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Explore journeys, exploration and adventurous quests.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 143.

Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)

Adventure, Auto Racing, Comedy, Splatstick

In the 1920s, the Monte Carlo Rally attracts competitors from all over the world. Rivals from Britain, Italy, France and Germany find that their greatest competition comes from the United States in the form of Chester Schofield, who had won half of an automobile factory in a poker game with Sir Percy, the late father of baronet Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage. Ware-Armitage has entered the race in a winner-take-all to exact revenge and win back the lost half of the company.

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The Land Before Time IX: Journey to the Big Water (2002)

Adventure, Animation, children's film, family film, fantasy film

After a period of harsh rain, the Great Valley is partially flooded and covered in debris. Littlefoot tries to play with his friends, but they are preoccupied: Cera and her father are removing a large log from their nesting area, Ducky and Spike are relocating their nest with their family, and Petrie has gotten a cold. A bored Littlefoot wishes for a brother, but eventually explores on his own and discovers a large area flooded by the rains.

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Beyond Rangoon (1995)

Drama, thriller film

Andy Bowman persuades her sister Laura, who is a doctor, to go on a trip with her to Burma. Laura, whose husband and son were murdered, is deeply depressed. One night, unable to sleep due to nightmares, Laura leaves her Rangoon hotel and is caught up in an anti-government protest.

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Zorro (1975)

Adventure, swashbuckler film

On the eve of his return to Spain from Alta California, Diego de la Vega meets his old friend Miguel de la Serna, who is about to take up the governorship of Nueva Aragón. His uncle Don Fernando has died of “malaria” in a malaria-free region, being replaced by the dictatorial and unscrupulous Colonel Huerta. Diego warns, in vain, the idealistic Miguel that Nueva Aragón is ruled by greed and hatred; later that very evening, Miguel is assassinated by Huerta's underlings.

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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)

Adventure, Biography, Drama

Set in the early 17th century, a Patuxet tribesman named Squanto (Adam Beach) is kidnapped by English sailors. He is then taken to England, along with Epenow (Eric Schweig), a Nauset from Martha's Vineyard who was also captured by the sailors. When the ship they are on arrives in Plymouth, Squanto and Epenow are forced to work for the employer of the crew, Sir George (Michael Gambon).

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The Story of Robin Hood (1952)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

Young Robert Fitzooth, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father Sir Hugh at King Richard's palace. On the way home, Sir Hugh is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, taking on the name Robin Hood and gathering together his band of Merry Men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge Sir Hugh's death and to help the people of the land whom Prince John is over taxing.

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Assassination (1987)

Action, Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film

Jay Killian is a senior member of the Secret Service. On the day before the Inauguration of the new president, Killian has just returned from a six-week sick leave. He is given a new assignment: to protect the First Lady, Lara Royce Craig.

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Kidnapped (1960)

Adventure, Drama

In 18th-century Scotland, young David Balfour takes a letter of introduction from his recently deceased father to the House of Shaws, where he is greeted without much enthusiasm by his miserly uncle Ebenezer. David finds that Ebenezer is disliked by his neighbours and begins to ask questions about family affairs. Ebenezer tries to arrange a fatal accident for David.

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Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright (2013)

Adventure, Animation, Comedy horror, mystery film

The Mystery Inc. gang head to Chicago, Illinois for a talent show, called Talent Star, hosted by Brick Pimiento, where songwriting duo Fred and Daphne are finalists. Upon arrival, they learn that the opera house in which the show will be held is being terrorized by a Phantom, who is intensely lauding one of the finalists to win, Chrissy, a spoiled girl whose noisy parents are no more polite than she is.

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American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990)

Action, Martial arts, ninja film

British Colonel Scarf Mulgrew threatens to nuke New York City unless he is paid 50 million dollars. Agents Sean Davidson, Carl Brackston and Joe Armstrong, a former special forces commando now working as a teacher with the Peace Corps, team up to save the city. The action takes place in Lesotho, and includes a Middle Eastern sheikh who is training a team of ninjas in the countryside.

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Tekken: Blood Vengeance (2011)

Action, Adventure, Dystopian

The plot, which takes place in an alternate storyline between the events of Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, begins with Anna Williams setting up a decoy for her sister, Nina Williams, who is currently working with the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Jin Kazama. Anna, on the other hand, works for Jin's father, Kazuya Mishima and its rival organization, G Corporation. Both are seeking information about a student named Shin Kamiya, and Anna dispatches a Chinese student, Ling Xiaoyu to act as a spy, while Jin sends humanoid Russian AI robot Alisa Bosconovitch for a similar purpose.

