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Turning Tide (Subtitled)

Action & Adventure

Yann Kermadec sees his dreams come true when he suddenly replaces his friend, Frank Drevil, at the start of the Vendee Globe (the solo sailboat race around the world). Fiercely driven to win, the discovery of a young stowaway in the heat of the race will force him to put everything into question.

Somewhere West

Action & Adventure

This visually breathtaking road-film explores the human spirit with emotional breadth and quiet subtlety. Ian, a terminally ill young man, decides to forgo any further treatment and heads out onto the road in search of solitude and a beautiful place to spend his final moments. And yet, against his best efforts, Ian becomes the center of a makeshift family of troubled but kind-hearted characters who help him in the redemptive process of letting go, opening his heart and finally reaching his special place. Spanning over 3000 miles, this unforgettable journey crosses some of the United States' most revelatory landscapes such as - The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, The Badlands, Black Hills, Devils Tower, Yellowstone, and Utah's Salt Flats.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Action & Adventure

Thrust into an adventure, a down-on-his luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill fortune blowing even more strongly when a crew of deadly ghost pirates led by an old rival, the terrifying Captain Salazar, escape from the Devil’s Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea...including him. His only hope of survival lies in finding the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that gives its possessor total control of the seas.

Watchmen Chapter I

Action & Adventure

In an alternate world history shaped by superheroes, once-celebrated “costumed adventurers” have been banned by a society disenchanted with vigilantism. Now, in 1985, the murder of The Comedian, a hero-turned-government operative, draws the attention of Rorschach, the last of the outlawed vigilantes. Rorschach’s investigation embroils his retired colleagues, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias, in conflict with their pasts, with each other and in a mystery that threatens their lives and a world on the brink of war.

Ape vs. Mecha Ape

Action & Adventure

Recognizing the power of its captive giant ape, the military makes its own battle-ready A.I., Mecha Ape. But its first test goes horribly wrong, leaving the military no choice but to release the imprisoned giant ape to stop the colossal robot.

In the Name of Ben-Hur

Action & Adventure

A young gladiator enslaved in the Roman arena in 171 A.D. escapes towards the freedom of Hadrian’s Wall. Fighting centurions and mercenaries along the way, he becomes a folk hero for all those struggling to fight Roman oppression.

In Order of Disappearance

Action & Adventure

When a father (Stellan Skarsgård), uncovers his son’s murderer, he begins to unravel. Once an upstanding citizen, Nils embarks on a blood-thirsty quest for revenge that escalates into a full-blown international gang war. With darkly funny humor reminiscent of Tarantino and The Coen Brothers, Nils finds himself caught up in a world not his own – surrounded by drug traffickers, con artists and kingpins, in order to bring his son’s murderers to justice.

End of a Gun

Action & Adventure

Action superstar Steven Seagal stars in this sexy, high-stakes thriller set in glittering Paris. Seagal plays Decker, an ex-DEA agent who takes deadly action one night to save the alluring Lisa from an abusive boyfriend. She approaches Decker with a seductive proposition: help her steal $2 million from a car guarded by Parisian police and share in the bounty. But even if they outrun the cops, can they outgun the hit squads sent by a furious, sadistic drug lord to reclaim the loot?

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Action & Adventure

A bizarre murder mystery brings together the most powerful woman in China, the soon-to-be-Empress Wu Zetian (Carina Lau, 2046), and a formerly exiled detective, Dee Renjie (Andy Lau, The Warlords), at the infamous Imperial Palace. Hoping that he will solve the crime before her coronation, Wu appoints Dee Chief Judge of the Empire and implores him to combine his indisputable wisdom with his unparalleled martial arts skills to save the future of her dynasty. Director Tsui Hark (Once Upon A Time In China, Seven Swords) teams with action choreographer Sammo Hung (IP Man, Kung Fu Hustle) in this heart-pounding, epic thriller inspired by the incredible true story of one of the Tang Dynasty’s most celebrated officials.

Guns, Girls and Gambling

Action & Adventure

Academy Award® nominee Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, and Dane Cook headline this outrageous action-comedy about greed, revenge, and a desert full of dead Elvis impersonators. A priceless Apache war mask has been stolen from an Indian casino causing criminals, frat boys, tomahawk-wielding hit men, modern-day cowboys, and a six-foot-tall blonde assassin to rampage through a small town in hopes of claiming the treasure first. Guns, Girls and Gambling is an action-packed comedy where the laughs pile up faster than the body count.

