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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 168 films · Page 5.
comedy drama, pirate film
The story opens on Skeleton Island, an uncharted island somewhere in the Falkland Islands chain, where Long John Silver and Billy Bones have staged a successful mutiny against Captain Flint. The group is attacked by gigantic insects, and r…
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Western, swashbuckler film
After receiving a letter from his father requesting his immediate return home, Don Diego de la Vega resigns his commission as a cadet and sails from Spain to California. Arriving in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, he learns that his father has …
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Pirate Film, adventure film, pirate film
left|thumb|Robert Newton and Linda Darnell in Blackbeard the Pirate The film follows Royal Navy lieutenant Robert Maynard, who seeks a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan engages in piracy. Maynard poses as a surgeon aboard the s…
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Adventure, Historie, drama film, silent film, swashbuckler film
The film stars Fairbanks as d'Artagnan, Marguerite De La Motte as his beloved Constance (who is killed early in the film to protect the secret that the King has a twin brother), Nigel De Brulier as the scheming Cardinal Richelieu, and Ullr…
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Cartoon, Sci-Fi, Swashbuckler, Western, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Far out in space on New Texas, a single marshal protects a frontier people from the evil machinations of Stampede and his lackey, Tex Hex.
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Adventure, action film, adventure film, melodrama, silent film, swashbuckler film
thumb|thumbtime=1|The Three Musketeers (1921) In the royal court of France, Cardinal Richelieu vies for influence over King Louis XIII. The greatest obstacle to his dominance is Anne of Austria, the Queen of France. Anne is loved by the Du…
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Action, Sport, action film, drama film, sport film, swashbuckler film, thriller film
Alexander Villard (Eric Roberts) is a former fencing champion who runs a highly competitive fencing school. One of his students describes him as "a freak who thinks he's living in the fourteenth century". Max Suba (F.
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Adventure, adventure film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
At the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland in 1745, Jamie Durie (Errol Flynn), his younger brother Henry (Anthony Steel) and their father Lord Durrisdeer (Felix Aylmer) receive news of the Jacobite rising. Their retainer, MacKellar (Mervyn Johns…
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Melodrama, Pirate Film, Romance Film, War Film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
In the closing stages of the War of 1812, Dolly Madison evacuates the White House as the British Army arrives and burns Washington. Jean Lafitte asks a young woman of good family, Annette de Remy, to marry him, but she asks him to give up …
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Adventure, Historie, Knights Tale, Romance Film, swashbuckler film
In 1465, honorable but penniless Scottish knight Quentin Durward agrees to go to France to find out if the beautiful young heiress, Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, would be a suitable wife for his aged uncle. The marriage has been arranged …
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Adventure, adventure film, swashbuckler film
During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, who is really Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise, risks his life to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine and take them across the English Channel to safety. As cover, Sir Percy pose…
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action film, swashbuckler film
The adaptation starts by describing a divided Scotland which is populated by Highlanders and Lowlanders who are loyal to different kings. Alan Breck Stewart is characterised as a leading figure of Jacobitism who tried "to keep the flame al…
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Adventure, Komödie, musical film, parody film, slapstick, swashbuckler film
Swashbuckler, adventure film
When King Charles I is captured by Roundhead forces led by the tyrant Colonel Judd and his right-hand man Captain Sylvester, it is up to a band of locals loyal to the King led by a Robin Hood–type character named the Scarlet Blade to try t…
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Swashbuckler, drama film, swashbuckler film
James (Niven), the Duke of Brampton and the richest man in England, is so trusted by King Charles II (Sanders), he is able to have two of the King's loyal friends executed for treason. The second is the father of Lady Mary (Blyth). She tra…
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Adventure, Pirate Film, Romance Film, drama film, pirate film, romance film, swashbuckler film
Dutch sea captain Laurent van Horn is shipwrecked off the coast of the Spanish settlement of Cartagena. After being held and sentenced to death, Van Horn and his crew manage to escape. Five years later, Van Horn has established himself as …
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Adventure, Drama, drama film, swashbuckler film
A gothic melodrama set in England during the 18th century, the film is about John Mohune, a young orphan (Jon Whiteley), who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with his mother's former lover, Jeremy Fox. Fox (Stewart Grange…
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Pirate Film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
left|thumb|Jean Peters in Anne of the Indies After seizing a British ship, pirate captain Anne Providence spares LaRochelle, a Frenchman captured by the British, from walking the plank. LaRochelle agrees to join Providence's crew and she s…
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Adventure, Drama, swashbuckler film
The legend of D'Artagnan (Michael York) gets a gender-bending update in this swashbuckling adventure. Though legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well…
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Adventure, swashbuckler film
Callow youth d'Artagnan sets off from Gascony for Paris, armed with his father's sword, an old horse and a letter of introduction to his godfather, Captain de Treville, commander of the King's Musketeers. Along the way, he attempts to resc…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, swashbuckler film
In 1865, the proletarian General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders) becomes the behind-the-scenes dictator of the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg located in the Balkans. Gurko suppresses the clergy and the free press and imprisons the Prime Minister …
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Adventure
At the instigation of his half brother Lionel, Oliver Tressilian, a wealthy baronet, is shanghaied and blamed for the death of Peter Godolphin, brother of Oliver's fiancée, whom Lionel actually has slain. At sea Oliver is captured by Spani…
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Adventure, medieval film, swashbuckler film
In 13th-century Tangiers, master thief Yussef, hired by Mokar, an agent of the city's regent Prince Mustapha, is sent to kill baby prince Hussein so that Mustapha can claim the throne in Hussein's stead. However, Yussef cannot allow himsel…
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adventure film, drama film, family film
Robin McAllister (Devon Sawa) and his family win the lottery and they end up moving from Kansas City to Seattle where Robin attends Locksley Academy, a wealthy private school. While there Robin comes up with a plan to help one of his frien…
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