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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 247.

Free Ride (2013)

Action, Crime, Drama

Christina, a single mother from Ohio, escapes an abusive relationship with her two daughters, teenager MJ and seven-year-old Shell, in the late 1970s. The family relocates to the Florida coast, where Christina reconnects with a friend who introduces her to a job in drug smuggling. While she navigates the dangerous world of illicit trade to provide for her family, Christina must also manage her increasingly defiant older daughter and protect her children from the growing dangers surrounding them.

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Storm Catcher (1999)

Action, thriller film

Flanked by buddy Sparks Johnson on the ground and co-pilot Lucas in the air, Major Jack Holloway flies America's top secret "Phoenix" stealth-capable fighter jet. While Holloway's mentor, General William Jacobs, keeps FBI agents Lock and Load from snooping into his pet project, Holloway and Sparks enjoy some R&R with Holloway's wife Jessica and daughter Nicole. It turns out Lucas is an operative for the "Serpent Killers", an intra-military right-wing group, and temporarily assuming Holloway's identity, he steals the Phoenix.

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Roadkill (1989)

Comedy

Ramona, an intern at a Toronto record label, is sent to Sudbury by promoter Roy Seth to track down the label's star band, Children of Paradise, after they disappear on tour. Because she doesn't know how to drive, however, she takes a taxi driven by Buddy for the entire 400-km route. Once in Sudbury, she finds the band almost immediately, but then loses them again and subsequently tracks them all across Northern Ontario.

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Nightmare at Noon (1988)

Action, Horror, Science fiction, speculative fiction

A mad albino scientist (Brion James) injects a substance into the water supply for the fictional town of Canyonland, an isolated town in rural Utah, with the help of a shadowy, unknown agency. Anybody who drinks the water eventually turns into a rabid zombie. Some visitors who recently arrived in a recreational vehicle observe the zombies.

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Chain of Command (2000)

Action, Political Thriller

New Secret Service agent Mike Connelly, assigned to protect President-elect Jack Cahill, becomes uneasy having to protect a person who is having an affair with a friend's wife. Connelly feels even worse about it after preventing an assassination attempt aboard Cahill's plane where a flight attendant is accidentally killed in the process. Sensing Connelly's discomfort around Cahill, his boss reassigns him to the team that protects the "nuclear football" as soon as Cahill becomes president.

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The Summertime Killer (1972)

Action, Crime, Drama

A young boy witnesses four mobsters beating his father to death. Twenty years later, he sets out on a quest to eliminate all of the gang members involved in the murder. After killing three of them, Police Captain John Kiley (Karl Malden) informs the mob's boss that an unknown boy has begun killing his mob partners.

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P.J. (1968)

Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film

New York City private eye Peter Joseph "P.J." Detweiler needs the work, so he accepts an offer to be a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. Orbison takes the family to the Bahamas, where a romantic attachment between P.J. and Maureen seems to be growing.

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Slightly Scarlet (1956)

mystery film, Noir

The ruthless and uncouth Solly Caspar, the crime boss of Bay City (a fictional town near San Francisco), wishes to defeat a campaign by multimillionaire mayoral reform candidate Frank Jansen. Caspar tasks crooked ex-cop Ben Grace with uncovering dirt on Jansen. Ben follows Jansen's secretary and girlfriend June Lyons to a women's prison to photograph her collecting her sex-starved kleptomaniac sister Dorothy, a multiple ex-con.

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The Starfighters (1964)

Drama

Lieutenant John "Junior" Witkowski (Bob Dornan) and his buddy, Lieutenant York (Steve Early), arrive at George Air Force Base, Tactical Air Command, in Southern California to train to fly the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, with special emphasis on the complicated mid-air refueling maneuver. Witkowski's congressman father (Carl Rogers), a famed World War II bomber pilot, frequently calls him, concerned about the safety of fighter aircraft. The congressman wants his son to be transferred to a Convair B-58 Hustler or Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber squadron in the Strategic Air Command.

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It Came from the Desert (2017)

Action, monster film

Brian is a shy young man overshadowed by his best friend Lukas, a fanatical and somewhat crazy motocross rider. Brian is looking forward to a trip to the desert, not only because he can meet his great idol, The Eradicator, a character in a movie series, but also because Lukas has invited Lisa, whom Brian has been attracted to for a long time. The three of them set off for the desert, but Brian thinks Lisa has a crush on Lukas.

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Savate (1995)

Martial arts

The year is 1865. Joseph Charlegrand (Olivier Gruner) is a former French soldier whose best friend and comrade was murdered by an officer Ziegfield Von Trotta (Marc Singer) of the French Foreign Legion in Mexico. Looking for the murderer, Charlegrand is heading for a martial arts tournament in the United States because the murderer takes his pride in being a skilled fighter.

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Chandu the Magician (1932)

Adventure, fantasy film, mystery film

For three years, Frank Chandler has studied eastern magic with the Yogis in India and is now known by his new identity, Chandu. He now has the power to teleport, astral project, mesmerize, as well as project illusions. With these supernatural abilities he has been entrusted by his teacher to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind".

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An American Hippie in Israel (1972)

science fiction action film

Young American hippie and war veteran, Mike, travels to Israel shortly after his involvement in Vietnam. Hitchhiking and "bumming around," hippie Mike meets up with three Israelis along his journey: stage actress Elizabeth, another female hippie friend, and her Hebrew-speaking boyfriend Komo. They join a larger group of hippies and decide to form an isolated community on a deserted island, where they can live in peace "without clothes, without government, and without borders." The hippies are not without their problems and find them in two gun-toting, top hat-clad, mime-like enforcers (who regularly appear out of nowhere) and who are out…

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Love and a Bullet (2002)

Action, thriller film

While staking out his next assignment, the innocent girlfriend of his notorious boss, contract killer Malik (Treach) reflects on the dark path he's chosen but cannot escape. Torn between his sense of duty and his newfound sense of humanity, he finds that the only way out is a perilous showdown with men who are every bit as cold-blooded as he is.

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Future Force (1989)

Action, Science fiction

At some point in the near future (around 1993), law enforcement has become so ineffective that the only real hope for justice is an organization of bounty hunters known as C.O.P.S. (Civilian Operated Police Systems). John Tucker (David Carradine), a Los Angeles bounty hunter sporting a metal arm piece capable of shooting lasers, is hired to protect a woman reporter, Marion Sims (Anna Rapagna), from a gang of renegade cops.

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