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drama film, historical film
It is 1812. General Wellesley is ready to invade Spain from Portugal but two formidable fortresses stand in the way. Ciudad Rodrigo is taken, but Colonel Lawford is severely wounded and forced to relinquish command of the South Essex Regiment, depriving Captain Sharpe of an influential friend.
Adventure, adventure film, drama film
In 16th-century London, a pauper called Tom Canty reading to a group of children is attacked by his cruel father. John Canty threatens to beat Tom unless he steals five shillings by suppertime. Tom goes into the city square and steals a purse from a rich man, but drops it after bumping into another man.
Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, fantasy film, medieval film, period drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film, sword-and-sandal film
The story is based on the myth of King Arthur. A young, inexperienced squire Valiant, masquerading as Sir Gawain, is sent to accompany the Welsh princess Lady Ilene, a guest at Camelot, on her way back home. Little does he know that meanwhile, Arthur's wicked sister Morgan has retrieved a spellbook from Merlin's tomb and convinced the Viking warlord Sligon, ruler of the kingdom of Thule, to steal the magical sword Excalibur during a jousting tournament.
Adventure, Drama, comedy drama, drama film
In Oregon, Benji has gone missing while filming a movie. Benji's trainer, Frank Inn, tells a reporter that he and Benji had been on a fishing boat in the Pacific when a storm caused the vessel to capsize. Inn fears that Benji is dead, but the movie producers plan to use a helicopter to search for him.
Animation, adventure film, family film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Late one night, Littlefoot sees a meteor fall from the sky and crashing into the volcano Threehorn's Peak. When Littlefoot describes it the next morning, the adults in Great Valley do not take it seriously, except for two mysterious newcomer dinosaurs, the rainbow-beaked and long-necked "Rainbow Faces". The Rainbow Faces tell them of possibilities of wonders beyond what they know, and suggest the rock may be a magic stone of cold fire.
Adventure, adventure film, children's film
Skip Robinson is a construction worker who lives with his family in Los Angeles, California. Concerned about his eleven year old daughter Jenny's health and the welfare of his family, as well as despising his job, Skip grows tired of the city life and decides to move his family to the Rocky Mountains with no plans to ever return due to the smog and congestion. After moving his wife Pat and two children, Jenny and seven year old Toby, to the wilderness and then building their own cabin near a large lake, they settle in to find out that their new environment isn't always as peaceful as it may appear.
Adventure, Drama, drama film, medieval film
Prince Amled witnesses the murders of his father, King Hardvendel of the Danes, and Amled's brother. The perpetrators are Fenge (the king's brother) and his henchmen. This trauma seems to drive Amled instantly insane, and he enters a semi-catatonic state.
Adventure, Fantasy
In 1917, thirteen-year-old Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, a Russian Grand Duchess, escapes through a portal created by her family's old friend, Grigori Rasputin, when her family is threatened by the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin. Anastasia finds herself in the United States seventy-years later in 1989, while in a suburban neighborhood. However, Anastasia is unaware that an enchantress, Yara, is working with Lenin.
Sci-Fi, science fiction film
John Carter is a modern-day U.S. Army sniper serving in Afghanistan, wounded in the line of duty and used in a teleportation experiment wherein he is transferred to Barsoom, a planet in the Alpha Centauri stellar system, far from the Sun-based Solar System of Earth, where he exhibits the ability to leap amazing distances. Initially enslaved by the Tharks, he earns a rank among them and later saves a rival group's princess, the human-looking Dejah Thoris, from death.
Historie, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, heist film
Harry Dighby and Walter Hill are struggling vaudevillians who are sent to jail when Dighby is caught robbing audience members. They become roommates to a cultured, wealthy, and charming bank robber named Adam Worth. Worth plans to rob the Lowell Bank and Trust, both to avenge himself on the bank manager who had arranged his capture and because his ego cannot resist the temptation of robbing a bank reputed to be perfectly secure.
Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, mystery film
Sylvia Pickel (pronounced with an emphasis on the "kel") is a trance-medium who has contact with Louise, a wisecracking spirit guide. She first began communicating with her after falling from a ladder at the age of 12 and remaining comatose for two weeks. Subsequently, Louise taught her astral projection while she was placed in special homes for being "different." At a study of psychics, Sylvia meets fellow psychic Nick Deezy, a psychometrist who can determine the history of events surrounding an object by touching it.
Spaghetti Western
In Daugherty, Texas, a group of thieves disguised as Army soldiers steal a safe with $100,000 of the Army's money in it by having a pair of acrobats vault up to the second floor entrance. They haul the vault away in a wagon. During the robbery, Sabata befriends Carrincha, a Confederate veteran.
