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Adventure, Family Drama, Melodrama
A family on a small plane gets caught in a storm and crash lands in the desert. Short on food and water they manage to repair the plane. But the attempt is ruined by a family member draining the battery by falling asleep listening to the plane's FM radio the night before takeoff.
Adventure
Eight-year-old Dirkie DeVries (Wynand Uys, credited as Dirkie Hayes), is flying with his Uncle Pete (Pieter Hauptfleisch) and his dog a Cairn Terrier, across the Kalahari Desert in a small plane, piloted by Uncle Pete, who partway into the flight has a heart attack and partially loses control of the plane. Thanks to his struggles to land safely in the desert even while suffering the heart attack, the crash is not as serious as it might have been otherwise, and, while Pete himself dies, Dirkie and his small pet dog survive, and the bulk of the story follows Dirkie's various adventures while he struggles to survive the harsh desert…
bushranging film, Crime, Drama, Western
In 1865 Australia, the two Marston brothers, bold Dick and sensitive Jim, are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, the famous cattle thief Captain Starlight. They help take some cattle their father and Starlight have stolen across the country to Adelaide, where they are sold, with Starlight impersonating an English gentleman claiming to own the rustled herd. The two brothers take their share of the money and go to Melbourne.
Action
A discovery in the near future makes it possible to create genetically engineered and enhanced human clones. The consequence of this discovery results in bio-ethical chaos. In order to right this wrong, the World Health Organization imposes a global ban on all human cloning activity.
Action, Crime, Drama, Motor-Bike Film
Cody (John Cassavetes) and his motorcycle gang, the Skulls, hear the story of how Butch Cassidy and his outlaw band lived in a secret area called Hole-in-the-Wall, where there are no police. Inspired, Cody tells the gang they're all going to Hole-in-the-Wall to live forever. Thus, they break their pal Funky out of jail and head out.
Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, natural horror film, thriller film
A family in Africa is besieged by a pride of ravenous lions, driven to desperation by the drought. They have to survive multiple attacks but some colleagues are eaten by the lions.
Action, Adventure
Tarzan and Boy, on their way to meet Jane, who is returning from nursing work in Britain to support the war effort, rescue an "Amazon" woman from an attack by a black panther. During the attack, she drops a golden bracelet which Cheeta picks up. The Amazon woman's ankle is twisted in the incident and she cannot walk.
Adventure, fantasy film, monster film
A U.S. oil company loses a drill, intended to do work in the Arctic while flying over a Canadian lake. Company employee Sean is contacted to go to Canada to find it; however, he has to cancel plans to take his son to Walt Disney World.
Crime
Rita La Punta (Marília Pêra) leads a gang of Brazilian juvenile delinquents in an attempt to seize control of New York's Lower East Side's illegal drug trade from a Puerto Rican gang.
Adventure
A brilliant biology student, Richard Forbush, is sent to Antarctica for six months to study a penguin colony. At first he does it mostly to impress a girl he is chasing, Tara. He stays in Shackleton's Hut with his only links to the outside world being a two-way radio to contact the navy who occasionally visit to deliver supplies and take his letters and tape recordings to Tara.
Adventure
Eleven-year-old Jonathan Knicks is daydreaming while playing an outfield position of a youth baseball game. He doesn't notice a flyball headed his way, and it bounces off his glove resulting in an error and a celebratory win for the opposing team. Later, Jonathan heads to the home of Henry Coogan, a longtime family friend and once best-friend of his late grandfather Max Knickerbocker.
Drama
An art dealer goes to Prague after the death of a friend, Baron von Utz, to obtain the Baron's priceless Meissen porcelain collection. He meets an old friend, Orlik, who tells him about the Baron's past while he struggles to discover what happened to the collection.
Action, Blaxploitation
The movie begins with an overview of a city skyline. J.J. (Rod Perry) and his friend are seen walking down a street; they stop and one of the men points to a house.
