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Action, Comedy
With carpools being assigned by computer, four partners – a call center employee, a nun turned college student, an actor and a boxer – form into a carpool which comes into possession of a million dollars that has fallen off an armored car. An ex-policeman has his eyes on the loot as well, and the chase is on.
Action, Blaxploitation
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama
A collection of characters cross paths during a night in the big city. Two hit men. who receive their contracts from an Englishman.
The story begins with its focus on a group of hunters illegally hunting game out in the woods. Originally thought to be dead, the hunter's target springs back to life and flees into the heavy brush and trees. Determined not to let the game suffer, one of the hunters decides to pursue the elk in its flight.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Drama, Family Drama
An ex-member of the French Foreign Legion holds the German government responsible for the death of his family and goes on a killing spree to stop the operation of a nuclear plant. The police are helpless and so the ex-instructor of the killer is brought to Germany to hunt the killer down.
thriller film
The film is set in a South African hospital. Top-billed Anthony Quinn plays a male nurse, Hobday, assigned to care for a foreign President (Simon Sabela), who escaped an assassination attempt on the day he arrived in South Africa for an official visit. With many threats against his well-being, the leader is heavily guarded around the clock.
Action, exploitation film, Splatter Film, Western
After the end of the Civil War, Confederate army captain Justice Cain (Scott Brady) retires from the military. He becomes a farmer and lives a peaceful life with his son, Jody (by his deceased first wife) and his new wife, Angie (Tereza Thaw), the biracial ex-slave of Cain's former father-in-law. Unbeknownst to Cain, a group of six soldiers previously under Cain's command (and known as "Cain's Cutthroats"), Ameson (Robert Dix), Billy-Joe (Darwin Joston), Tucker (Bruce Kimball), Farrette (Don Epperson), Mason, and Crawford, has recently been released from a Union prison.
Action, alien invasion, Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Tony Mareda, Jr., a former Olympic athlete and world-renowned private detective, is driving across the country when he is attacked by mobsters. Chased to the sleepy backwater town of Beamsville, Tony ducks into the local drive-in theater, where he is followed by his pursuers. As Tony takes out the hit men amidst the parked cars, a pink meteor roars overhead and crashes in the nearby woods.
Action, Crime, spy film, thriller film
In 1972, an abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from The Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States.
Action, Drama
A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.
Action, Science fiction
Horror, war film
Two American World War II soldiers, both about to be court martialed for cowardice near the end of the war, escape when the Military Police Jeep they are riding in hits a land mine. They flee over the presumably French or Belgian countryside when they run into a band of partisans consisting of children led by an adult couple. The partisans, believing the Americans are German impostors, initially take the soldiers prisoner.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse
Dow is an ex-soldier searching the wasteland for his wife who was taken from him by the Warlord. With only a disembodied, wisecracking head and a renegade woman named Danny as his companions, they roam the terrain to try and get back the woman Dow lost.
Action, Comedy, Martial arts
Daisy inherits a mysterious aged property from her late grandfather, a martial arts master whom she never met. When she shows up on the grounds, she finds the house is being haunted by ghosts. When burglars stumble into the estate, she calls on the spirits to put a stop to them.
Treasure hunt
Emil Saber, a retired British soldier, collects ancient coins and Biblical artifacts. To complete his collection of King Herod's coins, Emil travels to Jerusalem to seek out the seventh and final one. In his search for the coin, Emil begins to lose his mind and eventually believes that he is the reincarnated Herod himself.
Action, Drama
A descendant of Edmond Dantès finds himself framed for a crime he did not commit.
Action
Hollywood stuntman Jingo Johnson returns to his rural hometown of Black Oak to visit his seriously ill mother who is being cared for at a nursing home. He discovers that a mining company has bought his mother's farm and his childhood home. He also learns that his former girlfriend Lucy is now involved with Harrison Hancock, who works for the mining company.
Action, Horror, thriller film, war film, Zombie
American soldiers are sent on a mission to prevent Nazi scientists from creating a super serum to transform their victims into an unstoppable fighting force.
Action, Crime, spy film, thriller film
Action, Crime, Drama, girls with guns, thriller film
Sophie Zen has master-minded a bank robbery. What she doesn't know is that one of her crew, Seth George, is an undercover cop. George is a maverick; even his police bosses don't know whether he's still on their side, and the undercover man is starting to fall for Sophie...
Action, Crime
The city is terrorized by a crime wave masterminded by the elusive, soft-spoken Professor Mortis (Ralph Morgan) from his base in a forgotten cavern beneath the rails of the city's subway line. He declares over the radio that The League of Murdered Men will exact revenge upon the city unless all the city officials, especially the mayor and Chief of Police, are turned out of office. Mortis's gang members were officially pronounced dead in prison after having supposedly committed suicide (in reality taking a drug that suspended animation) but later revived by medical genius Mortis, who recruited them to do his bidding.
Action, Drama, Martial arts
After a home invasion leaves Joseph Lawrence in a wheelchair and his wife dead, Joseph asks his friend Larry to assemble the other 5 members of their old squad to help him track down the criminals. A flashback reveals that Joseph, Larry, and the five other members of the squad were held captive as prisoners of war in Vietnam. Joseph earned the loyalty of the unit by stepping on a land mine to distract the Vietnamese soldiers while the others escaped.
Action, Drama
Drama, war film
John Larsen, a Marine Captain, stationed in the Philippines, had lost his right hand in an accident and is scheduled to be medically retired from the Corps. An American general is held captive by Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines and Larsen volunteers to rescue him. He fastens a steel prosthetic hook, the "steel claw" of the title, and embarks on the mission to rescue the general which leads him and his team, (Santana and his band of guerillas), deep into the Philippines where love and death await them.