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Action Comedy, Adventure
In 1986, three best friend are planning their future. They return a "lost" cat which they had stolen to the neighbor lady for a $40 reward. Fast forward thirty years and find Vince is living on Chris's couch.
Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction
Plot summary The film is set in a French colony in Africa. Saint-Avit is a young French officer who recounts the story of his adventure in the sunken city of Atlantis. In Atlantis, the beautiful Antinea rules her city.
Adventure, Science fiction
On the distant planet Pangea, a transmission of the TV series The Adventures of Captain Zoom in Outer Space is seen by the child genius brother of native forces leader Tyra. Tyra has been captured by the tyrannical Lord Vox of Vestron whose people, subsequent to some global catastrophe, migrated to the stars from Pangea thousands of years ago and now seeks to recover the lost ancient knowledge of their people. Lord Vox intends to do this by conquering Pangea, their old homeworld, and with the knowledge, rebuild it as the seat of his empire.
Adventure, Drama
In 1821, a British sailing ship, the Becket, anchors off the New Zealand coast. Philip Wayne and Paddy Clarke, respectively First Mate and Bos'un, land to explore. They discover a Māori burial cave, but are captured by the local tribe.
Adventure
In 1787 a group of prisoners lodged in Newgate Jail receive notice that their death sentences are commuted to life imprisonment in New South Wales. They are boarded onto the and joined by a smaller group of female prisoners. Gilbert, the captain, offers one pretty female prisoner, Sally, free run of the ship on certain conditions.
Adventure, Drama
A small plane carrying three British citizens — Major Crespin, his estranged wife Lucilla, and pilot Dr. Traherne — becomes lost and is forced to crash land in the tiny realm of Rukh, somewhere near the Himalaya Mountains. The Raja who rules the land welcomes them.
Western
As war brews between the Union and the Confederate States of America, Matthew and Rebecca travel to the west to start a new life in Oregon. Along the way, they stop at a remote trading post, where they meet up with some Cheyenne Indians. Though the Cheyenne are friendly toward the pioneers, Matthew does not like them and warns a group of hunters that hostile Indians are preparing for an attack.
Adventure, spy film
Professor Alan Stacy visits Jersey to complete his biography of his friend and pre-World War II fellow academic Harry Martineau, but arrives on the day of Harry's funeral. Only one mourner is present, Dr. Sarah Drayton, who explains the two of them worked for Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war.
Adventure, swashbuckler film
The film is set in Early Modern Italy in the Duchy of Sidona. Raniero and Renzo are two friends who have been travelling together for two years, having adventures, fighting duels and womanizing. Raniero is the son of the Duke of Sidona, and the elder Renzo his Don Juan-type mentor.
Adventure, Biography, Drama
McMurphy comes to Denver, Colorado, to see Polly Pry about the Packer case. As Pry leaves for her scheduled meeting with McMurphy, she is stalked and shot at by a gunman. The bullets hit her skirts and lessen the blows inflicted on her publishers behind her.
Adventure
The Rosales family are a wealthy Filipino American family living in an upscale neighborhood in San Francisco. Jobert Rosales is the grandson of Carmelo "Melo" Rosales, an elderly Filipino World War II veteran living in the United States who tells his war stories to his grandson Jobert. In one flashback, he tells the story of his participation during World War II, when his unit was ordered to bury the Yamashita Treasure.
Adventure, Drama
A trapper, Pierre Esprit Radisson, and his friend, nicknamed "Gooseberry," hope to open a trading post in the Hudson's Bay region of northeastern Canada in the year 1667. They meet the jailed Lord Edward Crewe, a nobleman from England who has been banished from that country by Charles II of England. They manage to free Edward, who funds their expedition, beginning in Montreal, designed to further free trade with the Indians and make Canada a more united land.
Action, Biography, thriller film
The movie, set in 1967, is about the real-life sheriff Buford Pusser, who goes after a criminal who has killed young people with his illegal moonshine. Brian Dennehy plays Pusser. The rest of the cast include Ken Howard, Sheree North, Forrest Tucker, and Brian Kerwin.
Adventure, family film
disaster film, Natural Disaster, Science fiction
The Trollsvotin volcano in Iceland violently erupts and kills a USGS survey team. Volcanologist professor Dr. Peter Shepherd takes four of his graduate students to study Grímsvötn, a dormant volcano.
Adventure, Drama
An over-the-hill rodeo champion (Rogers) gets fired from his assembly line job in Texas. He and a buddy then decide to head to Wyoming to get a job herding mustangs. His wife (Carlson) gives him her blessing, knowing he needs to find something which satisfies his spirit.
Burke and Wills are portrayed as bold but flawed figures. Burke is anxious to return to his sweetheart in Melbourne, and win fame and honor for himself in the 'race' across Australia. Wills is the consummate English gentleman and faithful follower to the end.
Action, Adventure
While staying with her father Ray Cooper, an experienced mountaineer who runs a luxury chalet in the Dolomites, Naomi and her sister Sydney join a weekend excursion with the son of a billionaire. When the group is ambushed by a gang of kidnappers, Naomi witnesses the attack and narrowly escapes. Forced into hiding, she must summon her courage to save Sydney and her father before it is too late.
Adventure, Comedy, musical film
Tommy Layton, a wealthy bachelor, rents a city bus to take him from Chicago to Los Angeles to participate in a yacht race to Hawai’i. The bus drivers, Algy and Wellington, are pursued by a detective hired by the bus company. They escape capture by driving the bus off a fishing pier.
Superhero
Perla, a dressmaker who works for her siblings Percy and Penny, discovers she has superpowers after being struck by lightning three times. These powers, which allow her to generate heat and electricity with her hands, lead her to become the superhero Volta. Despite her siblings' resentment, especially Percy and blaming her powers for past mishaps, Perla finds guidance and encouragement from Ama, a ball of light with a human face.
Adventure, Horror, Western
Confederate veterans of the last battle of the American Civil War team up with a geologist and set out to find a hidden treasure: diamonds hidden in a cave in an Arkansas mountain. However, the soldiers find they are being followed by a mysterious hunter (or hunters) who may have a connection to a mythic eagle spirit, Chikara.
Adventure, romance film, silent film
thumb|right|thumbtime=3|Scaramouche (1923) André-Louis Moreau loves Aline de Kercadiou, the niece of his godfather, Quintin de Kercadiou, and she loves him as well. However, Quintin prefers that she marry the Marquis de la Tour d'Azyr, a middle-aged nobleman, rather than someone who does not even know who his parents are. One day, expert swordsman de la Tour first toys with, then kills André's friend Philippe de Vilmorin in a duel.
Action
thumb|Carolyn Kearney, Frank Gorshin, and Lori Nelson (1956), in Hot Rod Girl To combat the problem of teenagers drag-racing their hot rods on city streets, sympathetic Lt. Ben Merril (Connors) has set up a dragstrip for them where they can race under controlled, safe conditions. But after a race meet, Steve Northrup (Del Erickson) is goaded into a street race, while his brother Jeff (Smith) is a passenger.
Adventure, Drama, Pirate Film
A pirate ship, involved in 1588 battles on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers extensive damage and must put into a village on the British coast for repairs. The village is small and isolated. The Spanish convince the villagers that the English fleet has been defeated and that they, the Spanish, are now their masters.