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Plot Summary:
Set against the spectacular Rocky Mountains, this adventure is reminiscent of the Disney live-action classics (such as "Old Yeller" and "Escape from Witch Mountain"). Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to snag the stagecoach's cargo. Pitted against nature, time, and the pursuing baddies, this unlikely team must trek over the mountains to reach safety. This is a video to buy and keep in your collection... great mid-winter rental when cabin-fever makes you long for the great outdoors!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Little Patriot (1995)
Plot Summary:
Join in one boy's heroic adventure as he fights in the struggle for freedom on the American frontier. James Todd is a young boy growing up in the hostile American wilderness-a rugged and dangerous land also inhabited by the American Indians. His peaceful life is shattered when the treacherous British troops suddenly storm through the countryside in an attempt to crush the American Revolution. During the battle for freedom, James is ruthlessly captured and held prisoner in the enemy fort by the brutal Major Smythe. But his bravery seems without limits as an unlikely and legendary alliance is forged with the neighboring Indians in a bold and fearless rescue effort. It is a rugged and wondrous adventure which culminates as the fortress is infiltrated and James narrowly escapes to lead the spirited fight against the British Red Coats.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Space Warriors (2013)
Plot Summary:
The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating
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My Lucky Elephant (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a far away land of jungles and wild animals, there lived a little orphan boy who was all alone in the world. But he knew that no matter how hard life can be, it's always better if you can share it with a friend. This is the story of how he found one, an elephant named Lucky. Together they face a changing world, but always manage to triumph. After a series of humorous challenges, they discover the Academy of Art, where elephants learn to paint. And Lucky becomes the star painter, a famous artist and celebrity. Finally, life is good for them, with money and food aplenty. But when Lucky falls in love with another elephant, Candy, and starts his own family, what will the boy do? My Lucky Elephant is an exotic adventure in a magical and beautiful place, and yet it's about what everyone is looking for in life - a true friend, a home, family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Swordsmen in Double Flag Town (1991)
Plot Summary:
Honoring his father's dying words, a young man comes to the dusty desert village of Double Flag Town to claim his bride. Everyone looks down upon him because he looks inept and ignorant. When he kills a man who is attempting to rape his bride, he provokes the wrath of the Lethal Swordsman who is the rapist's brother and also a famous killer. Will our hero choose to escape with his bride or face the Lethal Swordsman? A highly stylized martial-arts film, in the style of Sergio Leone meets Hiroshi Teshigahara.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Journey to Spirit Island (1988)
Plot Summary:
A greedy Indian persuades his tribe to sell the lonesome 'Spirit Island' for a congress center. Instead of transferring the historical graves on it like he tells his tribe, he plans to wipe them out. By accident a group of two Indian kids and two friends from Chicago on vacation are flown to the island and get in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, semi serious
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Treasure of Tayopa (1974)
Plot Summary:
Modern day western about an expedition led by Winters to find a lost treasure in the Mexican badlands. Psycho Trapani turns the search into a bloodbath.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Great Elephant Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police and lions on a journey they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: euro western, spaghetti western
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Blood Brothers (1975)
Plot Summary:
An Indian village is attacked by the American army. The Indians are cruelly killed. One of the soldiers called Harmonika is disgusted by the murders of the innocent women and children. He decides to leave the army. He goes to live with the Indians and falls in love with an Indian woman. He becomes a friend with Harter Felsen, one of the bravest Indians. He understands that they are not beasts and he respects them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Western, Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Dolphin Kick (2019)
Plot Summary:
On a tropical island vacation, a young boy's friendship with a playful and friendly dolphin helps him find the courage to get back in the water after the sudden loss of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, sincere, captivating, semi serious, christian film
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Appalachian Trial (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four children are lost in the woods during a camping trip with their parents in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, christian film
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Ms. Bear (1997)
Plot Summary:
Four paws for this wonderful family film. Cute 7-year-old rescues a helpless and bumbling bear cub as the two set off on an adventure to reunite the cub with its mommy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Huck and the King of Hearts (1994)
Plot Summary:
Taking place in the 1990's, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck's long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less intelligent, sidekicks.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Wild Kurdistan (1965)
Plot Summary:
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan) before he continues his travels through Kurdistan. Achmed El Corda, the son of Halef's Hadedhin Beduin tribe's sheik Mohammed Emin, has been captured by the machredsh (Turkish governor) of Mossul for resisting water seizure by his Turkish troops. Kara takes charge of the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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Escape from Angola (1976)
Plot Summary:
Adventure - Moving to the unspoiled terrain of Africa was a risk the Mallory family survived. This family of animal trainers soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives after their truck breaks down deep in the African bush. They split up to search for help, only to find themselves face to face with some of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa: crocodiles, cobras and other deadly beasts. - Stan Brock, Anne Collings, Steven Tors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Passage to Mars (2016)
Plot Summary:
A NASA Arctic expedition designed to be the first Martian road trip on Earth becomes an epic two-year odyssey of human adventure and survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychotronic
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Daughter of the Sun God (1962)
Plot Summary:
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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Cold River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mountain Family Robinson (1979)
Plot Summary:
A family goes "back to nature" by homesteading in the Colorado Rockies.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Once in a Blue Moon (1995)
Plot Summary:
Late-1960s suburban Canadian children work on building a rocket vessel, with the intention of delivering one or two neighborhood children to the moon, whilst dealing with social issues of the coming-of-age, orphan-hood and family veins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Family, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, sentimental, touching, feel good, stylized, semi serious
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Where the River Runs Black (1986)
Plot Summary:
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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White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild (1996)
Plot Summary:
As a plea-bargain to clear their school records, a group of misfit teens ventures into the majestic but unforgiving wilderness to help a young naturalist save the vanishing wolves. After they encountered unexpected incident, they are aided by the mysterious white wolf of myth and legend, who shows up to guide the way throughout the movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic
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The Further Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1978)
Plot Summary:
The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands strong together to prove that the best things in life are really free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Plot Summary:
America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. In this masterful, atmospheric adventure, a courageous young girl (Meredith Salenger) confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her extraordinary odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter (John Cusack). A brilliant, moving tapestry, woven of courage and perseverance.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, entertaining, scenic, feel good, inspirational, poignant, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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My Side of the Mountain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to leave the city (set in Toronto) to spend a sabbatical in the Canadian woods and see if he can make it as a self-sufficient spirit after his parents promise a summer trip that doesn't pan out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, serious, realistic
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The Climb (1986)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Adventure
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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True Heart (1999)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister are plane-wrecked in Canada, where they must rely on the help of a native and his bear.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, serious
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Strangers in Good Company (1990)
Plot Summary:
A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Follow the River (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic
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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, touching, exciting, serious, light, romantic, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous