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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 156.

The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

buddy film, Comedy, musical film

The story is told in flashback as Diane explains to American Intelligence how transmissions from passengers picked up from a missile to the moon are by Americans rather than Russians. Harry Turner and Chester Babcock are defrauding people in Calcutta by selling a "Do-it-yourself interplanetary flight kit" that ends up injuring Chester, giving him amnesia. An Indian doctor says the only way to cure Chester's amnesia is through the help of the monks in a lamasery in Tibet.

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The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Adventure, Comedy, Parody

Spoofing the classic Beau Geste and a number of other desert motion pictures, the film's plotline revolves around the heroic Beau Geste (York) and his "identical twin brother" Digby's (Feldman) misadventures in the French Foreign Legion out in the Sahara, and the disappearance of the family sapphire, sought after by their money-hungry stepmother and the sadistic Sergeant Markov (Ustinov).

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The Bermuda Triangle (1978)

Adventure, Horror, Mysterie

The boat Black Whale III sails into the Bermuda Triangle with the Marvin family aboard, intending to search for the remains of Atlantis. Along the way, they discover a doll floating in the water, which Diana Marvin—the family's youngest daughter—takes as her own. Diana appears to become possessed by the doll, and starts saying that everyone will die, and telling people the order they will die in.

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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)

Adventure, Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama

The adventure unfolds as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn – Tom's friend from the streets – witness a murder in the graveyard. Tom and Huck flee to Jackson's Island and make a pact never to tell anyone about the incident. However, when the good-natured Muff Potter, who has been blamed for the murder, is sentenced to death by hanging, Tom attempts to break Muff out of jail, but it does not go as planned and Muff returns to jail.

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Judgment Day (1999)

Action, disaster film, Science fiction

Cultists with an enigmatic leader (Van Peebles) seize the only man capable of devising a way to stop a giant meteor from hitting the Earth. A female agent (Amis) teams up with a prisoner (Ice-T), who together have three days to rescue the scientist (Linden Ashby) and save the planet from extinction.

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Treasure Island (1999)

Adventure, Pirate Film

The narrative takes place in 1759 and diverges from that of the novel in that Captain Smollett convinces Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey to cut Jim, a 13-year old boy, out of his rightful share of the treasure. Jim then teams up with Silver; Smollett, Trelawney, and Livesey are killed; and Jim, Silver, and Ben Gunn escape with the treasure.

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Garfield's Pet Force (2009)

Animation, Comedy, family film, Family Comedy

On the planet Dorkon, Professor Wally shows Emperor Jon his new invention, the Moscram ray gun, a device powered by the Klopman crystal that can scramble inanimate objects and organisms into new creatures under the user's control, but the Emperor is more concerned about finding a wife to continue the royal line. Soon a warship led by Vetvix lands outside the palace and Emperor Jon instantly falls in love with her, asking if he can marry her. She agrees, sensing an opportunity to steal the Moscram.

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Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)

Science fiction

Travelling in a spaceship equipped with wooden tables and chairs, a scientific expedition to the Moon encounters a race of cat-women, the last survivors of a two-million-year-old lunar civilization. Residing deep within a Moon cavern, the cat-women have managed to maintain not only the remnants of a breathable atmosphere and Earth-like gravity, but also a pair of gigantic Moon-spiders. The cat-women wear black unitards, have beehive hairstyles, and wear elaborate cosmetics.

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Apollo 11 (1996)

Adventure, Drama

Fearful that the Soviets would continue their lead in the Space Race and be the first to put a man on the Moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to disaster. This film recreates the tensions that were felt not only by the three astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, but also by their families and by the teams of technicians training to deal with anything that could go wrong.

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Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

Action, Adventure, Drama, romance film, Treasure hunt

Two men of the sea carry an ongoing rivalry: Mayrant Sidneye, owner of the shipping company Batjak Limited, and Captain Ralls. Ralls is the ruthless captain of the Red Witch, Batjak's flagship. He deliberately wrecks and sinks the ship and its cargo of gold bullion worth five million dollars.

