Archive for the 'Adventure movies' Category
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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| Taglines: | 1: If you don’t go to the movies - you won’t see… 2: Indiana Jones - the new hero from the creators of JAWS and STAR WARS. 3: The creators of JAWS and STAR WARS now bring you the ultimate hero in the ultimate adventure. 4: The return of the great adventure. |
| Plot Summary: | The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Inidana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it. |
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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
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| Taglines: | 1: Brace yourself amigos for a most triumphant video! (UK VHS Box) 2: History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can’t spell… 3: Party on, dudes! 4: The funniest comedy in the history of history. 5: Time flies when you’re having fun. |
| Plot Summary: | When best friends Bill S. Preston and Ted “Theodore” Logan are in danger of being seperated and having their band, Wyld Stalyns broken up because they’re failing history, a time traveler from the future gives them a telephone booth so they can travel through time and ace their history report. |
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King and I, The
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| Taglines: | 1: 20th Century-Fox’s crowning entertainment achievement! 2: In the complete grandeur of Cinemascope 55! Richer - Deeper - Clearer! 3: More Than You’ve Ever Seen On The Screen! 4: The Fabulous Broadway Stage Success Comes to the Screen! |
| Plot Summary: | After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better. |
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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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| Plot Summary: | Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea… |
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Casualties of War
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| Taglines: | 1: Even in war… murder is murder. |
| Plot Summary: | During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event. |
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300 Spartans, The
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| Plot Summary: | Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC. |
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Seven Years in Tibet
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| Taglines: | 1: At the end of the world his real journey began. |
| Plot Summary: | Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa. |
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Game, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Are you ready to play? 2: John 9;25: “I was blind, but now I see.” 3: Players Wanted. 4: The object of the game is to discover the object of…. The Game 5: What do you get for the man who has everything? 6: You don’t play it, it plays you |
| Plot Summary: | Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him. |
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
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| Taglines: | 1: The hunters will become the hunted. |
| Plot Summary: | In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger. |
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Ghost and the Darkness, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Control Your Fear 2: Only the most incredible parts are true. 3: Prey For The Hunters |
| Plot Summary: | In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda’s Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a pair of man-eating lions are stalking around the bridge and campsites, killing the workmen for food. He tries a number of different methods to get rid of them, but the beasts always seem to know what Patterson is doing and avoid being shot. After 30 men have been killed Patterson’s boss recruits a hunter, Charles Remington (Douglas) to hunt down and destroy the lions. But the lions continue killing the workmen until they flee the camps, jumping onto the train as it rolls through Tsavo. Now Remington, Patterson & his aide (John Kani) must face these brilliant yet frightening monsters alone. |
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