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Plot Summary:
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, cult classic, buddy comedy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, one man show
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Jake Speed (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a young girl is kidnapped and her sister (Karen Kopins) begs the real-life Speed for help, he must find a way to be as gallant as the book hero whose creation he's inspired. Accompanied by the victim's sibling, Speed flies to Africa to see if he's up to the task.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, independent film, humorous, semi serious, spoof, meta, parody
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Thunder in Paradise (1993)
Plot Summary:
Terry "Hulk" Hogan stars as R. J. "Hurricane" Spencer who is an ex-Navy S. E. A. L. and confirmed bachelor struggling to make ends meet. In order to save his superboat THUNDER (and ultimately, his business) Spencer is forced into a marriage of convenience with the snobby Megan Whitaker. When Megan gets kidnapped it's up to Spencer and his partner Bru to save the day or risk losing everything.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Forest Warrior (1996)
Plot Summary:
John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, disgusting, independent film, surprise ending
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All the Way Boys (1972)
Plot Summary:
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, grindhouse, rough, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Keep Your Hands Off the Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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Black Tigers (1978)
Plot Summary:
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense
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Fifty/Fifty (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two bickering mercenaries are hired by the CIA to overthrow a South East Asian dictator.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending
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Missing in Action (1984)
Plot Summary:
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris.Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film
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Shanghai Knights (2003)
Plot Summary:
The dynamic duo of Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon return for another crazy adventure. This time, they're in London to avenge the murder of Chon's father, but end up on an even bigger case. Chon's sister is there to do the same, but instead unearths a plot to kill the royal family. No one believes her, though, and it's up to Chon and Roy (who has romance on his mind) to prove her right.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, feel good, humorous, exciting, hilarious, action comedy, not serious, action packed, slapstick
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Shanghai Noon (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, funny, entertaining, exciting, feel good, humorous, hilarious, action comedy, action packed, slapstick
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Armour of God (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious sword in Africa, a band of Satan-worshipping monks kidnap his ex-girlfriend Lorelei, demanding the sword as ransom as well as other pieces of the legendary Armour of God - a magical outfit dating back to the Crusades.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, stylized, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, fast, sexy, thought provoking, clever
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Plot Summary:
When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer, Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, cult classic, exciting, stylized, entertaining, semi serious, suspenseful, parody, surreal, grindhouse
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American Ninja (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, intense, independent film, rough, realistic
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Swashbuckler (1976)
Plot Summary:
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, slapstick comedy, exciting, semi serious, fast, slapstick
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Plot Summary:
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, cult classic, inspirational, breathtaking, saga
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Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991)
Plot Summary:
Agent Jackie is hired to find WWII Nazi gold hidden in the Sahara desert. He teams up with three bungling women (the 3 stooges?) who are all connected in some way. However a team of mercenries have ideas on the ownership of the gold. A battle / chase ensues as to who gets there first. Lots of choregraphed Kung-Fu and quirky Chan humor.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, intense, slapstick, cult classic, realistic, fast
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The Rundown (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, grindhouse, action comedy, action packed
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Plot Summary:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, breathtaking, action adventure
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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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The Order (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Aruba
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, serious, feel good, cult classic, action packed, fast
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Plot Summary:
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 527000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, humorous, intense, semi serious, dieselpunk, epic, action packed, action adventure, saga
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The Lost City (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, funny, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet, cute, humorous, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Sahara (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy, hilarious, action adventure, romantic, atmospheric, action comedy
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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, funny, retro, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, atmospheric
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, epic, atmospheric, semi serious, saga, action adventure, witty, visual, humorous
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Plot Summary:
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure, humorous, bad ending, harsh
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finds Indy vagabonding around the South Pacific on a treasure hunt for a fabled lost diamond. The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangeroud one-eyes man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas, where he has a run-in with a murderous band of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns and flying fists. Marooned by the priates on a remote desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters, but before they can turn him into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and makes a life-altering decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, fast, cult film
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the behest of a young man whose friend – and Indy's colleague – Professor Oxley has been captured for his knowledge of the skull's whereabouts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 485000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, action packed, scenic, action adventure, humorous, suspenseful, saga, breathtaking, epic
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Jungle Cruise (2021)
Plot Summary:
Disney’s live-action adaptation of its iconic theme park ride.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: scenic, captivating, funny, light, colorful, fairy tale, anamorphic, humorous, witty, exciting
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Uncharted (2022)
Plot Summary:
A descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake uncovers the location of the legendary El Dorado. With the help of his mentor and an ambitious journalist he works to uncover its secrets while surviving on an island filled with pirates, mercenaries, and a mysterious enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 246000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, visually appealing, epic, cult classic, action adventure, ambiguous ending, feel good, suspenseful, buddy comedy