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Adventure, Drama
An Inuk hunter kills a Christian missionary who rejects his traditional offer of food and his wife's company. Pursued by white policemen, the Inuk saves the life of one of them, resulting in a final confrontation in which the surviving cop must decide between his commitment to law enforcement and his gratitude to the Inuk.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime
Private investigator Sheba Shayne (Grier) returns from Chicago, Illinois to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to confront thugs who are trying to intimidate her father Andy into dissolving or handing over his family insurance company business. Sheba teams up with her father's partner, Brick Williams, and the two rekindle their old romance. Driving in her father's car, Sheba is nearly killed when the vehicle explodes.
Action, Drama, thriller film
High school sweethearts Michael and Roslyn happily marry during the 1950s, both 18. Things go along smoothly until Roslyn gets pregnant, at age 19. The bills pile up and the two grow apart from each other.
Action, Crime
Nick Barzack ("Berserk"), an irrational, unkempt and unpredictable cop, and Frank Hazeltine, his cultured, polite, and suave partner, follow a circuitous and highly circumstantial trail of clues, evidence, witnesses, and accomplices through Los Angeles. Barzack pauses only briefly for his mother, but repeatedly for his ex-wife. Hazeltine is almost too busy with every attractive woman he sees to pay attention to the thugs trying to kill him and his partner.
Comedy, Western
Jed Catlow and Ben Cowan served together in the Civil War and became friends but now Catlow is a thief and Cowan a marshal tracking him down. Catlow is accused of rustling cattle, especially from the wealthy rancher Parkman. Parkman has hired vicious gunfighter Orville Miller to kill Catlow.
Action, buddy cop film, Martial arts, sport film, thriller film
1981, Bangkok, Thailand. Sean Donahue is in the kickboxing ring against the current Thai champion. In his corner is his little brother Jake, who is cheering Sean on.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Knights Tale, sexploitation film, Superhero, sword and sorcery film
Deathstalker takes part in a contest of strength—a challenge to lure competitors into the main arena of Queen Kana's castle. Mysteriously, combatants disappear from the castle one by one. Deathstalker acts to defend his fellow warriors, his life and his newfound love against an army of Stone Warriors and the Queen.
Horror, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film
Two people disappear along the Appalachian Trail: a young man jogging with his girlfriend and a hermit who rarely leaves his home. Sheriff Grady Barnes finds a trail that leads him to parts of the hermit's body. That night, young Roy Satterly is reading by flashlight when a Bengal tiger briefly appears in front of his bedroom window.
Action, Horror, Science fiction
Carl Lehman is a scientist working on a next-generation space suit for the ARC corporation in a high-tech secret lab, run by the sinister Alex Whyte. One of the projects being developed for the space suit, the "rage program", is software that can take over the brain of the user when attacked to destroy the attacker. One day, Alex Whyte is performing test trials of the software on monkeys.
Action, Horror, Science fiction
A Scanner (a person with special telepathic and telekinetic abilities) goes crazy and is shot by officer Pete Harrigan (Richard Grove). Harrigan discovers the Scanner had a child and adopts him. 15 years later, Harrigan leads the Los Angeles Police Department.
Action, disaster film, Drama, historical film, musical film
In 1854, the O'Leary family are traveling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O'Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon. He is killed when his wagon hits a bump and his horses break loose, dragging him. His wife Molly and their three boys are left to survive on their own.
Action
United States Air Force Major Frank Cross is in trouble with the "brass" again, after making an unauthorized humanitarian relief flight, dropping sacks of rice to starving Kurds. The press considers him a hero, requiring him by the President's side during his election campaign and thus preventing the Pentagon from court-martialling him. Instead, they assign him to carry the "black bag", the President's high-tech briefcase containing the "go codes" and communications computer for launching America's nuclear ICBM arsenal in case of a national emergency.
Action, Horror, thriller film
Five men from the city decide to take a little trip to the woods and have some fun and hunting. Things get complicated later on when they encounter a pack of maniacal deer hunters who turn them in to prey.
