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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 209.

Pray for the Wildcats (1974)

thriller film

thumb|Baja California's location Sam Farragut (Andy Griffith) is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees, Warren Summerfield, Paul McIlvain, and Terry Maxon to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business. Warren Summerfield (William Shatner) is a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain (Robert Reed) is inattentive to his wife (Angie Dickinson); and brash art designer Terry Maxon (Marjoe Gortner) feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is…

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Saigon (1948)

Adventure

World War II has ended and Major Larry Briggs finds out that his friend Captain Mike Perry has only two months to live due to a head injury. Larry and Sergeant Pete Rocco are determined to show Mike a good time before he dies. For a $10,000 fee, Larry takes a flying job working for Alex Maris, a profiteer.

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The Gamma People (1956)

Horror, Science fiction

A railroad passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from its locomotive, accidentally ending up on a remote sidetrack in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style, one-village dictatorship. The newsmen discover a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans.

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The Gaucho (1927)

Adventure

The disreputable leader of a group of bandits, El Gaucho, is thrust into the role of hero after an even more cruel local strongman, Ruiz, takes over the Andean village that El Gaucho and his men have used as their base. But after regaining the town for his selfish uses, El Gaucho has a showdown with the Padre and undergoes a spiritual transformation when confronted with the holy powers of a sacred shrine.

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Izzie's Way Home (2016)

Adventure

Izzie is a fish who lives with her father Harold in an aquarium, and is frequently bullied by the other fish in the vicinity. Harold tries to protect Izzie from being returned to the ocean by the human who maintains the aquarium, as that very event is what separated them from Izzie's mother. Izzie and Harold do end up being returned to the sea, and are separated during the eruption of an underwater volcano.

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The Jensen Project (2010)

Adventure, Science fiction

After a 16-year absence from the Jensen Project, a secret community of scientists conducting advanced underground experiments to resolve the world's problems, Matt (Brady Smith) and Claire Thompson (Kellie Martin) are asked to come back and stop Edwin Jensen (David Andrews) from using nanobots to take over other people. To create these nanobots, Edwin needs a molecular assembler, which he steals. With the help of Kendrick James (LeVar Burton), Ginny (Mylène Dinh-Robic) and Ingrid Jensen (Patricia Richardson), Matt and Claire use chemical traces of gold and silicon to track down the location of the assembler.

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Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)

fantasy film

The 12-year old orphan Kex Bradley stows away in a lifeboat, hoping to see the world, but after being washed overboard he finds himself on Dinotopia. Here, he befriends the beloved young dinosaur "26" . They get in trouble fast as the evil Ogthar is released from his stone prison and recovers the Ruby Sunstone, whose dark power can endanger all of Dinotopia.

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Gordon's War (1973)

Action, Blaxploitation, Crime

Gordon, a soldier from Harlem, returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam to find his old neighborhood has been taken over by drug dealers and pimps. Outraged and heartbroken after his wife dies of a heroin overdose, he partners with three other ex-Vietnam soldiers and pledges to use their combat experience to go to war against the criminals.

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A Connecticut Yankee (1931)

Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film, Science fiction, Time travel

Radio salesman Hank Martin, after being knocked out by a toppled suit of armor, travels back in time to Camelot where he is welcomed by King Arthur and must use his modern knowledge to stop Morgana Le Fay and Merlin from taking over.

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Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter (1995)

Adventure

A young boy named Cody Higgins (Zachery Ty Bryan) lives in the Pacific Northwest. One day, he develops a friendship with the legendary Bigfoot. He must now race to save his new friend when a greedy multi-millionaire named Chaz Frederick (David Rasche) places a bounty on Bigfoot enough for 500 hunters, 50 park rangers, and an ambitious scientist named Samantha (Crystal Chappell) to swarm the forest looking for it.

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The Turkish Gambit (2005)

Action, Adventure, historical film, spy film, war film

The film takes place in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Erast Fandorin is put on the trail of a Turkish agent who is trying to disrupt the Russian advance during the Siege of Plevna. The agent, known as Anwar Efendi, is a master of disguise and has excellent command of Russian.

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Black Beauty (1946)

Adventure, Drama

The story picks up in 1880s England, when Duchess, the mare of a widower, a country squire, called Wendon is about to foal. He has forbidden his adolescent daughter Anne to watch, but the girl sneaks into the stables and watches anyway. Anne gets the colt on her birthday and because of its color she names it Black Beauty.

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Giv'a 24 Eina Ona (1955)

Adventure, Drama, romance film

In 1948, just four hours and 45 minutes before a ceasefire takes effect, Captain Yehuda Berger instructs four volunteers - James Finnegan, an Irish former British policeman (who fell in love with a Jewish woman named Miriam Miszrahi); Allan Goodman, a tourist from the USA who fell in love with the struggle to found Israel; David Airan; and (at her insistence) Esther Hadassi (a Yemeni Jewish woman) - to take and hold the strategic "Hill 24", one of a number of hills dominating the highway into Jerusalem. Afterward, Finnegan relates how he first met Berger in 1946, two years before the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, while serving as a…

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Arise, My Love (1940)

romantic comedy

American pilot Tom Martin (Ray Milland) is a soldier of fortune who went to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civil War. During the summer of 1939, he is languishing in a prison cell while awaiting execution. Unexpectedly granted a pardon on the morning that he is to face a firing squad, Tom's release has been managed by reporter Augusta "Gusto" Nash (Claudette Colbert), who posed as his wife.

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A Run for Your Money (1949)

Comedy

Two Welsh coal miners from (fictional) Hafoduwchbenceubwllymarchogcoch, David 'Dai Number 9' Jones and Thomas 'Twm' Jones, win a contest run by the Echo newspaper. The prize is £100 each, plus the best seats for an important rugby union match between England and Wales at Twickenham. For the naive Welshmen, this is their first trip to England.

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Cutaway (2000)

Action

When U.S. Customs agent Vic Cooper's personnel file is reviewed, it shows that he struggles to disassociate his undercover identities from his real one. Despite the file's recommendation that he not return to active duty, he is cleared for work by Lieutenant Brian Margate.

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3 Musketeers (2011)

Action, mockbuster, thriller film

Secret Service rookie Alexandra D'Artagnan enlists the help of legendary black ops unit, The 3 Musketeers (master strategist Oliver Athos, enigmatic martial arts expert Renee Aramis and wisecracking hacker Isaac Porthos), to investigate a government coup. They uncover a corrupt general's plans to assassinate the President of the United States and install a military regime. D'Artagnan and the three infamous international spies work together to stop the threat.

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