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Adventure movies

Explore journeys, exploration and adventurous quests.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 149.

The Angry Red Planet (1960)

Action, Adventure, monster film, Science fiction

Mission control personnel on Earth monitor the rocket ship Mars Rocket 1 (MR-1) as it approaches Earth orbit following the first crewed expedition to Mars. Personnel are surprised to see the ship on their monitors, for they believed that the vehicle had become lost or destroyed in space. Ground technicians are unable, though, to make contact with anyone on MR-1, so they guide the rocket by remote control to a safe Nevada landing.

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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958)

Comedy, Western

In the 1880s, Jonathan Tibbs, son of a family of English gunsmiths, has no interest in the family business and prefers inventing gadgets, in particular a steam-powered horseless carriage. Threatened with disinheritance if he does not report for work, he discovers that the company is not doing very well, and concludes that someone must expand their sales. He reads in his newspaper about the wide use of guns in the American West and decides to go there himself to sell firearms to the locals.

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Don't Lose Your Head (1966)

Parody

It is the time of the French Revolution. The French aristocracy are losing their heads (literally) and two English noblemen, who play at appearing foppish, Sir Rodney Ffing (pronounced "Effing") and his best friend Lord Darcy Pue, bored with the endless rounds of country pursuits, decide to have some fun and save their French counterparts from being guillotined. The enraged and incompetent revolutionary leader, Citizen Camembert, and his lackey, Citizen Bidet, scour France for the elusive saviour of the nobles, who is nicknamed “The Black Fingernail” after his calling card of “two digits rampant”.

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The Outsider (2002)

Western

The Outsider takes place in Montana in the late 19th century. At the beginning of the movie, Ben Yoder (Brett Tucker) is preparing to leave his house on a rainy day. His young son, Benjo (Thomas Curtis) wants to go with him, but Ben tells him to stay home, "to protect your mother"—his wife, Rebecca (Naomi Watts).

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The Hired Hand (1971)

Drama, Western

Harry Collings and Arch Harris are two saddle tramps who have spent seven years wandering through the American Southwest. Along with a younger companion, Dan Griffen, while fishing they catch the corpse of a small white child from a river. Harry returns the body to the water and it is swept away.

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Solo (1996)

Action, Science fiction

Solo is an android designed as a military killing machine. He is sent to Central America by General Haynes to battle guerrilla insurgents, but a flaw develops in his programming, and he develops a conscience and compassion. His developers try to take him back for deprogramming, but he flees to the jungle in a helicopter.

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The Magic Sword (1962)

Drama, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film

Sir George is the foster son of Sybil, an elderly, somewhat ineffectual sorceress. She brought him up after his "royal parents died of the plague" in his infancy. George has fallen in love with the Princess Helene, but she is kidnapped by the wizard Lodac, who brazenly informs her father that he intends to feed her to his pet dragon in seven days, in revenge for the death of his sister.

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Apache (1954)

Action, Adventure, Drama, fiction film, war film, Western

Following the surrender of the great leader Geronimo, Massai — the last Apache warrior — is captured and sent on a prison train to a reservation in Florida. But he manages to escape and heads back to his homeland to win back his woman and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas, though.

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Sahara (2017)

Adventure, animated film, Comedy, Computeranimation, family film, romance film

In the desert, where the animals are called "Dusties", Ajar the cobra and his best friend, Pitt the scorpion, steal a watermelon from a camelcade, only to have it taken by an older cobra named Saladin. The duo are a frequent target of belittling by Saladin and are viewed as outcasts. Ajar, tired of being a "loser", decides they should go into the Oasis, a haven for the rich and highly sophisticated green snakes but is forbidden to the Dusties.

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Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994)

Adventure, Drama

Snowbound is based on a true story. Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton are 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada, east of Cedarville, California. They battle for survival against the elements when Jim Stolpa drives too far down a snow-covered road and gets stuck during a snowstorm.

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Unstoppable (2004)

Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, thriller film

A former CIA agent and ex-Special Forces member Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes), is in a rehab program, haunted by a botched mission in Bosnia which resulted in the execution of his best friend Scott (Cristian Solimeno). While in a restaurant waiting for his girlfriend, Baltimore Police Detective Amy Knight (Jacqueline Obradors), who happens to be Scott's sister, he is mistakenly believed to be a CIA agent involved with a stolen military experimental truth serum. He is abducted by the real thieves and injected with the drug, which makes him relive the moments from the failed Bosnian mission and not able to discern who are his allies and who are…

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Bird of Paradise (1932)

Adventure, Drama, romance film

As a yacht sails into an isolated tropical island chain somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a large number of islanders in outrigger canoes paddle out to greet it. The islanders dive for trinkets the yacht's crew throws them. A shark arrives, setting off a panic as much with the crew as the islanders.

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Moontrap (1989)

Adventure, Aliens, Horror, Science fiction

On July 21, 1969, a robotic eye emerges from the lunar soil and observes the landing module of the Apollo 11 mission taking off. Twenty years later, the Space Shuttle Camelot encounters a derelict spaceship in orbit around Earth. Mission commander Colonel Jason Grant leaves the Shuttle to investigate.

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They're a Weird Mob (1966)

Adventure, Comedy, romance film

Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia. He expected to work for his cousin as a sports writer for an Italian language magazine. However, on arrival in Sydney, Nino discovers that the cousin has abandoned the magazine, leaving a substantial debt to Kay Kelly.

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Natura contro (1988)

Cannibal, exploitation film, Splatter Film

Friends Jemma Demien, Mark, Fred, and Pete head into the Amazon jungle to find a lost professor. He is believed to be dead until Jemma recovers his lighter. She rounds up the three men to head into the jungle and find the legendary Imas tribe, who possess an equally legendary treasure and with whom the professor is believed to be found.

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Real Men (1987)

Action Comedy, buddy film, Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, spy film

After scientists accidentally spill a deadly chemical into the ocean that will eventually kill all life on earth, a group of aliens offer to help humanity. They offer a choice: the 'Good Package' to clean up the mess, or the 'Big Gun', a weapon capable of destroying the planet. The aliens only ask for a glass of water in return, which must be delivered by CIA agent Pillbox, the only human they entirely trust.

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The Parole Officer (2001)

Caper-Movie, Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy

Simon Garden, a well-meaning but ineffectual probation officer who suffers from hypoglycemia, is transferred to Manchester, where he develops romantic feelings for an attractive WPC, Emma. Following a police pursuit, Kirsty, a young juvenile delinquent, crashes her car and is rescued by Detective Inspector Burton, who then charges her with concealing Class A drugs in a toy. After Kirsty protests her innocence about the drugs, Simon, handling her case, becomes suspicious of Burton when he notices the toy in his possession.

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