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Buck and the Preacher (1972)

Western

Set in the late 1860s in the Kansas Territory shortly after the American Civil War, a former soldier named Buck leads wagon trains of African Americans from Louisiana west to the unsettled territories of Kansas. In order to ensure safe passage and food for his company, Buck negotiates with the Native Americans in the area. He pays them, and in turn they allow him to kill limited numbers of buffalo to eat, and to pass through their land providing they do it quickly.

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Born of Hope (2009)

Action, Adventure, fan film, fantasy film, romance film

In the late Third Age, Sauron's power is increasing, and he has sent his Orcs to seek out the remnants of the bloodline of Elendil, kept alive in the Dúnedain. Dirhael, his wife Ivorwen and their daughter Gilraen are fleeing from an attack on their village when they are ambushed by Orcs on a forest road, and saved by a group of rangers led by Arathorn. Not having any place safer to go, the refugees go with Arathorn to Taurdal, the village led by his father and Chieftain of the Dúnedain, Arador.

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Wong Fei Hung: Chi sai wik hung see (1997)

Action, Adventure, Historie, Martial arts

The film is set in the early 20th century. Wong Fei-hung, along with his romantic interest 13th Aunt and apprentice Clubfoot, travels from China to America to visit another of his apprentices, "Bucktooth" So, who has recently opened a branch of Po-chi-lam, Wong's traditional Chinese medicine clinic, in San Francisco. While travelling by carriage across the wilderness, they pick up a friendly cowboy, Billy, who is almost dying of thirst.

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Arctic Blast (2010)

disaster film, Science fiction, thriller film

The plot is centered around a colossal blast of heavily chilled mesosphere air, spreading over the Earth after a solar eclipse combined with the effects of environmental pollution caused a hole in the ozone layer. The catastrophic event threatens to engulf the entire world in ice. As Hobart, Tasmania is hit by the cold front with temperatures of below -70 degrees Fahrenheit, causing people to die almost instantaneously, physicist Jack Tate tries to find a solution while protecting his family.

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Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988)

Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Knights Tale, Science fiction, Superhero, sword and sorcery film

Deathstalker and wizard Nicias travel from village to village, living off earnings from Nicias's fortune-telling and magic. At a festival, Princess Carissa asks Nicias if he has a magical stone to match one she possesses. Joined, the stones would uncover the magical and rich city of Arandor, of which Nicias is its last descendant.

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The Plainsman (1936)

Biography, Classical Western, Drama, Historie

With the end of the American Civil War, military industrialists are left with an oversupply of weapons. Some of the more unscrupulous ones view the Indians as possible new customers. Wild Bill Hickok has just been discharged from the Union Army and is making his way back west.

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Frank and Jesse (1994)

Western

Following the American Civil War, the two James brothers, along with the Younger brothers - Cole Younger and Bob Younger, Bob Ford and Charles Ford, Clell Miller, and Arch Clements, begin to feel oppressed by the Chicago railroad investors. They set off on a trail of bank robberies, train heists, and stage holdups while evading the dogged pursuit of Allan Pinkerton and his detective agency.

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The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)

Adventure, disaster film, Drama, thriller film

A small plane approaches the fictional Pacific island of Talua in French Polynesia, 500 miles from Tahiti, the plane's destination. The plane and its cargo of three manacled prisoners and a priest makes an overnight stop on the island, planning to fly onward the next day. On the island, Father Doonan has been relieved of his duties by Father Perreau.

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The Adventurers (1969)

Adventure, Drama

Dax Xenos, a ten-year-old boy in the South American country of Corteguay, witnesses the rape and murder of his mother and teenage sister by government soldiers and runs to his father, Jaime, who is with a band of revolutionaries. Jaime's men capture the government soldiers, give Dax the privilege of personally executing his mother's murderers, and then take the boy to their hideout in the mountains, where he meets Amparo, the daughter of the revolutionary leader Rojo. After the rebels oust the dictator and establish Rojo as president, Dax accompanies his father to Rome, where Jaime is to serve as an ambassador.

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The Sea Wolf (1941)

Adventure, Drama

Fiction writer Humphrey Van Weyden and escaped convict Ruth Webster are passengers on a ferry that collides with another vessel and sinks. They are rescued from drowning by the Ghost, a seal-hunting ship. The Ghost's captain is Wolf Larsen, who delights in abusing his crew.

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The Lost Continent (1968)

Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction

On board the tramp steamer Corita, Captain Lansen ignores a hurricane warning and a customs launch whose crew want to inspect his ship, as he is smuggling the explosive "Phosphor B" ('Phosphore Blanc', i.e. white phosphorus). His ship's passengers, a mix of rich and poor, also have reasons for leaving Freetown: Dr.

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