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Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film
An archaeologist (Anthony Edwards) finds remains of a famous explorer (Cheech Marin) and moves them to a museum. This causes the spirit of the explorer to become restless. He wants his bones properly buried and returns as a ghost to seek help from a 12-year-old boy named Charlie (Trenton Knight).
Adventure, Comedy, family film
Mrs. D'Abondo wants the forest of the living trees to be cut down to make way for a highway, but Furi, Cebolo, Tigre and other animals manage to defeat her to save it.
Comedy
Picking up where Leningrad Cowboys Go America left off, the band has settled in Mexico after charting a top ten hit there. However, many band members become alcoholics spending most of their day drinking tequila. Before long, more than half of the band members have died from excessive drinking.
Western
In Zorro's Black Whip the word Zorro never occurs, but a woman who behaves like Don Diego in Idaho fights a cabal of corrupt politicians as "The Black Whip" after her brother (the original Black Whip) is killed. Hammond, owner of the town's stagecoach line and a leading citizen on the council, is secretly opposed to Idaho becoming a state—because government protection would destroy the system and organization he has constructed—and conducts raids against citizens and settlers alike to prevent order, while keeping his own identity as the organization's leader secret. The town marshal is meanwhile powerless to act outside his jurisdiction…
mystery film
Bubba Mabry (Mohr), a notoriously gullible private detective, is hired to snoop on a tabloid reporter by a mysterious celebrity known only as Mr. Aaron (Patrick). When the tabloid reporter is murdered, Mabry becomes the prime suspect in his death.
Action, Drama, mystery film, Noir
A woman whose husband is declared missing in action after Pearl Harbor flies to Hawaii after the war to conduct her own investigation. Her husband, ex-racketeer Chet Chester (Corey), is actually still alive but changed his identity due to his own criminal activities. However, he is being blackmailed by his former criminal partners, including Roger Kong.
Action, thriller film
Gina Hayes is a sweet and dedicated mother to her little son. One day, while shopping with him for a Halloween mask, her son is accidentally shot through the chest by a Japanese gunman who is trying to kill an opposing gang of bus operators. Gina notices that the gunman has a picture of a blue tiger tattooed on his chest.
thriller film
Julia Hemingway, a British female mercenary, is hired by wealthy businessman Charlie Whitlock in order to help him eliminate the competition on the purchase of some oil fields in Saudi Arabia. Hemingway coordinates a team of three sexy women to go undercover to complete the task, but is unaware that Whitlock plans on double crossing her so he will not have to pay for her services.
Adventure, Drama
Dakota Rose (Haley Ramm) dreams of following in her famous family's footsteps and becoming a champion trick rider. However the shocking news that she was in fact adopted at birth leads her to question both herself and her place in her family's legacy.
Adventure
Ten-year-old English boy Sammy Hartland lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents. When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic. He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5,000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa - at the other end of the continent and in a different hemisphere.
Action, Drama, thriller film
After an explosion at an army base that kills several soldiers, President Jonathan Hayes attends a memorial service and is shot while speaking. It is revealed that a militia rebel group has resurfaced with a vengeance to assassinate President Jonathan Hayes for the death of their brothers. Agent Alex McGregor, now the Director of the United States Secret Service, tries to prevent the attack on the President's life, but when the President is shot and agent McGregor's husband Grant Coleman, is kidnapped, the stakes are raised, and Alex realizes she has become a target as well.
Adventure
Robert Burton, an archeologist, hears about, and decides he is going to find, a hidden civilization where little has changed in hundreds of years. Burton is accompanied on the trip by photographer Kathryn Williams. In Mexico they meet vanilla bean plantation owner Juan Cervantes who has knowledge about the forbidden city.
Western
Train-robber Harker Fleet, set up by his former partner, Timothy Xavier Nolan, is sent to prison for assaulting a sheriff and his deputy while trying to escape a forced marriage. Fleet serves his time, but gets out of prison early, for good behavior. Once he is released from prison, he travels to the town of Calador, intending to settle the score with Nolan for railroading him and stealing his woman, Katy.
Action, Adventure
The idyllic jungle life of Tarzan (Gordon Scott), Jane (Eve Brent) and Tartu (Rickie Sorensen) is interrupted by a drum message telling them of predatory hunters loose in the jungle. Tarzan disrupts the animal-collecting expedition of the hunters, Schroeder (Lesley Bradley) and Rene (Maurice Marsac); he frees a baby elephant whose mother they have killed and then leads the elephant herd against them when they make hostages of Tartu and Cheeta the chimp. Afterwards he warns off two other hunters, Sikes (Saul Gorse) and Lapin (William Keene), seeking to plunder the lost city of Zarbo.
Comedy
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the ship San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Adventure, romance film
thumb|Colman as Sergeant Victor Victor joins the French Foreign Legion, along with his faithful valet, Rake. His company is attacked while escorting a caravan. The survivors join a battalion stationed in southern Algeria.
Action, fantasy film, Martial arts
Stan Dryer, a teenager with a green-belt in karate but little success in life, is given an ancient ring by an old karate master whom Stan tried to save from impending doom. Stan soon discovers the magical power of the ring when he defeats five drunk, low-life idiots who want to steal his red convertible. He even discovers that the ring gives him the power to answer any question you may have about the rise and fall of Communism in Russia.
Western
Clint Belmet is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson and Jim Bridger talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California. A short time later, Felice finds out that Bill and Jim had lied to her; she did not need a man in order to join the wagon train.
Adventure, historical film, Historie
In the 11th century, three friends flee from an Italian city and make their way to the Holy Land to take part in the First Crusade.
Adventure, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
Captain Blood is pardoned by the Crown for his crimes against Spain on the Spanish Main. By 1690, he is living in the West Indies on his plantation, where he practices medicine and is to be married to Isabella. He is arrested on a piracy charge after Cartagena is raided and false word spreads that he was the leader of the invasion.
Parody, spy film
American intelligence agents recruit burlesque comic Peanuts White to pose as international spy Eric Augustine, whom he resembles, to acquire a million-dollar microfilm in Tangier, Morocco. While there, he encounters Lily Dalbray, a woman whom he had once known and who is now in league with his arch enemy Brubaker. Wearing an uncomfortable money belt containing one million dollars in payoff money, Peanuts is assigned a right-hand man named Tasso.
Adventure
Kate (Lauren Elizabeth Luthringshausen) and Abby (Jenn McAllister) are heading to school for a field trip for their art history class that will award them extra credit if they attend. Right before Kate joins her classmates to wait for the school bus, she is informed by her parents that they are no longer able to pay for her college education due to another one of her father's failed investments, much to Kate's disappointment. After a morning spent at an art museum, the class stops at a restaurant for lunch.
Christmas film, Drama, fantasy film
A respected zoology professor (Richard Thomas) who is obsessed with proving that reindeer can actually fly meets up with the real Santa Claus (Beau Bridges).
Adventure