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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 147.

The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)

Adventure, Animation, Comedy, family film, fantasy film

Petrie is having a difficult time preparing for the Day of the Flyers, an important day for all of the flying residents of the Great Valley, when all of the young flyers must participate in a precise flying exhibition to prove that they are ready to fly with the adults. Always a nervous flyer, Petrie has even more trouble flying with his siblings in precise group formations. At the same time, a strange newcomer to the Great Valley has Littlefoot and his friends trying to help figure out just exactly what he is.

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I'll Met by Moonlight (1957)

Adventure, Drama, war film

During World War II, the Greek island of Crete is occupied by the Nazis. British officers Major Patrick Leigh Fermor DSO and Captain Bill Stanley Moss MC of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) land on the island and meet other British agents and members of the Cretan resistance. In April 1944, they kidnap General Kreipe, the German commander of the island's occupying forces and, in disguise, drive his car through a number of German checkpoints until they abandon it and set off on foot with the General.

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The Paleface (1948)

Classical Western, Comedy, Western

Calamity Jane is busted out of a sheriff's jail by a couple of government agents under Governor Johnson and Commissioner of Internal Affairs Emerson. Johnson and Emerson wish to hire her to uncover white traders illegally selling guns to an Indian tribe near Buffalo Flats, one of the frontier areas; because the agents they previously sent to investigate have turned up dead, they feel they need a new approach and have conceived a plan to use Jane, both as a woman and skilled gunfighter. In return for her services, Johnson and Emerson offer her a full pardon for her past crimes.

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The Dawn Patrol (1938)

Drama, war film

In 1915, at the airfield in France of 59 Squadron Royal Flying Corps, Major Brand, the squadron leader and his adjutant Phipps anxiously await the return of the dawn patrol. Brand is near his breaking point. He has lost 16 pilots in the previous two weeks, nearly all of them young replacements with little training and no combat experience.

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Bloodsport 4: The Dark Kumite (1999)

Action

Agent John Keller goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament, the Kumite, arranged by a man named Justin Caesar, where the prisoners are forced to fight to the death. The tournament has only one rule: There are no rules.

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The Challenge (2003)

children's film, romantic comedy

Twin sisters, Shane and Elizabeth Dalton, live separately from one another on opposite ends of the country after their parents divorced years earlier. Shane, who lives with their mom in Los Angeles, is a chilled out, tree-hugging vegetarian who is very into nature and spiritual beliefs, while her estranged sister Lizzie, who lives with their dad in Washington, D.C. is a level-headed grade A student with a driven personality.

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Anthony Adverse (1936)

Drama, Historie

thumb|upright=1.2|Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland in Anthony Adverse In 1773, young Scottish woman Maria Bonnyfeather is the new bride of middle-aged Spanish Marquis Don Luis. The consummation of their marriage is postponed until he is cured of gout at a famous spa. Meanwhile, Maria's true love, Denis Moore, follows them and stays near their château.

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Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)

Action, Science fiction

In 2278, the planet Centauri Prime is in flames. Londo Mollari, the emperor of the Centauri Republic, tells two children, Luc and Lyssa, the story of the Earth-Minbari War, which took place 35 years ago while he was a diplomatic liaison to Earth. In 2243, the human race, emboldened by recent victories, is rapidly expanding into space.

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Spark (2016)

Adventure, children's film, Comedy, Computeranimation, fantasy film, Science fiction

Set in a galaxy where anthropomorphic animals and aliens live together, thirteen years ago, the evil primate General Zhong overthrew his noble brother to seize the throne of the planet Bana, using a spacetime anomaly known as "the slick", which has the ability to create black holes; slicks were made by a wild creature known as a space kraken. The black hole created from the slick partially destroyed Bana, and swallowed up many subjects. Among the few survivors were a monkey only a year old named Spark, a warrior fox named Vix, and a boar mechanic named Chunk.

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You Kill Me (2007)

Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film

Frank Falenczyk is a hit man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. He has a drinking problem, as a result of which he messes up the critical assignment of preventing Eddie O'Leary, from a rival family, getting on a train bound for New York and organising the Chinese against them in town. As this has put the family business in peril, Frank's uncle Roman Krzeminski, head of the family, sends him to San Francisco to get on Alcoholics Anonymous with the order that if he doesn't participate in the AA programme, he will no longer work for the family.

