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Action, Drama, thriller film, vigilante film
When his parents are killed in a botched drug deal, a young boy is taken in by a bag lady who teaches him about the Blue Coats (Cops) and White Coats (Doctors). After her death, he becomes an urban Tarzan defending innocents in a large city. He soon becomes an urban legend and champion of street justice, espousing a 1960s philosophy and coming to the aid of the helpless and oppressed.
Action, Crime, Drama
When merchant seaman Tommy Campbell receives a six-month suspension, he is stuck in New York City with nothing to do. He rents a cheap, rundown apartment on the Lower East Side, while harassing a supervisor named Karenski to find him any ship assignment. When Tommy lies that he knows how to speak Spanish, Karenski offers him work on a Panamanian ship.
Action, Comedy, Silly Movie
Mild-mannered Portuguese Brazilian billionaire cousins Bastiano and Antonio Coimbra de la Coronilla y Azevedo are in fear for their lives after several assassination attempts. Therefore, they have an agency find two look-alikes, stuntman Elliot Vance and the saxophone-playing small-time criminal Greg Wonder, to temporarily take their place and find out who is behind the assassination attempts. Elliot and Greg, both very tough and battle-ready as compared to the violence-averse Coimbra cousins, use their flamboyance and fighting skills to manage their way through all kinds of situations without too much trouble while getting closer to the…
Late Western, Western
The story has three plot strands that run concurrently through the film: a stagecoach carrying a rich widow home to her family's hacienda, a war party of Native Americans returning to their village, and two fur traders waiting to meet a different group of Native Americans with whom they trade. The war party attacks the other Native Americans and kills their leader, who owns a magnificent white Arabian stallion. White Bull (Waterston) attempts to capture the horse, but it is too quick and makes off carrying the dead chief.
Action, hood film
In Los Angeles, two rival gangs war with each other: the Hyde Park Gang, led by El Chivo, and the East Side Gangsters, led by Armand Tucker. Vice cop Max Ballister receives a call he assumes to be from his informant, Gary Morrison. Max leaves a romantic dinner with his wife and is gunned down.
Action, Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist
Four college students Sam (Ed Speleers), Fordy (Will Poulter), Yatesey (Alfie Allen), and Rafa (Sebastian De Souza) are running a credit card fraud scheme. One night they rob a person in his car.; he turns out to be an associate of a gangster named Marcel (Thomas Kretschmann).
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
A federal marshal gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
Comedy, comedy television program
Maxwell Smart, acting as a protocol officer since CONTROL was disbanded in the early 1970s, is reactivated as a counterintelligence agent by Commander Drury, of the United States Intelligence Agency. KAOS, long considered defunct, has been revitalized by a corporate takeover. Its first scheme involves turning a forgotten American scientist and using his weather control machine to extort US$250 billion from the United States Government.
Horror, Martial arts, Vampire
Connor (Colin Egglesfield) and Amanda (Meredith Monroe) are vacationing in Thailand during that year's Songkran festival. Connor, trained since childhood in Muay Thai (Thai boxing), takes Amanda to see a match. However, Amanda cannot take the brutality and goes back to their hotel alone.
Action, thriller film, war film
While on an unsanctioned covert mission in Africa, a small team of Navy SEALs uncovers intelligence pointing to the imminent sale of a massive quantity of weapons grade uranium. Now, with no mission prep and zero support, they have less than 36 hours to fight their way past a ruthless warlord's army guarding this secret mining operation, hidden deep in the treacherous Congo, in order to secure the yellowcake and expose the unknown buyer. As the story moves along, the asset that the SEAL team was asked to secure turns out to be the warlord.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime
Chicago cop Tony Church and his team are completing a drug bust. Just as the cops make the arrest a masked thief called Adam "Dancer" Booth intervenes and executes all of the officers. Church attempts to apprehend Dancer but Dancer outwits him and takes a hostage Della Roberts.
