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Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In 2032, a crewed expedition to Mars discovers a mysterious egg buried under the planet's surface and brings it to their ship, the SC-37. While the astronauts are away, the egg hatches, releasing a crystal and a slimy alien creature. The astronauts conduct experiments on the crystal and the alien, and are soon killed when their air supply is shut off.
Drama
thumb|thumbtime=17|Tom Sawyer (1930) After arguing with his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, Tom Sawyer seeks solace from his friend Huck Finn, who tells him about a mysterious cure for warts that requires them to visit the local cemetery at midnight. While there, they witness a murder committed by Injun Joe. Joe convinces Muff Potter, who was also there but in an inebriated state, that Muff is guilty of the crime.
Action, Adventure, Science fiction
Major Marphy Black leads a group of commandos through the jungles of an unnamed island, but unknown to all involved but Mascher, they are being stalked by Mascher's robot invention, Omega-1. Over Mascher's protests, the group first saves a volunteer hospital worker, Virgin, from a band of guerrillas, then take out the hospital camp, killing all the guerrillas there, also. At this point, the robot begins killing members of the commando group, one by one.
Adventure
Plantation owner Rock Dean (Bromfield) travels up the Amazon River to investigate why the workers have left in panic. Dean's guide, Tupanico (Payne) warns him of Curucu, a birdlike monster who is said to live up the river where no white man has ever been. Accompanying him is Dr.
Mandy (Ciara O'Hanlon) tells the story of her friend Billy Owens (Dalton Mugridge), an average boy who has just turned 11. She notes the strangeness of him being born at the stroke of 11 on November 11, which is later discovered to be a number of great power. Billy, along with Mandy and their cowardly but loyal best friend Devon (Christopher Fazio) discover that Billy's family has magical origins, and upon a chance encounter with a mysterious shopkeeper (Roddy Piper) who Billy buys a wand from for $11, they find out that he can use the wand to cast magic spells, and together they embark on a journey to save their town of Spirit River from…
Adventure, Coming-of-age
Spring lives with her father, Tommy Tyler, aboard a run-down sailboat in the Florida Keys. She has lived a simple, carefree, and isolated life. She has never felt desire or love until William Ashton joins them for a zany adventure involving buried treasure.
Adventure, medieval film, swashbuckler film
In 13th-century Tangiers, master thief Yussef, hired by Mokar, an agent of the city's regent Prince Mustapha, is sent to kill baby prince Hussein so that Mustapha can claim the throne in Hussein's stead. However, Yussef cannot allow himself to commit the murder, so he raises the child as his own and names him Julna. The only proof of Julna's true identity is a tattoo of the royal seal on his arm, which Yussef keeps hidden under a silver armband.
Animation, Comedy
In the ocean deeps, an Oceanic whitetip shark named Julius and his friend Pup the brownbanded bamboo shark play around the ocean bed, when two human divers steal several shark eggs (Pup's siblings) from the reef, despite Pup's efforts to prevent it. To light up the Pup, Julius takes him to his sunken ship for dinner, but Pup is too upset to eat anything. Pup meets his friend Octo the octopus inventor, who takes Pup to show off his invention: an underwater car, and take it out for a test drive.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Ghost, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film, thriller film
In a small town alongside a mountain, spring break is approaching. One of the residents, Wade, attempts to search for his brother, Shredder who went missing along with his friend, Hucker, while skiing on the mountain. On the night after his brother's disappearance, he and his girlfriend Madison attempt to get ski patrolman Dale to send out a search and rescue party, although to no avail.
Adventure, Drama, fantasy film
In 1798, Napoleon I has launched an invasion of Egypt. A frail and elderly artist, Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis (Michel Piccoli), has been commissioned by Napoleon to sketch the landscape and monuments of Egypt. French soldier Augustin Robert (Ben Daniels) has been assigned to keep Venture from being harassed by the other soldiers, but the unrelenting burden of this task soon takes its toll on Augustin.
Comedy
thumb|left|thumbtime=8|The film Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is a young, wealthy American businessman who obsesses constantly about his health, believing he is deathly sick while in reality he is perfectly fine. Determined to improve his physical condition with an extended rest in a "tropical" climate, Harold travels by passenger ship with his valet Mr. Pipps (Wallace Howe) and personal nurse (Jobyna Ralston) from California to "Paradiso", a small South American island off the coast of Chile.
