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Plot Summary:
Bring 'Em Back Alive is an adventure television series starring Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan and Ron O'Neal. The series was shown in the United States from September 1982 to May 1983. Set in Singapore, it was one of several shows like Tales of the Gold Monkey to try to capture the success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. In reality, Frank Buck was a real big game trapper who was very famous in the 1930s. He wrote a book entitled Bring 'Em Back Alive. He appeared in several movies including a 1932 adaptation of the book and is remembered by serial fans as the star of Jungle Menace. It lasted only 17 episodes before being cancelled because of low ratings, due to being scheduled against ABC's Top 30 hits Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: wild
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Search (1972)
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Search is an American science fiction series that aired on Wednesday nights on NBC at 10 pm ET, from September 1972 to August 1973. It ran for 23 episodes, not including the two-hour pilot film originally titled Probe. When picked up for series production, the title had to be changed because Probe was the name of an existing PBS series. In the UK the series aired on BBC 1 under the title Search Control. The show was created by Leslie Stevens, and produced by Leslie Stevens, Robert Justman, John Strong and Tony Spinner. The high concept was described as "science fiction in today's world" and the episodes featured many high-tech elements which are considered common in current science fiction shows.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, cerebral
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240-Robert (1979)
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240-Robert is an American drama series that ran on ABC from 1979 to 1981. The series title is a reference to the call-sign designation for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's search and rescue/paramedic teams.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, vintage
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A mysterious hacker has been messing with Chad Wild Clay, Vy Qwaint and other YouTubers. He or she has been hacking their YouTube videos, playing challenges against them, sending them on adventures to abandoned places, and taking their car. They discovered the name of this group is Project Zorgo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
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La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981)
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A young English navy lieutenant sets out to prove the quickest way to reach India from London is by way of the Mediterranean and Suez rather than the long sea route around Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, which takes six months. Together with his friend, the French explorer and natural scientist Martial de Sassenage, Thomas Waghorn leaves London in October of 1829 with the aim of reaching Bombay in India in three month. The owner of a shipping line fears for the future his company should the two adventurers succeed and sends his agents to delay them along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 52 min
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Critter Quest (2007)
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In this activity based children's nature show, naturalist Peter Schriemer goes in search of amazing critters in different habitats across America.
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Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: non fiction
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Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti (2016)
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Josh Gates sets off on a quest to find the Yeti, a legendary man-ape living in the high altitude of the Himalayas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, entertaining
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Ivory Hunters (1990)
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Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
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An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Africa Express (1975)
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John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. Ursula Andress is Madeleine Cooper, the lady of mystery he runs into as she flees from the hunter played by Jack Palance.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
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Flight to Fury (1964)
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This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One of the men is an avaricious killer who has come to the islands to search for a fortune in diamonds. The other is an international adventurer. Now they must somehow overcome their vast personal differences and desires to survive in the steamy wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Adventure
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, psychotronic, independent film
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In Search for Captain Grant (1986)
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Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is known (37 degrees), but no longitude. The Glenarvans decide to find captain Grant.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, intense, exciting, light
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Maya (1967)
Plot Summary:
Maya is an hour-long U.S. adventure television series that aired on NBC, Saturdays from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. from September 16, 1967 until February 10, 1968. The series is a follow-up to the 1966 film of the same name. Set in the Indian jungle, the series centered around an American boy searching for his missing father, a big game hunter.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: wild
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Thunder in Paradise (1994)
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Thunder in Paradise was a one-hour action-adventure TV series from the creators of Baywatch, which starred Hulk Hogan, Chris Lemmon, and Carol Alt. This first-run syndicated TV series originally premiered as a straight-to-video feature film in September 1993, then ran for one season in 1994, before being cancelled. The series was later rebroadcast on the TNT cable network.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, nautical, campy
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Bigfoot and Wildboy (1977)
Plot Summary:
Children's series about Wildboy, an orphan who was raised in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by the legendary Sasquatch. Wildboy and Bigfoot roamed the countryside stomping out pollution, capturing diabolical villains, and rescuing those in distress.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: weird
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Goldfathers (2012)
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The new series follows three gold-mining "families" as they battle nature, machines and each other in a brutal race against time to get as much gold from the ground as possible before the icy frost of winter returns to shut them down.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Plot Summary:
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show stars Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who begin a strange association, and eventual romance, after encountering one another in a train station.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, iconic
