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Adventure, American football film, Comedy, Drama, fantasy film
The Westfield Angels high school football team is on a 54-game skid. Jesse Harper is their best player and is playing as tailback, shedding a new light for the team. However, after a terrible accident in a rainstorm in which his father Peter, a former high school football star, dies, he feels demoralized and lonely and quits the team.
Comedy
It has been 2 years since the events of the episode "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys", and Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) are finally released from prison. Upon returning to Sunnyvale Trailer Park, Bubbles finds that all of his kittens have been sent to an animal shelter and that he will need to pay thousands of dollars in order to have them released; secondly, Ricky and Julian successfully rob a liquor store, but Julian uses all the money to buy a car and refurbish his trailer into an auto-body shop. Ricky's plan is to pass his Grade 12 exam, which he feels will open doors of opportunity for him.
Drama, Western
Three disparate travelers—a disillusioned preacher, an unsuccessful prospector and a larcenous, cynical con man—meet at a decrepit railroad station in the 1870s Southwest United States. The prospector and the preacher were witnesses at the rape and murder trial of the notorious bandit Juan Carrasco. The bandit duped Colonel Wakefield, an aristocratic Southerner, into believing that he knew the location of a lost Aztec treasure.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Children play outside a rural Colorado home. They belong to Orville Beecham and his three wives. Two masked men pull up in a truck and wait for the children to go inside.
Western
It is 1924 and the height of Prohibition. Oklahoma is still a wild and lawless haven for all manner of criminals, and even the men who are sworn to uphold the law are themselves corrupt and part of the new crime syndicates looking to expand into the new markets and towns. One of these men is Wiley Lynn (Arliss Howard), an unscrupulous federal agent who hides behind the power his badge gives him and ruthlessly deals with anyone who stands in his way, even his own wife.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Father Michael is a New York priest with close ties to the Mafia crime syndicate—his father is a don. The priest's brother-in-law Gino, a mafia boss, is murdered while having sex with Angela, a mistress. She narrowly escapes by hiding in a bathroom and locking the door.
Adventure, Comedy, Computeranimation
On his 12th birthday, Luis has no friends, and his father, the ufologist Armin Sonntag, constantly does not have enough time for him. He does not even know that those whom he is so eager to find are right in front of his nose. On his birthday, Luis becomes the only witness to the crash landing of three aliens near their home.
Adventure, Biography
In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight, albeit as a passenger. Her marriage to media tycoon George Palmer Putnam and a series of record-breaking flights propel her to international fame as a long-distance flyer. With help from a close friend and adviser, Paul Mantz, Earhart and her navigator, the hard-drinking Fred Noonan, undertake her longest flight ever: a round-the-world attempt in 1937.
Drama, war film
In 1943 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, newly commissioned Lt. Michael Grayson reports for duty to train the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a unit established on the mainland and composed of Nisei. His expectation was to return to the U.S.
Adventure, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, Western
Set in the year 3031 on a frontier planet light years away from Earth, a bizarre gang of futuristic desperadoes have their sight set on turning the tumbleweed town of Oblivion into their own private playground. The action begins with the murder of the town's Marshal Stone by a power-hungry villain called Red Eye. Using a substance prized on the planet—which also happens to short out electrical devices—Red Eye cheats his way to victory during a showdown on the street, killing Stone and disabling his cyborg deputy, Stell.
Adventure, Biography
The film begins in the early 18th century with Rob Roy leading his McGregor clansmen against King George I's forces commanded by the Scottish Duke of Argyll. While determined to establish order in the Highlands, Argyll is sympathetic to "the bonny blue bonnets" whom he is fighting, even refusing to unleash German mercenaries against them. A final charge by royal dragoons scatters the clansmen but honour appears satisfied and Rob Roy returns to his village to wed his beloved Helen.
Action, Pirate Film
thumb|thumbtime=7|The Black Pirate|left Pirates capture, badly maul, and loot a ship. After relieving the ship and crew of valuables, the pirates fire the ship, blowing up the gunpowder on board, sinking her. While the pirates celebrate, two survivors wash up on an island: an old man and his son.
