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Genre "Adventure Drama" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 55 total)

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Apocalypse Now (1979) Genre: War, War Epic, Anti-War Film, Adventure Drama, Jungle Film. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper, Samuel Bottoms, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne, Harrison Ford, G.D. Spradlin, Bill Graham, Cynthia Wood, Francis Ford Coppola, Bo Byers, Colleen Camp, George Canters, George Cantero, Linda Carpenter, Marc Coppola, R. Lee Ermey, Scott Glenn, James Keane, Damien Leake, Tom Mason, Ron McQueen, Herb Rice, Jerry Ross, Kerry Rossall, Vittorio Storaro, Jack Thibeau, Glenn Walken, Jerry Ziesmer. Storyline: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), rumored to have set himself up in the Cambodian jungle as a local, lethal godhead ...

Billy Jack (1971) Genre: Drama, Message Movie, Adventure Drama, Martial Arts. Director: Tom Laughlin. Actors: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Bert Freed, Julie Webb, Kenneth Tobey, Lynn Baker, Paul Bruce, The Committee, Susan Foster, Howard Hesseman, Victor Izay, Teresa Kelly, Katy Moffatt, Stan Rice, David Roya, Debbie Schock, Susan Sosa, Richard Stahl, John McClure, Gwen Smith. Storyline: Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created the character of Billy Jack in the motorcycle flick The Born Losers. Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Native American Vietnam veteran Billy Jack — soft-spoken, but well-versed in martial arts — champions the cause of a progressive school run by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor, Laughlin's real-life wife). The bigoted white townsfolk don' ...

Blood Diamond (2006) Genre: Drama, Message Movie, Adventure Drama. Director: Edward Zwick. Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Jimi Mistry, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo, David Harewood, Basil Wallace, Benu Mabhena, Ntare Mwine, Ato Essandoh, Kagiso Kuypers, Anthony J. Coleman, Anointing Lukola, Marius Weyers, Bouba Badiane, Percy Matsemela, Ronnie Nyakale, Tony Kgoroge, Nick Reding, Klemens Becker, Akin Omotoso, Chimène Costa, Dini Nondumo, Grant Brett Swanby, Tau Maserumule, Adetokumboh M'Cormack, Martin Abdul Jabbar, Gaurav Chopra, Karl McMillan, David Lee, Jonathan Pienaar, Sonni Chidiebere, Nnamdi Onyeiwu, Nhlanhla Mavimbela, Mfuno Pisani, Phado Bahola, Thabang Mothle, Buhle Seya, Sizwe Makapela, Tyrone Keogh, Winston Ntshona, Mduduzi Mabaso, Nat Ramabulana, Zenzo Ngqobe, Mlungisi Hlophe, Carol Behane, Nigel Harman, Clare Holman, Kedibone Tholo, Koketso Mojela. Storyline: A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pink diamond in director Edward Zwick's frantic adventure drama. Ripped from his family farm and forced to toil away in the sweltering South African diamond fields, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) discovered an extraordinary rough stone of immeasurable v ...

Call of the Wild (1972) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Adventure Drama, Animal Picture. Director: Ken Annakin. Actors: Charlton Heston, Raimund Harmstorf, Michele Mercier, George Eastman, Sancho Gracia, Maria Rohm, Rik Battaglia, Juan Luis Galiardo, Friedhelm Lehmann. Storyline: Director Ken Annakin and an international cast including Charlton Heston and George Eastman try to breath life into Jack London's often-filmed wilderness adventure. The story follows the adventures of John Thornton (Heston) and Pete (Raimund Harmstorf) as they brawl their way through the Alaskan wilderness mushing around in dog sleds and hunting for gold.

Captain from Castile (1947) Genre: Historical Film, Action, Adventure, Epic, Adventure Drama. Director: Henry King. Actors: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, Antonio Moreno, John Sutton, Alan Mowbray, Barbara Lawrence, George Zucco, Roy Roberts, Fred Libby, Virginia Brissac, Jay Silverheels, John Laurenz, Reed Hadley, John Burton, Mimi Aguglia, Robert Adler, William Calles, Harry Carter, Vincente Gomez, Thomas Gomez, Gilberto Gonzalez, Robert Karnes, Marc Lawrence, Ed Mundy, Julian Rivero, Bud Wolfe. Storyline: In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th Century Spain. Pedro helps to free a slave who belongs to Diego De Silva (John Sutton), but this proves to be a mistake, as Diego is one of the leaders of the Inquisition. Diego soon brands Pedro a heretic, puts his family behind bars, and subjects his 12-year-old sister to tortur ...

