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Adventure, Science fiction
On an expedition in Papua New Guinea, the Tropis, a tribe of apelike creatures, are being used as slaves by humans. When one of the Tropis is allegedly murdered, the following murder trial centers on the question of whether the Tropis are human or animal.
Action, Adventure, Horror, Western
In the frontier of the Wild West, Red Cavanaugh is to be hanged for his crimes. Calmly, he says that every man at the gallows will be dead before sunrise. Moments later, the Blackwater gang – Baptiste, Darko, Ramos, Snake, and Washington – arrive led by Red's half-brother Guerrero de la Cruz.
Adventure, Comedy, Family Comedy, Pirate Film, Treasure hunt
Davie (Adam Wylie), a cabin boy who was betrayed and marooned by the nasty Captain Lucky (Leslie Nielsen) on Pirate Island, escapes the captain's trap and sets up booby traps with the help of a monkey named Chester to catch Lucky and his crew when he returns to the island to recover a treasure he buried there. The captain, with a French pirate named Pierre (Eric Idle) as his first mate, returns soon after, along with his new crew. Two of the pirates are caught in a trap involving crabs.
Adventure, Drama
Susan Clarkson (Melissa Joan Hart) agrees to go with Jason (Jonathan Brandis) and three other young crew members and deliver a 60-foot sailing yacht from San Diego to Vancouver to a potential buyer. However the over-anxious captain sails off course and the crew runs into some bad weather. While out at sea, the yacht sinks, leaving the crew to fend for themselves against the merciless elements.
Animal horror, Horror, monster film
After a bank robbery, four criminals try to escape to the village of Santo Cristo in Acapulco, but they hijack the plane when a storm requires the pilot to start to turn around. They force the pilot to continue flying. After the copilot struggles with one of the hijackers, the plane's instrument panel is destroyed and it crashes.
Action, Science fiction, spy film
Teri leaves the gym and stops by a motorcycle repair shop to pick up parts for her inventor boyfriend Rick. Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns, which only needs oxygen to operate.
Action, Adventure, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, katastrophe, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
A tugboat pulling a huge iceberg arrives at a port in Alexandria, Egypt, when suddenly, the iceberg shatters and releases a megalodon from suspended animation. The Mega Shark begins its reign of terror by flipping the tugboat to the air until it crashes and decapitates the Sphinx hundreds of miles away in Giza. Following the incident, several countries around the world place their ports on lockdown and impose a ban on fishing, adversely affecting the world's economy as the megalodon terrorizes the seas.
Action, Comedy horror, fantasy film, science fiction comedy
Frank Abernathy is the curator of the natural history museum in Blackwater, Louisiana. He is a widower who doesn't seem to have time for his daughter, Jack. Frank's father, Simon; is a B-movie enthusiast who believes in extraterrestrials and shows his favorite movies at the local theater.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Nudie Film, sexploitation film, sword and sorcery film
Amazons is an epic story that follows a legendary tribe of warrior women from a mythical time, whose spirits are tied to magical trees. The amazons are currently being attacked by an army led by the evil king Kalungo, whose magic powers are given by the Weird Ways and the demonic being Balgore. The amazons' High Priest performs a ceremony, which reveals the magic sword of Azundati in the future of amazon warrior Dyala.
Adventure, crossover fiction, fantasy film
Enteng Kabisote wants to retire as the perennial hero of Engkantasya and have a normal life with his family without the magical elements. Ina Montecillo longs to have the right partner to be with her for the rest of her life. One day, Enteng is placed under a powerful evil spell by The Queen of Darkness, Satana to fall in love with another woman.
Adventure, Drama, Western
Charlotte, the daughter of the pioneer family Sutter, is kidnapped by a mysterious Indian tribe. Her father John leads a search party to find her. Sam, his son, pursues her on his own.
comedy thriller, Crime, romantic comedy
A voice over says, "No, that's not right." The scenario is repeated with adjustments until the voice is eventually satisfied. The screen fades to Cathy Palmer sitting at a typewriter, finishing up the story. She seals it in an envelope and sends it off.
