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Action, Drama, romance film
Cunda (Kingsley) lives deep in the Brazilian rainforest and is intent on making enough money so he can marry a widow in his village. However, his trade - capturing snakes for scientists - pays very little money, and he is in direct competition with other suitors. One day, Cunda is bitten by a snake, and he crawls to the river to recover.
Adventure, Drama, Horror, monster film
The creature known as Bigfoot has managed to elude capture for more than 25 years and a small town has made a cottage industry out of local Bigfoot sightings and merchandising. When a businessman decides to trap Bigfoot once and for all so that he can benefit, the town may ultimately lose the tourist profits that have filled the town's coffers.
Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Charlie Chan and Number One Son, Lee, are passengers aboard a commercial airliner headed for San Francisco. Also on board are two insurance couriers who are carrying a shipment of $250,000. Minutes after drinking coffee that was served, everyone on board the plane falls asleep, including the crew.
Adventure, Historie, romance film
Adventure, fantasy film
Adventure, Drama
Western
Singing cowboy Roy Rogers is an insurance investigator sent to find a stash of money lifted from a company payroll. Under the guise of a performer on a showboat called "The Yellow Rose of Texas", Roy meets Betty Weston, the daughter of the falsely-accused Sam Weston, who has recently escaped from prison. Together, Roy and Betty set out to prove her father was wrongly accused and track down the real criminal.
Comedy drama, Drama, propaganda film, war film
In 1939, during the early days of World War II, Samuel Thornton, a prominent American businessman, offers a reward of one million dollars to bring Adolf Hitler to justice, dead or alive. He hires three gangster ex-convicts released from Alcatraz prison, Steve Maschick, Hans "Dutch" Havermann and Joe "The Book" Conway. The three join the Royal Canadian Air Force and hijack an aircraft flown by Johnny Stevens (Bruce Edwards) to enter German airspace.
Adventure, Science fiction
After months of hyper-sleep aboard the cargo transport ship Solar System Shipping Vessel No.17 (SSS-17), two crew members awaken: Chris McNiel and Theta Kaplan. They discover that they've been awakened from hyper-sleep, by the ship's computer, almost ten months past their scheduled time, as something has gone terribly wrong on board. The ship's internal systems are badly damaged, they have almost no fuel and their position is some way off the ecliptic.
Adventure, Drama
A group of attractive European girls answer an advertisement to be fashion models in Rio de Janeiro. Their employer is really an escort agency and the girls are expected to go out with rich men. When one of them, Eve, is approached by Richard Lanning, a drunken American who comes into her room, she breaks a bottle over his head.
Adventure, Comedy, documentary film, Drama
The Anthropologist tells the parallel stories of Margaret Mead, who in the twentieth century popularized cultural anthropology around the world, and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Mead and Crate’s daughters are the film’s storytellers. Mead’s daughter is Mary Catherine Bateson, a 76-year-old cultural anthropologist.
B western, Western
Aged prospector Dusty and his vivacious granddaughter Ruby have a ranch. A treacherous gang of crooks led by the notorious Pandro Santi have designs on the girl. When Santi shows up with a horse as a gift for Ruby, as a prelude to an abduction, he finds the ranch deserted.
war film
The story takes place during World War II in the Philippines. A group of American soldiers is recruited for a dangerous mission to destroy an enemy base and keep strategic documents out of the reach of the invading Imperial Japanese Army.
Horror, thriller film, Vampire
Jacob (Zak Kilberg) is a young man in Los Angeles, California who lives a life of isolation by day and works as a security guard by night. This is due to a rare skin disorder developed in his youth that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets and falls in love with a local bartender and secret druggie, Mary (Maya Parish), recently departing a relationship with a drug dealer.
Adventure
The witch doctor of the Sura tribe, Yilkuba, gives a prophecy to the tribe's king, Dawiya. He tells him to beware of war and "white magic." Dawiya laughs it off, but Yilkuba urges him to be cautious, particularly of “cold water that burns." Meanwhile, Mark Fernandez, a tin miner, receives a letter from his company chastising him for his poor work output and threatens to replace him if he doesn’t improve. Jean Stuart, a nursing sister, becomes stranded after her car breaks down on the way to the bush-hospital that she works at.
historical film
In May 1950, Major Matt Brady (John Hodiak) is redeployed to Busan, South Korea. His mission there is to train South Korean pilots in the defensive struggle. Also, there are air support exercises in case the Americans need to be evacuated.
Action, Drama
Survival Devices, Inc., is an organization that employs a team of adventurers known as "the Flying Fish" who are adept in sky diving, scuba diving and martial arts. They are engaged to rescue a captured scientist imprisoned on a Caribbean island by a dictator. The team parachutes off the coast of the island in a HALO jump and establishes an inflatable underwater basecamp in an "Instant Underwater Habitat" or "Igloo".
teen film
The film takes place in the year 1899 and centers around a New York high society girl, Ella 'Fizzy' Fitz (Milano), who works as a typewriter and stenographer in an office. When she learns about a new sensation called the gold rush in Alaska, she immediately decides that she wants to find her luck in the dangerous and rough Alaskan area. Because a train ticket is too expensive, she assigns herself to the company of Pierce Thomas 'Pt' Madison (Campbell).
Adventure, fantasy film
Tigri and her Stone Age female friends hate all men. However, she and her Amazon tribe see men as a necessary evil and capture them as potential husbands. Engor, who is smarter than the rest of the men, is able to escape them.
Action, disaster film, documentary film, Drama, Natural Disaster
14 Hours is based on the harrowing events of June 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison stalled over the Houston metropolitan area, pouring nearly 30 inches of rain on the city within a 14-hour period. The story begins as the storm seems to be moving away from Houston. Jeanette Makins , a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital, arrives ready for what she expects to be a normal day.
In France during the mid-17th century, Cardinal Richelieu receives a visit from the despicably charming young woman, Milady de Winter. Milady brings the Cardinal information regarding the notorious affair between Anne of Austria, the Queen of France, and the English George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Outside their window, the Queen's seamstress, Constance Bonacieux, stands watching the conversation between the two characters, when she is attacked by the Comte de Rochefort, one of the Cardinal's loyal men.
Comedy drama
Set in Cuba in 1958, the last year of Fulgencio Batista regime, the plot revolves around a boy who is torn between his friendship with a blonde American named Julia and the strife facing his family as a result of the revolution and turmoil in their nation.
Adventure
Action
US Customs agent Alex Brooks uncovers the plot of Russian arms dealers who planned to smuggle nerve gas into the U.S. In order to avoid publicity, the boss of the small customs station in Alaska decides that the dangerous barrels should be sent to a safe compound by train. Meanwhile, a Russian General turned terrorist who is responsible for the smuggling, Simeonov, is being delivered via plane to Washington until a group of his henchmen rescue him.