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Crime, Drama
Wanted on a charge of murder, Brett Matton, a Korean War U.S. Air Force veteran, has fled the country to Spain, where he has been living for two years and is engaged to wed Jean Gurney, a former showgirl. FBI Agent Stafford arrives in Spain to arrest Brett and extradite him to the United States.
Action, Martial arts, thriller film
Widower Rick Cowan (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) is a high school teacher and a pretty dull guy, at least to his rebellious 15-year-old son Chris (John Patrick White). Chris is having problems with a few of the bullies in school. Just when it looks like he’s given in to their demands and is handing over his sweet 90’s CD boombox to a bully, it turns out that he rigged it to electrocute the bully.
Action
Captain Murphy, an American fighter pilot, is sent on a mission to Mexico by his commanding officer General Reynolds to combat drug dealer Salvatore and free hostages he holds. Murphy uses an airplane with experimental stealth technology. When he arrives, Murphy finds he has been set up and the plan is to give Salvatore the new plane.
Science fiction
Two warring planets choose to settle their conflict over which of them will take over the planet Earth, each sending a trio of soldiers to Earth to fight to the death. The combatants, disguised as human beings, can only identify each other by using special visors. Kyle, one of the combatants, falls in love with Sandy, a woman he meets during his stay in a small town.
Action, Crime
Alan Lung is the adopted son of Taiwanese triad leader Lung Yat-fu. Alan is highly favored by Lung, who appoints him as his successor over his two biological sons Simon and Bowie. One time when Lung was shot, Alan blames Bowie, who then becomes a police informant attempting to kill Alan.
Action, thriller film
Jane Doe (Hatcher) is the real name of arms manufacturer Cy-Kor's recently fired security password employee with top clearance, whose teenage son Michael (Trevor Blumas) is kidnapped. She obeys the bizarre instructions, including getting and learning to use a gun and downloading a secret file (after which her work post starts totally deleting), dumping both in a dumpster and waiting nearby, only to witness the company's CEO Churnings being shot by a sniper using an identical weapon. Michael is released, but the pair is now wanted for the murder and both are abducted by armed men, who bring them to a ranch.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Space Rangers Rocky Jones and co-pilot Winky of the United Planets are assigned to investigate the disappearance of several space ships in the vicinity of Cassa 7, a planet on which the United Planets are attempting to build an outpost. Immediately upon being given the assignment Jones discovers that the ship of fellow Space Ranger Reggie and friend Vena Ray, who is aboard to visit her brother Paul Ray on Cassa 7, have become the latest victims of the mysterious disappearances. Upon reaching orbit around Cassa 7, Reggie and Vena are rescued by Jones and Winky, and it is revealed to the Rangers that the missing ships are actually being…
Drama
In 1944 London, Major Julien Howard, a British MI6 intelligence agent, meets Captain Bill Ranson, his new American security officer. As Howard was previously picked up by German Abwehr counter-intelligence, Ranson soon realizes that their assignment is to feed misinformation to the Germans about the location of the D-Day landings so they'll believe the Netherlands is the target. Howard tells him the rest of the unit must not know the truth.
Action, thriller film
For four young people; Katie, Mike, Eric, Nicole; speed is a way of life. But the four soon come to realize that living life in the fast lane carries a very high price. On the streets debts are not settled with cash, they are settled in blood.
Comedy
Set in the eccentric London art world, the film's protagonist Nick Edwards (Rhys) owes £50,000 to the smooth and brutal crime lord Foster Wright (Malik) and has four days to find the cash. Nick knows nothing about working a heist of that size, but when he stumbles across a lost sketch by the legendary Italian artist Antonio Fraccini, he hatches a plan with the help of cynical Eve (Ashfield) and her extremely talented yet naïve artist brother Tony (Chambers): to forge the drawing and sell it to five Mayfair galleries within an hour before anyone catches onto the scam.
Action, war film
An army sergeant attacks his corrupt captain and is court-martialed but before being executed he escapes and, in the enemy-infested jungles of Vietnam, begins a private war against his fellow soldiers and Vietnamese army soldiers. After escaping border, he was shot dead
Action, Mysterie
Museum director Chris Kilos counts in his collection a prized sword, rumored to have belonged to Alexander the Great himself, and to grant protection to its bearer thanks to a blessing from the god Apollo. However, the respected administrator spends his nights betting on high stakes fights to the death organized in the city's seedy underbelly. Kilos organizes the robbery of his own exhibit by his henchman, the cruel Jodar, during which several guards are killed and the sword disappears.
Action, Adventure, documentary film
Action, Drama
Derek Flint agrees to teach a pretty young woman named Benita Ryders how to be a private eye. Their first mission together has them facing a group of terrorists called B.E.S.L.A. ("Bar El Sol Liberation Army"), who have kidnapped an oil executive.
Drama
Dingaka tells the story of a tribesman, Ntuku Makwena, who avenges the murder of his daughter according to traditional tribal laws. His act of revenge leads him to be tried under government laws, where justice for black people does not exist.
Action
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting, only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Action
Action, B western, Comedy drama, romance film, Western
Sheriff John Higgins (John Wayne) believes he accidentally killed his best friend Dan Matthews during a shootout with robbers. Overcome by guilt, he resigns his badge and becomes a prospector. Dan's daughter Bess (Lucile Browne) arrives from the East to run her late father's struggling ranch.
Action, fantasy film, speculative fiction
Meteorites falling from the sky during a meteor shower act as transportation for dragons traveling within. The dragons wreak havoc on the surrounding medieval countryside and two rival monarchs, King Fastrad (John Rhys-Davies) and King Wednesbury (John Hansson) must join forces to face the threat. A messenger arrives to warn King Fastrad who does not believe him, until the dragons make their appearance and destroy his fiefdom.
Action, disaster film, Science fiction, thriller film
Elliot, a vengeful ex-employee of a computer firm wants revenge and befriends the boss Brad's son Dylan giving him an MP3 file containing a computer virus. This virus creates havoc all across the city by poisoning the water with chlorine, making planes crash and ultimately developing an intelligence of its own. The virus is eventually traced to a server and is terminated by another equally powerful virus created by Brad and Dylan with a Game Boy Color.
Action
John Gray (Sean Patrick Flanery) is an actor in a Far West time touristic attraction village, named Profit, near a small town. He lives an eventless life, with his on-and-off girlfriend Sharon (Tanya Allen) his friends and co-workers Tim (Tyler Labine and Pablo (Alonso Oyarzun), and his mentor Gus (Robert Forster). Until one night, when two bikers rob the town's bar and severely beat the barman down.
Action, Post-apocalyptic
In what used to be America, several women fight to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic world, after being captured by a brutal army of men. The men are veterans of the "Western War," which occurred sometime before 2021. The army is led by Mikal (Chuck Wagner) who is world-weary and tired of fighting, but sees no alternative With escape impossible, their only hope for rescue is a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.
Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, poliziesco
war film
When only six of eight would-be German saboteurs are sentenced to death by an American court during World War II, an FBI agent complains to his boss, Craig (Ward Bond), about the other two. Craig tells him about one of the men sentenced to prison. A flashback ensues.