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Action, thriller film
Ex-Green Beret Matt Collins is kidnapped along with his fiancée, Lauren Sadler, by the crazed hunter extraordinaire Danton Vachs. Every year, Vachs holds a contest where people can purchase the right to hunt down and kill human beings. This time, Collins is to be the hunted while Vachs uses Lauren as motivation for him to really fight for his life, thus providing the buyers with an exceptionally entertaining hunt.
Adventure, Treasure hunt
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends Jane and the Colonel on a mission to prevent the diamonds of the fabled Lost City from falling into enemy hands. Journeying to Africa where they are joined by Jungle Jack Buck, their quest is dogged by Nazi agents Lola Pagola and Heinrich.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, Horror, thriller film, war film
After a commercial airliner crashes on an uncharted island, the surviving passengers, a multi-cultural cross-section of the US population with some of them coming from Tromaville, notice armed uniformed people of various countries apparently looking for survivors. When one of passengers surrenders herself, she is brutally shot. It becomes evident that the island is a terrorist infiltration camp.
Action, Science fiction
Nick Conrad is a young physics professor and researcher. His personal project is to develop a material to convert ultraviolet light directly into mechanical force. Local criminal kingpin Kermit Haas is told that a fellow crime boss in Chicago has sent a team to rob a local bank, including a trigger-happy nephew.
Action, girls with guns, sexploitation film, spy film, thriller film
A security agency becomes involved in a violent conflict over possession of a rare diamond.
Action, Drama, thriller film
August, a Lower East Side bartender, becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving Signe, a desperate woman, Angel, the brother of Jesus, a missing drug dealer and Nicholas, the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Action, Drama, war film
In Northern Italy in 1944, the entire population of the village of Reanoto is massacred by the SS under the command of the cruel Major Sturmbannführer Taussig for helping the Italian resistance movement. The only survivors are a group of young boys, aged 7 to 14, led by Aldo, who witnessed the mass execution and vow revenge. That night, a detachment of US Army paratrooper saboteurs jump into the area with a mission to destroy a strategic dam with the partisans prior to the Fifth United States Army's advance into the area.
Action, Horror, Zombie
After humanity wins a war against hordes of zombies, which led to two billion deaths, the only remaining zombies are kept on an island, where they are hunted for sport by tourists at a luxury facility called the Rezort. Guests include the young couple Lewis and Melanie, who want to conquer Melanie's psychological issues caused by the zombie war; Archer, a quiet veteran; Jack and Alfie, teenage video gamers; and Sadie, whose ex-fiancé dumped her prior to their wedding. After the group meets the owner of the resort, Valerie Wilton, Archer sees Sadie sneak into a control room.
Action
Two former paramilitary operatives, Johnny (Nguyen) and his police detective friend Peter (Boonthanakit), search Bangkok to find the killers of Johnny's young daughter Angel (Paosut) and deliver retribution.
Western
Jim Dancer (Scott) is one of Quantrill's Raiders and a close friend of Jesse James (Robertson). They are involved in the Lawrence Massacre, during which Dancer kills Theodore Slocum after mistaking him for his brother Bert Slocum (Kelley), the man responsible for the death of Dancer's own brother. Theodore Slocum's daughter Evelyn (Taylor) witnesses the killing and learns Dancer's name but cannot later recognise him.
Action, spy film, thriller film
Action, Adventure, Detective, Superhero
Professor Davidson plans an expedition to find the Lost City of Zoloz. The location of the city is contained on seven pieces of ivory, three of which Davidson already possesses. Doctor Bremmer, however, intends to find the lost city and use it as a secret airbase for his unnamed country.
Action, Gangster Film, Heist
Gerard (Ged) Brennan and his crew are hijacking a truck, only to find it is a dummy truck that is empty to ward off hijackers for that very purpose. The next morning, the radio news announces that a "businessman" named Leo Murphy, aka Leo the Pig, is found naked and killed on a boat out at sea. Even though the truck heist was a dud, Ged still has to pay his crew so that they don't go work for other competitors; this causes a strain on his marriage with his wife Debbie.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Treasure hunt
The adventurer Allan Quatermain has been recruited to lead a British-American expedition in search of a fabled treasure deep within unexplored Africa. Throughout the film, Quatermain must avoid hidden dangers, violent natives and other unseen traps during their quest for the treasure of the Temple of Skulls, travelling by train, river and air to reach his goal, while being pursued by rival treasure-seekers and unfriendly natives who wish to sabotage his expedition.
Action, war film
Action, Drama, thriller film, war film
Special Air Service patrol Bravo Two Zero is inserted into Iraq by helicopter to locate and destroy Iraqi Scud missile launchers. En route they find an unexpected group of Bedouin tribesmen and hide until they are noticed by a shepherd and exchange fire with armed fighters. They escape and return to the initial landing point but there is no helicopter waiting for them.
Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
The film opens with a fire. Lyle Wilder (Charlie Sheen) is a decorated Los Angeles firefighter who saved an Afro-American baby's life in a crack house fire. He was honored for his bravery.
Action, thriller film
John Steele is a Vietnam Vet who had trouble adjusting to life after the war. He hasn't been able to hold on to a job which includes being a cop. When his best friend Lee, who also served with him in Vietnam and who also became a cop, was killed by some drug dealers he was investigating, Steele was able to save his daughter and saw one of the shooters.
Action, thriller film
After a heated argument with her military police turned cop husband, Lawson (Michael Dudikoff); Russian immigrant house wife, Lara () storms off into the night convinced he's more married to his job than her. On her drive to a friend's house, she takes pity on a mournful hitchhiker Justin Mckay (Mark Hamill), desperately searching for a ride. Her offer of a lift to him plunges her into a night of pure terror as Justin is seriously disturbed, twisted by a tortured childhood which ended in being made to see his little sister's shocking murder and mutilation at the hands of his brutal alcoholic mother (who took a butcher knife to her head…
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film
Based on Viking folklore and the poems they left, Vikingdom is a fantasy, action adventure film about a forgotten king named Eirick. Tasked with the impossible odds to defeat Thor, the Norse god of thunder, who is on a mission to gather key ancient relics: the Mjölnir, his hammer from Valhalla; the Necklace of Mary Magdalene from Midgard; and the Horn from Helheim. This needs to be accomplished before the sinister event of the Blood Eclipse, or else dire consequences will be faced by all in the realm.
Action, fantasy film
While walking through a snowy mountain top, Hercules finds a woman in the cold and goes to help her. He sees Zeus in a cave, and a rock closes over the entrance. The woman then calls out to him, freezes and explodes.
Drama, Western
Albert Gallatin "Lat" Evans, an earnest young cowboy determined to better his situation, wins a job with a cattle drive by busting a wild horse. Befriended by cowhand Tom Ping, Lat fantasizes about owning his own ranch and being rich one day, unlike his father, who died "broke, a failure." When the drive reaches a small Wyoming town, the cowboys congregate at the saloon, where Jehu, an unscrupulous rancher, proposes racing one of their horses against his swift steed. Lat accepts the challenge, and is in the lead when his opponent throws a blanket at his face, causing Lat to lose his balance and fall from his horse.
Action, Adventure, disaster film
Cliff Mason, a veteran foreman of the Forest Service's smokejumper unit, is called out with a crew on a fire, despite the fact that they have not rested in three days. Accompanied by R. A.
Western
U.S. Marshal Johnny Reno is on his way to the town of Stone Junction on personal business. As he rides through the desert, the fugitive Conners brothers see him and believe he is tracking them.