Adventure movies

The Jackal (1997)

Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Richard Gere | Sidney Poitier | Diane Venora | Mathilda May | J.K. Simmons | Richard Lineback | John Cunningham | Jack Black | Tess Harper | Leslie Phillips | Stephen Spinella | Sophie Okonedo | David Hayman | Steve Bassett
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
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Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires the Jackal, a nasty assassin whom nobody has even seen, to kill the Director of the FBI. With nowhere else to turn (except a woman who used to work with the Basque separatists, who is now in the USA but whose exact whereabouts in unknown to all save Mulqueen), FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston (who was present at the Moscow shooting) and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian milita (who pulled the trigger in that shooting) enlist the reluctant services of Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper, to track the Jackal down, for Declan is the only other person who can positively identify the Jackal.

The Ice Pirates (1984)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Urich | Michael D. Roberts | John Matuszak | Ron Perlman | John Carradine | Jeremy West | Bruce Vilanch | Alan Caillou | Daryl Keith Roach | Robert Symonds | Gary Brockette | Rockne Tarkington | Ian Abercrombie | Hank Worden | Carmen Filpi
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In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.

Mission to Mars (2000)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gary Sinise | Tim Robbins | Don Cheadle | Jerry O'Connell | Peter Outerbridge | Kavan Smith | Robert Bailey Jr. | Jeffrey Ballard | Anson Woods | Sugith Varughese | Story Musgrave | Mina E. Mina | Carlo Rota | Dmitry Chepovetsky | McCanna Anthony Sinise
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Commander Luke Graham is selected to lead the first manned mission to Mars. Upon setting foot on the red planet, the team discovers an ancient, domelike structure which appears to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and leaves Luc injured. The recently widowed Jim McConnell leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they find Lke surprisingly alive, and he has spent the time alone learning the secrets of the mysterious construct. The question now becomes: do they enter the dome and answer humanity’s oldest question, perhaps risking their lives in doing so, or return to Earth with what they do know and return in force with equipment and supplies?

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cho | Kal Penn | Rob Corddry | Jack Conley | Roger Bart | Neil Patrick Harris | Eric Winter | Jon Reep | Mark Munoz | James Adomian | Todd Voltz | Richard Christy | Adam Herschman | Jackson Beals | Amir Talai
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Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: John Cleese | Sean Connery | Ian Holm | Michael Palin | Ralph Richardson | Peter Vaughan | David Warner | David Rappaport | Kenny Baker | Malcolm Dixon | Mike Edmonds | Jack Purvis | Tiny Ross | Craig Warnock | David Daker
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A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | Germany | USA
Actors: Casper Van Dien | Steven Waddington | Winston Ntshona | Rapulana Seiphemo | Ian Roberts | Sean Taylor | Gys De Villiers | Russel Savadier | Paul Buckby | Zane Meas | Barry Berk | Michael Gritten | Dimitri Cassar | Tony Caprari | Kurt Wustman
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On the eve of his wedding, John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (better known as Tarzan), receives a message from the witch doctor Mugambe that his homeland is in danger. It turns out that a treasure hunter named Ravens is searching for the lost city of Opar, and is destroying the jungle and desecrating the villagers’ burial grounds in the process. Only Tarzan can stop Ravens and set things right in the African jungle, but will Jane stand for her fiance being away for so long?

Stargate: Continuum (2008)

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Ben Browder | Michael Shanks | Christopher Judge | Beau Bridges | Cliff Simon | Richard Dean Anderson | Steve Bacic | Darcy Cadman | Vince Crestejo | Colin Cunningham | Don S. Davis | William Devane | Ron Halder | David Ingram | Jay Williams
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Ba’al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rick Schroder | Peter Fonda | Steven Grayhm | Mike Dopud | Jonathan Brewer | Simon Baker | Ken Kirzinger | Damien Puckler | Richard Side
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Based on the Jules Verne Novel and set in the late 1870’s - A Woman (Victoria Pratt) hires an anthropologist/adventurer (Rick Shroder) to track down her husband (Peter Fonda), who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth.

Runaway Train (1985)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Israel | USA
Actors: Jon Voight | Eric Roberts | Kyle T. Heffner | John P. Ryan | T.K. Carter | Kenneth McMillan | Walter Wyatt | Edward Bunker | Reid Cruickshanks | Dan Wray | Michael Lee Gogin | John Bloom | Hank Worden | John Otrin | Norman Alexander Gibbs
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Manny is the “boss” of the convicts in an Alaskan high security prison. Renken, the heartless prison’s administrator wants to kill him, so Manny escapes with the help of another young prisoner, Buck, who follows him. The two fugitives manage to get to a rail depot and get onboard a train. The problem is, the engineer has died and the the train is totally out of control, and nothing can stop it. So, leaving the prison, Manny and Buck find themselves aboard something that is both their freedom and their death…

Medicine Man (1992)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | José Wilker | Rodolfo De Alexandre | Francisco Tsiren Tsere Rereme | Elias Monteiro Da Silva | Bec-Kana-Re Dos Santos Kaiapo | Angelo Barra Moreira | José Lavat
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An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he’s close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a “mere woman,” he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.