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Action, thriller film
Swedish military intelligence officers Carl Hamilton (Peter Stormare) and Åke Stålhandske (Mats Långbacka) are ordered to eliminate a band of Russian smugglers on the Russian tundra. The smugglers possess a nuclear missile, a 1.5 megaton SS-20, "enough to turn Paris, Washington or New York to ashes". What they do not know is that the smugglers they have intercepted were only a decoy, while the real missile was shipped to Libya.
Action, buddy film
Roman Catholic priest Father Charlie and former police officer Lee solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank, Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.
Martial arts
Detective Linda Masterson, fed up with tackling street crimes, is assigned to a more exciting case: multiple martial artists have been found dead, their bodies bearing bloody gash marks, at the hand of a mysterious killer nicknamed the "Death Dealer". The reluctant Masterson is asked to cooperate with fellow NYPD member Tarek Richards. Although impulsive, Richards brings martial arts expertise to the case, and recognizes the wounds left on the victims are caused by the tiger claw, an violent brand of wushu which is said to drive its practitioners to the brink of insanity.
Action, Action Comedy, teen film
Sixteen-year-old Nelson Potter is part of a bank robbing team with his father Sam — Nelson scouts targets for the group and acts as a hostage in their endeavors. Their accomplices are Tony and Lilly, the latter a skilled martial artist and Sam's current love interest. Wanting Sam all to herself, Lilly tries to persuade him to cut Nelson from the group, but Sam declines.
Drama, Western
The film tells a story about the Tulsa, Oklahoma oil boom of the 1920s and how obsession with accumulating wealth and power can tend to corrupt moral character. The tale begins with the death of rancher Nelse Lansing, who is killed by an oil well blowout while visiting Tanner Petroleum to report that pollution from Tanner's oil production has killed some of his cattle. Lansing's daughter, Cherokee, initially in an effort to punish Tanner for her father's death, acquires drilling rights on her land; she meets Brad Brady, a geologist, who wants drilling to be limited to minimise oil field depletion and preserve the area's grasslands.
Crime, Drama
The 1087 is a British Royal Navy motor gun boat that sees its crew through the worst that World War II can throw at them. After the end of the war, first lieutenant George Hoskins convinces former skipper Bill Randall and coxswain Birdie to buy their boat and use it for what he persuades them is some harmless, minor smuggling of items like wine. But they find themselves transporting ever more sinister cargoes, such as counterfeit currency and weapons.
Action, Drama, sport film
A racing team run by Pat Kazarian starts out with two drivers, Mike Marsh and Jim Loomis, but a crash at Daytona results in Jim's death. His girlfriend Holly McGregor arrives too late for the race and feels guilty for not being there. A young driver, Ned Arp, joins the team and also makes a play for Kazarian's sister, Julie.
Cartoon, Comedy
thumb This short features Olive as a screenwriter for Surprise Pictures, working on a treatment of the story of Aladdin that will feature herself as the beautiful princess and Popeye as Aladdin, all the while speaking in rhyme. As she types, her adaptation of Aladdin comes to life on the screen, with Popeye having to use his wits against an evil vizier who seeks to control a magic lamp inhabited by a powerful genie. After completing the script, Olive gets a termination of employment notice from the front office, which reads "Your story of Aladdin is being thrown out...
Action, Science fiction
Harvard educated Dr. David Lowell's (Collins) research is carried out in the canyon country of southern Utah and must be conducted at the same time Halley's Comet is passing over the earth. Lowell is trying to find a safe, cheap energy source using the sound waves the comet generates.
Action, thriller film
A bomb is set to go off on one of the busiest betting days of the year so a smart interrogator is called in to get answers from the prime suspect but as time begins to end, they both soon discover that there is a larger plan in store for them.
Action, Action Comedy, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland known as the Thrice Burned Lands, celebrity bounty killers Drifter (Matthew Marsden) and Mary Death (Christian Pitre) hunt down corporate criminals responsible for the world’s collapse. After a Council-issued death warrant unexpectedly targets Drifter, he and an eager gun caddy named Jack LeMans (Barak Hardley) go on the run, pursued by yellow-tie mercenaries from the powerful corporation Second Sun. Mary, torn between duty and loyalty, also receives the warrant and sets out to confront Drifter.
Action, fantasy film
The aging and incompetent wizard Caedmon is tasked by Grand-Wizard Vanir with training the young farmhand Tyor in the ways of magic, as he is the Chosen One, destined to free the three kingdoms from the three evil sorcerers that rule them with the power of three magical objects. To do so, Tyor must pass a test in each kingdom. In the first kingdom, Baldor must free Prince Erman to spark an uprising and defeat the evil sorcerer Loki, who is holding three maidens hostage.
Classical Western, Western
In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. One of them freezes to death during a blizzard. The others—Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell—reach Lake Monte Diablo, where eight women live in a settlement while their men are away prospecting.
