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Western
Four of the Reno Brothers are corrupt robbers and killers while a fifth, Clint, is a respected Indiana farmer. A sister, Laura, who has inherited the family home, serves as a housekeeper and cook to the brothers. Some of them served in the Civil War, which has given them a hardened attitude toward violence.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Drama, Horror, mystery film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
Heather is a lifeguard on a Malibu beach, alongside her ex-boyfriend Chavez (the head-lifeguard) and fellow lifeguards Doug, and Barb. Also on the beach are Jenny, a young 20-something girl who is reluctantly cleaning the beach for community service after she got caught shoplifting, and Bryan, Barb's boyfriend who proposes to her. Meanwhile, a tremor unleashes a group of Living fossil goblin sharks who begin to devour swimmers along the beach.
Adventure, Pirate Film
Jack Robinson decides to relocate his family, including his wife Anna, sons Shane and Todd, and daughter Elizabeth, from Hong Kong to Sydney, Australia, aboard a newly purchased sailboat named the Albatross. Before they depart, boat salesman Sheldon Blake hands Jack a handgun under the pretense of self-defense. As they set sail across the Pacific, Elizabeth records their daily experiences in a ship's journal while Anna struggles with seasickness.
Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film
Deep in a coal mine in Pennsylvania, a strange stone is found with Norse runes. The stone is transported to New York City, where archaeologists investigate the mystery. Death and destruction follow, as one of the archeologists becomes possessed, and begins killing everyone around him.
Adventure, fantasy film
Harry Quatermain arrives in the British Protectorate of Tanganyika in 1919, shortly after the conclusion of World War I. He is the son of Allan Quatermain, Africa's most celebrated guide, who first set out to discover the source of King Solomon's wealth. There he meets Rick Cobb, a jungle guide and friend of his father.
Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film
Ernie Mullins is New York's 61-year-old pro safecracker, who is operating now in Portland, Oregon. Mike is the "nosy, amiable kid" who Ernie takes on as his lookout and apprentice after they encounter each other (Ernie tried robbing the safe while Mike broke in, just to enjoy some of the comforts of the house). The two engage in a few heists together, such as one involving a supermarket and a friendly dog, and a Fourth of July robbery of an amusement park during a fireworks show.
Drama, romance film
USAF Major Lincoln Bond was captured during the Korean War and subjected to torture, finally cracking after 14 months and signing a confession used for propaganda. Upon his release, he took a year to recover from the ordeal before showing up at the Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, hoping to return to work as a test pilot. On his arrival a plane crash lands nearby on the dry lake bed; he races to offer assistance, braving flames and explosion to attempt to pry the canopy free and save the pilot.
Caper-Movie, Heist, Western
In 1898, two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison. One, mining engineer and geologist Peter Van Hoek, nicknamed the "Dutchman", tells the warden he was framed for the robbery of a gold shipment from the Lisbon Mine. The other, John McBain, killed Bascomb, the man who cheated him out of his land.
fantasy film, Horror
Although the opening segment implies that Merlin's magical interventions in people's lives are intended to have a benign effect, in practice this proves to be far from the case. The first story focuses on a married couple, Jonathan and Madeline Cooper. Jonathan is a respected, though obnoxious columnist, and Madeline is desperate for a baby, as she and Jonathan have been unable to conceive.
Action, Horror, Satanism
The film's plot revolves around the coming of the Apocalypse, heralded by the imminent liberation of the Antichrist from the depths of Hell through a certain gateway at the close of one full millennium. This gate can only be opened by a special key, which has been kept guarded by the order of the Templars (who in this version existed since the last days of Jesus). The key in turn is sought out by the servant of the Antichrist, simply known as the Minion, a demonic spirit that transfers itself into the next available host body when his previous one is killed off.
children's film, Comedy
Kevin Manley (Skeet Ulrich), a Los Angeles travel agent, receives the message that his grandpa has passed and left everything to him. However, he must go to Alaska in order to collect his inheritance. He leaves Canoga Park (Los Angeles), quits his job, despite his boss warning him that he will give up and decide to come back begging for his job back, and heads to Anchorage, Alaska.
