Movies tagged as "unlikely hero"

Antz [1998, USA ] starting from $1.99

Every ant has his day.

Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy Actors: Woody Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, John Mahoney, Paul Mazursky, Grant Shaud, Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, Christopher Walken, Jim Cummings, April Winchell, Directors: Eric Darnell Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible...

Bee Movie [2007, USA ] starting from $1.99

On November 2 Hold on to your honey

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Sting, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Miller, Megan Mullally, Rip Torn, Directors: Steve Hickner Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.

Dogma [1999, USA ] starting from $1.99

Get 'touched' by an angel.

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Actors: Alan Rickman, Alanis Morissette, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Bud Cort, Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth, Kitao Sakurai, George Carlin, Betty Aberlin, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Dan Etheridge, Linda Fiorentino, Derek Milosavljevic, Lesley Braden, Brian O'Halloran, Marie Elena O'Brien, Janeane Garofalo Directors: Kevin Smith, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Dragonball: Evolution [2009, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Justin Chatwin, Joon Park, Christopher Sabat, Jamie Chung, Luis Arrieta, Texas Battle, Richard Blake, Yun-Fat Chow, Ernie Hudson, Randall Duk Kim, James Marsters, Julian Sedgwick, Shavon Kirksey, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Directors: James Wong Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The story begins with a young humanoid boy named Goku, who discovers that he was sent to Earth to blend in and destroy our population but instead elects to protect it from an oncoming alien onslaught bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects. He seeks out upon his adoptive grandfather Grandpa Gohan's dying request to find the great Master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls. Of which he has one, in order to prevent the evil Lord Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls to take over the world. And Goku's quest is to obtain the mystical Dragonballs before Piccolo does.

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd [2003, USA ] starting from $1.99

Before the first movie, there was high school. They missed the bus.

Genres: Comedy Actors: Timothy Stack, Mimi Rogers, Wayne Federman, Lucas Gregory, Derek Richardson, Eric Christian Olsen, Luis Guzmán, Rachel Nichols, Elden Henson, Eugene Levy, Cheri Oteri, Holly Towne, Josh Braaten, Vahe Manoukian, William Lee Scott Directors: Troy Miller, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Set in 1986 when best friends Harry (Olsen) and Lloyd (Richardson) were teenagers, this is the madcap comic tale of their attempt to get out of the "special needs" department and into regular high school life.

Flubber [1997, USA ] starting from $1.99

The stuff dreams are made of.

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy Actors: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Raymond J. Barry, Clancy Brown, Ted Levine, Wil Wheaton, Edie McClurg, Jodi Benson, Leslie Stefanson, Malcolm Brownson, Benjamin Brock, Dakin Matthews, Zack Zeigler, Sam Lloyd, Directors: Les Mayfield Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Phillip Brainard, who is a professor at a college and a small time worker in his own basement, is trying to create a great invention. Unfortunately he always failed to invent something, but he is so obsessed about it that he even puts off his own wedding to his fiancée, Sara. One day, he finally invents something that works, this substance can cause even the heaviest things to bounce in the air, 'flying rubber', but Brainard called it "Flubber". However, he sees Sara going out with another professor from another college and several criminals trying to rob him. So, Brainard has to find out a way to defeat the criminals and to get back his Fiancee. Hopefully, Flubber can help him.

Galaxy Quest [1999, USA ] starting from $1.99

The show has been cancelled...but the adventure is just beginning.

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Patrick Breen, Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Daryl Mitchell, Robin Sachs, Enrico Colantoni, Directors: Dean Parisot Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Eighteen years after their sci-fi adventure show "Galaxy Quest" was canceled, actors Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco, Alexander Dane, Tommy Webber, and Fred Kwan are making appearances at sci-fi conventions and store openings in costume and character. They're wallowing in despair and at each other's throats until aliens known as Thermians arrive and, having mistaken the show for fact and consequently modeling their entire culture around it, take them into space to save them from the genocidal General Sarris and his armada.

Golden Child, The [1986, USA ] starting from $1.99

Eddie Murphy Is The Chosen One

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery Actors: J.L. Reate, Eddie Murphy, Charles Dance, Charlotte Lewis, Victor Wong, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, James Hong, Shakti, Tau Logo, Tiger Chung Lee, Pons Maar, Peter Kwong, Wally Taylor, Eric Douglas, Charles Levin, Directors: Michael Ritchie Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the 'Chosen one' who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.

