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Drama, Noir, thriller film, Western
Lin Vanner is the manager of an oil company and the payroll has been stolen in a holdup. His fiancée urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Following the thief's most likely trail over the border with Mexico, he begins his pursuit.
Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1850 San Francisco, Russian Countess Marina Selanova flees from an arranged marriage to Prince Semyon. She books passage with "Portugee" to Sitka, where her uncle Governor Ivan Vorashilov can protect her. When Portugee's bitter rival, Captain Jonathan Clark, "the Boston-man", frees his shanghaied crew, she sends a man to negotiate with him instead.
Adventure, Comedy, Crime Comedy
In a British prison in the early 1800s, Scottish rogue Davey Haggart is seen writing his memoirs while waiting to be hanged. Most of his story is told in flashback with voice-over narration by Davey. His story begins as he is seen marching and beating a drum for the British Army, but he quickly deserts by jumping off a bridge with his drum and floating away.
Action
In Los Angeles, Mickey Flannery's wife Patty is killed in front of their young son, Jason. Seven years later, he returns to his job at the police department in homicide, working under Captain Garland. He has investigated a car ring deal, but the captain has no interest in it, because it has no connection to homicide.
Adventure
After attempting in vain to save a man from being mauled to death by a leopard, Jungle Jim discovers a vial containing an unknown potion. He takes it to district commissioner Marsden, who identifies it as being from the hidden temple of Zimbalu and brings in Dr. Hilary Parker to head up an expedition with Jim as her guide.
documentary film, Drama, Tragicomedy
Suki, her cowardly brother Linus, and their conceited cousin Fleck are all lion cubs. When two rogue lions, Dark and Harry or otherwise known as "The Wanderers", attack and while the lionesses help, they kill Fleck's mother Eve leaving him an orphan. Suki and Linus decide to go exploring and find out how the Wanderers got across the river.
Adventure
In 1857, freshly-arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, survives an attack on his escort to his North-West Frontier Province garrison near the Khyber Pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. King was born locally and speaks Pashto. As soon as his fellow officers learn that his mother was a native Muslim (which got his parents disowned even by their own families), he encounters prejudiced discrimination, including Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath moving out of their quarters.
Horror
The home of Charles Kessler is beset by a series of unsolved murders. Kessler, who lives with his daughter and servants since his wife left him, is shown to be the murderer, unbeknownst to himself. His wife, who became brain-damaged in a car accident not long after leaving him, has been visiting the grounds of the house and the sight of her through his window puts Kessler into a trance-like state which makes him homicidal.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
The film follows five characters who are lured to an abandoned house in China by letters sent to them by a dead man. Trapped with a deadly threat and surrounded by the police, the five are forced to confront their pasts to survive.
Adventure, children's film, speculative fiction
Young Ivan Drago places first in a mail-in contest for board game inventors, only to be disappointed after receiving the grand prize of a temporary tattoo. However, he soon discovers his tattoo is permanent, prompting his father to reach out to Ivan's long-estranged grandfather Nicholas. Soon after, Ivan's parents are lost in a balloon race, whereupon Ivan is placed in a strict school, where classmates and teachers alike constantly show their dislike for him.
Action, thriller film, war film
After a successful amphibious insertion, a small group of U.S. Marines prepare for combat against local rebels on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. The U.S.
Adventure, Biography, Historie
When Levi Savage, a former Mormon Battalion member and missionary to Asia, agrees to assist the Willie Handcart Company as they journey to Salt Lake City in 1856, the late start and onset of a bitter winter leaves the pioneers unprepared and suffering as they cross the plains of the Midwestern United States. Elizabeth Panting, a woman who has converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), escapes her drunken husband with her two little children, joining the handcart company. With the threat of winter starvation, illness, wolves, freezing river crossings, and death following them throughout their journey, Levi…
Drama
The film stars Wendy Hughes and Robyn Nevin as two sisters who are locked in a custody battle over their young nephew, PS, played by Nicholas Gledhill. PS has been raised by his aunt Lila (Nevin) and her husband George since his mother died soon after his birth. When Lila's richer sister Vanessa (Hughes) returns from overseas, she seeks custody of PS, citing the opportunities she can give him.
