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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 264.

The Oregon Trail (1939)

Drama, Western

Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan, the representative of an eastern syndicate, has full control of the fur trade. Morgan sends his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the latest wagon train in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.

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Killer Leopard (1954)

Adventure

Bomba is hunting a rogue leopard when Commissioner Barnes asks him to assist a movie starlet trying to find her lost husband. The husband, wanting nothing to do with his famous wife, isn't lost but is in Africa attempting to use money he embezzled to purchase illicit diamonds.

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The Mark of the Renegade (1951)

Adventure, swashbuckler film

In 1825, after fleeing a pirate ship, Marcos Zappa is taken to meet Don Pedro Garcia, whose ambition is to become emperor of California for the Republic of Mexico. Garcia knows that Marcos bears an "R" mark beneath his bandana that identifies him as a renegade and traitor. Garcia schemes to have Marcos seduce and marry Manuella, the daughter of his rival Jose de Marquez, having been rejected as a suitor himself.

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Pop Pirates (1984)

Adventure

"The Pirates" are a schoolboy pop group who enter a local talent contest. When it comes to a crucial round in the contest, lead singer Paul is unable to attend, because of his involvement in his uncle Stewart's videotape piracy racket. Paul is thrown out of the group, and their road manager alerts the police to Stewart's nefarious activities.

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The Valley of Vanishing Men (1942)

In this serial, Wild Bill Tolliver and Missouri Benson are a pair of adventurers who ride into the vast New Mexico Territory in search of Bill's father, Henry Tolliver, who mysteriously disappeared while prospecting for gold. They soon discover that a ruthless outlaw leader, Jonathan Kincaid, owns an immense mine of gold in which he uses captured Mexican patriots, among others, to work as slaves in the mine. They also learn that Kincaid has joined forces with Colonel Carl Engler, a renegade eastern European soldier, to carry out his cruel intentions.

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Glory Glory (2000)

Western

It is the dawn of the Wild West in Silver Creek. A gang of beautiful but deadly women have unleashed violence on the society that failed to protect them, robbing banks and destroying everything in their path. A posse is sent after these masked raiders, not knowing whom they are chasing nor the fate that will await them – for bringing these female vigilantes to justice will unleash a surprising past and a new future for all.

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Almost Sunrise (2016)

Adventure, documentary film, Drama, war film

Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson are two troubled veterans of the Iraq War. Tom, haunted by his experiences in Iraq, struggles to find peace within himself. He comes from a family with a strong military background, and the scars of war have left him feeling disconnected and searching for healing.

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Paid (2006)

Noir

Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux, a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives.

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Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)

Treasure hunt, Western

After Professor Marsh disappears while searching for the lost city of Lukachukai, a party of anthropologists including Marsh's daughter Betty arrive in a Western town to prepare an expedition to look for him. Meanwhile, the Three Mesquiteers have discovered a delirious man wandering the desert and bring him to town where Betty recognizes him as a member of her missing father's expedition. As the man slowly gets his memory back the party wishes to know the location of Professor Marsh and Lukachukai that contains an ancient legendary treasure.

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Give Us Wings (1940)

Crime

Tom, Pig, String, Ape, and Rap, collectively known as "The Dead End Kids", are learning to become aeronautical mechanics in the National Youth Administration Work Program plant. The Kids really want to fly and think they have learned enough to become pilots. Their dreams of flight will not come true because the Civil Aeronautics Authority flight school requires them to have completed high school, something none of them have achieved.

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