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Captain from Castile (1947)

Adventure, Drama, historical film, Historie

In the spring of 1518, near Jaén, Spain, Pedro de Vargas, a Castilian caballero, helps a runaway Aztec slave, Coatl, escape his cruel master, Diego de Silva. De Silva is el supremo of the Santa Hermandad, charged with enforcing the Inquisition, and Pedro's rival for the affections of the beautiful Lady Luisa de Carvajal. Later, Pedro rescues barmaid Catana Pérez from de Silva's men.

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Arachnid (2001)

Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

In the South Pacific, a translucent alien spaceship hovers over the sea while a test stealth plane piloted by Joli Mercer encounters the spaceship and chases it. The plane begins to malfunction. He lands on a nearby island and finds the spaceship destroyed and its alien pilot.

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Captain Clegg (1962)

Adventure, Horror

In 1776, a mulatto sailor is marooned on an island after assaulting the wife of pirate captain Nathaniel Clegg. By 1792, Clegg has supposedly been captured by the Royal Navy and hanged. His resting place is the coastal village of Dymchurch on the Romney Marsh.

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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)

Action, Adventure, Science fiction, Western

Lyle Swann is a well-known dirt bike motorcycle racer who is in the desert competing in the Baja 1000, a multiclass vehicle cross-country race. Swann has a reputation for being a great rider but is plagued by technical problems from the high-tech gadgetry he incorporates into his C and J framed XT500 Yamaha. When Swann accidentally goes far off course, he stumbles across a time travel experiment that utilizes "maser velocity acceleration" to send objects (in this case, a simian subject by the name of Esther G.) back in time.

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Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988)

animated film, children's film, Comedy, fantasy film, musical film

On Whopper's way to the museum with his niece and nephew, he tells them about the origin of Puppy Power, the ability of humans to communicate with the Pound Puppies and Purries. In the Dark Ages, specifically the 950's AD, a boy, named Arthur and his dog, Digalot came across a stone which contained both the mythical sword, Excalibur and the magical Bone of Scone. Well Arthur had pulled the sword from the stone, Digalot had pulled the Bone of Scone from the stone, and soon afterward Arthur and Digalot discovered that they could now understand one another.

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Five (1951)

Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction

thumb|upright=1.2|James Anderson, Charles Lampkin and Susan Douglas Rubeš in Five Roseanne Rogers trudges from place to place, searching for another living human being. A newspaper headline reports a scientist's warning that detonating a new type of atomic bomb could cause the extinction of humanity. Roseanne arrives at her aunt's isolated hillside house and faints when she finds Michael already living there.

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Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time (2003)

Adventure, Animation, Comedy, family film, Science fiction

Kim Possible is a high-school cheerleader and world-famous crimefighter, and Ron Stoppable is her faithful sidekick. Ron has a pet naked mole rat named Rufus . The film begins at the start of a new school year, but the start of a fun year is ruined when Ron finds out he's moving to Norway.

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Limbo (1999)

Adventure, Drama, thriller film

Port Henry, Alaska, is a town undergoing stress as the local economy switches from an industrial one based on the canning and paper industries towards a tourism-based model. Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) is a former high school basketball star and fisherman who now works as a handyman, particularly for Frankie (Kathryn Grody) and Lou (Rita Taggart), a lesbian couple who own the local resort hotel. Joe is friends with teenager Noelle De Angelo (Vanessa Martinez), who also works for Frankie and Lou.

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3 Headed Shark Attack (2015)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film

A 3-headed great white shark attacks an atoll where a group of teenagers is partying, killing all of them except one, Mark, who was on a buoy while the rest of the teens were at the beach. The shark then attacks the Persephone, an underwater research facility studying the Pacific Garbage Patch. The resulting damage causes the facility to explode, killing everybody inside except marine biologists Ted Nelson and Laura Thomas, and a group of activists touring the lab (Greg, Ryan Bennett, Omar, Alison, and college graduate Maggie Peterson, who applied for a job at the facility, and is also Greg's ex-girlfriend).

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The Far Horizons (1955)

Adventure, Western

In 1803, the United States Congress approves the Louisiana Purchase from France. Meriwether Lewis is summoned to the White House by President Thomas Jefferson, who asks Lewis to lead an expedition to explore beyond the newly claimed land to the Pacific Ocean. Lewis reluctantly agrees and requests that his friend William Clark accompany him at equal rank.

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