboiled cop", lieutenant Macgruder, but an anonymous individual seems to know, who they are and threatens to inform the police, unless they undertake a robbery for him. Enter the Mob, represented, by underworld enforcer, Surtayne, who instructs the group to work for them also or they will all be killed.
Action
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Science fiction, Secret Agent, spy film
Sumuru is a beautiful and evil woman who plans world domination by having her sexy all-female army eliminate male leaders and replace them with her female agents. The Chief of Security for President Boong of Sinonesia is killed. Two Americans in Hong Kong, Nick West and his friend Tommy Carter, are persuaded by the head of British intelligence, Colonel Baisbrook, to investigate.
fantasy film
The movie flips between following a group of gamers in a dorm immersed in a role-playing game, and their characters (played by the same actors) as they journey through a world of fantasy and wonder to defeat a being known as "The Shadow" and rescue a princess. The latter is theoretically a heroic quest, but while the game master attempts to foster in a narrative, the players tend to be more interested in their characters' tolerance for ale, trying to apply the sneak attack damage multiplier to siege weaponry, et cetera. The movie both makes fun of gamer stereotypes and plays the discrepancy between an optimal RPG plot and the events of an…
Action, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama
Criminals Hazari (Sanjay Mishra) and Murari (Rajpal Yadav) rob the Police Commissioner's home, and Chetta Singh (Vijay Raaz) steals the car belonging to the Commissioner's wife, Kusum (Rati Agnihotri). Meanwhile, AD (Aftab Shivdasani) elopes with Shreya (Priyanka Kothari), the niece of Police Sub-Inspector Pralay Pratap Singh (Om Puri). With each group on the run for different reasons, they all end up in a vehicle stolen from crime boss Durjan Singh/Black Cobra (Gulshan Grover).
Action, Drama, spy film, thriller film
Russian spy, FSB Agent Gregory Lyubov is sent to Monaco to watch the actions of the powerful Russian oligarch Ivan Rostovskiy. As part of this mission, the team recruits a talented finance expert named Alice. Suspecting her of treason, Gregory breaks the golden rule and makes contact with Alice.
Action, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film
A group of animal activists, consisting of Dr. Nikki Riley, Gia, and Ben, breaks into a house and steals dozens of exotic pythons before setting them free into the Florida Everglades. Their actions inadvertently cause the snakes to grow into alarming sizes and threaten the ecosystem, as they kill over 72 alligators in a matter of days.
Western
A cocky young man from Tennessee, Lot McGuire, seeks to back up his notion that he's the fastest gun there is. "If a man is second best, he might as well be dead," says McGuire. He travels to a town with the intention of forcing a duel with Marshal Dan Blaine, who's renowned for his skill with a gun.
Western
In the mid-1870s, outlaws Jesse James, Cole Younger and their brothers are granted amnesty by the Missouri legislature, sympathetic to the troubles created for all citizens by the American Civil War. The bankers victimized by the James and Younger gangs are vehemently opposed to this action and hire a Pinkerton agent to follow the outlaws' every move. Younger has put aside plans to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, said to be the largest west of the Mississippi River.
Drama, Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western
In 1746, on the lawless northern frontier of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, womanizing Mestizo outlaw and Spanish Royal Army deserter Leon Alastray (Anthony Quinn) is wounded and pursued into a church by a posse of soldiers. He is granted sanctuary by a sympathetic priest (Sam Jaffe), who refuses to turn Alastray over to the military. The Bishop sides with the army, and when the priest still refuses to hand Alastray over he is reassigned as pastor of a remote village, San Sebastian.
Adventure, war film
During World War II, Navy Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, a strict disciplinarian, is given charge of Underwater Demolition Team 4 after its former leader, Lt.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
The planet Jillucia, located in the Andromeda galaxy, is conquered by the steel-skinned Gavanas Empire, who transform it into a military fortress. Kido, the leader of the Jillucians, sends eight Liabe Seeds to find help. Princess Emeralida and the warrior Urocco flee Jillucia in a space galleon as the Gavanas, led by Emperor Rockseia XXII, pursue them.
Action, thriller film
The "courier" lives in a derelict flat where he has adopted a mouse as his pet. When he visits his old friend Stitch at his boxing gym, he is contacted by a stranger who tasks him with delivering a suitcase to a man known as "Evil Sivle". The stranger doesn't know where Sivle is, and explains that finding him is the actual task.
Action, Comedy, Drama, Satire, sport film, Tragicomedy
Harry is the manager of a tag team of attractive female wrestlers, Iris and Molly. On the road, they all endure a number of indignities, including bad motels, small-time crooks and a mud-wrestling match while trying to reach Reno, Nevada, for a big event at the MGM Grand Hotel.
Action, Comedy, Crime, mystery film
Reverend Michael Hill and his two children arrive in New Campton, a fictional town in California. He is there to serve as the new minister at the North Avenue Presbyterian Church. The secretary and music director for the church, Anne, is wary of the changes Hill intends to implement.
Action, Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
An alien spacecraft crashes down in a U.S. national park. A mosquito sucks the blood of the craft's deceased extraterrestrial pilot, causing the insect to mutate to an abnormally large size.
Action, Crime, thriller film, Western
Action, Crime, thriller film
The film opens with a robbery of a liquor store by a group of well-armed young men, as an unseen man listens to a police scanner. That man, wearing a welding mask, suddenly appears behind the store as the men flee, incinerating two of them with a flamethrower. The survivors flee underground, revealing their membership in a street gang led by a charismatic man named X.
Action, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction action film
In the near future, the economy has collapsed and crime waves sweep the inner cities. The manufacturing industry has shrunk to the point where cars are a commodity and parts are fought over between salvage companies and roving gangs. Australia, the US, and North Korea are the only functioning nation-states left on earth.
Comedy, Satire On War, Stop motion
In 1940, Nazi Germany invades Great Britain by drilling under the English Channel and up through the cobblestones on Whitehall, London. From his bunker under Downing Street, away, Prime Minister Winston Churchill issues a call to arms for all of Britain to band together to resist the invaders. In a small village, Chris, a young everyman, rallies the residents to fight back.