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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 239.

Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy (2005)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film, thriller film

Paul King (Anton Argirov) dies of kidney cancer. Five years later, his father Preston King (Jeffrey Combs), a scientist, invites the doctors that could not save his son to his uncharted island in the western Pacific. Paul's widowed wife Amelia Lockhart (Hunter Tylo), who believes Paul died five years ago from cancer, and Amelia's new love interest Tom Reed (William Forsythe), also travel to the island.

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Anonymous Rex (2004)

Action, fantasy film, Science fiction

In an alternate timeline, dinosaurs have managed to survive the KT Extinction Event, having since evolved into humanoid forms and now live amongst humans using hard light holographic disguises (formerly rubber suits, paper masks, etc). Vincent Rubio is a Velociraptor private investigator along with his partner, Ernie Watson, a Triceratops. When Ernie's ex-girlfriend's brother is found dead, the incident is dismissed as suicide.

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I Brake for Gringos (2016)

Action

Logan is a high school senior who dreams of being a DJ, much to the chagrin of his parents who want him to study at a good college. His friend Blake coaxes Logan to get the attention of a girl, Lina, who talks about going to Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. Logan is grounded for taking his Dad's Porsche out without permission to impress Lina, and is ordered to pick up his grandfather's Rolex watch, while his parents go on a cruise.

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Loaded (2008)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Tristan Price is a wealthy and privileged teenager who seemingly has everything he could ever want, money, loving parents and a beautiful girlfriend. However, his perfect life is turned upside down by the arrival of Sebastian, a handsome, charismatic, ruthless drug dealer. As Tristan is sucked into a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and violence he begins to realise his new best friend is, in fact, his worst enemy.

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The Aftermath (1982)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, independent film, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, Zombie

Three astronauts return to Earth after a nuclear holocaust (that also saw biological weapons used), although one dies in a crash landing. The two survivors, Newman and Matthews, encounter some mutants before discovering that Los Angeles has been completely destroyed. Seeking shelter, the men take refuge in an abandoned mansion.

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The Point Men (2001)

Action, Crime, spy film

Tony Eckhardt is shot in an anti-terrorist operation and insists that the man killed during the operation was not their intended target, the terrorist Amar Kamil. Kamil undergoes extensive facial reconstruction surgery to look like a man kidnapped to take the fall for an assassination planned to take place during an upcoming press conference. Members of the Israeli team are being killed off and Eckhardt pursues Kamil while hoping to stay alive to raise his unborn daughter.

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Blonde Fist (1991)

Action, boxing film, sport film

Set in Kirkby, Liverpool, the plot centres around Ronnie O'Dowd, a single mother born to a Scottish father who championed in street boxing and her more gentle, ‘ladylike’ mother who dislikes her husband participating in street boxing. Ronnie’s mother gives birth to Ronnie in the middle of a street market, on a sack of budgie feed. After the father of her son is arrested, Ronnie struggles to make ends meet against a corrupt social system that treats working class mothers with contempt.

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Do Not Disturb (1999)

Action, thriller film

American pharmaceutical executive Walter Richmond takes a business trip to Amsterdam, accompanied by his wife Cathryn and their 10-year-old daughter Melissa, who has been mute ever since an accident years before. To communicate, Melissa wears a small magic marker board around her neck. Melissa makes a trip to the ladies' room at the hotel De L'Europe and gets separated from her parents.

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Death at Love House (1976)

Horror

While on a tour in Hollywood, a young couple, Joel and Donna Gregory, arrive at the house of Lorna Love, an infamous actress who died in 1935. There, they meet with housekeeper Clara Josephs and agent Oscar Payne, to investigate the mystery behind Lorna and finish a book that they are writing on the actress, an interest that came out of the discovery that Joel's father was her lover. While staying at the mansion, unusual incidents occur.

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La Femme Musketeer (2004)

Adventure, Drama, swashbuckler film

The legend of D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a gender-bending update in this swashbuckling adventure. Though legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well in the way of the sword. Now it's time for Valentine to strike out on her own.

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Enchanted Island (1958)

Adventure, Drama

Two 19th-century sailors, Abner (Dana Andrews) and Tom (Don Dubbins), jump ship after their captain, Vangs (Ted de Corsia), refuses them shore leave and warns them what a dangerous place this particular island is. They disobey him and soon discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold. There are two tribes on the island, one friendly, but the other, the Typee, a cannibal tribe.

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Independents' Day (2016)

Action, disaster film, fantasy film, mockbuster, Science fiction

The alien Orions, believing that humans are too violent, attack Earth and destroy many of the planet's capital cities. They then apparently heal many of the sick and offer to transport them; those who are hungry and others who wanted to go to another planet and many of the earthlings volunteer to go. An "Earth First" militia forms to fight the aliens, while the US Vice President (as the aliens have killed the President) negotiates with the aliens.

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Kill and Kill Again (1981)

Action, Martial arts

Martial arts champion Steve Chase is hired by Kandy Kane to rescue her father, Dr. Horatio Kane, who had accidentally discovered a mind-control drug while researching potatoes as an energy source. The government offers Steve $2 million to find him, but he gets $5 million and is allowed to select his own team.

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Dead Fish (2005)

Action, Action Comedy

Lynch (Gary Oldman), an emotionless food connoisseur, stops a thief who stole a phone from Mimi (Elena Anaya) in a railway station. Falling in for her instantly, he doesn't notice that she accidentally switched phones with him. She later gives Lynch's phone to her boyfriend, Abe Klein (Andrew-Lee Potts) who works as a locksmith.

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Zero to Sixty (1978)

Comedy

Michael Nolan (McGavin) finds himself down on his luck following his divorce settlement, which has left him with nothing. During the repossession of his car, he makes chase all the way to the auto repossession company. His persistence impresses the owner, who hires him on the spot.

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Rolling Vengeance (1987)

Action, exploitation film

The five drunken sons of influential local business owner Tiny Doyle have been terrorizing the streets of their small town in their pick-up truck. Local trucker Big Joe Rosso has a wife named Kathy, a son named Joey, and two young daughters named Allison and Kristin. Big Joe and Joey do business with Tiny, delivering liquor to his bar, but that does not stop Tiny's son Vic from driving drunk and running Kathy off the road, killing her, Allison, and Kristin.

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One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)

Secret Agent

Illya Kuryakin is investigating the theft of cats in the Soho area of London, and Napoleon Solo is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of the famous, suddenly youthful appearing, and now missing 83-year-old biologist Benjamin Lancer. Solo contacts Lancer's daughter Lorelei, a model at the Paris salon of Madame Raine De Sala. De Sala orders her associate Olga and model Do Do to make sure that Lorelei does not speak to Solo.

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