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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 205.

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, B movie, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film

A group of divers are installing a power cable at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, when a shark swims up and kills one of them. Six months later, lifeguard Ben Carpenter and his partner Esai drive out to sea to catch some lobster. While diving, Ben finds a broken power cable with a large shark tooth stuck in it.

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The Human Tornado (1976)

Action, Blaxploitation

After coming off a successful comedy tour, Dolemite throws a get-together at his mansion. The party is crashed by racist police officers and they find out that the sheriff's wife is offering Dolemite money for sexual services. When the sheriff catches them red-handed, he orders his deputy to shoot them both.

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I Am Omega (2007)

Action, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Zombie

The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, which is overrun by zombie-like, cannibalistic humans who have degenerated into a feral subspecies as the result of a genetic infection. The film does not make clear if the virus has infected the entire world, or just a small, isolated area, but it is suggested that it is global by the inability of the hero, Renchard (Mark Dacascos), to locate radio signals or contact anyone via the Internet. Renchard has been forced to live in a daily struggle for survival against the mutants.

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Aquarium of the Dead (2021)

Action, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, independent film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, Zombie

At the Shining Sea Aquarium, Dr. Karen James and two workers attempt to tag the resident octopus. The octopus goes into cardiac arrest as the result of the procedure and seemingly dies, then reanimates, attacks Karen, kills the two workers, and escapes into the ducts.

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Doing Hard Time (2004)

Action

When Michael Mitchell's (Boris Kodjoe) seven-year-old son, Chase, is accidentally shot during an aborted drug deal, no one knows for sure which of the two gunmen, Curtis "Durty Curt from Detroit" Craig (Michael K. Williams) or Raymond "Razor" Carver (Michael Kimbrew), pulled the trigger. Because both men refuse to testify against the other, a jury finds them guilty only of drug possession, meaning they could be back on the street in two years.

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Against the Wind (1948)

Drama, spy film, war film

Roman Catholic priest Fr Elliott goes to the Natural History Museum to meet a section-head in the wartime British Special Operations Executive. On accepting his offer to train for covert operations behind enemy lines in Belgium, he meets a disparate group of existing recruits, including Michèle the Belgian émigrée (Signoret), whose sweetheart has died after the occupation of Belgium, Emile, who misses his family, and Julie, who flirts with Fr Elliott despite his celibate status. Michèle's motives are initially questioned before she is finally given the green light for operations abroad.

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North West Mounted Police (1940)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Western

In 1885, Métis leader Dan Duroc and whiskey runner Jacques Courbeau visit politician Louis Riel, exiled in the Montana Territory, and persuade him to return to lead a North-West Rebellion being planned against the Canadian government. Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers arrives at Fort Carlton in Saskatchewan at the start of the rebellion with a U.S. warrant for Corbeau's arrest.

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Shark: Rosso nell'oceano (1984)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film

A yacht is found capsized, as well as a body nearby with three appendages bitten off. Dr. Stella Dickens's dolphins swim around fast, even after she tells them not to.

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Octane (2003)

Horror, Road Movie, teen film

A man and woman posing as paramedics assist a man in an overturned car on a freeway. As an ambulance approaches, the woman panics, taping the man's mouth shut and pulling him from the car before speeding away. Meanwhile, single mother Senga Wilson and her 15-year-old daughter Natasha 'Nat' are on a six-hour overnight drive home, following a visit to Marek, Nat's father, for her birthday.

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Torpedo Run (1958)

Drama, war film

In October 1942, ComSubPac directs the American submarine Greyfish, under Commander Barney Doyle, to a Japanese convoy that includes the Shinaru, one of the Japanese aircraft carriers that led the attack on Pearl Harbor. Doyle also learns the target's escort includes a transport ship carrying American prisoners from an internment camp in the Philippines where his wife and child were being held. Doyle's second-in-command, Lieutenant Archer Sloan, tries to talk his friend into letting him handle the torpedo run, sparing Doyle direct responsibility for his family's possible death.

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The 2nd (2020)

Action, Drama

Delta Force Major Vic Davis is on his way to pick up his estranged son, Shawn, from his college campus when he finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes kidnapping. His son's friend Erin Walton, the daughter of Supreme Court Justice Walton, is the target—and this armed faction will stop at nothing to capture and use her as leverage for a pending landmark legal case.

