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Action, Adventure, Drama
American magazine photojournalism RJ O'Brien arrives in Bolivia's Amazon basin to write a story about the rainforest. From his contact Chato, he learns of the efforts by Rafael Santos, the charismatic leader of the rubber tree tappers union, to lead a nonviolent resistance against corporate cattle ranchers. After numerous death threats, Santos is killed at his family home, seemingly by an indigenous assassin.
Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, Police Film
Keneely and Farrell are detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) vice squad. Although they show great talent for breaking up prostitution and drug rings, many of these enterprises are protected by crime boss Carl Rizzo, who exerts his influence throughout the city and the department. Evidence is altered before trial, colleagues refuse to help with basic police work, and the detectives are pushed to pursue other cases—mostly stakeouts on gay bars and public lavatories.
Action, war film
Lieutenant Jeffrey Knight, newly graduated from the United States Military Academy, is airlifted to an outpost in Vietnam, where he meets the hard-bitten veterans of his new platoon. Platoon Sergeant McNamara explains they don't need a leader that follows rules and Knight's leadership is rejected by everyone save Private Parker, his radio operator. Knight stumbles carelessly over a trip mine and is wounded on one of his first patrols.
Action Comedy, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Police Officer Alex Kearney is a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, an affluent, plush suburb of Philadelphia—until he stops an important businessman and his account of the incident is not believed. As punishment, he is assigned to work Downtown, considered the most dangerous, high-crime precinct in the city. Everyone at the precinct is certain that the 'by the book' suburban, pampered cop is going to get himself (and whoever is assigned as his partner), killed.
Action, Drama, spy film
During the First World War, British Army Lieutenant Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a Scotsman of German descent, is attracted to Stephanie, a German spy who suggests he escape to Germany to be reunited with his family and friends. When he reports this conversation to his commanding officer, Captain Whitney, he is asked to go through with the defection to Germany, as part of a secret mission to steal the plans of the LZ36, a new type of Zeppelin under development at Friedrichshafen. Geoffrey deserts to Friedrichshafen with a convincing gunshot in the arm from a British sailor for verisimilitude.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Military Film, Satire On War, war film
During World War II the British army is attempting to retrieve an Enigma machine from Germany. Having failed in previous attempts, they decide to send four men undercover to the factory that makes the devices in Berlin. Unfortunately the factory is populated entirely by women, and they only have men to send.
Action, fantasy film, Science fiction
The evil Lord Agon intones the mystical words and sacrifices a prisoner, magically regaining his own youth. Agon tells the aging warlock Maldor he needs more strength to open the tomb and that The Eye of Braxus will be found. Meanwhile, Korum, Kala, and Pir, traveling off the main roads to avoid Agon's Crimson Warriors, are attacked instead by Jaggart and fellow bandit Bortho.
Action, Drama
Harlan Banks (Steven Seagal) is a thief who has always picked his own jobs and tried to pull heists that would leave him room to help others. The work keeps getting riskier, and at the urging of his girlfriend Jada (Mari Morrow), Banks has decided to pull one final job, going in with some men who are planning a $20 million robbery. After the heist goes bad, Banks heads to Las Vegas, where Jada wants him to get a real job.
Action, Adventure
Disguised as natives, the mercenaries Slade, O'Bannion, Kreiger and Dino have been murderously raiding African villages for supplies. At Mantu, the radio operator recognizes Slade, who shoots him before fleeing in a canoe with the others and the dynamite they have stolen from the village. Before dying, the villager makes a brief radio transmission which is heard by a bush pilot flying nearby.
Action, Crime, Noir, thriller film
An old gangster, with a hard drive containing records of who he paid off, is targeted by a competition between dirty cops, internal affairs, etc. The dirty cops hire a thug to get into the safe (in the back of a diner) at midnight. He brings his friends and is too early for the time-release lock.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, Zombie
A plague in the form of a toxic viral gas is unleashed at major sporting events across the United States. The gas turns its victims instantly "into an immediate rage of insanity and violence". Controversial Los Angeles talk show radio host Logan Burnhardt and his production team are caught up in the middle of the chaos.
