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Plot Summary:
Two brothers fell in love with the same woman, who was nearly killed by one of them in an accident. After the two men parted in anger, they meet years later when one is a famous pirate and the other one is a soldier who needs to hunt him down.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Jason King (1971)
Plot Summary:
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering an endless parade of glamorous women, exotic locales, menacing villains and daring intrigue! Before Austin Powers swung into action, Jason King set the standard for the hip crime-fighting international playboy!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Radical Jack (2000)
Plot Summary:
After quitting his job, a man decides to go after the one person responsible for ruining his life.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, independent film
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I Spy (1965)
Plot Summary:
I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The characters' travels as ostensible "tennis bums", Robinson playing talented tennis as an amateur with the wealthy in return for food and lodging, and Scott tagging along, provided a cover story concealing their roles as top agents for the Pentagon. Their real work usually kept them busy chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Three F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Studios where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season. Actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, best known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and '50s, was the executive producer. He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, stylized, semi serious
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Spitfire (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film, cult movie cast
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Captain Alatriste (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a society, the proud and arrogant Golden Age Spain, riding blind towards the end of the Empire and in which the honor and loyalty are all, a Spanish soldier who has travelled Europe fighting under the flag of "Tercio Viejo de Cartagena", survives in the Austrias' Madrid as a mercenary swordsman hired four coppers on request. Brave, honest and loyal man, Diego Alatriste will be involved in intrigues and conspiracies of various kinds that require him to make good use of his steel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, epic, serious, realistic, stylized
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Counterstrike (1990)
Plot Summary:
Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 on TF1 in France. It also aired in the United States on cable channel USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. The series ran for three seasons, airing 66 hour-long episodes in total. Counterstrike has since aired in reruns in Canada on Showcase and TVtropolis.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Cobra (1993)
Plot Summary:
Cobra is an American television action/adventure series starring Michael Dudikoff. It ran for just one season in syndication.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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El Dorado (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Search for El Dorado is as follows: After his friend dies in an explosion, Jack Wilder embarks on an expedition to find The Golden Calendar, which in turn leads him on an action-packed journey filled with adventure to find El Dorado, the mythical City of Gold in South America.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating
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Sheena (2000)
Plot Summary:
Sheena is an American action-adventure/fantasy television series which was produced for first-run syndication from 2000 to 2002. Based upon the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which previously spawned a popular 1950s TV series of the same title, the 2000s series updated the character to the 21st century. There were two seasons, containing 22 and 13 episodes. It starred Gena Lee Nolin and John Allen Nelson and was developed for television by Douglas Schwartz and Steven L. Sears. In this version Sheena was given the mystical ability to transform into almost any jungle animal. Several episodes from the first season are available to view for free in Minisode format on Crackle, as well as on Hulu. Sheena's parents were archaeologists who died in the jungle when she was about six years old, leaving their daughter Shirley Hamilton. She was taken in by Kali, a local Shamaness of a tribe who brought her up, and five years ago she was taught how to morph into animals and birds, acquiring their abilities, even flight. Further, she became a mythical creature called "The Darachna" who relies on people' fear of the unknown. For this she covers herself in a dark liquid mud which allows her to be largely unseen in the low light of the jungle, and with more than normal strength, agility and speed, and armed with a pair of gloves with bone claws, she is a formidable one woman fighting force. She does kill sometimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, sexy, wild
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Queen of Swords (2000)
Plot Summary:
Queen of Swords is an action–adventure television series set in California during the early 19th century that ran for one season, from 2000 to 2001. The series premiered October 7, 2000. After filming had been completed on 22 episodes and the first eight episodes were broadcast, the series was canceled.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Spain, France, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, fairy tale, realistic, euro western
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Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1997)
Plot Summary:
Soldier of Fortune, Inc. was a television show created by Dan Gordon which ran for two seasons, from 1997–1999 The show was about an elite team who performed "unofficial" missions for the US Government. During the first season, the show dealt with terrorists and drug lords, and often tackled issues such as patriotism and self-sacrifice. For the second season, the show was renamed SOF: Special Ops Force. Andrews and Sheppard left the show. Dennis Rodman and David Eigenberg replaced them, though their "hip" characters and new plots led many to abandon the show, leading to its cancellation. The theme song was performed by Trevor Rabin. During the second season, a voice-over by Peter Graves was added.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It is a final installment of a trilogy produced by Zhang Jizhong, preceded by The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. Unlike most of the previous adaptations, this remake is the first to be primarily based on the third edition of the novel. The series was first broadcast on Wenzhou TV in China in October 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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The Apocalypse Code (2007)
Plot Summary:
Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The Executioner," is about to blow up the bombs. The Executioner is chased by FSB, whose agent Marie has previously infiltrated Zayidi's team.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Getting Even (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being betrayed by a fellow Marine and spending five years in a POW camp, homeless Vietnam vet Roy Evans reunites with his commander, Dundee, and is tasked by the FBI to find his betrayer, Slisko, who is suspected of slaying several women. Slisko has also become an arms dealer, and Evans and Dundee endure the trauma of returning to Southeast Asia to apprehend their old comrade.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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La Femme Musketeer (2004)
Plot Summary:
The legend of Jacques 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 in the way of the sword. Now it's time for Valentine to strike out on her own. With her father's sword and a letter of introduction to Commander Finot (Roy Dotrice), the eager young novice sets out to seek her fortune in Paris. Though a woman has never before been appointed the rank of swordsman, Valentine is determined to prove her worth by taking on a deadly mission to rescue the bride-to-be of King Louis XIV from a band of fearsome kidnappers, teaming with the three sons of the legendary Three Musketeers who rode with her father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Croatia, Germany, USA
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: semi serious, realistic, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense
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The Viking Sagas (1995)
Plot Summary:
The film chronicles a long-ago time when men relied not on their intellect to make points, but on their swords. A mythical warrior ('Ralf Moeller (I)') wanders the snow-capped landscapes of the North territories on an arduous quest for vengeance. Amid nobles and schemers, saints and brutes, and lovers and fools, this Viking swings his sword for his family's honor, his beloved's hand, and the very survival of his pitiless culture.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: historical drama, independent film, exciting, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Rat Patrol (1966)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II. Their mission: "to attack, harass and wreak havoc on Field Marshal Rommel's vaunted Afrika Korps".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, vintage
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Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A terrible storm is raging the night it all begins - with a knock on the door. 17-year-old Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run their little tavern on the coast of 19th century England. When the door is opened they are startled by a sight that makes their blood run cold.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, intense, talky
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Sea Wolf: The Pirate's Curse (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Danger, Sea of Desire.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious, suspenseful
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Crossbones (2014)
Plot Summary:
It's 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder's paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the buccaneers' haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. Lowe can't help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard's rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, historical drama, realistic, period drama
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4 Against Z (2005)
Plot Summary:
Vier gegen Z is a German children's television program shown on ARD and KI.KA in which four children are appointed as "Wächter" by their deceased aunt Hedda to prevent Zanrelot, the "Herrscher der Finsternis" from leaving the underworld and gaining control over Lübeck. As of September 2006, two seasons of 13 episodes each have been broadcast. The show's success has sparked the creation of a total of 6 novelized versions of the television episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, light, serious
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Kidnapped (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
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Treasure Island (2012)
Plot Summary:
Treasure Island is a two-part British television miniseries adaptation of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was made by BSkyB and first shown in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on 1–2 January 2012. The screenplay was by Stewart Harcourt and it was produced by Laurie Borg and directed by Steve Barron.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, epic, costume drama, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized, nautical
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. Filming took place in various locations around Wilmington, North Carolina and on the campus of UNCW. The series was an Amblin Entertainment/Lucasfilm production in association with Paramount Network Television. The series explores the childhood and youth of the fictional character Indiana Jones and primarily stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Corey Carrier as the title character, with George Hall playing an elderly version of Jones for the bookends of most episodes, though Harrison Ford bookended one episode. The show was created and executively produced by George Lucas, who also created, co-wrote and executively produced the Indiana Jones feature films. Due to its enormous budget, the series was cancelled in 1993. However, following the series' cancellation, four made-for-television films were produced from 1994 to 1996 in an attempt to continue the series. In 1999, the series was re-edited into 22 television films under the title The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, cult classic, retro, relaxing, realistic, semi serious
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The Vivero Letter (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Jack Hunter (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit is a 2008 American miniseries. It consists of three parts: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit, Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb and Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 282 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994)
Plot Summary:
Hunting artifacts attributed to Zenon (an ancient scientist from Atlantis), MacGyver and his old professor end up searching for the lost city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Cutthroat Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her pirate raids.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, light, humorous, semi serious, retro, feel good, suspense, anamorphic, hilarious
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Black Sails (2014)
Plot Summary:
The pirate adventures of Captain Flint and his men twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day – a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by both its enlightened ideals and its stunning brutality.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, suspense, historical drama, costume drama, erotic, epic, realistic, serious, rough