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Adventure, Late Western, romance film, Western
Set in 1848, in the Montana Territory, Ben Johnson plays John Coulter who lives on the plains with his daughter Beth and his friend Standing Bear. The story is told mainly from a Native American point of view. Beth is kidnapped by Greyeagle of the Cheyenne nation, who was tasked by the chief to bring Beth to him.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Science fiction, Utopia & Dystopia
Action, Comedy drama, Drama
thumb|left|Wendy Barrie and James Stewart Auto mechanic Terry Martin, the chief car tester for Emery Motors in Detroit, is working on his own time to perfect a revolutionary design for a new carburetor. Automotive engineer Frank Lawson is a rival for the attention of Jane Mitchell, who has just been hired to work in the publicity department. Terry has little formal education and resents inferences that his knowledge of cars is inferior to that of the trained Lawson.
Action, Science fiction
Following his adventures in the Los Angeles of the 1980s, Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) has returned to his own time, the 23rd century. Having lost his first wife Lena, and finding out that he's lost his other wife Alice to none other than Harris, Deth agrees to another assignment in the past. While heading out for another assignment, something (a Solonoid from a previous assignment) hiding in the time portal causes the TCL chamber to go awry.
Comedy drama, disaster film, Science fiction
Alan Gould, a neurotic, unkempt anthropology graduate student, is beginning to believe he may be the last living person on the planet. A mysterious catastrophe appears to have killed everyone but him. Buildings are left standing and goods are left untouched.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo (David Warner) hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest (Terence Knox). During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo.
Action, thriller film
Crime, Drama
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past as a Provisional IRA volunteer in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, members of a dissident republican group they are hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they find themselves trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a friendly Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a local Yardie, heroin-dealing gangster Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds some common criminal ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace…
Western
An embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during an ambush. Vinson is driven by his hatred of Apaches, who were responsible for the death of his wife and children. He and his remaining men, including Travis and McGurney, try to ride 100 miles (161 km) to the safety of Fort Crane, a fictional analogue of Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
Action, Late Western, Western
Placed behind bars during the war, Diego Callahan, also known as "Macho," travels to Texas looking for the man responsible for his imprisonment. He quarrels with a one-armed Confederate Army colonel, David Mountford, over a bottle of champagne and kills him in front of his wife, Alexandra. Vowing vengeance, she immediately puts a $1,000 bounty on Callahan's head.
Drama
In the Gay Nineties, on New York's Bowery, saloon owner Chuck Connors, finds that his rival, Steve Brodie, has thrown a melon at his window. The happy-go-lucky Brodie explains that he threw the melon on a dare. As Connors threatens to fight him, the two learn of a fire in neighboring Chinatown.
Action, crime thriller film
In Las Vegas for a quickie divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Cowboy Country Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion and the two of them become suspects.
Action, fantasy film, thriller film
When infamous hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA, he is given a choice: Spend his life in prison or work for them. He agrees to work for the CIA in the condition that he can form his own team, the "Throwaways". This team was seen as expendable and deemed the worst in the whole organization.
Action, thriller film
When a widowed reporter is informed by an FBI agent that her deceased husband has just been murdered, the two join forces to uncover a web of deceit that is shocking and more deadly than anyone could imagine.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Major Marphy Black leads a group of commandos through the jungles of an unnamed island, but unknown to all involved but Mascher, they are being stalked by Mascher's robot invention, Omega-1. Over Mascher's protests, the group first saves a volunteer hospital worker, Virgin, from a band of guerrillas, then take out the hospital camp, killing all the guerrillas there, also. At this point, the robot begins killing members of the commando group, one by one.
Action, Crime, Drama
A mother (Lieux Dressler) runs a brothel for truckers on the New Mexico highways and her stable includes her daughter (Claudia Jennings). The daughter is sick of her mother controlling things and begins working with some men from the "Eastern Mafia" who are attempting to take over their operation.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Ghost, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film, thriller film
In a small town alongside a mountain, spring break is approaching. One of the residents, Wade, attempts to search for his brother, Shredder who went missing along with his friend, Hucker, while skiing on the mountain. On the night after his brother's disappearance, he and his girlfriend Madison attempt to get ski patrolman Dale to send out a search and rescue party, although to no avail.
action thriller, Political Drama, Political Thriller
American archaeology student David Armstrong is studying at the University of Jerusalem. His old Arab friend from Yale University Rashid Rifaat draws him into a power struggle between rival Arab terrorist groups. Both are nearly killed in an assassination attempt on Rifaat who then goes into hiding.
Action, Drama, Heroic Bloodshed
In a flashback to Young and Dangerous, "Chicken" Chiu (Jordan Chan) heads into exile and decides to go to Taiwan, after a failed hit. The first part of the movie details the events leading up to his return to Hong Kong, following the death of his boss "Uncle Bee" (Frankie Ng). In Taiwan, Chicken's cousin introduces him to the "San Luen" Triad, headed by an influential Taiwanese senator.
Action, Science fiction
thriller film
The film begins with an account of impoverished families living on the northwest coast of the United States having taken up arms smuggling to support themselves. A group of said smugglers have just received a shipment of high tech weapons, including one man-portable rocket launchers, but are intercepted and slaughtered by a rival group who take the weapons for themselves. One member of the first group escapes, but is tracked down and killed, along with his mother; his sister Alex survives.
Drama, romance film, Secret Agent, spy film
In 1915 Berlin, the German high command is worried about ally Turkey. Recent British attacks on the vital Dardanelles show signs of inside knowledge. Von Sturm, the head of German intelligence, suspects Ali Bey, the Turkish commander of the region, is the traitor responsible.
Action, Drama, romance film
Racing driver Mike Brannan has a reputation for doing whatever it takes to win. Powerful nationwide columnist Regina Forbes interviews Mike just before a race and becomes annoyed at his brusque attitude. At the Newark track, Mike and competitor Joe Youghal fight for the lead.
Erotic Thriller, prison film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) is sent to a violent women's prison. While she is in prison, she comes into confrontation with the "top dog" inmate Albina (Ursula Flores), ending in a series of fights. Albina gets the worse of it, including a broken arm, a knife in her leg, and her wig pulled off.