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Dirty Harry is the name of a series of films and novels featuring fictional San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, portrayed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood's character also helped popularize the .44 Magnum, as Harry Callahan is famously shown wielding his Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver.
Young Guns is a retelling of the adventures of Billy the Kid during the Lincoln County War, which took place in New Mexico during 1877–1878
An action war film series based on E. M. Nathanson's novel of the same name. The original theatrical film was released in 1967, and was followed by three TV movie sequels in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Hot Shots! is a 1991 comedy spoof film starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn, Jon Cryer and Ryan Stiles. It was directed by Jim Abrahams, and was written by Abrahams and Pat Proft. Carrying the same comedic vein as Airplane!, a film Abrahams co-directed, the film primarily spoofs the 1986 action film Top Gun, but also draws material from films like Rocky and Superman. It spawned a sequel in 1993, Hot Shots! Part Deux. Sheen and Cryer would later co-star in the television series Two and a Half Men, in which Stiles also went on to play a recurring role.
Problem Child is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and produced by Robert Simonds. The film stars John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, Michael Richards, and Michael Oliver. The film inspired two sequels: the first, Problem Child 2, was released theatrically in 1991; the second, Problem Child 3: Junior in Love, was a television film aired on the USA Network in 1995. The first one brought back the original cast in their original roles and picked up where the first film ended. However, Yasbeck was given a new role with a new dynamic totally opposite to her original character. Junior in Love, the third and final film, recast Ben and Junior with William Katt and Justin Chapman, while Gottfried and Warden reprised their roles as Mr. Peabody and Big Ben and does not follow the storyline of the first two films.
Naked Gun Collection is a series of hilarious, slapstick comedy films centered around the bumbling police detective, Frank Drebin, played by the iconic Leslie Nielsen. Filled with puns, visual gags, and absurd situations, these films poke fun at the conventions of the crime and detective genre, providing endless laughs and entertainment.
A series of films which revolve around an eccentric group of competitors in wild and illegal road races.
Walking Tall is a 1973 American action semi-biopic film of Sheriff Buford Pusser, a former professional wrestler-turned-lawman in McNairy County, Tennessee. It starred Joe Don Baker as Pusser. The film was directed by Phil Karlson. Based on Pusser's true story, it was a combination of very loosely based fact and Hollywood revisionism. The original Walking Tall was a hit, but the sequels, Walking Tall Part 2 (September 28, 1975), and Walking Tall: Final Chapter (August 10, 1977), both starring Bo Svenson, were far less profitable.
March of the Penguins is a 2005 French feature-length nature documentary depicting the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. A direct sequel titled March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (aka March of the Penguins 2: The Call) was released in France in 2017 by Disneynature (and released in the United States through Hulu on 23 March 2018).
A buddy comedy film series about Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two good-natured but incredibly moronic friends.
The collection of Disney's Beauty and the Beast movies
Series of cannibal slasher films focused on Leatherface and his family, who terrorize unsuspecting visitors to their territory.
The two live-action films are featured in The Flintstones Yabba Dabba Two-Pack! It's the Hanna-Barbera classic like you've never seen it before, as director Brian Levant and his creative team capture all the wacky gadgets, colorful creatures and clever visual gags of Bedrock with wild imagination. A rock-solid cast, including John Goodman, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell and Academy Award winners Halle Berry and Elizabeth Taylor, breathe comic life into Fred Flintstone and his friends' hilarious attempts to make it in a barely civilized world.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy consists of three epic fantasy films, based on the influential novels written by J. R. R. Tolkien, directed by Peter Jackson.
The Exploits of Beggar So [aka Sam Seed/Su Hua Chi] (Yuen Siu-Tien) and his pupil Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan)
An action film series centered around the character of John McClane, a New York City police detective who finds himself fighting a group of terrorists in each film.
The extremely successful horror film series about a mysterious murderer who gives his victims macabre riddles they must solve to earn their freedom. After a surprise debut film success Saw would be made into a multimedia franchise, spawning 11 installments.
Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver's reboot/remake of the Planet of the Apes inspired by news articles on apes raised as humans and advances in genetics. Jaffa conceived an idea for a film about a genetically enhanced chimp raised in a human household. The film series focuses on a chimpanzee, Caesar who when given a substance designed to help the brain repair itself, gains advanced intelligence which leads to an ape uprising.