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Hammer (1972)

Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, sport film

Boxing manager Big Sid is told by the head of a crime syndicate that a shipment of heroin is arriving, and in turn, Sid instructs his henchman Brenner to oversee the shipment. At the dock where the shipment is to arrive, a dock worker named Riley beats up an innocent worker, and his coworker B.J Hammer beats Riley up, resulting in Hammer getting fired. Boxing trainer Professor then presents Hammer to Sid, and Hammer happily signs Sid as his manager, much to the chagrin of police detective Davis.

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Robbery Under Arms (1957)

bushranging film, Crime, Drama, Western

In 1865 Australia, the two Marston brothers, bold Dick and sensitive Jim, are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, the famous cattle thief Captain Starlight. They help take some cattle their father and Starlight have stolen across the country to Adelaide, where they are sold, with Starlight impersonating an English gentleman claiming to own the rustled herd. The two brothers take their share of the money and go to Melbourne.

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Shadow Fury (2001)

Action

A discovery in the near future makes it possible to create genetically engineered and enhanced human clones. The consequence of this discovery results in bio-ethical chaos. In order to right this wrong, the World Health Organization imposes a global ban on all human cloning activity.

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Devil's Angels (1967)

Action, Crime, Drama, Motor-Bike Film

Cody (John Cassavetes) and his motorcycle gang, the Skulls, hear the story of how Butch Cassidy and his outlaw band lived in a secret area called Hole-in-the-Wall, where there are no police. Inspired, Cody tells the gang they're all going to Hole-in-the-Wall to live forever. Thus, they break their pal Funky out of jail and head out.

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The Day Will Dawn (1942)

Drama, war film

Following the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the former horse racing-correspondent Colin Metcalfe is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. Eight months later he meets a Norwegian fisherman, Captain Alstad, in a sailors' bar, where a scuffle breaks out between British and Norwegian sailors (singing "Rule Britannia", egged on by Metcalfe) and German ones (singing the Nazi Party anthem the "Horst-Wessel-Lied"). Alstad takes him aboard his boat during a sea voyage in Norway's territorial waters, during which they sight the Altmark and are fired upon by a German U-boat, despite Norway's neutrality.

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Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)

Action, Adventure

Tarzan and Boy, on their way to meet Jane, who is returning from nursing work in Britain to support the war effort, rescue an "Amazon" woman from an attack by a black panther. During the attack, she drops a golden bracelet which Cheeta picks up. The Amazon woman's ankle is twisted in the incident and she cannot walk.

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Peacemaker (1990)

Action, Science fiction

An alien spacecraft is seen entering the Earth's atmosphere near Los Angeles and crashing into the Pacific Ocean. The event is witnessed by a couple at a nearby beach. Shortly after her partner leaves to investigate the site of the crash, the woman is startled by the appearance of a strange man, who disappears as soon as her boyfriend runs back in reaction to her screams.

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Black Eye (1974)

Action, Crime

A Los Angeles private investigator, Stone, is enlisted to investigate multiple murders that are connected to a cane that was stolen from a deceased silent movie star. Stone is drawn into intrigues involving a young woman who has run away from home to join a religious cult, and ultimately uncovers a heroin ring.

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The Viking Sagas (1995)

Action, medieval film

The story takes place in Iceland around the height of the Viking Age, where a young man, Kjartan (Ralf Möller), must defeat a horde of evil Vikings, intent on taking over his father's land and stealing his girlfriend Gudrun (Ingibjörg Stefánsdóttir) from him too. To help him in this task, Kjartan seeks help from the older Viking Warrior Gunnar (Sven-Ole Thorsen), who trains him to become a fierce fighter, and later aids him in his quest against his archenemy Ketil (Hinrik Ólafsson).

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Scorcher (2002)

Action, Adventure, disaster film, Science fiction

Renegade soldier Colonel Ryan Beckett (Mark Dacascos) is called in by the President of the United States (Rutger Hauer) to save the planet from imminent destruction after a Chinese nuclear-testing accidentally loosens the subterranean plates and exposes the Earth's core, which threatens to bring "Hell on Earth" in just three days. Beckett assembles a crack team to deliver and detonate not one, but two nuclear bombs that must go off simultaneously in the only place on the planet in which they will do any good at stopping the movement of the plates—Los Angeles. The city is evacuated in a panic, but Beckett's teen daughter (Rayne Marcus) is…

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Hula (1927)

romantic comedy

thumb|262x262px|Hula, 1927 lantern slide Hula Calhoun is the daughter of a Hawaiian planter, Bill Calhoun. She follows the advice of her uncle Edwin, and follows a simple and natural life, far from social conventions of her family and is considered a "wild child" who wears pants and rides horses. Courted with adoration by Harry Dehan, Hula prefers a young British engineer, Anthony Haldane, who came to the island to oversee the construction of a dam on her father's property.

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Annie Oakley (1935)

Biography

In late 1800s, Annie Oakley, a young woman from the Ohio backwoods, delivers six dozen quail that she has shot to the owner of the general store. He sends them to the MacIvor Hotel in Cincinnati, where the mayor is holding a large banquet in honor of Toby Walker, the "greatest shot in the whole world." Toby is particular about what he eats, and hotel owner James MacIvor bought Annie's quail because she shoots the quail cleanly through the head, leaving no buckshot elsewhere. At the banquet, Jeff Hogarth signs Toby to a contract, making him part of the Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

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Han cheng gong lüe (2005)

Action, Comedy, Drama

Agent Lam teams up with JJ to track a pair of plates used to make counterfeit American dollars. When the plates are captured and make their way to Korea, Lam gets on a plane and searches for the plates in Seoul, tracking a man who he believes to have stolen them. During the hunt, he comes across JJ, who happens be a thief with a hidden agenda.

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Spy Smasher (1942)

spy film

Alan Armstrong as the Spy Smasher is a costumed vigilante and freelance agent, not associated with the US government, as the country has not yet joined its allies in World War II. After discovering information about Nazi activities in occupied France, he is captured and ordered to be executed, but with the help of Pierre Durand, he escapes back to the United States, meeting with his twin brother Jack. Jack is incorrectly recognized and attacked by a Nazi agent on American soil.

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The Last Heist (2016)

action thriller

Bernard (Henry Rollins) arrives at a small bank in Los Angeles to withdraw his belongings from a safety deposit box due to the bank closing down. He meets the mild-mannered employee Danny (Michael Aaron Milligan), his manager Mark (John O'Brien), the elderly Ms. Waxman (Fay DeWitt) and Cynthia (Courtney Compton).

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