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Adventure, Drama
Friday and four of his friends arrive in a canoe on the island on which Crusoe has been stranded for years. When they start to consume a deceased comrade in a reverent form of ritual cannibalism, Crusoe kills Friday's friends and takes the latter to his camp as a prisoner. Friday is very quick to learn the English language.
Drama, Tragicomedy
Set in a Butlin's-style holiday camp on the English coast in contemporary post-war Britain, working class London family the Huggetts have their first visit to a summer holiday camp. The film is a kaleidoscope of events involving the Huggetts and others, including pregnant young girl Valerie Thompson and her boyfriend Michael Halliday, Jimmy Gardner, a sailor whose girlfriend has jilted him, Angela Kirby, a girl looking for a husband, spinster Esther Harman, Steve and Charlie, a pair of dishonest card sharps, and Jeffrey Baker, a murderer on the run. It captures the round of organised leisure activities at the crowded camp and the ever…
Crime, Superhero
After murdering an unnamed woman, the villainous "Chain Gang" targets Cee Bee Beaumont, the girlfriend of rock and roll star Lonnie Lord. The Chain Gang harasses, stalks, and eventually abducts Beaumont. In order to save his girlfriend, Lord takes on the identity of "Rat Pfink", and his friend, Titus Twimbly, assumes the role of Rat Pfink's sidekick, "Boo Boo".
Western
John Vickers, a former Union officer in the American Civil War, has spent eight years hunting the three men who murdered the woman whom he loved. He finds one of them, Woodson, who tells him that the other two have joined the cavalry before Vickers kills him. Vickers travels to the upper western portion of Dakota Territory, where he plans to reenlist in the army as a buck private under the command of general George Armstrong Custer at Fort Abraham Lincoln in an effort to search the ranks of the cavalry.
Adventure, Drama, Science fiction
The film is set in 2020 and begins as the Ares spacecraft enters orbit around Mars. Andre Vishniac commands an international crew of seven astronauts. They try to land, but the small lander crashes as a result of an altimeter error.
thriller film
The film is about rivalry and betrayal between two brothers. One is a candidate for Prime Minister and the other is a henchman for a businessman. When one is given the opportunity to take revenge against the other, he must come to terms with the truth and face a world where trust doesn't exist and loyalty is rare.
Western
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that the man is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hunter named Santee. Soon after Santee catches up to the gang, Jody's father is killed. Jody follows Santee in hopes of taking vengeance for his father's death.
Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
In a post-apocalyptic world, the leader of a rebel group (Richard Norton) fights a warlord to retrieve the mystical Spear of Destiny from a derelict temple. The spear's powers enable him to travel back in time. 39 years earlier, he saves the aspiring anthropologist Michelle (Linda Carol) and her boyfriend Slade (Robert Patrick) from the attack of a ruthless biker gang who injure him fatally.
Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Social Drama, thriller film
The main character is Goose (Van Bebber). Goose is leader of "The Ravens", a street gang located in Dayton, Ohio. The Ravens have an ongoing feud with "The Spiders", led by a sadistic goon called Danny (Paul Harper).
Adventure
After his plane goes down, an American boy is rescued from the sea by a Japanese fisherman and his family. When police arrive in the village, the fisherman's son fears that they have done something wrong. He and the American boy go on the run.
Comedy, musical film, Pirate Film
On their way to their jobs at the Death's Head Tavern, Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson and Rocky Stonebridge encounter Lady Jane, who asks them to bring a love note to the tavern singer, Bruce Martingale. At the tavern, the notorious Captain Kidd dines with Captain Anne Bonney, a female pirate. She complains that Kidd raided ships in her territory and demands her share of the treasure.
Drama, romance film
In the Alaskan wilderness, Boyd Emerson and Fraser arrive by dogsled at a village. They are puzzled to receive a chilly welcome from its inhabitants. Frustrated, Boyd gets into a fight with local George Balt, which is broken up by Cherry Malotte.
Science fiction
In a return to the original film's premise, Jack Deth is back – traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine (Zette Sullivan), on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack / Jo must adapt and survive, avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.
Adventure, Science fiction, thriller film
The story is set aboard the Phaeton, Earth's first starship, on a ten-year journey to explore the nearby Epsilon Eridani star system. In order to help the 12-person crew endure the long mission, a system of virtual reality modules are installed aboard the ship. These modules, which are worn like glasses and suppress real-world body movement, allow the crew to assume various identities and enjoy a variety of adventures.
Adventure, Late Western, romance film, Western
Set in 1848, in the Montana Territory, Ben Johnson plays John Coulter who lives on the plains with his daughter Beth and his friend Standing Bear. The story is told mainly from a Native American point of view. Beth is kidnapped by Greyeagle of the Cheyenne nation, who was tasked by the chief to bring Beth to him.
Adventure, Western
In 1848, after four years away from New Orleans, Vance Colby is summoned by his gambler father. On a riverboat, a gambler named Gottfried accuses him of cheating. Vance beats him into submission, but when Vance's back is turned, Gottfried comes after him with a baling hook.
Crime, Drama
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past as a Provisional IRA volunteer in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, members of a dissident republican group they are hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they find themselves trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a friendly Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a local Yardie, heroin-dealing gangster Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds some common criminal ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace…
Western
An embittered cavalry sergeant must take over his regiment after their commanding officer is killed during an ambush. Vinson is driven by his hatred of Apaches, who were responsible for the death of his wife and children. He and his remaining men, including Travis and McGurney, try to ride 100 miles (161 km) to the safety of Fort Crane, a fictional analogue of Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
Adventure, historical film
Lorna Doone is in love with John Ridd but is unwillingly promised in marriage to Carver Doone. As the English Civil War looms, John is determined to defeat the vicious Doone family and win Lorna.
Adventure, Biography, Historie, romance film
The film opens in 44 BC, just after the assassination of Julius Caesar, and tells the story of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra (Fleming) and her relationship with the Roman general Mark Antony (Burr) from that time until their mutual suicide in 30 BC. Lucilius, having previously accompanied Julius Caesar to Egypt and having been a close witness to Caesar's romance with Cleopatra, believes that Cleopatra is a woman highly skilled in besotting men to promote her own agenda, in this case to bind Mark Antony to her desire to become queen of Rome and to make her son by Caesar the eventual ruler of the Roman Empire. In the meantime, as Lucilius…
Drama
In the Gay Nineties, on New York's Bowery, saloon owner Chuck Connors, finds that his rival, Steve Brodie, has thrown a melon at his window. The happy-go-lucky Brodie explains that he threw the melon on a dare. As Connors threatens to fight him, the two learn of a fire in neighboring Chinatown.
Adventure
According to her father's wishes, Queen Salina agrees to share the rule of Icena with Justinian, a Roman. This decision angers both the bloodthirsty Druids and Romans less just than Justinian. As the two rulers fall in love, the Druids and the Romans begin to plot their downfall.
Adventure, Science fiction
A group of highly qualified single men, including Dr. Richard Stanton and Dr. Jerry Lockwood, are recruited for a top secret project.
Adventure, war film
Four American oil company employees—boss/pilot Mike Monahan, alcoholic detection expert Syd Barlow, mechanic Jim Evans and radio man Billy Larsen—make very promising readings from the air in the Sahara Desert, but are told by company manager Sanderson that the local sheik is hostile to outsiders. While flying back, a sandstorm forces them to crash-land. They have little water, the radio transmitter is broken, and the plane's motors are clogged with sand.