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Classical Western, Western
In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. One of them freezes to death during a blizzard. The others—Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell—reach Lake Monte Diablo, where eight women live in a settlement while their men are away prospecting.
Action
Phillip Sauvage (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is an American soldier recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder caused by his time in Iraq and Afghanistan in a VA hospital. The release of notorious rap mogul Terrell Singletery (Viv Leacock) from prison has caused Wayne Barclay's (Raz Adoti) worried older sister and manager Tamara (Vivica A. Fox) to hire increased security.
Drama, Western
On a foggy night in 1850, Mary Rutledge and retired Colonel Marcus Aurelius Cobb arrive in San Francisco Bay aboard the clipper ship Flying Cloud. She had come to wed a wealthy owner of a gold mine, but he had lost his mine at the roulette wheel when the ball landed on red 13 times at the Bella Donna, a gambling house and restaurant. The men at the wharf reluctantly inform her that her fiancé is dead, murdered most likely by Louis Chamalis, the powerful owner of the Bella Donna.
Adventure, children's film, Drama, Western
In 1876, two orphans, Holly and Jason Smith, travel across the Rocky Mountains to claim their inheritance at the end of the Oregon Trail. They run into Zachariah Coop, a gambler on the run from a group of angry men. Coop tries to join the two kids, but at first they don't know whether to trust him.
Adventure, Drama
A disparate and desperate group of plane crash survivors are thrust into a desolate mountainous desert region somewhere within present-day Namibia. Brian O'Brien is a big game hunter and the best survivalist of the group. Shortly after the plane crashes, stranding its passengers, he risks his life by re-entering the burning wreck and recovering vital supplies, including a hunting rifle; however, O'Brien's motives are far from noble.
Adventure, Drama
While American white hunter Ken Duffield is off leading a safari, Mau Mau rebels attack his farm, slaughtering the labourers and his livestock. Duffield's young son Charley and Aunt May defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a corruption of Njoroge) is actually a Mau Mau general. Inside the farmhouse, Jeroge murders Aunt May with a machete and Charley is killed with May's rifle.
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy
After retiring, Detective Dooley and Jerry Lee have a retirement party with all of their friends. After the party, Dooley and Jerry Lee are both drunk. They enter LA Micro Labs and find a dead security guard apparently shot by criminals who have stolen a chip.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
When a mysterious beam of light starts disrupting and destroying the Earth's atmosphere, Flash Gordon (Buster Crabbe), Dr. Zarkov (Frank Shannon), and Dale Arden (Jean Rogers) - accidentally accompanied by wisecracking reporter Happy Hapgood (Donald Kerr) - swing into action in Zarkov's rocketship, believing that it could be coming from the planet Mongo. Once in space, they discover that the ray originates from Mars.
Adventure, Drama, swashbuckler film
In August 1500, Andrea Orsini, an artistic minor nobleman who is equally skilled with the brush, the sword, words, and women, serves the Machiavellian Prince Cesare Borgia as a soldier. Pleased with Andrea's ability to "follow my mind and keep his eyes fixed on the ultimate goal", Borgia selects Andrea to accomplish an intrigue: arrange the marriage of his widowed sister, Lucrezia (whose husband he has just had assassinated for the purpose), to Alfonso d'Este, the son of the Duke Ercole d'Este of Ferrara. By doing so, Borgia will remove Ferrara as an impediment to conquest of central Italy.
Action, Crime, Detective, neo-noir, Noir, thriller film
A former-private-eye-turned-gun-for-hire named Malone is hired to retrieve a suitcase from a building full of armed mobsters, but a violent shootout ensues and Malone is eventually left as the only survivor. Suspecting a set-up, he retains the only noteworthy item contained in the case - a small painted animal referred to as "the meaning of love" - for himself, prompting several different parties in the employ of a local gangster - Whitmore - to pursue Malone in attempt to discern the meaning of the case's contents. After a series of violent encounters leaving many dead, Malone eventually confronts Whitmore, who admits he was responsible…
Crime, Drama, hood film
Upon being released from prison, Ricky (Ashley Walters) is collected by Wisdom, an eccentric and naive friend who is desperate to establish himself within their neighbourhood. Immediately after arriving back, Wisdom accidentally breaks a wing mirror off a car belonging to Godfrey, a local gang member. The following confrontation leads to Ricky pulling away Wisdom in an attempt to keep peace.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) is the European editor of The Economist, a magazine based in London, England. Jack has a wife, Maria (Briony Glassco), and three kids, Joanne (Anna Maguire), Julia (Holly Boyd), and Andrew (Joel Pitts). Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu to a tour of India, hoping to simultaneously seize a plum reporting assignment, and spend quality time with his family.
