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Drama, romance film
Two refugees, the Brauns, an elderly medical doctor and his 20-something-year-old daughter arrive in the USA from Nazi-controlled Austria. They become a much-needed physician and nurse in a small North Dakota farm town. The town is located in the area later known as the Dust Bowl, and is being hit hard by the drought and resultant dust storms.
Action, Adventure, buddy film, Comedy, war film
Laurel and Hardy, janitors at a detective agency, become embroiled in a caper involving a bomb dubbed "The Big Noise." Impersonating detectives, they befriend the bomb's inventor, navigating his idiosyncrasies alongside his quirky relatives. Meanwhile, neighboring criminals scheme to pilfer the explosive device. To safeguard the bomb, Laurel and Hardy ingeniously conceal it within a concertina.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Science fiction, teen film
Ralph (Josh Hammond) and Baxter (Danielle Hoover) are two high school nerds who are often tormented by bullies at their school. They find a secret chamber which contains a hoard of hi-tech weapons and armor, their superhero dreams become reality. They use these weapons to get back at the bullies as well as to fulfill some superhero fantasies.
Action, Drama
Joe Machin (William Campbell), an American racecar driver determined to win at any cost. He wins the Monaco Grand Prix through reckless driving, drawing scorn from his fellow drivers. Joe also becomes involved in extramarital affairs, using his unwitting brother, Robert (R.
Action
In the frontier town of River's End, Alberta, in the early 1900s, John Keith is wrongly convicted of murdering Roger Cass. After being sentenced to hang, Keith escapes custody. Andy Dijon, his French-Canadian friend, is ready with a canoe and provisions, and Keith heads alone into the northern wilderness.
Action, Drama, Noir, thriller film
Doctor Michael Bachlin is in Shanghai investigating a missing shipment of medical supplies for the World Health Organization. He travels to Peking on a train with other passengers such as Father Joseph Murray and Kwon a mysterious businessman. Just before the train leaves, Kwon's son Ti Shen attempts to board, but his mother Li Eiu has him arrested by nationalist agents before boarding the train herself.
Adventure, fantasy film
The story is set in 411 AD, one year after the legions of Rome withdrew from the Isle of Britannia. Pendragon is the story of young Artos who is raised to believe that God has a purpose for his life. After a tragic event resulting in the burning of his village by a Saxon attack , the death of his father, and the disappearance of his little sister Adria, he is taken into slavery by the Saxons, where Artos begins to question his God.
Action
During World War II, Champ Larkin and Jimbo are cellmates in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Worried about being bombed, they break out and end up washing ashore at a lighthouse on an island. Captain Porter lives there with his daughter Anne, as well as radio signalman Paul Brenner and custodian Stormy.
Action, exploitation film
Romko is an artist, and he's sketching biker gang leader Keeg. Keeg is running a white slavery operation in Las Vegas and doesn't want to be incriminated, so he attacks Romko, and lightly slashes his stomach through his shirt as a 'friendly' warning to protect the gang's anonymity. One of the gangs followers, Lea, takes Romko back to her apartment and calls for Docky to help mend his hands.
Action
The film follows a contract killer who goes by the code name Japan. He meets a man named Alfred at a hotel, who was recently evicted from his home. The two get along and Japan befriends Alfred.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Rocky Jones, a leading member of the Space Ranger force, attempts to save the inhabitants of Ophecius, a planet about to collide with a moon. However, Cleolanta—the empress of the planet—is suspicious. While Rocky and his crew succeed in evacuating the planet in time, Cleolanta's pride and vanity are a major hindrance.
Anti-War Film, Biography, Drama, Fugitive Drama, Political Drama, Social Drama, war film
Veteran photojournalist Richard Boyle, whose career has been derailed by substance abuse and arrogance, finds himself broke and abandoned by his wife. Desperate for work, he convinces his friend Doctor Rock, an unemployed disc jockey, to join him on a trip to El Salvador, where he hopes to cover the country’s civil war as a freelancer. Upon arrival, they witness the violent suppression of student protests and are briefly detained by the military, only spared after Boyle invokes an old connection to right-wing Colonel Figueroa.
Action, Science fiction
When a deadly microorganism threatens to wipe out the entire human race, the only hope for the future of mankind is to send a special team of soldiers back in time to prevent the virus from ever coming into existence. The year is 2204. Humankind is under attack from a fast-spreading super-bug that now threatens to destroy the very fabric of human civilization.
Christmas film, live-action/animated film
Dot joins a swagman named Danny dressed as Father Christmas on a tour of the world to see everyone celebrate Christmas in their own different ways. They search for a lost beloved joey, the child of the kangaroo Dot had met when she lost her way home.
Action, Crime, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film
During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Hong Kong in 1975, a group of criminals plan her assassination.
Action, fantasy film
Andrew Garrett is a tormented police detective, known in his precinct for clairvoyant abilities, which tend to reawaken in the presence of corpses, although his colleagues are unsure what to make of them. Meanwhile, historian Julie Wilkins discovers that a crate, which awaited her at a storage warehouse, has been plundered in a botched heist that left a guard dead. Inside the crate was an antique sword, said to have been gifted by the god Apollo to the Macedonian king and legendary conqueror, Alexander the Great.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic
After nuclear war has defoliated the Earth, the survivors live in colonies in an endless quest for drinkable water. A young woman named Delha is on the run from the evil warlord Kardis and his henchman. She is rescued by Stryker and his young companion Bandit.
Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster, Science fiction, thriller film
A long-period comet is determined to be on a collision course with Earth. All of the world's nuclear states fire intercontinental ballistic missiles at the comet but only succeed in breaking it into fragments. Pieces of the comet soon begin to impact the ground.
Action
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the wheel of his modified 1988 Mazda RX-7/Nissan 240sx with help from mechanic Kelly (Hennely Jimenez).
Action, Crime, crime thriller film, Detective, Drama, Dystopian, girls with guns, Heist, Mysterie, Police Film, Road Movie, Science fiction, thriller film, Time travel
San Diego in the 2040s has unemployment and crime at an all-time high. Government surveillance, mass poverty and drought has decimated much of the population. Revolutionary groups and economic divide has caused society to be on the brink of another Great Depression in the United States.
Martial arts, prison film
Jimmy Boland (Don Wilson) has been sentenced to a California maximum-security prison for a murder that he didn't commit. When he sees some black prison inmates sodomizing his friend, he flies into a rage and kills the gang leader. The prison warden, in an effort to do Jimmy in, transfers him to the black wing of the prison, where he is sure the black prisoners will dispatch him quickly.
Action
The Thunderstrike, a satellite designed to destroy missiles before they hit their target, is launched into space. Buck Stevens, the owner of the satellite, his daughter Tiffany, Tiffany's estranged boyfriend Kevin Thomas, who's also the designer of the satellite, security advisor Frank Ewing, and Judy Campbell, Buck's pregnant employee, are flying to Hawaii for further tests on a private Boeing 747-100. CIA agent Jim Carpenter is hired to escort them to Hawaii.
Action, Science fiction, thriller film
The film takes place in the city of Boston, in the year 2009. Detective Cameron Grayson (Roddy Piper) is on the trail of Adrian Dunn (Billy Drago), his ex-partner and his wife's murderer. Dunn has escaped from prison on the Moon and returned to Earth with a deadly alien virus.
Action, Drama, Road Movie
Casey Owens, a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed record. Wealthy playboy Stanford Rogers hires Casey to build the car for him to race in the Tri-State Endurance Run. Chuck Manning, an engineering student whom Casey had met in a drag race, discovers potential flaws in the car's design.