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Biography, Western
Oklahoma outlaw Belle Starr meets the Dalton gang when she is rescued from lynching by Bob Dalton, who falls in love with her, as do gang member Mac and wealthy saloon owner Tom Bradfield, who has enlisted in a bankers' scheme to trap the Daltons.
spy film, Superhero
In The Masked Marvel, a hero dressed in a business suit and a face mask fights the Japanese saboteur Sakima and his espionage organization. The hook of the story is that, in a reversal of the common serial "Masked Mystery Villain" stock character, the audience doesn't know who the hero is until the final reel—all the audience is told is that The Masked Marvel is one of a group of special investigators (the same plotline is used in the Republic serial The Lone Ranger).
Action, Adventure, Pirate Film
A British naval officer volunteers for a dangerous mission to infiltrate the base of pirates who threaten shipping off Madagascar.
Adventure
Matt Campbell arrives in Kenya, where his brother George is reported missing. A man named Ralph Hoyt tells him that George has been killed by members of the "Leopard Men" cult. Matt is introduced to Hoyt's niece, Ann Wilson, an anthropologist, who is puzzled by Matt's reluctance to go to Mombasa for his brother's funeral.
Adventure, Comedy, war film
England, 1944. An attempt on the life of British high commander General Sir Lawrence MacKenzie-Smith by German intelligence, a chief strategist for the planned invasion of mainland Europe, spurs a search for a lookalike to impersonate him. American Pvt.
Drama, neo-noir
Claire (Juliette Lewis) is a woman from Quebec who gets in trouble with the vengeful heroin dealers she helped finger. They retaliate by burning her out of her apartment. Frightened and in need of refuge, she heads to Toronto for to stay with ex-lover photographer Billy Stuart (Kelly Harms).
Adventure
In the Victorian era, a British officer is falsely accused of treason and drummed out of his regiment. He re-enlists as a private under an assumed name and tries to prove his innocence.
Adventure
In 586 BC the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by the armies of king Nebuchadnezzar and its people were brought captive into Babylon. After decades of subjugation by their Babylonian masters the Jews are crying out for a saviour. The prophet Daniel dispatches Nahum, one of his faithful servants, to search the faraway empire of Media for a young shepherd named Cyrus, who unknowingly is destined to become Cyrus, king of the Persians, who holds the key to the freedom of the Jewish people.
Action, Adventure, Military Film, war film
During the Vietnam War an American patrol engages in a firefight with a strong force of NVA regulars. The Americans fight their way into a cave containing gold that is in the territory of aboriginals who kill the NVA as well as a few Americans, but capture the majority of the patrol with the exception of its leader, Lt. Vance Calhoun.
Adventure, Coming-of-age, Drama
New Yorker late-teen Nicole (Aimee Teegarden) visits her estranged grandmother (Patricia Richardson) in Santa Cruz, California for the summer. She learns family history, meets a boy, takes a road trip to Mexico, learns to surf, and discovers her missing-or-presumed-dead grandfather.
Bruceploitation, Documentation
TV reporter Adolph Caesar is outside Madison Square Garden before the start of a martial arts tournament that will apparently determine the "successor" to the legacy of Bruce Lee. He interviews martial arts promoter Aaron Banks, who says that Lee was actually killed by a kung fu move called "The Touch of Death." Banks describes the move as being effective in "three to four weeks." The segment contains a sequence of flashbacks to Bruce Lee ostensibly supporting Banks' assertion. From inside Madison Square Garden, Caesar discusses the competitors.
Action, thriller film
Carlo Antonelli is an engineer from Genoa who is robbed, kidnapped and beaten during an armed bank robbery. After the police drop their investigation, he decides to find the gang and take justice into his own hands, with the help of a criminal who he blackmails to assist him.
Adventure, Drama, war film
In 1957, Juno, an American archaeology student, is visiting Cyprus and staying with the family of her father's best friend, Dr Andros. She witnesses an attack by two EOKA gunmen which results in the death of two British soldiers, but is unable to identify the killers to the local British intelligence officer, Major McGuire. Juno then realises that fugitive EOKA General Skyros is hiding in the house and Dr Andros is an EOKA collaborator.
Action, disaster film, Drama
On a maiden flight with Coastal Airlines, the Starquest airliner program introduces the most sophisticated and enjoyable flying experience to date, with pilot Joseph Franklin (Scott Valentine) in charge. Special Agent Gina Vitale (Lindsey McKeon) is on the flight to protect Franklin, who is also the President's brother. At Franklin's house, two thugs break in, kill the housekeeper and abduct his wife and children.
Action, Adventure, disaster film, Horror, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
In outer space, two alien spaceships collide, one of which releases a capsule that lands at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. Five years later, the underwater research facility, the Oshona, discovers the crystals, and the facility's manager Mike Olsen retrieves them. As Mike leaves for the mainland, divers Don and Jake attempt to make repairs outside of the facility, but they are soon attacked by sharks.
Adventure
Kim is a 13-year-old street orphan in Lahore of the 19th century (1894). Kim thinks he is native, but he's actually of British origin, the son of an Irish soldier and an unknown mother (unlike the novel on which it is based, Kim's mother is not portrayed as Irish, but it is made clear that Kim is white). Kim is hired as a guide by a travelling Tibetan lama on a search for a river where Budda hurled an arrow, turning it into a place of redemption.
Western
On their way to Idaho, Dare Rudd and Dinkey Hooley encounter a fight between rustlers and ranchers, not knowing which is which. They join in, but leave when the sheriff's posse arrives and they find out they have joined the rustlers by mistake. They are followed, caught by one of the posse who turns out to be Rudd's cousin, Tom Fillmore, who Rudd was hoping to visit when they got to Wyoming.
B western, Western
U.S. Marshal John Travers becomes the sheriff of a turn-of-the-20th century western town where several murders have occurred, hoping to flush out an outlaw known only as "The Shadow". He is aided by an Indian friend he asks to come help him.
Adventure
Four children on a summer camp holiday suspect the park's mascot, Nelson Nutmeg, has been murdered so they set out to investigate.
Adventure
In 1815, an army captain goes off in search of a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo.
Drama, romance film, silent film, swashbuckler film
The film is set in the reign of King Louis XIII. When Comte Châtellerault fails to win the hand in marriage of Roxalanne de Lavedan, despite hinting at leniency for her rebellious family if she accepts, he responds to the notorious womanizer Marquis de Bardelys' mockery by wagering his estate against that of Bardelys that Bardelys cannot succeed in marrying Roxalanne either within three months. While Bardelys does not desire marriage, he feels he has to accept the challenge.
Adventure
One year after meeting Bernie the Dolphin, Kevin and Holly Ryan, and their dad Bob, join the team at Marineland, the local aquarium, and they discover that Bernie has returned. But Bob's old boss and former enemy Winston Mills has been paroled from prison and is ordered by the court to work at the aquarium and live in an apartment under house arrest upon being moved into it by Detective Wyatt. Winston's parole officer Mason Jacks brings Winston to work at Marineland the next day which Bob and the kids object to, but Winston claims he's a changed man and wants a second chance.
Adventure
Steve Case has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation. A revolutionary, Rosario La Mata, is stirring up unrest among the workers, and the only man who can handle the situation, foreman Nick Butler, has just quit. Steve manages to persuade Nick to stick around (for a big bonus).
Adventure
"Lucky" (Fred Ward) operates a for-charter sight-seeing boat in the Florida Keys. He keeps company with salty gambling and drinking barroom types. One day a young man, Mac (Daniel Jenkins), recently from college shows up and enters into a poker game with Lucky.