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Plot Summary:
Africa, December 1916. Despite disobeying orders, Indy is promoted to Captain after capturing a German machine gun. He is then ordered to cross the jungle with Remy and Captain Boucher to pick up a shipment of weaponry. Along the way his Ubangan Sgt, Barthelemy picks up the sole surviving child from a disease ridden village despite Boucher's orders against it. On the way back, Indy and company succumb to disease themselves, and are picked up by Albert Schweitzer and the orderlies from his jungle hospital. At first resistant to being treated by a German, Indy soon begins to realize that Schweitzer is not interested in war, only attempting to cure people against all odds.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult film
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La leggenda del rubino malese (1985)
Plot Summary:
An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure
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Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a noble man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero. Repackaged from an original Sword-and-Sandal italian film.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, War
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Plot Summary:
Michael Ransom's Vietnam squad leader, Vic Jenkins, is captured by terrorists demanding ten million dollars worth of diamonds in return for his release. Michael, reluctantly aided by local tough-girl Rosanna Boom, is dispatched by the CIA to recapture Jenkins and put a stop to his heroin-smuggling captors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cult classic, macaroni combat, cult film
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil (1999)
Plot Summary:
A top-secret mission for French Intelligence brings Indy to Istanbul during the First World War. Exploring the city's dark and dangerous streets, he is thrust into a web of betrayal and murder when he discovers a vile Turkish plot to assassinate French espionage agents. Evil of a more enduring kind awaits him in Transylvania where he engages in mortal combat with bloodthirsty Vlad the Impaler and his horrific army of the living dead. With his very life at stake, Indy must garner all his strength and wits in order to defeat the fiend and save mankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Nam Angels (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lt. Vance Calhoun takes on a dangerous rescue mission of American P.O.W.s in the treacherous Darloc Valley in Vietnam. His only chance to escape is with the help of five young, fearless soldiers on motorcycles.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1996, George Lucas hired T.M. Christopher to aid in re-editing the complete series into twenty-two feature-length episodes. The series was also retitled The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. Each chapter contains two episodes, with all the chapters being in chronological order. As such, the scenes where an older Indiana Jones reminisces are never seen in these versions.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, History, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, cult classic, educational
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception (1999)
Plot Summary:
September, 1916. As Corporal Henri Defense, young Indiana Jones has become a motorcycle courier stationed near the trenches at Verdun. His friend Remy is still in the trenches, and both grow more disillusioned about the war each day. Chosen to sneak into enemy territory on account of his gift for languages, Indy overhears German officers speaking of the imminent arrival of their most powerful artillery guns, nicknamed Big Bertha. A month later Indy and Remy are granted leave to Paris, where Indiana meets the exotic dancer Mata Hari at a dinner party. He falls for her immediately, but soon finds out she is dating other men as well, including the French Minister of War.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Adventure, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Strike Commando (1987)
Plot Summary:
While operating behind enemy lines, Sgt. Mike Ransom learns of a Russian presence in North Vietnam. Ordered to obtain proof of this discovery, Ransom returns to enemy territory but is captured and subjected to a variety of tortures. Eventually he escapes to continue his mission despite being hampered by a traitor in his own ranks.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, campy, cult film
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996)
Plot Summary:
The globe trotting trip that Henry Jones, Jr. sets out on in the early 1900s next takes him and his family to Russia. A few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Both are running away to seek a simpler life. They cross the countryside, encountering colorful Gypsies and avoiding fierce Imperial Cossack troops. The hardships of the journey make Indy homesick, but he won't soon forget his journey with the stubborn old man. Indy's next destination is Greece, where his mother Anna realizes that father and son need to spend more time together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Giants of Rome (1964)
Plot Summary:
An elite group of soldiers led by the courageous Claudius Marcellus are handpicked by Julius Caesar to embark on a desperate and dangerous suicide mission to destroy the Druids' secret weapon.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fast paced, campy
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (2000)
Plot Summary:
