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Final Descent

Action & Adventure

Robert Urich stars as a veteran airline pilot whose years of flying are put to the test after his jumbo jet is damaged in a mid-air collision in FINAL DESCENT, an action-adventure thriller distributed by Sony Pictures Television International, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. When Captain Glen "Lucky" Singer prepares Angel Airlines Flight 19 for take off, both co-pilot and former girlfriend Connie Phipps and their supervisor Captain George Bouchard agree that everything seems normal. Yet seconds after take off, the jumbo jet is struck by a small aircraft which bursts into flames and crashes, leaving Flight 19 crippled beyond repair. Though Singer can still fly the plane, he can only ascend, leaving only a matter of time before the increasing altitude will cause it to disintegrate. Racing against time, Singer and company must bring their plane down safely with all its 319 passengers -- a task that is made all the more difficult by Bouchard's interest in Connie and his insistence on how to fly the damaged craft. With just over two hours before he runs out of fuel, Singer is assisted by the concerned crew on the ground, including an old flying buddy who's been patched through to him via radio. And despite all panic in the cabin, the terrified passengers can only cooperate with Lucky-and pray!

Born to Ride (2011)

Action & Adventure

The stars of Starship Troopers are back in action! Mike (Casper Van Dien) decides to hit the road on his refurbished classic motorcycle along with best buddy Alex (Patrick Muldoon), but their trek takes a surprising turn when they become involved in a plan involving political blackmail, corruption, and dirty money. Carrying evidence that could get them killed at any minute, the boys are chased on the open road but turn their skills to their own advantage. William Forsythe (Raising Arizona) and Theresa Russell (Wild Things) also star in this gun-blazing, rip-roaring adventure from the director of Every Which Way But Loose you’ll never forget!

Atone

Action & Adventure

ATONE introduces us to the world of Laura Bishop, an ex-special ops soldier that has reluctantly settled into raising her daughter Kate. After giving up her career as a soldier for the love of her life, she loses him and has lost the will to live. Her goal is to expend the least amount energy possible to get by. To that end, she spends her days in a security job at a place that she thought would not require much effort, a church. Until a team of highly trained and armed terrorists takes the church by siege. With the intent to simply report the incident to the cops, she starts to head to the police department when suddenly she is stopped as she notices her daughter’s bike lying at the entrance of the church. She rushes back into the church and goes on an all out hunt for her daughter. With special forces standing between her and her daughter, Laura’s rage engages her past in special ops setting off a pitched battle that may kill everyone involved.

Battle For Saipan

Action & Adventure

Casper Van Dien (Alita: Battle Angel) and Louis Mandylor (Rambo: Last Blood) star in this edge-of-your-seat WWII epic. On July 7th 1944, a US Army hospital on the remote island of Saipan is overrun by Japanese forces during a relentless attack. Outgunned and surrounded by the enemy, a lone medic (Van Dien) puts it all on the line to lead a band of wounded warriors to safety.

XXX

Action & Adventure

From Revolution Studios and and Sony Pictures, Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is a notorious underground thrill-seeker who, until now, has been deemed untouchable by the law. But when crack NSA Agent Gibbsons convinces Cage to infiltrate a ruthless Russian crime ring, this new breed of secret agent (codename: XXX) takes down the enemies of justice with a vengeance in this high-octane, turbo-charged thrill-ride from the acclaimed director of The Fast and the Furious.

Spy Kids 3: Game Over

Action & Adventure

Secret agents Juni (Daryl Sabara) and Carmen Cortez (Alexa Vega) set out on their most mind-blowing mission yet: a journey inside the virtual reality world of a 3D video game where awe-inspiring graphics and creatures come dangerously to life! As they face escalating challenges through increasingly difficult levels of the game, the Spy Kids must rely on humor, high-tech gadgets, and the bonds of family in order to stop a power-hungry villain (Sylvester Stallone) set on controlling the youth of the world!

What Lies Ahead

Action & Adventure

When two young women are thrown together on an unexpected road trip, a surprising and aggressive peril emerges between them that grows stronger with each passing mile.

Princess Mononoke (Subtitled)

Action & Adventure

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.

Mr. Majestyk

Action & Adventure

The script of Mr. Majestyk was Elmore Leonard's attempt to concentrate on the plight of Chicano migrant workers, instead the film that hit screens was extensively reshaped into a standard Charles Bronson vehicle. Hoping to make a living as a watermelon farmer, Battle-weary Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk (Bronson) settles down in rural Colorado. Despite his new-found pacifism, Majestyk can't seem to stay out of trouble, and he lands in jail, where he plots a breakout engineered by Mob boss Frank Renda (Al Lettieri). Majestyk finds himself the main target of the Mob after offering to bring in Renda in exchange for his own freedom. It is bad enough when the crooks begin roughing up Majestyk's field hands; but when they ruthlessly machine-gun his entire melon crop, they've gone to far. Teaming up with Chicano labor activist Nancy Chavez (Linda Cristal), Majestyk decides to track down the mobsters one by one and mete out retribution.

The Debt Collector

Action & Adventure

A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a mob debt collector. The job seems easy enough, until a client drags him into a situation deeper than could ever be anticipated.

