In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Read More »
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Blue Thunder (1983) John Badham, Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. Read More »
Private Property (1960) Leslie Stevens, Kate Manx, Corey Allen, Warren Oates, Crime, Drama
Duke and Boots, two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station owner. Duke, viral and savage, taunts the slower and psychologically-confused Boots because he has never made a sexual conquest. Duke offers to seduce a woman for Boots and the pair force a passing motorist to pursue a sports car driven by Ann Carlyle, the lustful wife of a insurance-company executive who has some desires of her own not being met by her husband.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Sam Peckinpah, Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Action, Crime, Drama
A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement–‘Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!’ Two of the bounty-hunters thus dispatched encounter a local piano-player in their hunt for information. The piano-player does a little investigating on his own and finds out that his girlfriend knows of Garcia’s death and last resting place. Thinking that he can make some easy money and gain financial security for he and his (now) fiancée, they set off on this goal. Of course, this quest only brings him untold misery, in the form of trademark Peckinpah violence.
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