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Adventure, docudrama, Drama, romance film, war film
George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is a young British journalist from Hertfordshire. In 1938, a year after the Japanese invasion of northern China and occupation of central coastal areas, he sneaks into Nanjing, China, by pretending to be a Red Cross aid worker. Arriving in Nanjing, Hogg witnesses and photographs the poverty, ruins, and corpses on the streets.
Adventure, Family Comedy, fantasy film, Science fiction, speculative fiction
Prehysteria! tells the story of Rico Sarno, a museum curator, who enters a forbidden temple in South America, and discovers a nest of five eggs. He steals them and brings them back to his museum.
Adventure, children's film
Panda rescuer Michael Tyler sends his son Ryan in America a plane ticket so that he can visit him in China, where he works with pandas. Ryan is not sure he wants to go, but his mother says he can just come back if he doesn't like it. In China, Michael and his two companions, Ling, a young girl and champion translator, and Chu, Ling's grandfather who is very experienced with giant pandas track down a mother panda and place a radio collar on her while her cub watches nearby.
Adventure, Noir, romance film, spy film
In 1944, a handsome bachelor and nuclear physicist named Alvah Jesper is working in the United States on the Manhattan Project to build a nuclear bomb. Recruited into the Office of Strategic Services, his mission is to make contact with a Hungarian nuclear physicist, Katerin Lodor, who has been working on the German project to make a nuclear bomb and has escaped into neutral Switzerland. Flown into Switzerland, Alvah finds it full of German agents who, after he manages one brief conversation with Katerin, abduct her.
Action, Blaxploitation, Horror, Zombie
The story centers on Diana "Sugar" Hill (Bey), a photographer in Houston whose boyfriend, nightclub owner Langston (Larry D. Johnson), has been killed by mob boss Morgan (Robert Quarry) and his men when he refused to sell the club to Morgan. Sugar seeks the help of a former voodoo queen named Mama Maitresse (Zara Cully) to take revenge on Morgan and his thugs.
Adventure, Comedy, historical film, Parody
Before dying, Admiral Horatio Nelson says that Britain needs a bigger navy with more men and then requests a kiss to Hardy. Meanwhile, Albert Poop-Decker has taken eight and half years and is still not qualified as midshipman, but is promoted by the First Sea Lord as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate HMS Venus at Plymouth.
Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, fantasy film, Science fiction, speculative fiction
An alien ship crash landing on a desert planet. The alien survivors, known as Vecarians, are quickly killed by the planet's predatory native inhabitants, the Selenites. The ship's core, Vecanoi, survives, and from it sprouts Axis, a massive tree reaching up into space.
Computeranimation
Scrat carries an acorn to a huge tree hollowed out and filled to the brim other acorns, his ice age supply. There is an empty spot in the middle of the supply at which Scrat proceeds to fit the last one in by screwing it in gently. However, it pops back out when his back is turned, and after the two more tries, Scrat loses his temper and tries to stomp it in -- like in the first film.
Drama
10-year-old Jess Aarons is an aspiring yet shy fifth grader living in a financially struggling family. 10-year-old Leslie Burke is the new girl at his school, just arriving on its athletics day. She enters a running event which she wins with ease, despite her classmates calling it a "boys only" race.
Action, Heist, Political Thriller, thriller film
George Moran is a former Marine and veteran of the Dominican Republic intervention who now runs a small beachfront motel in Miami. While searching for a Dominican woman named Luci Palma who saved his life in 1965 (and gave him the nickname "Cat Chaser"), he begins a relationship with Mary DeBoya, the wealthy, unhappy wife of a sadistic former Dominican general. Moran gets involved in a plot by fellow military veteran Nolen Tyner and a former New York policeman, Jiggs Scully, to rip off the general.
Adventure, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Severus Snape is enjoying a drink in a Muggle pub when a stranger, whose face is covered, joins him. The stranger asks Snape about his story, which he then tells. Some time before, the Marauders – James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew – were in the same bar celebrating their graduation from Hogwarts.
