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Action, Drama, Heist
Inspector Ho Sheung-sang (Sean Lau) is a talented police negotiator who often goes unrecognized. He meets Cheung Wah (Andy Lau), a man with only weeks to live, who sets up an elaborate game to challenge Ho. Cheung first appears during a fake robbery at a finance company, using fake bullets and a mock bomb to pull Ho into a three-day contest.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Vietnam veteran and retired CSA agent William Lansing works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, and has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irena Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Warsaw, Poland that he is helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Lansing heads to Poland to figure out the reason. He discovers that the orphanage that Irena was staying in, which is financed by honest – and unsuspecting – good intentioned Samaritans, is a front for a human trafficking syndicate run by a notorious crime boss and freelance terrorist named Faisal.
Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In a post-apocalyptic future, human survivors are fighting a group of mutant monsters they refer to as "gargoyles". Two of these survivors Michael and John are out surveying the world after a chemical or biological attack which left a large portion of the population mutated or dead. The survivors are part of the Mojave Lab and have lost contact with their sister Rocky Mountain Lab.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction, Superhero
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited the Earth and became gods to the Aztecs. The aliens fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers who would guard the people of Earth. The original Pumaman was entrusted a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction
Scientist, and part-time prizefighter, Jonathan Brock is visited at his home by heiress Martha Dennison. Years earlier Jonathon had met Martha's husband, Edward, who had given him a fossil which came from a mine in a volcano in the then Russian territory of Alaska. Supposedly the mine leads to the center of the Earth, which Jonathon dismisses as a myth.
Drama, war film
During the first winter of the Korean War, a 48-man U.S. Army platoon is ordered to hold a mountain chokepoint to cover the withdrawal of the larger unit across an exposed bridge. The men contend with subzero temperatures and frostbite as well as enemy fire.
Western
Returning home from the War of 1812, John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette de Marchand. He discovers a plot to steal the land on which Fleurette's exiles plan to settle. Breen is mistaken for a land surveyor and is presented with a theodolite, and sets out with Willie to look as if they are surveying (they do not actually know what to do).
Action, thriller film
Chris Cody (Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil; a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen. Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he is in a military prison.
Action, Comedy
Action, Martial arts, Superhero
Tsui Chik (or Simon in the American version) tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701". The 701 squad is used for many government missions, but after one of the agents kills a team of policemen in an uncontrollable rage, the government decides to abort the project and eliminate all the subjects.
Comedy, Secret Agent, spy film
Fathom Harvill, a skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She accepts a lift from a man called Timothy and is taken to see Douglas Campbell, who convinces her that he is a British agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help him find a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon that has gone missing in the Mediterranean.
fantasy film, live-action/animated film, Science fiction
The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu; with the tiny inhabitants created by animation and themed on Medieval West and South Asia. The film ends with a cliffhanger: Having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag themed on Medieval Europe, but there is nothing more about his adventures there or in the other lands mentioned in the novel.
Western
The survivors of a squad of cavalry led by Sergeant Blake are escorting a prisoner, Corbin, back to their fort. Corbin had been attempting to sell repeating rifles to the Apache, and the cavalry are now carrying the rifles. They encounter the survivors of a Texas cattle drive, all former Confederate soldiers led by Sam Prescott, who include the young Keith Williams who still hates northerners and has to be restrained from shooting Blake.
Action, thriller film
After an incident where he used questionable police tactics, Jeff Powers is placed on probation. Upon hearing of his probation, a friend from the force later invites Jeff to join the Special Investigation Section, an elite and highly secretive Los Angeles Police Department(LAPD) unit designed to track and shut down high-profile criminals. Jeff discovers that the group is actually a group of rogue cops who actually function like an unofficially sanctioned death squad, and are given wide latitude in dealing with criminals.
Action, Adventure, Drama, war film
In 1943 Germany, a tank crew is searching for convicted soldiers assigned to penal battalions. They encounter a woman claiming her baby is trapped in a bomb-damaged building. Porta, Tiny, Stege, Old Man, and Sven discover she is referring to her cat.
Action, thriller film
After a frustrating day of hunting in Canada that has left a group of combat veterans empty-handed, their hunting party comes to a river. Another band of hunters appears on the other side, and stares them down. Suddenly a gun goes off, and Zeke retaliates by shooting and killing one of the men on the other riverbank.
Action, Crime, Drama
Detective Klein and his team discover the dead body of a woman who he believes is Samantha Walker, the daughter of a military contractor known as Lex Walker. Lex is informed of the news and goes to his London apartment, with news the body will be shipped back to London. However, Walker is called back to LA to identify the corpse, and realises it is not Samantha, but one of her friends.
Western
Retired gunslinger and former Confederate soldier Steve Sinclair is living as a rancher in a small western community. He collaborates with the main landowner Dennis Deneen, from whom he rents the ranch, to preserve communal stability. His quiet life is disrupted by the appearance of his emotionally unstable younger brother Tony and Tony's beautiful girlfriend Joan.
Action, Adventure, Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
A small oil rig located on a small river in Louisiana hits it big and former oiler John Sanders (who quit when a blowout occurred on a rig he was the boss of and four men died) and his friend Emery are hired to take his ex-wife Kelly and her boss to the location. Nearby, some thugs go diving for stolen goods that have been dumped in the river. Unfortunately, at the same time, a huge bull shark enters the river.
Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster
While Dori Thorell (Sharon Lawrence) and her 9-year-old son, Danny (Michal Suchánek), eat breakfast, Sam Thorell (Garwin Sanford) calls from his business trip. Ballerina Diane Agostini (Jennifer Garner) is on the phone with her father when a blender shakes off the counter. Dismissing it, she ends the call and rushes off to a rehearsal session at the New York City Ballet.
Action, Drama, thriller film
CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham (Luke Goss) and black ops organiser Anthony Chapel (Roger Guenveur Smith) hire mercenary John Seeger (Steven Seagal) and his crew for a mission in the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa. Ostensibly, the purpose of the operation is to aid the local population, though in reality Dresham and Chapel plan to seize and profit off the island's rich oil and diamond reserves. Seeger gets steamed when the mission goes wrong.
Adventure, fantasy film, Treasure hunt
In 1881, Irish dream chaser Patrick "Patsy" O'Brien and his daughter Kathy have failed to strike it rich in the diamond mines of Kimberley, South Africa (then the Cape Colony). They persuade a reluctant Allan Quartermain to drive them to the coast in his wagon. Along the way, they encounter another wagon carrying two men in bad shape.
Action, war film
During the 1941 Italian manned torpedo raid on Alexandria, two British battleships, and , are severely damaged. The British are worried that this new tactic will afford the Italians naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and the ability to strike their primary target, the Royal Navy base at Gibraltar. To counter this threat, bomb-disposal expert Lionel Crabb is posted to Gibraltar.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
TV personality Carrie Madison goes to visit crackpot scientist Dr. Hartmann who has invented a teleporter to another dimension. On the way she gets into a car accident with electrician Dan Roebuck, mainly caused by earthquake tremors, which effectively destroys Dan's pickup, and they argue.