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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 275.

Dance Hall Racket (1953)

Action, Adventure, Crime

A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line. A merchant marine seaman is found murdered at the place and suspicion quickly falls upon the operator of a dime-a-dance honky tonk joint. A federal undercover agent is planted in the place to gather evidence, and he soon learns that the dive is only a cover-up for diamond-smuggling activities, and that one of the operation's henchmen, who is handy with a switch-blade knife, is the actual killer.

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Bomber (1982)

Action, Comedy

Bud Graziano, the title's "Bomber" character, is a former heavyweight boxing champion who retired to private life on a ship. Jerry Calà, on the other hand, is a Lombard punter who always finds himself in trouble and one day gets into really big trouble. In fact, he unwittingly sets himself against a group of thugs who answer only to the orders of a new boxing champion who is making the rounds in the area with his victories.

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Witchville (2010)

Action, Adventure, fantasy film

Prince Malachi returns to the kingdom of Draeganoth to find his father has died and the kingdom is in disarray. Kramer, a witchhunter, warns that there is no famine or pestilence, that the troubles are caused by witches and that with his skills and book of magic they might have a chance of defeating them. Malachi cannot believe there is no more rational explanation but gives Kramer a chance to prove himself and gathers the villagers.

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Little Treasure (1985)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romance film

Margo, a stripper searching for her estranged, bank robber father in a remote part of Mexico. Along the way, Margo meets an American ex-pat drifter, and together they search for her missing father and eventually his lost, buried fortune.

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Corrado (2010)

Action, Crime, Drama

A Los Angeles hit man, Corrado, is given the task of eliminating the aging kingpin Vittorio Spinello. He readily accepts the job and is about to perform the hit when he is interrupted by Spinello's new nurse, Julia. He shoots the aging Spinello by accident, instead of suffocating him as intended, and flees the scene.

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Speedtrap (1977)

Action

After a wave of unsolved car thefts, an insurance company calls in private investigator Pete Novick (Joe Don Baker) to solve the case. While the chief of police isn't thrilled about having an outsider come and show up his men, one of the officers is a former girlfriend of Novick's who's more than willing to help him out in any way she can. After a long and convoluted investigation with false leads, psychics and the mafia, Novick at last unravels the identity of the thief.

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Play Dead (2009)

Action

Ronnie Reno is a former TV action star in need of a comeback. After a failed audition, he ends up snowbound in a remote town in Nevada overrun with meth dealers including Merle and his dimwitted henchman, Ledge, who works as a crossing guard. After Reno finds the body of a dead DEA agent in Ledge's bathtub, he reunites with his former co-stars including Devon in order to save the town's residents and himself.

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War Paint (1953)

Western

The pre-credit sequence of the film starts out with Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Kirby and the last survivor of his US Cavalry escort shot and scalped by Taslik (Keith Larsen) and his squaw Wanima (Joan Taylor). The film proper begins with Lt. Billings (Robert Stack) leading his patrol, that has escorted Cpl Hamilton (Charles Nolte), a cartographer who has been making maps of the area.

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Wet Gold (1984)

Treasure hunt

Laura is a young café waitress dreaming of owning a piano. Laura stumbles across Sampson, a drunk elderly man who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that sank with millions of dollars in gold. Although Chris Barnes, Laura's boyfriend, keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true.

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Death Force (1978)

Action, Adventure, Blaxploitation, Martial arts

American soldiers Doug Russell (James Iglehart), McGee (Leon Isaac Kennedy) and Morelli (Carmen Argenziano) serving in Vietnam are selling gold bars on the black market. Upon their arrival stateside Morelli convinces McGee to betray Russell. Believing that they killed Russell, Morelli and McGee begin taking over the criminal underworld in Los Angeles.

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South Sea Woman (1953)

Action, Adventure, Comedy drama, Tragicomedy, war film

U.S. Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant James O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster) is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges.

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Under Western Stars (1938)

Action, musical film, Western

John Fairbanks' water company is hoarding water behind a dam and refuses to allow free water for the farmers and ranchers. When Roy Rogers and his men overpower the dam's guards and release the valve on the water, the sympathetic mayor fines Rogers one dollar and convinces him to follow in his father's footsteps and run for Congress. Rogers campaigns on the water issue and builds on his popular support, winning the election over incumbent William P.

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Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949)

Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film

The Arthurian film cycle started with the Adventures of Sir Galahad serial. In this version, the youth Galahad, trying to emulate his father Sir Lancelot, wants fervently to be admitted to the Knights of the Round Table order. When he defeats Sir Bors and Sir Mordred in tournament, King Arthur agrees to knighthood, but only if Galahad can guard Excalibur for one night.

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Hidden Agenda (2001)

Action, thriller film

Jason Price, a former NSA agent, operates the Daedalus network, which gives clients new identities and makes them disappear. As he lavishes a key witness against a lot of money and is hounded by a hitman (called the Cleaner), he not only sucks the FBI's anger, but also the crime syndicate Icarus, who also turns the Cleaner on his best friend, the FBI agent Sonny begin. When Price also lets him submerge and shortly thereafter finds out Sonny's corpse, he realizes that the network has been infiltrated.

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Vampire Assassin (2005)

Action, Horror, thriller film, Vampire

When protagonist Derek Washington (Hall) was just a child, he witnessed his father's murder. Because of this, he became very afraid of blood. However, when a sting operation to find a counterfeiter named Gustoff Slovak (Mel Novak) goes wrong, Derek is forced to face his fear: blood.

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Midnite Spares (1983)

Action

Steve Hall (James Laurie) is a young sprintcar driver from Toowoomba who has returned home to Sydney to team up with his dad Ted and his business partner Tomas (Max Cullen) in their towing and panel beating business "T&T Towing", as well as to team up with his dad who is also a Sprintcar driver at the local speedway. He arrives to find his dad has mysteriously disappeared and Tomas is being pressured to be part of an illegal "chop shop" ring. After continuing to resist joining the ring, Tomas is set up and painfully discovers (having his arm broken by a tyre iron) the group of car thieves involved in "midnite spares" (the stealing and…

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The Perils of Pauline (1933)

Adventure

Pauline Hargraves is the intrepid daughter of Professor Hargraves, a noted doctor of chemistry and archeology. She and Willie Dodge, her father's cowardly secretary, have accompanied Prof. Hargraves to Asia in search of a legendary ivory disk that may contain the chemical recipe for a deadly gas created by an ancient Egyptian named Confu.

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'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)

B western, Western

Chris Morrell is the surrogate father of Nina, a young Indian girl who is a U.S. government ward because her father left her mother before birth and her mother died in childbirth. An oil strike makes Nina's mother's Indian oil land lease worth $50,000, which Morrell will get to take care of Nina if he can find her father and have him sign guardianship papers (or prove the father is dead).

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Blue Tornado (1991)

Action, Science fiction

In the course of experimenting a new flight maneuver, two pilots, Colonel Alex Long (Benedict) and Philip (McGinley) encounter a mysterious light beyond a mountain range. Phil becomes transfixed by the light, flies into it and vanishes. Alex returns alone and shocked by what he has seen.

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