Horror, Slasher
Recently-divorced Los Angeles advice columnist Julie Caffret begins attending group therapy sessions led by the widowed Dr. Pieter Fales, a German psychologist. The sessions are held in Pieter's spacious house, which he shares with his teenage daughter, Alison.
Action, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Utopia & Dystopia
The Rider arrives on his advanced motorcycle equipped with an artificial intelligence computer called Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the "wall of illusion" where he is brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. They have chosen him to lead their fight against the evil Omega, an Orwellian state run by the evil Prossor.
Action, fantasy film, Science fiction
Doctor Strange brings Hulk to New York City to assist fighting rampaging monsters on Halloween night, which were young teens stuck dreaming and changed into the monsters that they fear. During battle, Hulk randomly reverts to an unconscious Bruce Banner. Doctor Strange planned a trip to the Dream Dimension with the Hulk to get to the bottom of the monsters while confronting Nightmare.
war film, Western
With no better offers to be had, famous American Civil War upstart officer George Armstrong Custer takes over the Western Cavalry maintaining the peace in the Dakotas. He soon learns that the U.S. treaties are a sham, that Indian lands are being stolen and every excuse for driving them off their hunting grounds is being encouraged.
Action, thriller film
Vincent Moon is a member of a crime syndicate that has access to a newly built prison. The day before it is to open, he brings together 100 killers who have wronged the syndicate in various ways, provides them with weapons and ammunition, and gives them six hours to fight each other to the death. A $10 million cash prize is hidden in the prison, to be split by the last three survivors, but Moon's men will move in and kill everyone when time runs out.
Action, Adventure, circus film
In ancient Persia, the young women of a royal harem read the story of Sherazade, unfolding the film's story. Sherazade, a dancer in a wandering circus, captures the attention of Kamar, the brother of the caliph, Haroun al-Rashid. Kamar's infatuation influences his attempts to seize the throne from Haroun and make Sherazade his queen.
Action, Horror
Kate travels around Ireland in an R.V. with her ex-boyfriend Ryan, brother Joel, and friends Hailey, Chuck, Tommy and Anita. After driving into the countryside, the group stops at a small shop.
Dark Comedy, mockumentary
The film is shot in the style of a reality TV series and is set in an alternate future where a civil war in the 1990s resulted in the United States becoming a dictatorship. Five new contestants are selected in a random lottery and, along with the winner of the previous series, comprise the six Contenders. The film purposely leaves many key details unexplained, as the viewer is supposed to be watching only what the creators actually aired in the fictional TV show.
Action, Drama, romance film
In 1970s Hollywood, Bobby works as an auto mechanic by day and shoots pool and races his red 1968 Chevrolet Camaro by night. His friend Moxey is excited to be accepted to transmission school and build his skills for a better-paying job. The less responsible Bobby seems to have no such direction in life and is still relying on his uncle Charlie, a used-car salesman, to help him out of jams, such as by lending him money to pay off his poolhall bets to some menacing Chicanos.
Drama
Deep in the region of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, a feud between the Kentucky clans of the Tollivers and the Falins has been ongoing for as long as anyone can recall. After an engineer, Jack Hale, arrives with coal and railroad interests, he saves the life of Dave Tolliver, whose injury has developed gangrene. Dave expects to marry a cousin, June, but she takes an immediate shine to the newcomer.
Action, thriller film
When two newly delivered helicopters crash mysteriously, Marine officer Major Rob Cutter (Daniel Hugh Kelly) decides to conduct his own investigation, since the men killed in the helicopter crashes were members of his squadron. He later discovers that the newly delivered helicopters crashed because of a defective C-ring that broke due to having been made of a less expensive, and much weaker, alloy. Rob grounds all the newly delivered helicopters that have the faulty C-ring, and decides to go public with this, much to the objection of his friend and fellow marine Sergeant Mike Watson (Chuck Shamata), who reluctantly tells someone that Rob…