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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 139.

Jumping Ship (2001)

Adventure, teen film

Although Michael has become a more mature individual since the first film and shows more concern for others, he still feels that, by birthright, he deserves to start at the top of his father's law firm. Michael's father does offer him a position at the law firm: a clerking job, and explains that only after thorough knowledge of the firm, a law school graduation, and passing the state bar will he ever be considered for a partnership. Michael takes a summer vacation with Tommy to Australia.

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How the West Was Fun (1994)

Western, children's film

Eight-year-old twins Jessica and Susie Martin live with their widowed father Stephen in Philadelphia. One day they receive a letter from their late mother Sarah's godmother, Natty, inviting Sarah to help at her struggling dude ranch. Unaware of Sarah's death, Natty seeks help to keep the ranch afloat.

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Operation Pacific (1951)

War Film, war film

During World War II, the submarine USS Thunderfish, under the command of Commander John T. "Pop" Perry, while on a special mission to the Philippines, is charged with rescuing a group of nuns and children, including a newborn infant nicknamed Butch, and transporting them to Pearl Harbor. On their way, the crew sights a Japanese aircraft carrier and attacks, but its torpedoes malfunction, exploding halfway to the target.

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2 Headed Shark Attack (2012)

Action, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, action film, adventure film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film

A group of wakeboarders is attacked and devoured by a two-headed great white shark. Meanwhile, Sea King, a Semester at Sea-like ship led by Professor Franklin Babish and his wife Anne, hits a dead shark, which becomes lodged in the boat's propeller, damaging the hull and causing the boat to take on water. The two-headed shark then attacks the boat and breaks the radio antenna, preventing the ship co-captain Laura from summoning help.

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G-Saviour (1999)

adventure film, dystopian film, mecha, science fiction film

The year is Universal Century 0223. The former Earth Federation has collapsed, and the space colonies have shaken off their colonial pasts and now refer to themselves as independent space "Settlements". In this new power scheme two factions have emerged: the Congress of Settlement Nations (CONSENT), which is largely made up of the former Earth Federation government and Sides 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and the Settlement Freedom League, composed of Sides 1, 4, and the Lunar Cities.

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Space Mutiny (1988)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film

The Southern Sun is a generation ship, a spacefaring vessel that contains a large number of people, whose mission is to colonize a new world. Its voyage from its original homeworld (implied to be Earth) has lasted thirteen generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground. This does not please Elijah Kalgan, chief of the Enforcers, the ship's security team.

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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)

Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, neo-noir

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Edward Southmere, a King's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies. Back in London, Lord Southmere runs into the Natural History Museum and hides the microfilm in the bones of a large dinosaur skeleton. The spies decide to steal the dinosaur, so they can search it properly, and load the Brontosaurus skeleton on the back of their steam lorry.

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Swallows and Amazons (2016)

Adventure, Family Drama, children's film, drama film

Sometime in the 1930s, with their father away, the four Walker children, John (about 15), Susan (about 12), Tatty (9 1/2) and Roger (about 7), along with their mother and baby sister, leave by train to the Lake District. On the train, they encounter a rude man who is being chased by two suspicious men. In the Lake District, the family stay at the farm of Mr and Mrs Jackson.

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Flypaper (2011)

Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Thriller, comedy film

As Credit International bank teller Kaitlin Nest prepares to end her shift, a customer, Tripp Kennedy, approaches her and requests to have a $100 bill broken up into a specific configuration of coins. As he flirts with her, the bank is simultaneously stuck up by two groups of criminals; three high-tech professionals - Darrien, Weinstein and Gates - and two unmasked rednecks - "Peanut Butter" and "Jelly." While the trio wants to rob the vault, the duo simply wants the ATMs. A bystander named Jack Hayes is fatally shot and a crossfire gunfight is initiated.

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The Birds II: Land's End (1994)

Animalhorror, action film, adventure film, horror film, natural horror film, television film, thriller film

30 years after the events of the first film, a group of seagulls stand together on a coast. A fisherman uses his net to take a dead bird from the water, unaware of a swarm of seagulls flying toward his boat. Crows join the seagulls to attack and kill the fisherman.

