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poster Hijacked: Flight 285

Hijacked: Flight 285

94mn - Action, Drama, Crime

A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after takeoff, two of his aides, traveling as ordinary passengers, take control and free him. He demands $2…

Hydra

94mn - Short, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transp…

poster Mercenaries

Mercenaries

When the President's daughter is captured in a war-torn region, a lethal team of female commandos must infiltrate a fortress-like women's prison to pull off an impossible rescue.

Alive

89mn - Horror, Thriller

A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.

poster Painkiller

Painkiller

80mn - Thriller, Action, Mystery

When an experimental lethal injection makes an inmate immortal, the most dangerous convicts seize control of the prison in a desperate bid to escape and conquer the world.

poster Blood Alley

Blood Alley

86mn - Action, Crime, Thriller

Elijah Kane Is on a new mission for the government after being promised that the CIA will provide information about who put out a hit on his previous team. Kane and the new team have to take down a high l…

poster Death Hunt

Death Hunt

92mn - Action, Thriller

A developer and his mistress's romantic retreat turns into a deadly nightmare when they're captured and forced to become prey in a twisted hunting game on a remote island. As professional killers stalk th…

Foxtrap

Private detective Thomas Fox travels from Los Angeles to the glamorous Cannes Film Festival to find a wealthy man's missing niece, but when he brings her home, he discovers he's been trapped in a deadly g…

poster Showdown in Manila

Showdown in Manila

Two private detectives in Manila pursue a murder investigation that leads them deep into the jungle to confront a ruthless international terrorist known as "The Wrath," forcing them to assemble a team of …

poster Locked In

Locked In

85mn - Thriller, Drama

Josh abandons his advertising career at its peak after a devastating car accident leaves his daughter in a mysterious coma with locked-in syndrome, and when everyone has given up hope, she begins communic…

poster Sentence of God

Sentence of God

Two ruthless gunmen with opposing motivations—a cold-blooded bounty hunter pursuing the reward and a vengeful outlaw seeking justice for his father's murder—reluctantly join forces to track down the notor…

poster It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

A lovestruck high school senior's perfect date with his dream girl turns into a horrifying nightmare when she's kidnapped by a ruthless serial killer, forcing him and his best friend on a deadly rescue mi…

poster For a Book of Dollars

For a Book of Dollars

80mn - Comedy, Western

A bounty hunter name Amen is hired by a group of nuns to recover stolen money. The nuns are female desperadoes in disguise, who want the booty pillaged by an outlaw named Catapult and his gang.

poster The Black Viper

The Black Viper

10mn - Drama, Crime

A thug accosts a girl as she leaves her workplace but a man rescues her. The thug vows revenge and, with the help of two friends, attacks the girl and her rescuer again as they're going for a walk. This t…

poster In Love and War

In Love and War

100mn - Adventure, Romance, Action

This movie is an account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam. During his confinement in such camps as the infamous "Hanoi Hilton", Stockdale, among other senior off…

poster The Hoose-Gow

The Hoose-Gow

Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster Study Hell

Study Hell

What starts as routine after-school detention becomes a nightmare when their supervising teacher, a troubled war veteran with PTSD, finally snaps under pressure. Drawing on his deadly military training, t…

poster True Justice

True Justice

Elijah Kane and his elite Special Forces team receive a dangerous CIA mission to take down a high-level gang boss involved in human smuggling. But when their investigation uncovers a sinister organ-traffi…

poster Hell of Borneo

Hell of Borneo

84mn - Adventure

A wealthy mercenary lives in blissful solitude on his private island in the Philippines, until it's invaded by pirates, mobsters, and smugglers.

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