Captains Courageous (1937) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, Sea Adventure, Childhood Drama. Director: Victor Fleming. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Grapewin, John Carradine, Mickey Rooney, Oscar O'Shea, Jack LaRue, Walter Kingsford, Donald Briggs, Sam McDaniel, Billy Burrud, Norman Ainsley, Wally Albright, Betty Alden, William Arnold, Art Berry Sr., Wade Boteler, Don Brodie, Tommy Bupp, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Coleman, Jimmy Conlin, Lester Dorr, Larry Fisher, Bill Fisher, Billy Gilbert, Roger Gray, Sherry Hall, Dick Howard, Lloyd Ingraham, Gladden James, Jack Kennedy, Katherine Kenworthy, David Kerman, James Kilgannon, Murray Kinnell, Myra Marsh, Philo McCullough, Mira McKinney, Edward Peil Sr., Gil Perkins, Richard Powell, Gene Reynolds, Christian Rub, William Stack, Jack Sterling, Reggie Streeter, Frank Sully, Gertrude Sutton, David Thursby, Charles Trowbridge, Lee van Atta, Monte Vandergrift, Jay Ward, Bobby Watson, Dave Wengren. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Cast Away (2000) Genre: Drama, Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Robert Zemeckis. Actors: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Chris Noth, Nick Searcy, Lari White, Michael Forest, Viveka Davis. Storyline: An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a Federal Express engineer who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting job. His girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) is often neglected by his dedication to work, and his compulsive personality suggests a conflicted man. But on Ch ...

Congo (1995) Genre: Adventure, Action, Jungle Film, Adventure Drama. Director: Frank Marshall. Actors: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker, David Anthony, Thom Barry, Jimmy Buffett, John Cameron, Bruce Campbell, Kathleen Connors, Peter Anthony Elliott, John Hawkes, Peter Jason, Nicholas Kadi, James Karen, William John Murphy, Taylor Nichols, Stuart Pankin, Joe Pantoliano, James Paradise, Romy Rosemont, Carolyn Seymour, Philip Tan, Mary Ellen Trainor, Joel Weiss, Lawrence T. Wrentz. Storyline: Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to finish the project, so he sends a group of men to Zaire, where he's told that a large supply of the gems ...

Deep Blue Sea (1999) Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction, Sea Adventure, Adventure Drama, Natural Horror. Director: Renny Harlin. Actors: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgård, LL Cool J, Aida Turturro. Storyline: Although mako sharks are among the fastest and deadliest predators in the ocean, they're not as smart as humans — at least, they weren't. However, Dr. Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) has been using mako sharks as her test subjects for research on the regeneration of human brain tissues. McAlester has altered the DNA of several sharks, raising them close to the level of human intelligen ...

Dersu Uzala (1975) Genre: Drama, Period Film, Adventure Drama. Director: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Maxim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Vladimir Kremena, Alexandr Pyatkov, Dima Korshikov, Svetlana Danielchanka, Suimenkul Chokmorov, Mikhail Bychkov, Nikolai Volkov, Sr., Sovetbek Dzhumadylov. Storyline: A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and directed by Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of soldiers through ...

Eight Below (2006) Genre: Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Frank Marshall. Actors: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett, August Schellenberg, Wendy Crewson, Belinda Metz, Michael D. Adamthwaite, Apache, Daniel Bacon, Dexter Bell, Buck 65, Buddy Cain, Brendan Campbell, Garry Chalk, Chase Rucker Productions, Dino, DJ Abdel, Flapjack, Babi Floyd, Duncan Fraser, Jasmine, Carl Jasper, Damon Johnson, Koda Bear, Connor Christopher Levins, Lightning, Adrian Noble, Alexios A. Panou, A. James Ryan, Laara Sadiq, Richard Sali, Michael Simms, Malcolm Stewart, Timbalada & Os Zarabe, Troika, Dan Ziskie. Storyline: Eight brave sled dogs search for the master who is looking for a way to rescue them in this adventure drama. An American geologist (Bruce Greenwood) flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base, where he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) and his best friend, Cooper (Jason Biggs). The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight oth ...

End of the Spear (2005) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Religious Drama, Adventure Drama. Director: Jim Hanon. Actors: Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Chase Ellison, Sara Kathryn Bakker, Cara Stoner, Jack Guzman, Christina Souza. Storyline: An indigenous people are turned from a life of violence to a more gentle and forgiving nature in this adventure drama based on a true story. Nate Saint (Chad Allen) is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of South America near the Amazon. Nate is fascinated by tales he's heard of the Waodani, a violent and aggressive tribe living nearby, and with a ...

Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Genre: Spy Film, War, War Spy Film, Adventure Drama. Director: Billy Wilder. Actors: Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Erich Von Stroheim, Peter Van Eyck, Akim Tamiroff, Fortunio Bonanova, Konstantin Shayne, Fred Nurney, Miles Mander, Leslie Denison, Ian Keith, Philip Ahn, Roger Creed, Bud Geary, Frederick Giermann, Otto Reichow, John Royce, Sam Waagenaar. Storyline: Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action is transplanted from World War I Galicia to World War II Egypt as Rommel's Afrika Corps viciously forces the British Army to retreat towards Cairo. Protagonist John J. Bramble (Franchot Tone) is stranded in the Sahara, the lone survivor of a British ...

Flight of the Phoenix (2004) Genre: Adventure, Action, Adventure Drama, Disaster Film. Director: John Moore. Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Giovanni Ribisi, Miranda Otto, Tony Curran, Derek Barton, Bobby Brown, Scott Michael Campbell, Paul Ditchfield, Martin "Mako" Hindy, Kirk "Sticky" Jones, Kee-Yick Cheng, Jim Lau, Hugh Laurie, Vernon Lehmann, Kevork Malikyan, Jared Padalecki, Jacob Vargas, Anthony Wong, Yi-Ding Wang. Storyline: Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon James Stewart. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could not withstand the violent winds of a desert sandstorm. Stranded in the harsh terrain of Mongolia's Gobi ...

Into the Wild (2007) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Adventure Drama. Director: Sean Penn. Actors: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Brian Dierker, Vince Vaughn, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook. Storyline: Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of a young Virginia man, who divorces himself from his friends, family, and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature. Upon his 1990 graduation from Emory University in Atlanta, Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsc ...

Jericho (1937) Genre: Drama, Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Thornton Freeland. Actors: Paul Robeson, Jr., Princess Kouka, John Laurie, James Carew, Lawrence Brown, Ike Hatch, George Barraud, Frederick Cooper, Frank Cochrane, Rufus Fennell, Wallace Ford, Peter Gawthorne, Danny Green, Henry Wilcoxon. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Lord of the Flies (1990) Genre: Drama, Adventure Drama. Director: Harry Hook. Actors: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, Badgett Dale, Edward Taft, Andrew Taft, Bob Peck, Bill Schoppert, Michael Greene, Gary Rule, Terry Wells, Braden MacDonald, Angus Burgin, Martin Zentz, Brian Jacobs, Vincent Amabile, David Weinstein, Chuck Bell, Everado Elizondo, James Hamm, Charles Newmark, Brian Matthews, Shawn Skie, Judson McCune, Zane Rockenbaugh, Robert Shea, Gordon Elder, Janet Hirshenson, Michael Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins. Storyline: Harry Hook directed this second screen adaptation of William Golding's cult novel about a group of British schoolchildren who revert to savagery when marooned on a deserted island. The new adaptation replaces British school children with a group of American military cadets and instead of a shipwreck, their plane crashes into the sea. The children swim ashore onto an island and try to fend for them ...

Midnight Express (1978) Genre: Drama, Prison Film, Escape Film, Adventure Drama, Biography [feature]. Director: Alan Parker. Actors: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Irene Miracle, Paul L. Smith, Mike Kellin, Gigi Ballista, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Diogene, Michael Ensign, Peter Jeffrey, Kevork Malikyan, Dimos Starenios, Norbert Weisser, Michael Yannatos. Storyline: Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he's caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a large amount of hashish out of the country. The crime would normally carry a sentence of four years, but ...

Mission Kashmir (2000) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Actors: Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Jackie Shroff, Preity Zinta. Storyline: Revenge drives this tale of an orphan taken in by a state police officer only to discover that the man who raised him as his own was also the man who savagely gunned down his family. Following the death of his parents in a violent raid by police who are on the trail of a rebel leader, eleven-year-old Altaaf is taken in by kindly officer Inayat Khan and his loving wife Neelima. When Altaff learns t ...

