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Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film
A team of SEALs chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a hostage special agent. While tracking the terrorists, mutated dinosaurs appear and the mission changes into simple survival. The dinosaurs use their skilled sense of smell and ability to swim to hunt down the SEALs and terrorists.
Action, disaster film
A park ranger must lead a US senator, a disgraced cop, his wife, a manipulative professor and his daughter across five miles of dangerous terrain to escape an unstable cavern, unaware that the seventh member of the group is an armed and violent escaped convict.
Western
thumb|Lobby card John Drury is passing through when townsfolk are about to kill Duke, a horse they believe to be dangerous. He convinces them to spare the animal if he can ride it. He does, earning the gratitude of Ruth Gaunt.
Action, Adventure, silent film
Tarzan and Jane are traveling to Paris to help his old friend Countess de Coude, who is being threatened by her brother, Nikolas Rokoff. Rokoff has Tarzan tossed overboard. He survives, comes ashore in North Africa, and goes to Paris to search for Jane.
Action, Martial arts
Science fiction
Astronomer Cyrus Layton is working late one night on his new airplane design in his observatory. He witnesses what he believes is a meteorite landing in the far distance. He contacts his niece Sheila and asks her to bring Craig Foster to the observatory to help analyze his discovery; he then sets out to search for the meteorite crater.
Action, Drama, silent film, Western
thumb|Sky High (1922) thumb|right|160px|Newspaper advertisement Grant Newbury, Deputy Inspector of Immigration at the US/Mexico border is asked by his boss to infiltrate a gang smuggling Chinese workers through the border at Calexico, in order to identify and arrest their ringleader. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Estelle Halloway is disappointed because her guardian wrote that she would not be able to spend her holidays with him in Calexico as planned. When she wires him that she will come nevertheless with her roommate Marguerite and her brother, he tells her that they will meet instead near the Grand Canyon as it is too warm in Calexico.
Action, Drama, Science fiction
In the not too distant future, doomsday prepper Marcus King has been preparing for the end of the world for many years. One day, while tracking the skies with his son Geoff, they discover a massive, potentially planet-destroying meteor hurtling towards Earth. Worse still, the meteor looks likely to hit a nuclear reactor.
Action, Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction action film, speculative fiction
A geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from diseases by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Now a Delta Force team must contain this threat before it's too late.
Action, girls with guns
Harly Cordell is an agent looking for revenge against her ex-boyfriend, now a criminal, who tried to kill her by shooting her in the head.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Classical Western, Western
In 1861, John Blair and his partner, Larry Adams are dismayed when the arrival of telegraph ends the Russell & Waddell Pony Express. Hoping to utilize their horse-riding skills, they decide to start a stage coach transportation business. They go to Buchanan City and ask local magnate Cal Drake if he is willing to sell them a stage coach.
Comedy, Western
Ray Dokes is fresh out of prison. Returning home to rural Ontario, he discovers the countryside of his youth transformed. Urban development crawls across the pastoral fields like a rash.
Action, Science fiction
An attempt by Spectrum to survey Mars from space is threatened when the Mysterons murder an astronomer attached to the project and replace him with a doppelganger under their control. Captains Scarlet and Blue track down and kill the reconstruction, but not before it sabotages the mountain observatory that is due to receive the images from the Martian space probe. The observatory is destroyed and the images are lost ("Shadow of Fear").
Action, Dystopian, Science fiction
The year is 2015 and Big Brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining that most basic aspect of life: Mind, Body and Soul must be united.
spy film, teen film
Jason Starr is an international spy. While on a mission, there an altercation and Jason disappears. His boss Vaughn then goes to his twin brother Warren Starbinder, a veterinarian, and asks him to pose as Jason so to complete his mission.
Action
Action
Al Pagura is a NASCAR driver who wants to win. He finds out that a beautiful Italian auto engineer is trying to sell her new engine. At the same time, rival team owner Vincent Dupalin kidnaps her so his driver Kenny Landruff can win.
Action, Science fiction
In the near future, a new law sends criminals to a virtual reality prison built by Zircon, a shadowy corporation based in Seattle. Steven Falcon, the system's designer, realizes the dangers of the program being overloaded and also of hackers who try to break in to steal files which inadvertently allows prisoners a possible method of escape. When Falcon threatens to quit the operation he becomes marked for death by his employers who force him to enter the system to find the source of the danger of the system crashing.
Science fiction, thriller film
Physics professor Zach Shefford (Grayson McCouch) has regarded his telekinetic gifts as a curse rather than a blessing. This sentiment is obviously not shared by ruthless Pentagon agent Raymond Addison (Louis Gossett Jr.), who recruits Shefford for a dangerous mission in which his "second sight" talents will be taxed to the utmost. It seems that, back in 1977, Addison had overseen Project Momentum, wherein dozens of telekinetics were brought together ostensibly for the purpose of benefiting mankind.
science fiction action film
Starship Rising is set in the future where “The Federation” rules over 9 planets within the galaxy, including planet Earth now known as “Old Earth”. John Worthy’s father was killed by the federation when John was a child. 18 years later John enlists as a starship lieutenant.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Horror, thriller film
thumb|100px|Stephen Baldwin in 2008 Marketing executive Desmond Caine (Stephen Baldwin) is stricken with a bizarre form of insomnia, spending his nights walking the city's dangerous streets at night. Caine ends up at a local deli where he encounters some unusual characters: a nice, if bit lost, young woman (Macha Grenon) and a slightly deranged man who looks homeless (Michael Ironside), and an anti-social policeman. During one of his half-hallucinogenic journeys, Caine witnesses a brutal murder.
Crime, Noir
An obsessive California lawman (Barry Sullivan) chases an escaped fugitive (Vittorio Gassman) through the Louisiana bayou.
Action, Military Film
During a rescue operation in Iraq, Special Forces member Max Forrester (Mark Dacascos) is devastated when Sasha (Sofya Skya), his squad mate and fiancée, goes missing. Two years later, Max, now out of the military, receives a call from his ex-commander, Captain Dyer (Bruce Boxleitner), informing him that Sasha has been seen alive and moving freely about on a place called Paradise Island. He also informs Max the military is preparing to go in and extract her with possible charges of desertion or worse.