May 1917. Sixteen year old Indiana Jones joins an international trio of spies plotting against their German counterparts in the neutral city of Barcelona. After his old acquaintance Pablo Picasso helps him get a job at Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Indy devices a plan to forge a love letter written by the German cultural attaché to make it seem he is having an affair with the Countess of Toledo. In August of the same year, Indiana is reassigned to Prague where he is to receive an important phone call. Unfortunately his hotel room proves to be unequipped with a phone. Indy heads for the Ministery of Telephones, where he learns that having to confront Czech bureaucracy can be quite a trial.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The 7th Dawn (1964)
Plot Summary:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Pacific Inferno (1979)
Plot Summary:
After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: War
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Plot Summary:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, mind blowing, retro, educational, dieselpunk, visually stunning, historical drama, twisted
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Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Plot Summary:
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Yugoslavia, USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, parody, action comedy, relaxing
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March or Die (1977)
Plot Summary:
The French Foreign Legion, in the early 20s, is tasked to protect a group of Archaeologists in the middle east. After scenes depicting the hardship of day-to-day Foreign Legion life, and the ragtag collection of people who join, the local Arabs take offence at the Archaeologists and declare Jihad. A large battle takes place, with the inevitable last stand.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, epic, independent film
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The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Plot Summary:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, intense, serious, realistic, perverse, action adventure, mind blowing, spectacular
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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 Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, atmospheric, rough, humorous, semi serious, mockbuster, stylized
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen (1995)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence (1999)
Plot Summary:
June 1918. Indiana Jones is working to get Austrian deserters safely to the allies side in the Italian Alps. In his spare time, he is wooing an Italian beauty named Guiletta. When he finds out another man is vying for her attention, Indy and his new pal, ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway make plans to crush Indiana's competitor by smothering Guiletta with presents and compliments. Afterwards, Indiana is begrudgingly ordered to Casablanca to find a traitor who is selling arms to the Berber rebels. Traveling incognito, he is joined by American novelist Edith Wharton and journalist Lowell Thomas. Indy and Edith soon find themselves attracted to each other despite their age difference.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (1994)
Plot Summary:
Indy takes a job as assistant to a Hollywood studio executive in an attempt to earn his college fees. His job is to get flamboyant and difficult director Erich Von Stroheim to complete his latest epic on time and with the budget, or else.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1999)
Plot Summary:
The sixth film in the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1999)
Plot Summary:
Working with a beautiful lady spy, Indiana Jones is assigned to assist the British forces in their attack on the Turkish-occupied town of Beersheba. With a regiment of the Australian Lighthorsemen approaching, Indy must defuse the explosives the Turks have placed throughout the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Trenches of Hell (1999)
Plot Summary:
August, 1917. Using the name 'Henri Defense', 17 year old Indiana Jones has enlisted in the Belgian army to fight in the Great War. After all his commanding officers have been wiped out during combat in Flanders, Corporal 'Defense' is left in charge of what's left of the 9th Belgian Infantry. They are assigned to the French 14th Company and dispatched into the Battle of the Somme. When Indy is captured by the Germans, he quickly gains a reputation as an escape artist, and is sent to the maximum security prison at Dunsterstadt on the Danube.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Adventure, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom (1999)
Plot Summary:
November, 1916. Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin have managed to get a transfer from the European trenches to the plains of Africa. On arrival they both receive a promotion to the rank of lieutenant in the Belgian Army. When they take the wrong train they end up in Moshi. Desprerate to join their unit in Lake Victoria, the two men bump into the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a unit of cranky old men led by Indy's old acquaintance Frederick Selous. Indy's passing knowledge of trains and fluent German comes in handy for the Fusiliers, who are about to go on a mission to find and destroy a Phantom Train that carries an enormous German artillery gun. After accomplishing their goal, Selous tricks Indy and Remy into joining his unit for another caper involving the capture of the German military strategist Colonel Von Lettow-Vorbeck.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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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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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