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war film
On 6 September 1950, an isolated and exhausted platoon of the 24th Infantry Division is cut off. In addition to losing radio contact, the platoon is harassed by unseen North Korean infiltrators who silently kill the Americans and take their weapons. Platoon leader Lieutenant Benson has only vague instructions to reach a certain hill to link up with American forces.
Action, Horror, Science fiction
In the near future, a maintenance vehicle is orbiting the Earth on a mission to repair nuclear-armed satellites. Suddenly, the crew experiences a mysterious, inexplicable power failure that cannot be accounted for. As the ship grows colder, they find themselves drifting toward the dark side of the Moon.
Action, Crime
Molly, now a freelance photographer (having apparently abandoned law school) living in New York City, is at an art show and accidentally takes a picture of a woman who turns out to be her mother, who abandoned her over 14 years ago. Molly learns she has a sister and both are connected to a dangerous crime element. Molly goes to Los Angeles to find out if the woman is her mother.
Horror, Science fiction
A submarine is destroyed near the North Pole by a mysterious undersea light. The loss of this and several other ships in the Arctic alarms the world. Governments temporarily close the polar route and convene an emergency meeting at the Pentagon.
Comedy, Crime, Secret Agent
The glamorous assassin Irma Eckman, disguised as an air stewardess, kills the oil tycoon Henry Keller with a booby-trapped cigar aboard his private jet, parachuting away before the plane explodes. She is picked up by a speedboat driven by her partner in crime, the equally beautiful Penelope. The villainous pair then murder David Wyngarde, making it look like a spear fishing accident.
Action, Comedy, Crime Comedy, spy film
Moore and Caine play dual roles - a pair of small-time con-men and a pair of inept nuclear physicists who believe they have invented a limitless supply of energy. The con men use their resemblance to the scientists to con their way into the scientists' safe deposit boxes and steal the formula, but in so doing, they become entangled in a shady world of spies and international intrigue. The film includes a number of cameo appearances, including Jenny Seagrove (Winner's partner at the time) playing two different roles, John Cleese, Patsy Kensit, Alexandra Pigg and Nicholas Courtney.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy drama, Melodrama, war film
Lance Corporal Stephen "Hannibal" Brooks is a British prisoner of war who is put to work in Munich zoo, looking after a female Asian elephant named Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by the Americans, the zoo director decides that the zoo is unsafe for the elephant. Brooks is sent along with hostile German soldier Kurt, a friendly German soldier named Willy and Vronia, a female cook to accompany the elephant to Innsbruck Zoo via a train.
Action, Biography, Drama, war film
thumb|Law in a publicity still thumb|Don Stroud at Lynn Garrison's aviation facility in Ireland. Manfred von Richthofen is an average pilot in a German air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke. Richthofen, who believes in a gentlemanly approach to war, meets fellow pilots Werner Voss, Ernst Udet and Hermann Göring.
Action, Adventure, Treasure hunt
Gibbie Gibson has discovered a World War II-era plane wreck in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. When his discovery becomes known Gibson, his daughter Sally and his lodger Barney Whitaker find trouble from a group of treasure hunters led by a Mister Theo Brown, who are intent on finding the cache of money they believe is on the wreck.
Action, Drama, war film
On December 6, 1941, the crew of Mary-Ann, a U.S. Army Air Corps B-17D, is ordered to fly from San Francisco to Hawaii with eight other Flying Fortress bombers. Master Sergeant Robbie White, the crew chief, is a long-time veteran whose son Danny is an officer and fighter pilot.
Military Film
At the Farnborough Airshow, a rogue group hijacks a Mirage 2000-10 after killing its pilot. French Air Force pilots Captain Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Captain Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are instructed to escort it back. The rogue pilot briefly hides under an Airbus A340 and then attempts to fire a missile at Vallois, so Marchelli is forced to destroy the stolen Mirage.
buddy cop film, Splatstick
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found.
