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Adventure, Drama, romance film
New Orleans, 1875. Clio Dulaine returns, plotting revenge for her mother Rita, who had been mistress to a member of the Dulaine family. After he illicitly fathered Clio and his family forced him to marry a woman of his own class, Rita tried to shoot herself.
Action, Martial arts
Terry McCain is a detective with the Chicago Police Department. One night, he and his team are involved in a drug bust on the Italian mafia that ends in a chaotic shootout and three million dollars of the mob’s money going missing. Terry interrogates one of the gangsters and coerces him into admitting that the infamous crime boss DiMarco, Terry’s nemesis, is the one behind the drug exchange.
Comedy, Western
Easygoing Melody Jones and his friend George Fury wander into a town. Jones is mistaken for a wanted bandit named Monte Jarrad, which causes him no end of trouble. Meanwhile, the real Jarrad is hiding out in the home of his girl, Cherry de Longpre.
Drama, war film
The British submarine HMS Trojan is out on a routine exercise to test its new snorkel mast. She encounters an unrecovered Second World War magnetic mine. When she dives, the mine is set off and blows off the bow of the submarine.
Comedy drama, Pirate Film
The story opens on Skeleton Island, an uncharted island somewhere in the Falkland Islands chain, where Long John Silver and Billy Bones have staged a successful mutiny against Captain Flint. The group is attacked by gigantic insects, and retreats back to the ship. In the chaos, Long John has one of his legs torn off by a giant beetle.
Drama, teen film
In a Midwestern town one Saturday night during the depths of the Great Depression, high school sophomores Eddie Smith and Tommy Gordon get thrown out of a school dance when it is discovered that Tommy, unable to afford his ticket, snuck in. Tommy later reveals to Eddie that his widowed mother has not worked for months, so he is going to drop out of school and look for a job. Eddie offers to speak to his father about finding Tommy a position at the cement factory, only to discover, when he does, that his father has lost his own job there.
Adventure, fantasy film, monster film, Science fiction
A tribe of primitive humans live in a barren, rocky wasteland and struggle for survival, despite a lush, plant-filled land on the other side of a nearby river. They refuse to cross the river because of a law that evolved from an ancient tale, warning of a god lurking there who brings death with a single touch. A young man of the tribe challenges the law and is eventually followed by other male members of his tribe, who fearfully cross the river in order to bring him back.
Adventure, Drama
In Key West, Florida, Tom Skelton is a local young man who would like to become a professional fishing guide. When guide Nichol Dance gets himself arrested, Tom volunteers to cover his charters until he gets out of jail. While on a charter with a couple, Tom wades into mangroves to free an entangled fish.
Adventure, fantasy film, mockbuster, Superhero
When the god of deception Loki (Richard Grieco) wipes off the city of Valhalla to steal the Hammer Of Invincibility, only the young hero Thor (Cody Deal) can recover the cities from evil. When Thor's father and older brother are killed in a futile attempt to retrieve the hammer from Loki, a Valkyrie named Jarnsaxa (Patricia Velásquez) attempts to train a naïve and inexperienced warrior Thor to fight Loki. This leads them on a short quest from their training camp, to the Tree of Inventory to collect a sword and shield and then to a small city where Loki attempts to hypnotize the refusing residents into serving as his minions by bringing on…
Crime, crossover fiction, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, Weird West, Western
Sometime in the early 1880s, Dr Frankenstein's evil granddaughter Maria has moved to the American West with her brother Rudolph, in order to use the prairie lightning storms in her experiments on immigrant children snatched from a dying town. Maria is very much in charge, killing the children and replacing their brains with artificial ones, intending to revive them as her slaves. Rudolph, however, is reluctant to help his sister, but is too afraid of her to do otherwise.
swashbuckler film, Western
After receiving a letter from his father requesting his immediate return home, Don Diego de la Vega resigns his commission as a cadet and sails from Spain to California. Arriving in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, he learns that his father has been replaced as Alcalde by Don Luis Quintero. Quintero is a puppet of the witty and urbane swordsman, Captain Esteban, and the once-free populace are oppressed by high taxes and cruel laws.
