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Murder Is My Business (1946)

Action, Crime

Arnold Ramsey has two grown children, Dorothy and Ernest, who hate Ramsey's second wife Eleanor who has money of her own, but refuses to spend it on supporting their lavish lifestyles. Eleanor meets with private detective Mike Shayne to hire him to investigate threatening letters she has been receiving. In flashback the viewer sees the details of her home situation.

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Starship: Apocalypse (2014)

science fiction action film

After Starship Rising, Gustav a former federation general joins John Worthy’s rebel crew. However the rest of the galaxy is in chaos with the federation and rebel Terra Nostra fleets both split. John has uncovered that the federation and Terra Nostra rebels are both being run by the overseer.

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Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)

Western

Roy and his sidekick Teddy Bear are mistaken for the kidnappers of a runaway teenager. After escaping from a posse the two find the teenager, Chip who explains their innocence and has her sister Ysobel and her soon to be husband the rich Craig Allen give the pair jobs. Chip tells Roy she is sure her late father had riches hidden away that the unscrupulous Craig Allen tries to take for himself.

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Slime City Massacre (2010)

Action, Comedy horror, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

A dirty bomb has decimated New York City's financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slimy creatures (like Zachary), driven to murder. Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.

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Arrivano Joe e Margherito (1974)

Action, buddy film, Comedy

Joe is assigned to protect Don Salvatore who is about to leave Italy for the United States. Don Salvatore has a number of enemies but Joe is supported by a new friend, the courageous mariner Margherito. But even the efforts of both of them are eventually not sufficient to keep Don Salvatore alive.

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Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)

The story, set in late 1941, follows Los Angeles cop Michael Steele (Preston Foster) as he investigates a series of crimes involving the local Japanese-American community. The story gradually reveals that the crimes are to cover up a Japanese-American cabal's efforts to facilitate Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the horrific military attack, the Japanese-American community's demonstrations of loyalty to America are portrayed as patently insincere.

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Queen of the Amazons (1947)

Adventure, exploitation film

Jean Preston (Patricia Morison) is determined to find her fiancé, Greg Jones (Bruce Edwards), who went on a safari and didn’t come back when expected. She travels to "Akbar", India, with Greg’s father, Colonel Jones (John Miljan), who also narrates the film, together with Wayne Monroe (Keith Richards) and the Professor (Wilson Benge). She asks about Jones at the front desk of the hotel where she stays.

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Humanity's End (2009)

Action, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film, war film

Several hundred years into the future, mankind has been relegated to the position of a minority species being replaced by a clone-race called "Homo technis" or "Konstrukts" which is itself being supplanted by the genetically engineered race "Homo superior". The Homo superior have enhanced themselves with DNA from a race of hostile extraterrestrials called Nephilim who are known for their superior military skills, to wipe out all the Homo sapiens and Homo technis "lesser" races from the galaxy. In order to save the "lower" races, Homo technis develops a genus of sapiens called "breeders", with an ability to bring multiple births to term…

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Street Soldiers (1991)

Action

A truce between two rival gangs, the Tigers and the JPs, come to an end when after a day at school, the Tigers are attacked by members of the JPs, led by Spider. When Tigers leader Max warns Spider about the truce, Spider informs Max it is his gang and they want the streets back. Max gets help in Charlie, who is a martial arts expert but in the melee, Tigers member Spud is stabbed by Spider.

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Voice in the Wind (1944)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Jan Foley (Lederer), an amnesiac Czech pianist, is a victim of Nazi torture for playing a banned song. Living under a new identity on the island of French-governed Guadalupe, Jan tries to recall his past life while working for refugee smuggler Angelo (Alexander Granach). To the melancholy island of Guadalupe come a band of refugees, stripped of their friends and their country by the war.

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