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Man with the Gun (1955)

Western

Clint Tollinger arrives in the town of Sheridan City to talk to Nelly Bain, but she refuses to see him. One of the residents recognizes him as a "town tamer", a gun for hire who cleans up lawless communities. After 14 killings and 31 robberies in past year, followed by the (non-fatal) shooting of Jeff Castle (who does not like Tollinger's methods) and the unwillingness of the town marshal to oppose powerful rancher Dade Holman and his gang, the town council reluctantly hires Tollinger for $500.

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Attrition (2018)

Action

Former special forces operative Axe (Steven Seagal) emigrates to Thailand and converts to Buddhism. Axe is approached by Mr Yuen (Sonny Chatwiriyachai), who pleads with him to rescue his kidnapped eldest daughter, Tara (Ting Sue). Axe agrees and puts together a team for the job.

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The Terminators (2009)

Action, Dystopian, Horror, mockbuster, Science fiction

The film takes place at an undetermined point in the future, when humanity has developed advanced robotic technology with enhanced artificial intelligence. This includes the use of cybernetic organisms (or cyborgs) called the TR-4 (all TR-4s are played by Paul Logan) for general labor. After being reprogrammed by the newest model TR-5, the machines instigate a cybernetic revolt against humanity, bombing cities and sending thousands of armed, identical TR-4 androids to eradicate all human life.

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Pocket Money (1972)

buddy film, Comedy, Drama, Western

Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy known as Jim Kane gets mixed up in some shady dealings with Stretch Russell and Bill Garrett, a crooked rancher. Russell tells Kane to escort 250 head of cattle from Mexico to the United States for a good sum of money. Kane agrees and brings along his friend Leonard to aid him.

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Chan Is Missing (1982)

buddy film, Comedy drama, Drama

Jo is a taxi driver in Chinatown, San Francisco who, with his nephew Steve, is seeking to purchase a cab license. Jo's friend Chan Hung was the go-between for the transaction but has disappeared, taking Jo's money. The two men search for Chan by speaking with various Chinatown locals, each of whom has a different impression of Chan's personality and motivations.

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Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

Action, thriller film

It has been a year since Nick Prescott became the sheriff of Boone, Texas, and cleaned up the town. Now, he is moving to Dallas so he can be with his FBI agent fiancée Kate Jensen and her 12-year-old daughter Samantha. Currently, Kate is one of the many people working to put away Octavio Perez, the biggest drug kingpin in the central states.

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Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)

Comedy, Western

The concept of the film is explained in a voiceover wondering what it would be like if one of the old Rex O'Herlihan films were to be made today. At that point, the scene shifts from black and white to color and the soundtrack changes from mono to surround sound. As a consequence of this paradigm shift, Rex O'Herlihan, a "singing cowboy", is the only character aware of the plot outline.

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Blood Red (1989)

Action, Drama, Late Western, romance film, Western

Set in the 1890s, the story centers around the life of a Sicilian family, the Collogeros, who live in California and work in the winemaking business, and their confrontation with the powerful railroad and land baron William Bradford Berrigan, who is after their land and the land that belonging to other families in the area. Berrigan's plan is to get ahold of the properties in order to build a new railroad. When the conflict escalates, Berrigan murders the patriarch of the family, Sebastian Collogero, and in response, his son Marco claims for justice.

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Tokyo Joe (1949)

Drama, Noir

Joe Barrett, an ex-US Air Force Colonel and World War II veteran, returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint, Tokyo Joe's. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito. Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina, who he thought had died in the war, is still alive.

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Road to Singapore (1940)

buddy film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy

thumb|left|Dorothy Lamour and Bing Crosby in the trailer Josh Mallon (Bing Crosby) and Ace Lannigan (Bob Hope) are best friends and work aboard the same ship. As their ship returns to the US after a long voyage, they see all the other sailors being mistreated by their wives and girlfriends, and the two friends pledge never to get involved with women again. Unfortunately, this vow is tested almost immediately.

