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thriller film
A student of Sacred Heart Medical College is found murdered in mysterious circumstances. Police begin the investigation but soon two more girls are found murdered in the college campus. DIG Daisy Wilfred, IPS takes charge of the investigation.
Action, thriller film, war film
After a successful amphibious insertion, a small group of U.S. Marines prepare for combat against local rebels on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The U.S.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
In the 1950s in rural Wisconsin, a trio of young friends, David, Tim and Joe, stage a prank murder in front of a local bank where a real life robbery, led by criminals and gay lovers, Leon and Florence, is going down. After the crime is botched, Florence forces Tim to rob the bank himself and take as a hostage the bank loan officer Patty, who is in on the robbery, but the plan goes wildly wrong and morphs into macabre bloodbath.
Biography, Western
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a hunter and Army Scout who rescues a US Senator and his beautiful daughter, Louisa Frederici; Frederici eventually becomes his devoted wife. Cody is portrayed as someone who admires and respects the Indians.
Action
Ulysses is the nephew and consigliere of San Francisco mafia don Salvatore Francesco. The Don sponsors the import of a large, priceless crucifix from his hometown in Sicily. However, seemingly unbeknownst to him, the crucifix has been used to smuggle heroin, which is later stolen while in transit.
Action, science fiction action film
In 2019, former Indonesian Marine soldier and journalist Angga Saputra proposes to his girlfriend and fellow journalist Sari Nirmala moments before she leaves for Solo to interview the newly democratically elected president, Indra. The same day, a revolution led by PIRANAS breaks out and she and the elected president are declared missing. 11 years later, Angga has become a PIRANAS cadre and now is a congressman of the party.
Action, Drama, Eastern, Martial arts
American hitman Shatter kills Ansabi M'Goya, the leader of the African state of Badawi, and takes a dossier of documents. He travels to Hong Kong to collect payment for this services but finds himself targeted; he survives two attempts to kill him and the police warn him to leave within 24 hours. He tries to get his money from Leber, a German banker, who denies all knowledge of the contract and refuses to pay.
children's film, comedy television program
When Owen (Luke Benward) and his distracted older sister, Lilly (Brittany Curran), are alone and their parents are away, Owen delivers the paper while being bullied by a school bully named Dexter and his gang (who harass Owen by throwing his bike, newspapers and pants off a bridge), and spends afternoons in a forest hideaway making inventions and spinning tall tales about a "Mad Man of the Mountain" in which he claims to be a scary man who used to work in a circus freak show but later moved to live in the mountains to be free. He encounters three thugs named Blackie (French Stewart), Bud (Kevin Farley) and Arty (Kelly Perine) who have a…
Action, buddy film, Drama, romance film
Woodrow and Aiden migrate to Los Angeles from Wisconsin, constructing weapons and testing them out in empty lots. At a bar that hosts live acts, Woodrow volunteers to enter a cricket eating contest and meets Milly, who beats him in the contest. They exchange phone numbers, while Aiden talks to Milly's friend, Courtney.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Nearing retirement, maverick Los Angeles-based detective Frank "Bullet" Marasco is assigned to hunt down the notorious drug baron Carlito Kane, following a tipoff from Leroy, who is later whacked to death with a golf club due to interrupting Kane's golf game. Bullet and his team storm one of Kane's hideouts but fail to capture him. The plot thickens when Governor Johnson's daughter is kidnapped by Kane along with her boyfriend, in a bid to save his son Manuel from execution via lethal injection.
Action, thriller film
During a nationally televised beauty pageant, terrorists led by Raymond Ulysses (Andrew Dice Clay) seize control of the venue and take the contestants and crew hostage, seeking ransom and publicity. Sharon Bell (Shannon Tweed), the program's host and a former model, uses her wits and unexpected combat skills to resist and outmaneuver the hijackers, working against the clock to free the hostages and foil the terrorists' plans.
Action, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Comedy horror, Zombie
Two high school opposites, stoner Jake Stephens and popular cheerleader Amanda Blake, become infected with a virus that turns them into zombie-like cannibals. They travel across the country looking for a cure. Cass, a teenage telepath, and her partner Tom work for a government agency charged with hunting and killing the infected.
Action, fantasy film, Superhero
Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross, Callan along with the help of weapon experts Riot, Backfire, War, Lucia and Shark battle an unstoppable evil empire led by Erlik in the city of Los Angeles. When an ancient Viking called Gunnar, comes to town in search of blood, Callan must stop him before he destroys the world. Erlik and his men Saw, London gangster English and Slag aided by the evil Doctor aim to defeat Callan by helping Gunnar.
Action, alien invasion, Aliens, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film
Just as the local grocery store is about to close, a group of six armed, masked people enter the building. They take the staff and remaining customers hostage and immediately shoot down one of the employees. One of the masked men named Spooky is then told to check whether "he" is among the hostages.
Action, buddy cop film, Dystopian, Science fiction
In 2045, Los Angeles Police Department detective Hammond (Michael Jai White) and his new partner "Andy" (Randy Wayne) — a state of the art crimefighting robot cop — are tasked with recovering a runaway Telepresence android containing the consciousness of Mayor Jacobs's (Charles S. Dutton) daughter Helen (Larissa Vereza), who remains unaware that she is a human mind in a machine body. Hammond does not trust machines due to a prior incident in which his partner was killed by an automated gun turret despite their using a code to control it, and maintains a tense, often sarcastic relationship with Andy.
Adventure, Sword-and-sandal
In Ispahan, Persia, a barber named Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to find a great fortune. At the same time, the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din a prince known far and wide. The Caliph intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
Action, Action Comedy
When Ray Chase, an agent so secret even his son doesn't know, brings home a high-powered laser gun he stole, the theft victim sends her henchmen to capture Ray and get the gun back. But Ray's son escapes with the gun and then devises a plan to rescue his dad.
Action, Martial arts
The film opens with Brick Bardo, who is investigating the death of his brother, chasing Davey, who attempts to fight him, resulting in Davey getting knocked out and tied up to the ground in the boiling sun. Davey tells Brick that his brother was involved in a fixed kickboxing fight scheme, which resulted in his murder. Brick demands the names of the people responsible for his brother's death.
Action
Adventure, Drama, war film
In late October 1943, a battalion of U.S. Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied attack and invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomon Islands, northeast of the large island colony of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Four of them have been selected to carry out a reconnaissance patrol to find a French planter.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, exploitation film, Horror, natural horror film
On a deserted beach, four boys, Miki, John, Ben and Allan, are told by an Indian the story of the monstrous marine being Wakan and seal a blood pact, a bond of their friendship and mutual assistance in case of danger. Ten years later, the boys reunite as young men and decide to go on a holiday together. But a killer shark ruins their plans.
Action, Detective, Western
A gang of Colorado bank robbers led by Amos Troop uses a technique where they break prisoners out of jail, use them to commit crimes, then later kill them to collect the reward. A detective, Gifford, goes undercover with the gang to bring them to justice. Saloon owner Abbie Stevens takes a liking to Gifford while he infiltrates the gang.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Genn (Dolph Lundgren) is known by most in his life as a divorced father working for an investment company. Before this, for years, he had worked as a sleeper agent called Icarus in America before the Soviet Union collapsed. A mishap in Hong Kong blows Icarus' cover, past and present collide and he becomes a target.