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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 154.
Adventure, children's film, Comedy
15-year-old Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting into trouble. Rick's single mother, Margaret, is a behavioral scientist at University of California, Berkeley, and she is studying interspecies communication between humans and gorillas, using sign language. After Rick goes on a joyride in his mother's van, she grounds him and puts him to work cleaning the cage of a female western lowland gorilla named Katie.
Action, Adventure, animated film, Computeranimation, fantasy film, mystery film, Science fiction
Arkie lives with her father Blister, a giant octopus, on the Peninsula. They help plants recover from the loss of electricity that affects them. Meanwhile in the City of Light, Dr.
Adventure, Drama, Western
In 1876, White Bull, a young Sioux, captures a wild stallion he names Tonka, and trains him. He must give the horse to his bad-tempered cousin, Yellow Bull, who abuses Tonka to break his spirit. White Bull lets the horse escape, and Tonka is captured by the U.S.
Action, Horror, thriller film, Treasure hunt
Caine, a gunrunner, becomes stranded in a small port on the Red Sea. While there, he meets an attractive woman, Anna, who propositions him to dive into shark-infested waters off the coast. Though she alleges the purpose of the dive is scientific research, Caine eventually realizes that the woman and her partner are actually treasure hunters, and sees an opportunity to utilize the riches from the wreck they hope to raid to compensate for the earlier loss of his cargo.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, Science fiction
The Voyager 2 space probe, launched in 1977, carries a phonographic disc with a message of peace, inviting alien civilizations to visit Earth. The probe is intercepted by an alien ship traveling through space which then sends a scout vessel to establish first contact with Earth. Instead of greeting the vessel, the U.S.
children's film, Comedy, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction
Geppetto, an old inventor, creates Pinocchio, a robot, as his son. Meanwhile, evil mayor Scamboli is building the technological city "Scamboville" to get rid of nature. He also hates all children, except for his beloved daughter, Marlene.
Adventure, Drama, Military Film
thumb|thumbtime=14|Beau Geste (1926) Major de Beaujolais leads a French Foreign Legion battalion across the Sahara desert to relieve Fort Zinderneuf, reportedly besieged by Arabs. When he arrives, he receives no response from the Legionnaires manning the walls, only a single shot. He realizes they are dead.
Adventure, children's film, Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
In Jamaica in 1718, a band of pirates led by Captain "Red" Ned Lynch oppose the greedy acting Governor, the evil Lord Durant. Durant has illegally and ruthlessly imprisoned his Lord High Justice James Barnet (taking over the role himself), taken his possessions and lands, and mercilessly evicted the judge's wife and daughter. Mrs.
Action, Adventure, Drama, Historie
During the 13th century, Zakhar Berkut and his wife Rada lead a group of high-landers in the Carpathian Mountains in a village of Tukhlia, today in Stryi Raion. Unfortunately, their tranquil existence is soon threatened by Burunda Khan, a powerful Mongolian general who leads his massive armies west in search of new lands to conquer. Forced to protect their village, Zakhar and Rada send their sons, Ivan and Maksym, to ask for help from Tugar Vovk, a wealthy boyar, who has recently arrived from Daniel of Galicia.
Drama, fantasy film, Treasure hunt
When Prosper and Boniface's parents die, their aunt Esther plans to adopt six-year-old Bo and send 12-year-old Prosper away to boarding school. But before she can separate the two, Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the city about which their mother had often told them stories. In Venice, the boys meet the Thief Lord, a mask-wearing teenager named Scipio.
Adventure, Drama, romance film, Western
French-Canadian fur trapper Jean La Bête paddles his canoe through wild water towards the settlement to sell furs. At the settlement, a steamboat is landing and the Trader and his mute foster-child Eve arrive at the seaport to fetch mail and consumer goods. The trader explains to Eve that the ship brings "Jailbirds ...
Adventure, children's film, Comedy
Paula Tracey, an adventurous and fearless girl, is the daughter of veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracey. Dr.
Drama, war film
In Korea, U.S. Army Sergeant Zack survives a massacre of American prisoners of war by the Korean People's Army after his M1 helmet saves him from a bullet intended for his head. Left bound and injured as the sole survivor of his surrendered unit, Zack struggles to climb a steep hill and freezes at the approach of a Buddhist boy with a gun who frees him and treats his wounds with sulfa powder.
