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Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romance film, war film
In the Mexican city of Cholula, the wedding of María Dolores Peñafiel, daughter of the successful glass manufacturer Don Carlos Peñafiel, to the American doctor Dr. Robert Stanley is prepared. When the rebel leader José Juan Reyes and his troops take Cholula, the wedding seems to be in danger.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Mad scientist Dr. Morgan wants sole access to secret diamond mines in the local area of Africa. He breeds giant crayfish ("Claw Monsters") to scare away any other inhabitants.
B western, Western
Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery at the Rattlesnake Gulch rodeo (with an admission price of $1) just after John Scott gets his rodeo prize money. The Rodeo Official is robbed and murdered by Pete and Jim a minute after Scott and Kansas Charlie leave. Pete tells authorities he just saw John and his friend Kansas Charlie leaving the office.
Crime Comedy, Heist, romantic comedy
A thief, Reese Halperin, and his accomplice, computer expert Norman Barrie, devise a scheme to break into a Vancouver bank. While carrying out the bank's blueprints, Reese is inadvertently photographed by Stacey Bishop, who is taking pictures for the bank's advertising campaign. Reese and Stacey meet, and, complicating the burglary somewhat, fall in love.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
An American insurance executive seeks vengeance for the death of his wife and child in Ireland.
Action, Crime, spy film
Action, Adventure
A humane zoologist, Dr. Jim Hanlon, who deplores the poaching of African rhinoceros, is unaware that the man he is guiding on safari, Alec Burnett, is a hunter intending to capture two rare white rhino to sell. Edith Arleigh is a nurse romantically involved with Burnett, whose hardened attitude toward jungle life softens when he is bitten by a cobra and Hanlon has to save his life.
Action, Martial arts
Joe Wong was a character that previously appeared in a Leo Fong film, Low Blow. He was a California PI who ran his business out of his shabby unkempt office. Wong returns in this film as one of the best in the business, operating from his base in San Francisco.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
Witnesses supposed to testify against mobster Jack Rosewald are being killed left and right. Seeing no other options, New York District Attorney Virgil Riley and his assistant Jonas contact the last remaining witness, located in Los Angeles, Finley, to travel to New York. Initially skeptical, Finley agrees after being promised protection.
Action, thriller film
This is a nightmare scenario, true for many Cold War submarine veterans. After a North Korean nuclear missile test goes wrong, the American nuclear attack submarine USS Lansing is cut off from communications. Detecting radioactivity in the air and believing the world to be at nuclear war, the executive officer takes command of the ship from the captain and prepares to fire the submarine's nuclear missiles at targets in Russia.
Action, Political Thriller, Science fiction
In 1988, a telekinetic Soviet agent known as "Firehead" (Brett Porter) defects to the west after refusing to use his powers against Estonian protesters. Two years later, he begins blowing up American munitions factories for unknown reasons. An NIH chemist (Chris Lemmon) and a government assassin (Gretchen Becker) are ordered to track him down.
Action, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
A failed space based defense system kills millions in a nuclear disaster. In the subsequent chaos, the wealthy developed cities run by brutal military fascists, while the poor roam the radioactive deserts created by the nuclear fallout. Many turn to extreme violence and slavery to survive.
Western
Three Civil War vets head to Texas and build a cattle empire, and battle rustlers, bad weather and each other. The first man abandons ship, and he is soon followed by the second partner. That leaves the "good guy" to defend his property from the vengeful traitors.
Action, Crime, mystery film
thumb|thumbtime=16|The Donovan Affair (1929; no audio) Jack Donovan is a gambler, womanizer, and con man whose luck has run out. Losing heavily at the track, he owes large sums to a clique of gamblers who have grown impatient with his refusal to pay. They decide he must be eliminated, assigning the job to Porter, a smooth but dangerous associate.
Action
Terrorists blow up a school bus in the Middle East, killing everyone on board except the military guard, Lt Liora who identifies the Palestinian Major Malouf as leading the operation. An Israeli military operation with Liora along to identify Malouf sets out to find the terrorists. Meanwhile, a US Air Force Colonel named Stevens, who is a nuclear arms expert, is parachuted into the desert to disarm a nuclear bomb that has accidentally fallen out of an airplane flying over the area.
Action, Comedy
Vic Sotto plays a barangay tanod who always seems to have a knack for saving the local folks from dangerous situations, just in the nick of time. Cynthia Luster is Lt. Cynthia Wang, a Royal Hong Kong Police on the lookout for Nikita, the infamous gang leader.
Action, Drama
Nick Jargin retired from auto racing undefeated. He is continually goaded by Mike Houston, a sportswriter, to come out of retirement and challenge the top racer of the day, Tony Botari, particularly after egotistically saying in an interview that Botari has no real competition now that he's out of the sport. Nick's girlfriend is Kelly James, a health club instructor.
Action, Crime
A newspaper reporter, Tim Rourke, keeps writing articles attacking the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, and this nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private-detective Michael Shayne, and Shayne turns up a blonde and a blackmailer.
Action, Drama
In Queens, New York, Nick Martin is a gang leader in the tough neighborhood of Sunnyside, but he aspires to move his mother, Mrs. Martin, and two brothers to a better way of life. Nick, however, is entangled in the politics of the street and wants to help his community, as the leader of the “Nightcrawlers.” When vendors at a local carnival swindle Sunnyside residents, the Nightcrawlers join forces with rival hooligans, the Warlocks and the Deathmakers, to rob the amusement park.
Adventure, Western
Don Arturo Bordega is a member of the old Spanish nobility and a vocal advocate for California's annexation by the United States. On his way to a secret meeting in support of that goal, he is attacked by bandits led by José Martínez but narrowly escapes. Martinez's bandits attempt to assassinate the guest of honor at the meeting, U.S.
Western
The story is based on the requirement of Spanish land owners in California to register their lands before a deadline and the chicanery practiced by some to prevent registration. U.S. Army Captain John Holmes is dispatched to encourage one of the largest Spanish landowners, Don Jose Castanares, to register before the deadline hoping the other landowners will fall in line.
Action, Adventure, Treasure hunt
Two men who used to play college football together - wealthy lawyer Marian Casey and down to earth Stack Baker - meet by chance at Montego Bay Marina in Jamaica. Baker shows Casey around the island, and the two friends get involved in a brawl. Baker introduces Casey to Meat Cleaver Stewart, a gruff scavenger, and his daughter Debbie.
Action, thriller film
Cash-strapped actor/director Rafe Stoker (Smith) reluctantly agrees to put up almost all of his personal fortune as collateral to shady investors to complete production on his action film. In turn, they hire Harvey (Girardin), an unstable biker, to sabotage the production so that they can collect on Stoker's pledge. Harvey and his gang engage in escalating acts of violence against Stoker's film crew and other random people, while Stoker desperately attempts to complete his film shoot amid other production delays.
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Dystopian, Science fiction
A few survivors have dedicated themselves to preserving and protecting what is left of mankind; among these is former Army Captain John Thomas Garth. Approached by Lapierre, a former comrade now employed by eco-profiteer Anton Reich, Garth is made an offer he cannot refuse. In exchange for his father's and other's survival, Reich agrees to lead a small team of mercenaries into the impenetrable Vincent estate to "liberate" the priceless works of art that had been stored there.