Western
Luke Cromwell, known as the Silver Kid, loses his father to mining claim jumpers. He is deputized by Marshal Lightning Tyrone of Silver City, who wants to defeat the claim jumpers. Tyrone is in love with the treacherous Opal Lacey, who is secretly in league with the claim jumpers, and Cromwell falls for tomboy Dusty Fargo, who is only interested in Tyrone.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Science fiction
Supercriminal Dr. Fu Manchu plots to freeze the world's oceans with a diabolical new device. With his beautiful but evil daughter, Lin Tang, his army of dacoits, and the help of the local crime organization led by Omar Pasha (whom Dr.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, mockbuster, monster film, Science fiction
A plane crashes in a remote jungle. Many survive, but the front end of the plane and the cockpit are nowhere to be found. The only way to seek help is to find the cockpit and radio a message.
Adventure, fantasy film
Teenage twins Rachel and Theo travel to Auckland to stay with relatives following the sudden death of their mother. Where there was once a psychic bond between them, now there is a rift as Theo, particularly, refuses to confront his grief. Rachel reaches out to him, but is rebuffed.
Action Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, fantasy film
An incarcerated bank robber, Julian Goddard, escapes from prison. He is rescued in the desert by Johnny Destiny, a bizarre, possibly supernatural character. Destiny takes Julian to Las Vegas and the Marilyn Motel, owned by Harry Thoreau, who was Julian's partner in crime.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Milly is a soldier from 2084, when humanity is on the verge of extinction from a losing war with an alien race known as the "Daggra". In mankind's final stronghold in Tibet, Milly leaps into a newly built time portal just before the fortress is overrun. The portal sends her to 2002, where her mission is to kill the first Daggra, who faked a crash landing, and stop him from signaling his invasion fleet.
Drama, Road Movie
A young adult from New York is on his way to California for a business meeting when he runs into trouble with some local hoodlums in Kingman, who shoot at his car and try to run him off the road. He hooks up with a hitchhiker who is also passing through town and turns out to be a former rock and roll musician. The two attempt to set things right in the town, culminating in their entry in an automobile race from Kingman to Oatman and back.
Action, Comedy drama, Drama, thriller film
In Madoc County, Alabama, Kyle Hanson is an emotionally bruised veteran of the Vietnam War who finds himself unable to rejoin mainstream society and lives as a drifter. While stopping in town to eat, local bullies begin harassing him. This culminates in a violent altercation with redneck Homer, after which Kyle flees.
Action, Crime, Drama
Small town Cop Michael Savion (Luke Goss) gets stone-walled by big city detectives led by Hardwick (50 Cent) when he asks them to investigate his younger brother's death. After his brother's death he swears vengeance in a flashback where he fires his gun in the rain over his dead body. His brother David (Ryan Donowho), a gangster, was murdered by members of his own gang for having wanted to quit the gang lifestyle in order to marry Gloria (a gang member's sister), and for being suspected of 'ratting' out his gang's activities.
Drama, war film
Colonel Jack Knowles is a tough, professional soldier who was decorated for gallantry in Vietnam. The same gung ho mentality that made Knowles a hero in wartime makes him a dangerous loose cannon in peacetime. He is stationed at an outpost on the West German-Czechoslovakia border and immediately gets into a dangerous personal war with his Soviet counterpart, Colonel Valachev.
Action, Martial arts
A man who loses a rigged fight kills his opponent and is announced as the winner. On his way back home, another man kills him. In the United States, retired boxer Jake Raye and co-owner of Hal and Jake's self-defense class receives a call from the Philippines police department.
Action, Science fiction
left|thumb|200px|Commando Cody with lunar tank Commando Cody (George Wallace) is a civilian researcher and inventor with a number of employees. He uses a streamlined helmet and an atomic-powered rocket backpack attached to a leather flying jacket. Cody also uses a rocket ship capable of reaching the Moon.