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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 233.

Captured! (1933)

Adventure, Drama, romance film, war film

British Captain Fred Allison bids farewell to his new wife, Monica, whom he has only known for six days, and sets out to serve in World War I. He ends up a prisoner of war (POW), tortured by the fact that his wife has not written to him since the early days of his two-year captivity. When a fellow inmate shoots a guard, the prisoners make an impromptu unsuccessful dash for freedom, resulting in much bloodshed on both sides.

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Flying Saucer Daffy (1958)

Adventure, Comedy, science fiction comedy

In a narrative parallel reminiscent of the Cinderella archetype, Joe finds himself subjected to servitude under the guardianship of his aunt and two indolent cousins, Moe and Larry. During a camping excursion, Joe inadvertently captures a photograph of a paper plate carried aloft by a gust of wind, which is misconstrued as an image of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). Seizing the opportunity, Moe and Larry appropriate credit for the photograph and reap substantial financial gain, relegating Joe to the position of their subordinate.

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The Last Outpost (1935)

Adventure, Drama

In Kurdistan during World War I, Captain Michael Andrews is a British officer captured by Kurds, imprisoned, and awaiting execution. The local Turkish commander helps Andrews escape and confides that he is a British intelligence officer (initially "Smith," later named as John Stevenson) in disguise. The two set out to warn friendly villagers of a pending Kurdish attack.

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Dance of the Dwarfs (1984)

Adventure, Horror

In an unnamed South American nation, a man escapes from prison into the jungle, where he is attacked by an unseen assailant and has much of his face torn off. Anthropologist Evelyn Howard (Deborah Raffin) decides to look for Dr. Eslinger, a colleague who went missing in the same jungle while searching for the Duende—a rumored tribe of dwarfish, winged reptiloids (reptile-like people).

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Lost in Alaska (1952)

Adventure, Comedy

In 1890s San Francisco, firemen George Ball and Tom Watson rescue "Nugget Joe" McDermott from committing suicide by drowning. Joe wants to die because his girlfriend Rosette no longer loves him. Joe receives a telegram the next morning from Rosette claiming that she still loves him.

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Space Ship Sappy (1957)

Adventure, Comedy, Science fiction, science fiction comedy

The Stooges meet up with Professor A.K. Rimple, an eccentric figure, and his daughter, who solicit the trio's assistance in a space expedition. Embarking on the mission, they arrive at the planet Sunev (a reverse spelling of Venus), where they encounter three captivating female extraterrestrials.

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Booloo (1938)

Adventure

Captain Robert Rogers, a British Army officer, publishes a book about his father's exploits. After it is ridiculed as a hoax, Rogers leaves for the Malay Peninsula to prove the existence of Booloo, the legendary tiger that killed his father.

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A Man Called Dagger (1967)

spy film

Secret agents Dick Dagger and Harper Davis are on the trail of former SS Colonel Rudolph Koffman, who is using a meat-packing plant as his secret lair. Ingrid is Koffman's mistress and runs a beauty spa. A massage therapist there, Joy, reveals to Dagger that another employee, Erica, is being held captive in Koffman's secret lair.

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Raptor Island (2004)

Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film

A team of SEALs chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a hostage special agent. While tracking the terrorists, mutated dinosaurs appear and the mission changes into simple survival. The dinosaurs use their skilled sense of smell and ability to swim to hunt down the SEALs and terrorists.

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The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946)

Adventure

Edmund Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, returns in 1832, now accompanied by his wife, Countess Haydee. Dantes is seeking revenge against those responsible for his imprisonment, and justice for the Parisians being mistreated by the Prefect of Police. Wearing a mask and going by "The Avenger", Dantes finds himself fighting with the Gendarmerie, getting wounded, and having Haydee wear the mask in his stead and take his place as "The Avenger".

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She (1925)

Adventure, fantasy film

At Cambridge University, the ape-like Horace Holly, nicknamed "Baboon", is visited by the dying Vincey who asks Holly to raise his only child Leo, and that he give Leo a chest on the latter's twenty fifth birthday. Holly agrees. It leads Leo, Horace and Job on an expedition to Ethiopia to find the lost "Pillars of Fire", said to grant immortality to whoever bathes in their light, and to be guarded by an immortal queen named Ayesha, called by her mistreated subjects "She Who Must Be Obeyed".

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The Boy and the Pirates (1960)

Adventure, children's film, Pirate Film

A boy named Jimmy Warren who lives along the Massachusetts coast is upset with the unfairness of modern life when his father scolds him about his school grades. He plays on a wrecked ship along the shore with a girl named Kathy Mannering. He picks up an odd brass jar and wishes to be back in the olden days on a pirate ship.

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Carib Gold (1956)

Adventure

The movie starts with Neely, a shrimping boat's skipper, calling in to shore with news of a good catch. Subsequent conversations with Barb, his mate/deckhand and Cap, his boss on shore, reveals that this boat (the Capt. Geech) has snagged and torn several nets recently due to something on the sea floor, despite the charts showing nothing in the area.

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The Ivory Ape (1980)

Adventure

Set in Bermuda, this movie focuses on a hunt for a rare albino gorilla, recently captured in Africa by ruthless big-game hunter Marc Kazarian (Jack Palance). Dedicated government agent Baxter Mapes (Steven Keats) and his ex-girlfriend, Lil Tyler (Cindy Pickett), conduct a humanitarian search for the ape, which has escaped from the greedy Kazarian. But hero and heroine are fighting against time as the villain has convinced the locals that the ape is a killer, and must be brought in dead or alive.

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The Purple Monster Strikes (1945)

Science fiction

Astronomer Cyrus Layton is working late one night on his new airplane design in his observatory. He witnesses what he believes is a meteorite landing in the far distance. He contacts his niece Sheila and asks her to bring Craig Foster to the observatory to help analyze his discovery; he then sets out to search for the meteorite crater.

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