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War Film, drama film, war film
During World War II, British Squadron Leader Lane-Ferris is badly wounded when a German interceptor attacks his bomber en route to a German railway junction at Schneidemühl. Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes assumes command and carries out the mission.
Adventure, Cartoon, Komödie, children's film
Pisces, or Pi, lives with his parents Pike and Piper in the polluted harbor of Boston until a fishing boat scoops them from the sea. Pi's parents help him escape the net, but cannot escape themselves. Before being taken away, Piper makes Pi promise to go live with his aunt Pearl.
Action, Adventure, Family Comedy, Japanese Animation Film, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
During a battle with Dr. Animo, Ben Kirby Tennyson's destruction of the scientist's "DNA bomb" accidentally sets off a self-destruct protocol in the Omnitrix. Its activation alerts Tetrax , who travels with his alien blob-like pilot Gluto to Earth in order to retrieve Ben.
mystery film, thriller film
Stone Alexander is a six-year-old boy whose mother has died giving birth to his younger brother, David. During a party at his influential father's home, Stone is left alone with David, who is in his crib. As Stone stares into the fireplace, a fiery force possesses him.
Action, Adventure, action film, adventure film, romantic drama
Years after the "known" events of the Robin Hood legend, Robin's daughter, Gwyn (Keira Knightley), has grown up to be a strong-willed young woman, with a talent for archery, much like her father. As Maid Marian has died and Robin Hood (Stuart Wilson) is perpetually away battling in the Crusades, Gwyn has lived much of her life alone. Her only friend is the sweet but plain Froderick (Del Synnott), who clearly is in love with her.
Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Graham Merrill passes a pet shop on his daily walks about London, and takes an interest in an otter (specifically, a male river otter) he sees in the shop window; eventually, he buys the animal and names him Mijbil or "Mij" for short. The otter wreaks havoc in his small flat, and together they leave London for a rustic cottage overlooking the sea on the west coast of Scotland. There they live as beachcombers, and make the acquaintance of Dr.
Action, Martial-Arts, action film, fantasy film, martial arts film, ninja film
In 19th century Asia, Yang is a warrior and member of Sad Flute's clan, the cruelest assassins in the east. His personal goal to become the greatest swordsman in the entire world is accomplished when he kills the former champion and leader of the enemy clan. Both clans having sworn to fight until every member of the opposing clan is dead, Yang has killed every member except a baby girl, deciding to spare her.
Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Set in Nottinghamshire, Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down.
Komödie, comedy film
After his mother's funeral at Islington Cemetery, while waiting for her ashes, London bank manager Henry Pulling meets eccentric Augusta Bertram, a woman who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named Zachary Wordsworth, is waiting for her. Shortly after, she receives a package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole Visconti, with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment of $100,000.
Secret Agent, adventure film
In the autumn of 1901, Carruthers, an aristocratic junior official in the British Foreign Office, is invited on a yachting and duck-shooting holiday by an old University acquaintance called Arthur Davies. On Carruthers' arrival on Germany's northern coast to join the yacht Dulcibella, Davies explains to him that he has a hidden agenda for the trip and the invitation beyond duck-hunting. While boating around the Frisian Islands ostensibly correcting antiquated British sea charts of the coastline's shifting topography, by chance he had met a retired German sailor called Dollmann on the yacht Medusa with his wife and daughter, Clara, with…
Classical Western, Western film
The action of the film starts with Colonel Dodge (Henry O'Neill) arriving on the first train and subsequently opening the new railroad line that links Dodge City with the rest of the world. A few years later, Dodge City has turned into the "longhorn cattle center of the world and wide-open Babylon of the American frontier, packed with settlers, thieves and gunmen—the town that knew no ethics but cash and killing". In particular, it is Jeff Surrett (Bruce Cabot) and his gang who kill, steal, cheat and, generally, control life in Dodge City without ever being brought to justice.
Drama, Western, Western film, drama film, war film
In 1916, as U.S. soldiers chase after Pancho Villa, Army Major Thomas Thorn is assigned to be a battlefield observer and reward heroism. He has been suggested for this duty by Colonel Rogers, who is 63 years old and impatiently yearning to be promoted to general before mandatory retirement a few months hence.
