The Arm of the Law (1932)
Adventure
A reporter investigates the murder of a nightclub dancer who had become involved in a divorce case.
Adventure movies
Explore journeys, exploration and adventurous quests.
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An Arabian Knight (1920)
Adventure, Comedy drama, Drama, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Cordelia Darwin, spinster sister of Egyptologist George Darwin who resides in the desert, is a believer in reincarnation. Certain that she lived two thousand years ago as the Princess Rhodolphis and that youthful dragoman Ahmed is the reincarnation of her lost lover, she installs him in her home as a butler. Elinor Wayne, ward of the Darwins, becomes the prey of Egyptian nobleman Aboul Pasha.
Orphan of the Wilderness (1936)
Adventure, boxing film
Chut is a kangaroo whose mother is killed by hunters. He wanders through the bush and eventually arrives at a homestead, where he is befriended by a farmer, Tom Henton. Years later, Tom puts Chut in a travelling circus run by Shorty McGee.
The Private Gladiator (2002)
Action, Adventure, pornographic film, pornographic parody film, sexploitation film, Sword-and-sandal
Deep Waters (1920)
Adventure, Drama, silent film
Milarepa (2025)
Adventure, Drama, Science fiction
In the Mediterranean, Mila's father is murdered by her aunt, Khulan. Seeking revenge, Mila travels far away to learn magic, and disguises as a boy to do so.
Tall Timbers (1937)
Drama
The film opens at Palm Beach, where life guard Jim Thornton, a former jackeroo, has just graduated from forestry school and is about to look for work in the timber industry. He saves a young woman, Joan Burbridge, from drowning. She is at the beach with Charles Blake, who wants to marry Joan and works for Joan's adopted father Stephen, a timber merchant.
The Breed of the Treshams (1920)
Adventure, silent film
D'Ye Ken John Peel? (1935)
Adventure
Major John Peel returns to England from serving in the Napoleonic Wars to discover that his friend Lucy Merrall is now engaged to be married to local villain Sir Charles Hawksley.
On the High Seas (1922)
Adventure, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, while returning from East Asia, the ship S.S. Andren catches fire. Leone Deveraux is rescued by stokers Jim Dorn and Joe Polack, and the three cast off in a small boat.
The Flaming Signal (1933)
Adventure
Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska (1914)
Adventure, Drama
The Jet Benny Show (1986)
Opening At the start of the film, we see a black-and-white television show, which appears to be The Jack Benny Program, although that name is never used. The host (Steve Norman) welcomes his special guest (Polly MacIntyre), and introduces the sketch for the evening (which is the body of the film, and in color). The “sketch” Jet Benny (Norman), a self-proclaimed “intergalactic soldier of fortune,” is traveling through space in his ship — the Maxwell, piloted by the android Rochester (Kevin Dees) — when the vessel loses power and crashes down on an unfamiliar planet.
Shark Monroe (1918)
Adventure
As described in a film magazine, Shark Monroe (Hart), owner of a sealing vessel, agrees to take Marjorie Hilton (MacDonald) and her brother Webster (McDaniel) to Skagway, provided Webster works his own passage. Majorie falls into the power of Big Baxter (Singleton), a notorious character of the Alaskan coast, and agrees to marry him. Shark appears and, while his men hold the wedding party at bay, marries and runs off with Marjorie.
Lure of the Islands (1942)
Adventure
In the South Pacific, undercover agents Wally and Jinx look for their local contact who was shot by the commandant, a Nazi, before he could pass details of a secret German/Japanese radio. Island girls under taboo, Tana and Maui, agree to help, but for a price – they want to get married! The Nazis kidnap the chief to force the natives to cut down trees to build an air field, but cutting the trees is forbidden.
2012: Ice Age (2011)
Action, disaster film, Science fiction
A glacier moves quickly towards North America, specifically the Eastern Seaboard, at 200 mph after a sudden and extremely violent volcanic eruption in Iceland. A series of freak climate and weather events occur such as winter-like snow in August. A family has to pull together to escape what seems like a coming ice age.
Man from Montreal (1939)
Adventure, Drama
Wings Over Africa (1936)
Adventure, Crime
Explorer Tony Cooper and homesick trader Norton find a skeleton in the African jungle with a package intended to be delivered to Victor Wilkins in London. Cooper takes it there and it proves to be from Wilkins' brother – the skeleton was his – with a map showing where he left £100,000 in diamonds for Victor. Cooper agrees to accompany him to Africa and they hire pilots John Trevor and Carol Reed, who all agree to a cut of the profits.
Rustlers' Hideout (1945)
Action, Adventure, Western
Billy and Fuzzy lead a cattle drive and face a gang of ruthless rustlers who use gambling debts and poisoning water holes to stop Billy's herd.
Roarin' Lead (1936)
Western
Hackett is out to take over the Cattlemen's Protective Association by bankrupting them; secretly his men rustle the cattle forcing the payouts to the ranchers. In an effort to obtain more funding, he orders an orphanage that was funded by the creators of the Association to be sold with the orphans to be purchased as child labour. The Three Mesquiteers step in to teach the bad guys a lesson they'll never forget.
Border G-Man (1938)
Adventure
Jim Galloway, posing as a ranch foreman, is sent to investigate a suspicion that ammunition, horses and men are being smuggled out of the country and becomes involved in a mystery and a romance.
Hell of Borneo (1967)
Action, Adventure
The Island of El Dorado lies between the Philippines and Borneo and is under the jurisdiction of neither. The ownership of the island was granted to an American soldier of fortune named Dirkson after the First World War by the Royal house of Sulu. The ownership of the diversified plantation island would be perpetually owned and ruled by the Dirkson family in a manner similar to the British Brooke family, who founded and ruled the Raj of Sarawak.
Last Stop for Paul (2006)
Comedy
Two buddies set out on a low-budget road trip that will take them around the world in this independent comedy-drama. Charlie and Cliff are two close friends who work together selling bathroom supplies. Charlie loves to travel and spends as much time as he can seeing the world on the cheap; Cliff, however, gets nervous about the prospect of going far away from home, and while he often promises to tag along with Charlie, he never does it.
There Goes My Girl (1937)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, romance film
When Jerry Martin and Connie Taylor, reporters for rival newspapers, fall in love, Taylor's Editor Tim Whelan sets up a fake murder to disrupt their wedding. Taylor insists on investigating the story, which causes a break-up with her fiancee. When the two reporters end up covering a real murder, Taylor attempts to reconcile her relationship, while Whelan attempts to break them up again.