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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,238 films · Page 164.

Icon (2005)

Action, thriller film

During the 1999 Russian Presidential elections, the two leading candidates are Igor Komarov (Patrick Bergin), a former Colonel of the KGB, and Nikolai Nikolayev (Joss Ackland), a retired General of the Russian Army. When a car bomb explodes outside one of Komarov's pharmaceutical companies, and a virus is stolen from inside, an investigation by the FSB ensues headed by FSB agents Sonia Astrova (Annika Peterson) and Andrei Kasanov (Niko Nicotera). Their investigation is obstructed by the Director of the FSB, Anatoly Grishin (Ben Cross).

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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Comedy horror, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

Natives on a jungle island find two long-haired, bearded men dressed in frayed tuxedos asleep in the jungle and carry them to their chief and his daughter, who insists on protecting them. She mimes instructions that the men are to be dressed, shaven and given haircuts, all while they are still asleep. Upon waking, the men introduce themselves to the chief's daughter Nona and explain that they had fallen from a plane en route to Guam, deployed their parachutes and have been living on wild berries and raw fish.

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Legends of the Hidden Temple (2016)

Adventure, teen film

Three siblings, teenager Sadie and her kid brothers Noah and Dudley, are vacationing in Mexico with their parents, who allow them to visit the Hidden Temple theme park on their own where Kirk Fogg now works as a tour guide. Noah, being fascinated by the legends of the Hidden Temple, which he believes are real, wishes he could explore it on the inside, but Fogg reveals the Temple was closed to the public following an incident years earlier. Impressed by Noah's knowledge about the Temple, Fogg gives him a map he found inside.

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Fire Over England (1937)

Drama, Historie

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, England is concerned by the impending arrival of the Spanish Armada. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, English privateers such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

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Robin Hood (1922)

Adventure, medieval film, silent film, swashbuckler film

left|thumb|thumbtime=3|The full film The opening has the dashing Earl of Huntingdon besting his bitter enemy, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in a joust. Huntingdon then joins King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who is going off to fight in the Crusades and has left his brother, Prince John, as regent. The prince soon emerges as a cruel, treacherous tyrant.

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Best of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)

Action, Martial arts

A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with counterfeit bills. When a young woman named Mickey (Jill Ritchie) working for the mobsters decides to turn herself in and hand over a data CD to the police, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee).

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Treasure Island (1972)

Adventure, Pirate Film, Treasure hunt

Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) is a young boy who at the start of the story works at his mother's (Maria Rohm) inn. A drunken old sailor named Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) moves in and proceeds todrink heavily, terrorise locals with pirate songs and stories, and keeps watch for seafaring men. He dies of a stroke after violent confrontations with old shipmates.

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Gun (2010)

Action, Crime, thriller film

Angel (Kilmer) is released from prison only to get involved in the gun-running ring of his old friend, Rich (Jackson). They raid a club, which results in the killing of a rival arms dealer called Ali Tyrell. A police officer is assigned to investigate and calls a meeting, but two ATF agents come in disrupting the meeting.

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Paper Tiger (1975)

Adventure, Drama

Walter Bradbury is an apparently well-educated, decorated ex-military Englishman. He informs strangers he is the son of a viscount, a Member of Parliament, and a nephew of a general, and walks with a limp and cane which he says is due to crashing in the Le Mans 24-hour race. Japanese Ambassador Kagoyama to a fictional Asian country ("Kulagong") is attracted to Bradbury's claims of receiving the Military Cross (MC) twice and the Croix de Guerre once during the Second World War and hires Bradbury to tutor to his son, Koichi.

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African Cats (2011)

documentary film, Documentation, nature documentary

In the southern plains of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, lives Mara, a six-month-old lion cub, with her mother Layla, who both belong to the River pride, led by Fang, an old male lion, named after his remaining fang after he gets a distinctive broken tooth because of an earlier fight. In the northern plains of the Maasai Mara, lives Sita, a cheetah who has just given birth to five cubs to take care of. Sita and her cubs coexist with another lion pride led by a large male named Kali, who wishes to expand his pride and territory by taking over Fang's own with the help of his four sons, which however he cannot reach as both sides…

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Hunt to Kill (2010)

Action

The film begins with US Border Patrol Agents Jim Rhodes and Lee Davis exploring a seemingly abandoned trailer in Texas. Before entering the trailer, Lee gives Jim a watch made from climbing rope that can be used as emergency gear. They find a meth lab and are promptly attacked by men who shoot Lee and set the trailer on fire.