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005)
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Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical forces add an exciting twist to this classic tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, Canada, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, stylized, semi serious
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Mistress of the Apes (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Neumann takes a group of men into the jungles of Kenya to look for her husband, and instead finds a tribe of caveman-looking "Near-Men" who all seem terribly attracted to her beautiful blond hair.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film
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Treasure Quest: Snake Island (2015)
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Hidden somewhere off the southeastern coast of Brazil could lie hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of lost Incan gold. One team of treasure hunters has a new theory on where the treasure lies - a remote spot home to 1,000s of deadly vipers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996)
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Tarzan: The Epic Adventures is a syndicated series that aired for one season. It focuses on the character of Tarzan in his early years, after his first exposure to civilization, but before his marriage to Jane. The series uses much of the mythology of Edgar Rice Burroughs' books as background material. This version of Tarzan was filmed in the Sun City resort in South Africa, making it one of the few Tarzan productions to actually film on that continent. The character of Nicholas Rokoff, and the fact that Tarzan is not yet married, set this series in-between the two halves of The Return of Tarzan. R. A. Salvatore wrote an authorized Tarzan novel based on pilot script which was published as a trade-paperback in 1996, and a mass-market paperback in 1997.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, epic fantasy
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Daughter of the Sun God (1962)
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This adventure chronicles the exploits of an author/explorer on a trip to Peru to hunt for the missing uncle of his pretty young companion. Her archaeologist uncle disappeared while searching for a lost Incan city that he found upon an ancient map. Together the writer and the girl launch an expedition to search for this legendary city. They are guided by another Yankee archaeologist. It is he who swiped the map from the woman's uncle. With their help, he hopes to find the city so he and his gang of thieves can loot it. Along the way they encounter many dangers including, snakes, crocodiles, jaguars, and quicksand. The writer and the niece get their first and warn the Incas living their. The Indians neatly dispatch the evil archaeologist and his band.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious
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Moonfleet (2013)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of J Meade Falkner’s 1898 swashbuckling novel. A young man craving adventure joins a gang of smugglers in search of Blackbeard's diamond.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, semi serious, humorous, epic, period piece, nautical, costume drama, period drama
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Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
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An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, sexy, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
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Hawkeye (1994)
Plot Summary:
The further adventures based on characters created by James Fennimore Cooper. Hawkeye the woodsman meets a brave English woman trying to free her husband from the French. Set during the French and Indian War in the area of the Hudson Valley.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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The Last Safari (1967)
Plot Summary:
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
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Where the River Runs Black (1986)
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An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Amazon (1999)
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Amazon was a syndicated television show created by Peter Benchley. It was developed by Canadian production companies Alliance Atlantis Communications & WIC Entertainment and German company Beta Film GmbH. The 22 episodes of the series were in first-run syndication between 1999 and 2000. The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle. The group soon comes into contact with a Native American tribe, and relations are anything but friendly. The group is taken in by a mysterious tribe, who descended from 16th century British colonists who were lost in Amazon. Relations with the Chosen are tenuous at best. Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets nest with a tribe of cannibals, led by an insane American woman bent on domination of all the local tribes. The first season ended in a cliff-hanger, and a second season was never produced. The series retained sufficient interest that it was released on DVD in 2011. A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper on 8 Aug 2000. The German title was Amazonas - Gefangene des Dschungels.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
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Tarzan (1966)
Plot Summary:
Tarzan is a series that aired on NBC from 1966 – 1968. The series portrayed Tarzan as a well-educated character, one who, tired of civilization, had returned to the jungle where he had been raised. The show retained many of the trappings of the classic movie series, including Cheeta, while excluding other elements, such as Jane, as part of the "new look" for the fabled apeman that producer Sy Weintraub had introduced in previous motion pictures starring Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney, and Mike Henry. CBS aired repeat episodes the program during the summer of 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: vintage, wild
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999)
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Indiana Jones, now a captain in the French army, is assigned to escort two Austrian princes to meet with Emperor Karl I and convince him to broker a peace deal with France and Britain at the expense of Austria's alliance with Germany. Two months later, at the French Embassy in Petrograd, Indy must decide between his loyalty to his friends and his work in French Intelligence when he is pressed to discover details of a possible bolshevik revolution in Russia which would cripple the French war effort.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995)
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Indiana Jones transfers from the Belgian army to the French intelligence service, where his first assignment is as a reconnaissance photographer for the 124th Squadron, a group of volunteer American pilots in the French army. When his plane is shot down, Indy encounters the infamous "Red Baron" - Manfred von Richthofen. After a daring escape, Indy is parachuted back into Germany on a mission to convince aircraft designer Anthony Fokker to defect to France, and he discovers a new German superweapon - a new airplane intended to bring the war overseas.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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