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Comedy horror, Zombie, zombie comedy
thumb|left|upright|Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard The film opens in 1940 Manhattan during a violent evening thunderstorm. From a radio studio, broadcaster Larry Lawrence exposes the crimes of underworld boss Frenchy Duval. In her hotel suite, while listening to the broadcast, Mary Carter is visited by Mr.
Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
The story centers around a married couple. The infertile wife Virginia (Brooke Adams) and her husband Brad Marshall (Jeff Hayenga) decide to join an experimental in-vitro fertilization program developed by Dr. Richard Meyerling (James Karen).
Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction
Major Joe Nolan is the head of a South Pacific expedition to retrieve an atomic-powered rocket that has vanished. He is accompanied by pilot Lieutenant Danny Wilson, aircraft mechanic Sergeant William Tatlow and the three scientists who built the rocket. Their aircraft crashes on a remote, unknown tropical island in the area where the rocket had been lost on radar.
Biography, Erotic Film, romance film, Secret Agent, sexploitation film, thriller film, war film
The film's convoluted plot is anchored by a fictitious love triangle between Mata Hari and two military intelligence officers, the French Georges Ladoux (Oliver Tobias) and the German Karl von Bayerling (Christopher Cazenove). Ladoux and Bayerling are personal friends but end up on opposing sides of the war, providing ample opportunity to explore the dramatic tension between honor and personal loyalty on the one hand and patriotism and duty to one's country on the other. Their ethical dilemma is contrasted to the amoral scheming of the main villain, Dr.
Action, Horror, Science fiction
In the near future, a maintenance vehicle is orbiting the Earth on a mission to repair nuclear-armed satellites. Suddenly, the crew experiences a mysterious, inexplicable power failure that cannot be accounted for. As the ship grows colder, they find themselves drifting toward the dark side of the Moon.
Horror, Science fiction
A submarine is destroyed near the North Pole by a mysterious undersea light. The loss of this and several other ships in the Arctic alarms the world. Governments temporarily close the polar route and convene an emergency meeting at the Pentagon.
Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Horror, musical film, satanic film, thriller film
Two struggling mouse folk musicians, Daniel and Jan, are fired from their latest gig because their music is deemed too old-fashioned and not with the times. While Daniel goes to pawn off his guitar, Jan declares that she would give anything to be a big star. She is approached by a shifty reptilian character in a white suit who introduces himself as "B.L.
Comedy, Crime, Secret Agent
The glamorous assassin Irma Eckman, disguised as an air stewardess, kills the oil tycoon Henry Keller with a booby-trapped cigar aboard his private jet, parachuting away before the plane explodes. She is picked up by a speedboat driven by her partner in crime, the equally beautiful Penelope. The villainous pair then murder David Wyngarde, making it look like a spear fishing accident.
Horror, Mysterie, Science fiction
Starring Chris Bruno as Sheriff Harris, the movie is about a serial killer calling himself "The Cusp", who murders his victims and then revives them, until they beg to die. His first victim, psychic investigator Maya Casteneda (Tessie Santiago), survives and is bent on revenge. After she is tapped by the FBI, Maya realizes the only way to locate The Cusp is by entering his mind.
Drama, Horror
In 1947 England, plastic surgeon Dr. Rossiter is wanted by police after performing a botched operation on socialite Evelyn Morley. However, believing himself to have brilliant abilities as a surgeon, he and his assistants, Martin and Angela, evade capture and escape to France.
Biography, Political Thriller
In the mid 1970s, Marie Ragghianti leaves an abusive marriage and moves back home with her mother Virginia Fajardo in Tennessee to eke out a better life for herself and her three young children; Marie waited tables while also completing the degree requirements at Vanderbilt to obtain a B.A. in English and Psychology. She is unapologetic in asking a college acquaintance, Eddie Sisk, for a job, when he is appointed legal counsel for the just-elected governor Ray Blanton.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
Paul Stanton, a Princeton University professor, has separated from his wife Sally, who has rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart, Mike. The couple's son, Billy, reluctantly accompanies Sally on a trip from New York City back to her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona, to meet Mike and embark on a road trip to California. Tensions abound between Mike and the precocious Billy, despite Sally's attempts to forge a connection between the two.