Biography, Western
A fictionalized account of the life of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a hunter and Army Scout who rescues a US Senator and his beautiful daughter, Louisa Frederici; Frederici eventually becomes his devoted wife. Cody is portrayed as someone who admires and respects the Indians.
Adventure, Horror, Science fiction
Deep in the Latin American jungles, plantation manager Barney Chavez kills his elderly employer, who is married to the beautiful Dina Van Gelder. Old native witch Al-Long witnesses the murder and places a curse on Barney, who transforms into a rampaging gorilla-like beast each night. Superstitious police commissioner Taro investigates the plantation owner's death and a rash of strange animal killings.
children's film, comedy television program
When Owen (Luke Benward) and his distracted older sister, Lilly (Brittany Curran), are alone and their parents are away, Owen delivers the paper while being bullied by a school bully named Dexter and his gang (who harass Owen by throwing his bike, newspapers and pants off a bridge), and spends afternoons in a forest hideaway making inventions and spinning tall tales about a "Mad Man of the Mountain" in which he claims to be a scary man who used to work in a circus freak show but later moved to live in the mountains to be free. He encounters three thugs named Blackie (French Stewart), Bud (Kevin Farley) and Arty (Kelly Perine) who have a…
Adventure, fantasy film
Vagabond singer Aladdin has his hands full keeping his pickpocket friend, Abdullah, out of trouble. Abdullah is thought insane as he claims to have been born 1,200 years too early, speaks in 1940s slang and knows about television. Princess Armina, the beautiful daughter of Sultan Kamar Al-Kir, is borne through the streets of Baghdad in a palanquin.
Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
The film recounts the exploits of notorious 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard and London "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild. The ending of the film is ambiguous, and suggests that Sheppard may have survived his execution and escaped to the Americas.
Action, fantasy film, Superhero
Given incredible power by an ancient Celtic Cross, Callan along with the help of weapon experts Riot, Backfire, War, Lucia and Shark battle an unstoppable evil empire led by Erlik in the city of Los Angeles. When an ancient Viking called Gunnar, comes to town in search of blood, Callan must stop him before he destroys the world. Erlik and his men Saw, London gangster English and Slag aided by the evil Doctor aim to defeat Callan by helping Gunnar.
Adventure, Sword-and-sandal
In Ispahan, Persia, a barber named Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to find a great fortune. At the same time, the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din a prince known far and wide. The Caliph intends for Fawzia to marry a friend and ally, and makes plans to send her to him.
Adventure, Documentation
Adventure, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction, thriller film
The movie begins with a bunch of newscasters talking about the many accomplishments of genius Atticus Virtue before switching to high school student Max Winslow. Max lives with her mother and brother, her dad having left when she was five years old. Max is socially awkward and spends most of her time on computers and never connecting with people in real life.
Adventure, Drama, war film
In late October 1943, a battalion of U.S. Marines have landed on Choiseul Island to create a diversion for the impending Allied attack and invasion of Japanese held Bougainville Island in the Northern Solomon Islands, northeast of the large island colony of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Ocean. Four of them have been selected to carry out a reconnaissance patrol to find a French planter.
Comedy, war film
William "Bill" Kluggs is the first in his hometown of Punxatawney, West Virginia, to enlist in the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor, making his father Herman, mother Gertrude, girlfriend Marge Fettles and the entire town proud. Willie tries to become a pilot but fails, although he is so proficient at aerial gunnery that, rather than being sent to Europe to fight, he becomes an instructor and is assigned to a base near his hometown. After two years in the same place, he is branded a coward by the townsfolk, even though he continually requests a transfer to combat duty.