Action, Crime, Drama
A Swiss bank learns that the confidentiality of several anonymous numbered accounts has been compromised and blackmail threats have been made to five holders of the accounts. They include a crooked arms dealer, who received a demand for five million Swiss francs. He refuses to pay and is shot dead.
Action, Action Comedy, exploitation film
When the clean-cut but rebellious son of a small-town sheriff steals the race car of a professional driver, the sheriff forms a motorized posse to recover the car.
Action, Adventure, Parody
The film opens at a jewelry shop in Chinatown, which contains a statue with one glowing red eye. Three masked figures kill the store's owner, then try to pry the eye free. The police arrive, and after a bloody fight, all of the intruders and all but one of the policemen are dead, with the lone survivor being seriously wounded.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, family film, fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
In Scotland, 994 A.D., Castle Wyvern is under attack by Vikings, led by the ruthless Hakon. The resident warriors struggle to repel the attack until the sun sets, where at night, the seemingly lifeless stone gargoyle statues awaken, revealing themselves to be real living gargoyles. Led by Goliath, the powerful gargoyle clan subsequently defends the castle and successfully forces the Vikings to retreat.
Science fiction
In 1986, Dr. Scott McKenzie (William Devane) is a college professor and ardent fan of the gunslinger culture of the Old West. A year ago, McKenzie watched his wife and son die in a car crash caused by a drunk driver attempting to flee the police.
Adventure, children's film, Melodrama
In 1897, during the British Raj, Sergeant Donald MacDuff escorts Joyce Williams, an impoverished young widow, and her daughter, Priscilla, to a military outpost on the northern frontier of British occupied India to live with her stern father-in-law, Colonel Williams. Along the way, they witness the capture of freedom fighter chief Khoda Khan. Soon, Priscilla, nicknamed "Wee Willie Winkie" by MacDuff, wins the hearts of all the soldiers, especially MacDuff and her grandfather.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
In 1945, the Second World War is about to come to an end. Meanwhile, the Australian military has come across an ancient device which can be used to travel through time. It is imperative that the Allies have it and the Axis powers do not.
Action, Drama, war film
Jim Gordon leads the Flying Tigers, a squadron of volunteer American pilots who fly Curtiss P-40C fighters against Japanese aircraft in the skies over China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The pilots are a mixed bunch, motivated by money (they receive a bounty for each aircraft shot down) or just by the thrill of aerial combat. One day, Jim's old friend Woody Jason shows up.
Action, Adventure, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=2|Tarzan of the Apes (1918) thumb|right|Advertisement (1918) John and Alice Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke, are passengers on the Fuwalda, a ship bound for Africa. When the vessel is taken over by mutineers the sailor Binns saves them from being murdered, but they are marooned on the tropical coast. After their deaths their infant son is adopted by Kala, an ape, who raises him as her own.
Action, Military Film, rape and revenge film
Colonel Hogan is a highly-decorated Special Forces officer who leads a group of mercenaries. His current client is businessman Don Michaelson. A deal is struck, and Hogan recruits new troops; for training, Hogan orders them to kidnap civilians for use as targets in hunting exercises.
Western
Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly is contracted to deliver a herd to the Union Army in Virginia. After a 3-month cattle drive, he is 10 days late in delivering the herd, and Major Albert Stedman informs Kelly that he must now take the cattle by rail to a plantation in Virginia, 30 miles (48.3 km) south of Richmond at only $1 a head extra. Outside of Richmond, widow Charity Warrick coldly authorizes them to graze the herd at her plantation for one night only.
aqua-musical, Comedy, live-action/animated film, musical film, romantic comedy
Katie Higgins is the wholesome daughter of a dairy farmer. The entire family (Pa, Ma, Suzie, Katie, and Junior) start the day with a brisk song and morning swim. One day, Katie meets traveling salesman Windy Weebe, who is instantly smitten.
Action, Comedy horror, Horror, Science fiction, zombie comedy
After losing her family farm to the bank, local beauty pageant winner Rene decides to leave the small town of Berkeley. A number of strange meteorites are seen falling nearby, turning the local inhabitants into zombies. Rene and other survivors hide in the home of gun nut and alien abductee Marion.