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comedy thriller, Crime, romantic comedy
A voice over says, "No, that's not right." The scenario is repeated with adjustments until the voice is eventually satisfied. The screen fades to Cathy Palmer sitting at a typewriter, finishing up the story. She seals it in an envelope and sends it off.
Action, Crime
In the midst of financial crisis, a recent college graduate Lance Zutterland, who leaves school in debt, decides to join with other college graduates – Ellis, Jack, Stewart, Chandler, and Allie – in stealing valuable paintings owned by Chicago's richest for themselves, under the supervision of Mel Donnelly. During the heist, the group express their anger by wrecking anything valuable, but Mel will only pay them if they deliver the stolen paintings intact. Lance bonds with Ellis's girlfriend Allie and they become friends but upon bringing Allie home to their apartment, Ellis intimidates Lance into staying away from her.
Comedy, Drama, Heist
The film follows the story of two women living in London, Shannon and Frances, attempting to con a group of gangsters, led by Kerrigan and Mason, into giving them £1,000,000 after they overhear a conversation between gang members during a local bank heist. The idea is that the money will later be used to purchase a large amount of expensive medical equipment for the hospital where Shannon works as an overworked and underpaid nurse. Frances, a failing American actress who has resorted to doing voice acting for children's cartoons, wants the money so that she can get out of the rut she believes she is stuck in, and also because she wants a…
Action, Science fiction
The Earth is being swept by a toad plague. Enter, the lone Samurai, Max Hell, the Earth's last hope to save the planet from the mad clutches of Mickey O'Malley. "Shaw stars as Max Hell in this no-budget mess that doesn’t really have much to do with earlier Frogtown movies.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, Military Film, Post-apocalyptic
An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter Scale splits California into an island with a perpetual dustcloud hanging over it. The survivors of the terrible ordeal have started to come together in the shape of Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren) an air force captain, and other fractions of the military, including Sarah McBride (Sherri Alexander) and Lucky Simcoe (Joe Michael Burke), and have situated themselves in a warfare junkyard, holding weaponry from forgotten conflicts. They are searching for food, fuel and fellow survivors, and a possible path into the next world, while also dodging a violent plague that causes the skin to boil.
Action, thriller film
Former-CIA agent Jonathan Cold is hired to break James Donovan out of prison. Jon takes James to see his brother, arms dealer Michael Donovan. The Donovans hire Jon to help sell parts for a small nuclear bomb to Nicholi (Nicholas Davidoff), the leader of a Chechen terrorist group planning to blow up Los Angeles.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
The plot revolves around a young boy named Travis (nicknamed "Tee") who learns from his master that he is the key to saving the world from an evil plot. Tee joins the secret organization of the Delta Knights and embarks on a quest to attempt to recover the lost treasures inside the fabled Lost Storehouse of Archimedes.
Action, Erotic Thriller, Science fiction
Eve (Audie England) grows up on a privately run prison island. She finds a boat left by a man who had shipwrecked on the island's coast. When her guardian tries to rape her, she kills him by removing a security device implanted in his arm and then takes the boat to escape the island.
Action, Crime
In the White Elephant Bay in East Africa, a fishing vessel belonging to fishermen from the Republic of Loklamoa becomes embroiled in a territorial dispute with a vessel from the Federal Republic of Hoyana. After Hoyanan customs forces open fire and kill all Loklamoan fishermen aboard, General Casa, commander of the Loklamoan military, vows retaliation and prepares for war. To strengthen his position, Casa secretly collaborates with Dr.
Action, Comedy, Crime, crime thriller film, Criminal Comedy Film, thriller film
Andorran prostitute and single mother Catalina "Cat" Rona is hired to participate in an orgy in Montenegro along with other escorts, for powerful men including former U.S. Senator William Krebb. When the senator kills one of the women, security is ordered to murder the others present to avoid witnesses.
Action Comedy
The comedy follows the activities of four grandmothers whose lives seem normal and unremarkable. After they accidentally kill a sleazy insurance agent, a con man whom the insurance agent owed money to comes looking for his money. Things go from bad to worse when the four grandmas go to work covering up the crime and trying to outwit the con man.
Action, Dark Fantasy, fantasy film, Horror
Two knights, Bhodie and William, are searching for Avalon, a red-haired girl who has been prophesied to be their kingdom's savior. When they find her, cultists banish her to an hellish alternate realm filled with demons and monsters. William sends Bhodie into the alternate realm to rescue her, where Bhodie make a pact with a Gatekeeper who grants him a talisman that allows him to relive the day again if he dies.