Adventure, romance film
Following the Pathet Lao takeover of Laos, Australian journalist John Everingham is originally sympathetic but then feels the nation is turning into a police state. General Siegfried Kaplan, an East German advisor to the Pathet Lao secret police, has noticed that Western news agencies are receiving revealing news stories that could only have been provided by insiders in the government. Kaplan vows to plug the security leaks and identify and eliminate the sources of the stories.
Adventure, Drama
In late 1884, during the height of the Mahdist insurrection in the Sudan, Mahdist forces led by several hundred Dervishes armed with broad curved swords attack Barash, a British outpost, located 200 miles (320 km) upriver from Khartoum. Three soldiers and a woman with a young child escape to the river and steal a small riverboat. One soldier, Major Harris, is shot as they leave and dies soon after.
Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, miniseries
At the New York Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as 12th-century knights storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and steal an arcane medieval decoder. Archaeologist Tess Chaykin (Mira Sorvino) and FBI agent Sean Daley (Scott Foley) engage in a chase across three continents in search of the enemy and the lost secret of the Knights Templar.
Adventure, Drama
After the death of his infant sister, 8-year-old American boy Wes tells his grieving parents that he is a Mongolian goat-herder who was born in the wrong place. Joined by an ambitious young filmmaker named Ismail, Wes leads his family to Mongolia on a soul-searching journey.
Comedy, Drama, Heist
The film follows the story of two women living in London, Shannon and Frances, attempting to con a group of gangsters, led by Kerrigan and Mason, into giving them £1,000,000 after they overhear a conversation between gang members during a local bank heist. The idea is that the money will later be used to purchase a large amount of expensive medical equipment for the hospital where Shannon works as an overworked and underpaid nurse. Frances, a failing American actress who has resorted to doing voice acting for children's cartoons, wants the money so that she can get out of the rut she believes she is stuck in, and also because she wants a…
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
The plot revolves around a young boy named Travis (nicknamed "Tee") who learns from his master that he is the key to saving the world from an evil plot. Tee joins the secret organization of the Delta Knights and embarks on a quest to attempt to recover the lost treasures inside the fabled Lost Storehouse of Archimedes.
Action, Comedy, Crime, crime thriller film, Criminal Comedy Film, thriller film
Andorran prostitute and single mother Catalina "Cat" Rona is hired to participate in an orgy in Montenegro along with other escorts, for powerful men including former U.S. Senator William Krebb. When the senator kills one of the women, security is ordered to murder the others present to avoid witnesses.
Adventure, Comedy
In Poppy Meadow, Maya's hive is thrilled when they are invited to compete in the Honey Games in Buzztropolis after a poor harvest, but the catch is they must contribute half of their honey. At the Games, Maya meets Violet, a competitor and Master Beegood's daughter. Maya convinces the Empress to allow her hive to fully participate, but Willy accidentally spills honey on the Empress, causing trouble.
Adventure, Computeranimation, Drama, fantasy film
The main character, a young woman named Sintel, is ambushed while traveling through a wintry mountainside. After defeating her attacker and taking his spear, she finds refuge in a shaman's hut. When the shaman asks Sintel why she is traveling, she confesses that she is looking for a dragon, leading into a flashback.
Adventure, Coming-of-age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
A new adaptation of Gus van Sant's movie milestone "My Own Private Idaho". Franco works with samples and unused material from the original film, in which River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves play the leading roles. "My Own Private River" is both a portrait of the actor Phoenix and his character Mike.
Action, Political Thriller, thriller film, war film
Commander Sam Keenan (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a decorated US Navy SEAL, is sent to the Eastern European nation of Moldova to become the new security attaché at the US Embassy. When he arrives, Keenan learns that Moldavia is in the middle of a civil war. At the embassy, Keenan meets with Ambassador George Norland (Colin Stinton), who designates Keenan as his "second in command", despite the traditional diplomatic hierarchy, which is contested by others afterward.
Western
During his escape, bank robber Joe Maybe sees famous US Marshal Jim Noonan, who is searching for him, stumble and fall from a cliff to his death. He enters a town on the dead man's horse, where he is mistaken for Noonan. Maybe decides to hide behind the badge for a while but soon raises the suspicions of the local law enforcer, Judge Kyle.