Police Story

Action & Adventure

The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography—including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass—Police Story set a new standard for rock-’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood.

Throne of Blood

Action & Adventure

A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. Throne of Blood fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

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Set 183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy of films, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” tells the fate of the House of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary King of Rohan. A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm and his people to make a daring last stand in the ancient stronghold of the Hornburg— a mighty fortress that will later come to be known as Helm’s Deep. Finding herself in an increasingly desperate situation, Héra, the daughter of Helm, must summon the will to lead the resistance against a deadly enemy intent on their total destruction.

The Great Alaskan Race

Action & Adventure

In 1925's historic great race of mercy, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.

Monkey Man

Action & Adventure

From producer Jordan Peele comes Oscar® nominee Dev Patel's astonishing tour-de-force directorial debut, inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage. Patel stars as a man with no name, scarred by a brutal childhood, who ekes out a meager living in underground fighting rings. But when he finds a way to rise up and infiltrate his city's corrupt elite, he kicks off an explosive campaign for retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him as a boy. Channeling the rage of the poor and powerless, an unexpected hero emerges in this fight-filled action epic.

The Karate Killers

Action & Adventure

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is back to save the earth! When evil agents of the secret spy organization THRUSH discover a method of extracting gold from seawater, they plan to use the process to throw the gold-based world economic order into chaos. Only two men, dapper, suave Napolean Solo (Robert Vaughn) and the equally dashing Illya Kuryakin (McCallum)--the Men from U.N.C.L.E.--can thwart the dastardly plot. Now as the two super-spies chase five deadly international beauties across the globe, they are attacked by one-man mini-airplanes, ambushed by motorcycle daredevils and race across the Alps on skis to stay one step ahead of the beautiful assassins--The Karate Killers.

Battle of the Bulge: Wunderland

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Christmas 1944, the Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. After a brief encounter with a German unit. Lt. Robert Cappa makes a report to his commanding officer Major AJ McCulley and Captain Robert Daniels. Cappa reports of strange enemy movement and has a worried sense of what the Germans are up to. With this in mind Major McCulley orders Lt. Cappa and his platoon of Second Infantry Division soldiers too a a vital road junction in the Ardennes forest outside of the town of Amaranth Belgium. While settling into their new positions, Cappa makes contact with the soldiers on his left and right flank. Meeting with Sgt. Mcquire he learns that the troopers are very green and have not yet seen combat. Upon his return, Cappa's second in command Sgt. Rock informs him the men are thinly spaced and would have trouble "holding the line" in case of a German attack. After losing contact with his command, Cappa and his men experience an intense artillery barrage followed by a large scale German assault. Cappa and his men must find their faith and strength to stand against their enemy in the opening stages of the the epic fight known as "The Battle of The Bulge."

The Book of Eli

Action & Adventure

In the not-too-distant future, some 30 years after the final war, a solitary man walks across the wasteland that was once America. A warrior not by choice but necessity, Eli (Denzel Washington) seeks only peace but, if challenged, will cut his attackers down before they realize their fatal mistake. It's not his life he guards so fiercely but his hope for the future; a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years and is determined to realize. Driven by this commitment and guided by his belief in something greater than himself, Eli does what he must to survive--and continue. Only one other man in this ruined world understands the power Eli holds, and is determined to make it his own: Carnegie (Gary Oldman), the self-appointed despot of a makeshift town of thieves and gunmen. Meanwhile, Carnegie's adopted daughter Solara (Mila Kunis) is fascinated by Eli for another reason: the glimpse he offers of what may exist beyond her stepfather's domain.

Rambo 3

Action & Adventure

When Col. Sam Tratman (Richard Crenna) is captured during a top-secret mission in Afghanistan, Rambo erupts into a one-man firestorm to rescue his former commanding officer and decimate the enemy. This intense, hear-pounding adventure boasts unrelenting action and suspense from start to finish.

Minions: 3 Mini-Movie Collection

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Competition: Two Minions compete in a series of escalating games in which both are doomed to lose. Cro-Minion: Two prehistoric Minions are forced to babysit their Caveman boss’s trouble-making toddler. Binky Nelson Unpacified: Binky is determined to break back into a museum to recover his favorite pacifier he accidentally left behind during a family burglary.

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