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Western
Jesse James and his friends—brother Frank, brothers Cole and Jim Younger and Kit Dalton—arrive in Lawrence, Kansas and are falsely accused of being members of Quantrill's Raiders. They are about to be lynched but are saved by the intervention of a Union officer. The men are released and they join Quantrill.
Action, Horror, prison film, Slasher
Ivan Moser (Lyle Alzado) is a serial killer who has been convicted of the rape, torture, and murder of 23 people. Moser is given the death penalty by electrocution. At his execution, he boasts of having killed 24 people.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film, war film
Terrick (James Faulkner), a British South Africa Police officer in rural Rhodesia, looks forward towards the end of his police service and early retirement to his farm with his fiancée, Sally (Sybil Danning). Terrick's hopes for a peaceful life with Sally are shattered, however, when black nationalist guerrillas attack the farm. Sally is raped and murdered by the guerrilla leader, an albino known only by the moniker "Whispering Death" (Horst Frank).
Action, Comedy
Action, Horror, thriller film
Steve, Larry, and Rip are part of a paintball team known as "The Zero Boys". Fresh from a tournament win, the trio and their girlfriends take a leisure trip into the mountains, they stumble upon a gruesome massacre. Blood-chilling screams lead the group to a deserted cabin, where they gradually discover the horrors of the killings and the evil causing it.
Action, Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, he has become wary of the FBI's attempts to catch him, including by use of satellite and security cameras, which leads him to mostly stay in rural desert areas when he is not working.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Daffy Comedy, Heist
The film is partly narrated by Warden Streiger (known as "Bulldog" Streiger). A bank, temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. That is what Al Karp, the former partner of jailed criminal planner Walter Ballantine, thinks, so Karp arranges for Ballantine to escape from the Streiger Institute (a privately run penitentiary).
Action, fantasy film, speculative fiction
Drama, romance film
The wife of one-handed tuna fisherman Mike Mascarenhas falls for the man whose life Mike had saved while at sea.
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
Action, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Ator The Fighting Eagle returns again to the legendary realm of Dragor to do battle with Phoedra, an evil sorceress. Her main weapon is an unstoppable warrior, known as the Master of the Sword, who continuously battles Ator to a draw, until finally revealing his secret connection to the Blademaster.
Action, crime thriller film, thriller film
The plot is split into four intermingling non-linear narratives; "Monsters", "Fiends" "Thugs" and "Criminals". The following synopsis presents the events in a chronological order. In an unspecified poverty stricken neighborhood in Los Angeles, local crime lord Teddy "Bear" Haynes operates a taco shack as a front for a human trafficking ring.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film, Western
In 1901, Half-breed Juliette Flores sees her tribe and village slaughtered by Mexican troops. Still a child, she takes revenge by slipping into the home of the soldiers' commander, General Juarez, and cutting his throat in his bedroom. In 1912, Outlaw Ransom Pride (Speedman) is killed in a Mexican border town after an arms deal goes bad.
Action, thriller film
"A surveillance wizard becomes involved with the underworld after his wife's suicide." Penfield Gruber is a former scientist and surveillance expert who resigned and now runs a neglected motel. Criminals offer him money to spy on a resident, under coercion.
Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, thriller film
Samuel North has returned from college to reunite with his girlfriend Hanna Thompson. On the night he is to have a romantic dinner with her on the banks of a river she does not show up, and he is run into the river by a large white van. His soul goes to Hell, aka "The Pit," where he is tormented by the worst memories of his life, including being bullied, finding his parents murdered, and the regretful taxi ride to college, which took him from Hanna.
Action, Science fiction
In 2047, more than 75% of the population, known as the Connected, spend the majority of their lives living in online virtual games (called verses). The world is dominated by a few corporations, and politicians are happy to keep the masses docile through online games. After 148 gamers are killed in a computer virus attack perpetrated by terrorist group Necromancers, Synternis Corporation operative Dina hires shadow agent Nash to track and eliminate the attackers.
Action, thriller film
Mike Riggins (Dolph Lundgren), an ex-US Marine, is rotting away in a Bulgarian prison for supposedly smuggling weapons. Thankfully, he can defend himself against his jailhouse assailants. When Clive Connelly (Michael Pare), a government bigshot, comes to Mike and offers him a total of $200,000 if he can rescue the kidnapped Ana Gale (Gina May) from Vlado Karadjov (Vladimir Vladimirov) and bring her back home, Mike agrees.
Drama, war film
Colonel Sir Charles Holland receives a note at his country estate. He contacts the Foreign Office and is informed that his missing-in-action brother may still be alive in Libya. A promissory note dating from the Second World War has turned up at the British Embassy in Tripoli signed by his presumed-dead brother, who had given it to a nomadic Bedouin tribe.
Adventure
Chauvel's film uses introductory enacted scenes showing the mutiny, followed by documentary footage, anthropological style, of the mutineers' descendants on Pitcairn Island. Chauvel also used footage of Polynesian women dancers; and film of an underwater shipwreck, filmed with a glass bottomed boat, which he believed was the Bounty but was probably not. This was Chauvel's first 'talkie' and he had clearly at this stage not yet learned to direct actors: the dialogue is very stiff and amateurish.
Action, boxing film, Drama, sport film
Following ten years in a Louisiana prison after being wrongly convicted of assault and murder of a police officer, NCAA champion wrestler Dillon is paroled. Back in his home neighborhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his friend Jake is in deep trouble with gamblers, and Dillon agrees to pay off his debt by cage fighting. Complications occur with Dillon's parole officer, a corrupt cop, Dillon's new girlfriend, and fight promoters.
Drama, romance film
The film tells the story of Zeb Kennedy and Thor Storm, Alaska settlers in the period following World War I. Kennedy works his way up through the Alaskan fish cannery business, befriending Wang, a Chinese worker, and Storm, an idealistic fishing boat captain. Kennedy and Storm begin to plan a cannery together in the Alaskan town of Baranof, when Kennedy falls for Bridie Ballantyne, Storm's fiancée.
Action, thriller film
Viktor (Luke Goss) is a professional assassin. The film is told using flashbacks in which Viktor explains to a disgraced filmmaker how he became a professional assassin. He starts with his childhood; raised in a slum area in an outlying district of Bucharest, Romania.
Action, Drama, romance film
A race car driver, Tommy Callahan, retires after a blackout causes the death of another driver on the motorway. After the accident, he begins working at a Pete Madsen's "Thrill Circus" as a stunt driver. There he meets the proprietor's daughter, Francie, who also drives there, and her boyfriend Eddie Sands.
Action, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
A plague has wiped out most of humanity. The last human colony struggles to survive in a bunker under the Rocky Mountains, while the surface has become a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy the colony. A vaccine has been developed for a disease spread by the mutants, but gathering the components to make it requires returning to the surface.