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Adventure, Drama
Part 1 Amphitryon and his men are transporting the Cretan criminal Antaeus by ship. Amphitryon worships Zeus, and mocks his prisoner for worshiping Hera by scarring his arm with a lightning bolt symbol. Antaeus breaks free and jumps overboard.
Adventure
The Sheriff of Nottingham plans to confiscate the estate of the Lord of Bawtry, a nobleman who has died on a crusade. The archbishop of Canterbury, acting as regent or viceroy on behalf of King Richard the Lionheart (who is also on a crusade), speaks against the plan and the sheriff plots to eliminate him. Robin Hood is asked to kill the archbishop for the plotters, led by the Earl of Newark and Lord Melton, but when he realises who the intended target is, Robin Hood resolves to help the archbishop instead.
Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction
In 1934, the researcher Maple White and his assistant Azbek discover a world populated by dinosaurs situated on a Mongolian plateau. Soon after the pair are attacked by Eudimorphodons who kill Azbek, though White survives. White seeks out his friend, George Challenger, giving an account of his adventures, proposing a further expedition to fully explore the plateau.
Adventure, Comedy, romance film
Mike is a struggling artist who draws the Brenda Starr comic strip for a newspaper. When Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, she leaves the comic. To return her to her rightful place and keep his job, Mike draws himself into the strip.
Action, Adventure, Horror
In British East Africa in the early 20th century, thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make the project a formidable task. Bob Hayward and Dr. Angus McLean lead the mission.
Horror, thriller film
Tom Sykes, a recently released psychiatric patient, finds refuge in the attic of the Dreyer family's new home. Using electronic surveillance, he spies on them, escalating to murder when the family dog, Rudolph, intervenes to protect them. Tom then fixates on the mother, Julie, intruding into her life by spying on her and sabotaging her relationship with her husband, Phil.
Action, Adventure, Martial arts, ninja film
Lee Reyes plays Hiro, Master Tetsu's grandnephew, who is the last of the true ninja. His granduncle sends him to apprentice under Joe Kastle, who is the American Ninja, to gain experience. Hiro cares only for his Game Gear and has little interest in the ways of the ninja.
biographical television program, drama television series, miniseries
The film tells the true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) and his 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. The story begins with him planning the expedition and finding sponsors, particularly Sir James Caird. Shackleton's goal is to drive dog sled teams from one side of Antarctica to the other, which would make Britain the first nation to undertake such a trans-continental journey.
Comedy, family film, fantasy film
Jack Simmons (Peter Billingsley) lives with his widowed mother (Anne Bloom). She sends Jack to buy groceries with their last $50. Jack notices a Yamaha YZ-80 two-stroke racing motorcycle and buys it from Max (Gavin Allen).
Action, Martial arts
Negaal is a South African former kickboxer turned promoter who is gearing up to start his own kickboxing organization. When American champion David Sloane refuses to join, Negaal sends his Henchmen Moon, Bull, and Pinto in Los Angeles California to eliminate David. David manages to break Moon's leg but is ultimately killed by Bull and Pinto.
Action, Adventure, Comedy drama, Drama, Motor-Bike Film
C.C. Ryder falls in with a biker gang in the desert, and then rescues Ann from trouble with the same gang. There next occurs a motocross race tied in with a fashion shoot.
Drama, historical film
In 1813, the war turns in favour of the British. Lord Wellington is poised to invade southern France after triumphing in Spain. The Comte de Maquerre, a French nobleman, offers to raise a rebellion in Bordeaux against Napoleon.
Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film
thumb|left|Fairbanks and O'Hara in the film's trailer Sinbad regales a group of travelers around a nighttime campfire. When his listeners become bored with his tired tales, Sinbad recounts his eighth voyage. With his friend Abbu, Sinbad salvages a ship whose crew has been poisoned.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
In ancient China, the emperor tasks his court doctor to discover the key to immortality, which leads the doctor briefly to Australia and an encounter with the Aboriginal people there, before he returns to China. In modern day, Luke and Ethan are researching the myth of the emperor and eternal life in remote China for business man Mason. They discover a cave and start their research but are then seemingly attacked by a group spiders.
