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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Heist
Cousins Micky Mannock (Frank Harper) and Ray Collishaw (Craig Fairbrass) run London's top firm. But their supremacy in the capital's gangster underworld is threatened when they lose a drug shipment belonging to the Russian Mafia. They plan a heist in Berlin which, if successful, could pay off their debts and set them up for life.
children's film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
In Victorian England, Charles Dodgson is a scholar and teacher at Christ Church, Oxford who enjoys photography, cinema, and spending time with the young daughters of Dr. Liddell, the Dean. The stuffy Vice Chancellor thinks little of Dodgson and is appalled at the subject of his latest poem (written under the pen name Lewis Carroll), suggesting that Oxford's famous bell Great Tom be removed as its ringing is a nuisance to many.
Action, Auto Racing, Drama, teen film
Steve works at a Porsche repair garage by day and by night reigns as the "King of The Mountain", the most successful and talented of a group that organize, wager on and participate in races up and down the narrow, winding roads of Mulholland Drive in the hills on the edge of the San Fernando Valley. In his highly tuned 356 Speedster, Steve races against both newcomers and veterans alike, never really considering the risks associated with the lifestyle or if there might be more for him elsewhere. Steve's friends Buddy and Roger want to get into the music industry, and although they once raced alongside Steve, their focus has shifted away…
Adventure, Comedy, Computeranimation, family film, live-action/animated film
Action, thriller film
The film is set in a rural U.S. state. Former Marine Kyle Snowden wakes up from a battlefield flashback nightmare.
Action, Action Comedy
A failed terrorist assassination attempt on the U.S. Secretary of State while he is visiting Moscow for international negotiations results in the abduction of his granddaughter. While the world sits on the brink of World War III special agents from the CIA and FSB must unite to save the girl and prevent war.
Western
On the trail, Ben Kane, a former Dodge City lawman, comes across Billy Young, who has no horse and was abandoned by partner Jesse Boone soon after their killing of a Mexican general and his staff. Kane lets young Billy accompany him to a town in New Mexico where he has a job waiting for him as deputy sheriff. Kane's real aim is to find the man who murdered his son.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, fantasy film, Mysterie, Science fiction
It's a week after the rapture and the millions of people who vanished into thin air are still missing. Chaos rules the world as panic and grief-stricken survivors continue to search for their lost loved-ones. Suicide rates are skyrocketing, businesses and homes are being looted, and martial law is in effect.
Action
John Gold (Barrett), an ex-soldier turned mercenary, learns of the murder of comrade Dan Mason. He sets off on a mission to the town of Devotion find out what happens, uncovering a sinister conspiracy in his old military unit, which he determines to clear up, taking down those responsible, one by one.
Action, Blaxploitation, thriller film
After the father of Vietnam veteran and ex-Green Beret captain Slaughter is killed by a car bomb, he becomes obsessed with avenging the murder. He learns it was arranged by a Cleveland organized-crime gang and tracks down the mobster responsible, killing a Mafia member in the process. The murderer, however, manages to escape.
Action, Martial arts
Terrorists hold a bank hostage with police surrounding the building. CIA agent Casey Alexander eventually saves the hostages, but is shot in the arm in the process. Meanwhile, Casey's father John, a retired CIA agent, learns that he is on a hit list.
The Bones Brigade embark on a quest to find the first skateboarder, the mythological Won Ton "Animal" Chin who had gone missing. Their journey takes them to different locations including Hawaii, California, Nevada, and Mexico where they meet friends and skate different spots along the way. It culminates in the discovery of the secret Chin Ramp, a back-to-back double half pipe featuring a spine and a tunnel.
Adventure, children's film, fantasy film
The peaceful kingdom of Baristan is ruled by the evil El Kerim. He plans to capture his rival, Sindbad, who will soon return from a voyage to marry Princess Jana. The Princess convinces the magician Galgo to turn her into a Firebird, so that she may fly off to warn Sindbad of the trap set for him.
Action, Computeranimation, Science fiction, Superhero
{{Cleanup-rewrite}} In a prologue, Wolverine states that "I'm the best at what I do, but what I do isn't very nice." Wolverine wakes up dazed and confused in a crater in the mountains, as he asks, "What the hell happened?" he hears a roar in the distance. Just then the Hulk jumps over a cliff and lands in front of him, roaring in his face. Wolverine simply replies "Oh yeah..." The story then rewinds back to the events prior to this.
Action, comedy thriller, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=26|The Navigator (1924) Wealthy Rollo Treadway suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien, and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer, however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy's rich father has just sold to a small country at war.
Action Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire
A group of vampire lords — Henry, The Duke, Peter Boniface, Thomas, Angel, Chen and Alice — gather at a small rural farmhouse for a summit which they have every 50 years to discuss quotas. Thomas is executed for going over quota and for taking children. Vanessa arrives late and has brought Sebastian as her guest and proposes him as a replacement, but Peter objects.
Drama, war film
The movie begins with contemporary film footage of World War II as narration explains the situation. Germany has produced hundreds of U-boats to control the Atlantic shipping lanes and in 1942 wolfpacks sank over a thousand Allied ships, making real the possibility of Germany permanently conquering all of Europe. In 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill declared that the war against U-boats was their main priority and that new technology and a United States fully committed to the war was turning the tide in favor of the Allies.
Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
Eddie (Sam Rockwell) and Paul (Ben Schwartz) are a couple of low-level petty criminals, who are working out their parole in a New York diner. Enter British lawyer Katherine (Phoebe Fox), who offers them ready cash to come to London and intercept a valuable package in transit. The duo arrives in London, team up with their British confederate Tommy Tresham (Al Weaver) and snatch the bag in the main hall of the Natural History Museum.
Action, Adventure, Drama, war film
In 1780 General Benedict Arnold commands the Continental Army defenses at West Point, New York. Major John Bolton (Cornel Wilde), a dragoon officer assigned to counterintelligence, intercepts and kills a British spy leaving the Storm King Tavern, and captures a letter found on his body. He reports to Gen.
Action, Destiny, disaster film, Natural Disaster
Following the events in Category 6: Day of Destruction, the superstorm that hit Chicago is continuing to grow in size and strength, with tornadoes hitting Paris and destroying the Eiffel Tower. Judith Carr, the new head of FEMA, struggles to coordinate efforts to prepare for the aftermath of the storm and provide aid to ravaged areas. She calls in her former college lover, Dr.
Comedy horror
A secret government lab run by Dr. Stravinsky has been trying to create the ultimate killer using the DNA of infamous serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy. However, the two escape, and go on a killing spree across the United States.
When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
Duke Johnson, a former black activist, arrives in Bucktown to bury his brother Ben, a bar owner who was killed for refusing to pay crooked white cops for protection. Ben’s widow, Aretha is hostile towards him as he never contacted Ben while he was still alive even though her friend, Harley tries to calm them down. Duke tries to settle Ben’s estate, but is disgruntled when he learns he has to wait 60 days for everything to be settled.
Anti-War Film, Drama, war film
The film is inspired by the Haditha killings incident that occurred three months after the Battle of Haditha in the Iraq War. On 19 November 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women, and children were killed by a group of United States Marines following an incident where an I.E.D killed one Marine and seriously wounded two others.