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Adventure, Science fiction
The film is set in Africa roughly one million years ago, at a time when one species of "man-apes" (Australopithecus robustus) was being displaced by the ancestors of modern humans. These ancestors are possibly Homo erectus, but they are never named in the film. They are only addressed as "man" and from the few scenes where they show any visibility, they vaguely resemble modern humans.
children's film, TV Show
Charlie Jones works in the lighthouse one stormy night. Wind causes him and the lighthouse door to blow over, leaving Charlie clinging onto the railings of the lighthouse. Fireman Sam and Elvis Cridlington save him and replace the broken lighthouse light.
Action, Adventure
An airplane crashes in the jungle of the Kenya Colony of British East Africa in 1956, stranding passengers Gamage Dean (Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod (Betta St. John), "Doodles" Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization.
Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, monster film, Science fiction
Five thousand years ago, in Sumer, the fallen angels had intercourse with human females and their offspring were a race of giants called Nephilim, destroyed by the great flood. The evil angel Ammon (Navid Negahban) mummifies his son Aramis to save him and hides in hell. In the present day, the archaeologist Matt Fletcher (Casper Van Dien) finds Aramis tomb while excavating for building a resort for the entrepreneur Morton (Robert Wagner).
Adventure, fantasy film
During the Royal Ball, Cinderella meets the prince in hopes of marrying him. However, he turns out to be incredibly rude and mean-spirited. She and her three mice friends then discover that the real prince has in fact been turned into a mouse by an evil witch and replaced by a fraud; now she and her mice have to rescue him and turn him back into a human before it's too late.
Adventure, Treasure hunt
Following independence, the unnamed British colony where Commissioner Harry Sanders has been working for many years sacks its British police force. So Sanders returns to London, where he soon finds work for an insurance company, which wants him to oversee a project to dredge for diamonds in the shallow waters off South West Africa. Sanders soon finds himself drawn into a web of insurance fraud, a secret hunt for World War II gold bullion, and a rivalrous love triangle between a flamboyant American diamond prospector, a former German U-boat commander in the employ of the American, and the German's very young wife.
Adventure, Comedy
Action, Adventure
thumb|The full film Eleanor Reed accompanies her parents, Roger and Penny, and Nevin Potter, her fiance, on an expedition to Africa to capture wild animals to sell to a zoo. Ben Alleu Bey spots Eleanor and wishes her to become the one hundredth wife in his harem. When she refuses, he follows their safari.
When a serial killer mysteriously and savagely murders a young native woman in rural Los Angeles County, her sister McKenna (Carmen Electra) must replace her as the keeper of an amulet, the sacred crescent. Reluctantly, McKenna accepts the role of chosen one. With the amulet and after the rigors of the ritual, she takes on the spirit and powers of the raven, the good forces in the battle against evil, the wolf.
Action, Drama
A teenage outcast road movie, Jimmy and Judy follows a pair of outsiders who fall in love and out of control as they travel across an American landscape dotted with hypocrisy, materialism, drugs and violence. The film focuses on themes such as adolescent rebellion, love, and anger. Jimmy and Judy are modern-day Bonnie and Clyde: destructive young lovers who leave the comfort of their suburban community in rural Kentucky in search of a better life.
Adventure, Comedy, Erotic Film, Raunchy comedy, Treasure hunt
Dr. Bikini Jones, an archaeologist, steals the Golden Idol which happens to be the key to a mysterious place called the Temple of Eros. Legend has it that anyone who discovers the Tiara of Ayesha in that temple becomes the supreme ruler of the country Moronica.
Adventure, Drama
Carla Alten is determined to conquer the White Tower, a difficult, unconquered peak in the Swiss Alps that had claimed her mountaineer father's life. Her climbing party consists of the wise veteran guide Andreas and four other men. Englishman Nicholas Radcliffe is concerned that he is too old to manage the climb.