Adventure, Dark Comedy, Drama, Komödie, adventure, adventure film, black comedy, comedy film, tragicomedy
In 2005, Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) lives alone with his pet cat Molotov as his only company. When Molotov is killed by a fox, an enraged Allan gets revenge by blowing up the fox using dynamite, which prompts the authorities to move him to a retirement home in Malmköping. On the same day as his centenary celebration, Allan climbs out of the window and disappears, walking to the bus station intending on traveling as far as he can.
action film, comedy film, heist film
At the start of the film, Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan Transit Authority (then operator of Melbourne's trams). Malcolm, who has autism (see "Development & Production" section below), is obsessed with trams, but he is also a mechanical genius whose modest inner-city cottage is fitted with a variety of remarkable gadgets. When his boss (Bud Tingwell) discovers that Malcolm has built himself a cut-down tram during work time and using work materials, and has taken it out on the tracks, Malcolm is sacked.
Drama, Historie, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah prosper because of their great deposits of salt, which are mined by an army of slaves. The decadent citizens, who have become wealthy by trading salt, live in luxury and use slaves as servants and for violent games of entertainment. After a night of revelry, Astaroth, the Prince of Sodom, tells slave girl Tamar to carry a message to the king of the Elamites, with whom he plans to overthrow his sister, Bera, Queen of Sodom.
Christmas film, comedy television program
5-year-old twins Sarah and Julie are sweet but naughty, to the frustration of their single mother, Rhonda. After overhearing her say she needs a break from them, they decide to run away to great-grandmother's house in Edgemont for Christmas. The girls sneak onto a city bus, but learn that it only goes downtown, and that Edgemont is three hours away.
drama film
After lots of planning and dreaming, young couple Willie LaHaye (Logan Bartholomew) and Missie LaHaye (Erin Cottrell) have headed West on the Wagon Trail, leaving behind the hometown of Missie's parents. Missie is caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she'll see her family again. Willie and Missie leave the Wagon Train and travel further West to Tettsford Junction.
War Film, drama film, war film
In 1964, Major Asa Barker, a weary veteran of World War II and the Korean War, is given command of a poorly-manned US Army advisor outpost overlooking three villages in South Vietnam. He is ordered to reoccupy a nearby deserted hamlet named Muc Wa on the Da Nang-to-Phnom Penh highway where a massacre of French colonial troops had occurred a decade before, during the First Indochina War. Barker and his executive officer, the career-oriented Captain Olivetti, order four replacements to accomplish the mission.
Adventure, adventure film
In Skagway in 1900, Jack Thornton announces to a crowded bar that he is going home after striking it rich in the gold fields, but then loses most of his money gambling. He then runs into old pal, "Shorty" Hoolihan, who has just been released from jail after serving a sentence for reading other people's mail. Shorty tells Jack that the contents of one letter he read is worth a million dollars.
Adventure, Western, Western film
In April 1862, Cpl. William Pittenger and several other soldiers, including William Campbell, are posted outside Nashville under orders from General Mitchell. James J.
Drama, drama film, family film, romance film
The story is set in Kansas in 1910. Jacob Witting is a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife, Katherine, during childbirth six years before. Since then, the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult for him to handle alone.
Action, action film
In France, Vincent Brazil (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Roland Flint (Scott Adkins) retired from being a contract killer after an attack by drug kingpin Polo Yakur (Ivan Kaye) left Roland's wife Anna (Bianca Van Varenberg) in a coma that she still hasn't emerged from. When a contract is put out on Yakur, both Vincent and Roland want to take the contract—Vincent is in it for the money, and Roland is in it to make Yakur pay for putting Anna in a coma.
Adventure, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, film based on a literary work
The film begins with Flashman making a patriotic speech to the boys of Rugby School framed by a giant Union Jack, in a scene which appears to be a parody of the opening sequence in the 1970 film Patton. There is a brief flashback to the events of the original Flashman, with the head of Rugby School (Michael Hordern) recounting Flashman's exploits in Afghanistan. The film then follows the plot of the book, which itself largely derives from The Prisoner of Zenda.
Adventure, Animation, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, romantic comedy
A succession of raids leaves a tribe of Vikings without anyone to fight against them. The tribe's adviser, Cryptograf, concludes that their enemies have all fled, stating that "fear gives you wings". The Viking's chief, Timandahaf, misinterprets his adviser's words and declares they must find a "Champion of Fear", believing that if the tribe were to become great cowards, they'll be able to fly and become invincible.