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Adventure
Tim Tyler stows away on a ship bound for Africa to find his father, Professor James Tyler. He meets, and is joined by, Lora Lacey, who is chasing the criminal "Spider" Webb, the man responsible for framing her brother.
Action
Sticks is an off-beat noir action comedy about a smuggler of Cuban cigars who gets involved, and ultimately falls in love, with a Cuban revolutionary Maria who's in the U.S. trading cigars for guns. The two join forces to sell a large (stolen) shipment of Castro's private label cigar, the famed "El Mariposa", and suddenly they find themselves enmeshed in the seedy underbelly of a mob-run cigar smuggling ring that's being monitored by the feds.
Action
Action
Two self-aware characters in a Call of Duty-inspired video game battle endless supplies of Vietcong, absurdly powerful level bosses and their own existential crises. With the help of Mark Hamill's Yoda-like monk, they attempt to win the game and "get the girl."
action thriller
Action, family film
A greedy mobster plans to close down The Master Martial Arts school, but he is unaware that its owner and his four daughters all have black belts and are prepared to fight to save it.
Action
In a society on the brink of chaos, military forces are trying to ensure that farmworkers tend to the crops before they revolt, but one worker is shot dead by a soldier.
Action
Young "Freddie" Vincent runs away from home with his faithful dog, Duke. Stowing away in the back of a truck, Freddie and Duke find themselves in the clutches of gangsters.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic
Action, thriller film
A bride-to-be and her four bridesmaids travel to an exotic Caribbean island for a bachelorette party. After arriving at the luxurious resort, the women take a boat ride to a secluded island, where they can bask in sun and sand. The captain of the boat forgets to pick the girls up, leaving them stranded on the island, forcing them to use a deserted house as a makeshift shelter.
Action, Crime, Drama
Action, Crime, Drama
Mark Johnson is a Los Angeles motorcycle cop who patrols rough neighborhoods alongside his partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. After a run-in with a gang known as The Virgins, he soon develops a respectful acquaintanceship with the leader, Big Donnie. He advises Donnie not to allow his pregnant girlfriend, Judy, to ride on motorcycles in her condition.
Action Comedy, Horror
The Long Pig is a secret restaurant whose wealthy regulars know that the meat on the menu comes from people. When the elderly owner decides to sell up rather than leave the business to his son, the son, Steven, kills him and takes charge. He then turns the basement into a venue where abducted fighters are made to battle each other, with the losers killed and cooked for the diners, who bet on the matches as they eat.
science fiction action film
Adventure
Former World War I ace pilot Captain Bob Dayton, (Donald Woods) is the owner of Sky Raiders, Inc., an aircraft company. Dayton has designed a bombsight and a new high speed fighter aircraft, the "Sky Raider". Dayton recruits young Tim Bryant (Billy Halop), a member of Air Youth of America, to help him.
Unlike other Alamo films that concentrate on Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, the main protagonists are Almaron (Bruce Warren) and Susanna Dickinson (Ruth Findlay) and their daughter Angelina (Marilyn Haslett). The film gives a fictionalised fast moving account of the restriction on American emigration to Texas, the arrest of Stephen F. Austin by Santa Anna (Julian Rivero), Sam Houston (Edward Piel) appointed General to build the Texian Army, and Dickinson's participation in both the Battle of Gonzales and the Battle of the Alamo.
Western
A cattle buyer, a federal agent and a newswoman become involved in a railroad plot against the backdrop of a rancher vs. homesteader war.
Action, thriller film
A young girl, Amy Tolliver (Mae Whitman), is visiting her grandmother's cabin in a forested mountain area of Maine. Amy had not long before developed a degenerative eye disease that has made her completely blind with no light perception, and she is trying to cope with her recent disability. When her boyfriend, David (Matthew Smalley), leaves for supplies, she is left alone.
Western
Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle. As he rides into town, he takes a bullet meant for gambler Matt Daggett and across the street lies his uncle, victim of the gambler's gun. Dagget looks on Bill as 'good luck' and nurses him back to health and gives him the job of training "Blue Chip", the fastest quarter horse in the west, for a big race.
Comedy
Steve Trent, head of Red Circle Cabs, tries to buy John Cassidy's independent taxi business. When Cassidy turns him down, Trent then orders his cabbies to drive Cassidy off the road. Cassidy is injured and his cab is wrecked.
Action, teen film
Lindsay Scott is an intelligent student who works as a reporter for her high school in suburban Indianapolis. She uncovers a huge economic-espionage conspiracy. She reports to the authorities, but they refuse to believe her.
spy film
In World War II, an unnamed enemy require a special mineral, Compound X, discovered in Canada. Although intended to cure paralysis, the enemy has discovered that it can be used in magnetic mines to destroy the British fleet and blockade America to prevent it assisting the Allies. The Mounties discover this plot and work to defeat and capture the spies sent to obtain the ore.
spy film
During World War II, members of The Dead End Kids, a youth gang, Billy "Ace" Holden, "Bolts" Larson, "Stick" Munsey, Ace's brother, Eddie, and "Greaseball" Plunkett are working in a salvage yard owned by Ace's father, recovering aircraft parts. While making their escape from robbing a bank, members of a fifth column organization, the "Order of the Black Dragonfly", steal the boys' wrecking truck. When agent Don Ames from the State Bureau of Investigation, returns their truck, the gang who is distrustful of authority, especially, the "cops", refuse to give a description of the men who stole the truck.
Action
Following service in the Congo Crisis, two mercenary comrades in arms go their separate ways to new assignments. Mark Anderson flies to Rio de Janeiro where he is hired to protect mineral mines in the interior of Brazil from saboteurs. The saboteurs have hired his friend.