Invasion Planet Earth (2019)
Action, Drama, Science fiction
Action movies
Explore action, physical conflict and high-stakes confrontations.
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Maria (2019)
Action, Drama
Maria (Cristine Reyes) is a former hired assassin who now lives a happy home life. But things turn for the worse when her former boyfriend and partner-in-crime, Kaleb (Ivan Padilla), finds her and tries to turn her over to her former self again.
Hotel Reserve (1944)
spy film, thriller film
In 1938, Austrian refugee Peter Vadassy takes a holiday at the Hotel Reserve on the French Mediterranean coast to celebrate his completion of medical school and his impending French citizenship. When he goes to collect his photographs from a pharmacy, he is detained and questioned by Michel Beghin of French naval intelligence. His negatives turn out to include shots of French military installations.
They Call Me Renegade (1987)
Action, Comedy
"Renegade" Luke (Hill), a drifter and petty con artist, lives a free and easy life with no responsibility travelling around the Southwestern United States in his Jeep CJ-5 Renegade with a chestnut colt named Joe Brown. The events take a sudden twist when his friend Moose (Norman Bowler), who has won a ranch in Arizona during a poker game, asks Luke to become the legal guardian of Moose's son Matt (Ross Hill) and to keep an eye on him and the property until either his son comes of age at 18, while he is serving time in jail for a crime he claims he didn't commit. Both Luke and Matt are less than enthusiastic about the idea but eventually…
13 Frightened Girls! (1963)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, comedy thriller, Crime, crime thriller film, Horror, mystery film, spy film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film, war film
After a 16-year-old girl Candy Hull develops a crush on intelligence agent Wally Sanders in London, she helps him to uncover a communist plot against the United States.
Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)
Action, Comedy, exploitation film
The stock plot deals with Roscoe Wilton, a teenage joyriding car thief, evading Cyco County Sheriff Turner and his unintelligent deputies. Turner becomes even more obsessed with catching Roscoe after he kidnaps his overly-sheltered daughter, Peggy Sue, just as she is about to be crowned homecoming Queen during a football game at their high school. In so doing, Roscoe also makes himself a target of other characters, including his best friend Harold, Peggy Sue's friend Cindy, and Kenny, a sanctimonious quarterback who is deeply, but vainly, in love with Peggy Sue.
Stark Raving Mad (2002)
Action, Caper-Movie, Drama
The plot follows a linear structure, encompassing the events of one night in a nightclub which has been hired for the night by protagonist Ben McGewan (Seann William Scott). The owner is unhappy with noise levels, fearing loss of his license, but noise levels is exactly what they want. The noise is specific cover for an illicit and complex bank heist orchestrated by the main character as a means of stealing a revered, ancient Chinese statuette and clearing his and his late brother's debt with a local Chinese crime lord.
Alienator (1990)
Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Kol, an alien criminal, escapes from a spaceship into the woods of an American suburb. The commander of the spaceship dispatches "the Alienator"—a deadly gynoid, to capture Kol. She relentlessly pursues Kol and a group of teenagers who find him without knowing his past.
They Met in Bombay (1941)
Adventure, Crime Comedy, Drama, Heist
Gerald Meldrick (Clark Gable) and "Baroness" Anya von Duren (Rosalind Russell) are jewel thieves working separately in Bombay (now Mumbai) in British-ruled India. He's posing as a Lloyd's of London detective, while she's pretending to be an aristocrat. Both are after a priceless diamond, the Star of Asia, owned by the aging Duchess of Beltravers (Jessie Ralph) and set for public display at a social function.
Fried Barry (2020)
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Horror, Road Movie, Science fiction
Return to the Lost World (1992)
Adventure, Science fiction
Belgian scientist Bertram Hammonds, along with Gomez, who survived being injured in the first film, arrives in the Lost World to drill for crude oil. He and his men begin capturing the natives for slave labor, throwing Chief Palala off the top of the plateau. He survives and is rescued by Malu and taken to a nearby village.
The Prodigies (2011)
Action, Drama, Science fiction
Ten-year-old Jimbo Farrar is a gifted child who suffers abuse at the hands of his parents. One day, in a fit of anger, Jimbo unintentionally uses his supernatural abilities, resulting in his mother's death and his father's suicide. Jimbo is then sent to a mental hospital, where he is later taken under the wing of billionaire Charles Killian, who helps him control his powers.