Action, Christmas film, Mysterie, mystery film
One Christmas night, a man runs through a forest carrying something. A nearly deserted train pulls into a station, and two conductors get out, take a stretch, and kill time as no one seems to board. Just as the train is about to depart, the running man calls out, runs to the train, and seems to want to board.
Western
Three outlaws rob a bank, but one of them is wounded. His two partners kidnap his girlfriend, take his share of the money and run off, leaving him to be captured by the sheriff. One year later, after he gets out of prison, he goes in search of his double-crossing partners and his girlfriend.
Adventure, children's film, fantasy film, monster film, Science fiction
Wealthy big-game hunter Maston Thrust Jr. has a multimillion-dollar company, Thrust Inc., which drills for oil under the polar caps with a human-operated laser drill called the "Polar Borer". Following one expedition, only one man, geologist Chuck Wade, returns; he explains that the drill was going through a routine check in the icecaps when it surfaced into a valley super-heated by a volcano.
Action, Adventure, medieval film
Britain 871 AD. After the Battle of Ashdown Young Norse prince Steinar arrives in England with a complement of 500 reserve warriors to combat a Saxon uprising that is crushing the occupying forces led by his father, King Bagsecg. Arriving at his father's camp, Steiner attends a family meeting with his father, his older brother Harold, and their younger half brother Vali, who is disliked by everyone but Steinar for being half Saxon.
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Brothers Jodie and Hazel, along with their friend Alice, devise a scheme to steal a video game from a nearby warehouse. They manage to get away with the game but find themselves unable to play the game because they do not know the password to the television. Jodie and Hazel's mother agrees to tell the boys the password if they bring her a blueberry pie.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
In 1938, Lieutenant Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are part of the crew of a dirigible flying over the North Pole. They are caught in a savage storm and crash. They are ordered to release the experimental Nirvano Gas, which (unbeknownst to them) will put them in suspended animation until they are rescued.
Adventure, Crime, fantasy film
A modern take on the famous story by Lewis Carroll, it is about a university student (Maggie Grace) who is knocked over by a black cab in Central London. When she wakes up, she has amnesia, lost in a world that is a long way from home—Wonderland. She is dragged through a surreal, frightening underworld filled with bizarre individuals and low-lifes, by the cab driver, Whitey (Danny Dyer).
Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film
A boy named George is magically transformed into a pig. In a dangerous and crazy adventure, the boy, his sister Kathy, his best friend Freud, and their housekeeper Matilda leave for Mexico to try to undo the witchcraft spell before their parents return from their Paris trip. While gathering ingredients for Matilda's grandmother, Berta, to undo the spell, Kathy grows impatient and after insulting both Matilda and Berta, storms off into town, where she befriends two Mexican girls who speak English and have satellite TV.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Groteske, Satire, Tragicomedy
In 1958 Long Beach, California, Melba Stokes is a beauty salon owner, living with her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl. They flee when landlord Mr. Albertson comes to demand the back rent and repossess their belongings.
Adventure, Drama
The film is set during the Western Australian gold rushes of the 1890s, and its characters represent some of the "Afghan" cameleers (who actually came from India, Persia, and other parts of the Middle East, and belonged to Islamic, Sikh and Hindu faiths) who brought their camel trains to help open up the Australian outback from the mid-19th century. Two young Afghan cameleers, Hanif and Jundah, form a friendship with an Aboriginal hunter, Woorak. Hanif is trying to find an illegal furnace so that he can melt two bars of stolen gold, which he acquired by chance after coming across Mal, the sole survivor of a group massacre.
Action, Crime, thriller film
On Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, a dispatched LASD Sheriff named Kimble is shot dead by an armed criminal, who robbed a convenience store and also killed its African-American owner minutes earlier. The alcoholic, hard-driven LASD Detective Jerry Beck is tasked with the investigation. While examining police records, he comes across a person of interest named Bobby Burns, who has recently been paroled from a four-year robbery sentence.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Captain C. F. "Hawk" Hawkens (Vince Edwards), a former Space Service Colonel turned pirate, leads his crew on a mission to steal a freighter owned by an interstellar corporation simply referred to as "The Company".