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Western
Joel Curtis is a young orphan who is living with his grandmother, Aggie Curtis, on her ranch. Joel finds an orphaned colt in the nearby woods, and names the horse Red. Joel learns that Grandma Curtis has extensive debts, and will be forced to sell her ranch to pay them off.
Adventure, Crime
An escaped criminal, known as Harry Crowl, but preferring to be called by his prison number 39013 (pronounced Thirty Nine - Oh - Thirteen), seeks revenge on the man who sent him to prison, millionaire philanthropist Horace Granville. He kidnaps Granville, imprisoning him within his own house, and disguises himself to take Granville's place, as the frail old man in a clean room, necessary for his health, with the only other person allowed past the glass barrier being his doctor. He then sets about methodically destroying everything Granville owns.
Adventure
Setting and premise The story follows Saadia, a wild and mysterious Arab girl whose life has been shaped by a local sorceress who claims she has the “evil eye” and brings misfortune to those who love her. This belief isolates her from the community. Love triangle French doctor Henrik takes Saadia to his clinic for rehabilitation, where he falls in love with her.
Pirate Film
In 1697, agents Richard Dale and Alan Duncan are sent on an undercover mission by the British Fleet to find and gather information on the notorious pirate, Captain William Kidd. Dale and Duncan soon join Kidd's crew and discover, to their surprise, that the Captain is quite different from what they had expected.
Adventure
Pink Barker loses his boat and his girl Daisy to his bitter rival Schultz, but his fortunes change when an old, dying sailor he rescues at sea tells him about a fortune to be had in pearls. Unfortunately, the pearl beds lie off an island inhabited by cannibals. Barker sails in search of the island with his friend Square Deal.
Adventure
Spain rules the Philippines with an iron hand in the 1870s and uses the island of Samar as a penal colony for unwanted political prisoners. An American doctor and adventurer makes himself unpopular, and is offered the post of doctor on the island, which he accepts, the alternative proposal being more unpleasant. The colony is in a state of unrest, and decide to brave the jungle, which is full of savage head-hunters, in a bid for freedom from their Spanish oppressors.
In 1933, a mischievous ten-year-old, Archie, is left in the care of his unattentive father, Charlie, a reluctant gangster indebted to mob boss Benny “The Bomb” Palladino. Benny gives Charlie a last chance to clear his ‘debt’ by collecting money from a rival, but when Archie follows his father into a rival gangster's speakeasy, a series of bizarre events take place culminating in them fleeing without the money. They head south to a dustbowl town where Charlie plans to repay his debt by stealing money from a bootlegging business run by Ugly Jim McCrae.
Adventure
After departing from Vancouver, a Canadian Western Airways Douglas DC-3 airliner catches fire and crashes in the Canadian north. On board are two young children, Don and Janet Heldon, who are the only survivors. Their father, pilot Vince Heldon and his wife Julie join forces with family friend and bush pilot Brandy and Nora Stead, the children's birth mother, to mount a desperate aerial search before incoming bad weather arrives.
Action, Adventure
Tarzan loses his hearing after a bomb blast, and is hunted through the jungle by the ruthless Colonel.
Adventure
Irish Jacobite Charles Wogan comes to Scotland and attempts to aid Prince James Stuart in his quest to overthrow King George I.
Adventure
Hendrik Heyst is an intellectual British recluse who has vowed to close himself off from the world and now lives alone on an island in the Dutch East Indies. However, he is forced to break this promise to himself when traveling showgirl Alma, also fleeing from the world, is threatened by three murderous scavengers. The villains are led by Mr.
Comedy
Ajax (Stan ‘The Man’ Longinidis), was once an undercover operative, trying to infiltrate the business dealings of local gangsters, but was wronged by police in the process. When his cousin Theo (Arthur Angel), rats out the local mob boss, 'one-man-army' Ajax (Stan ‘The Man’ Longinidis), must rescue and protect him from the Melbourne underworld, who want to prevent Theo from testifying at a trial that would put them away for a very long time. Ajax must also battle his arch enemy, Super Don Armande Poroni in the process.
Adventure, Animal Documentary, Computeranimation
Jason is a former policeman turned museum security guard who is accidentally transported back in time via an amulet. He wins the trust of Celestia and her father after he rescues him from a harpy attack, in the process reminding the village priest of the legend of a prodigal figure referenced in ancient scrolls. Jason is initially dismissive of the villagers' pleas to help them fight the evil wizard Vorian and end his control over the king Castor, as he would rather return home.
Adventure
In 1943 in the South-West Pacific, some Australian and American airmen discuss the story of "Smithy", Charles Kingsford Smith. The Americans are told the story by an old officer of his, along with a waiter, Stringer, who knew him. The story starts in 1917 with his recovering from a wound incurred in fighting over the Western Front.
Adventure
It is set in Sicily in the 1790s, with Casanova as a freedom fighter battling against the King's local governor Count de Brissac, who unknown to the monarch, is acting as a tyrant.
Animation, Documentation, Drama
Adventure, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
Adventure
634 A.D.:Though General Amdar is able to win the Siege of Damascus for his ruler Khalid, he is made an enemy of the State. Amdar escapes and steals a scimitar made of Damascus steel. He leads an alliance of Sinbad without his ship, Aladdin without his lamp, Sheherazade, and Ali Baba and his 40 thieves to depose Khalid and win the heart of Princess Zafir.
Adventure, Drama
The German Schroeder family spends their Christmas holidays on the Thai island of Phuket, and in one of the sleazy bars of Patong Beach, 18-year-old son Felix falls in love with a young, gorgeous Thai woman. Felix's brother Tommy is sure that Fai is a prostitute, his parents are uneasy about Felix's love for her, too. After a tearful goodbye at the end of the holidays, Felix spontaneously decides to follow his heart - and to stay in Thailand.
Adventure
Science fiction
Brick Bradford is assigned by the government to aid Doctor Gregor Tymak, scientist and inventor who is working on an "Interceptor Ray" that can destroy incoming rockets. Unfortunately, it can also be used as a death ray, bringing it to the attention of foreign spy agent Laydron. Tymak uses his door into the fifth dimension to escape criminals and it takes him to the far side of the Moon (which has air and is a rocky terrain without craters).
Adventure
The film opens by a lake on Saint Patrick's Day as the story's young hero, an Irish boy named Matthew O'Brien (David Alan Bailey), is playing hooky from school and fishing with his best friend, Timothy Ryan (Ernest Vaio). As the time approaches to return home, the two boys go their separate ways and Matt soon finds a magic frog which he places in his pocket. Deciding to take a short-cut home through the woods, Matt quickly finds himself lost and soon encounters a leprechaun (Frank Delfino) whose beard is caught in a log.
Comedy
King Kung Fu tells the story of a good-humored, hat-loving, Chinese talking gorilla originally named Jungle Jumper who has been taught karate. After beating up his Kung Fu Master owner, Alfunku, when the latter dared him to snatch a banana from his hand, he is shipped off to the U.S. as a "goodwill gift" by his battered and embarrassed teacher, where he is renamed King Kung Fu for publicity purposes.