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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 295.

Last Exit (2006)

In a big city, Beth Welland (Robertson) is a divorced woman working as secretary in a law firm having problems with her boss and also financial difficulties to raise her ten-year-old handicapped beloved son, Benji. On the day of Benji's birthday, Beth's life is completely affected when she is cut off in traffic by the executive Diana Burke (Roth) and misses the last exit in a highway, arriving late to her job. Meanwhile, Diana is under pressure, depending on her presentation to an important client to be promoted in the company where she works, but having family problems at home, with her unemployed ex husband, two teenagers and a secret…

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Treed Murray (2001)

Drama

During a routine walk home through a park, advertising agency executive Murray (David Hewlett) gets lost after fleeing a beggar and runs into Carter (Kevin Duhaney), who demands his wallet. After a struggle, Murray strikes Carter in the face with his briefcase and proceeds to walk away. A small gang of punk teenagers, of which Carter is a member, emerges from the bushes.

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Blast Vegas (2013)

Action, disaster film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Natural Disaster

Frat brothers head to Las Vegas for spring break. When one of them steals an ancient Egyptian sword on display in a casino, they unwittingly release a curse that invokes a disastrous sandstorm in Las Vegas. This city is slowly being destroyed while Nelson (Frankie Muniz) and his girlfriend Olive (Maggie Castle), along with Sal (Barry Bostwick) race to remove the curse and calm the storm.

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The Veteran (2006)

Drama, war film

30 years since the Fall of Saigon, Ray Watson (played by Bobby Hosea from Under Heavy Fire), a Vietnam War veteran now working as a state senator, returns to Vietnam once again. When he arrives at his hotel room, he gets an unexpected visit from another veteran (played by Michael Ironside), who claims to be one of Ray's old comrades from Echo Company. Ray doesn't remember him, so he starts to remind him about the time that they served together.

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The Hillz (2004)

Drama

The film follows the experiences of a promising athlete named Steve and his friends who live in a small southern California town. Steve's three friends, Duff, Seb, and T, all come from wealthy families and spend most of their time getting high, drinking at parties, and harassing Ahkmed, a convenience store clerk. After finding a gun in a girl's house, Duff starts violently pursuing a life of crime with T, the loudmouthed instigator with a Napoleon complex, at his side.

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Swaarangi – The Melting Embers (2015)

Action

Salma's husband, Jamal is not the easiest man to get along with, but for the sake of their children, she stays with him. Jamal is a heroin addict, dependent on Salma's instincts to protect her wedding vows so he can take advantage of her honorability to get his daily fix. He is lost without her, desperate to change however willing to sell his soul to the devil if need be.

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Two-Fisted Law (1932)

Western

Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.

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I Declare War (2012)

Action, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Drama

A neighborhood group of preteen friends play a game of capture the flag one Saturday afternoon in the local woods. However, their imaginations run wild, transforming their surroundings and equipment into a real warzone (sticks become rifles, slingshots become crossbows etc.) and before long, things get out of hand.

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Masterminds (2013)

Action

When a businessman's plot to steal from criminals goes south, he learns that he stole from the wrong guy, and when a dangerous drug cartel shows up, all hell breaks loose. A businessman (Trey Chaney) uses his nightclub to target criminals for theft, but gets double crossed by his long-suffering girlfriend (Tila "Tequila" Nguyen) after using her as the bait.

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Live Evil (2008)

Action, Horror, thriller film, Vampire

Vampires are finding their own undead bodies being mutated by the pollution of the host's blood, tainted with hard drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, alcohol, diabetes, anti-depressants, and cigarettes: substances that change the blood and makes it undrinkable for vampires. The scarcity of good blood has incited an underground civil war between various groups of vampires. A clique of 4 vampires, led by Benedict (Mark Hengst), struggle to find sustenance by seeking victims with untainted blood.

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Restraining Order (1999)

thriller film

Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is defending Martin Ritter, a killer, whom he gets off. Later he has dinner with a friend, and his friend tells him that he needs to talk to him about something important.

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Señorita Justice (2004)

Action, Crime

Anna Rios (Yancy Mendia) is a young lawyer who negotiates property agreements in the city of Miami. Anna learns that her younger brother was murdered in a gang-related drive-by attack and learns that her father had emotionally broken down. Not capable of opposing the call of her home, she proceeds to the seedy streets where she was raised to look into the subject.

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The Last Lion (1972)

Action

Ryk Mannering, a terminally ill American millionaire, goes to Africa on a final hunting expedition to track down and shoot a male lion. This lion has always eluded Mannering, who has killed more than 80 lions, and become obsessed with the animal. Mannering hires a private doctor to keep him alive, and pays a local hunter to track down the lion.

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Down 'n Dirty (2001)

Action, thriller film

Dakota Smith is a tough cop who tries to track down his partner's killers. In the course of Smith's quest to find the killers of his partner, he discovers that the chain goes right up from the lower regions of the police department to city government. Along the way, Smith teams up Nick Gleem, a timid photographer.

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Jungle Menace (1937)

Action, Adventure

In the Asian province of Seemang, where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (Charlotte Henry), is engaged to neighboring planter Tom Banning (William Bakewell), but troubles are brewing for both plantations.

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Ozone (1995)

Action, Horror

While on a stake out with his partner, Detective Eddie Boone is stabbed with a needle containing a new street drug called "ozone". Boone has to fight the narcotic's effects in an effort to find his now missing partner while trudging through a city full of mutated "ozone" addicted vagrants who answer to a drug king pin known as Sam DeBartolo.

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