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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 221.

Agent X44 (2007)

Action Comedy

King Aguila and his best friend, Junior Iskalibers take the entrance exam of an academy for secret agents. King is the godson of Agent X44 Tony Falcon who is approaching retirement. Ever since he was a child, King has idolized Tony and wants to be a secret agent like him.

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The Prince and the Surfer (1999)

The film is an updated adaptation of the 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain set in Southern California beach culture, featuring a prince and, instead of a pauper, the skateboarding surfer Cash, who wants to be rich and escape his boring life. The Queen of Gelfland brings her son, prince Edward, to the United States, seeking a trade treaty; the young prince wants to escape his life, to spend time among the common people. During Edward's one permitted limousine ride near the beach, Cash skitches with the limo on its way back to the hotel, and meets Edward in his suite; the two hatch their plan to trade places, and separate.

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The Golden Hawk (1952)

Action, Adventure, Historie, Pirate Film, war film

During the 17th century, French sea captain Kit "The Hawk" Gerardo is on Basse-Terre Island with a crew but no ship. He duels the captain of the ship Sea Flower and commandeers his ship. His objective is to capture a much larger 60-gun ship under command of Spanish pirate Luis del Toro, partly for loot but also believing him responsible for the death of Kit's mother, Jeanne Buoyant.

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Hell Boats (1970)

Adventure, Drama, war film

In 1941 Lieutenant Commander Jeffords, an American serving with the Royal Navy Reserve is assigned to Valletta, Malta, to command a flotilla of Motor Torpedo Boats for a top secret mission. Jeffords is granted permission to take his friend Chief Petty Officer Yacov, a Jewish Palestinian, with him. Through scrounging spare parts from sunken craft, the battered flotilla is able to piece together three seaworthy craft.

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Slave Girl (1947)

Action Comedy, Adventure

When American playboy Matt Claiborne embarks on a mission to Tripoli, he finds forbidden love and political intrigue when he falls for a dancing girl involved with rival lords. Matt is supposed to trade gold with the pasha for American sailors being held hostage. However, the pasha's fiancée Francesca steals it, hoping to finance her lover El Hamid's revolution.

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The Golden Blade (1953)

Adventure, Fairy tale

During a raging desert battle between the cities of Basra and Baghdad, soldier Basran is fatally wounded. Before dying, Basran takes a medallion from his killer's neck and gives it to his son Harun, urging him to somehow end the senseless killings. Harun rides to Baghdad and meets shopkeeper Barcus.

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Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

Action, Adventure

Tarzan agrees, against his better judgement, to guide supposed British government agents Edwards and Rokov into the land of the Wazuri Tribe, to harvest uncut diamonds for national-defense purposes. It transpires the "agents" are secretly criminals who intend to use the gems for their own sinister purposes.

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Panic In The Skies! (1996)

Drama, katastrophe

During take-off for a flight to Europe, Royce Air International Flight 115 (a Boeing 747-200 flying from New York to London) is struck by lightning. Although the flight continues, the lightning strike has killed the flight crew and disabled the radio communications to the ground. Laurie Ann Pickett, the senior flight attendant, enlists the aid of passenger Brett Young, and together, they determine that the autopilot can bring the aircraft in for a landing.

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Huckleberry Finn (1975)

Adventure

The film starts off with Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, in a small Missouri town in the 1830s. He has gotten adopted by the Widow Douglas, who educates him and teaches him religion. Huck is used to a life in the woods, doing whatever he wanted, so Huck is disappointed by this change, wishing to go back to his old ways.

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The Way of War (2009)

Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, thriller film, war film

Special Activities Division Paramilitary operative David Wolfe (Cuba Gooding Jr.) stumbles upon an international conspiracy connecting presidential cabinet members to a Middle Eastern terrorist plot. Wanting to expose the truth, Wolfe defies orders to remain off the field, and returns to the US as an army of one fighting for American security and integrity.

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Little Bigfoot (1995)

Adventure, Comedy, Family Comedy, Science fiction

While on summer vacation in Cedar Lake, California with their older brother, Peter; their dog, Max; and their widowed mother, Carolyn; Payton Shoemaker and his little sister Maggie engage in an adventure to save (and secretly befriend) a young male bigfoot which they name him Bilbo (after Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit) and his injured mother (who gets shot in her kneecap prior to the opening of the film by the hunters) from a logging company who is illegally hunting them down.

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Dark Rising (2007)

Comedy horror, Science fiction

There are two Earths: our Earth and Dark Earth. Dark Earth is a world of demons and magic. It is in a dimension created at the height of the Roman Empire by a powerful sorcerer, in an attempt to banish demons from our Earth, forever.

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Welcome (2009)

Drama, Fugitive Drama

The film tells the story of Simon Calmat (Vincent Lindon), a French swimming coach who is divorcing his wife Marion (Audrey Dana). Simon tries to help a young Iraqi-Kurd immigrant, Bilal Kayani (Firat Ayverdi), whose dream is to cross the English Channel from Calais in France to the United Kingdom by any means possible to be reunited with his girlfriend Mina (Derya Ayverdi). Meanwhile, Mina's father strongly opposes Bilal's plans as he wants to marry his daughter to her cousin who owns a restaurant.

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Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999)

Comedy

Following the assassination of his crime boss's biological father (Robert Forster), whom he had not even known existed, a young Ohio investment advisor (Michael Rapaport) must impersonate a Mafia Godfather for a few weeks to prevent a gang war. He tries to keep this new life secret from his real family, especially his very jealous fiancée (Christine Taylor), with the help of his new "family" and his father's chief lieutenant (Christopher Walken). At the same time, he is being pressured by his boss at work to sign off on a due diligence report for a questionable investment, trying to keep his family safe, dodging assassination attempts,…

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Hirokin (2012)

Action, Adventure, Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction

The film tells the story of Hirokin, a samurai on a post-apocalyptic planet. After his family is murdered by the evil dictator Griffin, the reluctant warrior, left for dead in the desert, vows to avenge his loved ones and to defend his people.

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This Is Not a Test (1962)

Drama

Starring a group of mostly unknown actors, This Is Not a Test begins with lone deputy sheriff Dan Colter (Seamon Glass) receiving orders to block a road leading into an unidentified city (dialogue indicates the location is somewhere in central California, however). Soon, he has detained several vehicles with a variety of occupants ranging from an elderly man and his granddaughter, to a man who has recently become rich and his alcoholic wife, to a trucker and a hitchhiker. The motorists and the police officer hear attack warnings over the police radio and begin to prepare for the inevitable bombing.

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Giorgino (1994)

Adventure, Drama, Horror

It is October 1918 and the war-stricken Giorgio Volli (Jeff Dahlgren) returns to the orphanage where he had been working as a care-taker before the war. Upon arrival, he discovers the wife of the orphanage owner has committed suicide. His attempts to save her are fruitless.

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She-Devils On Wheels (1968)

Action, exploitation film, Motor-Bike Film, thriller film

The film opens with Karen (Christie Wagner), a young woman leaving her mother's house after a visit. She drives her car to a local garage where she trades it with a motorcycle and changes out of her sun dress into street clothes (blue jeans, a T-shirt, and a green fabric vest with an image of a pink cat head and the words "MAN-EATERS" on the back). Karen re-joins her real friends that she has apparently kept secret from her mother; Karen is a member of an all-female motorcycle gang called the Man-Eaters.

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