Category: Adventure
Posted on February 5, 2013 |
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Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand / Winnetou: Thunder at the Border (1966)
Adventure | Western
The brutal Siler gang is on Winnetou's watch list. Four Apaches have recently been killed. Ntscho-Tschi, heavily hurt, barely escaped the murderers. Legendary Old Firehand asks his friend Winnetou for help: Siler's brother is locked up in the prison of Miramonte. If he should not be free soon, Siler threatens to transform the small border town into a sea of flames. Winnetou does not hesitate for a moment to help defend Miramonte with his silver rifle…
Starring: Pierre Brice, Rod Cameron, Marie Versini, Todd Armstrong, Harald Leipnitz
Director: Alfred Vohrer
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Posted on February 5, 2013 |
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Unter Geiern / Among Vultures (1964)
Adventure | Western
Old Surehand and Winnetou investigate the murders of a mother and daughter. The surviving husband believes that his wife and daughter were murdered by Indians, but Old Surehand suspects that it is the work of a gang of robbers and bandits known as The Vultures, who disguise themselves as Indians while committing their crimes.
Starring: Pierre Brice, Götz George, Elke Sommer, Stewart Granger, Sieghardt Rupp
Director: Alfred Vohrer
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Posted on February 3, 2013 |
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Skyfall (2012)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Helen McCrory, Judi Dench, Ben Whishaw
Director: Sam Mendes
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Posted on February 2, 2013 |
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Timeline (2003)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Starring: Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis
Director: Richard Donner
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Posted on February 2, 2013 |
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Candleshoe (1977)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Small time crook Harry Bundage discovers that the old manor house where Lady St. Edmund resides, with three orphans and her butler Priory is the resting place for a hoard of treasure. Unfortunately, he doesn't know where it is. Bundage recruits urchin Casey Brown to dupe Lady St. Edmund into thinking that she is her long-lost granddaughter, so she can search for clues to the location of the treasure. Unbeknownst to Bundage AND her ladyship, Lady St. Edmund is flat broke, and Priory and the children help her ladyship try to keep her home and pride. Joined by Casey, they do all the chores and Priory acts as the butler, gardener, chauffeur and an old major all at the same time!
Starring: Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern, Veronica Quilligan
Director: Norman Tokar
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Posted on February 1, 2013 |
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The Island (1980)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs across the band of raiders and they decide to induct them into their tribe.
Starring: Michael Caine, David Warner
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Posted on February 1, 2013 |
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The Vikings (1958)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives – both involving the princess Morgana, however.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Posted on February 1, 2013 |
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The Enemy Below (1957)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
During World War II, the USS Haynes, an American destroyer escort discovers a German U-boat in the South Atlantic. A deadly duel between the two ships ensues, and Captain Murrell must draw upon all his experience to defeat the equally experienced German commander.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison, Theodore Bikel
Director: Dick Powell
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Posted on January 31, 2013 |
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Strings (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Hal Tara is the son of The Kahro of the city of Hebalon and heir to the throne. When The Kahro kills himself, Hal is chosen to taken his place to rule Hebalon. But the discovery of The Kahro's suicide letter, that his father's death was no suicide, and was conducted by rivals of the city known as The Zeriths, Hal disguising himself as a commoner leaves the city and sets out to find the Zeriths and avenge his father. But Nezo, The Kahro's evil advisor who discovered the Kahro's body sends a warrior known as Erito to join Hal and to kill him. Entering the Zerith's camp, unaware of his identity, Hal falls in love with Zita, a Zerith female warrior, unaware Nezo has evil schemes to take over ruler ship of the city and Erito's wife Eike and Hal's sister Jhinna have uncovered his evil plot.
Starring: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, Claire Skinner, David Harewood, Samantha Bond
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
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Posted on January 30, 2013 |
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Labyrinth (TV mini-series 2012)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
The series follows two women, modern-day archeologist Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby) and medieval Alaïs Pelletier du Mas (Jessica Brown Findlay) who lives through the Crusades and Cathar massacres in medieval France-and their quest to find the Holy Grail. Alice, a volunteer at a French archaeological excavation, discovers the skeletal remains of two people in a cave, as well as a labyrinth-engraved ring, which attracts the attention of unscrupulous individuals. In 1209, newly married Alaïs is living in Carcassonne, a stronghold of Cathars who have been declared heretical by the Church. Alaïs and her father are protecting three sacred books that reveal the secret of the Holy Grail from the Crusaders.
