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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 142.

Sheroes (2023)

Action, Adventure

Rich heiress Diamond surprises her three best friends – adrenaline junkie Ryder, struggling actress Ezra, and independent art curator Daisy – by revealing that her father has agreed to let them borrow his jet and vacation estate in Thailand for a girls' trip. While flying across the ocean, Diamond spends some time with their pilot, Jasper, and the two find themselves instantly attracted to each other. Not long after they settle in, the girls head out on the town, but quickly run into trouble when strange men accost Daisy and start threatening her with a gun.

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Night Of The Twisters (1996)

Action, disaster film, Drama, Natural Disaster

At 1:16 p.m. on a Fall afternoon in 1996, Bob Iverson, a storm chaser with the Kansas State Tornado Center relaying information to the National Weather Service on a chase assignment, is driving down a country road in rural Central Nebraska to track a supercell thunderstorm. While observing the storm, Bob spots a tornado touching down almost a mile south of his location; he warns a family living nearby, right as their daughter Sarah, arrives home from school, about the oncoming twister, which sends them running into their root cellar before it destroys their farm.

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2010: Moby Dick (2010)

Adventure, Horror, monster film

On November 20, 1969, 50 miles off Soviet waters, the USS Acushnet dives under the ice. A young Ahab listens to sonar for enemy submarines when suddenly he detects an unknown target. When the captain listens, he hears nothing, but Ahab insists on a presence in the emptiness.

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The Wildest Dream (2010)

Adventure, Biography, documentary film, sport film

In 1924 mountaineer George Mallory was torn between love for his wife Ruth, and his obsession with the last great adventure left to man: becoming the first person to reach the summit of the untouched Mount Everest. Dressed in gabardine and wearing hobnailed boots, Mallory risked everything in pursuit of his dream, but was last seen alive 800 feet below the summit. Then the clouds rolled in and he disappeared.

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The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)

Adventure, fantasy film

The Bureau of Antiquities are a secret government organization which protect the world from the misuse of dangerous historical artifacts. Captain Will Charity, a daring and unsinkable agent of the Bureau, catches up with Otto Luger, a wealthy and ambitious opponent. Luger has found the map revealing the location of the Midas box, an item lost in time, which is said to transform anything placed inside it to pure gold.

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Firestorm (1998)

Action, disaster film, thriller film

During a forest fire in northern Wyoming, smokejumper Jesse Graves and his mentor Wynt Perkins are rescuing trapped civilians when a woman begs them to rescue her daughter from a burning cabin. They locate the girl, but Wynt is injured by a travel trailer sent flying by an explosion. Jesse manages to free Wynt and rescue both him and the girl from a flashover; Wynt's injuries mean that he must retire from active duty, but he balks at the idea of "full" retirement due to his inadequate pension plan.

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Cowboy (1958)

Classical Western, Western

Frank Harris is a Chicago hotel clerk who dreams of making his fortune in the cattle business and has also fallen in love with Maria, the daughter of hotel guest and Mexican cattle baron Señor Vidal. When Vidal finds out about the relationship, he orders Harris to stay away and arranges to return immediately to Mexico with his daughter. Meanwhile, Tom Reece finishes a cattle drive and takes over an entire wing of the hotel, as usual.

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Vigilante (1983)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City and has a wife named Vickie and an eight-year-old son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and two other co-workers Burke and Ramon have formed a secret vigilante group because Nick and the group are fed up with the crime in their neighborhood. Nick and his group are also tired of the police, because the police always fail to protect people.

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Where the Money Is (2000)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, Heist

Professional thief Henry Manning is in an Oregon nursing home's care. Having apparently had a massive stroke, he is immobile and mute. Henry is in the care of Carol Ann McKay, a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne, the prom king and star of her school's football team.

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Fled (1996)

Action, buddy film, Comedy, Gangster Film, thriller film

An interrogator prepares a man to take the stand against mob boss Frank Matajano on an Air Force base. A driver delivers takeout, which is taken to the interrogation room. Once opened, it explodes, killing the witness.

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Capsized: Blood in the Water (2019)

Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, survival film, suspense film, television film, thriller film

Based on a true story; in October 1982, the Trashman yacht sailing in a routine transfer from Maine to Florida, is capsized following an unexpected storm. The crew is left adrift in open water for days in the cold, shark-infested waters. The group realizes that they must do everything they can to survive exhaustion, dehydration, insanity and the sharks below.

