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Adventure, Drama
The story centers on an emotionally challenged man named Bobby (Christian Bale). He runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather (Daniel Benzali), nicknamed "The Fat", who had killed Bobby's pet mouse and, as Bobby puts it, screamed at his mother until she died as a result. He finds himself in woodlands near Cornwall in England, eventually meeting an old man after being involved in a car accident (John Hurt).
Action, Adventure, disaster film
Cliff Mason, a veteran foreman of the Forest Service's smokejumper unit, is called out with a crew on a fire, despite the fact that they have not rested in three days. Accompanied by R. A.
Western
U.S. Marshal Johnny Reno is on his way to the town of Stone Junction on personal business. As he rides through the desert, the fugitive Conners brothers see him and believe he is tracking them.
Adventure, children's film, Drama
Hank Donner is a marine biologist camping and studying the underwater fauna near a Northwest Pacific fishing town. One day, while Hank and his local assistant Deke study a pod of grey whales swimming past the cove where they have set up camp, they witness a pair of fishermen, Joe Clausen and Burt, shooting at a passing group of killer whales. A female is fatally wounded and drifts into the cove, where she beaches and dies.
family film
While having a sleepover together, Strawberry and her friends travel to the Land of Dreams on a sea-plane like boat built by Ginger Snap, where they must help stop the Purple Pieman, Sour Grapes and their army of nightmares from ruling the earth.
Action, Adventure, Pirate Film
Emilio di Roccabruna, The Black Corsair, seeks revenge against Governor Van Gould for the murder of his family.
Adventure, fantasy film, war film
Dolf is a 15-year-old boy from Rotterdam who plays for the junior national football team. Dolf and his team are playing an important championship game against the Belgian team in the German city of Speyer. They were trailing by a goal, and got the chance to equalise in the final minutes which Dolf blew.
Adventure, animated film, children's film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film
Generations before the main story, the McSweeney clan loses their priceless pot of gold to a marauding dragon, condemning every family member to chronic misfortune. Hap McSweeney, the clan's eternally optimistic youngest leprechaun, endures collapsing houses and classroom ridicule yet remains determined to restore his family's fortune. During a school excursion to Fortune City, Hap and his three best friends—Shannon, a nimble elf; Sammy, a gentle giant; and Reggie, a gadget-loving gremlin—discover that legendary tycoon Houlihan safeguards a familiar cauldron of shimmering coins inside his high-tech mansion.
Action, Comedy horror, Drama, girls with guns, Horror, thriller film
A group of women are trapped in a deserted skyscraper, with a crazed killer at their heels.
Action, Adventure
Two hunters come into the jungle intent on killing as many animals as they can in order to get barrels of animal fat, lion skins and elephant tusks. Tarzan tries to help a baby elephant, one of their first victims. He takes the elephant to an animal doctor and his female assistant, who have pitched their tents in the jungle to do business.
Adventure, Comedy, Computeranimation, family film
The young blacksmith Thor lives happily with his single mother in a peaceful little village. The legend says he is the son of Odin, the King of the Gods. Therefore, the fellow villagers believe that the terrifying Giants will never attack them.
Action, Martial arts, thriller film
Jack Severino (Dominique Vandenberg) is a quiet yet intense man who has no recollection of his past. He spends his time in violent Vale Tudo fights in a small South American village. The only friend he has is his manager Manolo (Steven Bauer), an Indian trying to escape poverty.
Adventure, Drama
Fourteen-year-old Terry Bowen travels from the U.S. to India to meet his father Hugh Bowen for the first time. After a dispute with his father, Terry runs away and is befriended by Raji.
Adventure, Drama, historical drama
Drama, Western
Set in the year 1861, Matt Colter, a mountain man, is traveling across the great divide with his young Native bride, Little Doe. As they cross paths with a Paiute party, a beautiful young woman Wannetta watches the mountain man and his pretty Native bride. Ostracized by the white and Native communities, they are forced to leave and find a new home.
Adventure, Sword-and-sandal
Androcles, a gentle Christian tailor, is pursued by Roman persecutors, accompanied by his nagging wife Megaera. While they are hiding in the forest, a Barbary lion approaches them. Megaera swoons, but tender-hearted Androcles sees that a large thorn is deeply embedded in the lion's paw, so he removes it while soothing the lion with baby talk.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, family film
After one of his countless mishaps, Félix (Felix in the English version), a clumsy and unlucky Iberian lynx, is transported to the animal recovery shelter at the Doñana National Park, along with Beeea (Beeety in the English version), a daredevil Iberian ibex, and Astarté, a brave peregrine falcon with an injured wing. However, the national park has undergone security measures while Félix was gone. Mysterious animal kidnappings have occurred at other national parks and animal preservations, which had caused the shelter to be turned into a prison-like structure, leading Félix's paranoid chameleon friend, Gus, to believe that their human…
Adventure, Drama, romance film
MSgt Mike Takashima (Yul Brynner), Col Glenn Stevenson (Richard Widmark) and 1st Lt John Gregg (George Chakiris), all members of the U. S. Air Force Air Rescue Service at Ashiya Air Base, Japan, set out to rescue the survivors of a Japanese ship wrecked in a still-raging storm.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, silent film
A company of travelling performers arrive at a fictional oriental city. It includes the beautiful dancer Yannaia, the hunchback clown Yeggar who is lovesick for Yannaia and the Old Lady who loves Yeggar. The slave trader Achmed wants to sell Yannaia to the Sheik for his harem.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, South Seas
The beautiful Tollea is abducted and taken to Cobra Island, where she discovers that the Queen is her grandmother. The queen's servant Hava warns Ramu, who expected to marry Tollea, not to go after her, but he sets sail for the forbidden island, with his young friend Kado accompanying him as a stowaway. A panther attacks Ramu, who is saved by a dart from Kado's deadly blowgun.
Adventure, animated film, Christmas film, fantasy film, Pirate Film
King Calvin and Queen Penelope have their eggs laid and as their daughters hatch, the parents name them Crystal and Lucinda. As the sisters grow, despite their differences, they compromise and head to the North Pole to find Santa Claus. They want to save Christmas, which Crystal believes in earlier and all along.
Western
Emporia, Wyoming is a lawless town in need of a new sheriff. Preacher Sam Stone and businessman George Gates suggest that Mayor Ned West release gunfighter Waco from jail to take up the job. At first, the mayor rejects Gates' suggestion, but when his daughter is assaulted, West decides it is time to pardon Waco.
Adventure
During the British Raj, Captain Carruthers works under cover to track smuggled shipments of arms on the restless Northwest Frontier of India, the modern day Afghanistan-Pakistan border (the Durand Line). He fears a full-scale rebellion is brewing. To forestall this, the British governor signs a treaty with the friendly, peace-loving ruler of Tokot, a key kingdom in the region, which is described as four days' march northward from Peshawar.
Adventure, Drama, Noir
Distraught American Margaret "Margot" Macomber was unhappily married to her American husband, Francis Macomber, when the couple arrived in the Kenya Colony of British East Africa. Now he is dead from a gunshot wound to the back of his head. As she and their guide, English big-game hunter Robert Wilson, land in Nairobi, Kenya, a flashback dissolves to him and Robert meeting at the Norfolk Hotel to plan their safari over a whiskey.