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Adventure, children's film, Comedy, Coming-of-age
Alice McKinley (Alyson Stoner) is an 11-year-old girl who is facing many challenges. Her mother, Marie McKinley, presumably died unknown when she was very young, so she never really got to know her. She lives with her brother Lester (Lucas Grabeel) and her father, Ben (Luke Perry).
Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction, Stop motion
In 1699, Dr Lemuel Gulliver is an English physician who seeks riches and adventure as a ship's doctor on a voyage around the world. His fiancée Elizabeth strongly wishes for him to settle down, and stows away aboard his ship to be near him. A storm develops and sweeps him overboard.
Adventure, Animation, family film, fantasy film
Ducky's relationship with her brother Spike becomes rambunctious and turbulent when he repeatedly keeps her awake at night with his snoring and after he ate her tree stars (which their mother packed specifically for her on their first day of school). She tells Cera about her feelings, and confides that she does not know how to express them; Cera agrees to teach her. Meanwhile, the children are attending a school in which they are taught by an old Pachyrhinosaurus named Mr.
Action, Biography, Drama, Military Film, partisan film, war film
After fighting the Soviets as a volunteer during the Winter War in Finland, Max Manus, haunted by his experiences, returns to Norway, finding it occupied by the Nazis. He joins with the Norwegian resistance movement in their fight against the Germans, producing illegal propaganda, but his cell is soon detected and he is arrested after jumping out a window. After being hospitalised, he manages to escape to Scotland, where he receives British Commando training in sabotage and disinformation.
Computeranimation, family film, Science fiction
Two years after the events of the first film, Comet, a tech-savvy young chimpanzee, wants to be taken seriously as a full-fledged space chimp, but Ham, Luna and the other chimpanzees do not take him seriously. Comet learns that he was removed from the last space mission because of budget cuts, and plans to go on the next space mission. Comet interferes with the controls on a rocket, accidentally launching the ship into space.
Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction
At the beginning of the 20th century, British archaeologist Professor Aitken and his son, Charles, have hired Captain Daniels and his ship, the Texas Rose, to take them to sea. The pair plan to use a diving bell designed by engineer Greg Collinson to search for proof of the lost city of Atlantis. On their first dive, Charles and Greg are attacked by a reptilian sea monster, which comes through the bottom of the diving bell.
Action, Adventure, mystery film, thriller film
In Paris, a woman named Donna Lloyd has been missing for two days. In Dallas, her husband Walter and their college-age son Chris decide to look for her. At the airport, Chris bumps into backpacker Carla.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama, family film
The film tells the story of the friendship between a young boy and a dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.
Dystopian
In a future dystopia, Aram Fingal, a programmer working for the conglomerate Novicorp, is caught watching Casablanca at his workstation. As a consequence, the company assigns him mandatory prophylactic rehabilitation, where subjects are "doppeled" into wild animals to experience relaxation. Aram is sent into a baboon where he is monitored by controller Apollonia James.
Adventure
A middle-aged man named Billy Coleman rescues a beagle from stray dogs. He takes care of it, having a flashback to when he was ten years old and living in the Ozarks with his parents and two younger sisters. Billy wants a pair of hunting dogs, but his parents can't afford them.
Comedy
On the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Bingo the Border Collie performs routine chores for a circus. When one of the star poodles injures its foot, Bingo is asked to stand in for that night’s performance. However, Bingo’s fear of fire leads him to chicken out of jumping through a hoop of fire.
Comedy, Western
In the Old West, the five richest men in the territory gather in Laredo for their annual high-stakes poker game. The high rollers let nothing get in the way of their yearly showdown. When undertaker Tropp calls for them in his horse-drawn hearse, cattleman Henry Drummond forces a postponement of his daughter's wedding, while lawyer Otto Habershaw abandons his closing arguments in a trial, with his client's life hanging in the balance.