Adventure
Moki, a Cree Indian in the late 19th-century West, works as a foreman on the ranch belonging to his former Army commanding officer, Colonel Pearson. Moki wears the sign of the tribal totem on his hand—a four-toed track, the mark of the grizzly bear. A grizzly bear invades Pearson's land and kills a steer.
Adventure, Drama
Fernando is an ornithologist birdwatching in the wild along a river in Portugal. Observing birds through binoculars from his kayak, he becomes so engrossed in the birds that he is caught unawares when his kayak is swept downstream into rough rapids, where he loses control and capsizes. Two Chinese girls Fei and Lin are hiking through the woods, lost on their pilgrimage to the tomb of Saint James in Santiago da Compostela in Spain.
Adventure, LGBTQ-related film
Set nearly three thousand years ago, the Amazons are a tribe of proud warrior women who have established a female-only state. The film begins with the tribe's tournament to select a new queen. Man-hating Antiope defeats her rival Oreitheia in the final wrestling match and becomes queen.
Adventure, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, silent film
Fleeing from the horror of her home life, Nancy, an orphan raised by a brutal foster father, kills the man in a moment of panic and self-defense. She is soon discovered by Jim, a young drifter and hobo, who stumbles upon the scene. Though initially reluctant, Jim agrees to help Nancy escape, and she disguises herself in boy's clothes to pass unnoticed.
Drama
When a white woman accuses him of raping her, Traver, a black clarinetist in a touring jazz band, steals a small boat to escape a lynch mob. He travels until the outboard motor runs out of gas, at which point he paddles to an island off the Carolina coast that is a private game preserve. It is not hunting season, so the island's only inhabitants are the caretakers Miller and Pee-Wee and Pee-Wee's teenage granddaughter Evalyn.
Adventure
Scotland, 1751: At a stately manor near Edinburgh, the young David Balfour arrives with a sealed letter from his recently deceased father for Ebenezer, his uncle. It is meant to be delivered to a family lawyer to introduce David as the rightful heir to the property. After slyly trying to kill his previously unknown nephew but failing, Ebenezer conspires with a sea captain, Hoseason, to take the boy hostage and sell him into slavery.
Animation
Disgruntled circus ringleader Larry Grimley and his band of performers plan to kidnap famous celebrity Tony Hawk and his crew to a remote island as ransom due to Mayor John Dullard (who is Grimley's cousin) destroying his beloved circus, for which Grimley swears vengeance. Now it is up to a bunch of five skateboarding kids (Kud, Kit, Sage, Switch Mitch and Jessie) to save Tony in time for the Boom Boom HuckJam.
Drama, Historie
In Paris, which has long been besieged by the Burgundians, François Villon is the despair of Father Villon, the priest who took him in and raised him from the age of six. Father Villon takes François to mass after his latest escapade (robbing a royal storehouse). There François spies a beautiful woman, Katherine DeVaucelles.
Action, Adventure, disaster film, Science fiction
Renegade soldier Colonel Ryan Beckett (Mark Dacascos) is called in by the President of the United States (Rutger Hauer) to save the planet from imminent destruction after a Chinese nuclear-testing accidentally loosens the subterranean plates and exposes the Earth's core, which threatens to bring "Hell on Earth" in just three days. Beckett assembles a crack team to deliver and detonate not one, but two nuclear bombs that must go off simultaneously in the only place on the planet in which they will do any good at stopping the movement of the plates—Los Angeles. The city is evacuated in a panic, but Beckett's teen daughter (Rayne Marcus) is…
war film
It is 1941. Tweed is at a radio outpost on Guam from where he expects to return to mainland America. His replacement, Roy, arrives with Vicente, a local.
romantic comedy
thumb|262x262px|Hula, 1927 lantern slide Hula Calhoun is the daughter of a Hawaiian planter, Bill Calhoun. She follows the advice of her uncle Edwin, and follows a simple and natural life, far from social conventions of her family and is considered a "wild child" who wears pants and rides horses. Courted with adoration by Harry Dehan, Hula prefers a young British engineer, Anthony Haldane, who came to the island to oversee the construction of a dam on her father's property.