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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 273.

A Private Scandal (1931)

Adventure

After a jewel robbery at the home of a member of the Boston elite, Count Raymond d'Alencourt is arrested by police due to his previous record. However, his accomplices get away with the loot and go to ground in a small Connecticut town. One of them marries Mary Gate, the daughter of a local family as cover for smuggling the jewels into New York.

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Sword of the Avenger (1948)

Adventure

The setting of the film is the Philippines in 1827, while it was under Spanish rule. Roberto Balagtas (Delgado) is falsely arrested for treason and sent to prison where he is tortured. He escapes with other prisoners, but only Batagtas survives the escape, carrying with him a treasure map left by one of the others.

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First Lady of the Revolution (2016)

Adventure, Biography, documentary film, Drama, romance film

While visiting an aunt and uncle in the exotic countryside of Costa Rica, a young southern belle from Alabama accepted a ride on the back of a motorcycle belonging to a local charismatic farmer — a ride that would propel her down narrow mountain roads and into history. First Lady of the Revolution is the story of Henrietta Boggs, who fell in love with a foreign land and the man destined to transform its identity. Her marriage to José Figueres Ferrer in 1941 led to a decade-long journey through activism, exile and political upheaval and, ultimately, lasting progressive reforms.

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Danger Ahead (1940)

Adventure

Dorothea Kent played the romantic interest as the commander’s daughter, Genevieve, who studied criminology in college and is determined to help Renfrew solve the case, much to his disgust. When one of the Maxwell Company’s armored cars disappear with a gold shipment, the missing driver, Bob Hill, is suspected of theft. In actuality, Maxwell and his henchmen had poured acid on the truck’s brake lines, causing the vehicle to crash into a mountain lake.

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The Mysterious Airman (1928)

Adventure, silent film

Jack Baker (Walter Miller) is an aviation engineer, pilot, and president of the Baker Aircraft Company. He has invented new aviation innovations to be mounted on his company's aircraft. The owners of Globe Air Corporation, a rival aviation company, are after these new inventions.

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Stolen Goods (1915)

Adventure, silent film

An orphan named Margery (Blanche Sweet) is working a dressmaking company in New York. She is sent to prison when a rich kleptomaniac named Helen North (Cleo Ridgely) puts some stolen lace in Margery's handbag. After leaving the prison she becomes a nurse for some time until the hospital she works at finds out she has a record.

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The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920)

Adventure, Drama, silent film

As described in a film magazine, during a cruise of the Elsinore, Captain Nathaniel Somers (MacGregor) is assassinated and John Pike (Lewis) takes control of the schooner to provide an income for the skipper's son Dick (Casson Ferguson). The latter dislikes the sea, but Pike insists that he make the voyage to keep his obligations to Margaret West (Helen Ferguson), daughter of a former half-owner of the ship. Members of the crew are cut-throats, and mutiny at the earliest opportunity, giving Pike the fight for his life.

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Flight into Nowhere (1938)

Adventure

Headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg (Dick Purcell), despite landing safely, flew his airliner into a storm, and is fired. When, his boss at Trans Continental Airways, Jim Horne (Jack Holt), finds out Bill has secretly wed Joan Hammond (Jacqueline Wells), the daughter of the airline's owner, he relents and allows Bill to keep his job. Fellow pilot, Ike Matthews (James Burke), is assigned to a proving flight over the western coast of the South American jungle to photograph potential landing fields.

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Man's Best Friend (1935)

Adventure

A boy (Haig) and his dog Lightning find trouble with his father (Brownlee), whose treats the dog as a pest and a nuisance, rather than a pet, blaming the dog for the rampant deaths of various baby pigs on their farm. Eventually, shortly after the boy gets off school for a summer vacation, his school teacher is trapped in a cave after a cave-in, and while getting help, Lightning is able to dig into the cave and save the teacher, still receiving no positive attention from the boys father.Soon after this, Lightening has a litter of puppies, and to protect them from bears, takes them to the farm, where the boy's father finds them, and…

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