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Drama, silent film
Young newspaper reporter Harvey Hanford is in love with Mary Wentworth, the ward of rich, eccentric Dudley Cameron, who opposes the match. Harvey becomes involved in a newspaper scheme to plant evidence for a fake murder of his uncle. Dudley Cameron is actually killed, however, and Harvey is framed and arrested for the murder.
Adventure, family film
A gang of criminals led by Meredith is looking for sunken treasure off Mallacoota, pretending to be diving for abalone. Sonny, son of Matt Hammond, the Chief Ranger of Waratah National Park, investigates with their family friend, Clancy. Sonny and Clancy are kidnapped.
Action, Crime, Drama
A powerful drug dealer has taken control of New Orleans, but as the authorities scramble to stop the bloodshed things only get worse on the streets. "The Dog" (DMX) is a drug dealer who will stop at nothing to be the number one bad boy in the Big Easy. His ruthlessness is legendary, and his power far reaching.
family film
Ranger Steve (John Rhys-Davies) sits by a campfire, telling a story about the Davis family. John Davis (William Hurt) is flying a water plane over a valley called Sasquatch Valley with his two daughters Khristy and Maggie. Khristy tells Maggie that a Sasquatch means Bigfoot and Maggie wonders if there are any Bigfoot in the valley.
Drama, thriller film
The cow town of Spurline is effectively ruled by Virgil Renchler, owner of the Golden Empire ranch. One night, some of Renchler's hands beat young laborer Juan Martín to death. The newly elected sheriff of Spurline, Ben Sadler, decides to investigate the murder, but must contend with Renchler's henchmen and the fierce opposition of the townspeople, who fear that Spurline would be ruined without the Golden Empire's business.
Adventure
Dan Merrill awakens on his boat after a night of drinking to find his former love, Rita Delaine, there with his partner, Bully Hague. Appealing to his greed, Rita and Bully coax him into coming along to an island where supposedly they can dive for a hidden treasure of rare black pearls. On the island, high priest Michael, a white man, has a son, George, who is about to marry Momu, the daughter of Halemano, the native chief.
Drama
Three orphans head for the United States, unknowingly carrying important evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel that has just murdered their father. The cartel is desperate to retrieve the evidence.
Political Thriller
William Shatner plays the role of Aidan Carvell, a businessman running for Congress as an independent candidate with a broad libertarian agenda. Unknown to the public, Carvell is training and arming a militia force. Carvell's political campaign manager Frank Jennings (Jeff Speakman) is persuaded by the FBI to assist them in indicting Carvell for treason.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Sword-and-sandal, war film
In the ancient Greek era, King Proximates, a ruthless tyrant, besieges a city for months but struggles to secure victory. Seeking a resolution, he meets Telektos, the besieged city's king, who proposes settling the conflict through a duel between champions. Proximates agrees, demanding ten days to choose his fighter.
Blaxploitation, documentary film
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Adventure
Fifteen-year-old John Robie's father is an Egyptologist who goes missing during an excavation in Egypt. After arriving in Egypt to search for his missing father, he meets seventeen-year-old Karen Lacy. The two team up to find clues to John's missing father and to his excavations which included a map to the treasures of the Pharaoh Ramesses II.
Adventure, romance film, silent film, swashbuckler film
Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll (Lewis Stone) decides to pass the time by attending the coronation of his distant relation, King Rudolf V of Ruritania (also played by Stone) . He encounters an acquaintance on the train there, Antoinette de Mauban (Barbara La Marr), the mistress of the king's treacherous brother, Grand Duke 'Black' Michael (Stuart Holmes). The day before the coronation, Rassendyll is seen by Colonel Sapt (Robert Edeson) and Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim (Malcolm McGregor).
Adventure
In Brooklyn, "millionaire playboy" Perry Townsend III uses his connection to an admiral to join the Navy—without undergoing any training whatsoever—for World War I and is immediately assigned as chief engineer of the sub chaser S. C. 599, part of the "splinter fleet".
Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
During spring break, when a pack of tiger sharks begins a feeding frenzy on partying teen-aged bathers, the only safe place is up on the beach far from the water. Fighting for survival, a group of young people must attempt to outsmart nature's perfect predator. Danielle (Shannon Lucio) is a teen-aged girl who, against her father's wishes, heads to Florida for spring break.
Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film
In the North Atlantic off the coast of Greenland, a highly advanced deep sea oil rig has been recently constructed by the company Nexecon Petroleum, and named "Colossus" for its immense size. This "new" type of oil rig can dig deeper and extract more oil than any other in the world. The fact that this huge rig has been built on fault lines alarms geologists, who are concerned that the delicate ocean floor fault lines in that region might be disturbed through deep drilling, with catastrophic consequences.
Science fiction
Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after concluding that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had originated from in the area. There he finds the crazed Zolok, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex inside a mountain. Zolok had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist, Dr.
Biography, Western
Set in 1775, during the American War of Independence, the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky, is besieged by both hostile Shawnee Indian tribes and the British. Frontiersman Daniel Boone and his family must fight for survival when overtures of peace fail and culminate in a frontal assault on the fort.
Action, Drama
Scott is a US Marine who serves in the US embassy in Paris. One day he gets a message that his long unseen sister Kim, who works as a model in Spain, is in serious trouble; he asks for a dismissal from his outpost and travels to Spain to help her. Unfortunately she's murdered before Scott's arrival.
Action, Adventure, disaster film, Science fiction
In 1989, astronomer Dr. Peter Crawford discovers a comet on a collision with Earth. He reports his findings to the council, but they refuse to listen to him.
Action, Adventure
Two teenagers are stranded in the wilds of Northern Canada after a plane crash and they must call upon an ancient Native American spirit of a legendary white wolf to help them survive.
Adventure
Charlie Davis runs his own island in the Caribbean with a literal whip hand. He makes his income as a marijuana grower, exporter and gunrunner. He hires a female entertainer to amuse the clients of his cantina and himself.
Adventure
This is a Christian film about two rock climbers who meet during a rescue and get a chance to realize a climb of a lifetime, but they unexpectedly have to work together. Derrick (Jason George) is a selfish person who wants to do the big climb solo, and Michael (Ned Vaughn) is a Christian person with a good heart. They are a special team, two totally different people with different life goals and views—but they use the same climbing technique.
Adventure, fantasy film
The movie begins at Camelot, depicting Morgana committing the murder of Arthur's father, Pendragon. Merlin escorts Arthur, still a young boy, along with the legendary sword Excalibur, through time to the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. In this new setting, a waitress named Caitlin Regal takes Arthur under her wing.
Adventure
Omar, a caliph, and Yazmina, a queen, arrange their infant son Ramoth's escape when rival Ali moves to forcibly overthrow them. Before they are slain, they ensure that the baby, his locket and magic carpet are kept in the safe hands of Ahkmid, an uncle and physician who raises Ramoth to manhood. Ramoth, unaware that he is the rightful heir but disapproving of Ali's tyranny, disguises himself as the Scarlet Falcon and, assisted by his friend Razi and Razi's beautiful sister Lida, attempts to disrupt the caliph's reign.