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Western
Four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint, is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves as a housekeeper and cook to the brothers. Some of them served in the Civil War, which has given them a hardened attitude toward violence.
Drama, war film
The lost remnants of a British Army brigade headquarters make their way through the Burmese jungle, retreating from the Japanese. The group, numbering over thirty, is led by Captain Alan Langford because the most senior officer, a brigadier, is one of several who are wounded. The group arrives at a small village which is enemy-occupied.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Drama, Horror, mystery film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
Heather is a lifeguard on a Malibu beach, alongside her ex-boyfriend Chavez (the head-lifeguard) and fellow lifeguards Doug, and Barb. Also on the beach are Jenny, a young 20-something girl who is reluctantly cleaning the beach for community service after she got caught shoplifting, and Bryan, Barb's boyfriend who proposes to her. Meanwhile, a tremor unleashes a group of Living fossil goblin sharks who begin to devour swimmers along the beach.
Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film
Deep in a coal mine in Pennsylvania, a strange stone is found with Norse runes. The stone is transported to New York City, where archaeologists investigate the mystery. Death and destruction follow, as one of the archeologists becomes possessed, and begins killing everyone around him.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
Ernie Mullins is New York's 61-year-old pro safecracker, who is operating now in Portland, Oregon. Mike is the "nosy, amiable kid" who Ernie takes on as his lookout and apprentice after they encounter each other (Ernie tried robbing the safe while Mike broke in, just to enjoy some of the comforts of the house). The two engage in a few heists together, such as one involving a supermarket and a friendly dog, and a Fourth of July robbery of an amusement park during a fireworks show.
Action
Terrorists, led by Carl Greig, take over a mountain ski resort with a stolen nuclear weapon. Ski patrolman Matt Foster must stop them from blowing up the mountain.
thriller film
In 2005, Alex Michaels is deputy head of a new division of the FBI called "Netforce" which investigates computer crime and polices the Internet. When his boss and mentor, Steve Day, is assassinated, the evidence points to Web pioneer and owner of the company Januscorp, Will Stiles, a character said to be Bill Gates' apprentice. Stiles is about to release a new web browser that may allow him to hack into any computer in the world and to gain control of the Internet.
Action, girls with guns, sexploitation film
Four Asian school girls are drugged and gang raped by a Los Angeles crime syndicate. When one of the girls commits suicide, the other three plot their scheme against the syndicate to avenge her death. They take jobs as strippers in order to acquire $5,000 worth of weapons and get closer to their targets, so that they can go on a murderous revenge rampage.
Western
Bill Doolin is released from jail and is traveling home on the train when it is robbed by his boyhood friends, the Dalton Gang. Doolin is later accused of helping the crime and becomes an outlaw. He rides to the hideout of the Dalton gang, who want him to join.
Caper-Movie, Heist, Western
In 1898, two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison. One, mining engineer and geologist Peter Van Hoek, nicknamed the "Dutchman", tells the warden he was framed for the robbery of a gold shipment from the Lisbon Mine. The other, John McBain, killed Bascomb, the man who cheated him out of his land.
Action, Martial arts
Billy Grant is a police officer who is called to stop a noise complaint at a local party. Along with his partner, Spinelli, Billy enters the house to find two men causing all sorts of trouble. When Billy attempts to stop things peacefully, one of the thugs attempts to assault Billy, who uses his unarmed combat skills to stop the thug.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Barry (Frank) is a formerly successful insurance executive whose career and life are being destroyed by alcoholism. As the day ends, he is sent to a notorious New York City housing project, the Lincoln Towers, to try and complete a life insurance policy sale to a nice elderly woman named Elva (Frances Foster). Meanwhile, a man named Will (Parker), a soft-spoken but tough employee of the telephone company, also heads to the building to hook up with his girlfriend and repair the phone lines.
