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Comedy drama, Drama, musical film
While working in New York's hottest night club, disc jockey Darrell Williams is asked to DJ a party for his friend Frankie Jr.'s mob boss father Frank, whom Darrell's father worked for. Frank is planning a surprise party for his daughter Dolly, who is coming home from law school for summer break. At the party, Darrell takes a bullet meant for Frank and saves his life.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Detective, Drama, mystery film, neo-noir, Secret Agent
Queens private detective John Shaft is contacted by his old friend Cal Asby, an insurance salesman and mortician, who tells him he's in trouble and asks him to come immediately. As soon as Shaft arrives, Asby is killed by a bomb planted inside of his house. Shaft is questioned by a suspicious police Captain Bollin, but is quickly released due to a lack of evidence.
Action, Crime
Ernest "Stick" Stickley, a former carjacker, has just been released from prison after serving seven years for armed robbery. He meets up with an old friend, Rainy, who talks Stick into accompanying him for a "quick stop" near the Florida Everglades before they go to his home. The "quick stop" turns out to be an illegal drug deal set up by Rainy's dealer, Chucky, that goes sour.
Western
Jefferson Cody, whose wife was captured by Comanches, frees another man's wife and is taking her home. Three outlaws, led by the charming but malevolent Ben Lane, reveal that the woman's husband has offered a $5,000 reward, making the woman, Lordsburg resident Mrs. Lowe, suspicious of Cody's motives in coming to her rescue.
Adventure, children's film
Thirteen-year-old Angus McCormick lives near a small town in British Columbia with his parents John and Katherine and eight-year-old brother Silas. He runs his paper route, learns wilderness skills from his father, and spends time with his friends David and Sara. One afternoon, Angus finds a stray Yellow Labrador Retriever that he names Yellow.
Adventure, Comedy
A jaded pilot named Noah Dugan is unemployed and owes a large amount of money due to his gambling. He goes to an old friend, Stoney, who owns an airfield. He is offered a job flying a cargo of animals to a remote South Pacific island aboard a B-29 bomber, a large plane well past its prime.
Adventure, Cartoon, Comedy
After the rebel village of Gauls defeat another Roman army, a humiliated Julius Caesar angrily devises a plan to cut them off from the magic potion that gives them super-human strength. Caesar's instructs his most loyal patrician, Lucullus, to kidnap the druid Getafix and send him off the edge of the world. A freak accident during a fight amongst the Gaulish villagers spills a cauldron of potion.
Action, Adventure, Animation, Science fiction, spy film
In 2068, the New World Aircraft Corporation in England gives Brains an open brief to design a revolutionary aircraft. Brains suggests an airship, prompting howls of laughter from the executives. Nevertheless, his proposal is accepted and the corporation builds Skyship One, a fully automated craft powered by an anti-gravity field.
Drama, romance film
Sandy Edwards (played by Toni Collette) is a director in a company that designs geological software in Perth, Western Australia. Her business partner manipulates her into agreeing to act as a guide for a Japanese businessman visiting mines in the Pilbara desert, hoping that he will purchase the software. When Hiromitsu Tachibana () arrives, he treats Sandy like a chauffeur, and he seems more intent on self-discovery in the wilderness than on buying computer software.
Classical Western, Drama, Melodrama, Western
The 1862 Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad westward across the wilderness toward California. Asa Barrows has a stake in the Central Pacific Railroad and hopes to profit from delaying the completion of the Union Pacific. Gambler Sid Campbeau and his partner Dick Allen help Barrows sabotage the endeavor.
comedy television program
Adam West prepares to attend a gala-style charity event targeted towards orphans, featuring a variety of classic cars, including the original Batmobile from Batman. Adam's butler, Jerry (whom Adam refers to as "Alfred"), arranges the event and reunites Adam with his former co-star, Burt Ward. While at the gala, Adam reveals to Burt that he had kept the key to the original Batmobile during the show's original run.
