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1) Popeye
Description
Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar, POPEYE follows the sailor with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto. Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee'...
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Set in 1939 New Orleans, this colorful, song-filled story centers on Charles B. Barkin (voice of Burt Reynolds), a roguish German Shepherd with the charm of a con man and the heart of a marshmallow. Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, a Pit Bull known as Carface, Charlie finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie whose ability to talk to animals leads this unlikely pair on an adventure packed with thrills,...
3) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Decal Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
While seeing to her long estranged (and now deceased) grandfather's affairs in Italy, Collette, a mild mannered suburban mom, unexpectedly inherits his mafia empire and finds herself stuck in the middle of a deadly mob war. Guided by the firm's trusted consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone's expectations, including her own, as the new head of the family business.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"The behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled '80s and '90s Hollywood--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Dolph Lundgren, and Jean-Claude Van Damme--and the beloved films that made them stars, including Die Hard, Rambo, and The Terminator. The Last Action Heroes opens in 1990, at the Cannes film festival, where Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Wesley, a young deaf boy, is frequently bullied at school, and his home life, a sanctuary, consists of his loving mother and younger sister. When his father, a rough, unhappy man, returns home, Wesley withdraws into a shy and uneasy silence. But one day, on his cold walk home from the school, Wesley finds a strange man helpless and bleeding next to the road. He brings the man to an abandoned barn not far from his house. The man slowly recovers, helped...
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
As teenagers, kung fu disciples Danny, Hing, and Jim were inseparable. Fast forward 25 years, and each has grown into a washed-up middle-aged man seemingly one kick away from pulling a hamstring, and not at all preoccupied with thoughts of martial arts or childhood best friends. But when their old master is murdered, the trio reunites, soon learning that avenging their sifu will require conquering old grudges if they are to honorably defend his legacy....
8) Meru
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Three renowned climbers navigate nature’s harshest elements and their own complicated inner demons to ascend Mount Meru, the most technically complicated and dangerous peak in the Himalayas. Winner of the Audience Award for Documentary at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Documentary at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. *"A triumph of editing and narrative beyond "Are you kidding me?" visuals, Meru is a climbing story with...
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older woman a kindred spirit named Elena. But when a group known as the "Noble Men" break into their home, attack them, and take her beloved dog, Diego, Becky must return to her old ways to protect herself and her loved ones
10) Junk head
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones ruling the bottomless underworld may have become fertile. Parton is selected to go on a mission through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters to secure humanity's future.
11) First love
Publisher
Well Go Usa Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A noir-tinged yakuza film blending genres in the story of a young boxer and a call girl, who fall passionately in love while getting innocently caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. FIRST LOVE is directed by Takashi Miike, at his most fun and anarchic.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Maximum overdrive (1986, 98 minutes): For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now it's up to a small group of people trapped at a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines.
Raw deal (1986, 106 minutes): A suspended FBI he becomes trapped in a deadly game against...
13) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. When Sarah is chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called ₁Proxima₂, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
Hell-bent on avenging the death of his father, Johnny Black vows to gun down Brett Clayton and becomes a wanted man in the process while posing as a preacher in a small mining town that's been taken over by a notorious Land Baron.
15) Ne Zha
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A young boy, Nezha, is birthed from a heavenly pearl by the Primeval Lord of Heaven. Born with unique powers, Nezha finds himself as an outcast who is hated and feared. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, the young boy must choose between good and evil in order to break the shackles of fate and become the hero.
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
With her father presumed dead, Lara must race to recover an ancient artifact that can alter space and time if not destroyed. She finds the key that will unlock the two sections that must be put together in order for the artifact to work. She must fight her nemises in order to restore harmony and all before the planets and sun align.
18) Annihilation
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was...
20) Masterminds
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
From director Jared Hess comes a crime comedy based on the true story of the 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery. David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis), a guard at an armored car company, is lured into a massive heist by his flirtatious co-worker Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig) and her criminal accomplice Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson). After stealing {dollar}17 million, David is double-crossed and left to take the fall. As he dodges the authorities and a hitman (Jason...