Noir, Western
A recurring ballad introduces this tale of "hate, murder, and revenge." Wyoming ranch hand Vern Haskell is enraged when his fiancée Beth Forbes is raped and murdered during a store robbery. He sets out after the two thieves, first with a posse, then by himself. He finds one of them, Whitey, shot in the back by his partner after a quarrel.
Horror, Mysterie, Slasher
Four friends hatch a scheme to dress up like clowns on Halloween and kidnap a businessman's wife to prevent him from closing a land deal. Though the scheme is intended as a prank, it takes an ugly turn when real violence is used at the kidnapping. As the kidnappers deal with the fallout from their actions, it becomes apparent that an outside party (also in a clown costume) is stalking them.
Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Matt Winslow moves with his wife, Patricia, and children, Chrissy and Robert, to an upper-middle class suburban neighborhood in Southern California from the midwest. Matt, an engineer, has taken a new job at Micro-DigiTech, a successful but secretive technology corporation housed in a large, windowed skyscraper near town. His new project entails a thermally-reinforced state-of-the-art space suit.
Action, Adventure, Treasure hunt
Gibbie Gibson has discovered a World War II-era plane wreck in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. When his discovery becomes known Gibson, his daughter Sally and his lodger Barney Whitaker find trouble from a group of treasure hunters led by a Mister Theo Brown, who are intent on finding the cache of money they believe is on the wreck.
Military Film
At the Farnborough Airshow, a rogue group hijacks a Mirage 2000-10 after killing its pilot. French Air Force pilots Captain Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Captain Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) are instructed to escort it back. The rogue pilot briefly hides under an Airbus A340 and then attempts to fire a missile at Vallois, so Marchelli is forced to destroy the stolen Mirage.
Action, crossover fiction, Horror, Science fiction
The film begins with Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson from Dollman) hitchhiking to get to the town of Pahoota, where he tries to find a girl named Nurse Ginger Jones (Melissa Behr, playing her character from Bad Channels), to prove to her that she is not alone. Meanwhile, the film cuts to Judith Grey (Tracy Scoggins from Demonic Toys), who has a nightmare about the events that happened in the previous film a year before. Ever since the events that took place a year before, Judith has been watching the Arcadia Warehouse, believing that the toys are still alive.
Biography, Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama, Historie, thriller film
The Hour of the Pig is set in 15th-century France and is based upon the career and case files of Bartholomew Chassenee, an actual lawyer of the time who served as an advocate for animals who were accused of crimes. At the time, animal trials were used to determine if animals were the perpetrators of supernatural mayhem. Animals were subject to the same civil laws and penalties as human beings under French law, 1403–1596.
crime thriller film, Drama, Noir
Ralph Cotter is a career criminal who, while escaping from a prison work camp, kills his escape partner, Carleton. On the outside, Cotter ultimately woos Carleton's sister, Holiday, by threatening to expose the fact that she was involved in arranging the prison break. Holiday does not know that Cotter killed her brother.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Police Film, thriller film
Christopher Gill is a serial killer fixated on his late mother, a noted stage actress. Gill preys on lonely middle-aged women. A Broadway theatre owner and director, he adopts various disguises in order to put his victims at ease and avoid identification, impersonating characters such as an Irish priest, a German plumber, a flamboyant gay hairdresser, a policeman, and a transvestite.
Horror, thriller film
In Santa Cruz, the police department is under pressure to solve a series of murders which appear to be the work of two independent serial killers. To help with the cases, Detective Tom Harris turns to his best friend, Edmund Kemper, a genius, but psychopathic, house painter who lives with his abusive mother, and who had previously helped Harris capture another criminal named John Linley Frazier. Together, Ed and Tom decipher a message sent by one of the killers, who they discover taking pictures at the latest crime scene while they are staking it out.
Drama, thriller film
Young law student Harper blames his powerful stepfather Vincent for causing the car accident that put his mother in a coma. One evening in a bar he meets and has a drink with the professional criminal Johnny Ray, who agrees to kill Vincent for $20,000. Johnny Ray and his girlfriend Cherry arrive the next morning to take Harper to Vegas to carry out the murder.
Drama, thriller film
Mitch takes his late father’s boat out to the center of Lake Michigan for a final ride in his memory, but collides with the wreckage of a small plane in the water. Kelly, the pilot who survived the crash but severely injured, is pulled onto Mitch’s boat for rescue. But the debris of the wreckage had knocked the propeller off the boat’s motor, leaving both men stranded in the middle of the vast lake.