Till There Was You (1990)
Adventure, Drama
Frank Flynn is summonsed from New York City to Vanuatu by his brother Charlie. He arrives only to find Charlie dead, and becomes involved with his late brother's partner, Viv, and Viv's unhappy wife, Anna.
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Tumbleweed (1953)
Western
Jim Harvey (Audie Murphy) is a guide and guard on a wagon train. After he saves the life of a Yaqui Indian warrior named Tigre, the wagon train is attacked. Harvey realizes their only chance of survival is if he can negotiate a truce with Tigre's father, Chief Aguila (Ralph Moody).
John and Julie (1955)
Comedy
The film is set in 1953 in the week leading up to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. John and Julie are two young children from Dorset who are eager to see the Coronation of Elizabeth II despite the fact that their respective parents have no intention of going. When the two are left alone, they decide to run off to London to see John's "Uncle Ben" who is in the Life Guards and therefore "knows the queen".
The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (2008)
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, monster film
In the late 19th century, a team of Smithsonian researchers stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.
White Savage (1943)
Adventure
Princess Tahia is the ruler of the tropical Temple Island. Sam Miller schemes to marry her and get hold of the gold bars lining the submerged floor of the island's temple (about which the innocent islanders remain blissfully unconcerned). Heroic shark hunter Kaloe wins the day and the heart of Tahia.
Hero's Island (1962)
Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1718 a recently freed family of indentured workers inherits the small uninhabited Bull Island off the Carolina coast. The family consist of husband and wife, one son, and a second son who they bought as a baby. The local fishermen who were already using the island think they own the island and attempt to force the family to leave, during which the husband is killed.
Stickmen (2001)
Comedy, Drama
The film begins with Thomas and Wayne playing a game of pool against two English men. They almost win but Wayne loses the game on the last shot due to overconfidence. Their friend Jack then arrives.
Back to Back (1996)
Action
An explosive situation erupts when a mob war thrusts a yakuza, an ex-cop, and his adolescent daughter into a deadly, no-win situation. Booted in disgrace from the L.A. police force Bob Malone suffers a seemingly endless unlucky streak.
Elesin Oba, The King's Horseman (2022)
Adventure, Drama, historical film
The film is based on a true story, set in the 1940s Oyo Town, southwestern Nigeria. The king has just died, and as tradition demands, Elesin Oba must perform a ritual suicide in order to join his dead king in the afterlife so that the king may gain free passage into the land of the gods, thus blocking disaster from befalling the community. Elesin Oba's sexual appetites cause him to shirk, which leads to a mortal confrontation with the British and with devastating consequences.
At Sword's Point (1952)
Adventure, Historie, swashbuckler film
The sons and a daughter of the original Four Musketeers ride to the rescue of besieged Queen Anne in 1648 France. D'Artagnan and his companions are alerted that the terminally ill queen is being pressured by the evil Duc de Lavalle into agreeing to a marriage with Princess Henriette. Unable to respond, the musketeers send their sons and daughter to the royal court to help.
Siren of Atlantis (1949)
Adventure, fantasy film
André de Saint-Avit of the French Foreign Legion is discovered unconscious in the African desert. He claims he stumbled upon the lost kingdom of Atlantis, ruled by the beautiful Queen Antinea, who drove him to commit murder.
Flowing Gold (1940)
Drama, romance film
Oilfield worker John Alexander is on the run from a murder charge. He talks "Hap" O'Connor into hiring "Johnny Blake" on a trial basis, even though Hap has been contacted by the police and given a wanted poster with a photograph of the fugitive. Hap is rewarded when Johnny saves him from being attacked by a man Hap fires for being drunk on the job.
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
B western, Western
Randy Bowers arrives at Ed Rogers' Half-Way House saloon and happily enters to the sounds of "Sobre las Olas" on the player piano. He is shocked to discover the patrons and bartender dead. A pair of eyes watch him from behind a portrait over the bar.
Gold Raiders (1951)
Comedy, Western
In the Old West, the Three Stooges are peddlers plying their trade in a covered wagon. Saloon proprietor Taggart, who controls the town of Red Mesa, supervises a series of raids on goldmine consignments. The insurance company, sustaining frequent losses, sends former federal marshal George O'Brien to investigate the thefts.
Escape to Burma (1955)
Adventure, Drama
In the 1920s, British Burma, the son of a local ruler, the Sawbwa, was killed - apparently by his European mining partner, Jim Brecan. The Sawbwa wants Brecan caught and executed, while Captain Cardigan wants him caught for trial. Brecan flees through the jungle with a bag of rubies from the mine and reaches the estate of Gwen Moore, who uses elephants to harvest teak.
High Velocity (1976)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Military Film, thriller film
An American business executive is kidnapped by a revolutionary guerrilla group in an unnamed Asian nation. Unwilling to meet the terrorist's demands or to use the security forces of the nation, the victim's employer and his wife hire two fun-loving American expatriate Vietnam veterans to rescue him. Together with their local friend and guide, the trio find out that they are up against an unexpected and deadly enemy.
The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
Crime, Drama
Colonel Nathan B. "Skipper" Gregory, a former World War I ace pilot, is the owner of a travelling carnival that has fallen on hard times. Only the money brought in by Craig McCoy, the carnival stunt pilot, keeps the carnival from closing.
T-Force (1994)
Action, Science fiction
A terrorist group led by Sam Washington (Vernon Wells) seizes the British embassy in downtown Los Angeles, killing hostages. All seems lost, but the T-Force, the world's first fully cybernetic law enforcement team is deployed and within minutes, more than thirty terrorists are dead. One member of the T-Force is destroyed Athens (R.
Mister Moses (1965)
Adventure
Beaten and expelled by African villagers for trying to cheat them, the unconscious Joe Moses drifts down a river, where he is discovered by the natives of another village. This tribe is being pressured to move by the District Officer, as their land will be flooded by the release of waters from a dam; but they refuse to leave their homes. Deeply Christian, the villagers compare Joe Moses to the real Moses due to his discovery in the reeds as was the baby Moses.
Dragon Fighter (2003)
monster film, Science fiction, speculative fiction
In England in the Middle Ages, a dragon decimates a town, and six knights vow to kill the creature in its lair. In the ensuing fight, the dragon shoots a fireball at the knights' barrels of gunpowder. This causes an explosion and a cave-in which traps the dragon and five of the six knights.
Trouble in Paradise (1989)
Adventure, Comedy
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
Adventure, fantasy film
A poor young man finds a lamp with a genie trapped inside. The genie promises to grant the man three wishes if he frees him from the lamp.
Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
Pirate Film, swashbuckler film
Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to slavery for his treatment of a wounded rebel during the Monmouth Rebellion. With a group of fellow prisoners, he escapes and becomes a feared buccaneer on the high seas.
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959)
Adventure, Crime, thriller film
Ex-OSS operative Larry Brennan returns to Czechoslovakia after retiring from his military service during World War II. He is intent on seeking out a hidden cache of Nazi jewels stashed in this country during the war. There he has to join with Hedi von Hartmann, his former lover and a daughter of the German general who previously owned the gems, but Larry is not sure whether he can trust her.