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King of California (2007)

Family Drama, Komödie, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, treasure hunt film

16-year-old Miranda has been abandoned by her mother, and has dropped out of school. She supports herself working at McDonald's while her father, Charlie, is in a mental institution. When Charlie is released, Miranda finds the relatively peaceful existence she's built for herself disrupted.

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Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)

science fiction film

The story begins with the Cassini Saturn spacecraft releasing the Huygens Titan probe. The scene is then transposed to Earth, where a 12-year-old girl, Jeana (voiced by Abigail Breslin), places a sun filter over a telescope to view sun spots. She asks her mentor, a Professor (voiced by Neil Armstrong) "Why is the Sun so bright?" This leads the professor to launch into a scientific explanation about fusion.

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Space Is the Place (1974)

Sci-Fi, adventure film, blaxploitation film, science fiction film

Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outer space with his crew, known as "the Arkestra", and decides to settle African Americans on this planet. The medium of transportation he chooses for this resettlement is music. He travels back in time and returns to the Chicago strip club where he used to play piano with the name "Sonny Ray" in 1943, where he confronts the Overseer (Ray Johnson), a pimp-overlord, and they agree on a game of cards for the fate of the Black race.

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Enter The Warriors Gate (2016)

Action Comedy, Coming Of Age, Fantasy, Martial-Arts, adventure film

Jack Bronson is a teenager who spends his free time playing warrior video games and working at a Chinese curios and antiques shop. His mother is trying to sell the house they live in before it goes into foreclosure. When Jack goes to a biking park, Travis, a neighborhood bully and his friends chase after him and he hides inside his bosses shop and helps out.

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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure (2021)

Computeranimation, adventure film, comedy film

In an Irish seaside village, a boy named Keegan spends much of his days in a lighthouse run by his grandfather, who tells him stories of the Huntsman that's after the light, and the Megaloceros Giganteus who protect it. They bond over Riverdance, a special dance to celebrate the life. One day, Keegan’s grandfather passes away, leaving him despondent to run the lighthouse as he is chosen to be the DJ at the St.

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Jungle Book (1942)

Adventure, action film, fantasy film

In an Indian village, Buldeo, an elderly storyteller, is paid by a visiting British memsahib to tell a story of his youth. As a younger man, he recalls his village being attacked by Shere Khan the rogue Bengal tiger. The attack leads to the death of a man and the loss of the man's child.

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The Last Wagon (1956)

Western, Western film

Sheriff Bull Harper (George Mathews) has captured "Comanche" Todd (Richard Widmark), a white man who has lived most of his life among Comanche Indians, and is taking him to be tried for the murder of Harper's three brothers. The pair join a wagon train led by Colonel Normand (Douglas Kennedy). However, Harper's brutal treatment of Todd causes friction with some members of the wagon train.

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Fortress 2: Re-Entry (2000)

Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, prison film, science fiction film

Ten years after the events of the first film, John Brennick is somewhere in North America, still on the run from Men-Tel and living in the rural mountains. His son Danny tells him to come home immediately. When they arrive, there are three people waiting for them.

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The Mountain Men (1980)

Adventure, Western, Western film

Bill Tyler is an argumentative, curmudgeonly mountain man. Henry Frapp is Tyler's good friend and fellow trapper. Together, they trap beaver, fight Native Americans, and drink at a mountain man rendezvous while trying to sell their "plews", or beaver skins, to a cutthroat French trader named Fontenelle.

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The Tall Men (1955)

Western, Western film

Brothers Ben and Clint Allison are on their way to the goldfields of Montana after serving with the Confederate Army's Quantrill's Raiders. In need of money, they decide to rob wealthy businessman, Nathan Stark. At gunpoint, they force him to go with them to a hideout, where they tell him he will be allowed to leave the next day, minus his money.

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Six-String Samurai (1998)

Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, buddy film, comedy film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

In 1957, the Soviet Union attacks the United States with nuclear weapons, rendering most of the nation uninhabitable. The American government has collapsed with the exception of the haven known as Lost Vegas, ruled by King Elvis. The Red Army has been besieging Lost Vegas, but the lack of supplies over the years has relegated them to a gang of thugs.

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