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Adventure movies

Explore journeys, exploration and adventurous quests.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 248.

Devil Goddess (1955)

Action, Adventure

Adventure-seeker Johnny Weissmuller receives a request from Professor Carl Blakely to collaboratively rescue a certain Professor Dixon from the Mountain of Explosive Fire in Kirundi. Blakely's daughter Nora comes along. The Kirundi natives belong to a religious tribe worshipping a demon thought to control fire.

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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

Mysterie, mystery film

Phyllis Clavering, the girlfriend of Captain Drummond, is kidnapped. Murderer Mikhail Valdin and his sister, Irena Soldanis, seek revenge for the death of her husband, sent to the gallows a year ago through Drummond's actions. Though Valdin could shoot Drummond, he informs the captain that it would be too quick.

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Step Mother (1958)

Adventure, children's film, Drama

In one of the Azerbaijani villages where young Ismail (played by Jeyhun Mirzayev) lives, his father brings his wife Dilara (played by Najiba Malikova), who works as a doctor, and her daughter Jamila, Ismail's same age and half-sister. Ismail is a well-known mischievous person in the village and teases Jamila all the time, but does not like his stepmother. But he begins to hate her even more after Dilyara shows his father Ismail's school diary, in which there are only deuces.

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Robotropolis (2011)

Cyberpunk, Horror, Science fiction

A group of reporters are covering the unveiling of a new facility that is completely maintained by robot prototypes. When one of the robots goes haywire, the reporters find themselves not just reporting on the malfunction, but fighting for their lives.

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The Bushbaby (1969)

Adventure, children's film, Drama

One night in the Kenyan grasslands, Jackie Leeds and her family's native friend and servant, Tembo Murumbi, chase a young galago about its preferred habitat, a baobab tree. Tembo catches the small animal and offers it to Jackie as a gift; she names the small bushbaby Komba. A year or so passes since this first encounter, and one day at church, Komba's playfulness causes commotion, disrupting the daily hymn.

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Smashing the Money Ring (1939)

Adventure

A counterfeit money ring is being run from prison by a gangster, Dice Matthews, and a casino owner, Steve Parker, who is behind bars for slugging a cop. U.S. Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft goes undercover as a convict, getting help on the outside from his right-hand man, Gabby, while infiltrating the counterfeiting ring.

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Cannibal Attack (1954)

Adventure, family film

Jungle roamer Johnny Weissmuller (playing himself) is exploring the African waters of Magi somewhere in mid-Cannibal Valley. While doing so, he stumbles upon a corpse apparently killed by a crocodile. Weissmuller decides to report the death to John King, leader of the white colony in the Magi.

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Wagon Wheels (1934)

Adventure, romance film, Western

On May 1, 1844, a wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Oregon, led by old scouts Bill O'Meary and Jim Burch and the young Clint Belmet, whom they reared. Joining them are the beautiful widow Nancy Wellington and her little boy Sonny, whom Nancy kidnapped from her in-laws after they took custody of Sonny when his father died. Clint warns Nancy about the arduous trip west, but she is determined and buys a sturdy rig from the half-Indian fur trapper Kenneth Murdock.

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Sidekick (2005)

fantasy film

Norman Neale and his best friend Chuck have an ongoing debate on the subject of "what single superpower would you choose?" Then, one day, Norman notices Victor Ventura, a successful trader at Richmond financial, the company he works for. While the two are both getting coffee, Norman accidentally drops a mug. Victor amazingly catches the mug in midair.

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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (1943)

Adventure, war film

In 1941, an American aviator, 'Smilin' Jack' Martin wishes to resign as an advisor to the Nationalist Chinese Army in order to return to the United States to enlist as an aviator in America's military buildup prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is delayed when the Chinese discover that the neutral Tibetan like Mandon "Province" contains a secret road from India to China crucial for the Allied war effort. Determined to obtain the secret for themselves, or equally determined to have the secret destroyed is the Japanese espionage organisation "The Black Samurai" and the German intelligence agent Fräulein von Teufel who masquerades as an…

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Wah Do Dem (2009)

Adventure

Brooklyn slacker Max wins two tickets for a Caribbean cruise, but ends up travelling alone after being dropped by his girlfriend, Willow. The trip coincides with the 2008 US election, which is won by Barack Obama. After docking in Jamaica, a series of misfortunes sees him travelling across the country where he meets several characters, including musicians and a mystic Rastaman.

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