Starring: John Hurt, Tom Felton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tony Curran, Vanessa Kirby, Sebastian Stan, Emun Elliott, Katie McGrath
Creator: Kate Mosse
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Posted on January 30, 2013 |
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter / Kronos (1974)
Adventure | Horror
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Starring: Horst Janson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro, John Carson, John Cater
Director: Brian Clemens
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Posted on January 28, 2013 |
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Old Shatterhand / Shatterhand (1964)
Adventure | Western
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Starring: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Guy Madison, Ralf Wolter
Director: Hugo Fregonese
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Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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The Cave (2005)
Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Decades after a rock church in communist Romania's Carpathians caved when an expedition caused a landslide and buried everyone, Dr. Nicolai's scientific team exploring the associated Templar Knights monster fighting-legend discovers a deep, flooded cave system and hires the brothers Jack and Tyler's brilliant divers team to explore it. Another explosion traps them, after finding a mysterious parasite turning all species carnivore, and later an independently evolved predator species. Jack may be infected and turning, but Tyler sticks with him, so the group splits, hunted by the monsters, which also fly.
Starring: Piper Perabo, Morris Chestnut, Cole Hauser, Eddie Cibrian, Lena Headey
Director: Bruce Hunt
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Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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Saints and Soldiers / The Saints of War (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Based on the historical event known as the "Malmedy Massacre," a tale of a group of U.S. soldiers in Germany in World War II, one of whom served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany just before the war. In mid-December 1944 Hitler's Army blitzkriegs through the Ardennes Forest into Belgium creating the colossal wintertime offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Daniel Epstein and close friend Nathan Greer find themselves held captive with over seventy other U.S. Soldiers in a snow covered field. Without warning German soldiers open fire on the U.S. Prisoners. Epstein, Greer and a handful of other soldiers are able to escape the massacre by hiding in the nearby woods. Without weapons or food they take on the unforgiving winter trying to find their way back to allied occupied territory.
Starring: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby, Peter Holden
Director: Ryan Little
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Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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Paulie (1998)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulies story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an ageing widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Trini Alvarado, Jay Mohr, Buddy Hackett
Director: John Roberts
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Posted on January 27, 2013 |
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Ace of Aces / L' as des as (1982)
Adventure | Comedy | Sport
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics…
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-France Pisier, Rachid Ferrache
Director: Gérard Oury
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Posted on January 24, 2013 |
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Trapped (2012)
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
On an expedition into unexplored wolf territory, two zoology students intrude into a secret world. In the midst of unrelenting wilderness and hours from civilization, they encounter a strange young woman. The two men are drawn into her enchanted reality…and their friendship is put to the ultimate test.
Starring: Oliver Walker, David Osmond, Sai Bennett, Adrian Furrer
Director: Philippe Weibel
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Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Balthazar Blake is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath. He can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler, a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his reluctant protege. The sorcerer gives his unwilling apprentice a crash course in the art and science of magic, and together, these unlikely partners work to stop the forces of darkness.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Monica Bellucci, Jay Baruchel, Alfred Molina, Teresa Palmer, Toby Kebbell
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Posted on January 23, 2013 |
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The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines / Clash of Empires (2011)
Action | Adventure
The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines (released in Malaysia as "Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa") is an adventure feature film set against the backdrop of ancient Malay, Roman and Chinese civilizations. It tells the tale of the journey of Merong Mahawangsa escorting a Roman prince to wed a beautiful Chinese princess during the 2nd century. Featuring an international cast, The Malay Chronicles: Bloodlines combines elements of romance, adventure, coupled with a strong dose of hand-to-hand combat & martial arts.
Starring: Stephen Rahman Hughes, Gavin Stenhouse, Jing Lusi
Director: Yusry Abd Halim
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Posted on January 22, 2013 |
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Big Fat Liar (2002)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
A take on the classic tale 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf', this is the story of a 14-year-old boy named Jason Shephard who lies for the fun of it. He loses an important story assignment entitled 'Big Fat Liar' in movie producer Marty Wolf's limo, which Wolf then turns into a film. When Jason sees a movie preview of his story, he and his best friend Kaylee go to Los Angeles to make Wolf confess to using his story, to clear his name, and to get him out of having to attend summer school. The teen liar then has to match wits with Wolf, who also turns out to be a big liar.
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Paul Giamatti
Director: Shawn Levy
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