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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, LGBTQ-related film
The story begins with two government agents, Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson, being captured by the "Dragon Lady" (Stella Stevens). Cleopatra Jones then travels to Hong Kong to rescue the agents. Jones pairs up with Mi Lin-fong () and ends up in the Dragon Lady's casino, which, in actuality, is the headquarters for her underground drug empire.
Action, Science fiction, thriller film
In this modern retelling of the classic science-fiction tale, Captain Nemo uses his high-tech submarine to wreak vengeance on the surface world. This version takes place in the present day. It begins with the USS Scotia following strange radar traces near the Mariana Trench.
Action, Coming-of-age, Drama, family film, sport film
Star lacrosse player Conor Sullivan is not excited about moving to an unknown town and being the new kid at high school. He has a new love interest, Brooklyn, but he struggles to find a meaning to his life. Conor's Marine father Seamus is redeployed into Iraq where he dies in combat leaving Conor in shock and denial as he starts acting out in self-destructive ways.
Action, Crime, Drama, Martial arts
Ironheart opens at a Portland nightclub (Upfront FX), where Milverstead, who is considered the most powerful and ruthless man in town, and his group of thugs are looking at the female clientele with an approving eye. Milverstead is shipping illegal arms out of the Portland docks, and to sweeten the deals with his trading partners, he kidnaps local lonely dancers, strings them out on heroin, and sends them along in the deal. He notices Cindy Kane (Meagan Hughes) dancing furiously to U-Krew's hit "If You Were Mine" and decides to kidnap her.
Action, Drama, war film
In 1906, Alipang and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves. Instead of maintaining garrisons indefinitely to protect the Filipinos, the United States Army tests out a new tactic at Fort Mysang. The army detachment is replaced by a handful of officers – Colonel Hatch, Captains Manning and Hartley, and Lieutenants McCool and Larsen – who are to train the native Philippine Constabulary to take over the burden.
Drama, prison film, thriller film
While the warden (real-life warden Frank A. Eyman) of a state prison is away, the isolation block erupts and 35 of the most violent criminals stage a riot and take over their portion of the prison. Cully Briston, in for five years and awaiting his eventual parole, wants no part of the riot.
Drama
The Viceroy of a remote 18th-century Peruvian town has ordered a magnificent golden coach from Europe, intending to pay for it with public funds. There is speculation that he is going to give it to his mistress, the Marquise, but he says he plans to use it to overawe the populace and flatter the local nobility, who enthusiastically look forward to taking turns parading in it. By coincidence, the coach arrives on the same ship that carries an Italian commedia dell'arte troupe composed of men, women, and children who perform as singers, actors, and acrobats.
Action, thriller film
Duke (Brian Geraghty) and Amber (Jenna Dewan) are a financially strapped young couple, both working menial jobs to survive, while their gangster neighbors continue to steal Duke and Amber's things. One day Amber gets home and finds the neighbors in the house, stealing a few things. They beat her up and leave.
Action, exploitation film, Horror, Motor-Bike Film, Satanism, Werewolf
"As it is, the story takes up the tracks of a California biker gang, the Devil's Advocates, as they speed across a barren highway on a drug-infused journey of undisclosed intent. Losing their way, they stop for the night on the grounds of a 'church' tucked away in some hills off the beaten path. Much to their initial pleasure, they are fed by a kindly group of hooded priests before settling into a deep, inebriated stupor." As a group of bikers moves across the desert, they come across an old church that a Satanic cult has taken over.
Action, exploitation film, Horror, rape and revenge film, sexploitation film
A group of eight virgin gorgeous American models take a long trip to South America, to participate in a photo session on a location deep in the jungle, apparently somewhere around Peruvian tropical forest. While flying over a cocaine plantation, their plane is shot down by Cesar, a dangerous drug lord, and the girls are taken prisoner by his army. Cesar suspects that an undercover police officer is among the models (in fact, one of the women actually is a special agent), so he orders his mercenaries to drag the girls into his dungeon for interrogation.
Crime, thriller film
Michael Dixon (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an agent working linewatch for the United States Border Patrol on the U.S. Mexico Border in New Mexico. He is well-respected by his peers at US Border Patrol and loved by his wife Angela (Sharon Leal) and 5-year-old daughter Emily (Deja Warrior).