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Penitentiary (1979)

Blaxploitation, boxing film

Martel Gordone had been wandering aimlessly through the desert when he is finally picked up by an African-American woman driving a van dubbed the "Shaggin' Wagon". The woman, Linda, who picks him up is actually a prostitute on her way to some clients. On the way to the diner where the two parties are to meet, Linda and Gordone (nicknamed "Too Sweet" because of his uncontrollable addiction to Mr.

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Atomic Train (1999)

Action, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller film

In Stillwater, Utah, Bradshaw Disposal Services is transporting a Russian nuclear bomb slated to be decommissioned. An employee, John Henry Bradshaw, decides to cut operating costs by concealing it in a freight train laden with biomedical and flammable chemicals bound for Denver. The train loses all brakes when its air hoses split apart, becoming a high-speed runaway.

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10.5 (2004)

disaster film, Natural Disaster

Part 1 The film begins in the Seattle, Washington, area with increasingly severe earthquake activity. A quake of magnitude 7.9 is measured at the Earthquake centre, where Dr. Samantha Hill takes command, displacing Dr.

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Company Business (1991)

Comedy, Crime, Secret Agent

With the Cold War rapidly coming to an end, retired CIA operative Sam Boyd has taken up freelancing as a corporate spy for cosmetics giant Maxine Gray, only to find that his hands-on style of espionage is being rendered obsolete by the capabilities of younger computer hackers. Boyd is suddenly called back in to the CIA by his superior, Elliot Jaffe, for a seemingly straightforward prisoner exchange with the KGB overseen by Colonel Pierce Grissom. Jaffe and Grissom explain that they have to use Boyd instead of an active agent to keep the operation off-the-books, since the $2 million that the Russian side demanded in addition to their own…

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Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)

Comedy, Western

Mayor Ragsdale and Sheriff Denver Kid meet wealthy businessman Jasper Bloodshy and his English butler Mansfield on the outskirts of the Wild Western town of Bloodshy in the Arizona territory. Mansfield reveals that Bloodshy's doctors indicate he is severely ill and will die within two days. Surveying the land he will leave to his heirs, Bloodshy shocks the mayor and sheriff by revealing that in addition to his infamous gunslinger son Wild Billy, he has another son named Eli.

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Destination Gobi (1953)

Adventure, Drama, war film

The film's foreword reads:In the Navy records in Washington, there is an obscure entry reading "Saddles for Gobi." This film is based on the story behind that entry, one of the strangest stories of World War II. The Navy created a meteorology command in order to provide accurate forecasts for operations in the Pacific War. Lt.

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Storm Rider (1972)

Spaghetti Western

Philip Wermeer has escaped from prison where he serves a sentence for the murder of Ebenezer Saxon, the patriarch of Saxon city, who in his turn is believed to be behind the murder of Wermeer's father. Wermeer is holed up in Gila Bend by a swarm of bounty killers, who want his $3,000 reward, posted by Saxon's three sons David, Eli and Adam. A sheriff named Clayton arrives on a stagecoach and bosses his way through the cordon set up by the local lawmen.

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Big Jim McLain (1952)

Crime, Drama, Historie, Political Thriller, propaganda film, spy film

HUAC investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter are sent to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities and gather evidence toward convictions. Their trail leads to insurance fraudsters, saboteurs and infiltrators of labor unions on the Honolulu docks, who interfere with the loading and unloading of ships. After receiving information from a local newspaper reporter, the agents search for Willie Nomaka, a former party treasurer.

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Mercenaries (2014)

Action, girls with guns

During a visit to Kazakhstan, the daughter of the U.S. President is captured and held for ransom by Ulrika, a female warlord. The CIA tasks agent Mona Kendall to create a team to rescue the first daughter from Ulrika's base, a former Soviet prison nicknamed "The Citadel".

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Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao (2002)

Action, fantasy film

Despite only a few years having passed in the real world, many decades have passed in Tao, the parallel universe from the first movie. The kangaroos have changed over the years, now appearing little different from normal humans, and a new villain, Dogon, seizes control of Tao from its young queen. Ryan Jeffers and his friend Chucky, now 16-year-old martial arts competitors in Beijing, find themselves unexpectedly transported to Tao where it is shown that they are to become Warriors of Virtue.

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