Adventure, Drama
The film centers on the relationship between Lady Mary Loam, a British aristocrat, and her butler, Crichton. Crichton fancies a romance with Mary, but she disdains him because of his lower social class. When the two and some others are shipwrecked on a deserted island, they are left to fend for themselves in a state of nature.
Adventure, Family Drama, fantasy film, fantasy television program
The Clock Family are "borrowers," tiny people who live in the houses of regular sized "human beans" (a borrower mispronunciation of human beings). They survive by borrowing all they need from big people and try to keep their existence secret. The main characters are a teenage borrower girl named Arrietty and her parents, Pod and Homily.
Adventure, Animal Documentary, Arranged Documentary, documentary film
In Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, an Alaskan brown bear mother named Sky gives birth to two cubs named Scout and Amber in her den on a mountain slope. When April comes, the bears are ready to leave the den. As the bears leave, the oncoming summer brings with it a threat of avalanches.
Western
A vicious stranger, the "Man from Bodie", terrorizes the small settlement of Hard Times. He kills the only men who stand up to him, town founder Mr. Fee and town undertaker Mr.
children's film, fantasy film, fantasy anime and manga, magical girl anime and manga
Sakura Kinomoto, Cardcaptor of the Clow Cards, successfully seals the Arrow Card with help from her friends Syaoran Li, Kero, Tomoyo Daidoji, and Meiling Li. That night, Sakura experiences a strange dream where two pieces of cloth pull her underwater. After school ends for spring break, Sakura and Tomoyo visit the "Twin Bells" shop where Sakura participates in a lottery to win a vacation to Hong Kong.
Adventure, conspiracy fiction, thriller film
The story starts on 28 June 1914; Richard Hannay, a mining engineer and an intelligence officer during the Second Boer War, is in London after his recent return from Africa, but he finds England "cliquey", "class-bound" and "deathly, deathly dull". Evading German spies, a man named Scudder pushes into Hannay's flat and reveals himself to be a betrayed freelance British Secret Service Bureau agent, who has been on the trail of a German espionage ring with headquarters in Scotland. He has heard rumours of a plot to assassinate a high-ranking European royal, which could lead to war.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror
While wind-surfing near the seaside community of Port Harbor, a young man is killed by a giant great white shark. Horror author Peter Benton and professional shark hunter Ron Hamer realize the truth, but ambitious mayor William Wells refuses to accept that a shark threat exists, fearing that a cancelled wind-surfing regatta would derail his campaign to become state governor. Wells has shark nets installed, but the sounds of teenagers splashing in the surf leads the shark to rip through the nets.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, Crime, musical film, Mysterie
Gas station attendants Chuck Murray and Ferdie Jones aspire to better jobs. They temporarily work as waiters at Chez Glamour, a high-class nightclub where Ted Lewis and The Andrews Sisters perform, but are fired for causing a scene. Ferdie dreams of having his own nightclub one day.
Western
thumb|left|200 px|Clark Gable and María Elena Marqués in Across the Wide Missouri In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell meets with other mountain men, selling his furs, drinking and enjoying contests with his friends. He organizes a hunting brigade into the beaver-rich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish friend and former trading partner Brecan, who lives among the Blackfoot and warns him that the land belongs to them. Flint outbids Brecan for Kamiah, the granddaughter of Blackfoot medicine man Bear Ghost and adopted daughter of a Nez Perce chief, Looking…
Biography, Drama, historical film, Justice Drama, Political Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
In South Africa in 1980, Patrick Chamusso, a young, apolitical man, is accused of carrying out a terrorist bombing. Afrikaner police officer Nic Vos is in charge of locating the perpetrators of a recent terrorist attack against the Secunda CTL synthetic fuel refinery, which is the largest coal liquefaction plant in the world. Patrick is unwillingly swept into Vos's investigation due to his inability to provide a satisfactory explanation for his whereabouts at the time of the bombing (he was actually having an affair with a woman not his wife).