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Science fiction
The appearance of an unknown "missile-like" object in nearby space leads a European nation (unnamed, but implied to be one of the countries behind the Iron Curtain) to fire a rocket at it. Though the rocket intercepts the unidentified object, the explosion only diverts the missile into an orbit around the Earth. Racing five miles above the earth, tremendous heat from its rocket engine causes widespread devastation of the land below.
Action, Adventure, mystery film, thriller film, Treasure hunt
The film centres on Michael Archer (C. Thomas Howell), a forensic anthropologist who inadvertently discovers a set of subtle clues within the works of Leonardo da Vinci, that, when interpreted correctly, will lead the finder to "enlightenment". Archer, convinced of the authenticity of the clues, sets out to locate the treasure by travelling around the world, following each clue.
Action, Science fiction
thriller film
Gary Fenn is a shrewd advertising executive for a London agency, seeking an elusive modeling type to satisfy a difficult client. He finds her in Hungarian Marla Kugash, an peace activist deep in the bohemian society of Swinging London. She is accompanied by a young man, Tarquin, who is extremely protective of her and overtly aggressive to Fenn.
Drama, romance film, silent film, spy film
In Vienna, Captain Karl von Raden (Conrad Nagel) purchases a returned ticket to a sold-out opera and finds himself sharing a loge with a lovely woman (Greta Garbo). Though she repulses his first advance, she does spend an idyllic day with him in the countryside, where romance blossoms. Before Karl can return to duty, his uncle, Colonel Eric von Raden (Edward Connelly), the chief of the secret police, assigns him an important mission to deliver secret plans to officials in Berlin, but he also warns his nephew that the woman he just met is Tania Fedorova, a top Russian spy.
Adventure, Drama
Set in 1979, the film focuses on a Seattleite couple, police officer and former park ranger Roger Lewis (Bancroft), and 22-year-old waitress Denise Harris (Milano). They are invited by businessman Wylie Bennett (Fraser) to Alaska to head out to the fictional wilderness of Surprise Bay and find a goldmine. If they are successful in retrieving gold, they are awarded 10% of the profit.
Action, Science fiction, sport film
The film is set in 2025, and centers on a sport called "Futuresport" (a combination of basketball, baseball and hockey that uses hoverboards and rollerblades) created as a non-lethal way to reduce gang warfare. Tre Ramzey (Dean Cain) along with his ex-girlfriend Alex Torres (Vanessa Williams) and his old coach Obike Fixx (Wesley Snipes) must prevent an all out war between the North American Alliance and the Pan-Pacific Commonwealth (The Com). At stake is who rules over the Hawaiian Islands—which are being terrorized by Eric Sythe (JR Bourne) and his gang the Hawaiian Liberation Organization (Hilo).
Action, Horror, Science fiction
Sam Staziak is a Los Angeles police officer who is a Scanner, a person with extraordinary telepathic and telekinetic powers. Sam tracks a renegade Scanner, Karl Volkin, who recently escaped from a mental hospital. Volkin is building his power by siphoning off the power of other weaker Scanners.
Horror, Science fiction
Ever since he lost his wife and son in a devastating fire, Detective Jack Murphy has wandered around life in a fog. He is forced to face his terrifying memories when his partner Gus is killed in a manner too brutal to be human, too clever to be animal. The only clues to Gus's death are a vagabond Golden Retriever and Dr.
Action, Science fiction
Ash Mattley (Mark Dacascos), a doctor in a small village deep in the jungles of Borneo, is approached by another scientist, Carl Wessinger (Jürgen Prochnow) regarding his studies of an enzyme found in a rare beetle. With the aid of Mattley and a group of natives, Wessinger secures several of the beetles, but then betrays his team and leaves them behind in a cave. Later, Wessinger uncovers a fossil in the jungle, but the natives in his new team fall in fear and worship before the deceased creature, which they call "Balacau." Two years later, Mattley's clinic is beset by a series of gruesome murders in the jungle.
Action, swashbuckler film
The adaptation starts by describing a divided Scotland which is populated by Highlanders and Lowlanders who are loyal to different kings. Alan Breck Stewart is characterised as a leading figure of Jacobitism who tried "to keep the flame alive". It ends when Stewart leaves Scotland forever "to have a distinguished career in the French Army", while Balfour stays and marries a lady from the Highlands.
