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Explore journeys, exploration and adventurous quests.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 241.

Deathlands: Homeward Bound (2003)

Dystopian, Science fiction

left|thumb|220px|From left to right: Jenya Lano, Vincent Spano, Cliff Saunders, Nathan Carter Earth is devastated by a nuclear war in 2084. The sky is red from chemical waste and what was once the United States has become "Deathlands" inhabited by mutants. Communities ruled by powerful survivors are called "villes" and the one known as Front Royale had been ruled by a good man Baron Titus Cawdor (Colin Fox) who is killed by his wife, Lady Rachel Cawdor (Traci Elizabeth Lords).

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Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice (1988)

Adventure, rape and revenge film, thriller film

A sweet city girl is initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana bayou by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T," she ends up getting kidnapped and violated by Big T's chief rival, Leroy, and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud. She manages to escape and return armed with some Cajun justice.

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Sabaka (1955)

Adventure

Set in India, Gunga Ram, a young Indian boy, swears vengeance on the members of a religious death cult that murdered his sister Indria and her husband. The killings were ordered by the High Priestess of Sabaka (June Foray) and Ashok (Victor Jory). The Maharajah of Bakore disbelieves him, and when he turns to the Maharajah's General Pollegar (Boris Karloff), he is once again denied justice.

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Treasure Island (1985)

Adventure, Pirate Film, Treasure hunt

A shabby hotel is run by a drunk and his wife; they take in as few guests as possible. A man arrives there, and asks to be called "Captain." He knows the couple. While tending to guests on the terrace, a strange blind man approaches the couple's son, Jonathan.

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Rockin' thru the Rockies (1940)

Comedy

Set in the Rocky Mountains circa late 1800s, the Stooges are guides tasked with escorting a trio known as "Nell's Belles" through mountainous terrain en route to their performance destination in San Francisco. When Curly's carelessness with a rifle frightens off the horses, the group is stranded overnight at the behest of Native American inhabitants who advise them to vacate the area promptly. During the night, Curly is banished from the shared sleeping quarters due to his disruptive nocturnal behavior.

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A Taste for Killing (1992)

Action, thriller film

Blaine Stockard III (Bateman) and Cary Sloan (Thomas) are best friends from well-to-do families who both set off for adventurous summer jobs on a Texas offshore oil rig between college graduation and law school. Openly resentful of their high society background, the boys' blue-collar bad-tempered boss Elray (Deckert) makes their lives as miserable as possible. Soon the boys meet happy-go-lucky Bo Landry (Biehn), who befriends the naive kids, shows them the ropes and helps them survive.

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Top of the World (1955)

Adventure

Unable to fly jet missions at his age, Major (soon promoted to Lieutenant Colonel) Lee Gannon (Dale Robertson) is reassigned from a Californian air base to a weather station in Alaska, against his wishes. He perks up on learning that ex-wife Virgie (Evelyn Keyes) now owns a nightclub in Fairbanks. Gannon reports for duty to Major Brad Cantrell (Frank Lovejoy), who explains to a skeptical Gannon how vital the weather situation is, apparently in a remote region near the North Pole that could be vulnerable to a Soviet air attack.

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Velocity Trap (1999)

Action, Adventure, Science fiction

The main character, Ray Stokes (Olivier Gruner) is a down-on-his luck police officer on a distant, corruptly-ruled mining colony. He has already lost his wife Dana (Anna Karin) to his corrupt boss, John Dawson (Craig Wasson), not from any failure in romantic rivalry, but as part of a deal to pay off their dead daughter's medical bills: making her Dawson's "Contract Wife". Samuel Nelson (Harry Wowchuk), an Enforcement Division chief of security, is sent to clean up the colony's local Enforcement Division, but is killed in the course of his investigation.

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It's Not Cricket (1949)

Crime, sport film

Major Bright and Captain Early are intelligence officers in the British army of occupation in post-World War 2 Germany. They are sent home on leave, but fail to notice that their new batman is actually wanted war criminal Otto Fisch. He vanishes on arrival in England and the two officers are punished by early demobilisation.

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The Black Widow (1947)

Crime, spy film

The Editor of the Daily Clarion newspaper hires writer and amateur criminologist Steve Colt to solve a series of murders, all involving venomous spider bites, with the aid of his best reporter Joyce Chambers. Meanwhile, the evil King Hitomu has sent his daughter Sombra to the United States to fulfill his plan for global domination by stealing a prototype "Atomic Rocket Engine". Posing as a fortune teller, and assisted by her two loyal henchmen, Sombra sets about stealing the prototype and its secrets by utilizing her cunning nature, array of lethal gadgets, and ability to impersonate any woman she chooses with the aid of masks and wigs.

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Kill a Dragon (1967)

Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, romance film

On an island of Hong Kong’s New Territories, a ship's cargo of nitroglycerin washes ashore due to a typhoon. The islanders claim the cargo under the law of salvage, but the powerful Nico Patrai threatens to destroy the island and its inhabitants if the nitroglycerine is not given to him in three days. The village head Win Lim and two other islanders escape Patrai's men to go to Macau where they seek the help of soldier of fortune Rick Masters who lives on a junk.

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Caribbean Gold (1952)

Action, Adventure, Pirate Film

In 1728, Dick Lindsay is taken prisoner by Captain Barclay and incarcerated aboard the Black Panther, his pirate ship. Also on board against his will is Robert MacAllister, nephew of Barclay's nemesis, Andrew MacAllister. The pirate kidnapped Robert as retribution for MacAllister having long ago done likewise to Barclay's infant daughter, Christine.

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Dangerous Partners (1945)

Adventure

Carola and Clyde Ballister find a briefcase containing four wills leaving $1-million bequests to an Albert Kingby. They visit the Cleveland home of the first person who wrote a will benefiting Kingsby, a man named Kempen. They meet his attorney, Jeff Caign, and learn Kempen intended to leave the money to a singer, Lili Roegan.

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Captain Scarlett (1952)

Adventure

thumb|The full film In post-Napoleonic France, the Duke of Corlaine reprimands Count Villiers because his Spanish fiancée, Princess Maria, has run away. When Maria's carriage is accosted by highwaymen, Captain Scarlett, a Frenchman returning from England, fends off the attackers. Villiers arrives shortly after and arrests the remaining highwayman, but is ungrateful to Scarlett.

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