Adventure, Crime, Hard Science Fiction, Science fiction
Engineer Dr Stephen Mitchell is part of a British space programme that plans to launch an artificial satellite that will permanently orbit Earth. At a cocktail party, it is announced to the programme's staff that the satellite project has been approved by the defence council. Mitchell's wife Vanessa is not enthusiastic about the new project, nor with having to live at its high security base.
fantasy film, silent film
King Krewl (Raymond Russell) is a cruel dictator in the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. He wishes to marry off his niece, Princess Gloria (Vivian Reed), to an old courtier named Googly-goo (Arthur Smollett), but she is in love with Pon, a Gardener's boy (Todd Wright). Krewl employs the Wicked Witch named Old Mombi (Mai Wells), to freeze the heart of Gloria so she will not love Pon any longer.
Western
The film, with a similar plot to High Noon, tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott), who are about to be married on the Fourth of July when Marshal Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into town looking for Ballard. McCarty accuses Ballard of having murdered his brother and has come to arrest him. At first, the townspeople are on Ballard's side, but gradually they turn against him, especially when they believe that he has killed the town sheriff (Emile Meyer).
Adventure, fantasy film
The movie starts with the history of how mighty fire-breathing dragons came to be. The dragons and their crystals of tremendous power came to the human world through a portal from their world of the dragons. But while the dragons brought knowledge and wanted only peace, the human kingdoms of Norvagen and Draigar wanted war and, having misused the knowledge brought by the dragons, battled erupted.
Action, Adventure, Drama, Pirate Film, romance film
Alan Gaskell is an abrasive, gambling captain of a steamer, the Kin Lung, shuttling between Singapore and Hong Kong. Tensions are high before the Kin Lung sails from Hong Kong because some pirates are discovered disguised as women passengers, while others try to smuggle weapons aboard. Dolly Portland is Alan's former girlfriend, who Alan later describes at the Captain's table as a "professional entertainer," who travels with her maid.
Adventure
During the reign of King George III, in Bristol, England, young Benjamin Blake, son of the deceased Baronet of Breetholm is taken from his commoner grandfather, gunsmith Amos Kidder, and forced to serve his vengeful uncle, Sir Arthur Blake. Arthur inherited the title and land from his brother Godfrey, and fears that Ben may not have been born out of wedlock and might claim his inheritance. He compels the boy to become his ward and bonded servant, giving Arthur life-and-death power over the lad.
Adventure, animated film, Comedy, Computeranimation, family film
Ratso, a success-starved city rat impresario, dreams of becoming a famous showman, despite his terrible shows. His assistant is a worm named Wesley, whom he passes off as the "longest worm in the world" by sticking him through a straw. Ratso plans to drag Wesley, despite his protests, to a “carnival” where his pen-pal cousin Ernie boasts of hosting the most celebrated shows in the animal world.
Action, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film, Vampire, Zombie
An epidemic disease has overwhelmed humanity, turning nearly everyone into blood-thirsty infected who resemble vampires and zombies. There is no known cure and there are very few survivors left fighting "against the dark". Tao (Seagal) is in charge of a group of vampire/zombie hunters.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
To stop a solar flare from destroying the Earth, Steve Kelso is tasked to drop an artificially intelligent bomb on the Sun from the spaceship Helios. Arnold Teague, who believes the danger to be overstated, attempts to sabotage the mission so he can profit from the panic. Teague's agents on Earth clash with Kelso's father, Admiral "Skeet" Kelso, and his son, Mike.
Adventure, Drama, Pirate Film, romance film
Dona St. Columb is disgusted by the superficial court society in London and her fatuous husband. After her husband's friend, Lord Rockingham, makes unwanted advances she take her two children to their remote estate in Navron, Cornwall.
Adventure, Drama
Leading Chief Petty Officer "Windy" Riker is a veteran aerial gunner of a Navy Helldiver dive bomber and the leading chief of Fighting Squadron One, about to go to Panama aboard the aircraft carrier. He loses his five-year title of "champion machine gunner" after young C.P.O. Steve Nelson joins the squadron.
Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
Neil and Sherry Grice, a young American couple, are visiting Greece in search of Neil's missing sister, Madeline, an artist who traveled to a remote island off the coast shortly before her disappearance. Upon arriving on the island, the couple are met by Nereus, the elderly mayor. While touring the island, Neil and Sherry see Madeline walking along a rocky hill, and follow her.
Comedy, Drama
Lonely Patrick McCardle (Zac Efron) is a fifteen-year-old who is forced to play baseball by his former baseball player dad (William R. Moses). Patrick doesn't know what to do with his life.