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Western
The official synopsis from Paramount Pictures' press kit: In the days of the Alaskan gold rush, Roy Glenister and Joe Dextry are returning to Nome, where, with another partner, Slapjack Simms, they own a rich mine. They befriend Helen Chester, who has escaped from a quarantined ship. She is on her way to join her uncle, Judge Stillman, who, with Alec McNamara, has come to represent the law in Nome.
Action, Splatter Film
The film follows John Whitecloud, a criminal rebel who seeks revenge against a corrupt Sheriff and a militia run by a crazed general.
Action, Martial arts
Retired kickboxing champion Max Havoc still works as a sports photographer for a magazine. Max shall take photographs of Suzy Blaine, a tennis celebrity. But when he arrives at a hotel in the outskirts of Seattle, a little boy named Emile steals the suitcase which contains his costly camera and further equipment.
Adventure
Vic Brennan is a sailor from Dublin who decides to use his family's fortune and move to Africa to open a truck-hauling business. He is accompanied by his wife, Marie, and a meek cousin, Samuel, who loses their documents, causing customs agents to seize some of their cargo. As they proceed along the Ivory Coast, a plan occurs to Vic to purchase 300 cases of beer and deliver it to thirsty natives for sale.
Action Comedy
A New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the Southern United States.
Action, fantasy film, serial film, silent film
Tarzan and Jane have left Africa, married and settled in London. Their pre-teen son, Jack, dreams of jungle adventures like his father's, but is discouraged by his parents. He sneaks away to see a trained ape called Ajax (in reality, Akut, an old friend from Tarzan's youth).
Action, Adventure, war film
Ladd stars as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who stumbles across a lost city in the desert mountains of Algeria in North Africa.
Drama
A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hitman. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to bring down the gang's boss.
Action, Science fiction
A man finds out that he was brainwashed to kill an important government official.
Action, Martial arts
Cleopatra Wong is a deadly female Interpol agent, with the title sequence displaying her prowess at marksmanship, archery and unarmed combat. She is interrupted while on holiday in Manila by the Chief in Singapore, asking her to see the local Chief, in the Philippines. Cleopatra is informed of a counterfeit plot, where bogus currency is so realistic that it is being freely distributed by a crime syndicate in five ASEAN countries, hoping to make the people lose faith in their currencies and consequently throw the region into financial chaos.
Action, thriller film
A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. He soon discovers that his brother was killed by the Russian mafia, who are killing local peasants and selling their organs on the black market.
Coming-of-age, Drama, Martial arts
Mark Franklin arrives in Hangzhou, China to teach Chinese teachers the English language. He learns the refinements of correct behavior among Chinese people, makes friends with his pupils, falls in love with the young doctor Ming, learns wushu (Chinese martial arts) from the famous teacher Pan... but also learns about political repression, especially when he's forbidden contact with some of his friends.
Action
Mentally affected by the aftermath of drug-induced violence he had been witnessing at his hospital; emergency doctor Jack Davies errs in the streets of New York in a drunken stupor. He happens upon a quarrel between a man, a woman and a group of mob henchmen who seem to chaperone her. The unknown man gets shot dead.
Action, Christmas film, Western
Roy is a conservation agent preventing loggers from poaching Jack Holt's Christmas trees.
Action, Adventure, silent film
Action
In a Boston bar, ex-cop Johnny Damone, now a bounty hunter, fights with and captures a wanted man, Harold Kingston, to collect a bounty of $50,000 from the police. In a Tax office, gunmen kill everyone except Johnny Damone's brother, Paul Damone, who escapes and is considered to be a key witness to put the gangsters behind bars. Johnny visits Paul at his home, but is unable to stop the gangsters from killing both Paul and his wife Isabelle.
Drama, Gangster Film, Noir
Matt Brady comes home from World War I to a city where his older brother Tim is a political kingpin. Matt meets an old friend, Bob Herrick, but an argument leads to a fistfight. He ends up late for a date with Elsie Reynolds, who is furious.
Action Comedy, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime
Action, Crime
A Mexican drug lord escaped from prison to retrieve $15 million, but two cops (Sheldon Robins and Kristofferson) are sent after him.
Action, Adventure, children's film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction
Following the events of the previous film, Junjie has settled in as a member of the Shane Gang and introduces to them concept of Slug-Fu. Where in by forging a deep connection to his Slugs Junjie can control them from a distance, as he demonstrates with his Infurnus Joo-Joo. Things soon take a turn for the bizarre when all of the group's Air and Toxic Slugs suddenly turn into incurable Ghouls.
Action, thriller film
Colonel John Sykes orders his men to massacre a village where they were sent to rescue hostages, but decides to get payback when they find them dead. When Sykes returns to the U.S. to be court-martialed he is forced to make a plea agreement where he receives all the blame in order that his men will be honorably discharged and receive all of the benefits they are entitled to.
Action, thriller film
A painting is stolen from a building during a great fire and after it is recovered, the police find inside a mysterious map. A police officer responsible for the case asks his brother (Stephen Baldwin), who is an antiques expert, to help him during the investigation. Analysing the paint and fabric, they find that the map belonged to Christopher Columbus and the drawings in it refer to an old legend of a lost treasure.
Action
Ben "Hardball" Cutter, a traumatized former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces turned private consultant to the National Security Council, is called back into action by his former superior "Top" Drummond. He is to provide secret, armed support to an international U.N.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A group of known troublemakers are working on experiments in the Far East. They have discovered a substance that penetrates human cells, and makes changes to chromosomes and genes. These experiments are carried out on young girls who are abducted from the local villages.