Action, Horror, Satanism
The film's plot revolves around the coming of the Apocalypse, heralded by the imminent liberation of the Antichrist from the depths of Hell through a certain gateway at the close of one full millennium. This gate can only be opened by a special key, which has been kept guarded by the order of the Templars (who in this version existed since the last days of Jesus). The key in turn is sought out by the servant of the Antichrist, simply known as the Minion, a demonic spirit that transfers itself into the next available host body when his previous one is killed off.
children's film, Comedy
Kevin Manley (Skeet Ulrich), a Los Angeles travel agent, receives the message that his grandpa has passed and left everything to him. However, he must go to Alaska in order to collect his inheritance. He leaves Canoga Park (Los Angeles), quits his job, despite his boss warning him that he will give up and decide to come back begging for his job back, and heads to Anchorage, Alaska.
Action, Drama
One evening in 1969, a Ministry of Defence's facility in London is completely destroyed by a huge explosion. To their surprise, Danny and Kenny come into possession of a strange object from the blast: a large lump of solid uranium that looks remarkably like a hot potato. The pair quickly learn of their find's potential worth as well as its radioactive dangers.
Crime
Zurta and Valya are at ease in sophisticated society. Zurta steals a diary from the safe of an embassy in Paris while they are guests at a reception there, killing a servant who walks in on the theft. Poole, an accomplice, is passed the diary, but double-crosses them and attempts to flee with it on the Orient Express traveling between Paris and Trieste.
Action, association football film, Crime
Set twenty-one years after I.D., Mo, a young Muslim police officer in the Metropolitan Police is sent by Trevor to infiltrate the hooligan firm of Shadwell Town Football Club, who are reportedly fired up following the club's takeover by a wealthy Russian oligarch. Mo searches out Eddie who has now retired and is working as a stand-up comedian in a pub ran by former Shadwell player Gerry Edwards. Eddie warns Mo of the dangers of Shadwell firm and warns him whatever happens he needs to be careful not to be drawn in like John was, warning him of the alcoholism, drug abuse, violence and racism that comes with his assignment.
Western
The film, with a similar plot to High Noon, tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott), who are about to be married on the Fourth of July when Marshal Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into town looking for Ballard. McCarty accuses Ballard of having murdered his brother and has come to arrest him. At first, the townspeople are on Ballard's side, but gradually they turn against him, especially when they believe that he has killed the town sheriff (Emile Meyer).
Adventure, fantasy film
The movie starts with the history of how mighty fire-breathing dragons came to be. The dragons and their crystals of tremendous power came to the human world through a portal from their world of the dragons. But while the dragons brought knowledge and wanted only peace, the human kingdoms of Norvagen and Draigar wanted war and, having misused the knowledge brought by the dragons, battled erupted.
Action, Adventure, Drama, Pirate Film, romance film
Alan Gaskell is an abrasive, gambling captain of a steamer, the Kin Lung, shuttling between Singapore and Hong Kong. Tensions are high before the Kin Lung sails from Hong Kong because some pirates are discovered disguised as women passengers, while others try to smuggle weapons aboard. Dolly Portland is Alan's former girlfriend, who Alan later describes at the Captain's table as a "professional entertainer," who travels with her maid.
Adventure
During the reign of King George III, in Bristol, England, young Benjamin Blake, son of the deceased Baronet of Breetholm is taken from his commoner grandfather, gunsmith Amos Kidder, and forced to serve his vengeful uncle, Sir Arthur Blake. Arthur inherited the title and land from his brother Godfrey, and fears that Ben may not have been born out of wedlock and might claim his inheritance. He compels the boy to become his ward and bonded servant, giving Arthur life-and-death power over the lad.
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, sexploitation film
Following a world war fought with biological agents, it is believed that all men and most women on the planet have been killed. The Reverend Mother (Sheila Howard) aims to prevent human extinction by creating a race of superwomen through controlled sperm banks. The effects of the war have left the world a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Action, Crime, katastrophe, thriller film
A group of people celebrate overcoming their fear of flying by taking a flight together. They board a TransContinental Airlines Boeing 747-200, TransCon Flight 110, circling around Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. While the aircraft is cruising, a Czech terrorist hijacks the flight.
Action, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film, Vampire, Zombie
An epidemic disease has overwhelmed humanity, turning nearly everyone into blood-thirsty infected who resemble vampires and zombies. There is no known cure and there are very few survivors left fighting "against the dark". Tao (Seagal) is in charge of a group of vampire/zombie hunters.