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Action, Cyberpunk, Science fiction
In 2019, nearly everyone is identified by an implanted microchip and connected to the cybernet. Criminals use fake chips, known as "SIMs" (Simulated Identity iMplants). Bounty hunter Dash MacKenzie is looking for a man who bought a SIM, and uncovers a game played by corporation heads to manipulate society.
Adventure, family film
Several odd occurrences, including a suspicious fire, happen at the farm where Alec Ramsay (Kelly Reno) and his mother (Teri Garr) stable Alec's horse, “The Black.” One night, “The Black” is taken away. Sheik Ishak (Ferdy Mayne) says he is responsible, claiming that the stallion is his stolen property that he has retrieved, learning his whereabouts due to the publicity about “The Black” winning in the match race and that his real name is Shêtân ("devil"). After learning that the sheik is returning “The Black” to his kingdom in the Moroccan desert, Alec stows away on a plane to Casablanca.
Action
Daredevil motorcycle rider Evel Knievel stars as himself in this fictional story. The film opens with Knievel sneaking into an orphanage late at night to deliver presents: Evel Knievel action figures. One of the boys casts away his crutches, telling Knievel that he will walk after his accident just as Knievel had.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, Romantic drama, silent film
Aged emissary Hitu arrives by Western sailing ship to the island of Bora Bora, a small island in the South Pacific, on an important mission. He bears a message from the chief of Fanuma to the chief of Bora Bora: a maiden sacred to their gods has died and Reri has been given the great honour of replacing her because of her royal blood and virtue. From this point on, she is tabu: "man must not touch her or cast upon her the eye of desire" upon penalty of death.
Drama, Western
The outlaws the girls find are the demoralized remnants of the "Doolin-Dalton gang", led by an historically inaccurately aged Bill Doolin. Anna Emmaline McDoulet, or Cattle Annie, shames and inspires the men to become what she had imagined them to be. The younger sister (but historically not a relative) Jennie Stevens or Little Britches (Diane Lane) finds a father figure in Doolin, who in the story line coined her nickname "Little Britches".
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Detective Bo Dietl and his partner investigate the rape and murder of a nun. Meanwhile, Dietl learns that his partner has a gambling problem, and is in debt to loan sharks.
Adventure
Ozzy, a Beagle, lives with the Martins and his best friend, Paula. When the family receives an invitation to a Comic Festival in Japan, quarantine regulations prevent them from bringing Ozzy along. With no help from relatives, they see a television advertisement for Blue Creek, a dog hotel for pets whose owners are travelling.
children's film, Drama, fantasy film
Ashley Black is depressed because her father Jack spends all his time focusing on his job instead of her and her older brother Joshua. She constantly records his radio show and listens to it. One day, her father takes them to a small town of Glenorky, with a lake that is popular with tourists due to a local legend about a mythical aquatic monster named Orky.
Adventure, Science fiction
A man known only as Robur shoots down and takes aboard his airship, Prudent, his daughter Dorothy, her fiancé Evans, all of whom were exploring a mountain crater in their powered balloon, along with US government agent Strock, who had hired them to look for signs of volcanic activity. The supposed eruption was caused by Robur working on his airship, the Albatross; he had also inadvertently broadcast a biblical passage over a voice amplifier, stirring religious fears among the citizenry of the nearby town. Robur has been traversing the globe in his airship with the obsessive aim of enforcing peace on the world by virtue of his superior…
Action, Adventure, Drama
American magazine photojournalism RJ O'Brien arrives in Bolivia's Amazon basin to write a story about the rainforest. From his contact Chato, he learns of the efforts by Rafael Santos, the charismatic leader of the rubber tree tappers union, to lead a nonviolent resistance against corporate cattle ranchers. After numerous death threats, Santos is killed at his family home, seemingly by an indigenous assassin.
Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, Police Film
Keneely and Farrell are detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) vice squad. Although they show great talent for breaking up prostitution and drug rings, many of these enterprises are protected by crime boss Carl Rizzo, who exerts his influence throughout the city and the department. Evidence is altered before trial, colleagues refuse to help with basic police work, and the detectives are pushed to pursue other cases—mostly stakeouts on gay bars and public lavatories.