Gremlins [1984, USA ] starting from $1.99

Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. [Crossed Out] We're Here!

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror Actors: Hoyt Axton, John Louie, Keye Luke, Don Steele, Susan Burgess, Scott Brady, Arnie Moore, Corey Feldman, Harry Carey Jr., Zach Galligan, Dick Miller, Phoebe Cates, Polly Holliday, Donald Elson, Belinda Balaski Directors: Joe Dante, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop—a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop's owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don't get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand's gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed 'Gremlins.'

Gremlins 2: The New Batch [1990, USA ] starting from $1.99

Take Your Batch to See the New Batch.

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi Actors: Zach Galligan, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, Christopher Lee, Dick Miller, Gedde Watanabe, Keye Luke, Don Stanton, Dan Stanton, Shawn Nelson, Archie Hahn, Ron Fassler, Time Winters, Jason Presson Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Yesterday it was rural Kingston Falls. Today it's the Big Apple — and lots of wild, anarchic comedy — because a new batch of mischievous green meanies is on the loose. We told you. Remember the rules. You didn't listen. Now you'll have to face up to the hilarious consequences.

He Was a Quiet Man [2007, USA ] starting from $1.99

He seemed like such a nice guy.. He pretty much kept to himself...

Genres: Drama, Romance Actors: Christian Slater, John Gulager, Jamison Jones, Michael DeLuise, K.C. Ramsey, David Wells, Randolph Mantooth, Sewell Whitney, William H. Macy, Greg Baker, Brian Lohmann, Paul D. Roberts, Bobby Hardy, Bill Rothbard, Stanley C. Hall Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Kung Fu Panda [2008, USA ] starting from $1.99

Prepare for awesomeness.

Genres: Action, Animation, Comedy, Family Actors: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Ian McShane, David Cross, Michael Clarke Duncan, Dan Fogler, James Hong, Randall Duk Kim, Wayne Knight, Seth Rogen, Angelina Jolie, Directors: Mark Osborne Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A CG-animated comedy about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, Po, who must somehow become a Kung Fu Master in order to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung. Set in the legendary world of ancient China, this is the story of Po, our unlikely hero, who enters the rigid world of Kung Fu and turning it upside down. Po ultimately becomes a Kung Fu hero by learning that if he believes in himself, he can do anything

Night of the Comet [1984, USA ] starting from $1.99

It was the last thing on earth they ever expected.

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell, Mary Woronov, Geoffrey Lewis, Peter Fox, John Achorn, Michael Bowen, Devon Ericson, Lissa Layng, Ivan E. Roth, Janice Kawaye, Chance Boyer, Andrew Boyer, Directors: Thom Eberhardt Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Two sisters, high school seniors in the early 1980s, awaken one morning to blood red skies and the realization that the human race has been wiped out. It becomes apparant that anyone who was not surrounded by steel when the Earth recently passed through the tail of Haley's comet has been reduced to a pile of red ash (the trace elements of human chemical makeup.) They encounter a rebellious Native American man and take over the air waves at a local radio station in an attempt to get help. Unfortunately, they attract the attention of a group of scientists who knew what the effects of the comet would be. They hid underground in a steel laboratory, but idiotically left the vents open. Now, as various survivors of the comet who were only partially surrounded by steel are decaying into flesh-hungry zombies, the scientists are attempting to come up with a vaccine made of the blood of people who were not infected by the comet. Thus the trio must fight their way past not only roving packs of the cannibalistic dead, but also outsmart a pack of scientists desperate not to become that way themselves.

Shrek [2001, USA ] starting from $1.99

The greatest fairy tale never told.

Genres: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, Vincent Cassel, Peter Dennis, Clive Pearse, Jim Cummings, Bobby Block, Chris Miller, Cody Cameron, Kathleen Freeman, Michael Galasso, Christopher Knights, Simon J. Smith Directors: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad's bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend...

Spaceballs [1987, USA ] starting from $1.99

May The Farce Be With You

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi Actors: Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, John Candy, George Wyner, Joan Rivers, Dick Van Patten, Michael Winslow, Lorene Yarnell, John Hurt, Sal Viscuso, Ronny Graham, JM J. Bullock, Leslie Bevis Directors: Mel Brooks, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.