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Action, Crime
Lt. Terrence Sneed, a San Francisco policeman, is summoned to Paloma, New Mexico to help take down a local organized crime syndicate led by kingpin Victor Manso, a respected community leader. Soon after Sneed's arrival, he and Captain Frank Dolek stop a group of gangsters who ambush a courthouse and attempt to flee in a truck, but four officers are killed in the shootout.
Political Thriller
William Shatner plays the role of Aidan Carvell, a businessman running for Congress as an independent candidate with a broad libertarian agenda. Unknown to the public, Carvell is training and arming a militia force. Carvell's political campaign manager Frank Jennings (Jeff Speakman) is persuaded by the FBI to assist them in indicting Carvell for treason.
Action
In this movie, Jefferson Smith gets to Bio-Con's base. There he finds several Bio-Con's creations in stasis, most of them failed experiments, with an exception: one of them, codenamed Elementor, wakes up and looks for five different Elementium Isotopes stored in different locations. Each isotope grants hims the power to control and mimic one specific element: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire (Bio-Con used half of these to mutate his clone with).
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Sword-and-sandal, war film
In the ancient Greek era, King Proximates, a ruthless tyrant, besieges a city for months but struggles to secure victory. Seeking a resolution, he meets Telektos, the besieged city's king, who proposes settling the conflict through a duel between champions. Proximates agrees, demanding ten days to choose his fighter.
Action
Blaxploitation, documentary film
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Action
A police sergeant (Keach) who is trying to avoid any trouble before his upcoming retirement receives an enthusiastic young female agent (Rothrock) as a new partner.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A disease specialist is on a cruise ship with her daughter when a virus breaks out on board. While she communicates with Washington, the Chief Engineer plans a mutiny.
Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
During spring break, when a pack of tiger sharks begins a feeding frenzy on partying teen-aged bathers, the only safe place is up on the beach far from the water. Fighting for survival, a group of young people must attempt to outsmart nature's perfect predator. Danielle (Shannon Lucio) is a teen-aged girl who, against her father's wishes, heads to Florida for spring break.
Action, Ghost, Horror
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16-year-old David Forrester (Ricky Ullman) becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths" run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy (Diamond Dallas Page) and his brutal young henchman, Yates (Talan Torriero). Once there, David becomes haunted by the spirit of Jonathan (Connor Ross), a former inmate who met a mysterious end; a mystery whose resolution could very well be David's only way out.
Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film
In the North Atlantic off the coast of Greenland, a highly advanced deep sea oil rig has been recently constructed by the company Nexecon Petroleum, and named "Colossus" for its immense size. This "new" type of oil rig can dig deeper and extract more oil than any other in the world. The fact that this huge rig has been built on fault lines alarms geologists, who are concerned that the delicate ocean floor fault lines in that region might be disturbed through deep drilling, with catastrophic consequences.
Science fiction
Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after concluding that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had originated from in the area. There he finds the crazed Zolok, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex inside a mountain. Zolok had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist, Dr.
Action, Science fiction
In 2015, the U.S. government outlaws the distribution of gasoline to the public, reserving it only for the politicians, the military, and law enforcement. While this is implied to bedue to a fuel shortage, later dialogue rebuffs this, stating that gasoline is in abundance.
Biography, Western
Set in 1775, during the American War of Independence, the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky, is besieged by both hostile Shawnee Indian tribes and the British. Frontiersman Daniel Boone and his family must fight for survival when overtures of peace fail and culminate in a frontal assault on the fort.
Drama, spy film
The U.S. has not yet entered World War II when kindly stamp dealer Otto Becker (Conrad Veidt) is unexpectedly visited by his twin brother, Baron Hugo von Detner, the new German consul to the U.S. and one of the leaders of a spy ring engaged in sabotage.
Action, Drama
Scott is a US Marine who serves in the US embassy in Paris. One day he gets a message that his long unseen sister Kim, who works as a model in Spain, is in serious trouble; he asks for a dismissal from his outpost and travels to Spain to help her. Unfortunately she's murdered before Scott's arrival.
Action, Adventure, disaster film, Science fiction
In 1989, astronomer Dr. Peter Crawford discovers a comet on a collision with Earth. He reports his findings to the council, but they refuse to listen to him.
Action, Adventure
Two teenagers are stranded in the wilds of Northern Canada after a plane crash and they must call upon an ancient Native American spirit of a legendary white wolf to help them survive.
Action
The Sugar sisters accidentally discover $800,000 in the house of a corrupt man, Chief Douglas. In the next couple of days, they start to spend some of the money only to meet their Waterloo when the mafia comes to claim the stake of the money. However, the news gets to the EFCC (Economic and Financial Crime Commission) where they issue a search warrant for the Sugar sisters, as they are unable to find the money.
Action, Biography, boxing film, Drama
Nine-year-old Isabelle "Belle" Alvarado listens to a radio broadcast of the Thrilla in Manila with her father Chuck Alvarado, an LAPD patrol officer and former Golden Gloves champion. As they celebrate Muhammad Ali's victory, Carmen Alvarado, Chuck's wife and Belle's mother, reminds them that dinner is ready and that today is her and Chuck's 10th wedding anniversary, which he has forgotten. Chuck volunteers as a youth boxing coach at a local gym, and teaches Belle to box as a form of self-defense, though he's hesitant to have her spar.
Drama
Down on his luck, jockey agent "Boots" Malone is at a diner with his friend "Stash" Clements when teenage runaway Thomas Gibson Jr. tries to pay for his meal with a $100 bill. Interested in the money himself, Boots takes the boy under his wing.
Drama
A refugee from East Germany finds herself trapped in her home city of Dresden when a plane she is travelling on between Berlin and West Germany is forced down. She is used by the Stasi, who want her to help them to find her dissident brother.
Action, Animal horror, monster film, Science fiction
An army of giant, radioactive ants are accidentally trapped in a skyscraper, and a group of employees must band together to escape the building.
Action, action thriller, Science fiction
In 2023, an unidentified spacecraft is found orbiting Neptune and an investigation is started. Meanwhile, Lisa (Amy Hathaway), a special agent for the DEA witnesses what she thinks is the death of her best friend, Manning (John Savage), during a drug raid. She quits her job to become a dance teacher, but is soon recruited again for a secret mission, and shipped off to a small remote island.