Action, War Film, drama film, war film
In the 1942 Pacific theatre of World War II, Lieutenant Junior Grade Sam Lawson, USN, is a Japanese-language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat. His commanding officer, Captain John G. Nolan, unexpectedly cancels his leave and informs Lawson that he is to be assigned to a British infantry commando unit in the New Hebrides Islands for a combat mission.
Adventure, action film, adventure film
Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is taken prisoner after Chinese Communist seize his ship. After two years in prison, unknown accomplices help Wilder escape using bribery and disguising him as a Soviet army officer. Wilder is transported to Chiku Shan village.
Action, Crime, crime film
The film begins by exploring stories involving a number of different characters who live in and around London, all of whom have experiences which lead them to believe that justice in the country is not being handed out fairly. These characters include nice guy white-collar worker Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer), who is brutally beaten by a yob after colliding with his car. Danny Bryant (Sean Bean) is a paratrooper who has seen action in the Falklands, Afghanistan and Iraq and who arrives back from abroad to find his wife with someone else, and also believes that the state of the country is worse than the war-torn places he has recently served in.
Adventure, adventure film, drama film
In Timbuktu, experienced guide Joe January (John Wayne) reluctantly joins a Saharan treasure hunting expedition led by Paul Bonnard (Rossano Brazzi), a man obsessed with confirming his dead father's claim to have found a lost city. Dita (Sophia Loren), a woman of dubious reputation, becomes infatuated with Paul and his willingness to overlook her past. She invites herself along, despite Joe's protests.
adventure film, comedy film
In Robotic City, Roger, a Robin Hood-esque blue heeler, tries to get some chicken drumsticks, but he instead successfully gives boxes of cat food to stray animals in the alley. When he tries to fetch food for himself, he’s discovered by Belle, a Siamese cat, who is hostile to him. He’s forced to run away when her owner appears, saying to Belle that mice got into her perfume again.
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Captain Scott is given the men, but not the funds, to go on a second expedition to the Antarctic. As his wife works on a bust of him, she tells him that she is "not the least jealous" that he is going to the Antarctic again. The wife of Dr.
Crime Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime comedy film
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former San Francisco burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her. A dentist, Dr. Cynthia Sheldrake, hires Bernice to break into her ex-husband Christopher's home and steal back her jewelry.
Classical Western, Western film, drama film
In the town of Cottonwood Springs, Texas at the turn of the century, Marshal Frank Patch is an Old West style lawman in a community determined to move beyond its rough past into the 20th century. When Patch kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town council decides it is time for the marshal to retire so that a modern police force can be established in the town. Patch refuses, reminding the citizens that when he took the job, the agreement was he could have it as long as he wanted- and he still wanted the job.
Fantasy, biographical film, children's film, fantasy film, musical film
The story focuses on the Grimm brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob. As the film opens, we learn they are working to finish a family history for a local Duke, though Wilhelm is more interested in collecting fairy tales and often spends what little food money they earn to hear them from locals; we see a canny flower seller tempting Wilhelm successfully into buying a bouquet by telling him the tale of The Twelve Dancing Princesses (though in the film, it is changed to only one princess, and the fairy ball is changed to a camp of Romani dancing instead). Jacob is incensed by this, scolding his brother for wasting their bread money.
Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film
Alan Block is a teenage city slicker with his whole summer planned out. That is, until his parents introduce him to Vic, a charming wilderness survival guide. Vic convinces them that six weeks off the grid is exactly what Alan needs to become a man.
Action, action film, martial arts film, thriller film
American FBI agent David Brandt is working undercover under the identity of Nick Davis, a former convict who died in solitary confinement, at a warehouse in Los Angeles that the Tendo crime family owns in order to infiltrate their operations. After Brandt saves the life of one of the family's leaders, Shuji Sawamoto, Sawamoto welcomes him into the criminal organization. As part of his introduction, Sawamoto takes Brandt to witness the execution of Okazai, an alleged traitor, via woodchipper then stops the execution at the last minute.
Adventure, adventure film, comedy film, family film