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Action, apocalyptic film, disaster film, Natural Disaster, Science fiction
When a massive tectonic shift triggers a tsunami capable of swallowing whole continents, the military creates an ark capable of holding only 50,000 people and the DNA of every species possible while the storm consumes most of the world.
Adventure, Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
Pauline Stanton, a mother, travels to Hollywood to find her daughter, Lori, working in the porn industry.
Drama, war film
The film begins with a group of several nurses arriving in Australia, having been some of the few evacuated before the Japanese captured their base. One of them is Lt. Janet "Davey" Davidson, who wanted to stay and fainted at the start of the evacuation and remains in a coma.
Action, Adventure, Crime, romance film, Western
Crime, Drama, thriller film
A phantom cargo ship is found adrift at sea in a storm in the English Channel by a marine salvage team aboard the Sea Witch. She is the steamship Mary Deare, out of Hong Kong. John Sands boards it hoping to claim it for himself and his partner, Mike, but finds former First Officer Gideon Patch alone but still in command.
Action
Retired Spetsnaz soldier Nikolai "Nick" Cherenko is a mechanic in the small Russian village of Gorelovo. His wife, Alina and son, Vanya are killed by Russian mob boss Aleksandr "Sasha" Popov when he and his gang start a shootout after a bad drug deal. Nick arms himself and takes his revenge one night, killing five of Popov's men.
Adventure, fantasy film
In ancient Baghdad, the poet Omar Khayyám searches for his friend Sinbad, the son of the legendary sailor, and finds him outside the palace of the Khalif. Although a reward has been offered for Sinbad's capture, he sneaks into the palace undeterred and recites Omar's poetry to woo Nerissa, a harem girl. When a slave exposes him, both Sinbad and Omar are apprehended and brought before the Khalif.
fantasy film, Science fiction, Western
Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is a singing cowboy who runs Radio Ranch, a dude ranch from which he fulfils a contract to makes a daily live radio broadcast starting at 2:00 pm. Gene has two kid sidekicks, Frankie Baxter (Frankie Darro) and Betsy Baxter (Betsy King Ross), who lead a club, the Junior Thunder Riders, in which the kids play at being armored knights of an unknown civilization, the mysterious Thunder Riders who make a sound like thunder when they ride. The kids, dressing up in capes and water-bucket helmets, play at riding "To the rescue!" (their motto).
Action, action thriller, B movie, Drama, Military Film, thriller film
The film shows a scene of a girl being kidnapped from a charity plane by Vietnamese Hmong rebels (a U.N. supplies as in food and medicine plane) in Vietnam. Then we are taken to the United States to a detention center in Los Angeles where the warden of the center and 6 of the toughest prisoners are hired to rescue the girl, whose name is Gabrielle Prescott, daughter of Jameson Prescott, CEO and billionaire.
Western
Harry Spikes is an aging bank robber of the fading Old West. Injured and near death, he is found and mended back to health by three impressionable youths who are lifelong friends—Wil Young, Tod Hayhew, and Les Richter. They refuse any payment from Spikes for their efforts, and when he's healed, he leaves saying he won't forget their kindness.
Action, fantasy film, mockbuster
The film is about a prehistoric struggle between a community of Homo floresiensis (known as "hobbits") and their brutal oppressors, Java Man ("Java Men"). The hobbits ally with early humans against the Javas. According to The Asylum, "In an ancient age, the small, peace-loving hobbits are enslaved by the Java Men, a race of flesh-eating dragon-riders.
Horror, war film, Zombie
Slave traders bring back an evil voodoo entity that is accidentally freed by the Confederate Army during the Civil War. The entity possesses the bodies of the dead soldiers to create an army of its own bent on conquest, using the corpses of both the North and South. When both Union and Confederate soldiers are mysteriously murdered by the entity during the Civil War, the opposing troops must overcome their differences and band together to investigate the gruesome deaths.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic
In the 2050s, extensive ecological damage has resulted in largely lawless areas that are controlled by mutant raiders. Harry Stark, an ex-cop who now works as a bounty hunter in the wastelands, saves a woman from mutant outlaws. After she pulls a knife on him, he knocks her unconscious and brings her back to town for her bounty.
Action, thriller film
The film opens up with an armored truck coming across a car accident in the middle of a road. The driver finds this suspicious and prepares to drive off, but the truck is suddenly attacked by masked robbers. The driver tries to make a break for it, but his partner is revealed to be in on the heist.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
The film opens with Eddie Macon escaping from prison. The first half of the film then relates the backstory through a series of flashbacks. Eddie is a man that has relocated from Florida to Texas in order to better provide for his wife Chris and their young son Bobby, who suffers from a blood disorder.
Crime, romance film
Travis McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge in their coastal Florida home. To their shock a young woman is thrown off the bridge; she is bound and a foot is strapped to a dumbbell with an ankle adapter. Travis dives in and saves her, learning her name is Vangie.
Western
Blayde "Reb" Hollister is a former Confederate out to revenge himself on a group of carpetbaggers who murdered his family and destroyed their home in Georgia. With the help of his friend Wild Bill Hickok, Hollister's death is faked and he accompanies and swaps identities with federal marshal Martin Weatherby, who is using his position to impress his fiancée Tonia. Her Mexican family is being terrorized by the same gang that murdered Reb's family and terrorized Georgia.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, spy film, thriller film
On their way to see scientist Dr. Simon True, U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are attacked by members of the THRUSH organization.
Action, Animal horror, Science fiction
A space capsule crashes near Roswell, New Mexico. Dr. Linda Murphy, answering to National Security Advisor Ethan Marcos, takes control of the investigation.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, family film, fantasy film
In the present, Amanda Beale arrives at a public park in Two Mills, Pennsylvania where she goes to watch some kids jumping rope together at a park. She serves as the narrator and goes to tell the story of Maniac Magee who changed the town of Two Mills forever. Two decades earlier, the parents of twelve-year-old Jeffrey Lionel Magee are killed by a drunk driver.
Western
In 1863, Sheriff Steve Upton tries to keep the law in Red Valley, a small town in Utah. While he is away, the bank is robbed. The holdup was secretly masterminded by corrupt banker Stanley Clanton and the livery stable's boss, "Uncle Willie" McLeod, with the help of ruthless gunman Jack Lester, who shoots three innocent men.
Action, Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, thriller film
Cosmo works as a bookie for Mafioso Max. He lives a dull life, residing in the basement of a retirement home, never having had a girlfriend or a date, but regularly seeing prostitute Honey. When Max dies, new Boss Gordon "promotes" Cosmo to hitman, against his wishes.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Jake Peterson (Charlie Sheen) is a dedicated vice unit detective, whose strong-will and dedication to duty begins to take a toll on his marriage to wife Rebecca (Meredith Salenger). Jake's father, Bill Peterson (Martin Sheen) is a veteran detective in the same unit as Jake. As well as the strain of a troubled marriage, Jake is also under pressure to live up to his father's reputation.
Action, Secret Agent, spy film
Harry (Bill Pullman) is a seasoned CIA agent who is looking to forget his past and become his cover identity—a jazz club owner in Helsinki, Finland. Natasha (Irène Jacob) is a young, ambitious SVR (KGB) agent who is looking to secure a future for herself amidst the chaos of the new Russian Federation and her floundering intelligence agency. Originally assigned to spy on Harry, Natasha has fallen in love with the object of her spying, and her assignment has led to a torrid love affair between the two.