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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 277.

The Blue Streak (1926)

Adventure, romance film, silent film

As described in a film magazine review, Richard Manley visits the El Grande mine in Mexico to check his father's interests and renews his acquaintance with Inez Del Rio, a niece of Don Carlos, owner of the mine. Mine superintendent Jack Slade is the rascal responsible for stopping the shipments of ore to Dick's father. Slade plots to remove Dick, who has evidence of Slade's conspiracy, and kidnaps him.

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Verdict of the Sea (1932)

Adventure

Fenn, the domineering second officer of a merchant ship, is attempting to recruit an extra hand in the London docks for a voyage to Singapore but due to his harsh reputation he can find no volunteers. Eventually he manages to persuade a drunken, middle-class man who has apparently fallen down on his luck to sign on to the ship. Aboard ship the well-spoken "Gentleman" Burton attracts the interest of the captain's daughter Paddy who is curious at his mysterious past.

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The Apocalypse (2007)

Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, Drama, Science fiction

The film takes place in the United States in what is presumably the present day. A large, colossal meteorite is heading towards the Earth, and threatens to wipe out the human race in a manner similar to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Whilst the Earth begins a series of efforts to divert and later destroy the meteorite, two parents - Jason and Ashley - search for their missing child, who is in Los Angeles, whilst attempting to overcome various catastrophes somehow triggered by the arrival of the meteorite.

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A Man Must Live (1925)

Adventure, silent film

As described in a review in a film magazine, back from World War I and finding a soldier's welcome, Geoffrey Farnell (Dix), while waiting the outcome of a lawsuit against a corporation, finds an uncongenial place on the staff of a scandal-hunting newspaper. Editor Job Hardcastle (Nash) gives Geoffrey a warning that his stories lack the hectic pep that his readers demand. He is sent to find a racy society divorcee 'Mops' Collins (Logan) who has sunk to the level of working as a cabaret dancer at a cheap concert hall.

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Santa Fe Bound (1936)

Action, Western

Out on the trail cowboy Tom Crenshaw is forced to shoot and kill a bushwhacker. He takes the dead man's money belt and a letter he finds on him into the nearest town. It turns out that the bushwhacker was a killer hired by a local bandit leader, and the gang thinks that Tom is the man they hired.

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Big Wata (2018)

Adventure, documentary film

The youth of a fishing community in Sierra Leone have discovered their new identity through surfing, but the elders in the community disapprove of what they set out to do but they have to fight all odds to make their dreams come true.

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