Action, crossover fiction, Horror, Science fiction
The film begins with Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson from Dollman) hitchhiking to get to the town of Pahoota, where he tries to find a girl named Nurse Ginger Jones (Melissa Behr, playing her character from Bad Channels), to prove to her that she is not alone. Meanwhile, the film cuts to Judith Grey (Tracy Scoggins from Demonic Toys), who has a nightmare about the events that happened in the previous film a year before. Ever since the events that took place a year before, Judith has been watching the Arcadia Warehouse, believing that the toys are still alive.
Adventure, Drama
1945: As the Japanese occupiers in Malaya during World War II surrender, three friends who fought in the Resistance emerge from the jungle. Ferris is an American who fought alongside the Malayans. Dhana is a half-French, half-Vietnamese woman Ferris is in love with.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
American schoolteacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to work as a governess for the Miranda family and becomes caught up in the Mexican Revolution. The Mexicans transporting her from Chihuahua, secretly soldiers in Pancho Villa's army, use her luggage to smuggle weapons to the servants at the Miranda hacienda. The servants, in turn, aid the attacking revolutionary army of General Tomas Arroyo.
Drama, Western
Windwalker is an aged Cheyenne warrior. As a young husband and father, he had watched helplessly as his wife, Tashina, was killed and one of their twin sons kidnapped during a raid by rival Crow warriors. After many years of searching unsuccessfully for this son, Windwalker dies during the winter of 1797 in what will become the state of Utah.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Drama, Horror, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film
Deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an illegal diamond mining operation awakens a giant prehistoric crocodile of 1,500 feet (460m). Meanwhile, on the Atlantic Ocean, the US Navy warship USS Gibson is attacked and sunk by the megalodon that ended up surviving suffocation by the octopus in the first film. Lt.
Action, Animal horror, Comedy horror, monster film, Splatter Film
Honey Pie is mauled and beheaded by a monster, which quickly digests and excretes her head. Lightning survived the explosion near him and stumbles off. The remaining survivors (Biker Queen, Tat Girl, Tit Girl, Secrets, Bartender, Slasher, and Greg, now with a pipe lodged in his head) are then attacked by monsters on the roof of the building where they are hiding.
crossover fiction, Drama, Horror, Vampire, Western
The film centers on Dracula's plot to convert Billy the Kid's fiancé, Betty Bentley, into his vampire bride. Dracula impersonates Betty's deceased uncle, calling himself "Mr. Underhill", and schemes to make her his vampire bride.
Action, Adventure, Cyberpunk, Horror, independent film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film
Steve Armstrong works as a short order cook on a space station somewhere in the galaxy. Overwhelmed by the volume of orders, he repeatedly fouls up and soon finds himself in a confrontation with an alien patron named Vang. After a fight which smashes up the diner and leaves the alien injured, Steve and his friend and co-worker Shorty are fired.
Comedy, romantic comedy
The film opens with Harmony (Basinger) driving down a long, winding road, the music of Elvis playing on the radio. She feels that her life is empty and artificial. She is a traveling cosmetic saleswoman, setting up "Pink Lady" training seminars in the western portion of the United States.
Action, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, Zombie
Brothers Josh and Mike are enjoying a vacation in the South when they are run off the road by Al and a few of his friends. They eventually make it to a small town whose inhabitants are getting sick and some are disappearing. They meet Sheriff Will who takes them to a bed and breakfast to stay for the night.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, mockbuster, Science fiction
A high-tech teleporter being used by the military malfunctions and teleports a team of female soldiers beneath Earth's surface instead of to Germany. The team encounters various prehistoric dangers in the foreign environment, including dinosaurs and giant arachnids. In order to rescue the team, a scientist and her ex-husband use an invention of hers, a large drilling machine, to navigate to the center of the earth.
Drama, Horror, mystery film
British gentleman Sir Ronald Burton investigates the disappearance of his two friends at the Austrian estate of the sinister Count von Bruno, who secretly seeks revenge against the leaders of a British force who set the natives against him in colonial Africa. Burton's missing friends are among Bruno's victims, and Burton is now also in the trap. Burton plans to escape with Bruno's abused countess, but the count's henchmen bar the way.