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

Martian Land (2015)

Action, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction

In the distant future, the human race has made Earth all but uninhabitable due to overpopulation, pollution, the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, and misuse of the planet's resources. Now mankind lives on Mars, in cities that resemble those once found on Earth, and are protected from the alien environment by dome-like force-fields. When a sandstorm of record intensity breaks through the dome and destroys Mars New York, those in Mars Los Angeles must figure out how to stop the storm before it wipes them out next.

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The Sweeper (1996)

Action, thriller film

Teenager Mark is the son of police officer Trevor Goddard who, against the objections of his partner, allows his son to accompany him on patrol, as he wants him to one day join him on the force. During an altercation with some criminals loitering on a pier, one of the thugs recognizes the senior Goddard and warns him that word is out on the street that somebody wants him dead. Later at his house, contract killers barge in, looking to murder the entire family.

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The No Mercy Man (1973)

Action, Drama, thriller film

Prophet and his friends are carnies and itinerant criminals in Arizona. After robbing a liquor store Prophet and a carny, Dunn, evade the local Sheriff and stop at the ranch of Mark Hand, a decorated war veteran. Feeling suspicious, Mark tells Prophet he can help himself to water at a pump behind the house but covers him with a rifle.

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Stopover Tokyo (1957)

US Intelligence Agent Mark Fannon (Robert Wagner) is sent to Tokyo on a routine courier mission but soon uncovers communist George Underwood's (Edmond O'Brien) plot to assassinate the American High Commissioner (Larry Keating). While there he meets Welsh receptionist Tina Llewellyn (Joan Collins), in whom fellow agent Tony Barrett (Ken Scott) has a romantic interest. This causes animosity between the two.

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Diplomatic Siege (1999)

Action, thriller film

When Steve Mitchell is covertly dispatched to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania, to neutralize a long-undetected nuclear device left there since the Cold War's conclusion, he finds himself entangled in unforeseen complications. Teaming up with Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché whose true identity remains obscured, they must collaborate to input the correct computer code, deactivating the weapon and fulfilling the mission. However, while monitoring video feeds from an abandoned surveillance room, Steve witnesses an unexpected and perilous takeover of the embassy by the Serbian Liberation Front.

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The Invisible Monster (1950)

Science fiction

A would-be dictator and scientist, known only as The Phantom Ruler, has developed a formula which, when sprayed on some solid object, renders that object and everything it contains invisible when exposed to rays emitted by a special lamp, also his own invention. Covered from head to toe in formula-treated cloth, he thus moves about unseen, presently with the objective of stealing enough money and formula components to render an entire army of willing followers invisible. Two henchmen assist him, along with several illegal aliens smuggled into the US by him and used to infiltrate, as employees, possible sites for him to later rob while…

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Lost Flight (1970)

Action, Drama

Captain Steve Bannerman (Lloyd Bridges) has been asked to fly one last passenger flight from Hawaii to Australia for Trans-Pacific Airlines. During a violent thunderstorm, he crashes the jet airliner on an uninhabited South Pacific island. Bannerman takes charge of the survivors and teams with Merle Barnaby (Billy Dee Williams), a black marine returning from combat duty in Vietnam, to try to find a way to survive on the island.

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Sarah (1982)

live-action/animated film

The story is about a young girl during the beginning of the Second World War. When the German soldiers invade, she and her family are forced to hide in the woods. When her grandmother gets sick, her father goes into town for medicine and disappears.

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Shadowboxing (2005)

Action, boxing film, Detective, Drama

Artyom Kolchin, the story's protagonist, is a boxer, who has become a contender for the world boxing championship. The whole country knows him and wants him to win. In the beginning of the film, while they are both waiting at a crosswalk for the light to change, Sasha Belov asks for his autograph for his son Ivan, who is in England and is learning boxing.

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The Devil Makes Three (1952)

Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film

Former Eighth Air Force bomber crewman Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued and hid him from the Nazis after his plane was downed over Munich in World War II. He learns that most of the family was killed by an American air raid. The only survivor is the daughter, Wilhelmina "Willie" Lehrt, who is working as a hostess in a nightclub and hates Americans.

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Seven Hours to Judgment (1988)

Action, Drama, thriller film

In Los Angeles, Judge John Eden (Beau Bridges) is presiding over the preliminary hearing of four gang members—members of the Ice Men Gang—who brutally robbed Ellen Reardon (Sandra Lee Gimpel), pushed her into the path of a subway train, and left her to fight for her life. John had already set some of the gang's members free in a previous case. Ellen's husband, David Reardon (Ron Leibman), pleads to have the hearing delayed because he has found evidence that can put the gangbangers away, but the evidence is in the hands of a rival gang.

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