Riverbend (1989)
Action, thriller film
Set in 1966, Riverbend opens with Major Samuel Quinton (Steve James) and fellow Black Vietnam soldiers Tony Marx (Julius Tennon) and Butch Turner (Alex Morris) being transported to face a military court-martial for disobeying an order to destroy a village filled with civilians. Knowing they will not receive a fair trial, the men escape and make their way across the South. They eventually find refuge in Riverbend, Georgia, a small segregated town ruled by a brutal sheriff (Tony Frank) and a corrupt judge.
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Action, thriller film
New teacher John Ebony arrives at a school and begins to suspect his predecessor was murdered by the pupils, though his suspicions are written off as paranoia. He sets out to prevent the same fate from befalling him.
Red Line (1995)
Action, thriller film
Jim is a car mechanic who is drawn into danger after he robs a convenience store while driving a client's bulletproof car. He returns the car to the client, Keller, who demands that he bring him a Ferrari held by a couple in the mountains. Jim also meets a young woman, Gem, who he tries to impress.
Good Day for a Hanging (1959)
Western
Eddie Campbell (Robert Vaughn) and two other members of an outlaw band watch a stagecoach as it travels toward a Nebraska town. They are leading two extra, saddled horses. Two other members of his gang are on the stage and they plan to meet in town to rob the bank when the stage arrives.
Comic Book Villains (2002)
Comedy, Dark Comedy
Archie (DJ Qualls) hangs out at a local comic book store and watches and narrates the film. There are two comic book shops in town; one is owned by Raymond (Donal Logue) and the other owned by Norman and Judy Link (Michael Rapaport and Natasha Lyonne), a husband and wife. Mrs.
Naam yi boon sik (2007)
Action, Crime
An armoured truck carrying $100 million of cash is attacked by a criminal gang who call themselves the "Ronin Gang" with explosives as it stops at a traffic junction in front of a jewellery shop. All the security guards are shot dead except one, while responding police officers suffer serious casualties under the gunfire of the heavily armed gang members. The explosions also kill several civilians, including a lady in the shop.
Madame Sin (1972)
Action, Science fiction, thriller film
Ex-CIA agent Anthony Lawrence is abducted from London and brought to the Scottish Highlands on the orders of Madame Sin, an international criminal who runs her own organisation. From her base, she operates a "Thought Factory" where scientists have developed advanced technology, including sonic weapons and a device that can implant thoughts into a subject's brain. She demonstrates the thought implantation process on her assistant Nikko, who is able to play a Mozart piece after having it implanted in her brain in seconds.
Trivisa (2016)
action thriller, Crime
In early 1997, mobsters Kwai Ching-hung, Yip Kwok-foon and Cheuk Tze-keung, who have never met one another, are all in Hong Kong. Thereafter, rumour has it that Hong Kong's three most notorious mobsters, known in the underworld as the "Three Kings of Thieves", are plotting together to score a final hit before the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong. However, none are initially aware of the rumour.
Faintheart (2008)
Comedy, romantic comedy
Richard is obsessed with medieval war re-enactment. After he turns up late to his father-in-law's funeral, still wearing Viking costume, his wife Cath kicks him out. Richard's honour is further damaged when Cath starts dating his son's PE teacher, Gary.
Street Knight (1993)
Action, Crime, Drama
Jake Barrett (Jeff Speakman) is a former cop who retired from the LAPD following an incident where he failed to save a young hostage from a disturbed criminal. This incident has haunted him for the past several years, and he now works repairing cars at a garage once owned by his father. The city, which has been the battleground for a conflict between street gangs the Latin Lords and Blades, is currently under a tenuous truce negotiated by the heads of the two gangs.
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
Action, Pirate Film
In October 1985, a group of Palestinian terrorists of the PLO embark on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in Alexandria with the purpose of reaching Haifa and perform a suicide mission against Israel. However, when they're found out during the trip, they decide to hijack the ship and take all passengers hostage. Among them are Mr.
Sirocco (1951)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Noir, romance film, war film
In 1925 Damascus, the native Syrians are fighting a guerrilla war against the French colonial rule of Syria. Harry Smith is an American black marketeer secretly selling weapons to the guerrillas. As the situation deteriorates, French general LaSalle orders the execution of civilian sympathizers each time that his soldiers are killed, but his head of military intelligence Colonel Feroud persuades him to simply detain civilians for 48 hours.