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Adventure
In 1939, Nazi Germany sends a team of agents to incite revolt and seize British Middle Africa as a first step in conquering Africa. Attempting to place their own sympathiser in charge of the local tribe, they face resistance from Pamela Courtney searching for her Uncle Allen Courtney, a pair of American volunteers and the mysterious Jungle Queen Lothel, who appears out of nowhere in her nightgown to give advice and instructions to the tribe.
Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster, Science fiction, thriller film
A long-period comet is determined to be on a collision course with Earth. All of the world's nuclear states fire intercontinental ballistic missiles at the comet but only succeed in breaking it into fragments. Pieces of the comet soon begin to impact the ground.
Action
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the wheel of his modified 1988 Mazda RX-7/Nissan 240sx with help from mechanic Kelly (Hennely Jimenez).
Adventure
Based on 1975 short story Miracle in the Wilderness, a Christmas Story of Colonial America by Paul Gallico. Gallico's original story was set in pre-Revolutionary Colonial America, whereas this 1991 TV movie is set in the mid-1800s on the Western Plains/Rocky Mountain Frontier. A recently reformed, but violent and rough mountain man, Jericho Adams, along with his devout Christian wife Dora and their infant boy child, are preparing to celebrate a humble frontier Christmas.
Martial arts, prison film
Jimmy Boland (Don Wilson) has been sentenced to a California maximum-security prison for a murder that he didn't commit. When he sees some black prison inmates sodomizing his friend, he flies into a rage and kills the gang leader. The prison warden, in an effort to do Jimmy in, transfers him to the black wing of the prison, where he is sure the black prisoners will dispatch him quickly.
Action, Science fiction, thriller film
The film takes place in the city of Boston, in the year 2009. Detective Cameron Grayson (Roddy Piper) is on the trail of Adrian Dunn (Billy Drago), his ex-partner and his wife's murderer. Dunn has escaped from prison on the Moon and returned to Earth with a deadly alien virus.
Adventure
American exchange student Rich Evans' (Kurt Russell) day at the Leinster School in Ireland is interrupted when a dying man drives up to the school and gives Rich a message for his brother Tom (Glenn Corbett). Rich and his friend Sean O’Connor (Patrick Dawson) are taken from the school by a man who claims to be from the American Embassy, but who turns out to be an Eastern Bloc agent. Rich and Sean make a daring escape and eventually reach Tom, who is an American intelligence agent and not the Irish sales rep for an American steel company as Rich thought.
Action, Adventure, Crime
A gangster who operates a sleazy dance hall uses a sadistic bodyguard to keep his girls afraid and his customers in line. A merchant marine seaman is found murdered at the place and suspicion quickly falls upon the operator of a dime-a-dance honky tonk joint. A federal undercover agent is planted in the place to gather evidence, and he soon learns that the dive is only a cover-up for diamond-smuggling activities, and that one of the operation's henchmen, who is handy with a switch-blade knife, is the actual killer.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film
Prince Malachi returns to the kingdom of Draeganoth to find his father has died and the kingdom is in disarray. Kramer, a witchhunter, warns that there is no famine or pestilence, that the troubles are caused by witches and that with his skills and book of magic they might have a chance of defeating them. Malachi cannot believe there is no more rational explanation but gives Kramer a chance to prove himself and gathers the villagers.
Adventure, Drama
The film is set in East Africa near the boundary between Kenya and Tanzania. The story follows the early days of game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) in his establishment of a 1000 square mile wildlife reserve. He is horrified by the destruction of wild animals by ivory hunters.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, romance film
Margo, a stripper searching for her estranged, bank robber father in a remote part of Mexico. Along the way, Margo meets an American ex-pat drifter, and together they search for her missing father and eventually his lost, buried fortune.
Horror, Occult Horror, Satanism, Vampire, Zombie
In a 1910 prologue, an unnamed missionary (Barbara King) is kidnapped by native bokor (sorcerers) to be sacrificed under a full moon. The bokor tie her between two posts, whip her, then carry her to a stone altar where they decapitate her. The ceremony is interrupted, however, by soldiers who shoot all the participants.
Adventure
A hardened gun runner attempts to take a shipment to Cuba to assist with the rebellion against Spain.
Adventure, Crime, Drama
Sent by the British Museum to take charge of the shipping to London of important artefacts, David Redfern's route along an isolated Tunisian road is blocked by a landslide. During a heavy rain he makes his way to the town, but not before witnessing a gun-running operation. At the café in the town he meets Anna, a young Frenchwoman who with her brother Max had moved to North Africa during the wartime German occupation of France.
Action, Adventure
A soldier-of-fortune, "Tag" Taggar, steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher, King Kenderson, finds out about it, steals it and uses it in an extortion scheme.
Western
The pre-credit sequence of the film starts out with Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner Kirby and the last survivor of his US Cavalry escort shot and scalped by Taslik (Keith Larsen) and his squaw Wanima (Joan Taylor). The film proper begins with Lt. Billings (Robert Stack) leading his patrol, that has escorted Cpl Hamilton (Charles Nolte), a cartographer who has been making maps of the area.
Treasure hunt
Laura is a young café waitress dreaming of owning a piano. Laura stumbles across Sampson, a drunk elderly man who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that sank with millions of dollars in gold. Although Chris Barnes, Laura's boyfriend, keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true.
Action, Adventure, Blaxploitation, Martial arts
American soldiers Doug Russell (James Iglehart), McGee (Leon Isaac Kennedy) and Morelli (Carmen Argenziano) serving in Vietnam are selling gold bars on the black market. Upon their arrival stateside Morelli convinces McGee to betray Russell. Believing that they killed Russell, Morelli and McGee begin taking over the criminal underworld in Los Angeles.
Action, Adventure, Comedy drama, Tragicomedy, war film
U.S. Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant James O'Hearn (Burt Lancaster) is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges.
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Having just been sent away to live with his uncle and aunt in Indiana, teenager Sparke Thornton (Lon McCallister) has a penchant for trouble. At first, he is not satisfied with the arrangement, and continues to express his rebellious behavior. Already on his first day, he plans on running away, but crossing a harness racing track convinces him to stay in Indiana.
Adventure, silent film
Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) returns to Africa, with Lady Jane and friend Albert Werper, in order to return to Opar. He needs the treasure of Opar in order to secure his estates in England. Werper, however, is actually interested in the gold itself.
Adventure
Duke Mullane (Jeff Chandler), manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives are friendly, especially dancer Minyora ... who is soon to be married to local ruler King Kiang (Anthony Quinn).
Adventure
Hop Harrigan (William Bakewell), a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military, and he and his mechanic, "Tank" Tinker (Sumner Getchell), open up a small charter air service. They are hired by J. Westly Arnold (Emmett Vogan) to fly an inventor, Dr.
Adventure, fantasy film, medieval film
The Arthurian film cycle started with the Adventures of Sir Galahad serial. In this version, the youth Galahad, trying to emulate his father Sir Lancelot, wants fervently to be admitted to the Knights of the Round Table order. When he defeats Sir Bors and Sir Mordred in tournament, King Arthur agrees to knighthood, but only if Galahad can guard Excalibur for one night.