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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 140 films · Page 4.
Adventure, adventure film, pirate film, treasure hunt film
thumb|Lobby card Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during a birthday celebration, the mysterious Billy Bones (Lionel Barry…
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treasure hunt film
Sidney Preston, a disgruntled White House aide, takes off with $4 million that belonged to the government. While on the run, he stops at a roadside diner in Arizona and has their world-famous chili, while flirting with the waitress. Two cl…
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Action, Treasure Hunting, adventure film, horror film
In ancient Egypt, Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh who is said to have died young, was actually sent by the sun god Ra to protect the people from the demon Set, who escaped from the Underworld and caused chaos in Egypt. With Ra's blessing, Tut…
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Thriller, action film, horror film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
Caine, a gunrunner, becomes stranded in a small port on the Red Sea. While there, he meets an attractive woman, Anna, who propositions him to dive into shark-infested waters off the coast. Though she alleges the purpose of the dive is scie…
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Fantasy, Treasure Hunting, drama film, fantasy film
When Prosper and Boniface's parents die, their aunt Esther plans to adopt six-year-old Bo and send 12-year-old Prosper away to boarding school. But before she can separate the two, Prosper takes Bo to Venice, the city about which their mot…
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Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, treasure hunt film
The film is narrated by a mother who tells her daughter a bedtime story from a large book: In the city of Basra, the evil vizier Jaffar has clouded the caliph's mind and imprisoned his daughter, Princess Alina in order to marry her. Jaffar…
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Adventure, Drama, Romance Film, action film, drama film, treasure hunt film
Two men of the sea carry an ongoing rivalry: Mayrant Sidneye, owner of the shipping company Batjak Limited, and Captain Ralls. Ralls is the ruthless captain of the Red Witch, Batjak's flagship. He deliberately wrecks and sinks the ship and…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, treasure hunt film
Phaedra (Sophia Loren) is a poor Greek sponge diver on the island of Hydra. She works from the boat of her boyfriend, Rhif (Jorge Mistral), an immigrant from Albania. She accidentally finds an ancient Greek statue of a boy riding a dolphin…
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Romance Film, Western, drama film, treasure hunt film
Set in 1950s Arizona, the story follows a drifter and gambler named Beaudray Demerille. In a card game, he wins the movie's title character, Wanda Nevada, a 13-year-old orphan with dreams of singing at the Grand Ole Opry. Despite his best …
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, treasure hunt film
John Talbot is talking on radio to a woman and a man who is flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane. Some time later, Talbot appears in a small town in Louisiana, where he starts a fight with some local…
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Action, Adventure, action film, treasure hunt film
Gibbie Gibson has discovered a World War II-era plane wreck in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. When his discovery becomes known Gibson, his daughter Sally and his lodger Barney Whitaker find trouble from a group of treasure hunters led b…
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Adventure, adventure film, pirate film, treasure hunt film
Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) is a young boy who at the start of the story works at his mother's (Maria Rohm) inn. A drunken old sailor named Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) moves in and proceeds todrink heavily, terrorise locals with pirate son…
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adventure film, treasure hunt film
In post-Civil War Kentucky, ex-slave Ben arrives at Grassy, the decaying plantation where young Davie Burnie, his aunts Effie and Lou, and young ex-slave Thad live. Ben reveals that Davie's father hid a treasure map in a book in the home. …
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, musical film, romantic comedy, treasure hunt film
United States Navy officer Lieutenant Junior Grade (j.g.) Ted Jackson is a former U.S. Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer who divides his time between twin careers as a deep-sea diver and nightclub singer. Ted discovers what he belie…
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Adventure, Drama, Pirate Film, Treasure Hunting, adventure television series, drama television series, pirate film, treasure hunt film
Young Jim Hawkins (Toby Regbo) discovers a map to a legendary island of treasure belonging to the infamous Captain Flint (Donald Sutherland) and embarks on a journey aboard the ship Hispaniola to find it; however, the enigmatic Long John S…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, heist film, treasure hunt film
Sam Whiskey, an adventurer and rogue in the Old West, is seduced by Laura Breckenridge, a wealthy widow and daughter of a prominent Oklahoma political family, into promising to retrieve $250,000 in gold bars from a riverboat that recently …
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Adventure, adventure film, fantasy film, treasure hunt film
In 1881, Irish dream chaser Patrick "Patsy" O'Brien and his daughter Kathy have failed to strike it rich in the diamond mines of Kimberley, South Africa (then the Cape Colony). They persuade a reluctant Allan Quartermain to drive them to t…
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Treasure Hunting, adventure film
Giff Hoyt (Bronson), a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff beco…
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horror film, treasure hunt film
In two flashbacks, a relic is created in 50 AD, then hidden by Jews from a Crusader mob in medieval Rennes-le-Château. In present-day Rennes-le-Château, an academic under instructions from Magnus Martel is seen with the relic—the Loculus—r…
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Adventure, Family Comedy, Komödie, Pirate Film, Treasure Hunting, comedy film, pirate film
Davie (Adam Wylie), a cabin boy who was betrayed and marooned by the nasty Captain Lucky (Leslie Nielsen) on Pirate Island, escapes the captain's trap and sets up booby traps with the help of a monkey named Chester to catch Lucky and his c…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, treasure hunt film
A group of adventurers journey deep into the South American jungle in search of ancient Incan treasure. A beautiful woman, brought to their camp by hired bearers, has come to join her husband, a newer member of the group, who was recently …
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Action, Adventure, Thriller, Treasure Hunting, mystery film, treasure hunt film
The film centres on Michael Archer (C. Thomas Howell), a forensic anthropologist who inadvertently discovers a set of subtle clues within the works of Leonardo da Vinci, that, when interpreted correctly, will lead the finder to "enlightenm…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, treasure hunt film
Johnny and his wife Theresa, along with mercenary Dominic Quesada, priest Father Cannon, and Gloria, the boat owner, search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean. While on a dive, they come across a wreck that they assume holds treasure. Wh…
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Treasure Hunting, adventure film
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends Jane and the Colonel on a mission to prevent the diamonds of the fabled Lost City from falling into enemy hands. Journeying to Africa where they are joined by Jungle Jack Buck, their quest is …
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