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Action, Drama, thriller film
Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) is the European editor of The Economist, a magazine based in London, England. Jack has a wife, Maria (Briony Glassco), and three kids, Joanne (Anna Maguire), Julia (Holly Boyd), and Andrew (Joel Pitts). Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu to a tour of India, hoping to simultaneously seize a plum reporting assignment, and spend quality time with his family.
Action, thriller film
In 2001 in Iraq, two U.S. Navy pilots—Butch Masters and Tom Craig—are ordered to bomb an abandoned plant. The order appears to be false.
Western
Luke Cromwell, known as the Silver Kid, loses his father to mining claim jumpers. He is deputized by Marshal Lightning Tyrone of Silver City, who wants to defeat the claim jumpers. Tyrone is in love with the treacherous Opal Lacey, who is secretly in league with the claim jumpers, and Cromwell falls for tomboy Dusty Fargo, who is only interested in Tyrone.
Action, Horror, thriller film
In Timberlake, Utah, two girls are murdered by a hooded figure. Five years later, Stephen Broderick is a Cleveland FBI whose gifted 10-year-old son Jesse takes an interest in his work. Jesse notices similarities between the Utah case and a new one.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Science fiction
Supercriminal Dr. Fu Manchu plots to freeze the world's oceans with a diabolical new device. With his beautiful but evil daughter, Lin Tang, his army of dacoits, and the help of the local crime organization led by Omar Pasha (whom Dr.
Action, spy film, thriller film
Hawaiian agents Donna and Taryn join a global-team leader out to stop a criminal mastermind.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, mockbuster, monster film, Science fiction
A plane crashes in a remote jungle. Many survive, but the front end of the plane and the cockpit are nowhere to be found. The only way to seek help is to find the cockpit and radio a message.
Action, Western
Michael Atherton stands up to the unfriendly and controlling family that runs the small, western town he lives in and ends up unheroically beaten up and left for dead. By luck, he is saved by a prostitute attacked by the same group of desperados.
Biography, Political Thriller, propaganda film
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operations. Warned of the sensitive and top-secret nature of his work, Igor is put to a test by his superiors, who have the seductive Nina Karanova (June Havoc) try her wiles on him. Igor proves loyal to not only the cause but to his wife, Anna (Gene Tierney), who arrives in Ottawa shortly thereafter with the news that she is pregnant.
Action Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, fantasy film
An incarcerated bank robber, Julian Goddard, escapes from prison. He is rescued in the desert by Johnny Destiny, a bizarre, possibly supernatural character. Destiny takes Julian to Las Vegas and the Marilyn Motel, owned by Harry Thoreau, who was Julian's partner in crime.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Milly is a soldier from 2084, when humanity is on the verge of extinction from a losing war with an alien race known as the "Daggra". In mankind's final stronghold in Tibet, Milly leaps into a newly built time portal just before the fortress is overrun. The portal sends her to 2002, where her mission is to kill the first Daggra, who faked a crash landing, and stop him from signaling his invasion fleet.
Drama, Road Movie
A young adult from New York is on his way to California for a business meeting when he runs into trouble with some local hoodlums in Kingman, who shoot at his car and try to run him off the road. He hooks up with a hitchhiker who is also passing through town and turns out to be a former rock and roll musician. The two attempt to set things right in the town, culminating in their entry in an automobile race from Kingman to Oatman and back.
Action, Comedy drama, Drama, thriller film
In Madoc County, Alabama, Kyle Hanson is an emotionally bruised veteran of the Vietnam War who finds himself unable to rejoin mainstream society and lives as a drifter. While stopping in town to eat, local bullies begin harassing him. This culminates in a violent altercation with redneck Homer, after which Kyle flees.
Action, Crime, Drama
Small town Cop Michael Savion (Luke Goss) gets stone-walled by big city detectives led by Hardwick (50 Cent) when he asks them to investigate his younger brother's death. After his brother's death he swears vengeance in a flashback where he fires his gun in the rain over his dead body. His brother David (Ryan Donowho), a gangster, was murdered by members of his own gang for having wanted to quit the gang lifestyle in order to marry Gloria (a gang member's sister), and for being suspected of 'ratting' out his gang's activities.
Action
Yen takes on the role of Dragon Chan, a Hong Kong undercover police officer deep within the ranks of one of China's most ruthless underworld gangs. The leader of the gang, Hung (Collin Chou), has made it his priority to weed out the government infiltrators in his midst. Struggling to keep his family together and his identity concealed, Chan is torn between two worlds.
Drama, war film
Colonel Jack Knowles is a tough, professional soldier who was decorated for gallantry in Vietnam. The same gung ho mentality that made Knowles a hero in wartime makes him a dangerous loose cannon in peacetime. He is stationed at an outpost on the West German-Czechoslovakia border and immediately gets into a dangerous personal war with his Soviet counterpart, Colonel Valachev.
Action, Martial arts
A man who loses a rigged fight kills his opponent and is announced as the winner. On his way back home, another man kills him. In the United States, retired boxer Jake Raye and co-owner of Hal and Jake's self-defense class receives a call from the Philippines police department.
Action, Science fiction
left|thumb|200px|Commando Cody with lunar tank Commando Cody (George Wallace) is a civilian researcher and inventor with a number of employees. He uses a streamlined helmet and an atomic-powered rocket backpack attached to a leather flying jacket. Cody also uses a rocket ship capable of reaching the Moon.
Action, romantic comedy, teen film
A boy and a girl in costumes promise each other that they will someday marry. In the present day, Miracle Samantha Perez is inside a bookstore and notices her friend Michie confronting Timothy Odelle "Top" Pendleton with his girlfriend outside. Samantha assumes Top is cheating on Michie and joins the scene.
Action, Horror, Science fiction
Alex Monet, a Scanner, accidentally kills his best friend while demonstrating his powers at a Christmas party. Devastated, he goes to a monastery in Thailand in order to learn how to control his powers. Two years later, Alex's adoptive father, Elton, is developing an experimental drug patch named EPH-3 (a variant of Ephemerol), which he hopes can help Scanners repress their powers and live normal lives.
Action, Drama, vigilante film
The film opens with Philadelphia television reporters viewing and broadcasting a news story about violence in society since JFK's assassination in 1963. With the increase in crime, Philadelphia is becoming unsafe. Proud Italian-American, John D'Angelo, runs a deli in town.
Action, Martial arts
Terry McCain is a detective with the Chicago Police Department. One night, he and his team are involved in a drug bust on the Italian mafia that ends in a chaotic shootout and three million dollars of the mob’s money going missing. Terry interrogates one of the gangsters and coerces him into admitting that the infamous crime boss DiMarco, Terry’s nemesis, is the one behind the drug exchange.
Comedy, Western
Easygoing Melody Jones and his friend George Fury wander into a town. Jones is mistaken for a wanted bandit named Monte Jarrad, which causes him no end of trouble. Meanwhile, the real Jarrad is hiding out in the home of his girl, Cherry de Longpre.
Action, Drama
Community Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau has recently returned home to the community of Rūātoki to live with his elderly father. In addition to his policing duties alongside fellow police officer Blake, Taffy drives the local school bus. The Ngāi Tūhoe activist Tame Iti, who is a well known local community figure, runs a series of boot camps called Camp Rama (fire light) in the forests of Te Urewera valley.