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Action
When Ed Neilson's (Ken Metcalf) entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. Smith refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death. With the aid of a former associate Wyatt Spain (Felton Perry), Smith attempts to find out who was responsible for the death of Neilson and his family.
Action, children's film, Martial arts
Action
Contract killer Billy Poole is hired to assassinate a South American dictator. When he arrives, he and associate Anita Chavez arrange to have an innocent bystander, advertising man Vincent Dodge, take them by boat to the intended victim's island compound, holding Vincent's wife Helen hostage. Poole is able only to wound his target.
Action, Drama, girls with guns, thriller film
A married jewel trader is seduced by a beautiful woman while on a business trip. Upon returning home, he receives a video tape in the mail of his tryst and a threat to ruin his marriage if he doesn't turn a shipment of diamonds over to the woman.
Action, Drama
After hitchhiking a car ride with a drunken politician and his seductive wife, Paul Ramsey, a singer, offers to take the rap in court when the politician seriously injures a child while under the influence, only to be double-crossed and sentenced to five years in prison. He ends up with other inmates treated sadistically by a brutal prison official who makes them train his hunting dogs including Rattler, a vicious Doberman.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A group of guests must escape a Las Vegas hotel that is on fire.
Slasher
Eighteen-year-old Kristel survives a car accident in which her father dies. Tormented by nocturnal visions she continues her father's investigation of serial killers – especially Andries Martíns, a child killer. She decides to visit an abandoned mine, with a little group of friends from college, where her father headed the investigations on Andries.
Action, Adventure, Biography, fantasy film
Western
Jim Harvey (Audie Murphy) is a guide and guard on a wagon train. After he saves the life of a Yaqui Indian warrior named Tigre, the wagon train is attacked. Harvey realizes their only chance of survival is if he can negotiate a truce with Tigre's father, Chief Aguila (Ralph Moody).
Action, Drama, war film
Ace Reporter Don Stevens (Christopher Walken) is an American journalist who goes to Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. He stays in a hotel with English journalist Mike Jessop. He is promised an interview with a top PLO leader, Palestinian Yassin Abu-Riadd (Amos Lavi).
Action, Aliens, fantasy film, Science fiction
Two aliens escape from prison and begin traveling throughout the galaxy, hunting species on different planets for fun. The hunters set up on Earth, and begin terrorizing a group of high school students whose bus has broken down after a school football game. The aliens set up a force field around the area to prevent the teens and their chaperone from receiving any outside aid.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, monster film
In the late 19th century, a team of Smithsonian researchers stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.
Action, Comedy, Drama, sport film
Johnny Dark and his pal Duke Benson work for Fielding Motors, where owner James Fielding manufactures family-friendly automobiles. Chief engineer Scotty overhears the guys complaining about the company and spots a sportscar design that Johnny and Duke have created. New employee Liz catches the eye of the guys, but they do not know that she is Fielding's granddaughter.
Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1718 a recently freed family of indentured workers inherits the small uninhabited Bull Island off the Carolina coast. The family consist of husband and wife, one son, and a second son who they bought as a baby. The local fishermen who were already using the island think they own the island and attempt to force the family to leave, during which the husband is killed.
Comedy, Drama
The film begins with Thomas and Wayne playing a game of pool against two English men. They almost win but Wayne loses the game on the last shot due to overconfidence. Their friend Jack then arrives.
Action
An explosive situation erupts when a mob war thrusts a yakuza, an ex-cop, and his adolescent daughter into a deadly, no-win situation. Booted in disgrace from the L.A. police force Bob Malone suffers a seemingly endless unlucky streak.
Action, Comedy
A group of teenagers borrow a car, unaware that gangsters have stashed mob money in it. The gangsters are determined to get the money back. When it seems that the criminals are going to prevail over the boys, the intervention of a strong policewoman changes the fortunes of the battle in favor of the boys.
Action, Drama, Motor-Bike Film, thriller film
The story concerns a deadly feud between two rival bike gangs. The Angels are out for revenge against their rival gang, the Las Vegas Hotdoggers, who severely beat their leader, Mother (Michael Greene). Mother is just returning to the Angels and his old lady, Marlene (Jennifer Gan), has become the property of Fingers (Richard Rust), the new head of the clan.
Action Comedy, Comedy
Charlie Swattle, a laid-back World War I veteran (and possibly a deserter), swindles his way into the First Intercontinental Motorcycle Race and its hefty $5,000 prize, set to start on July the 4th, 1919. On his way to the big event, by reason, trick, and force, he reunites his crew of fellow veterans who like him well, but don't trust a word he says. He also meets Grace, who outsmarts him and gets the ownership of his Moonbeam Special motorcycle, so Charlie is forced to take her and her young son with him.
Action, action thriller, thriller film
Action, thriller film
Professional hitman Harlin Garrett is left for dead, the victim of a hit orchestrated by his mafia employers after they decide he has outlived his usefulness to them. He wakes up in a secluded facility under the watch of a covert government agency led by a menacing man only known as Mr. Green.
Action
Unrepentant shyster Franklin Blackstone is ambushed on a parking lot by two mobsters who accuse him of defrauding their organization, with the help of an associate named Ricardo. Franklin escapes the hit, but Ricardo, his wife and their young daughter are cruelly executed by a lone killer while picnicking at a public park. Meanwhile, Franklin's brother Travis, who works for a motor scrapyard, notices a woman observing him at a baseball diamond.
B western, Western
Randy Bowers arrives at Ed Rogers' Half-Way House saloon and happily enters to the sounds of "Sobre las Olas" on the player piano. He is shocked to discover the patrons and bartender dead. A pair of eyes watch him from behind a portrait over the bar.
Comedy, Western
In the Old West, the Three Stooges are peddlers plying their trade in a covered wagon. Saloon proprietor Taggart, who controls the town of Red Mesa, supervises a series of raids on goldmine consignments. The insurance company, sustaining frequent losses, sends former federal marshal George O'Brien to investigate the thefts.