Mountains of the Moon (1990) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Adventure Drama, British Empire Film. Director: Bob Rafelson. Actors: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, John Savident, Peter Vaughan, Anna Massey, Roger Rees, James Villiers, Bernard Hill, Leslie Phillips, Delroy Lindo, Paul Onsongo, Peter Eyre, Omar Sharif, Roshan Seth, Doreen Mantle, Pip Torrens, Frances Cuka, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Asiba Asiba, Richard Caldicot, Garry Cooper, Bill Croasdale, Craig Crosbie, Celestia Fox, Christopher Fulford, Jimmy Gardner, Stewart Harwood, Zam Zam Issa, Pineniece Joshua, Leonard Juma, Renny Krupinski, Patrick Letladi, Alison Limerick, George Malpas, Matthew Marsh, Konga Mbandu, Fikile Mdleleni, Norta Muhammed, Wilson Ng'Ong'A, Bheki Tonto Ngema, Rocks Nhlapo, Esther Njiru, Ralph Nossek, Martin Okello, Michael Otieno, Adrian Rawlins, Fatima Said, Ian Vincent, Philip Voss, Robert Whelan, Rod Woodruff. Storyline: Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke (Iain Glen). The heart of the film is the effort by Burton and Speke to discover the true source of the Nile river. This occurs well into the film, af ...

Mutiny On The Bounty (1935) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, Sea Adventure. Director: Frank Lloyd. Actors: Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Dudley Digges, Herbert Mundin, Donald Crisp, Eddie Quillan, Movita, Francis Lister, Henry Stephenson, Spring Byington, Ian Wolfe, Ivan Simpson, DeWitt Jennings, Stanley Fields, Wallis Clark, Vernon P. Downing, Dick Winslow, Lionel Belmore, Nadine Beresford, James Cagney, Maria [Movita] Castaneda, Mamo Clark, Marion Clayton, Harry Cording, Alec Craig, Harold Entwistle, Pat Flaherty, Mary Gordon, Winter Hall, John Harrington, Charles Irwin, Crauford Kent, Hal LeSueur, Robert Livingston, Doris Lloyd, King Mojave, David Niven, John Powers, Byron Russell, William Stack, Will Stanton, David Thursby, David Torrence, Douglas Walton, Percy Waram, Eric Wilton. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Na vlastní nebezpecí (2007) Genre: Thriller, Adventure Drama. Director: Filip Renc. Actors: Jiri Langmajer, Filip Blazek, Václav Jirácek, Miroslav Krobot. Storyline: Czech director Filip Renc's adventure thriller Na vlastní nebezpecí (AKA At Your Own Risk) intersects two taut and suspenseful stories. In one, a gentleman combs the Carpathian Mountains for evidence that he hopes will provide him with some insight into the strange death of his father in an kayaking accident. His path ultimately criss-crosses with that of a river rafting expedition, whose particip ...

Northwest Passage (1940) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Jack Conway, King Vidor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert H. Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Walton, Addison Richards, Hugh Sothern, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Lester Matthews, Truman Bradley, Arthur Ayleswofth, Rand Brooks, Don Castle, Rychard Cramer, George Eldredge, Verna Felton, Edward Gargan, Gibson Gowland, Denis Green, Frank S. Hagney, Gwendolen Logan, Tom London, Peter George Lynn, Donald MacBride, Helen MacKellar, Addie McPhail, John Merton, Ferdinand Munier, Ted Oliver, Eddie Parker, Kent Rogers, Robert St. Angelo, Ray Teal, Hank Worden, Frederic Worlock. Storyline: Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor. Amazingly, MGM retained many of the grim episodes from the Roberts' novel, though - thanks to the Hays Code - most are discussed rather than shown. The film is set in 1759, when the headstrong and gifted young artist Langdon Towne ( ...

Pathfinder (2007) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, Sword-and-Sandal, Period Film. Director: Marcus Nispel. Actors: Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Clancy Brown, Jay Tavare, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Kevin Loring, Wayne C. Baker, Michelle Thrush, Nicole Muñoz, Burkely Duffield, Ray G. Thunderchild, Duane Howard, Brandon Oakes, Alain Hudon, Cyler Point, Stefany Mathias, John Mann, Ken Jones, Mike Dopud, Woody Jeffreys, André Todorovic, Marcel Petit. Storyline: The sole survivor of a Viking "dragon" vessel shipwrecked on Eastern shores of the New World fifteen years ago provides the only hope for the a Native American tribe faced with certain destruction by Norse berserkers in director Marcus Nispel's (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) dark action adventure. Reared by the Wampanoag Tribe following a failed attempt by the Vikings to raid coastal vill ...