Action, Drama, Historie, Western
Union officer Kerry Bradford stages an escape from Confederate Libby Prison run by the commandant, Vance Irby. Bradford reports to Union headquarters and is sent to Virginia City, a Nevada mining town, to find out where $5,000,000 in gold that Southern sympathizers plan to ship to the tottering Confederacy is being kept. On the westbound stagecoach, he meets and falls in love with Julia Hayne who, unbeknown to him, is in fact a dance-hall entertainer and a rebel spy, sent by Jefferson Davis to assist in the transfer of the gold by wagon train.
children's film, Science fiction
Brian Foster (Wesley Eure), a young inventor, creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system. C.H.O.M.P.S. is an acronym for "Canine HOMe Protection System".
Action, Adventure, war film
The film opens with a fictional depiction of a real-life incident, the "Hood event". On July 4, 2003, the Turkish soldiers believe they are receiving an ordinary visit from their NATO allies, but a sudden change occurs, and 11 allied Turkish special forces soldiers and 13 civilians are arrested by Colonel Sam William Marshall (Billy Zane), in the northern Iraqi town of Sulaymaniyah. They are forced to wear hoods while in detention, and are released some time later.
Adventure, Drama, fantasy film
After a billion people vanish, Gabby, a 15-year-old girl, suddenly has to take care of her little sister. Gabby, her sister, and two teens vying for her attention try to figure out what happened as they survive in a new world.
Action, Adventure, buddy cop film, Comedy, fantasy film
Casey Gallagher, a young and inexperienced police detective, is running a sting operation in a park attempting to catch the criminal Zadar in an illegal jewelry sale. Casey is knocked unconscious and one of Zadar's henchmen takes the jewels and then kills Casey's partner with a briefcase full of explosives. At the same time, Gnorm, a gnome who lives underground, emerges in the park and witnesses the explosion.
Action, fantasy film, Treasure hunt
The film is narrated by a mother who tells her daughter a bedtime story from a large book: In the city of Basra, the evil vizier Jaffar has clouded the caliph's mind and imprisoned his daughter, Princess Alina in order to marry her. Jaffar has four of the town's five sacred gems sent to dangerous and evil places where they will be carefully guarded by magical forces. Sinbad and his crew arrive at the caliph's palace, only to be captured by the hypnotised soldiers.
Action, thriller film
Wong Dai (Chooi Kheng Beh), an influential Chinese drug kingpin, sits at a long table in an old building in Paris, going through the motions of a gigantic merger between himself and several other major Chinese drug dealers. Sai Lo (Hon Ping Tang) controls shipments in the French heroin market in Paris, using laundromats all over Paris as a front. Tang "The Bird" Zhili (Bruce Wang) controls the entire New York drug conglomerate from the Chinatown section of New York City, and runs Mahjong gambling rackets.
Drama, prison film, Western
The Man Who Came Back is loosely based on the Thibodaux massacre. This was the culmination of the largest strike in the sugar cane industry, when 10,000 workers stopped labor, and the first to be conducted by a formal labor organization, the Knights of Labor. With an estimated 50 or more African-American cane workers killed by white paramilitary forces, it was the second bloodiest labor strike in U.S.
Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
In the spring of 2008, U.S. President Walter Emerson is visiting Colorado ahead of Super Tuesday in the primary elections for his party's nomination in the upcoming presidential election. Emerson, formerly an appointed Vice President who ascended to the Presidency four months earlier upon the death of his predecessor, is accompanied on his campaign tour by White House Chief of Staff Marshall Thompson, National Security Advisor Gayle Redford, his Secret Service protection detail and a television news crew documenting his campaign.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, Science fiction
Alex Mathis is a cash-strapped but good-natured exterminator working in Los Angeles. While helping an elderly woman with a rodent problem, he is bitten by a brown recluse spider and is treated at a hospital. Meanwhile, a mortician is bitten by a rodent-sized spider that crawls out of a dead body which just arrived at the hospital.
Adventure, fantasy film
At an isolated pond in the wilderness of Victoria, Australia, a lone man fishing in a rowboat is surprised when the wind picks up, spinning an old farm windmill, and water violently churns in the middle of the pond. He flees to his ramshackle camp on the shore and is terrified by a large shape rising from the water. Young American orphan Cody Walpole finishes building his latest idea, a rail bike.