Get Lamp (2010)
documentary film, Documentation
Adventure movies
Explore journeys, exploration and adventurous quests.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 234.
Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
Classical Western, Western
In 1861, John Blair and his partner, Larry Adams are dismayed when the arrival of telegraph ends the Russell & Waddell Pony Express. Hoping to utilize their horse-riding skills, they decide to start a stage coach transportation business. They go to Buchanan City and ask local magnate Cal Drake if he is willing to sell them a stage coach.
Mexican Hayride (1948)
Comedy, romance film
Joe Bascomb chases con man Harry Lambert to Mexico City, after Harry apparently swindled him (and some friends) in an oil stock scam back in the United States. Joe's ex-girlfriend, Mary has hired Harry as her agent, and is going by the name 'Montana', passing herself off as a toreador. When Joe encounters Harry at a bullring arena, he also sees Mary, who is in the ring.
Billy Frankenstein (1998)
Adventure, Comedy, fantasy film, Science fiction
Billy Frankenstein tells the story of a child named Billy Frank, who is a distant relative of Victor Frankenstein, along with his artistic mother Sandy and workaholic father George. Meanwhile, a man named Bloodstone dreams of bringing the Frankenstein monster to life, but is now unable to because the Frankenstein castle is up for auction. He invites the Franks to move into the castle in the hopes of using Billy (who is the latest relative to Frankenstein) to bring the monster to life.
Alaska Seas (1954)
Crime, Drama
Matt Kelly is released from jail and skips town in his boat without paying outstanding storage fees. Back in his home town he is hired by his old friend Jim Kimmerly, the head of the local salmon fishermen who have formed a canning co-operative. The fishermen are battling against an organised gang who are robbing the fishing traps.
All Hat (2007)
Comedy, Western
Ray Dokes is fresh out of prison. Returning home to rural Ontario, he discovers the countryside of his youth transformed. Urban development crawls across the pastoral fields like a rash.
China Corsair (1951)
Adventure
In a gambling club, McMillen is cheated of his winnings, which were the last of his money. He takes a job on a ship as an engineer, but his ship wrecks and Tamara rescues him. While romance blossoms, they try to prevent a crook from selling Tamara's uncle's priceless collection of antique jade.
The Tale of Ruby Rose (1987)
Drama
In the 1930s, amidst the wild and isolated wilderness of the Tasmanian highlands, Ruby Rose is overcome by her fear of darkness. Ruby cries out to the elemental spirits that surround her. She is driven to take a harrowing journey out of the mountains to seek help from her lost grandmother.
Double Agent (1987)
spy film, teen film
Jason Starr is an international spy. While on a mission, there an altercation and Jason disappears. His boss Vaughn then goes to his twin brother Warren Starbinder, a veterinarian, and asks him to pose as Jason so to complete his mission.
Taxandria (1994)
fantasy film
Young prince Jan has been sent to a quiet coastal resort to study for his final exams, but instead he spends most of his time with his new friend, the lighthouse keeper. Jan ignores the warnings of the locals who claim that the loony lighthouse man (Armin Mueller-Stahl) eats seagulls for breakfast. Maybe the lighthouse keeper is crazy, but this does not prevent him from introducing prince Jan to the dreamland Taxandria, a phantasmagorical place devoid of time, memory, and progress.
Dark Mountain (1944)
Drama
Robert Lowery stars as a park ranger who helps hide his ex girlfriend who has unknowingly married a gangster
Momentum (2003)
Science fiction, thriller film
Physics professor Zach Shefford (Grayson McCouch) has regarded his telekinetic gifts as a curse rather than a blessing. This sentiment is obviously not shared by ruthless Pentagon agent Raymond Addison (Louis Gossett Jr.), who recruits Shefford for a dangerous mission in which his "second sight" talents will be taxed to the utmost. It seems that, back in 1977, Addison had overseen Project Momentum, wherein dozens of telekinetics were brought together ostensibly for the purpose of benefiting mankind.
Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
Adventure, Pirate Film
The pirate Barbarossa raids the Sultan of Morocco's ships and captures a betrothed woman.
The Big Gamble (1961)
Adventure
Vic Brennan is a sailor from Dublin who decides to use his family's fortune and move to Africa to open a truck-hauling business. He is accompanied by his wife, Marie, and a meek cousin, Samuel, who loses their documents, causing customs agents to seize some of their cargo. As they proceed along the Ivory Coast, a plan occurs to Vic to purchase 300 cases of beer and deliver it to thirsty natives for sale.
The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1975)
Adventure, Crime, Treasure hunt
The Son of Tarzan (1920)
Action, fantasy film, serial film, silent film
Tarzan and Jane have left Africa, married and settled in London. Their pre-teen son, Jack, dreams of jungle adventures like his father's, but is discouraged by his parents. He sneaks away to see a trained ape called Ajax (in reality, Akut, an old friend from Tarzan's youth).
Jackpot (1992)
Adventure, Science fiction
In Italy an old female billionaire has created a multinational company called Financial Youth Foundation, which has taken seven prodigies children who work with new computers. The purpose of the foundation is to restore youth to old with artificial products. The gardener of the villa of the old billionaire, Furio, discovers that this effect of youth, apparently beneficial, is a plan to exploit people with technology.
Desert Legion (1953)
Action, Adventure, war film
Ladd stars as a soldier in the French Foreign Legion who stumbles across a lost city in the desert mountains of Algeria in North Africa.
Double Bang (2001)
Drama
A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hitman. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to bring down the gang's boss.
Voyage (1993)
thriller film
Morgan and Catherine Norvell have their plans ready. In Monte Carlo, they have stocked their sailboat for a journey to Malta, where they plan to live on the boat for a year. They also purchased some real estate that includes the ruins of an old hotel, which they are going to rebuild.
Phoenix Wilder and the Great Elephant Adventure (2017)
Adventure
Phoenix Wilder, a 13-year-old boy living in foster care in Texas after the deaths of his parents, is sent to live with his aunt Sarah and uncle Jack at their wildlife reserve in Tanzania. While adjusting to his new surroundings in the Serengeti, Phoenix becomes separated from a safari group and is stranded in the African wilderness. While attempting to survive, Phoenix frees a bull elephant caught in a poacher's snare and names him Indlovu.
Baker's Hawk (1976)
Adventure, Western
During the summer of 1876, 12-year-old Billy Baker finds an injured baby hawk and subsequently befriends an old hermit in hopes that he can heal the injured bird. Because the old man shares his remote mountain homestead with various sick or injured animals in need of attention, many of the townspeople have labelled him as "crazy". When the townspeople start assuming that he and certain other newcomers are a threat to the safety of the community, they begin an effort to oust these tramps.
The Sharkfighters (1956)
Adventure, Drama
In August 1943, Lt. Commander Ben Staves (Mature) arrives on a tiny island offshore of Cuba to join an in-progress Navy test seeking to develop a shark repellant. The small research team there has been led for ten months by Lt.
Iron & Silk (1990)
Coming-of-age, Drama, Martial arts
Mark Franklin arrives in Hangzhou, China to teach Chinese teachers the English language. He learns the refinements of correct behavior among Chinese people, makes friends with his pupils, falls in love with the young doctor Ming, learns wushu (Chinese martial arts) from the famous teacher Pan... but also learns about political repression, especially when he's forbidden contact with some of his friends.