Drama, Western
In St. Louis, Missouri, on Lutie Cameron's wedding day, she receives a telegram from her fiancé, cattle rancher Col. Brewton, telling her to board the train for New Mexico to marry him in the small town of Salt Fork.
Comedy, Western
Jesse W. Heywood graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become an American frontier dentist. As a city slicker, he finds himself bungling in a new environment.
Drama, romance film, war film
Michael Cannon returns to London after the Second World War and places adverts in the personal columns of newspapers in an effort to re-unite with "Sea Wife", a lost acquaintance. Cannon publishes under the name "Biscuit." In time, he receives a letter summoning him to the Ely Retreat and Mental Home. There he meets an ill man nicknamed "Bulldog", who tries to persuade Biscuit to give up the search.
Action, Action Comedy, buddy film, Crime, thriller film
Wheelchair user and drug baron Peter Loomis has his $400 million drug fortune stolen in South America by his errand boy Carlos, who stashed the fortune on an undisclosed boat in an undisclosed harbor. Loomis sends ruthless killer Armor O'Malley to find the boat and recover the money—he and sidekick Marie kill Carlos before they can get the name and location of the boat, but they learn that Carlos's brother Dani knows where it is, and set out to find him. Dani is sprung from a South American prison by Cole Parker, a bounty hunter working for the DEA who is bent on taking down Loomis—Cole knows the name of the boat, Dani knows the location,…
disaster film, Drama
The story encompasses around nine characters portraying nine variants of emotion (Navarasa) and an outdated dam. The story starts with Vinay (Vinay Rai), who is a mariner and works in ships. One day he visits his native place, somewhere in Kerala, with his son Sam (Jineeth Rath) to meet his father Shankaran (Rajit Kapur).
Adventure, Cartoon, Comedy drama, Drama, live-action/animated film, musical film
In New South Wales, 1884, a barefoot red-haired young girl named Dot wanders away from her home to gather grass from the paddock. She becomes distracted by a lonely rat and gets lost in the Australian bush. A red kangaroo who has lost her joey befriends Dot by offering her a berry, which helps her understand animals.
Action, Drama, spy film, thriller film
A Western agent is sent to Communist China in order to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What he does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head; the forces behind his mission will detonate it if he fails to carry out the assignment. Nobel Prize–winning university professor Dr.
Drama, historical film
Sharpe participates in the Battle of Toulouse, at the end of the Peninsular War. On the other side are French General Calvet and Sharpe's nemesis, Ducos, who is in charge of Napoleon's treasury. During the fighting, Sharpe encounters and humiliates Ducos, but lets him escape with his life.
Action, kung fu film, war film
Lieutenant Colonel Lam is a Hong Kong-American army officer given a top-secret mission by the US military. The mission entails entering Vietnam to destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles before the Viet Cong can get to them. Colonel Yang will lead the main strike team of regular Chinese-American soldiers.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Elvira, a Sámi teenager who was raised by a lesbian single mother in Unjárga, is convinced that her biological father is a famous movie star. When she meets her actual biological father, she has to come to terms with her identity.
Adventure, Drama
Patrick Foley is a jaded loner who has been a drifter for much of his life. Discovering he has terminal cancer, he travels to the Australian outback where he grew up to die in solitude. However, his plans are interrupted after ten year old Shawn Daley's parents die in a horrific accident when their RV plummeted off a cliff, leaving the boy traumatised, alone and helpless.
Drama, romance film, thriller film, war film
Corporal John Bramble is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps capture Tobruk in June 1942 and pursue the British into Egypt. He stumbles across the North African desert into the town of Sidi Halfaya, where he finds the Empress of Britain, a small, isolated hotel owned by Farid. The only other employee is the French chambermaid Mouche, as the cook fled with the British and the waiter Davos was killed the night before by German bombing.
Comedy, Western
Jim Flagg is the marshal in the town of Progress. He hears arch-rival Big John McKay is headed toward town so he warns Mayor Wilker, a typical cheap politician, and others in Progress about rumor of an impending train robbery. Wilker doesn't appreciate Flagg causing a panic and relieves him of his job and badge by retiring him.