Action, Comedy
Action, spy film
The film takes place in April 1961, prior to the proposed Bay of Pigs Invasion. Two soldiers, LeRoy Beecher (Judge Reinhold) and Chaz McClain (Ken Wahl), are just finishing a two-year Infantry tour in the Army in Panama. They hitch a ride on a military C-47 back to their home state, Florida, after bribing the pilot with a gift of LP records.
Action, Adventure, Horror, kaiju, mockbuster, Science fiction, thriller film
After a long dormant volcano suddenly becomes active again, a nest of mysterious eggs are unearthed and begin to hatch, revealing themselves as prehistoric pterodactyls. A trio of hunters, scouting the Turkish–Armenian border are suddenly attacked by a pterodactyl. While defending themselves, they become outmatched and are all killed.
Action, thriller film
Jake "Tiger" Sharp (Michael Sopkiw) is a former policeman who seeks revenge after his wife is murdered. After killing the murderer, Sharp is sentenced to seven years in prison. Upon release Jake is given an SPAS-12 Shotgun by his old friend Jerry in order to wreak vengeance upon the crooked attorney responsible for sending him away.
Action, Drama, mystery film, war film
Two men run across a beach at dawn with their hands tied behind their backs. After several shots of a helicopter frantically searching the landscape, it becomes apparent that the two men are escapees of some kind. It is later revealed that their names are MacConnachie and Ansell.
Action, Blaxploitation, Drama
The plot involves Bubba Daniels, an African American veteran of the Vietnam War who returns home to find that his brother Eddie has been killed. The killing was done by a white supremacist motorcycle gang, led by Moose King, who objected to the fact that Eddie had been dating Moose King’s sister Jenny. Bubba and his motorcycle gang, known as the Black Six, vow to avenge Eddie's death.
Horror, monster film, Satanism, Science fiction, Vampire, war film
On 5 June 1944, a unit of New Zealand commandos are sent to the Channel Islands on sabotage and distraction raids, to draw the German military's attention away from Operation Overlord, planned landings in Normandy. Captain Ben Grogan and Sergeant Joe Tane land by canoe on a fortified beach on Forau Island. Heading inland, they hear distant screaming and gunfire.
Drama, Secret Agent, spy film, thriller film
In 1939, Alex Schottland, a colonel in charge of supplies in the German Army, is a long-entrenched British agent planted toward the end of the First World War. He is growing weary of being a spy, but is urged to continue by his friend and fellow British agent, Cornaz, who is posing as an antique dealer. In 1941 Schottland passes on information that Germany is about to invade the Soviet Union.
Action, thriller film
On his last assignment prior to resigning, burned out human rights activist James Rhodes arrives in Tijuana to help oversee local union elections, which are occurring in a chemical factory built by a US corporation, an election tainted with violence. While there, he becomes embroiled in the investigation of a mass murder in what appears to be a drug runners' tunnel on the Tijuana/San Diego border, which was casually discovered. He teams up with a local honest street cop and a US official all under the watchful eye of State Department attache, eager to pin the killings on a drug cartel.
teen film
Sixteen year-old Jett Jackson’s role as the action hero “Silverstone” in his hit TV series has catapulted him to mega-stardom. But Jett’s finding it increasingly difficult to juggle the demands of show biz with school, family and friends. Then, a freak accident on the set causes Jett and his on-screen character Silverstone to trade places.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Sonny Stein (Richard Jaeckel), learns while working as a marine salvager in the Philippine Islands, that he has a connection with mako sharks. He is given a medallion by a Filipino shaman that protects him from sharks when he is among them. Having become alienated from society, Stein lives alone in a small stilt house offshore of Key West, Florida.
Action, thriller film
Zuko Khumalo (Bonko Khoza) is a retired South African assassin when he get call from the daughter of an old friend Johnny Klein (Peter Butler) who has been kidnapped while uncovering a dangerous conspiracy at the heart of the South African government.
Action, Horror, Werewolf
Virginia (Felicia Day), modern-day descendant of Little Red Riding Hood, brings her fiancé, Nathan (Kavan Smith), home to meet her family. Virginia's grandmother (Rosemary Dunsmore) and brother Jake (David Reale) welcome Virginia back, with Jake calling her "Red", a family nickname of the first daughter in every generation. Shortly after their arrival, Nathan finds a man staggering up the driveway half dead.