Horror
Half human/half demon Jake Greyman works for the Catholic Church as the last resort to destroy demons along with their hosts when exorcism fails. After the Church notes a possible connection in a string of possessed girls, his superior Cardinal White puts him to work along Sister Sara Ryan to investigate it. They discover the girls were prostitutes and find mysterious demonic messages directed to Jake, who then reveals to have orders to kill the girls in case any of them might get pregnant with a demon's child.
Action, Political Thriller, thriller film, war film
Commander Sam Keenan (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a decorated US Navy SEAL, is sent to the Eastern European nation of Moldova to become the new security attaché at the US Embassy. When he arrives, Keenan learns that Moldavia is in the middle of a civil war. At the embassy, Keenan meets with Ambassador George Norland (Colin Stinton), who designates Keenan as his "second in command", despite the traditional diplomatic hierarchy, which is contested by others afterward.
Action
While waiting outside Star City international airport for his girlfriend Dinah Laurel Lance, Oliver Queen discovers Merlyn is there to assassinate Princess Perdita of Vlatava. After fighting off a group of thugs, Oliver rescues Perdita, who he learns recently became Vlatava's queen following her father's assassination and Merlyn was hired by her uncle, who stands to become the new king in the event of her death. Eventually, Oliver defeats Merlyn and his men but is overpowered by Perdita's uncle, Count Vertigo.
Historie, war film
As Augustus lies on his death bed, he recalls the events that led to the exile of his daughter, Julia. Following an assassination attempt on his life, Marcus Agrippa, Augustus's oldest friend as well as Julia's husband and father to her children, is called back to Rome for his protection. However, he dies of a fever on his way back to Rome.
Action, Superhero
The short opens with Spider-Man using his webbing to grab a Daily Bugle newspaper with a headline about a disfigured scientist becoming a villain by the name of Dr. Lightning. The film then cuts to Randy Robertson and Dr.
Western
During his escape, bank robber Joe Maybe sees famous US Marshal Jim Noonan, who is searching for him, stumble and fall from a cliff to his death. He enters a town on the dead man's horse, where he is mistaken for Noonan. Maybe decides to hide behind the badge for a while but soon raises the suspicions of the local law enforcer, Judge Kyle.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Horror, thriller film
Tucker Williams, dressed in shiny, chest-exposing clothing, spins platters as the "Disco Godfather" at his "Blueberry Hill" discotheque during the late-1970's height of the disco era. In the audience is his nephew Bucky, a basketball star, who ignores the entreaties of his girlfriend and goes outside to score some angel dust. Bucky's girlfriend comes screaming back inside, telling Tucker that Bucky has taken drugs.
Drama, war film
In May 1940, as the German invasion of the Netherlands is under way, the British government decides to send a team to the Netherlands on board to secure stocks of industrial diamonds before the invaders can get to them. According to this plan, two Dutch diamond experts, Jan Smit and Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox), with a British Army Intelligence officer, Major Dillon, are dropped by ship off the Dutch coast. They survive a German air raid and escape the attention of a suspicious Dutch policeman.
Action, boxing film, Drama, romance film, sport film
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Japanese bride Midori Takada (Youki Kudoh) arrives in Sydney with her new husband Yukio (Kenji Isomura). She believes her marriage is a mistake and uses the honeymoon as a means to escape. Colin O'Brien (Russell Crowe) is an experienced getaway driver.
Action, Adventure, Drama, Heist
During a period of sluggish economy and high unemployment, four friends—Stone, Tony, Dan and Rockney—gather for a fishing trip. The weekend getaway is a cover: they are really planning to fly to Colombia to rob a drug lord. They meet with Clint, who supplies them with weapons and target practice.
Action, fantasy film, thriller film
Harpooner Ishmael (Corey Sevier) joins Ahab (Danny Glover) and his crew on the Pequod, in this instance an armored land boat that hunts for dragons. The seven-strong crew ostensibly seeks the precious "vitriol", a highly explosive liquid substance found inside the fire-breathing winged creatures, which powers the mythical realm they live in. Ishmael joins their quest, and soon learns that in fact, Ahab's mission is one of revenge on a particular great white dragon that decades ago scarred and injured him, and killed his sister.