Prestige (1932) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Adventure Drama, Romantic Adventure. Director: Tay Garnett. Actors: Ann Harding, Adolphe Menjou, Melvyn Douglas, Clarence Muse, Carmelita Geraghty, Tetsu Komai, Rollo Lloyd, Ian MacLaren, Guy Bates Post. Storyline: The tragic death from peritonitis of leading man Robert Williams marred the production of this oppressive triangle drama set in a French penal colony in Vietnam. Arriving at torrid Lao Bao, Therese Du Flos (Ann Harding) discovers that her fiancé, André Verlaine (Melvyn Douglas, who had replaced Williams) has become an alcoholic due to the pressures of the lonely job of running the prison. Distraug ...

Prince of Foxes (1949) Genre: Historical Film, Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Henry King. Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane, Katina Paxinou, Felix Aylmer, Leslie E. Bradley, Rena Lennart, Giuseppe Faeti, Adriano Ambrogi, Eva Brauer, James Carney, Eduardo Ciannelli, Franco Corsaro, Eugene Deckers, Ludmilla Dudarova, Joop van Hulzen. Storyline: Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is a cinemadaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the film stars Tyrone Power as Orsini, a good-will ambassador for scheming, covetous Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). Orsini is aware that he is being used to expand Borgia's political influence, but he does his best to serve his master. But when he visits a m ...

Psych-Out (1968) Genre: Drama, Crime, Adventure Drama, Crime Thriller. Director: Richard Rush. Actors: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Bob Kelljan, Henry Jaglom, Barbara London, Tommy Flanders, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, John Cardos, I.J. Jefferson, Gary Kent, Gary Marshall, Beatriz Monteil, Dave Morick, Linda Scott, Ken Scott. Storyline: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has seen in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square girl into a swinging hippie chick, complete with a mod miniskirt. Along with their buddy Dave (Dean ...

Savage Harvest (1981) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Adventure Drama. Director: Robert E. Collins. Actors: Tom Skerritt, Michelle Phillips, Shawn Stevens, Ann-Marie Martin, Derek Partridge, Arthur Malet, Tana Helfer, Vincent J. Isaac, Rene LeVant, Abdullah Sunado. Storyline: A drought in the savannas of Kenya provides the basis for this dramatic African adventure that centers on a family living on a desiccated plantation. Their lives are further endangered by a pride of starving lions. Just before the people are devoured, they are saved by a courageous guide.

Seven Years in Tibet (1997) Genre: Drama, Biography [feature], Adventure Drama. Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Actors: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Victor Wong, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Ama Ashe Dongtse, Sonam Wangchuk, Dorjee Tsering, Ric Young, Ngawang Chojor, Duncan Fraser, Benedick Bythe. Storyline: Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head a Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of Allied forces as a prisoner of war. H ...

Sharpe's Rifles (1993) Genre: Adventure, Historical Film, Adventure Drama. Director: Tom Clegg. Actors: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Hugh Fraser, Jason Durr, Allie Byrne, Liam Carney, Tim Bentinck, Brian Cox, Lyndon Davies, Julian Fellowes, Richard Ireson, Martin Jacobs, Malcolm Jamieson, Jack McKenzie, Michael Mears, Jason Salkey, Assumpta Serna, Kerry Shale, John Tams, David Troughton, Karen Tungay. Storyline: In this action adventure, author Bernard Cornwell's fictional Major Sharpe is faced with the daunting task of teaching a ceremonial battalion to fight for real.

Shogun Assassin (1980) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, Samurai Film. Director: Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi, David Weisman. Actors: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masahiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo, Shin Kishida, Lamont Johnson, Marshall Erwin Efron, Sandra Bernhard, Lennie Weinrib, Mark Lindsay, Robert Houston, David Weisman. Storyline: More a "greatest hits" movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, Shogun Assassin is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet that's sure to entertain the samurai-film enthusiast with a strong stomach. The swords fly fast and furious as a wondering shogun is forced into exile a ...

