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Adventure
12-year-old Tommy (Konsta Hietanen) moves to Lapland with his zoologist father Olli Oksa (Antti Virmavirta). Father's job is to return the Leevi lynx back to nature, but reindeer herders don't like a beast that threatens their property. Olli tells his late wife's brother Jouko (Risto Tuorila), Tommy's uncle, that Tommy still hasn't gotten over his mother's (Katariina Kaitue) death.
Adventure, family film
Adventure, Pirate Film
Captain Silver and his crew receive a distress call in the South Pacific. They rescue the crew of a yacht from modern pirates and get caught up in a search for lost treasure.
Western
Manion allows a killer horse to roam free and ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. His plan is to "shakedown' the ranchers for protection. Roy tracks down the bad guys with help from a young lad.
Adventure
When her mother died, Grace returned to live in Africa with Gary, her geologist father, whom she had not seen much of since the divorce of her parents. One day he was advised not to fly due to bad weather. As he was excited by his forthcoming re-union with his daughter, he ignored the warning and took off.
Adventure, family film
Adventure
Captain Jim Knight, and his crew Roxy, Tula, and a chimp named Salty sail the South Seas in search of adventure. They discover a criminal gang has taken over a small island, forcing the native pearl divers to dive beyond safe limits. After capturing the three-man gang, Knight takes them to Tahiti for trial where the men escape and force Knight to sail them to New Zealand.
Horror
Urchin is the story of a child who lives in Scum City. When the Old Man came to Scum City, a homeless camp in the Manhattan tunnels, his story seemed wild. He was from a kingdom deep within the earth, he said, and was sent to find the five nobles who got lost up here.
Adventure
Two teams of scientists scour the dark jungles of Africa to find a secret formula. Chapter titles Shipwrecked Captured by Cannibals Stampeding Death Terrors of the Jungle The Plunge of Peril Thundering Waters The Hidden Monster Jungle Treachery The Avenging Fire God Descending Doom The Dragon Strikes The Pit of Flame
Adventure, Drama, romance film
Young Ellen decides to take a boat journey to Svalbard in northern Norway. She ends up wandering in Spitsbergen, where she spends winter in a cabin on a fjord surrounded by glaciers. She shares a cabin with a Norwegian trapper named Lars as she tries to adapt to the perilous climate and face dangers such as fighting polar bears.
Action, Adventure, Martial arts, thriller film
U.S. Navy reserve officer Zac Connors (Richard Norton) goes to Thailand to find out what happened to his grandfather, a soldier in World War 2, whose plane went down a few days after the war ended. He is attacked by a group of thugs in the forest but rescued by a rebellious young woman named Suay (Rochelle Ashana) and her friend Chai (Kowit Wattanakul).
Four English orphans – Cherry, Nigel, Brick and Nippy – migrate to Tasmania, to the care of their Aunt Jandie on her farm outside Hobart. Their arrival is greeted with enthusiasm by young farm boy Tas, and weeks of exploration and good times follow before Aunt Jandie enters hospital, leaving the children in the care of Ma and Pa Pinner, her foreman and housekeeper. A few days of tyrannical treatment by the Pinners force the children to seek refuge in a secret cave, where they set up home to await the return of Jandie.
Adventure
Taro is a native of the island of Tofua who kidnaps a wife named Lilleo from the neighbouring island while bride hunting. At first, she greatly dislikes him but comes to love him. During a feast, an American schooner arrives at the island and offers liquor and trinkets, such as pocket watches to the natives if they sign a form they can not read, which forces them to work in terrible conditions in the phosphate mine on the island of Patua for the Olympic Mining Company.
Adventure, Drama
thumb|Studio advertisement for an earlier project starring Marion Burns in place of Fay Wray After attacking and destroying a Chinese outpost, an American officer is dismissed from the US Navy and instead finds himself in charge of a gunboat and tries to prevent a mission being overrun by Communist insurgents.
Adventure
Bruce Kellogg and his friend Alex are off to Africa on an expedition to the "City of the Dead" that is actually footage of Angkor Wat. Bruce's fiancée Betty and her father decide to go along to visit her father's brother James who is a missionary in the same part of Africa. Arriving at the Rev Graham's home they meet Dr Hammond who has spent five years developing a serum to a deadly fever that rages in the area.
Comedy drama, Drama
In 1990, an Indonesian fishing boat drops a group of male Iraqi and Cambodian refugees on the West Australian coast, telling them there is a bus stop over the hill from which they will be able to go to Perth. They soon realise that there is no bus stop, and that they are in fact a remote desert area far from any road, town or city. Most of the group find their way to a small town pub, and are rounded up by local police.
Adventure
A criminal gang discovers a Genghis Khan treasure ship on the Canada-Alaska border. However, the treasure itself is hidden on land. In their efforts to find the hidden riches, they resort to murder and sabotage to stop the construction of the Alcan highway which will bring homesteaders to the area.
Adventure
"Tailspin" Tommy (Clark Williams) and his fellow pilots, Betty Lou Barnes (Jean Rogers) and Skeeter Milligan (Noah Beery, Jr.) prevent a group of corrupt businessmen from stealing Nazil Island's oil reserves. The villains are Manuel Casmetto (Herbert Heywood), the half-brother of Don Alvarado Casmetto, Nazil Island's ruler and villainous oil tycoon Horace Raymore (Matthew Betz). Tommy and his friends are aided in their efforts by news reporter Bill McGuire (James P.
Adventure
College sports hero Frank Meriwell leaves school before an impending decisive baseball game to track down his missing father and locate a fabulous lost treasure.
Adventure
Various expeditionary parties head to Zanzibar to search for a legendary cache of ivory and a missing explorer named Jack Morgan. Tom Tyler played the hero, Kirk Montgomery, and Cecilia Parker played the heroine, Barbara Morgan, who is searching for her missing brother Jack. Boris Shillov and his henchman Comrade Krotsky are also searching for the ivory.
Science fiction
The film tells the story of widowed father Jeffrey Wilder , who works as a cab driver, and his son Eric , as they are unexpectedly hurled into the adventure of a lifetime. When a NASA truck carrying a space canister crashes near their home, Jeffrey and Eric rush inside the wrecked vehicle to recover the helpless driver and a few scientists. However, near the end of the rescue, the truck violently explodes, and Jeffrey is rushed to the hospital, 90% of his body covered in second- and third-degree burns.
Drama
Doctor Robert Cromwell (played by Lyle Talbot) is charged with murder when a patient dies after an experimental operation to remove a brain tumor. His pilot friend, Donald Evans (Frank Hawks), convinces "Doc" to join him on a trans-Pacific trip as a means to start a new life. They plot a flight path across the Bering Strait, but rough weather blows them off course and they end up in Alaska.
Adventure, fantasy film
The plot revolves around a precocious young girl called Bukky who loves to assist her father enthusiastically to solve arithmetic and logic but easily gets on the nerves of her mother.
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When two young men speak out against their country's dictator through the artistic medium of graffiti, their rebellious act is taken quite seriously, and they are both sent to jail. Little does their government know that these two youths also possess the creativity needed to plan a great escape. Upon breaking out of prison, they pose as tour guides to two American girls, driving them around Spain.