Comedy, comedy television program, Western
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up raised by buzzards—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West", so he is thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolmarm Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). Nelson L.
war film
At the start of World War II, Frenchmen from all walks of life enlist or are drafted. Defeated by the invading Germans in 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain signs a peace agreement and the troops surrender. However, instead of being repatriated to their homes, a group of soldiers are transported to a brutal prison camp.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
American Charlie Salt and British Chris Pepper own a Soho nightclub, operating under the suspicious eye of the intrepid Inspector Crabbe. One night, Pepper finds a Chinese woman on the floor of the club. Assuming she's intoxicated, he makes a date with her and thinks she responds.
Adventure, animated film, Computeranimation
In a post-apocalyptic future the planet was subjected to an ecological catastrophe, and as a result the Earth was flooded. At the same time, sea inhabitants also suffered a catastrophe. The Colossal squid Kraken managed to save several inhabitants and formed a safe place to live with them, which is a colony located in the deep sea of the Atlantic Ocean.
Adventure
After capturing an important Rif prisoner in an undercover operation, American sergeant Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion is imprisoned for striking a rival lieutenant who beats a French woman with his riding crop for preferring Kincaid to him. He is imprisoned alongside seven military prisoners and the captured Rif who has refused to talk. The lieutenant refuses to feed Kincaid and the Rif, but Kincaid's two comrades, Luis Delgado and Pierre Molier, sneak food and water to him, which he shares them with the Rif.
Adventure, Comedy
Nancy Drew begins college with her two best friends, Bess Marvin and George Fayne, at River Heights University. After the star football player goes into a coma, Nancy investigates, finding a campus-wide conspiracy and a fraternity's drug use.
Comedy, Western
In 1871 in the frontier town of Casper, Wyoming, the nefarious Rance Roden devises a scheme to eradicate the buffalo population, which will incite unrest among the Indians. His ulterior motive is to eliminate the U.S. Cavalry, his true adversary, allowing him and his cohorts to seize control of the Western territories.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, Parody, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Crew members of the spaceship Vertigo have a confrontation with a man-eating alien creature.
Action, Parody, Splatstick
In 1950 Tom (Spencer) is a Safari organizer in Rhodesia. He is an animal lover at heart and secretly give his clients rifles loaded with blanks. His life changes with the arrival of his cousin and former business partner Slim (Hill).
Action, thriller film, war film
Gunnery Sergeant Burns (Fred Dryer) is in charge of the Marine Security Guard detachment at a United States embassy in the Middle East. When terrorists attack the compound, taking hostages, Burns becomes a one-man Marine Corps in an attempt to rescue the hostages and kill the terrorists.
Adventure, buddy film, Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Academy Award-winner Robert Benchley introduces the film, explaining that “the front office” has charged him with explaining the plot “and other vague portions of the film.” Sal and Chester Hooton, an old married couple, are visited by their equally old friend Duke Johnson, and the three reminisce about their previous adventure in the Klondike. The film flashes back to the turn of the century. Hooton and Johnson are doing a variety act as "Prof Zambini and Ghost-O".
Comedy, Drama, Tragicomedy
A couple of ex-cons, Harry and Roy, break into a home expecting to find $250,000 in a safe, but come away empty-handed. They do, however, take 8-year-old Gary with them, hoping that the boy's father will pay a ransom. Harry forms a bond with Gary, who has multiple allergies, is home-schooled and has rarely been out in the world.
Adventure, Drama
A Douglas DC-2, from a tiny South American airline, is piloted by Captain Bill Lonagan and co-pilot Joe Brooks, bound for Boca Grande. The passengers are: Jud Ellis, a man of privilege escorting his new fiancée Louise Melhorn; repentant political assassin Vasquel, being transported back to the proper authorities by bounty hunter Crimp; mobster Pete Bostwick, accompanying the son of his boss, Tommy; elderly Professor Spangler, accompanied on a research trip by his wife of 42 years; and prostitute Rena, on her way to work a South American casino. To Louise's disgust, a local tries to sell Tommy a shrunken head at the airport.