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My Side of the Mountain (1969)

Adventure, children's film

The story revolves around twelve-year-old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau (as many were back in the 1960s). He decides to leave Toronto to spend time alone in the Canadian woods to see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents' promised summer trip doesn't pan out. He also wants to work on an algae experiment while he is there.

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Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)

Adventure, Treasure hunt

In post-Civil War Kentucky, ex-slave Ben arrives at Grassy, the decaying plantation where young Davie Burnie, his aunts Effie and Lou, and young ex-slave Thad live. Ben reveals that Davie's father hid a treasure map in a book in the home. That night, Northern carpetbagger Captain Spangler and his men attack the plantation, but Effie helps the boys escape.

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John Paul Jones (1959)

Adventure, Biography

A United States Navy officer recounts the life of John Paul Jones to new midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. In 1759, a young John Paul undergoes an apprenticeship on board a merchantman, serving on several ships and becoming the master of his own ship by 1773. In Tobago, a mutinous subordinate challenges Paul, who kills him; the governor of Tobago, not wanting him arrested, advises Paul to go to Virginia, where his brother lives.

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Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Drama, war film

On July 26, 1942, the 1st Marine Division is sailing towards Guadalcanal. On August 7, the Marines land on Guadalcanal with no initial opposition. They find an abandoned village and capture an airfield, which the Americans work to complete, and rename it Henderson Field.

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Perri (1957)

Adventure, Comedy, documentary film, fantasy film

Fishtales (2007)

children's film, fantasy film

Widowed Classics Professor Thomas Bradley (Billy Zane) is about to lose his research grant studying ancient love spells at Oxford University. He knows he is close to a major academic breakthrough and desperately needs more time to complete his research. Thomas is given one last chance to finish his work, and goes to the Greek island of Spetses, where he has been invited to stay at the home of a supportive Oxford don Professor Coulter.

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No Man's Land (2021)

Action, Adventure, thriller film, Western

Bill Greer is a Texas rancher living with his two sons, Jackson and Lucas, and his wife, Monica, in a ranch close to the Rio Grande where illegal immigrants from Mexico cross the U.S. Mexican Border. Jackson was prepared to move to New York City so he could join the New York Yankees.

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Эбигейл (2019)

Adventure, Dystopian, fantasy film, steampunk film

Abigail is a young girl living in a town which, many years earlier, experienced an epidemic of a mysterious illness and was subsequently sealed off from the outside world by the government. One of those who fell ill was Abby's father, taken away when she was six years old. While searching for her father, Abby finds out that the epidemic never actually occurred; it was all a huge deceit.

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Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)

Classical Western, Western

Fort Bravo is a Union prison camp with a strict disciplinarian named Captain Roper (William Holden). A pretty woman named Carla Forester (Eleanor Parker) shows up to help with the wedding of her friend, but she has really come to assist in freeing some prisoners including her previous beau Confederate Captain John Marsh (John Forsythe). Roper falls in love with her and she with him, and the escape happens after the wedding celebrations.

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Warning Sign (1985)

Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

In a secret military laboratory operating under the guise of a pesticide manufacturer, a sealed tube is broken, starting an outbreak of a virulent bacteria. Detecting the release of the biological weapon, Joanie Morse, the plant's security officer, activates "Protocol One," a procedure sealing all of the workers inside from the outside world. Tom Schmidt, believing the cause for the lock down to be a pump malfunction, and co-worker Bob restart the pump.

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Lucky Break (2001)

Crime Comedy, prison film

James 'Jimmy' Hands and Rudy 'Rud' Guscott are two friends who used to play "Cops & Robbers" when they were young. Now adults, they plan to actually rob a bank, but the robbery goes wrong and Hands flees the bank leaving Guscott trapped behind the security shutters. Hands is caught and arrested not long later.

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One Week (2008)

Adventure, Drama

Ben Tyler is a young elementary school English teacher living in Toronto. Ben is told that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in its fourth and final stage. On the way home, he encounters an elderly man selling his 1973 Norton Commando motorcycle.

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