Action, Science fiction, thriller film
Alex wakes up in the desert with a bullet in the back of her head and total amnesia. Following her footprints back the way she came, she encounters a man named Farnsworth 2, who offers to help her and get her medical attention. He gives her "a shot of endo" to repair the affected part of her brain and she starts to have flashes of memories; when she remembers a woman warning her not to let Farnsworth 2 get her DNA, she kills him with his own gun before he can complete a blood test on her.
Action, Comedy, Superhero
The story focuses on big busty Chastity Knott (Natividad) who must use her new amazing abilities as the super-stacked costumed crime fighter, The Double-D Avenger, to stop villainous bikini bar owner Al Purplewood (G. Larry Butler) and his sexy, murderous strippers. The movie has much live-action comic-book action, sexual innuendo, Russ Meyer-inspired camera angles focusing on the female character's breasts, and other "off color" verbal and visual gags.
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Ken Manchester is an affluent travel enthusiast who has embarked on an expedition through the jungle of Borneo with his wife Barbara, despite her lack of enthusiasm. They are led by tour guide "Tennessee" Buck Malone, a down-on-his-luck expatriate who speaks the local language. During their trek, Buck and the Manchesters are ambushed by a tribe of cannibal headhunters and taken to their village.
Action, Martial arts
Samurai master Tatsuya Sanga adopts a baby named Andrew Collins who is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Japanese mountains. Andrew and the samurai's son, Kenjiro, are trained in the warrior’s way. Andrew excels and soon surpasses his stepbrother.
Action, Drama, Martial arts
In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, GI Billy Thomas saves captain Scott Monroe's life, but gets shot in the head in the process. The extensive brain damage leaves him with diminished mental capabilities. After the war, Scott opens a bar in Los Angeles and keeps Billy under his wing, but they soon find themselves on shaky financial ground and targeted by mafiosi.
Action, Martial arts
Mainland China police officers Alex Lee and Darren Tong are working on a routine mission. However, miscommunication between the duo causes Alex to "die" when he is hit with a paintball to the head. The commanding officer commends the duo for trying their hardest, but they have to learn to work as both a team and separate units.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Johnny Munroe travels to South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel for Frederick Alexander, a wealthy industrialist. Complications arise when Alexander insists upon a shorter, more dangerous passage and when his daughter Maura develops a romantic interest with Johnny.
A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of securing an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allied advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans had been relegated to cleaning latrines and therefore have little real military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice.
Action, alien invasion, disaster film, Science fiction, war film
SAS lieutenant Michael Galloway, his friends Vincent and Robin, and Robin's girlfriend Dana, go out to a club. While there, Michael hooks up with a girl named Carrie and Robin proposes to Dana. Just as Robin sees a strange light in the sky, he soon assist Michael in a fight.
Action, Drama, Noir
Sam Martin (Audie Murphy) runs a charter boat in the Florida Keys with his alcoholic first mate, Harvey (Everett Sloane). He struggles to make a living and pay off his boat. After a major customer loses his fishing gear, turns out to have no money, and is arrested for passing bad checks, Sam tries to recoup his losses by pawning some of his gear and gambling with the proceeds.
Action, Crime, Drama
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is attempting domination of major financial and business concerns. Victor Jory's Shadow is faithful to the radio character, especially the radio show's signature: the sinister chuckle of the invisible Shadow as he confronts the villain or his henchmen. Columbia, however, relied on fistfights, chases, and headlong action in its serials, and disliked the prospect of a 15-chapter adventure where the audience would not see much of the heroics, because the leading character was supposed to be invisible.
Action, Adventure, Crime, thriller film
After serving a five-year prison sentence for marijuana possession, Daniel "Poke" Jackson returns to his hometown in Texas where he is greeted by the man who convicted him, Sheriff Duke Calley. Poke assures Duke that he will soon be leaving to go to California, but Duke warns Poke that he is under close watch. Poke calls his old girlfriend Mary Lee Carter and arranges a meeting to see their son Kevin, whom he has never met.
Action, buddy film, Secret Agent
A suicide bomber detonates himself at a party in Java, Indonesia, and a Javanese Sultan's daughter, Sultana (Atiqah Hasiholan), is believed to be one of the unidentified victims. Jake Travers (Kellan Lutz), an American posing as a graduate student from Cornell University, was at the scene of the blast and is held as a witness by a police detective of Detachment 88, Lieutenant Hashim (Ario Bayu). After interviewing Jake at the crime scene, Hashim and Jake are attacked by terrorists led by Malik (Mickey Rourke) and his henchman Achmed.