Adventure, animated film, Christmas film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction
Long ago, a race of colorful extraterrestrials known as Klepts became greedy and plundered their home planet of its resources. Their color faded away, and they set off into outer space, moving from galaxy to galaxy and stealing whatever they could. The leader of the Klepts, known as Supreme Leader Z, decides to steal all of the "stuff" on the planet Earth.
Action Comedy, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Police Officer Alex Kearney is a patrolman in Bryn Mawr, an affluent, plush suburb of Philadelphia—until he stops an important businessman and his account of the incident is not believed. As punishment, he is assigned to work Downtown, considered the most dangerous, high-crime precinct in the city. Everyone at the precinct is certain that the 'by the book' suburban, pampered cop is going to get himself (and whoever is assigned as his partner), killed.
Action, Drama, spy film
During the First World War, British Army Lieutenant Geoffrey Richter-Douglas, a Scotsman of German descent, is attracted to Stephanie, a German spy who suggests he escape to Germany to be reunited with his family and friends. When he reports this conversation to his commanding officer, Captain Whitney, he is asked to go through with the defection to Germany, as part of a secret mission to steal the plans of the LZ36, a new type of Zeppelin under development at Friedrichshafen. Geoffrey deserts to Friedrichshafen with a convincing gunshot in the arm from a British sailor for verisimilitude.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Military Film, Satire On War, war film
During World War II the British army is attempting to retrieve an Enigma machine from Germany. Having failed in previous attempts, they decide to send four men undercover to the factory that makes the devices in Berlin. Unfortunately the factory is populated entirely by women, and they only have men to send.
Action, Drama
Harlan Banks (Steven Seagal) is a thief who has always picked his own jobs and tried to pull heists that would leave him room to help others. The work keeps getting riskier, and at the urging of his girlfriend Jada (Mari Morrow), Banks has decided to pull one final job, going in with some men who are planning a $20 million robbery. After the heist goes bad, Banks heads to Las Vegas, where Jada wants him to get a real job.
Action, Adventure
Disguised as natives, the mercenaries Slade, O'Bannion, Kreiger and Dino have been murderously raiding African villages for supplies. At Mantu, the radio operator recognizes Slade, who shoots him before fleeing in a canoe with the others and the dynamite they have stolen from the village. Before dying, the villager makes a brief radio transmission which is heard by a bush pilot flying nearby.
Adventure, family film, fantasy film
A young polar bear cub chases a bird and is captured by seamen on a ship after he is spotted. The bear, now grown up in captivity, looks up at a star before lying down to sleep. The next day, a red haired girl named Tilly is on a day trip to the London Zoo, but accidentally drops her teddy bear into the bear pen.
Adventure, Drama
Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except for Crusoe.
Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film, Science fiction
A U.S. Army captain is flying three misfit deserters home for a court martial when the airplane has engine trouble and they crash-land in the ocean near an uncharted island. There they find a primitive society of cavewomen who routinely sacrifice virgins to appease "The Great One", the top-dog dinosaur on the island.
Action, Adventure, Parody
The film opens at a jewelry shop in Chinatown, which contains a statue with one glowing red eye. Three masked figures kill the store's owner, then try to pry the eye free. The police arrive, and after a bloody fight, all of the intruders and all but one of the policemen are dead, with the lone survivor being seriously wounded.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, family film, fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
In Scotland, 994 A.D., Castle Wyvern is under attack by Vikings, led by the ruthless Hakon. The resident warriors struggle to repel the attack until the sun sets, where at night, the seemingly lifeless stone gargoyle statues awaken, revealing themselves to be real living gargoyles. Led by Goliath, the powerful gargoyle clan subsequently defends the castle and successfully forces the Vikings to retreat.
Science fiction
In 1986, Dr. Scott McKenzie (William Devane) is a college professor and ardent fan of the gunslinger culture of the Old West. A year ago, McKenzie watched his wife and son die in a car crash caused by a drunk driver attempting to flee the police.
Adventure
The creative boy Ben is drawing two new characters known as King Scrawl and Gnat. As he is drawing at night, his mom tells him to go to sleep, leaving the drawings uncolored as a result. When he's asleep, his crayons apparently come to life and use their crayon box to enter the magical Color City.