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  • Target Zero picture
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    Target Zero (1955)

    Apparently as a reward for his excellent performance in the 1954 western Drum Beat, Charles Bronson...

  • Kings of the Sun picture
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    Kings of the Sun (1963)

    An Indian chief (Yul Brynner) attacks and then unites with a Mayan king (George Chakiris) chased out...

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    Zulu Dawn (1979)

    In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....

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    The Insect Woman (1964)

    A woman, who suffered much in her life, forges valiantly to survive, much like an industrious "ant".

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    The Ice Pirates (1984)

    In this undistinguished parody of the sci fi genre, Robert Urich is Jason who leads a band of...

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    Operation Bikini (1963)

    A Navy officer's (Tab Hunter) underwater demolition team must find a sunken U.S. sub before the...

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    Marche a l'ombre

    In this standard, light drama about two friends adjusting to change, François (Gérard Lanvin) and...

  • Morris West's The Naked Country picture
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    Morris West's The Naked Country

    A rugged rancher must trespass onto sacred Aboriginal ground to reclaim his neglected wife.

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    The Ninja Mission

    Cold War tensions mount as a CIA agent leads his elite band of ninjas on a deadly mission behind the...

  • Big Night picture
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    Big Night (1996)

    Two Italian brothers hope to save their failing restaurant by preparing a feast for bandleader Louis...

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    100 Proof (1997)

    Set in Lexington, Kentucky, Rae and her sidekick Carla are deadbeats barely out of their teens who...

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    The Island (1980)

    A British journalist (Michael Caine) and his son are seized by pirates who have been inbreeding for...

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    Shout at the Devil

    An Irish-American (Lee Marvin) and a British aristocrat (Roger Moore) target a World War I German...

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    Swashbuckler (1976)

    A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

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    The Bounty Hunter (1989)

    A bounty hunter (Robert Ginty) avenges his Indian buddy, killed by an Oklahoma sheriff (Bo Hopkins)...

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    Trackdown (1976)

    In this crime drama, a runaway girl from rural Montana heads for LA and ends up trapped within its...

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    The Super (1991)

    Ordered to live among his tenants in squalor, a New York slumlord (Joe Pesci) does so and sees the...

  • Let No Man Write My Epitaph picture
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    Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

    An executed hoodlum's drug-addicted widow (Shelley Winters) raises her pianist son (James Darren) in...

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    Inchon (1982)

    A noisy and absurd re-telling of the great 1950 invasion of Inchon during the Korean War which was...

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    The Mountain Road (1960)

    An Army major (James Stewart) and his demolition team blast the Japanese to a halt in World War II...

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    The Desert Rats (1953)

    A British captain (Richard Burton) leads an Australian division against Field Marshal Rommel (James...

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    Escape From Fort Bravo (1953)

    A Southern belle (Eleanor Parker) frees a Rebel officer (John Forsythe) and his men from a Union...

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    Megaforce (1982)

    Story about a rapid deployment defence unit that is called into action whenever freedom is...

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    My Favorite Year (1982)

    A rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) tries to keep an old swashbuckler (Peter O'Toole) sober for his...

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    3 Ninjas (1992)

    Three boys use martial arts learned from their Asian grandfather (Victor Wong) to stop an arms...

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    His Majesty O'Keefe (1953)

    A Yankee sea captain has adventures in paradise trying to become an entrepreneur in Micronesia.

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    Sword of Sherwood Forest (1961)

    Robin Hood (Richard Greene) and company save the Archbishop of Canterbury from an earl and the...

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    The Pirate Movie (1982)

    A shy teen (Kristy McNichol) on vacation in Australia dreams she's a Victorian heroine rescued by a...

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    The Great Land of Small

    Two children enter a fantasy kingdom and are confronted by evil forces.

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    The Soldier

    Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A...