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mystery film, Noir
The ruthless and uncouth Solly Caspar, the crime boss of Bay City (a fictional town near San Francisco), wishes to defeat a campaign by multimillionaire mayoral reform candidate Frank Jansen. Caspar tasks crooked ex-cop Ben Grace with uncovering dirt on Jansen. Ben follows Jansen's secretary and girlfriend June Lyons to a women's prison to photograph her collecting her sex-starved kleptomaniac sister Dorothy, a multiple ex-con.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film
Kevin, Brian, Chris, Darick and Eddie are childhood friends from a working-class neighborhood in Pittsburgh. They are in their mid-20s and working low paid blue collar jobs and occasional small criminal offenses like selling marijuana or illegally providing liquor for parties. Brian convinces all but Eddie to start making money by pandering.
Adventure, fantasy film, mystery film
For three years, Frank Chandler has studied eastern magic with the Yogis in India and is now known by his new identity, Chandu. He now has the power to teleport, astral project, mesmerize, as well as project illusions. With these supernatural abilities he has been entrusted by his teacher to "go forth with his youth and strength to conquer the evil that threatens mankind".
Action, thriller film
While staking out his next assignment, the innocent girlfriend of his notorious boss, contract killer Malik (Treach) reflects on the dark path he's chosen but cannot escape. Torn between his sense of duty and his newfound sense of humanity, he finds that the only way out is a perilous showdown with men who are every bit as cold-blooded as he is.
Western
Sam Houston, a lawyer and former governor of Tennessee, travels to San Antonio, Texas to begin a new life. He encounters Jim Bowie, who is determined to free the territory from Mexico's rule. Bowie is tried for treason.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Dr. Anton Drager travels to Java to study the effects of leprosy under an expert on the subject, Dr. Brits Jansen.
Adventure, romance film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In the spring of 1918, the final year of World War I, a German U-boat stops a Dutch freighter on its way to Stockholm in neutral Sweden. The Germans board the ship, identify one man as a Belgian spy, and take him prisoner. One of the passengers questioned is attractive Swiss dress shop owner Madeleine Goddard, who is returning from a business trip to Paris, where she purchased dresses for her boutique.
black comedy film
Chris Martin is a bachelor about to marry his longtime girlfriend. Wanting to enjoy his last few days as a single man, Chris spends several nights hanging out with his old high school friends, the "Five Aces". Chris, Ray, Ash, Todd and Sean spend the week at a winter cabin in their hometown, drinking, swapping life stories, and chasing women.
Adventure, Comedy
Adventure, war film
General Yang, a warlord with control of one of China's twelve provinces, plans to overtake them all with his army to corner the markets of silk, rice, and opium. However, his opposition, in the form of Mr. Wu who is leading a rebellion against Yang, knows that Yang is lacking enough loyal men to cement his grip on the whole of China, and those who are with him could desert him for a competing warlord.
Action, Action Comedy, Crime, thriller film
FBI agent Diane Norwood and DEA agent Max Parrish are both in pursuit of the same criminals—a trio of allied crime bosses and a man named Thomas Livingston, who handles their finances. But, instead of working together, the two agents race to be the first to arrest the suspects and seize their millions in order to claim the money for their agency. After realizing neither one can be beaten or persuaded off the case, the agents reluctantly decide to work together.
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Daredevil stunt driver Eddie Miles has been hired to drive Count Borgia's second car in the "African International Rally;" he immediately gets himself fired by humiliatingly defeating his boss in a test race. Mischief-maker Playboy's writer J.J. Dalton asks her editor to send her to cover the race; she will be the navigator for Freddie Selkirk, her pilot friend.
Adventure, war film
Ma Xiao is a Chinese foreign correspondent working abroad in a region experiencing political instability and armed conflict. In addition to reporting, he participates in distributing supplies to local residents. At the beginning of the film, Ma Xiao completes a video report in which he distributes mobile phones to civilians.
B western, Western
thumb|George 'Gabby' Hayes, John Wayne, and Eleanor Hunt in the film right|thumb|Gabby Hayes and John Wayne right|thumb|John Wayne and Gabby Hayes right|thumb|John Wayne holds gun on villain John Carruthers is an undercover US Marshal. He appears to be in town investigating a string of robberies committed by the Polka Dot Bandit, but when he is a little late in discovering one of the Bandit's thefts, Sheriff Jake thinks Carruthers is the thief. For some reason, instead of arresting him, Jake accompanies him on his journey; after all, as Carruthers says, "It's kind of lonesome trailing alone." The two stumble upon a gang robbing a…
Adventure, Drama
Frenchman, Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate Tenga home to Polynesia. While there, he marries Tenga's sister Kalua, and life is good until Andre falls under the disapproving glare of the witch doctor known as the Kahuna, who warns that Andre will poison paradise with his evil White ways. When the island's mountain erupts in endless lava flow, the Kahuna decrees that the volcano gods can be appeased only by human sacrifice, and the victim is intended to be Kalua.
Adventure, Comedy, Science fiction
Adventure, Drama, family film
A young, impoverished 12-year-old boy named Jody Baxter (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child of four, lives on a farm in 1870s in an area that is now part of the Ocala National Forest, near Silver Glen Springs, shortly after the American Civil War. Jody develops a lasting bond with an orphaned deer named Flag.
Adventure, Christmas film, Science fiction, thriller film
On Christmas Eve 2169 AD, a ship traveling through space suffers a critical malfunction. Eight passengers and crew escape to a lifepod, just before the spaceship explodes, killing all others on board. The survivors attempt to broadcast a distress signal and wait for rescue.
Adventure
The film is set in the year 1190AD. Robert of Loxley, a simple farmer, is working his land when a fellow Saxon runs through their property attempting to escape Sir Jeffrey and the Royal Game Warden. Robert denies seeing the alleged poacher, and the fight, which ensues, is destined to seal his fate.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Vain, egotistical Étienne Gerard, a French brigadier, serves during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he is the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Western
Seven Jones (Murphy) is a young Texas Ranger on his first assignment, following in the footsteps of his brother, Two Jones, who was also a Ranger. He initially comes to a town where the inhabitants try to attack him, angry at the lack of support from Texas Rangers. He learns that the town had just been attacked by outlaw Jim Flood (Sullivan), who had killed two men in a shoot-out over a card game, and set fire to the saloon, which burned down.
Adventure
Randy Mason (Chris Carrara) is a teenage technology enthusiast who lives in a suburban neighborhood in California with his mother, Marti (Derya Ruggles), a designer for an advertising agency. His father, Brent, is away on a business trip for the duration of the story. Randy’s primary hobby involves building and operating remote-controlled models, which he frequently modifies for creative and unconventional purposes.
Adventure, Coming-of-age, Drama, family film, survival film
Luke Mercier, a local teenager, defies nature to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub Nanuk with its mother in the ice fields of Northern Canada.
Adventure, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
Captain Dan Tracey and his two lieutenants are ordered to investigate trouble on the resort planet Clitoris, a pleasure world filled with shopping and gambling where, according to the Articles of the Venus Convention, only women are allowed. A variety of problems are occurring on the planet; most notably, several important pieces of Girlinium have been stolen from the Empress Nueva Gabor. Girlinium, as explained by the empress, is a very rare gem found only in the caverns of the fourth moon of Girlina, a distant planet.