Drama, Western
The movie is based on a true story from the North-West Territories in the 1890s after the North-West Rebellion. A young Woods Cree man named Almighty Voice (Gordon Tootoosis in his first film role) is arrested by the North-West Mounted Police. Reacting to comments by officer Dan Candy (played by Donald Sutherland), he breaks out of imprisonment and kills Sergeant Malcolm Grant (played by Kevin McCarthy) under desperate circumstances.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure
In Paris, a girl named Maureen Winston (Becca C. Ashley) is abducted by two evil-looking men. While her family prays for her safe return, Maureen's father heaps guilt on her sister Margaret (Karen Kopins), since she convinced her to go see the world.
Blaxploitation, Comedy, Western
A frontier con man tries scams that never work, leaving his partner behind to explain.
Adventure, Drama
As a child, Rebecca is rescued from a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest by a member of a nearby Indigenous tribe. Now a teenager, she is well known in the area as her father, American missionary Lawrence Byrne, claims that she is a faith healer. Rebecca's misgivings about her situation are compounded by the arrival of illegal loggers poised to disrupt the local way of life.
Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, crossover fiction, Detective
{{expand section}} In the city of London, a crook is stealing jewels around the Scotland Yard, and Red, a beautiful singer, is being framed for this crime. Tom and Jerry, as assistants, must help Sherlock Holmes look for clues and track down the real thief to solve this case.
Comedy, spy film
Eric, in his London coffee bar, is happily serving black coffee to a sinister-looking man when the man tries to persuade him to remember a tune. Unfortunately, Eric is tone-deaf. Ernie Sage enters the coffee bar and Eric tries to get him to identify the tune, without much success.
Adventure, Western
In the 1840s the Sager family treks from Missouri to Oregon. After the deaths of both parents, their seven children continue the journey alone.
Adventure
In 18th century Cornwall, Squire Trevenyan a magistrate to a sleepy fishing village, is blackmailed by a vicious smuggler, Black John, into keeping quiet about his murderous gang's shipwrecking racket. The squire's son, Chris, deepens the dilemma when he attempts to stand up for his honour, his father's and that of the girl he loves whose own father, a petty thief, has been sentenced to a penal colony at the insistence of Black John. The daughter engages the help of a local highwayman, an honourable thief who watches over those he has robbed to ensure their safe return home, to stop Black John once and for all.
teen film
Michael Gerber is an awkward young boy who is about to start junior high and has no real friends. His family life is in turmoil, as his father and mother are constantly fighting. His only companion is an imaginary friend he calls Fuzzbucket.
Drama
In 1902, adventurer Gilbert De Quincey, a descendant of Thomas De Quincey, is hired by the editor of a Chinese newspaper to stop auctions of trafficked Chinese women to be the brides of Chinese men resident in the United States. The community is split down the middle between those feeling the traditional practice is the only way for overseas Chinese to obtain brides, and those who regard the practise as indecent.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, Treasure hunt
In 1857, Joel Shore (Robert Taylor) returns to New Bedford, Massachusetts, after three years at sea, and learns that his brother Mark (Stewart Granger), captain of the whaling vessel Nathan Ross, was reported missing from his ship months earlier. Ship owner Asa Worthen (Robert Burton) offers the Nathan Ross to Joel, and although he and Mark were not close, Joel accepts and vows to learn more about his brother's fate. That afternoon, Joel hears a drunken sailor in a pub claim that Mark jumped ship and abandoned his men, and when the sailor's companion confirms the story, Joel strikes him.
Adventure, Comedy
The film is a homage to late 1940s-early 1950s "Colour Crime Pictures" (A fictional sub-genre). Paizs plays Steven Penny, a struggling screenwriter who lives above the garage of a suburban family, and begins typing each night from the moment the street lamps come on. Everything we learn about the character comes from Kim Brown (Eva Kovacs), the family's daughter, who has a schoolgirl crush on him, as Steven never utters a word in the entire film.