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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 9,280 films · Page 299.

Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)

Action, Comedy drama

Lieut. Bill Brannigan learns friend and hotshot pilot Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" O'Toole, the self-styled "world's greatest aviator", is joining the USMC Reserve Aviator training program. O'Toole arrives at San Diego and promptly starts to move in on Brannigan's love interest, Betty Roberts, the daughter of the owner of the nearby Happy Landings Cafe.

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Already Dead (2007)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard), a disconsolate man, is led to an underground room by a distorted male voice on his mobile phone. In flashback it is shown that his wife had been attacked and his son killed for no apparent reason. When he reaches the underground room he finds a man hooded and tied to a chair and told by the distorted voice that this is the man responsible for the attacks.

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Sidekick (2005)

fantasy film

Norman Neale and his best friend Chuck have an ongoing debate on the subject of "what single superpower would you choose?" Then, one day, Norman notices Victor Ventura, a successful trader at Richmond financial, the company he works for. While the two are both getting coffee, Norman accidentally drops a mug. Victor amazingly catches the mug in midair.

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Buckskin Frontier (1943)

Action

Kansas settler Jeptha Marr is leery of the railroad intruding on his territory, and opposes railroad representative Stephen Bent, only to be surprised when daughter Vinnie returns to the town of Pawnee after a long absence and is already acquainted with Stephen. A rival railroad interest spearheaded by Champ Clanton tries to muscle its way in, trying to taint Stephen's reputation by insinuating a relationship with Rita Molyneaux, a woman with a bad reputation. By the end, though, Vinnie is reassured that Rita is actually interested in Gideon Skene, and the railroad is headed Pawnee's way under Stephen's watch.

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Full Fathom Five (1990)

Action

Full Fathom Five, based on the novel by Bart Davis, is set in the days preceding the United States invasion of Panama in 1989. USS Aspen, a fictional , rescues agents from Panama, and Peter MacKenzie (Michael Moriarty), the submarine's commanding officer, promptly falls in love with the beautiful Justine (Maria Rangel). Meanwhile, Panamanian rebels seize a Soviet submarine (the "Victor Three class submarine CCCP Kirov") and threaten America with a nuclear attack on Houston, Texas.

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Born to Fight (1989)

Action

Super tough Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood (Huff) is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. When Wood returns to rescue his friends, he finds that they are already dead. Some time later, a woman named Maryline Kane (Stavin) offers him a tremendous amount of money if he will accompany her back to the area where the prison camp was to do interviews for a documentary story.

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Repo Jake (1990)

Action, Crime

Jake Baxter, an ex-Marine and a former racer, moves from Minnesota to Los Angeles, California, to earn money as a repo man, hoping to make at least $60,000 in three months in order to pay off his lot that is to be repossessed. He stops a thief from stealing the purse of Jenny, an aspiring actress, and the two have dinner. Working for a repo company managed by a man named Bulldog, Jake meets his co-workers, who include Jam, Lippy, Blondie, Amos, Waldo, and Skidmark.

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Jungle Jim (1937)

Adventure

Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman and escort her back to civilisation. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance themselves...

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Hi-Riders (1978)

Action, Crime, thriller film

Mark and Lynn are drawn into acts of hatred and revenge after trying to collect on a bet with a drag-racing car club known for "jacking up" the rears of their cars much higher than stock. When a local hothead challenges the club to a race, both drivers are killed in a spectacular explosion. The local boy's father vows revenge.

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Liberty & Bash (1989)

Action

Miles O'Keeffe and Lou Ferrigno star as Vietnam war buddies Liberty and Bash, who team up to rid their community of drugs. When Jesse (Richard Eden) is murdered, Liberty hunts them down with Bash to get them back for killing Jesse. Their friendship began in a time of war, when Liberty and Bash stood united against one enemy in Central America.

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My Pal Trigger (1946)

Western

Roy Rogers, a horse dealer and a peddler of leather goods, is hoping to mate his mare named "Lady" with Golden Sovereign, a stallion owned by rancher Gabby Kendrick. Kendrick refuses, preferring to mate the stallion with his own stock. Brett Scoville, a wealthy rancher and nightclub owner, wants to mate the stallion with his mare as well, and, to that end, steals the stallion.

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The Last Frontier (1932)

Adventure

The outlaw "Tiger" Morris tries to drive settlers off their land in order to acquire the local gold deposits. A crusading newspaper editor, Tom Kirby, becomes the masked vigilante called The Black Ghost to stop him. The gimmick in this serial is that Chaney is a white man who disguises himself as a Hispanic Zorro-like vigilante, without covering his face (he simply applies a mustache and a hat), and yet his close friends don't ever seem to recognize that he is the Black Ghost.

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Way for a Sailor (1930)

romance film

The film follows three merchant marine sailors—Jack, Tripod and Ginger—back and forth between their home port of London and the seaports of the world, drinking, brawling, gambling, pursuing prostitutes (actually anything in a skirt), fighting a fire aboard ship and each other, and signing on a new vessel as soon as they have spent their pay. Jack has dozens of girls in every port, but in London he meets his match in Joan, who works in the Shipping Office. For years, he tries in vain to seduce her.

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