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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 7,240 films · Page 257.

Aliens in the Wild, Wild West (1999)

Adventure, Science fiction, Western

Aliens in the Wild, Wild West takes place in a mid-19th century western town which had been traveled to by two modern day siblings through the means of time travel. The younger sibling, Tom Johnson (Locke), was an annoyance to his older sister Sara (Pope). They fought all the time, which is what got them put into the town.

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Guerreros (2002)

Adventure, Drama, war film

The plot follows a group of Spanish soldiers and their French allies stationed at the border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia during a KFOR humanitarian deployment. The young and inexperienced soldiers become embroiled in the conflict that surrounds them and struggle to survive.

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Untamed (1940)

Adventure, Drama

A doctor takes a hunting trip to the Canadian wilderness. When he gets badly mauled by a bear, his life is saved by his guide Joe Easter. Easter takes the doctor to his cabin, where he is nursed to recovery by Easter's young beautiful wife Alverna, and they fall in love.

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Ghost Diver (1957)

Adventure

When a diver discovers an ancient idol in the sea below some South American cliffs, dive captain Manco Capao cuts his air line and kills him and takes the idol. He sells it to Richard Bristol, host of a television show. Richard, his son Bob, and his secretary Anne fly to South America and begin to explore the island where it was found.

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Barbie Mariposa (2008)

Adventure, Animation, children's film, fantasy film

Bibble is worried that he will embarrass himself and won't belong with his friend's friends, so Elina tells him the story of Mariposa, a butterfly fairy who lives in far-off Flutterfield, a remote kingdom in Fairytopia populated by fairies with butterfly wings. Henna, the evil butterfly fairy and the attendant of the queen of Flutterfield, has poisoned the queen in an attempt to take over the kingdom. Due to this, the lights protecting Flutterfield are in danger of going out, as they go out only when the queen is dead.

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The Fighting Marines (1935)

Action, Pirate Film, Science fiction

The Fighting Marines follows the United States Marine Corps' efforts to construct a landing strip on Halfway Island in the Pacific Ocean. The island becomes the target of sabotage by a mysterious masked villain known only as The Tiger Shark, who seeks to protect his hidden base located on the island. Using an array of sabotage techniques and attacks, The Tiger Shark attempts to halt the Marines’ construction efforts.

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Trader Hornee (1970)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Erotic Film, sexploitation film

Detective Hamilton Hornee and his team organize an expedition into mysterious Africa to search for Algona, heiress to her father's fortune. Algona happens to have become a magnificent blonde elephant-riding goddess worshiped by the frightened tribe of the Meshpokas.

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Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)

Western

The plot is a variation on the standard B-Western "Land Grab" plot: Gold has been discovered in the area and gambler Jim Rodney intends to make sole claim to it by pushing the rightful owners off the land and taking it for himself. To do so he has his henchmen kill an Indian woman, provoking attacks from her tribe. This brings Buffalo Bill and the United States Cavalry into the town.

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Fury of the Congo (1951)

Action, Adventure

Adventurer Jungle Jim is traversing the jungles of the Congo when he notices a plane diving toward the river. Jim rescues the injured pilot, Ronald Cameron, from the deep waters. Cameron tells Jim that he is trying to find missing biochemistry professor Dunham pursuant to the University of Cairo's request.

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Code Name: Heraclitus (1967)

spy film

Stanley Baker stars as a British spy who investigates the past of Lydia Constantine (Signe Hasso), the widow of secret agent Constantine (Kurt Kasznar). Lydia is suspected of selling Cold War secrets to the Soviet Union. To ascertain the truth, it is necessary to "rebuild" agent Constantine and send his living counterpart behind the Iron Curtain.

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Black Arrow (1944)

Buck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation to prospect for gold and end up killing Aranho, the Navajos' chief. Black Arrow, presumed to be Aranho's son, refuses to kill the Indian agent, Tom Whitney, in revenge, as demanded by Navajo law. Black Arrow is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides to join forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and Whitney to track down the men who killed the chief (Sherman and Jackson).

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Alaska (1944)

Adventure, Crime

Gary Corbett kills a pair of claim jumpers who did likewise to his father. He is charged with murder, but cannot be taken to Juneau to stand trial until the weather permits. Marshal John Masters keeps him in town until the prisoner can be moved.

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The Quick and the Undead (2006)

Action, Horror, Science fiction, Zombie

In the present, a plague breaks out causing the infected to become zombies. The action starts 80 years later, where the western United States has devolved into a series of ghost towns overrun by zombies. The government awards bounty hunters bounties in exchange for pinkies of the undead.

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Storm Over Bengal (1938)

Action, Adventure, war film

Two Royal Air Force officers, Flt Lt Hallett and F/O Neil Allison visit a British outpost in India. Neil is the younger brother of Army Intelligence officer Captain Jeffrey Allison who is away on an undercover mission in the unaligned and independent princely state of Lhanapur. The British are worried about radio broadcasts from Ramin Khan inciting the Indian people to revolt.

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Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)

In Wasabi, Africa, anthropologist Dr. Linda Roberts embarks on an expedition to find the rumored land of the Giant People, aided by guide Jungle Jim after her original crew abandons her. As they navigate wildlife attacks and local dangers, government officials and traders become entangled in conflicts over ivory poaching and the captured giants.

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Drake of England (1935)

Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1567, Francis Drake and his cousin John Hawkins set sail from Plymouth, watched by Elizabeth Sydenham, soon to be a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth. The following year, the queen is most displeased when Drake brings news that the expedition to the West Indies has ended in disaster, a venture in which the queen's own ship, the Jesus of Lubeck, has been captured. Drake reports that their trading was successful, but then a Spanish fleet, commanded by Don Enriquez, sailed into the harbor.

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Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid (2008)

children's film

Roxy is at it again when, in pursuit of a local journalism award, she befriends and brings home a mysterious amnesiac who was found soaking wet outside of the local coffee shop. After ceremoniously naming her Annie Nonomys, Roxy takes the young lady home and finds that even the most common household item is a complete mystery to Annie. When Annie returns dripping wet from the lake several nights in a row, Roxy determines what is abundantly clear to her: Annie is a mermaid, who has to find her way home back in the sea.

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Captain Thunderbolt (1953)

bushranging film, Western

Fred Ward is imprisoned for horse stealing. He escapes from Cockatoo Island and under the name of Captain Thunderbolt becomes a bushranger in the New England region, working with his friend and fellow escapee Alan Blake. Blake has a romantic involvement with a Aboriginal girl Maggie that equally infringes the norms of the day.

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