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Plot Summary:
Tasha Robson, 16, has run away from home! While she rides the waves aboard the large ferry heading from South Shields, England to Scandinavia in search of her unknown father, "The Viking" all is less than calm in the Robson household.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Nattseilere (1986)
Plot Summary:
Set on the island of Senja in Northern Norway in 1877. Båremor, a 14 year old girl is washed ashore almost dead. No-one knows her and she remembers nothing of her past. A poor fisherman family take care of her, but she never feels at home among these coastal people. Soon she meets infamous Bårr whose boat she hides to escape from the fishing village.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: offbeat, period drama
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Before I Disappear (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film 'Curfew'. At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year-old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: depressing, emotional, melancholic, surreal, independent film, sentimental, dark, indie film, touching, enigmatic
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Clowning Around (1992)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: independent film
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It's Me, Now (2005)
Plot Summary:
Hanka is a young woman who suddenly abandons her stable life for no obvious reason, and undertakes a trip without any clear destination, meeting strangers on her way. At the same time, her boyfriend desperately tries to find her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Fool Killer (1965)
Plot Summary:
This singularly off-beat and original period mystery thriller drama curio set in the late 1800's plays like an arrestingly bizarre and inspired cross between "Tom Sawyer" and "Night of the Hunter." Lonely, miserable orphan boy George (a then 12-years-old Edward Albert in his excellent film debut) runs away from his stern, sadistic, abusive foster parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crying, psychotronic, independent film
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Return to Seoul (2022)
Plot Summary:
On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Romania, Cambodia, Qatar
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Night Creatures (1962)
Plot Summary:
What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling activities. Perhaps Dr Blyss, the benign vicar of the quiet village of Dymchurch, knows the truth about the ruthless pirate and smuggler who lies buried in the village graveyard and can unravel the phenomenon of the curse of Captain Clegg.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, offbeat, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023)
Plot Summary:
Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: anime, interesting
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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
Plot Summary:
Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accept a six-month research post in the Antarctic, making the first detailed study of a penguin colony, changes all that... Living in Shackleton’s derelict hut, Forbush is alone at the frozen edge of the world, his only links to civilisation a two-way radio and letters to his elusive, would-be girlfriend, Tara, in London. Through an often ferocious winter in the company of the penguins, he grows increasingly attached to his hardy, endearing subjects – learning profound lessons in endurance and humility.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hatched (2021)
Plot Summary:
Something has been discovered, and this time, a city is under attack by a fast growing T-Rex.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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9 Fingers (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of the night, Magloire is smoking a cigarette in an abandoned train station when the police shows up for an ID check. He starts running with no luggage, no future until he meets a dying man from whom he inherits a fortune. Magloire is now pursued by a gang. He becomes their hostage, but accomplice too. As he doesn’t anything to lose. Like someone who gets away with everything, someone with no expectations….
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, surreal
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Unpredictable Nature of the River (1996)
Plot Summary:
Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags:
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Mother and Son (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and deconstruction of a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Venice Beach (1982)
Plot Summary:
A runaway tries to survive being homeless at Venice Beach, California.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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King Arthur, the Young Warlord (1975)
Plot Summary:
This is the inspiring, epic journey of a noble warrior's quest to prove his worth, his might, and his destined fate to become the next ruler of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, vintage
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Powwow Highway (1988)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ardently pursues Native American/First Nation wisdom and lore wherever he can find it--even on Bonanza--in order to earn his warrior name. He's even got his war pony, Protector: a beat-up old wreck of a car. Buddy's sister has been arrested in Santa Fe, and together Buddy and Philbert set off on a road trip to look after her kids and go bail her out. However, Bonnie's arrest has something strange about it as her friend Rabbit points out. As the miles roll by, Philbert's faith challenges Buddy's hard-edged view of the world (and occasional bout of reckless violence), and together they face the realities and dreams of being Cheyenne in the modern-day US as they fight to free Bonnie and her children and elude the Feds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale, inspirational
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The Happy Valley (1986)
Plot Summary:
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Amazon (1990)
Plot Summary:
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Finland, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, emotional, semi serious, cult film
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Edie (2017)
Plot Summary:
To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, nostalgic
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Under the Same Moon (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, sweet, sincere, sad, controversial, serious, realistic, light
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Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that it is a sign of vulnerability they can ill-afford. Kędzierzawska has the rare ability to take the world of children on its own terms. There is not a false note in this dazzlingly beautiful and emotionally involving story of three kids trying to find their path to a new life. - Adelaide Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, touching
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To Build a Fire (1969)
Plot Summary:
A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags:
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Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
Plot Summary:
Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: road movie, crying
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A Dog's Way Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Dog’s Way Home chronicles the heartwarming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: China, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, exciting, scenic, light, feel good, sad, smart, sincere, touching
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Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, road movie, independent film
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Patagonia (2010)
Plot Summary:
Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through the Argentine autumn.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, touching, sincere, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic
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Kidnapped (1971)
Plot Summary:
Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that Unk can claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by Alan Breck (Michael Caine), a Scottish rebel fighting on behalf of his country's independence from the British (did we tell you that the film takes place during late 18th century?) Both David and Alan undergo several exhilarating adventures before Alan comes to realize that the rebellion is doomed from the start, and David foils his uncle's greedy machinations. (AllMovie).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, independent film, period drama
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A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Plot Summary:
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, vintage
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Arctic (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, suspense, touching, uplifting, disturbing, inspirational, captivating, action adventure, clever, intellectual