Shoot to Kill (1988) Genre: Action, Adventure Drama, Buddy Film, Action Thriller. Director: Roger Spottiswoode. Actors: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur, Andrew Robinson, Kevin Scannell, Frederick Coffin, Michael MacRae, Robert Lesser, Beatrice Boepple, Claire Brown, Ken Camroux, Darcelle Chan, Michael Chapman, Bill Croft, Maryanna Danguy, Robyn Masumi Gildemeester, Michelle Goodger, Fred Henderson, Gary Hetherington, Sam Hiona, Les Lannom, Gloria Lee, Allan Lysell, Blu Mankuma, Walter Marsh, Kevin McNulty, Freda Perry, Ric Reid, Andrew Rhodes, Janet Rotblatt, Craig Saunders, Milton Selzer, Howard Storey, William Taylor, Frank C. Turner, Jerry Wasserman. Storyline: Sidney Poitier makes his long-overdue return to films in the 1988 thriller Shoot to Kill. Poitier plays an FBI agent, on the trail of an elusive killer. Reluctantly teamed with tracker Tom Berenger, the citified Poitier braves the wilds of the Pacific Northwest in search of his quarry. For Berenger, the pursuit is personal; the killer, whose identity is not immediately revealed, has joined a hunti ...

Spriggan (1998) Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Sci-Fi Action, Anime, Adventure Drama. Director: Hirotsugu Kawasaki. Actors: Storyline: Animator of the groundbreaking animé classic Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo was the executive producer for this two-fisted Raiders of the Lost Ark-like animated action-adventure flick, based on a manga by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa. The film opens with members of the secret organization Arkam rooting around on Mt. Ararat — the supposed landing spot of Noah's Arc. They not only find the ...

The Beach (2000) Genre: Drama, Adventure, Adventure Drama, Psychological Thriller, Jungle Film. Director: Danny Boyle. Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Canet, Paterson Joseph, Robert Carlyle, Peter Youngblood Hills, Jerry Swindall, Lars Arentz Hansen, Myriam Acharki, Jak Boon, Daniel Caltagirone, Andrew Carmichael, Sanya "Gai" Cheunjit, Joshua Cole, Hélène de Fougerolles, Bindu de Stoppani, Peter Gevisser, Samue Gough, Stacy A. Hart, Jukka Hiltunen, Simone Huber, Nina Jacques, Sheriden Jones, Abhijati Jusakul, Gunilla Karlson, Kaneung "Nueng" Kenla, Staffan Kihlbom, Magnus Lindgren, Sian Martin, Saskia Mulder, Patcharawan Patarakijjanon, Somboon Phutaroth, Somchai Santitarangkul, Isabella Seibert, Kawee "Seng" Sirikanerat, Somkuan "Kuan" Siroon, Victoria Smurfit, Raweeporn Srimonju, Krongthong Thampradith, Elizabeth Thomas, Michael R. Thorpe, Zelda Tinska, Timothy Webster, Weeratham "Norman" Wichairaksakul, Ramon Woolfe, Daniel York, Lidija Zovkic. Storyline: For his first major project after the overwhelming success of Titanic, Leonardo Di Caprio took a risky path in this adaptation of Alex Garland's acclaimed novel, directed by Danny Boyle. Richard (Di Caprio) is an American backpacking through Asia with a handful of friends from Europe. While in Bangkok, he meets a mad Scotsman who calls himself Daffy Duck (Robert Carlyle). Shortly before Mr. Duck k ...

The Bounty (1984) Genre: Drama, Adventure Drama, Sea Adventure. Director: Roger Donaldson. Actors: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Philip Davis, Liam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tevaite Vernette, Philip Martin Brown, Simon Adams, Sharon Nurse Bower, Simon Chandler, Brendan Conroy, Dexter Fletcher, Jon Gadsby, Richard Graham, Pete Lee-Wilson, Jack May, John Sessions, Malcolm Terris, Andrew Wilde. Storyline: This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall book, but on Richard Hough's novel Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian. This time, the infamous Captain Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) is as strict a disciplinarian as ever. He is, however, no monster; faced with his crew's increasing laxity after an idyllic visit to Tahiti (the search fo ...

The Children of Huang Shi (2008) Genre: Drama, Docudrama, Adventure Drama. Director: Roger Spottiswoode. Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, David Wenham, Guang Li, Jin Shuyuan. Storyline: As China is ravaged by war in the late '30s, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) leads 60 orphans over the Liu Pan Shan mountains and into the safety of the Mongolian desert. Joining the journalist and the children on their arduous journey are an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the fearless leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun-Fat). The journey won't be ...

The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972) Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure, Western, Adventure Drama. Director: Dick Richards. Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis, Wayne Sutherlin, Jan Burrell, Patrick Campbell, José Chavez, Matt Clark, Royal Dano, Dennis Fimple, Larry Finley, Jerry Gatlin, Ted Gehring, Raymond Guth, Paul Harper, Anthony James, Arthur Malet, John McLiam, Bob Morgan, Hal Needham, William O'Connell, John Pearce, Walter Scott, Gregory Sierra, Charles Martin Smith. Storyline: Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting, and violent the life of a cowhand can be. As one of the men on the drive puts it, "Being a cowboy ...

The Cure (1995) Genre: Children's/Family, Drama, Adventure Drama, Buddy Film. Director: Peter Horton. Actors: Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison, Nicky Katt, John Beasley, Andrew Broder, Rosemary Corman, Stephen D'Ambrose, Aeryk Egan, Rodney W. England, Delphine French, Craig Gierl, Dale Handevidt, Jeremy Howard, Renee Humphrey, Delia Jurek, Fran Korba, Samantha Lemole, John Lynch, Mary McCusker, Peter Moore, Raymond Nelson, Mona Powell, T. Mychael Rambo, Bill Schoppert, Laurie A. Sinclair, David Alan Smith, Scott Stockton, Shirley Venard. Storyline: Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old boy whose single mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid), has just moved to a new home in Minnesota. Erik feels like a fish out of water with his Southern accent, and he has trouble making friends until he meets Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), a kid a year or two younger who lives next door. Erik and Dexter get along fine, but Gail tells Erik not to go near Dexter when she learn ...

The Descent (2005) Genre: Horror, Adventure Drama, Monster Film. Director: Neil Marshall. Actors: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayll, Craig Conway, Mark Cronfield, Catherine Dyson, Julie Ellis, Justin Hackney, Steve Lamb, Stuart Luis, Tristan Matthiae, Leslie Simpson, Sophie Trott. Storyline: A group of close female friends on a yearly adventure vacation find themselves trapped and hunted in a series of caves by an unknown force that lurks in the shadows in The Descent, the second horror feature from Dog Soldiers writer/director Neil Marshall. After suffering a devastating car crash one year before, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) is lured to the States with her friend Beth (Alex Reid) to a s ...

The Edge (1997) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Lee Tamahori. Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle MacPherson, Harold Perrineau, Jr., L.Q. Jones, Kathleen Wilhoite, David Lindstedt, Mark Kiely, Eli Gabay, Larry Musser, Brian Arnold, Kelsa Kinsly, Bob Boyd, Gordon Tootoosis, Brian Steele, Bart the Bear. Storyline: Billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) accompanies his much-younger wife Mickey (Elle Macpherson) and a fashion photography team headed by Bob Green (Alec Baldwin) to a remote lodge in Alaska. Charles is a quiet, introspective man, fond of accumulating trivia and other facts in his encyclopedic mind; he is also troubled with the idea that Bob and Mickey may be lovers. Even though he suspects ...

The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Genre: Action, Adventure, Adventure Drama, Disaster Film. Director: Robert Aldrich. Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy, Gabriele Tinti, Alex Montoya, Peter Bravos, William Aldrich, Barrie Chase, Stanley Ralph Ross. Storyline: Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for survival in the desert wastes. Some of those who appear to be the most resourceful reveal themselves to be i ...

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, British Empire Film, Costume Adventure, Jungle Film. Director: Stephen Hopkins. Actors: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Om Puri, Bernard Hill, Brian McCardie, Henry Cele, Emily Mortimer. Storyline: A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period adventure drama. John Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is the owner of a British railroad firm who is building a rail line through Uganda. A bridge is needed so that the tracks may cross a large river, and engineer John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) is summoned to ...

The Ghost Ship (1943) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, Sea Adventure. Director: Mark Robson. Actors: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Lawrence Tierney, Ben Bard, Skelton Knaggs, Edmund Glover, Tom Burton, Steve Winston, Dewey Robinson, Charles Lung, George de Normand, Paul Marion, Sir Lancelot, Boyd Davis, Joss Ackland, Robert Bice, Eddie Borden, Harry Clay, Alec Craig, Michael Lally, Nolan Leary, Norman Mayes, Charles Norton, Shirley O'Hara Krims, Charles Regan, Bob Stevenson, Herb Vigran. Storyline: RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars as the ship's captain, a tortured soul who teeters on the verge of madness. Seaman Russell Wade notices the captain's deterioration, but his warnings are dismissed by the crew. Captain Dix completely goes over the edge, sadistically playing a game of cat and mouse with the l ...

The Lost Patrol (1934) Genre: War, Adventure Drama, War Adventure, British Empire Film. Director: John Ford. Actors: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny, J.M. Kerrigan, Billy Bevan, Alan Hale, Brandon Hurst, Douglas Walton, Sammy Stein, Howard Wilson, Paul Hanson, Neville Clarke, Francis Ford. Storyline: Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934. Sergeant Victor McLaglen is in charge of a World War I-era British cavalry regiment, stranded somewhere in the Mesopotamian desert. McLaglen hasn't asked for the responsibility: the commanding officer has been killed by an Arab sniper, leaving McLaglen to take over. One by one, M ...