Action
Phillip Sauvage (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is an American soldier recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his time in Iraq and Afghanistan in a VA hospital. The release of notorious rap mogul Terrell Singletery (Viv Leacock) from prison has caused Wayne Barclay's (Raz Adoti) worried older sister and manager Tamara (Vivica A. Fox) to hire increased security.
Drama, Western
On a foggy night in 1850, Mary Rutledge and retired Colonel Marcus Aurelius Cobb arrive in San Francisco Bay aboard the clipper ship Flying Cloud. She had come to wed a wealthy owner of a gold mine, but he had lost his mine at the roulette wheel when the ball landed on red 13 times at the Bella Donna, a gambling house and restaurant. The men at the wharf reluctantly inform her that her fiancé is dead, murdered most likely by Louis Chamalis, the powerful owner of the Bella Donna.
Adventure, children's film, Drama, Western
In 1876, two orphans, Holly and Jason Smith, travel across the Rocky Mountains to claim their inheritance at the end of the Oregon Trail. They run into Zachariah Coop, a gambler on the run from a group of angry men. Coop tries to join the two kids, but at first they don't know whether to trust him.
Adventure, Drama
A disparate and desperate group of plane crash survivors are thrust into a desolate mountainous desert region somewhere within present-day Namibia. Brian O'Brien is a big game hunter and the best survivalist of the group. Shortly after the plane crashes, stranding its passengers, he risks his life by re-entering the burning wreck and recovering vital supplies, including a hunting rifle; however, O'Brien's motives are far from noble.
Action, war film
Major Wright is informed by Major General Worden that the Germans have the capability to launch V-2 rockets filled with nerve gas against the Allies. Wright is ordered to recruit convicts and parachute them into France near the monastery at Saint-Michel, deep behind enemy lines, to destroy the nerve gas and rescue enslaved scientists. Wright selects twelve convicts for his Deadly Dozen: Joe Stern, Eric "Swede" Wallan, Ernesto "Pops" Ferucci, brothers Ronald and David Webber, Maurice Fontenac, Martinez, Francis Kelly, Ballews, Sturdivant, Chacon, Spencer and Hallet.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy
After retiring, Detective Dooley and Jerry Lee have a retirement party with all of their friends. After the party, Dooley and Jerry Lee are both drunk. They enter LA Micro Labs and find a dead security guard apparently shot by criminals who have stolen a chip.
Action, sport film
Reiss Gibbons is the greatest fighter to ever participate in the MMA promotion Legends. He is a 5-time champion and has just come off a win which has him and his manager Reggie (Elijah Baker) feeling on top of the world with waves of endorsement deals and movie offers. Legends owner Max Black (Gina Gershon) wants to book another fight for Reiss where she reveals to MMA talk show host Stephen Drake that she has decided to put Reiss against pro wrestling star Randy Stone (Jonathan Good).
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
When a mysterious beam of light starts disrupting and destroying the Earth's atmosphere, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), and Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) - accidentally accompanied by wisecracking reporter Happy Hapgood (Donald Kerr) - swing into action in Zarkov's rocketship, believing that it could be coming from the planet Mongo. Once in space, they discover that the ray originates from Mars.
Adventure, Drama, swashbuckler film
In August 1500, Andrea Orsini, an artistic minor nobleman who is equally skilled with the brush, the sword, words, and women, serves the Machiavellian Prince Cesare Borgia as a soldier. Pleased with Andrea's ability to "follow my mind and keep his eyes fixed on the ultimate goal", Borgia selects Andrea to accomplish an intrigue: arrange the marriage of his widowed sister, Lucrezia (whose husband he has just had assassinated for the purpose), to Alfonso d'Este, the son of the Duke Ercole d'Este of Ferrara. By doing so, Borgia will remove Ferrara as an impediment to conquest of central Italy.
Action, Crime, Detective, neo-noir, Noir, thriller film
A former-private-eye-turned-gun-for-hire named Malone is hired to retrieve a suitcase from a building full of armed mobsters, but a violent shootout ensues and Malone is eventually left as the only survivor. Suspecting a set-up, he retains the only noteworthy item contained in the case - a small painted animal referred to as "the meaning of love" - for himself, prompting several different parties in the employ of a local gangster - Whitmore - to pursue Malone in attempt to discern the meaning of the case's contents. After a series of violent encounters leaving many dead, Malone eventually confronts Whitmore, who admits he was responsible…
Crime, Drama, hood film
Upon being released from prison, Ricky (Ashley Walters) is collected by Wisdom, an eccentric and naive friend who is desperate to establish himself within their neighbourhood. Immediately after arriving back, Wisdom accidentally breaks a wing mirror off a car belonging to Godfrey, a local gang member. The following confrontation leads to Ricky pulling away Wisdom in an attempt to keep peace.