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Comedy, Western
Peter "Junior" Potter has graduated from Harvard and heads west to the western town of Sawbuck Pass to claim his father's fortune. Driving into town in a jalopy, wearing a comical striped suit jacket, he splashes mud all over a crowd of townspeople. He discovers to his horror that practically everyone in town claims to be owed money by his father, and that his father's treasure chest is empty.
Comedy, medieval film, speculative fiction, Time travel
Scientist Vivien Morgan is zapped back to the medieval age and time of King Arthur and Camelot, when her scientific machine malfunctions. She is sent back along with many objects from her desk, including her laptop and boom box. As she is sentenced to be burned at the stake, she discovers among the laptop-data, that there will be a solar eclipse in short time.
Adventure, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction
A man brings a woman named Syrene (Leigh Christian) to an island, and she pays him with some pearls. The inhabitants of the island appear to be inbred, with oversized eyes, and they kill any intruders that they find. Back on the mainland, the fisherman Manuel the Barracuda (Vic Díaz) pays East Eddie (Sid Haig), who runs the piers, with some pearls.
Crime
A fortune in gold, taken from the wreck of a Spanish galleon, is hidden in the home of Anton Benson, a reclusive miser. The entire Benson family and household want the gold for themselves, including a mystery villain known as the Iron Claw. Newspaper journalist Bob Lane, with his photographer Jack Strong and Benton's niece Patricia, attempt to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Adventure, Coming-of-age, Drama
In the summer of 1910, a group of circus chimpanzees named Henri, Jacques, Antoinette and Dominique escape from a French circus due to a train wreck and end up in the Oklahoma river bottoms, where the main character, Jay Berry Lee lives with his family. Weeks later, 14-year-old Jay Berry Lee is fighting a bully named Toby on the last day of school when Jay steals Toby’s prized pocketknife. Their teacher Miss Freeman stops the fight, returning the pocketknife to Toby.
Adventure, Drama, Noir
thumb|right|225px|Pat O'Brien and Anne Jeffreys During a storm in Peru, a cargo plane with two passengers leaves for Panama. Midflight, the co-pilot responds to an alarm that the plane's door is open. He finds just one passenger, Charles Hasso (Marc Krah), who insists he tried to stop the other passenger from jumping out the door.
Action, Crime, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film
In 2010, a deadly virus infected everyone on the planet, wiping out 50% of the population. Absolon is a drug regimen that everyone must now take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug and Murchison (Ron Perlman) is its leader.
Action, Adventure, mystery film, thriller film, Treasure hunt
The film centres on Michael Archer (C. Thomas Howell), a forensic anthropologist who inadvertently discovers a set of subtle clues within the works of Leonardo da Vinci, that, when interpreted correctly, will lead the finder to "enlightenment". Archer, convinced of the authenticity of the clues, sets out to locate the treasure by travelling around the world, following each clue.
thriller film
Gary Fenn is a shrewd advertising executive for a London agency, seeking an elusive modeling type to satisfy a difficult client. He finds her in Hungarian Marla Kugash, an peace activist deep in the bohemian society of Swinging London. She is accompanied by a young man, Tarquin, who is extremely protective of her and overtly aggressive to Fenn.
Comedy
Z-Bob, Ash, Eli and Johnny are a group of four guys who take their soon-to-be married best friend Nathan on a memorable trip to Las Vegas. In order to properly bid farewell to their best friend's life as a single man, they must send him out in style with an extravagant bachelor party in Sin City. Limousines, paint ball, strippers, sex toys, alcohol, debauchery and gambling are on the agenda until they discover that Mr.
Adventure, Drama
Set in 1979, the film focuses on a Seattleite couple, police officer and former park ranger Roger Lewis (Bancroft), and 22-year-old waitress Denise Harris (Milano). They are invited by businessman Wylie Bennett (Fraser) to Alaska to head out to the fictional wilderness of Surprise Bay and find a goldmine. If they are successful in retrieving gold, they are awarded 10% of the profit.