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Adventure, war film

thumb|left|280px|Stone (left) and McGregor hunting wild boar as a cover for an intelligence gathering mission On the northwest frontier of India during the British Raj, Scottish Canadian Lieutenant Alan McGregor, in charge of newcomers, welcomes two replacements to the 41st Bengal Lancers: Lieutenant John Forsythe and Lieutenant Donald Stone, the son of the unit's commander, Colonel Tom Stone. Lieutenant Stone, a "cub" (meaning a newly commissioned officer), eagerly anticipated serving on the Indian frontier, particularly because he specifically was requested and assumed that his father sent for him; Lieutenant Forsythe, an experienced…

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Lady Oscar (1979)

Adventure, Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, romance film, swashbuckler film

General Jarjayes' wife dies while giving birth to a baby girl. Frustrated by this and refusing to believe his wife would die without giving him a male heir, the General names the girl Oscar François de Jarjayes and decides to raise her as a boy. He tells his housekeeper that her son, André, will grow up with Oscar and become her best friend, as the General believes the girl should be around men.

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Big Nothing (2006)

Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film

In a small Oregon town, a brutal serial killer nicknamed the "Oregon undertaker" has been murdering and mutilating young women. Charlie is an ex-teacher who is fired on his first day as a call center employee. His colleague Gus invites him to join a plot to blackmail a reverend, about whose visits to porn websites he has obtained evidence.

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Knights of the City (1986)

Action, musical film

The Royals are a multi-ethnic street gang led by Troy (Leon Isaac Kennedy). Troy is aware that a life on the mean streets can only lead to a dead end. Therefore, he has been trying through his own determination and musical ambitions to motivate the band towards a serious goal as professional performers.

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North Sea Hijack (1980)

Action, Adventure

Eccentric and cat-lover counter-terrorism consultant Rufus Excalibur ffolkes is asked by Lloyd's of London to develop a contingency plan, should any of the North Sea oil installations it insures be threatened. Months later, a North Sea supply ship named Esther takes on board a group of men posing as reporters who are to visit the oil production platform Jennifer. The leader of this group, Lou Kramer, hijacks the ship; the gangsters attach limpet mines to the legs of Jennifer and its accompanying oil drilling rig, Ruth, then issue a ransom demand for £25 million to the British government.

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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)

Comedy, Parody, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, Secret Agent, teen film

Mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot has created an army of beautiful female robots using his "bikini machine." These androids, dressed in gold bikinis, are programmed to seduce wealthy men and trick them into signing over their fortunes. Assisting him is his inept assistant Igor, who frequently bungles assignments but remains loyal.

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Reform School Girls (1986)

Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama, exploitation film, prison film

The film is a satire of the women in prison film genre and deliberately implements many of the tropes commonly found in such films. Such scenes include nude shower scenes, fight scenes, and a suggested romantic relationship between one of the inmates and an administrator. The overall plot involves a new influx of girls coming to the school.

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Black Belt Jones (1974)

Action, Blaxploitation, Martial arts

The Mafia have learned of the construction of a new civic center, and have bought up all the land at the intended building site except for a karate dojo owned by "Pop" Byrd, who refuses to give up his property. The Don contacts an indebted drug dealer named "Pinky", who had laundered $250,000 from the Mafia that he'd subsequently loaned to Pop Byrd in order to get the dojo built. The Don orders Pinky to either get his money back or repossess the property.

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Greaser's Palace (1972)

Comedy

Jesse paraglides into a town on the American frontier run by a saloon owner named Seaweedhead Greaser, a tyrant who collects the town's taxes while keeping his mother and favorite mariachi band in cages, and suffers from chronic constipation. Jesse has amnesia and remembers nothing except that he is anticipated by talent agent Morris, telling people that he's on his way to Jerusalem, where he will become a singer, dancer and actor. Greaser murders his son, Lamy Homo Greaser, for being a homosexual, and Jesse resurrects the dead man.

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Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, family film, fantasy film

Picking up from the end of the season 2 finale "The Stone Forest", Hilda, now a troll, runs away from Trylla, her troll mother, and is petrified by the sunlight when she leaves the Stone Forest. Meanwhile, in Trolberg, Johanna discovers Baba in Hilda's place, and Tontu deduces Hilda had been the victim of a changeling spell. Realizing what this means, Johanna, Baba, Tontu, Alfur, and Twig go searching for Hilda but are unable to locate the entrance into the Stone Forest.

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