Beyond the Sierras (1928)
Action
Action movies
Explore action, physical conflict and high-stakes confrontations.
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Alaska Patrol (1949)
Action
Foreign agent Paul Rattick is caught stealing secret U.S. Navy documents and killed when trying to escape. Naval Intelligence officer Captain Wright and Operative Dale are tasked with finding who is behind the spy network that employed Rattick.
Stage to Mesa City (1947)
Action
John Watson is in financial difficulties because bandits are repeatedly holding up the coaches on his stage line, and his only hope is to get a mail contract but the bandits have to be stopped. His lawyer, Alan Baxter, tells him that the sheriff refuses to help. U.S.
UnCivil Liberties (2006)
thriller film
Set in the near future, UnCivil Liberties imagines a Big Brother–type government that uses technology to spy on its citizens. A militia assassin, Mike Wilson (Glenn Allen), is hired to kill a government agent, Cynthia Porter (Penny Perkins), who is reluctantly helping develop the technology. Wilson, however, cannot bring himself to assassinate Porter, and soon his partner, Sam Norton (Tony Grocki), is hired to kill Wilson.
Trouble at Midnight (1937)
Action
Flying Colors (1917)
Action, Drama, silent film
Where the West Begins (1938)
Action, Western
After being told by his ranch boss Lynn that she plans to sell her ranch to finance a move east, Jack is framed for cattle rustling by Barnes, the man set to buy the ranch. With the help of his pal Buzz, Jack escapes the noose and the two set out to clear Jack's name. In addition, Jack is suspicious of the reason why Barnes wants to own Lynn's ranch in the first place.
Web of Danger (1947)
Action
The Dixie Flyer (1928)
Action, silent film
The Minority (2006)
Comedy
Jake Jackson is a happy, positive young black professional who has a good job and a relationship. As Jake goes about his daily routine, he sees multiple incidents of racism around him which are perplexing to him because he never had experienced them himself. But all this changes one day, when one of his white co-workers asks if he would be interested in a date.
King Invincible (2017)
Action, genre art, romance film
The film revolves around a warlord who is cursed for sinning against the gods, resulting in his gradual transformation into a wolf. His quest to find the cure becomes complicated, as he is obstructed by another powerful character.
Coyote Trails (1935)
Action, Adventure, romance film, Western
A ranch is having their horses disappear with it believed that a wild white stallion called "The Phantom" is luring them away. In reality The Phantom is being used by rustlers in cahoots with the ranch's foreman.
The Oil Raider (1934)
Action
Dave Warren, a wildcatter, has uncovered a potentially profitable oil well but needs more money to keep drilling. He borrows fifty thousand dollars from an investment banker Varley. When Varley's financial interests suffer a severe collapse he needs urgent money and hires men to sabotage the drilling so that he can foreclose and use the oil to recover his fortunes.
The Dangerous Dude (1926)
Action, silent film
Undercover X (2001)
Action
"In the 2001 film Undercover X (aka No Boundaries), Shaw plays an undercover LAPD detective named Truck Baker, a cross between action star Chuck Norris and The Dude from The Big Lebowski. He's laid-back, but he can also tear your head off with his bare hands. Newcomer Richard Magram plays Shaw's hyperactive partner Torino, who rambles on and on like Joe Pesci after four cups of espresso." The feature was filmed in Hollywood, California, Seoul, South Korea, Tokyo and Kamakura, Japan.
Typhoon Treasure (1938)
Adventure
Alan Richards is the sole survivor of a pearling lugger which has been shipwrecked on Pakema Reef during a typhoon. He sets out to recover some pearls which went missing in the wreck, crossing through the jungle and fighting headhunters.
Fighting Caballero (1935)
Action
The Bold Frontiersman (1948)
Action
Aduri (2008)
Aduri Aman (Ariana Almajan), finds herself the target of federal agents, though she is herself employed by the FBI as an analyst. Unsuspecting that she may have knowledge of government secrets, she receives help and refuge from a stranger, Saif (Kawan Karadaghi). He seems overly eager to help.
The Further Adventures of the Flag Lieutenant (1927)
Action, silent film
The Sky Skidder (1929)
Action, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Al Simpkins is an ambitious aviator who has invented a new fuel he calls "Economo" which, he declares, will allow a plane to fly 1000 miles on a pint. He makes a trial flight on the fuel and, while in the air, sees his sweetheart Stella Hearns riding in a car with the wealthy and dishonest Silas Smythe. Just as the car gets out of control, Al sweeps down and rescues her by means of a rope ladder from his plane.
Flying High (1926)
Action, silent film
This plot description appeared in Motion Picture News. A broke, ex-army aviator is offered money to deliver a stolen package by airplane. He learns of theft and is hired to run-down the thieves by the president of the Aero Company, who has a daughter with whom the aviator is in love.
Psychotropica (2009)
independent film
The film opens with an elderly man (Damien Sage as "The Patient") leaving a rushed and emotional, voice message to his partner of 30 years. The Patient implies that an insidious person from his distant past (a past he never spoke of to his lover) has shown up and this person is very dangerous. The Patient has decided to run out on the good life he has had for so long, to leave his lover and everything they have behind to keep his partner out of harms way.
Hair-Trigger Casey (1936)
Action, Crime, Western