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exploitation film
thumb|left|Advertisement from 1958 for She Gods of Shark Reef and co-feature, Night of the Blood Beast. While stealing weapons as part of his gun running operation, young and reckless criminal Jim (Don Durant) kills two men. Wanted by the authorities, he escapes on the boat of his brother, Chris (Bill Cord).
Action, Drama, Horror, thriller film
Erik Magnusson and his girlfriend Evelyn have a falling out, in part due to stress from Erik's dying, incoherent father. She leaves to live in a live action role-playing game whose characters such as Celts, elves and Vikings are derived from the Middle Ages. Murtagh, the leader of a group within the game, wants Evelyn to participate in the Wild Hunt, a ritual that, if successful, will give his players a significant advantage in an upcoming mass battle.
Action, Drama
Action, Drama, war film
U.S. Navy divers race to save the crew of a foundered submarine as the sailors hopelessly prepare to die.
Action, thriller film
A rape victim, comic book artist Lisa Roberts is given the runaround by the New York City Police Department. Tired of city life, she heads for the wide open spaces of Arizona. Not long afterward, she is propositioned by lowlife Randall Atkins.
Action, Martial arts
The film opens with kickboxer Jake Raye fighting Mickey Sheehan for the Lightweight Championship. Jake kicks Mickey in the throat, instantly killing him. Jake decides to give up kickboxing.
Drama
Race car driver Mike Reardon and mechanic Tommy Trehearn are the best of friends whose friendship is damaged when Reardon's girlfriend Chris Baird ends up falling for Trehearn. Years later, Trehearn and Chris are married with children and move to Arizona when Trehearn is selected to be a mechanic for a new racing team, of which Reardon also happens to be a part.
Action, Comedy, Heist
Action, Adventure, ninja film, spy film, thriller film
Duncan Jax, played by Ian Hunter, must stop neo-Nazis from destroying communication satellites and awakening Hitler from a cryogenic sleep. Jax assembles a band of the dirtiest fighters in the world to do it.
Action
Donna Taylor is a young prostitute recruited by a criminal organization known as "the Syndicate" to help blackmail their latest target, a politician. She agrees to carry out their plan of meeting him in his hotel room, drugging his drink, and having pictures taken of him while he is unconscious. She soon finds out the drug she administered was not a simple sedative as she had been told by Sandra and Erica, the two members of the Syndicate accompanying her, but a lethal poison.
Action, Adventure, Drama, historical film, Historie, medieval film, Monumental Film, Sword-and-sandal
In what is now Russia, a settlement of Vikings lives in peace with both the Tatars and the Slavs. All is well until Togrul (Folco Lulli), a Tatar chief seeks the help of Oleg (Victor Mature), the chief of the Vikings, to war on the Slavs in a surprise attack. Oleg refuses and the group does battle ending with Oleg killing Togrul and abducting Togrul's daughter Samia (Bella Cortez) as a hostage.
Action
A breakaway extremist group of IRA steals nuclear detonators hidden inside six glass bottles of Beamish. Meanwhile, an innocent tourist named Ray Brock (played by Don Wilson) arrives in Headford, Co. Galway to visit Alice, a woman whom he has been conversing with online.
Action, Adventure, Martial arts
The story of Diamond Dogs concerns a group of American fortune hunters who hire a mercenary called Xander Ronson (Lundgren) to act as their guide and bodyguard, while they search for a priceless Buddhist artifact deep within the Chinese wilderness. They get more than they bargained for, however, as they come face to face with Russian mercenaries also after the artifact.
Action, thriller film
Chuck Brenner and his daughter, Carrie, shop for a hard-to-find "Billy Jo" doll at a Noonan's Department Store. Chuck's ex-wife, Elaine, arrives to pick up Carrie. They argue, Chuck not happy that she's moving with Carrie to Mexico City that night with David Moore, her current husband, and disrupting his visitation rights.
Action
Luke Delson (David Arquette) is a professional carjacker who is currently residing in Los Angeles. After a call, he decides to go to Nice, to track a car for an oil oligarch, Constantine Charkos. The car, named RPM, can apparently drive without any kind of power source.
Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film
Action
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley (Bas Rutten), enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, three others seriously injured in crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson (Michael Rooker) and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no one follows the rules. Varley awakens on an island, strapped to pole, like a pig being carried to a barbecue.
Action, Crime
A security expert Kyle Western (Weathers) begins working for the high-profile gangster Lou Jordan (Williams), who is an antique-car enthusiast. When Jordan shoots dead an intruder one evening, Western is pressured into taking the fall, in return for a large cash sum, to which Western hopes will enable him to buy Napa Valley land as an upright citizen. Soon after Jordan murders his own attorney in front of Western's eyes.
Action, katastrophe, Science fiction
As part of an eco-group, Scott, an ex-firefighter, Carla, a climate specialist, Barbie, and Jason go to hang up an anti-oil banner on a large storage tank on top of a hill inside a Synco compound. They find a bomb on the tank, planted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and run away as it explodes. The explosion creates a fire twister which passes down to the town below causing a vast amount of destruction.
Action, Animal horror
At a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) lab at the Virginia Institute of Agriculture (VIA), Gina (Amanda Baker), accompanied by her boyfriend Willy (Drew Seeley), enter one of the labs containing a swarm of Australian plague locusts in order to feed them. The locusts are contained in an independent glass room, sealed off from the lab by an inner and outer door. Willy refuses to go into the locusts, so Gina does it herself, carrying a ficus tree as food, telling Willy to seal the outer door behind her.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
A Chicago cop is dismissed from the force unfairly and needs to clear his name. Accused of theft, he goes after people who committed the crime. Now that he is out of the force, he is not bound by the rules as he goes after the drug lord (played by Joe Spinnell).
Action, Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer (Tracy Pollan) teams up with three other professional women to investigate a serial killer who targets brides on their honeymoon. While trying to solve the biggest case of her career, she finds herself falling for her partner (Gil Bellows) and battling a life-threatening illness.
war film
Beginning in the Congo, a group of mercenaries led by British Major Harry Grigsby are due to be picked up by helicopters after completing a mission. As they board the choppers they are fired on from the helicopters by another group of mercenaries led by American Kip Thompson, who has been hired to change sides. Recovering in the United Kingdom, Grigsby is recruited by the British government to take out Thompson, who has been hired by Red China to stir up trouble in the New Territories between Hong Kong and Red China.
Action, thriller film
After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow feds Jimmy (William Steis) and Gene (Michael Gregory) as they transport Mafia boss Raymond Manta (Titus Welliver) out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas (Robert Patrick) becomes an unwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. The White Hand lies to Jeff and says that his family is being held hostage and he has to help them smuggle a huge drug shipment to get them released unharmed, Jeff is forced to turn one-time courier for the White Hand, whose leaders are Manta and four others—Helmut Vitch (Mick Fleetwood), Milt Kowalski (Miles O'Keeffe), Russ LaFleur (Jeffrey…