Adventure
The film starts off showing Walton island which is owned by World War 2 veteran, Alexander Walton. He goes missing one day, and the island is taken away from his family. Andy Walton is a school student who excels at swimming.
Adventure, Drama, war film
In September 1942, during World War II, Susan Cahill (Dianne Foster), art director for an ad agency on Madison Avenue run by her fiancé, is jealous of his business flirtation with a client's daughter to secure a deal. She accepts an invitation to dinner on Long Island from agency artist Alexander "Alec" Austen (Alan Ladd). Susan is disturbed by Alec's obvious feelings for her, but accepts a lunch date the next day anyway.
Action, Adventure, Horror, kaiju, mockbuster, Science fiction, thriller film
After a long dormant volcano suddenly becomes active again, a nest of mysterious eggs are unearthed and begin to hatch, revealing themselves as prehistoric pterodactyls. A trio of hunters, scouting the Turkish–Armenian border are suddenly attacked by a pterodactyl. While defending themselves, they become outmatched and are all killed.
Adventure, Animation
The young orphan Markussi lives with his little sister Mipoulok in an Inuit clan. Markussi can talk to animals and has some special powers unique to shamans. He does not want to be a shaman though and mainly keeps his powers a secret because he fears being a shaman would make him like the clan's shaman Croolik.
teen film
Sixteen year-old Jett Jackson’s role as the action hero “Silverstone” in his hit TV series has catapulted him to mega-stardom. But Jett’s finding it increasingly difficult to juggle the demands of show biz with school, family and friends. Then, a freak accident on the set causes Jett and his on-screen character Silverstone to trade places.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Sonny Stein (Richard Jaeckel), learns while working as a marine salvager in the Philippine Islands, that he has a connection with mako sharks. He is given a medallion by a Filipino shaman that protects him from sharks when he is among them. Having become alienated from society, Stein lives alone in a small stilt house offshore of Key West, Florida.
Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, thriller film
Steven, a U.S.-born Mexican businessman, arrives in a Mexican resort village on a yacht anchored offshore. One of the local fishermen and the caretaker of the yacht, Colorado, takes Steven with him when he goes to haul in the sharks he has caught. Steven is annoyed to find that another shark has taken a huge bite out of one of them.
Adventure
Buck is a St. Bernard/Scotch collie hybrid dog living the easy life on Judge Miller's estate in Santa Clara, California—unaware that the fall-1897 Klondike Gold Rush has created a demand for sled dogs. This demand results in Judge Miller's gardener, Manuel, stealing Buck away and selling him to a man who sends him to Seattle—where another man, wearing a red sweater, beats the headstrong Buck into submission with a club—the first introduction into "primitive law".
Comedy
After meeting in the Navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, 11 times, but was always rejected because of a bad knee. However, he keeps trying so that he can impress women.
Adventure, Comedy, musical film, Parody, slapstick, swashbuckler film
Science fiction, science fiction action film, thriller film, Time travel
Around 1992, Jack Deth (Tim Thomerson) is now a successful private detective, catching cheating lovers in the act. However, Jack's life with Lena (Helen Hunt) has gotten rocky and he faces divorce if he cannot clean up his act. Lena agrees to meet for supper to try fix the relationship.
B movie, Horror, natural horror film, television film
As a child, Ray Reiter was the sole survivor, when a kraken had attacked his parents' boat. In the present, marine archaeologist Nicole and her assistants, Michael and Jenny are searching for a legendary opal and a Trojan death mask in the same area. During an outing, Nicole's boat is attacked and the boat's captain is killed leaving everyone in a panic frenzy.
Action, disaster film
Jake Thorne (Bruce Campbell) is a storm chaser whose friend and former graduate school advisor, Dr. Joe Branson (Ernie Hudson), has developed a machine that may be able to provide earlier tornado warnings. To work properly, the machine has firing mechanisms on each of its 4 legs.