Western
Dave Harmon, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Army, is sent to Yuma as the territory's new U.S. Marshal.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Following their flight from Turks and Caicos, Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) and Margot Tyrrell (Helena Bonham Carter) hopscotch around Europe to evade capture by MI5. After spotting an MI5 agent he had recruited, disguised as a passing jogger, Worricker relocates once again and instructs former colleague Rollo Maverley (Ewen Bremner) to leak news of Prime Minister Alec Beasley's (Ralph Fiennes) corrupt dealings with Stirling Rogers (Rupert Graves) and his Bridge Foundation. Tyrrell covertly keeps in touch with Worricker's pregnant daughter Julianne (Felicity Jones).
Action
John Alexander is approached by an agency individual named Van Horn. He is given a mission to kill an Afghan National who is suspected of providing terrorists with stealth technology. Alexander swears to Van Horn that before he takes this mission, he wants to make sure he is not being used for political gain and swears vengeance if that is the case.
Action, Drama, Science fiction, thriller film
EVE VIII is a military android created to look and sound exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When the robot is damaged during a bank robbery, it accesses memories it was programmed with by her creator.
Western
Life in the Arizona Territory in early 1861 is hard, but Phoebe Titus, the only American woman in the pioneering community of Tucson, is up to the challenge. She catches the eye of Peter Muncie, a handsome young man with a wagon train passing through on the way to California. He begins courting her but tells her that he is not ready to settle down in one spot.
disaster film
TOA airlines flight 502 takes off from New York City to London. At the airport, a bomb threat in the airline's first-class passenger lounge turns out to be an elaborate prank. Safety official Davenport receives a letter explaining that a series of murders will take place on Flight 502 before it lands.
Action, thriller film
During the 1999 Russian Presidential elections, the two leading candidates are Igor Komarov (Patrick Bergin), a former Colonel of the KGB, and Nikolai Nikolayev (Joss Ackland), a retired General of the Russian Army. When a car bomb explodes outside one of Komarov's pharmaceutical companies, and a virus is stolen from inside, an investigation by the FSB ensues headed by FSB agents Sonia Astrova (Annika Peterson) and Andrei Kasanov (Niko Nicotera). Their investigation is obstructed by the Director of the FSB, Anatoly Grishin (Ben Cross).
Action, thriller film
A group of Caltech students yachting off the coast of Central America are held hostage by terrorists. A retired U.S. Marine trains the hostages' friends to become an impromptu special ops force.
Action, Comedy, Crime, slapstick
While filming on location at a race track, womanizing bit actor Spencer Holden, who lives life on one scam after another, overhears a couple of inept thugs named Maurice "Binky" Drundza and Wayne "Turnip" Parragella while they dope a race horse Sorry Sue with a supposed undetectable super stimulant. The thugs find out that Spence overheard them and will do anything to catch him to prevent him from going to the authorities with the information. Spence, however, enlists the help of his best friend, drive-in carhop and aspiring restaurateur Dennis Powell, to bet on the race with that horse so that they can make some guaranteed money.
Drama, Western
A pregnant Dr. Annie Watson is going to stay with her best friend, Dr. Belinda Owens ([[Sarah Jones while her husband Peter is off on a surveying job.
Adventure, medieval film, silent film, swashbuckler film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|The full film The opening has the dashing Earl of Huntingdon besting his bitter enemy, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in a joust. Huntingdon then joins King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who is going off to fight in the Crusades and has left his brother, Prince John, as regent. The prince soon emerges as a cruel, treacherous tyrant.
Action, Martial arts
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with counterfeit bills. When a young woman named Mickey (Jill Ritchie) working for the mobsters decides to turn herself in and hand over a data CD to the police, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee).
Action, romance film, Western
A young boy, Jim Aherne Jr., is the only survivor of a wagon-train raid by Crow Indians. Sioux Indians rescue Jim, and Chief Yellow Eagle raises him as a Sioux, renaming him War Bonnet. When Jim grows to maturity, his loyalties between his tribe and his white heritage are questioned.