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Biography, Drama
In 60 B.C. Gaul, Druid chieftain Gutuart and his tribe witness the passing of a comet and interpret it as the sign of the coming of a new king for Gaul. Guttuart goes to Gergovia, the capital of the Arvernes tribe, for a gathering of chieftains.
Western
Following the American Civil War, peace is maintained in the New Mexico Territory by Fort Invincible, a fortification set up outside a mountain pass that blocks marauding bands of Apache Indians. The Apache are able to eventually take the fort by cutting off its water supply, then assaulting the fort when its garrison is at its weakest and killing all of the defenders. Captain Richard Lance arrives with a patrol soon after the battle and captures Tucsos, the charismatic leader of the Apache.
Adventure
In 1900, Ann Mercedes (Eleanor Parker) travels to Cairo with her husband Philip (Carlos Thompson) and Mark Brandon (Robert Taylor). Phillip dies attempting to kill Mark. Mark is willing to help the couple because he used to work with Ann's deceased father.
Action, crime thriller film, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film
After years as a mob enforcer, Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) moves from Marseille to Los Angeles and decides to become legitimate so he can spend more time with his wife Cynthia (Lisa King) and son Nicholas (Pierre Marais). Cynthia is a social worker with the INS, helping to process illegal Chinese immigrants. When a ship full of immigrants from Hong Kong is intercepted, she discovers a young girl named Kim (Valerie Tian) among them and decides, against regulations, to bring her home.
Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
Siblings Felix and Betty Crabtree live alone in a homestead on a treeless desert plain. Their solitary lives are interrupted by a fugitive with a mysterious past, who gives the name "Smith". Smith is fleeing to the north, a trio of sinister figures in pursuit.
Drama, Historie, Noir
The most powerful man in France, Maximilien Robespierre, wants to become the nation's dictator. He summons François Barras, the only man who can nominate him before the National Convention. Barras refuses to do so and goes into hiding.
Western
Union Colonel Owen Devereaux orders his regiment to fire on a detachment of Confederate soldiers, even though he (and only he) has seen that they are signaling their surrender with a white flag. Immediately after the battle, the soldiers learn the war has ended. As they celebrate, Sergeant Jericho Howard drinks while on duty, and Devereaux has him arrested.
Adventure, fantasy film
Newly hired nanny Crystina arrives in Hawaii to discover that her charge is the dog of Nimrod, a rock star. Two brothers accidentally take the dog's basket to a local cave with their sister, and Crystina catches up to them in a taxi. The group gets lost in a cavern while exploring a volcano.
Adventure, Animal Documentary, documentary film, Drama
In the ruins of an ancient city in the jungles of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka, Maya is a toque macaque who was born at the bottom of the social order tree in her family. Even though she is a lowborn, the troop's alpha male, Raja, keeps a close eye on her, and considers Maya to be his property. One day, during the courtship season, a handsome male monkey named Kumar arrives & catches Maya's gaze from just outside of the troupe's territory.
Action, Adventure, Historie
After the Japanese surrender following World War II, the People's Liberation Army must retake areas overrun by bandits who have raided the Japanese arsenals. Shao Jianbo, known by his codename Captain 203 after his unit, commands a group of 30 men. They are out of food and low on ammunition.
Classical Western, Western
In the spring of 1865 in Nevada, a small band of Confederate soldiers disguised as civilians intercept a shipment of gold bars that is being escorted through the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains by Union cavalry troops. Following a heated battle that kills all of the Union soldiers, Confederate major Matt Stewart learns from a dying Union officer that the war had ended a month earlier. Stewart and his men transport the gold as planned to the scheduled rendezvous with Captain Petersen, who has been scouting the area disguised as a traveling peddler.
Biography, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
thumb|thumbtime=5|upright=1.5|left|Captain Kidd complete movie In 1699, pirate William Kidd loots and destroys the English galleon The Twelve Apostles near Madagascar. He and his confederates bury the stolen treasure on a remote island. He returns to London and hires a gentleman's gentleman.
Adventure
While drifting through Mexico, American engineer Joe Wiley meets well-heeled woman Liliana Holbrook, who sets him up with a room in an expensive hotel. Wiley finds emeralds in his room and takes a mysterious phone call arranging a meeting the next morning. He travels to the meeting at a secluded beach, but is shot at and has to escape into the sea, where he is picked up by Holbrook in a speedboat.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Vietnam veteran and retired CSA agent William Lansing works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, and has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irena Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Warsaw, Poland that he is helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Lansing heads to Poland to figure out the reason. He discovers that the orphanage that Irena was staying in, which is financed by honest – and unsuspecting – good intentioned Samaritans, is a front for a human trafficking syndicate run by a notorious crime boss and freelance terrorist named Faisal.
Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In a post-apocalyptic future, human survivors are fighting a group of mutant monsters they refer to as "gargoyles". Two of these survivors Michael and John are out surveying the world after a chemical or biological attack which left a large portion of the population mutated or dead. The survivors are part of the Mojave Lab and have lost contact with their sister Rocky Mountain Lab.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction, Superhero
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited the Earth and became gods to the Aztecs. The aliens fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers who would guard the people of Earth. The original Pumaman was entrusted a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction
Scientist, and part-time prizefighter, Jonathan Brock is visited at his home by heiress Martha Dennison. Years earlier Jonathon had met Martha's husband, Edward, who had given him a fossil which came from a mine in a volcano in the then Russian territory of Alaska. Supposedly the mine leads to the center of the Earth, which Jonathon dismisses as a myth.
Drama, war film
During the first winter of the Korean War, a 48-man U.S. Army platoon is ordered to hold a mountain chokepoint to cover the withdrawal of the larger unit across an exposed bridge. The men contend with subzero temperatures and frostbite as well as enemy fire.
Adventure, Western
An aging cowboy must choose between his desire to remain free and the responsibilities of maintaining a family.
Adventure, Drama
Harry Faversham is a sensitive child interested in intellectual pursuits, much to the dismay of his father, a Crimean War veteran. Descended from a proud lineage of soldiers, his father views Harry as weak and cowardly. Harry grows up haunted by his father's war stories, particularly those about cowardly soldiers who took their own lives out of shame.
Western
Returning home from the War of 1812, John Breen, a Kentucky militiaman, falls in love with French exile Fleurette de Marchand. He discovers a plot to steal the land on which Fleurette's exiles plan to settle. Breen is mistaken for a land surveyor and is presented with a theodolite, and sets out with Willie to look as if they are surveying (they do not actually know what to do).
Action, thriller film
Chris Cody (Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil; a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen. Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he is in a military prison.
Adventure, animated film, children's film, Fairy tale, fantasy film
While waiting for their new home to be renovated, Nellie and her younger brother George are sent to a farm in the countryside, much to George's delight and Nellie's disgust. However, the farmhouse and the surrounding area are teeming with magical fey creatures, most of which Nellie cannot see initially because she doesn't believe in faeries. The first the two children properly encounter is a somewhat crotchety and unfriendly Hobgoblin named Broom (whom Nellie can see) who is (more or less) secretly looking after the farm.
Comedy, Secret Agent, spy film
Fathom Harvill, a skydiver, is in Spain with a U.S. parachute team. She accepts a lift from a man called Timothy and is taken to see Douglas Campbell, who convinces her that he is a British agent working for NATO and wants Fathom to help him find a triggering mechanism for a nuclear weapon that has gone missing in the Mediterranean.