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Western
Drifter Logan Cates (Rory Calhoun) spies the desert at a watering hole when he sees Apache Indians about to attack three cowboys. He fires warning shots into the air, allowing the cowboys to flee. Sometime later, Cates encounters a young woman whose parents have been tortured and murdered by Apache Indians.
Action, Drama, Political Thriller, romance film, thriller film
The subject of her professor's romantic designs, Elizabeth Carlson, a college girl from Wisconsin, packs up and moves to New York City, finding a job as a waitress. At the same time, she attempts to launch a career as a fashion model. As her career takes off, she meets Daniel Jelline, a violinist, who stalks Elizabeth until they begin an affair.
Action
Grizzled L.A. cop Roland Sallinger (Steven Seagal) is shot by his corrupt partner during a raid. After recovering, an old friend named Connor Wells (Steph DuVall) hires him to be a bodyguard for his daughter Nikita (Liezl Carstens).
Action, Crime
Veteran assassin Mark Shields is hired to track down the head of an elusive drug cartel centered in Tijuana, Mexico. Shields takes the assignment in a weary daze, as he is fresh off a case that claimed the life of a woman he continues to see in his mind. Meanwhile, Javier Salazar, the head of the cartel Shields is assigned to, is dying.
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
At the end of a World War between humans and robots, a nuclear bomb was detonated and a Dark Age begun, without technology or electricity. On the last day of the war, as the nuclear bombs are detonating, one of the robots, Omega Doom, is shot in his head by a dying soldier. The shot causes Doom's programming for the destruction of mankind to be erased.
Action, Werewolf
When a strange werewolf virus threatens to decimate first New York and then the world, a rogue general uses the disease to create an army of supersoldiers.
Some time after Spy Troops, Cobra sends drones to the local zoo to take DNA from the alpha predators. G.I. Joe is called in by the zoo's vet, finding a tranquilizer dart left behind.
Western
Canaan, a mysterious gunfighter left nearly blind from Civil War combat, roams through Mexico with a baby he has sworn to protect. On his way to a town where a family will supposedly adopt the baby, Canaan passes through a border town where U.S. Cavalry officers assigned to deliver a shipment of silver are under attack from bandits.
Action
After 9/11, the United States government realized that narcotics were responsible for financing the majority of terrorist cells. That is why they created the International Drug Task Force (IDTF). The IDTF task forces are fully funded and overseen by the United States government.
Drama, war film
Lieutenant C.J. Cristoforos announces that the United States Marine Corps is seeking volunteers for a hazardous mission and special unit. Among the volunteers are a hillbilly who, when asked whether he can kill someone, responds that he already has.
Secret Agent, spy film
In the mid-1960s height of the Cold War, U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are assigned to meet and bring the "most wanted" former Nazi, missile expert Dr. Heinrich von Kronen, in to the agency.
Action, Crime
Jerry Reed plays the "Iron Duke", an independent trucker who stands up to the local trucker boss, King Carroll, who tries to drive independent truckers out of business through intimidation tactics by a gang led by his partner Harvey. Duke's friend Rane, played by Peter Fonda, comes to visit his friend and ends up helping him. Rane and "Pickup" (seemingly the only female truck driver, played by Helen Shaver) suggest hauling a load of illegal liquor to a lumber camp, in order to become secure enough to resist King and Harvey's pressure, and thus inspiring other independents to resist as well.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Alex, a wealthy young man, hosts a party at his mansion to introduce his new girlfriend, Tatiana, to his close friends. Among the guests are Patricia, a free-spirited videographer, and Delilah, Alex's ex-girlfriend who still harbors feelings for him. Tensions rise when Delilah arrives uninvited, leading to awkward interactions.
Action, Action Comedy, buddy film
Former race car driver and American expatriate Peter Roberts has retired at the urging of his lawyer wife, though he resists getting an office job. Instead, he becomes an instructor at a driving school, while waiting for an investment opportunity to open a racing school. After he drops his daughter off to school and learns that he can no longer afford her private school tuition, he takes a fellow American as his first client.
Crime, Drama
Hotshot street-racer Phil Sandifer (Contino) is working as a truck driver when he is harassed by a sports car driving on the highway. He later meets up with the driver, Jana (Giles), in a local club. Jana challenges Phil to a race; Jana runs Phil off the road, and he loses.
Action, fantasy film, Horror
During World War II, a U.S. military cargo plane crashes behind enemy lines in Germany's Black Forest. Maj.
Action, Cannibal, Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film
A group of Texas youths are celebrating a birthday at a posh San Antonio restaurant when they cross paths with a ravenous clan of cannibals called the Boneboys. Mercilessly stalked through the darkened streets of the city, the young revelers must fight back against their attackers with sheer ferocity in order to avoid having their bodies defiled, and their flesh devoured. Butcher Boys is described as an updating of Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay A Modest Proposal, which suggested poor people sell their children to the rich as food.
Action, thriller film
In Wasatch County, Utah, a militia of psychosexual thrill-killers led by Art Dacy and his lover Cyndi commit a string of vicious rapes and murders targeting women. After the pursuit of a kidnapper hits a dead-end, FBI criminal profiler Kelly McCord is assigned to head the investigating task force and partnered with veteran agent Nick Travis to assist Sheriff Glen Dobson. Travis confides to McCord that he has become disillusioned with the FBI following his supervisor John Taggart's unnecessary deadly escalation of a standoff at Highland Gorge that Travis was attempting to resolve through crisis negotiation.
Action, Crime, Drama
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
In 1999, World War III between the Pan-American Confederacy and the Eurac Monarchy (comprising Europe, Africa, and Asia) resulted in a nuclear holocaust. 20 years later, radiation has rendered all remaining humans sterile, and the victorious Euracs have occupied Manhattan and hunt survivors for genetic experiments. After winning a motorized deathmatch in Nevada, an ex-Confederate soldier named Parsifal is abducted and taken to the Confederacy's secret base in Alaska.
Action, thriller film
The film begins with a man going into a church. He enters the confessional booth where he tells the priest he would like to make a donation to the church, but before the father can accept, the man shoots himself in the head. The film then turns to Amy Nash (Evigan) and her husband, David (Faris).
Action, disaster film, Drama, thriller film
On a beach in Australia, two American surfers say goodbye to each other as one is about to leave for his flight back to California. The two men don't notice the large number of dead birds on the beach. On the flight, the surfer returning home starts coughing up blood and dies before the plane can land.
Action
In sun-drenched Hawaii, a dynamic criminal organisation run by seven ruthless professional kingpins intends to liquidate its political leaders, and when they fulfil their plans, take over the 50th State and pillage the land. Although this may be true, the government will soon retaliate by summoning the unconventional special agent Drew Sevano, who, in turn, assembles an invincible and well-equipped army of six other deadly agents; all assigned will their target of choice. But things are looking bleak and the mandatory half-hour time frame for the completion of the operation is already tight.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film
"Blue" Howard (Mel Stewart) and "White Folks" (Kiel Martin) are two con men in Philadelphia. Blue is an older black hustler who raised "White Folks” and taught him "the con". White Folks is the son of a black mother who is a prostitute and a white father.