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Five Came Back (1939)

Adventure, disaster film, Drama

Nine passengers board a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Panama City: wealthy Judson Ellis and Alice Melhorne, eloping because their parents disapprove; an elderly couple, Professor Henry Spengler and his wife Martha; Tommy Mulvaney, the young son of a gangster, and his escort, gunman Pete; Peggy Nolan, a woman with a shady past; and Vasquez, an anarchist being extradited and facing a death sentence for killing a high-ranking politician, and his guard, Crimp. The crew consists of pilot Bill, co-pilot Joe Brooks, and steward Larry. thumb|upright=1.4|left|From left to right: Chester Morris, John Carradine, Lucille Ball and Joseph…

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Takedown (2000)

Action, Crime, thriller film

For years Kevin Mitnick -– the most notorious computer hacker in the nation -- had eluded Federal agents while using the latest electronic gadgetry to break into countless computers and gain access to sensitive and valuable information. But when he breaches the system of leading computer crimes expert Tsutomu Shimomura, it sets off an epic chase through cyberspace between a pair of hard-driven geniuses operating on different sides of the law.

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The Rift (1990)

Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film

An experimental submarine, the Siren II, with an experienced NATO crew, is sent to find out what happened to the missing Siren I. Wick Hayes, the designer of the sub, blames the Contek corporation's modifications to his original design. The Siren II is captained by experienced officer Captain Randolph Phillips.

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The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina (2002)

After escaping from the circus, to which she was kidnapped as a baby who was the long lost princess, and then reunited with her and returned to her lost home, tiny Thumbelina (Jennifer Love Hewitt) sets out to find others of her diminutive stature and the place where she belongs. She happens upon Tom Thumb (Elijah Wood), who was raised by a good normal-sized man. He is not only similar to her in size, but is also looking for others like him.

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BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui (2004)

Action, Adventure, fantasy film

Turaga Vakama narrates the story of a land before Mata Nui, called Metru Nui. There, the Toa heroes fell in battle one by one, as a relentless shadow sought to conquer the great city. Lhikan, the last remaining Toa, travels throughout the entire city, giving Toa stones containing fractions of his own power to six Matorans from each of the city's different regions: Nokama, Onewa, Whenua, Matau, Nuju, and Vakama.

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The Blue Bird (1976)

Adventure, children's film, Fairy tale, family film, fantasy film

Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl are peasant children who are led on a quest for the Blue Bird of Happiness by the Queen of Light. She gives them a hat with a magic diamond that allows them to call forth the souls of all things, both living and inanimate. On their journey, they are accompanied by the human personifications of a dog, a cat, water, sugar, bread, milk, and fire.

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Lassiter (1984)

Action, Adventure, Crime, Heist, spy film

Nick Lassiter (Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion, and after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforcement plant, British law enforcement and the FBI blackmail Lassiter to break into the German embassy and steal $10 million in Nazi diamonds from a German spy (Lauren Hutton), but first he must locate their hiding place. The gems are en route to South America and will be sold to help finance Hitler's military buildup.

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Night Passage (1957)

Western

On the way to meet his former boss—railroad tycoon Ben Kimball—Grant McLaine rescues a young boy, Joey Adams, from villain Concho. Ben informs Grant that his payroll has been robbed three times already by a gang led by Whitey Harbin and the Utica Kid. If Ben's workers do not get paid soon, they will all leave the end-of-track work camp.

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Sphinx (1981)

Adventure

Dedicated Egyptologist Erica Baron is researching a paper about the chief architect to Pharaoh Seti. Soon after her arrival in Cairo, she witnesses the brutal murder of unscrupulous art dealer Abdu-Hamdi, meets Yvon Mageot, a French journalist, and is befriended by Akmed Khazzan, who heads the antiquities division of the United Nations. When she journeys to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to search a tomb reportedly filled with treasures, she finds herself the target of black marketeers determined to keep the riches for themselves.

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The Arena (1974)

Adventure, Blaxploitation, exploitation film

In the ancient Roman town of Brundisium, a group of slave girls are sold to a man named Timarchus, the organizer of the events that take place in the town’s colosseum. After a fight breaks out amongst the girls, Timarchus gets the idea of putting the women in the ring to fight to the death. The recently captured Nubian Mamawi and Gaulic Bodicia realize they must stick together if they are to survive.

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Slappy And The Stinkers (1998)

Adventure, Comedy

At prestigious private school Dartmoor Academy, principal Morgan Brinway is forcing the second-graders to study opera appreciation. Five feisty kids (leader Sonny, contraption making Loaf, movie loving Domino, sympathetic albeit tough Lucy, and the reluctant participating Witz), nicknamed the "Stinkers" by Mr. Brinway, are secretly skipping class to create chaos on the school grounds.

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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)

Action, Adventure, Horror, Treasure hunt

In ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh who is said to have died young, was actually sent by the sun god Ra to protect the people from the demon Set, who escaped from the Underworld and caused chaos in Egypt. With Ra's blessing, Tutankhamun manages to overcome Set and keep the demon under control by breaking an emerald tablet into four pieces and sending the pieces to the far corners of the world. However, the tradeoff is that he must remain in the Underworld.

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