Kidnapping
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The Adventures of Dollie
D.W. Griffith's cinematic debut was already laced with dramatic irony, dynamic staging and deft parallel editing. The film opens with mother and daughter enjoying a summer day by the water. A gypsy merchant disrupts their idyll, first offering items for sale and then trying to make off with the woman's...Start your free trial to watch -
Avida
Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, co-directors of the 2005 cult favorite AALTRA, return with AVIDA, another eye-popping dark comedy. The loony French filmmakers appear in leading roles as two of the three men whose plan to kidnap a wealthy woman's dog goes horribly awry. Instead of nabbing the dog, the "kidnappers" are...Start your free trial to watch -
Away We Go
Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era arrived. Here Vernon stars with Duane Thompson, Lila Leslie and Victor Rodman in a 1924 classic originally released as RENO OR BUST.Start your free trial to watch
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Beast Stalker
Ace action director Dante Lam is in top form once again with this raw, nail-bitingly intense action thriller and with award-worthy emotional performances by Nicholas Tse and Nick Cheung. Tse is Tong, a take-no-prisoners police sergeant who accidentally kills a girl during his relentless pursuit of armed robber Cheung (Ho-man...Start your free trial to watch -
Carlos the Terrorist
CARLOS THE TERRORIST is the story of a desperate man on the run. After killing his underworld boss, a man turns to the CIA for help but finds the opposite extreme of terrorism as he must answer to the CIA’s double-cross demands for the return of his kidnapped family. Loosely based on the same fellow as the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Elusive Diamond
A one-reel crime drama with crooks, ruses, kidnapping, escape and a twist, all wrapped in a coherent narrative. Screenwriter Lloyd Lonergan’s amazing versatility served equally well in several genres. There is successful pictorial telling of the setup and attempted theft, and a little cross-cutting as the...Start your free trial to watch -
Evening Land
"In October 1975, I was invited by Stig Björkman, a Swedish filmmaker in charge of production for the Danish Film Institute, to begin research on a feature film which was to be funded chiefly by the Institute and two private producers, Steen Herdel and Ebbe Preisler. Together with Danish director/writer Poul Martinsen and...Start your free trial to watch
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Fearless Harry
In the first of eleven screen comedies based on C.W. Kahles' comic strip, Earl McCarthy is Hairbreadth Harry, forever tasked with rescuing Beautiful Belinda (Charlotte Merriam) from peril. She's introduced as being "so warm-hearted she had to wear asbestos lingerie,” and proves it by kicking up a flapper storm in the middle...Start your free trial to watch -
Giorni d'amore
Impossibly glamorous farm laborers were a staple of Italian cinema in the 1950s thanks to the 1949 melodrama BITTER RICE, an enormous hit which raised the heart rate of men worldwide as soon as they laid eyes on statuesque Silvana Mangano as an Amazonian field worker straddling rows of soil with her skirt hiked up, revealing...Start your free trial to watch
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Hideout in the Sun
Psycho bank robber Duke and his brother Steve make off with a bundle of money following a daring midday heist. The plan to cool their heels in Cuba takes a shocking and unexpected turn: right to a nudist camp in sunny Miami with a kidnapped ultra-vixen named Dorothy in tow. Duke plans an ocean getaway but...Start your free trial to watch
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Incredible Kung Fu Mission
John Liu, a Kung Fu master, is hired to rescue a revolutionary agent from the fortress of an evil warlord. To help him are five unskilled mercenaries who are trained by him in the art of Kung Fu fighting. Disguised as a travelling acrobatic troupe, the "Dirty Half Dozen" set out on their rescue mission.Start your free trial to watch -
Karate Girl
A mysterious high-school girl, Ayaka (Rina Takeda) has a dark secret. She is a martial arts master and must keep her family's martial arts legacy secret to protect her family treasure, the Black Belt. When she accidentally reveals her awesome fighting skills in public, the ruthless karate gang that murdered her family and...Start your free trial to watch