Scarlet Dawn

Action & Adventure

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Nancy Carroll star as Russian aristocrats who flee to Constantinople and pose as commoners to escape the Bolshevik Revolution. But the Baron Nikita Krasnoff (Fairbanks--The Prisoner of Zenda) cannot adjust to his new life of poverty and obscurity and soon begins an affair with a devious woman and a life of crime as a con artist. Nearly losing everything, and being exposed as frauds, the married couple eventually must again rely on each other escape with their very lives in this towering romantic epic.

The Princess and the Pirate

Action & Adventure

Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo) flees her father to marry a commoner, but is abducted by notorious pirate The Hook (Victor McLaglen). Also on board the pirate ship is The Great Sylvester (Bob Hope), a cowardly actor who, disguised as a gypsy woman, was kidnapped by The Hook's tattoo artist, Featherhead (Walter Brennan). Dismayed to learn Sylvester is a man, Featherhead forces him to steal The Hook's treasure map, and take both it and Margaret to a distant island so he can later claim them.

The Organization

Action & Adventure

Sidney Poitier, in his third and final appearance as San Francisco homicide detective Virgil Tibbs (from In the Heat of the Night and They Call Me Mister Tibbs!), comes to the aid of a student vigilante group that raided a furniture factory…which was really a front for heroin trafficking. When the manager is murdered, the group admits to Tibbs that they stole $5 million in dope to keep it off the streets, but didn't kill anyone. Based on the character created by John Ball.

Children of Men

Action & Adventure

No children. No future. No hope. In the year 2027, eighteen years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for. Co-starring Michael Caine, filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men "Lifts you to the rafters, transporting you with the greatness of its filmmaking. The action is swift, ferocious and spectacularly choreographed." (The New York Times)

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Action & Adventure

Discover the conflict between good and evil in the electrifying Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. After the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion’s defeat on the ice planet Hoth, Luke journeys to the planet Dagobah to train with Jedi Master Yoda, who has lived in hiding since the fall of the Republic. In an attempt to convert Luke to the dark side, Darth Vader lures young Skywalker into a trap in the Cloud City of Bespin.

Blackbeard the Pirate

Action & Adventure

There was a time when buccaneers terrorized the Caribbean, double-dealing, swashbuckling and pillaging across the high seas. And the most feared of them all was Blackbeard the Pirate. Early 1700s. The King of England sends Sir Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) to kill or capture the dreaded pirate Blackbeard (Robert Newton). He assigns a dashing young officer, Edward Maynard (Keith Andes), to be captured. Now working as the pirate ship's surgeon, Maynard befriends a fellow captive Edwina Mansfield (Linda Darnell). But little does he realize that Sir Morgan is secretly working with the pirates--or that the beautiful Mansfield is neither helpless nor innocent and has an agenda of her own.

3 Ninjas

Action & Adventure

While their friends are spending the summer playing, three young brothers--Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum--are learning the ways of the ninja from their wise grandfather. Grandpa Mori has taught the boys well. They've trained and practiced, and soon it will all pay off. As the boys' FBI agent father Sam Douglas closes in on capturing notorious arms dealer and evil ninja-master Hugo Snyder, the balance of power shifts when Snyder orders the boys kidnapped and held hostage. Abducting the kids is easier said than done, however, as Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum use their skills to outwit the would-be captors. But with the arrival of a troop of ninja soldiers, the boys are apprehended and taken aboard Snyder's private ship. Now, the young brothers are caught in the middle of an incredible adventure they never dreamed possible. Surrounded by danger and excitement, they must rely on their wits, as well as the ancient ninja ways, to even the odds and defend themselves against the unscrupulous Snyder.

Double Impact (1991)

Action & Adventure

Chad (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a charming, smooth karate instructor from Los Angeles is mysteriously urged to fly to China by the man who raised him like a son, Frank Avery (Geoffrey Lewis, "High Plains Drifter," "Every Which Way But Loose"). There he meets Alex (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a streetwise gun-slinging smuggler raised on the back streets of Hong Kong. Chad and Alex discover they are twin brothers and were separated when their parents were brutally murdered twenty-five years ago.

Life On the Line

Action & Adventure

As a huge electrical storm sweeps towards Texas, lineman Beau (John Travolta, Pulp Fiction) is haunted by memories of his brother’s death by lightning years earlier. Bailey (Kate Bosworth, Superman Returns), the niece Beau helped raise, has a secret she needs to share with her boyfriend, Duncan. But he and Beau’s brave team are racing to replace miles of power cables before the tempest strikes. Also starring Sharon Stone, "Life on the Line" is a tribute to the heroes who risk it all to keep us safe.

Man-Thing

Action & Adventure

Kyle Williams (Matthew Le Nevez) thought taking the new post of sheriff in the sleepy town of Bywater would be exactly the change of pace he needed. But the peaceful town is not what it seems. While investigating a series of gruesome murders, Kyle discovers that the locals are hiding a frightening secret. Torn between whom and what to believe, the only straight answers he receives are from the feisty young school teacher Teri (Rachael Taylor). Together they embark on a quest to unravel the truth.

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