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Genre: Adventure, Period Film, Swashbuckler, Adventure Drama, Costume Adventure. Director: William Richert. Actors: Edward Albert, Dana Barron, Timothy Bottoms, Brigid Brannah, Fannie Brett, Meg Foster, James Gammon, Dennis Hayden, William Richert, Nick Richert, Rex Ryon, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Littman. Storyline: Actor-director William Richert (Winter Kills), who directed the late River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), originally planned this low-budget adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1848-50 classic adventure, as a vehicle for River Phoenix. Casting his son, Nick Richert, in the dual role of Philippe and King Louis XIV, he continued on with the project, despite the competition of the ...

The Mosquito Coast (1986) Genre: Adventure, Drama, Adventure Drama, Jungle Film. Director: Peter Weir. Actors: Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon, Andre Gregory, Dick O'Neill, Martha Plimpton, Melanie Boland, Michael Rogers, Jason Alexander, Margaret Cho, Sofia Cho, Rafael Cho, Raymond Clare, Aurora Clavel, Dianne Crittenden, Tiger Haynes, Emory King, Juan Antonio Llanes, Butterfly McQueen, William Newman, Michael Opolu, Louis Palacio, Wilfred Peters, Conrad Roberts, Aldolpho Salguero, Alice Sneed, Tony Vega Sr, Abel Woolrich, Jorge Zepeda. Storyline: Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford plays Allie Fox, an inventor embittered by the blighted landscape of the contemporary United States. As he tells his oldest son, Charlie (River Phoenix), "Look around you. It's a toilet." He moves his wife (Helen Mirren) and kids — C ...

The Naked Jungle (1954) Genre: Adventure, Jungle Film, Adventure Drama, Natural Horror. Director: Byron Haskin. Actors: Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad, Romo Vincent, Douglas Fowley, John Dierkes, Leonard Strong, Norma Calderon, Pilar del Rey, Bernie Gozier, Jerry Groves, Leon Lontoc, John Mansfield, Ronald Alan Numkena, Rodd Redwing, Jack Reitzen, Carlos Rivero, John E. Wood. Storyline: It doesn't take long for old-time-radio fans to figure out that The Naked Jungle is a film version of the classic Carl Stephenson nailbiter Leiningen Versus the Ants. Charlton Heston plays South American plantation owner Christopher Leiningen, who spends most of the film preparing for the hellish onslaught of deadly soldier ants. The original story concentrated solely on Leiningen; the film versio ...

The Naked Prey (1966) Genre: Adventure, Adventure Drama, Chase Movie. Director: Cornel Wilde, Sven Persson. Actors: Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt, Bella Randels, Jose Sithole, Morrison Gampu, Frank Mdhiuli, Sandy Nkomo, Fusi Zazayokwe, John Marcus, Horace Gilman, Joe Diamini, Richard Mashiya, Eric Sabela. Storyline: In the bush country of South Africa in the late 19th century, chauvinistic hunter Gert vanDen Bergh calculatedly offends a local tribal chief. Given several opportunities, he refuses to apologize. As consequence, vanDen Bergh and the rest of his hunting party are captured by the tribesmen and grotesquely tortured to death. The only white man spared is safari-guide Cornel Wilde, whom the natives re ...

The Old Man and the Sea (1958) Genre: Drama, Sea Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: John Sturges. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Felipe Pazos, Harry Bellaver, Donald Diamond, Don Blackman, Joey Ray, Richard Alameda, Mauritz Hugo, Carlos Rivera, Tony Rosa. Storyline: Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to cinematize Hemingway's tight little character study. Spencer Tracy is the Old Man, a Cuban fisherman who tries to haul in a huge fish that he catches far from shore. Tracy's tiny boat is besieged by sharks and by natural elements, but the Old Man stubbornly ...

The Perfect Storm (2000) Genre: Drama, Adventure, Disaster Film, Sea Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Actors: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, John Hawkes, Allen Payne, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Karen Allen, Cherry Jones, Bob Gunton, Christopher McDonald, Dash Mihok, Josh Hopkins, Michael Ironside, Rusty Schwimmer, Janet Wright, Billy Mayo. Storyline: In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Based on the best-selling book by Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm tells the story of the sh ...

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