Action, Science fiction
Abraxas and Secundus are Finders, intergalactic police officers from the planet Sargacia. Their race is physically similar to humans but with an extended lifespan; Abraxas has been a Finder for almost 10,000 years. Each Finder is equipped with an Answer Box, which serves as a communicator and scanner.
Drama, Melodrama, romance film, silent film
Anna is a poor country girl who is tricked by handsome man-about-town Lennox into a fake wedding. When she becomes pregnant, he reveals the truth of their relationship and leaves her. She has the baby, named Trust Lennox, on her own in a boarding house.
Action, thriller film
A SWAT team converges on the house of a United States Senator, who is being held hostage. The bomb squad arrives; Frank Glass (Steven Seagal) finds a bomb in the basement and works to disarm it while the SWAT team is in a shootout with the hostage takers. Glass disarms the bomb but deems it too easy, believing it was designed to mislead him.
Action, thriller film
While on a routine F-16C fighter aircraft patrol in United States airspace west of Alaska, Doug Masters and his wingman Matt Cooper test the g-forces of their fighters but stray into Soviet airspace. One of the Soviet aircraft has Doug on missile-lock, shooting him down. Doug safely ejects but is captured by Soviet soldiers.
Drama, historical film
On the French-Spanish frontier, a French patrol led by Colonel Leroux of Napoleon's Imperial Guard overtakes a carriage containing a priest and three nuns. The priest is the confessor of El Mirador, Wellington's top secret agent in Spain; he is tortured into revealing the spy's identity. Then, he and two of the nuns are killed, but the youngest, a novice, escapes.
Adventure, Historie, Western
In London in 1763, Abigail "Abby" Hale is tried for the death of a Royal Navy officer which occurred when she tried to save her sick brother from the press gang. The judge condemns her to be hanged, then offers her the "king's mercy": transportation to the British colonies in North America and a term of "not less than 14 years as an indentured servant, to be sold at auction". She chooses the latter.
Western
Bounty hunter Morgan "Morg" Hickman arrives in a small town with the body of an outlaw, seeking the bounty. While the general townsfolk openly abhor Morg, young sheriff Ben Owens, while angry with Morg for not bringing the wanted man in alive, also admires him for taking everything in his stride and knowing how to handle dangerous situations. Owens has a steady girl called Millie.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, romance film, sword and sorcery film
The world of Ura is ravaged by its two suns, turning it into a desert. There, two rival warlords of a village, Zeg and Bal Caz, constantly fight against each other in a battle over the only wellspring in the village of Yamatar. The mercenary Kain, who was once a member of a now extinct ancient order of holy warriors known as the Homeraks, arrives at the town and announces that his skills are for hire to the highest bidder.
Action, Horror, independent film, kaiju, Science fiction, thriller film
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life mankind never expected aliens, which devastated human civilization into anarchy, would be killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city; apparently replacements for the walkers in the original attack having more legs.
Adventure, Drama, historical film, romance film, swashbuckler film
The film begins with a narrator telling the viewer that Cromwell's tyranny is coming to an end, as several men approach on horseback. King Charles II and several of his Cavaliers have been on an exploratory tour in England, checking to see if the populace is ready to back his return, and the king is being hounded by a troop of Roundheads. King Charles stops to bid one of his supporters, a Royalist Lord Lucius Vyne (Hugh Grant), who he gives one of his favorite rings, telling Lucius to send it if he ever needs his help.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
A young man named Abel narrowly escapes Caracas, Venezuela, after it is overtaken by rebels. He decides to seek revenge, as his father, the former minister of war, was killed. After getting supplies, he takes a canoe to the far shore, where he is nearly killed by a jaguar, but he is saved by the native people.
Comedy
Los Guys, a rockabilly band, has developed a racket playing loud music on the streets of France and accepting payment for them to stop playing. While at a nearby restaurant counting the proceeds from their latest "gig," two lead band members meet a gypsy storyteller. She tells them the story of The Corsican Brothers.