Drama, historical film
In 1810, Major Brand, a British officer serving with Richard Sharpe, is seen by his men to risk his life under extreme French fire to rescue a stranded soldier, the reality however, is that it is a ruse. The French are not trying to kill Brand, and he kills his own man, under the stare of his French counterpart. He then returns to his own men with the dead body, now a hero.
children's film, Comedy drama, Tragicomedy
A twelve-year-old boy named Thomas Miller is a school troublemaker. He gets into fights, causes distractions in class, and tells lies. At the beginning of the movie, Thomas is seen fighting another student until Principal Hampton intervenes.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Ray Shane is an ex-vice cop trying to turn his life around after spending five years in prison on corruption charges. He works as the head of security for "The House of the Rising Sun", a strip club that secretly houses an illegal gambling den. During a night on the job, a masked gang hold him at gunpoint to rob the club of $300,000, ending with the club owner's son, Peter, getting killed in a shootout.
Adventure, romance film
220px|thumb|right|The full film thumb|262x262px|Don Juan ad in 1926 Film Fun In the prologue, Don José, warned of his wife's infidelity, seals his wife's lover alive in his hiding place and drives her from the castle. His jealous last mistress, Donna Isobel, stabs him. With his dying words he implores his son, Don Juan, to take all from women but yield nothing.
Action, Crime, Drama
Artie Lewis is a New York City Police Department detective who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita, and is close to his partner of eight years, Stevie Diroma, a widower with three young daughters. After a hard, violent encounter in a housing project while on duty, Artie and Stevie reassure each other that, although battered and bruised, they have survived. Stevie is then killed in the line of duty by drug addict Mickey Garrett during a hostage situation.
Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Dragon (Jackie Chan), the son of a Chinese aristocrat, is always getting in trouble, and likes to skip his lessons. Dragon tries to send a love note to the girl he likes via a kite, but the kite gets away. Dragon tries to get the kite and letter back which have landed on the roof of the headquarters of a gang of thieves who are planning to steal artifacts from the town's temple.
Western
When hired gun John Gant arrives in Lordsburg, the locals are terrified. The sheriff would like to arrest Gant, but the gunman always kills legally, in "self-defense." While the town speculates on Gant's target, Luke Canfield, a young doctor, greets Gant, unaware of his reputation. After Luke demonstrates his dexterity with a blacksmith's maul, Luke takes Gant on a tour through town.
Adventure, buddy film, Drama
After the Korean War, Americans Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, the Ruby, which they use for small-scale smuggling around the Caribbean, along with a crewman, Jimmy Jean. One day their bartender contact, Miguel, introduces them to an American businessman who has been enjoying the company of beautiful but passport-less European goddess, Irena. He has to return to Detroit, but wants to arrange for her to get to another island.
Drama, Late Western, Western
The squabbling Bridges family spend a harsh winter on their remote ranch in Northern California during the early 1900s. Crude, quarrelsome Curt Bridges bullies his modest, unassuming older brother Arthur, while youngest brother Harold endures Curt's abuse in silence. Their mother is a bigoted religious zealot; their father is a loquacious, self-pitying drunk.
Biography, Western
Drifter William Bonney, known as "Billy The Kid", befriends a cattle boss named John Tunstall, who is known as "The Englishman". Tunstall is murdered by corrupt rival cattlemen led by the local sheriff in the Lincoln County War. Bonney plans to avenge the crime by hunting down those responsible and killing them in provoked gunfights.
action-adventure film, Horror, science fiction action film, thriller film, Zombie
On May 10, 1945, in a secret airport near Wurtzberg, Germany, Nazi scientist Dr. Josef Mengele, along with fellow doctors and soldiers, prepare to depart to an unknown location with a mysterious package in their possession. They are soon ambushed by the Allied forces, but successfully escape.
Action, Crime, Drama
When several members of the GraveDiggers outlaw motorcycle club are murdered, Sydney detective Stone (Ken Shorter) is sent to investigate. Led by the Undertaker (Sandy Harbutt), a Vietnam war veteran, the GraveDiggers allow Stone to pose as a gang member. Leaving behind society girlfriend Amanda (Helen Morse), Stone begins to identify with the Undertaker and his comrades Hooks (Roger Ward), Toad (Hugh Keays-Byrne), Dr Death (Vincent Gil), Captain Midnight (Bindi Williams), Septic (Dewey Hungerford) and Vanessa (Rebecca Gilling), the Undertaker’s girlfriend.
romance film, Western
Three American adventurers are stranded in a Mexican fishing village when their ship develops engine trouble. As they discuss their options in a local saloon, Leah Fuller, whose husband John is trapped in a distant gold mine, enters. She offers them $2,000 each, tossing a bag of coins on their table.