Adventure, Comedy
Mrs. Emily Pollifax, a widow from New Jersey, volunteers to be a spy for the CIA, believing she is "expendable" now that her children are grown. Being just what the agency needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), Mrs.
Adventure
In the 16th-century City of London, a poor boy called Tom Canty is bullied by his criminal father into stealing five shillings from a stranger. He is chased and escapes by getting through a gate into a palace garden. There, he meets and befriends Edward, Prince of Wales.
Adventure
thriller film
The film begins with an account of impoverished families living on the northwest coast of the United States having taken up arms smuggling to support themselves. A group of said smugglers have just received a shipment of high tech weapons, including one man-portable rocket launchers, but are intercepted and slaughtered by a rival group who take the weapons for themselves. One member of the first group escapes, but is tracked down and killed, along with his mother; his sister Alex survives.
Adventure, bushranging film, Western
In the 1840s, Captain Michael Fury (Brian Aherne) is an Irish patriot transported to New South Wales for his political involvement. He is farmed out as an servant to Arnold Trist, a cruel land owner who uses whipping to keep discipline. He is accompanied by fellow convicts Blackie, Coughy and Bertie.
Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Husband and wife Nathan and Marla Collins are head researchers in the "Blue Demon" project, a project that involves planting computer chips into the brains of six sharks to be used for protecting the country. As a result of budget cuts, however, the electric fence used to keep the sharks near the marine lab is rendered without electricity, resulting in the sharks chewing a hole through it, escaping the enclosure, and attacking a group of college girls swimming in a nearby lake, eating one of them. Nathan and Marla are also in the midst of a divorce, with the divorce papers ready to be filed.
Action, thriller film
Flanked by buddy Sparks Johnson on the ground and co-pilot Lucas in the air, Major Jack Holloway flies America's top secret "Phoenix" stealth-capable fighter jet. While Holloway's mentor, General William Jacobs, keeps FBI agents Lock and Load from snooping into his pet project, Holloway and Sparks enjoy some R&R with Holloway's wife Jessica and daughter Nicole. It turns out Lucas is an operative for the "Serpent Killers", an intra-military right-wing group, and temporarily assuming Holloway's identity, he steals the Phoenix.
Comedy
Ramona, an intern at a Toronto record label, is sent to Sudbury by promoter Roy Seth to track down the label's star band, Children of Paradise, after they disappear on tour. Because she doesn't know how to drive, however, she takes a taxi driven by Buddy for the entire 400-km route. Once in Sudbury, she finds the band almost immediately, but then loses them again and subsequently tracks them all across Northern Ontario.
Adventure, Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film
The movie opens with the murder of New York City Detective Lieutenant Danial Lombardy, his body discovered in Hong Kong waters. Three strangers arrive on the same ship at the port of Macao, then under Portuguese rule, off colonial Hong Kong: Nick Cochran, a cynical, but honest ex-serviceman, Julie Benton, an equally cynical, sultry, and well-traveled night club singer, and Lawrence Trumble, a jovial traveling salesman who deals in coconut oil, silk stockings, cigars and contraband. Corrupt police lieutenant Sebastian notifies casino owner and underworld boss Vincent Halloran about the new arrivals.
Action, Drama
A teacher who cares is not welcome at Hamilton High School. Former soldier, Sam Decker, is a teacher who does not care anymore. He is giving up.
Action, Political Thriller
New Secret Service agent Mike Connelly, assigned to protect President-elect Jack Cahill, becomes uneasy having to protect a person who is having an affair with a friend's wife. Connelly feels even worse about it after preventing an assassination attempt aboard Cahill's plane where a flight attendant is accidentally killed in the process. Sensing Connelly's discomfort around Cahill, his boss reassigns him to the team that protects the "nuclear football" as soon as Cahill becomes president.
Adventure, disaster film, Drama, Pirate Film
In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing ship Gerrymander gives her captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a Dutch trade exclusion policy preventing foreigners from carrying goods between ports, Boll looks to make a profit another way. On Java, an Indonesian, whose life Boll once saved, tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon.
Action, Adventure
Jungle medics Dr. Sturdy (Carl Benton Reid) and his daughter Anne (Jil Jarmyn) are opposed by witch doctor Futa (James Edwards) of the Nagasu tribe, who regards their work as a threat to his own livelihood. Futa incites the tribe to waylay Anne's fiance Dr.