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99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)

Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, Crime

Harry Crown, a stylish professional hit man with a pair of Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistols with ivory grips, carried in a shoulder holster, is brought in by mob boss "Uncle Frank" Kelly when his operation is challenged by Big Eddie, a grinning, lisping rival. Crown is caught in the crossfire, as is his romantic interest, Buffy, a third-grade schoolteacher. In his attempt to take over the rackets, Big Eddie has hired Marvin "The Claw" Zuckerman, a sadistic one-armed killer with a prosthetic attachment that includes machine guns and knives.

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The Horsemen (1971)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the stable master and retired buzkashi player for a feudal lord, is a master horseman who lives by a primitive code of honor. Uraz's family honor is damaged when he breaks his leg playing the game, which is the Afghani equivalent of polo. His father, who lost a lot of money betting on his son, will barely speak to him.

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The Spy in Black (1939)

spy film, thriller film, war film

In March 1917, Captain Hardt, a German U-boat commander in the First World War, is ordered to spy on the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, rendezvousing at the Old Man of Hoy. He sneaks ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact, Fräulein Tiel. Tiel has taken the identity of a new local schoolteacher, Miss Anne Burnett, whom female German agents had intercepted and chloroformed en route to the island.

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Cold Steel (1987)

Action, thriller film

It begins when detective Johnny Modine (Brad Davis) gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with the news about his father's death, which is the work of psychopathic junkies who slashed the old man to death while robbing his store. Johnny is determined to find the person responsible and get his revenge, even if it means the end of his police career. Johnny doesn't know that the murder was actually part of a sinister revenge plot directed against him.

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Warlords of the 21st Century (1982)

Action, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction

In the near future, Earth has been devastated by a series of wars referred to as "the Oil Wars" over depleting petroleum reserves. The regions around the oil producing Mesopotamia Basin are largely radioactive wastelands due to limited nuclear exchange; oil fields in Saudi Arabia and most of the Middle East burn out of control. Food riots have become common in many cities around the world which are now under martial law.

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Moo-jeok-ja (2010)

Action, Drama

Kim Hyuk (Joo Jin-mo) is a detective in the South Korean National Police Agency, having escaped from North Korea as a teenager. Unbeknownst to his superiors, he also moonlights as an illegal arms smuggler with his best friend and partner in crime, Lee Young-choon (Song Seung-heon), who also defected from the North. Hyuk has a younger brother, Chul (Kim Kang-woo), whom he was forced to leave behind (along with their mother) during his escape.

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Guns at Batasi (1964)

Drama, war film

Guns of Batasi depicts an erupting world where newly empowered forces, both black and white, embrace the realpolitik of a post-colonial world. A group of veteran British NCOs, headed by martinet Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale, becomes entangled with a coup in an unnamed African state, recently-independent and dogged by political intrigue. The unnamed country is evocative of Kenya in East Africa: RSM Lauderdale mentions the Turkana peoples (who live in Kenya), native soldiers speak in Kiswahili, the lingua franca of the Kenyan region, and aspects of the story echo Kenya's troubled post-independence era, including the 1957 Mau Mau…

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Shadow Man (2006)

Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime

Widowed former CIA agent Jack Foster (The Shadow Man) is an enigmatic Fortune 500 business owner, and is the father of an 8-year-old daughter named Amanda. It is the anniversary of the death of Jack's wife, and Jack is taking Amanda to Romania, which is the birthplace of Amanda's mother, who died 5 years ago. But upon arrival at the airport in Bucharest, Romania, a car bomb blows up his CIA agent father-in-law George's limo and Amanda is kidnapped.

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Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

war film

Commander Casey Abbott (Ronald Reagan), commander of the submarine USS Starfish, is ordered to undertake a dangerous mission which sees him attempting to cut off the flow of supplies between China and Japan in the heavily mined waters off the Asiatic mainland. When a diver, who is Abbott's competitor for the affections of nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair (Nancy Davis) back home, gets into a dangerous situation, Abbott must struggle to keep his personal and professional lives separate in dealing with the crisis. The results arouse ill feelings in the crew and especially Abbott's executive officer, Lt.

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