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Action, Drama
Mitch Davis, unhappy with his life and seeing no prospects for work, leaves with a friend for a trip to Mexico. After getting a prostitute in a bar, Mitch's friend leaves without paying. When Mitch refuses to pay his friend's debt to the pimp, he is beaten and robbed.
Action, Adventure
Lt Case is a mixed-race officer of the Bengal Lancers operation in northern India. In 1850 on the North West Frontier of India, in the bordering region of modern Afghanistan, a British garrison seethes with boredom. The mixed-race Lieutenant Case has been having an affair with a fellow officer's wife, Elsa, who is persuaded to end the relationship.
Action, thriller film
In Tokyo, a minister of public works is rumored to be taking evidence of corruption to a reporter: the CIA, the yakuza, and others want to grab the information and use it to squeeze the government. On the subway trip to meet the reporter, the official is murdered, but it looks like a heart attack. However, no one, including the murderer, can find the flash drive with the evidence.
Action, Adventure, exploitation film
Prison life on Devil's Island is no picnic so fellow prisoners Le Bras (Jim Brown) and Davert (Christopher George) escape. Along their escape route, they encounter submissive native women and a colony of lepers.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Science fiction, Superhero
Governor Bronson, who raised Bob Wayne from childhood after the death of his parents, is killed at the hands of a world-domination-seeking mad scientist called Doctor Satan. Fearing his death might be at hand, as it has been for everyone else who had opposed the Doctor, the Governor first confides in Wayne with a secret about his past. Bob's father was really an outlaw in the Old West, who fought injustice while wearing a chainmail cowl and leaving small coiled copper snakes as his calling card.
Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster
A volcano beneath New York City seems unlikely, yet nothing else can explain the bizarre tremors and terrifying explosions wreaking havoc on the city. Tunnel digger Matt MacLachlan, head of the team of "Sandhogs," has witnessed lava seeping into the city's aqueduct system and knows the unimaginable truth. A group of tramps trying to keep warm in Central Park near a heat vent die from carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide poisoning.
Action, Science fiction
spy film
During the Second World War Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has placed two spies in Cairo, at the headquarters of the British Eighth Army. They are able to monitor every move of the British. It falls to British intelligence to hunt down the spies before they do too much damage to the war effort.
Drama, Melodrama
In 1914, American showgirl Suzanne Trent is in London, hoping to meet and marry a man with money. She tells her friend Maisie she can charm any man she chooses into marrying her, and then learn to love him. She sets her sights on Terry Moore, an Irishman she sees in a borrowed Rolls-Royce.
Action, war film
A group of American commandos go on a mission to save American politicians who were kidnapped and held on a forgotten Malaysian island. Tough-guy lieutenant Andrew Pierce commands the group. During the mission it's revealed there's a traitor in the ranks of the team.
Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film
National boundaries have been broken, two giant super-states remain—a bleak, decaying Hemisphere, and the sprawling media state Megaville. Travel between the states is restricted. The "CKS" governs daily life in the Hemisphere.
romance film, swashbuckler film
Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro)'s son, Cesar, is in Spain finishing his education. While Cesar is showing off to friends his remarkable prowess with the whip, he accidentally clips off the feather shako on the hat of Don Sebastian of the Palace Guard. Although Cesar apologizes immediately, Sebastian is unforgiving.
Drama
Billy Coy (Mickey Rooney) arrives in the town of Carrell, California and offers himself as a mechanic for Arthur "Red" Stanley (Thomas Mitchell) at his garage. Red turns down Billy initially, but after seeing a photo of his father, "Cannonball" Coy, a famous driver, Red scares up a job for Billy. Billy's father died in an accident at the Indianapolis 500 several years previously.
Comedy, Drama, romantic comedy
Frank (Brent Florence) is a Northern California 20-year-old who has just been dumped by his girlfriend. He and his slacker buddies Joey (Kenny Luper) and Neil (Christian Leffler) want to escape their small town but lack the funds. To finance their escape, they rob the local bingo tournament, and although their haul is small, the three decide to go to the big city anyway.
Adventure
During the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall undertakes a mission to operate a blockade of the American coastline and collect a war loan in gold from France to bolster the fledgling American fleet against the British Navy. Marshall asks Ben Waldridge, a former Royal Navy captain, to be his first officer on board the Concord, purported to be fastest American ship. Waldridge helps Marshall by assembling a crew consisting mostly of his loyal former gun crew that is led by Hook and Redlegs.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
The story begins with four men pulling a heist together. The men rob a man named Khan, a well-known French heroin dealer, of his drugs and money. Ben Tuttle and Bobby emerge from the building first.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A tough undercover cop named John (Cuba Gooding Jr.) inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when Mike (Devon Bostick), a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five-year-old sister, Angel (Arcadia Kendal) within his care. After Mike is killed, Angel is kidnapped and trapped in an underground drug ring. John then sets out to save the girl with the help of Father Porter (Christian Slater).
Action, LGBTQ-related film, Martial arts, thriller film
A fascist group calling themselves the "New Order" murder the patrons of a gay bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia while the city's police force is on strike. Daniel, the sole survivor of the massacre, takes refuge in an apartment complex whose residents commit to protecting him from the murderous vigilantes awaiting outside.
thriller film
When an anonymous benefactor invites a party of celebrities and business magnates to a New Year's celebration aboard the Orient Express, it is the guests' greed which brings them all together. Apart from an enjoyable free trip on the luxury train, the businessmen among the passengers also expect to make a lucrative deal. However, just outside Paris the whole train is taken over by terrorists—without anybody noticing.
Action, Adventure, Drama
Abolitionist Michael "Nuggin" Taylor goes undercover to sabotage slave ships. Although the United States prohibited the importation of slaves in 1808, slaves are still being brought into the country illegally. Great Britain also prohibited the slave trade, putting the Royal Navy into action against slave traders, but Royal Navy Lieutenant Stanley Tarryton is acting for the slave traders.
Western
The film shows a family of French Basque immigrants pioneering into the Wild West in 1850 while carrying their ancestral vines. Hard drinking trail driver Lon Bennett is hired to lead them and he falls for the spirited Gabrielle Dauphin.
Adventure
A group of troubled teenagers reluctantly accept to aid wolf researcher Ben Harris in order to clean their records from their law-breaking deeds. Graffiti artist "Miami" Steve, snobby daddy's girl Crystal and surly Beri join Ben in his mission into the Idaho wilderness to garner a count of wolves and to retrieve a hidden camera. Shortly after their trek begins, the foursome see a mother wolf and her two baby cubs.
Action, thriller film
Jack "Soldier" Kelly received a phone call from the Molisons, a couple who heard about him on the news. They tell him of their daughter Vivian, who approached a biker gang called Hell's Fury to prepare her college thesis, and ended up being groomed by them into a life of sexual servitude. Kelly enlists the help of an old friend, fellow biker turned private investigator, "Cowboy".