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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 183.

Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)

Western

A census taker arrives in the Texas town of Cold Iron, population 754. Seeking a cold beer, he enters the local bar and notices a painting of a violent street fight with a gun hanging above it. The bartender explains the story behind the painting, involving a buffalo hunter named Jonas Trapp and the infamous night known as both "The Night of the Reprisal" and "The Night of the Tiger." In flashback, Jonas Trapp is a poor cowboy in love with wealthy Jessie Larkin.

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The Long Duel (1967)

Adventure, Drama

Superintendent Stafford of the United Provinces Police has his men arrest a tribal group on vague allegations of poaching and theft in British India. Sultan, their leader, is also arrested and held in a cell with criminals in Fort Najibabad. Sultan, his wife Tara and many others manage to break out, but Tara and her newborn child both die.

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Tracker (2010)

Adventure, thriller film

Arjan van Diemen is a renowned Afrikaner commando leader of the Second Boer War, and a master tracker. After the war, which ended in a British victory, he emigrates from South Africa to Auckland in the British colony of New Zealand. Upon arrival, he is recognised by Sergeant-Major Saunders, a British soldier who also fought in the Second Boer War, and is promptly arrested.

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The Three Musketeers (1921)

Action, Adventure, Melodrama, silent film, swashbuckler film

thumb|thumbtime=1|The Three Musketeers (1921) In the royal court of France, Cardinal Richelieu vies for influence over King Louis XIII. The greatest obstacle to his dominance is Anne of Austria, the Queen of France. Anne is loved by the Duke of Buckingham, an Englishman, although she remains faithful to Louis.

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Texas (1941)

romance film, Western

Two Confederate veterans, broke and homeless, are making their way to Texas to start fresh. After comedic adventures getting into and out of trouble, just trying to make enough money to get to Texas, they witness a stagecoach robbery and manage to hold up the outlaws and take back the cash. At that point they have a difference of opinion; the "good" one Tod Ramsey (Glenn Ford) wants to give it back, the "bad" one Dan Thomas (William Holden) wants to keep it and keep going.

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Gagamboy (2004)

Science fiction

Junie (Navarro) is an ice cream vendor who sells ice cream to children and adults alike. After his shift, he is in a predicament with a rival vendor, Dodoy (Jay Manalo). Their manager, angered by their actions, demotes Junie to a warehouse guard.

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Black Snake (1973)

Adventure, Blaxploitation, Erotic Film, sexploitation film

In 1835, Charles Walker travels to Saint Kitts in the British West Indies to look for his missing brother Jonathan. Charles pretends to be a bookkeeper when arrives at Blackmoor Plantation, run by Jonathan's vicious ex-wife, Lady Susan Walker.

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Angels' Brigade (1979)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

The film focuses on seven women who decide to fight the local drug cartel after the brother of Michelle Wilson, a Las Vegas pop singer, is found severely beaten. When taken to the hospital, the young man is discovered to have been using illegal drugs. The singer meets with April, her brother's teacher, and the two hatch a plan to destroy the local drug processing plant.

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20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1997)

Adventure, fantasy film, Science fiction

The Nautilus has been sinking and damaging ships and is at first thought to be a giant narwhal. The USS Abraham Lincoln, with marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, harpooner Ned Land and escaped slave Cabe Attucks aboard, is sent to pursue and destroy the threat. After the ship is attacked by the Nautilus, Pierre, Ned and Cabe are knocked overboard and are picked up by the Nautilus crew, led by Captain Nemo.

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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)

Adventure, monster film, Science fiction

The film essentially follows the storyline of the Soviet original, with Rathbone and Domergue replacing two Soviet actors in roles as space-station monitors of the primary action. The rest stars the remaining Soviet actors dubbed into English. In this retelling, it is 2020 and the Moon has been colonized.

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The Junkman (1982)

Action, Crime, Drama, Heist

Harlan B. Hollis struggles to stay alive when a jealous public relations manager hires a team of assassins to kill him. The manager, also Hollis' brother-in-law, resents Hollis for making the film Gone in 60 Seconds, which is premiering at the Cinerama Dome.

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40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)

Western

In the Arizona Territory of 1868, the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense against the Apaches. But there is dissension in the ranks as some of the men under Coburn's command feel they are being driven too hard.

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The Detonator (2006)

Action

Undercover CIA agent Sonni Griffith (Wesley Snipes) travels alone to Romania to expose an arms dealer and stop the sale of a nuclear weapon. When the arms dealer is tipped off to Griffith's identity, Sonni lands in prison. Griffith is quickly released by the CIA, only to be given a new mission: to escort a beautiful Russian woman named Nadia (Silvia Colloca) back to the United States.

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Dust (2001)

Drama, Western

In present-day New York City, a young criminal, Edge, is confronted at gunpoint by an ailing old woman, Angela, whose apartment he is attempting to burgle. While he awaits an opportunity to escape, she launches into a tale about two outlaw brothers, Luke and Elijah, at the turn of the 20th century, who travel to Ottoman-controlled Macedonia. The two brothers have transient ill will between them, and they become estranged when confronted with a beautiful woman, Lilith.

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Mother Lode (1982)

Action, Adventure, Drama, mystery film, thriller film, Western

Mollyco Company employee George Spalding disappears after a flight into northern British Columbia's interior wilderness to search for gold. His friend and colleague, Jean Dupre, contacts his wife Andrea to ask if George told her where he was going before he left. Dupre, who just happens to be available to search for George, having been fired after intimidating a surly manager with aerobatic manoeuvres in a Mollyco Company Cessna 206 aircraft by landing and walking away from the plane as it continues to taxi onto an active runway into the path of a landing Cessna 185, with the Mollyco executive still on board.

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Great Day in the Morning (1956)

Western

In 1861, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, Owen Pentecost is a man from North Carolina who comes west to Denver in the Colorado Territory on a whim. He encounters Ann Merry Alaine, who is going there to open a dress shop. In a Denver hotel saloon, Owen wins a poker game with the owner, Jumbo Means, who bet his estate on the last hand.

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Creatures the World Forgot (1971)

Adventure, fantasy film

A volcano erupts and an earthquake opens up a crevasse, swallowing up many members of the 'Dark Tribe'. The tribal leader is killed and a fight for leadership between two survivors, Mak (Brian O'Shaughnessy) and Zen, soon breaks out. Mak is victorious and leads the surviving tribe members across a desert in search of a new home.

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