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Adventure, family film
An ancient and magical amulet which has the power to stop time is passed through generations. Justin, a half-Shoshone kid, tries to prevent an evil mogul from taking control of the object with his imaginary friend, Olive.
Adventure
On a train bound for lawless northern China, businessman Gordon Creed encounters acquaintance Myron Galt and his attractive daughter Lola. Galt is on his way to foreclose on a very promising oilfield built up by Jim Hallet. Creed, on the other hand, wants to offer Hallet enough money to pay off his loan from Galt (for a tidy share of the oilfield).
Adventure
Comedy drama, romantic comedy, Tragicomedy
Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism. When the two end up on a long road trip together, they are forced to re-examine their lives and worldviews.
Adventure
Action, Adventure, Pirate Film
A nobleman rescues Captain Kidd from the gallows in order to find his treasure.
Adventure
In a jungle Mexican Village, a boy drowns in a river under a bridge.
Adventure, Drama
On the roofs of a Tibetan monastery two boys let fly a kite, but suddenly a shot rips the relaxed silence, and one of the two boys gets shot, the "Golden Boy" which is the fictitious successor to the Dalai Lama. The monks act immediately and bring him out of Tibet to secure his body. In the meantime, the Berlinese mountaineer Johanna and her Swiss friend travel to the monastery to stay there for some days.
Adventure
Action, Drama, sport film
The best fighter in the world works two jobs and supports his sister. The only problem… he doesn’t know he’s the best. Ringo Duran, the son of Gracie Duran, a famous Argentinian kick boxer, works two jobs to make ends meet.
Action, Adventure, musical film
Adventure
Youngster Frank Courtney discovers that he has inherited control of a Los Angeles shipping line. The current president, Norman Bryan, does not want to lose his position and conspires to have the boy killed. Rin Tin Tin Jr., the Wonder Dog, protects the boy from Bryan's murderous plots throughout the serial's running time.
Western
Roy is a "border inspector" ever on the alert for smuggling silver between Mexico and the United States. Roy's Mexican friends have told him that one of their own has important information about a silver mine on the American side of the border, but their contact is shot and killed by the mine guards. Before shooting him, they plant a piece of ore containing a high level of silver on his body.
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Detective
Harriet Zapper is a detective hired by Jeremiah Horn to locate his missing daughter Pandora, who has in fact been murdered by gangland boss Kono. Attempting to investigate, her brother Septimus is also killed by Kono. With the help of three samurai imported from Japan, Zapper pursues Kono and, with her skills in unarmed combat, brings him to justice.
Adventure, mystery film, silent film
Beverly West appeals to Harry Harper, the inventor of a submarine device for salvaging sunken vessels, to help her rescue her father from the South Sea natives who are holding him as a ransom for the skull shaped pearl that Beverly possesses. Also desirous of the pearl is Job Mourdant, Beverly's guardian, who kidnaps his ward and heads out to sea. Harry follows and saves Beverly when Mourdant throws her overboard.
Adventure
Adventure
David Worth travels into Africa to find his old friend Joan Lawrence, who disappeared in a hot air balloon as a child while the pair were with an expedition searching for radium deposits. Unknown to David, she was discovered by an African tribe and became their queen.
Action, Western
Prospector Juan Valdez is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang in an attempt to discover the location of his gold mine. Valdez's dog Rinty witnesses the murder and can also lead the gang to the mine, making him the villains' target throughout the serial. In addition, while being blamed as the wolf that has been attacking local livestock, Rinty must help Valdez's daughter Dolores legitimately find and claim the mine.
historical film
The film is set in 1901, and is based on events surrounding the growing Macedonian resistance to the Ottoman Empire. Resistance groups known as "Komiti" show the readiness of the Macedonian people to fight for freedom. At the same time different religious missions are trying to expand their influence among the people.
Adventure, fantasy film
Western
In the 1890s, outlaws in the Wyoming Territory are trying to prevent a vote for statehood. Undercover federal agents John Tipton and Bridger head for Crocket City, which is a source of much of the criminal activity. Tipton encounters Major Carter, his daughter Janet, and their servant Moses, who have fallen behind their wagon train of settlers on the way to Crocket City.
Drama
When John Woolfolk's wife dies in an accident, he vows not to open himself to future emotional harm. With a shipmate, Paul Halvard, he begins sailing around the world, coming to anchor near an isolated, dilapidated mansion on the Southern coast, inhabited by a young woman, Nellie Stope, and her grandfather, Litchfield, who lives in fearful seclusion after his experiences in the Civil War. The one other inhabitant is a brutish "servant," Iscah Nicholas, who terrorizes the other two and is later revealed to be an escaped convict and "homicidal maniac." Nicholas, a "man-child," lusts after Nellie and harasses her, placing her on a stump in…
Adventure
After an ambush by an Arab tribe, two surviving French Legionnaires return to their fort. One of them, Capt. Edwards, is assigned a new patrol and a mission to alert another fort that an attack may be imminent.
Adventure, musical film