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Drama, Erotic Film, fantasy film, monster film
Tanya is a female model in Toronto who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, and her dream comes true. The only other person on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who emerged from one of Lobo's paintings.
Adventure
Minkey, a super-spy primate, rescues his partner Mike Muggins from Middle Eastern terrorists. Their secretary, Edith, commends them on being the two best spies in the business, but Mike informs her that he is going to retire to be with his wife and daughter. The movie flashes forward 10 years.
Comedy drama, Crime, mystery film
Trixie Zurbo is an eccentric woman who longs to quit her job as a security guard in a department store and become a private detective. She finally gets her wish when she takes a job in security at a casino. She accidentally becomes involved in a murderous plot and Trixie takes her first case; however, her unschooled command of the English language (malapropism) and comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
Adventure, Crime, crime thriller film, Horror, Science fiction
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Dr. Fu Manchu, with his sadistic daughter Lin Tang, has discovered a deadly venom in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes.
Adventure, Drama
After striking a derelict mine in the Atlantic Ocean, the luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes, taking with her nearly all of the 1,156 people on board. Twenty-seven of the survivors and a dog converge in a single lifeboat designed to accommodate only nine people. The dying captain passes command to executive officer Alec Holmes.
Adventure, Historie, medieval film
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to North America to find his father, who was captured by Native Americans during a previous voyage.
Adventure, Science fiction
An evil genius of unknown identity, calling himself "Dr. Vulcan" (heard only as a voice and seen as a mysterious shadow on a brightly lit wall), plots to conquer the world. He needs to first eliminate, one by one, the members of the Science Associates, an organization of America's greatest scientists.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, mystery film, natural horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
On 1 July 1916, in New Jersey during WWI, local lifeguard Alex Trednot watches over one of the beaches. He is approached by his best friend Stanley and ex-girlfriend Alice for his opinion on a wedding cake. Suddenly, beachgoer Charles Van Sant is attacked by a mysterious force.
Drama, Noir
Gigolo "Doctor" Omar bribes the Shanghai police not to jail the broke American showgirl Dixie Pomeroy; he invites her to seek a job at the casino owned by Dragon-lady "Mother" Gin Sling, his boss. In the casino, Omar attracts the attention of a beautiful, privileged young woman, fresh from a European finishing school. She is out for some excitement.
Adventure, Secret Agent, spy film
U.N.C.L.E. suspects that the U.S. industrialist and tycoon Andrew Vulcan, an officer of WASP (an international criminal organization), plans to kill Prime Minister Sekue Ashumen of the newly independent African nation of Western Natumba.
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Action, thriller film
After winning a gold medal for East Germany in the pentathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, athlete Eric Brogar (Dolph Lundgren) flees from his abusive trainer, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul) and the Olympic team. Eight years later, Mueller is no longer a trainer. He has become a neo-Nazi terrorist, responsible for a series of attacks on German government officials, and Mueller has discovered that Eric is in Los Angeles.
Drama
The film is based on the first two books of the Book of Mormon: First Nephi and Second Nephi. The source material contains much theological discussion, and parables, some of which have been cut from the adaptation due to their unsuitability as narrative material. Some of the visionary material is retained.
Adventure, Drama
Set in the beginning of the 20th century on the island of La Réunion, it is about five french adolescent boys from wealthy families who commit a brutal crime and are in turn taken in by a Dutch Captain for rehabilitation on his dilapidated sailboat, who sail for a tropical island on which they will secretly be changed into women.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Marshall Lawson (Steven Seagal) is the commander of an elite U.S. military unit. During an overseas assignment in Paris, Lawson loses all three of his men in a seemingly random attack on their hotel room.
Western
The Union army in the American Civil War is in desperate need of new horses. A Confederate spy in Colorado has been informing freeboot horse rustlers of the timing and route of herds being driven by the Union army, enabling the horses to be seized and resold to the South. Charged with cowardice when he abandons his herd, Major Lex Kearney is expelled from the Union army with a dishonorable discharge and a yellow streak painted down his back.
Adventure, Historie, Knights Tale, romance film, swashbuckler film
In 1465, honorable but penniless Scottish knight Quentin Durward agrees to go to France to find out if the beautiful young heiress, Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, would be a suitable wife for his aged uncle. The marriage has been arranged by Charles, Duke of Burgundy, for his rich ward to cement an alliance with Scotland. She wants nothing to do with it, so she runs away and seeks the protection of Charles' great rival, Louis XI, King of France.
Adventure, Pirate Film
thumb|250px|left|John Alderson, Errol Flynn and Phil TullyBritish naval officer Brian Hawke volunteers with two other seamen to infiltrate a pirate base on Madagascar, but when they arrive, they arouse suspicion. Pirate captain Roc Brasiliano orders Hawke before a tribunal to decide his fate. Hawke has caught the eye of Spitfire Stevens, the only woman among the coast captains, which arouses Brasiliano's jealousy.
Adventure, spy film
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin investigate when fellow agent Robert Kingsley and European general Maximilian Harmon disappear. Shortly afterward, five of the world's top scientists are mysteriously abducted.
Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, marionette film, puppet film
Hal Tara, the prince of Hebalon, whose father, the Kharo, dies by suicide after years of war with the Zeriths. Before dying, the Kharo writes a message asking Hal to make peace with the Zeriths and protect his sister, Jhinna. However, Hal’s uncle Nezo destroys the letter, murders the Kharo, and frames the Zeriths for the crime so he can seize power.
Adventure
Tarzan is swinging around the trees and enjoying spending time with his chimpanzee friend Cheetah. Suddenly there is a lion below that's about to attack a deer caught in a trap. Tarzan jumps down from the trees with his knife and lands on the lion.
Adventure, Science fiction, science fiction action film
A prince and princess are abducted from their planet. Saber Raine, a soldier of fortune is hired to bring them back. Along with three others, he embarks on the mission.
Adventure, Drama
The film tells a fictionalized version of the Pilgrims' voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to North America aboard the Mayflower. During the long sea voyage, Capt. Christopher Jones falls in love with Dorothy Bradford, the wife of William Bradford.
Action, prison film, thriller film
After the New Alcatraz massacre, long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transferred to another. He claims it's to be closer to his lady, but his real motives are a bit more grandiose than that. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bill Goldberg) a bulky prisoner who is unfriendly and doesn't want to talk about anyone.