Adventure

  • Franklin J. Schaffner – Planet of the Apes (1968)

    1961-1970AdventureFranklin J. SchaffnerSci-FiUSA

    Synopsis:
    In the year 3978A.D. a spaceship with a crew of 4 crashes down on a distant planet. One of the crew members had died in space and the other 3 head out to explore the planet. They soon learn that the planet is much like their own. They then find the planet is inhabited by intelligent apes. One of the men is shot and killed and the others are taken to the apes’ city. There, one undergoes brain surgery and is put into a state of living death. The other befriends some of the apes but is feared by most. After being put through ape trial he escapes with a female human native to the planet. After helping his ape friends escape a religious heresy trial he escapes out into the wilderness with the female. There he learns the planet might not be so distant after all…Read More »

  • William A. Kirkley – Orange Sunshine (2016)

    William A. Kirkley2011-2020AdventureDocumentaryUSA

    Orange Sunshine is the never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in California, which became the largest suppliers of LSD during the 60’s and 70’s. This feature-length doc follows their rise to star-status in Psychedelic movement and the “bad trip” that followed.Read More »

  • Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Faraon AKA Pharaoh (1966) (HD)

    1961-1970AdventureEpicJerzy KawalerowiczPoland

    Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s long gestated film adaptation of Bolesław Prus’ historical novel PHARAOH is an ambitious endeavor, dazzles in its epic scale and formalist gravitas with an exclusive Polish cast, which leads to one prescribed proviso: for purists, it is beggar belief to watch a movie about ancient Egyptians where everyone sports Polish through and through; but other than that, the film is a marvel orchestrated with vigor, mettle and pathos.Read More »

  • Henri Decoin – Le masque de fer AKA The Iron Mask (1962)

    1961-1970AdventureFranceHenri Decoin

    An aging musketeer is called out of retirement to help a king in this comic swashbuckler. The king’s twin brother is freed after twenty years in an iron mask. He is to be used as a decoy for the monarch while the real king and his court roust some rebels to foil their insurgent uprising. D’Artagnan (Jean Marais) leads the way with his expert fencing to aid in the royal flush.Read More »

  • Marion Hänsel – En amont du fleuve AKA Upstream (2016)

    2011-2020AdventureDramaFranceMarion Hänsel

    “Two men share not only the same genes, but a common quest…”

    Synopsis:
    Homer and Joe follow the course of a Croatian river on board a swaying boat, almost against their will, flanked by an unknown dog who has invited himself along on their journey without warning. Very quickly, we realise that the two men are strangers to one another, ignoring the blood tie that binds them to one another. Their father, who one of the two men didn’t know well enough whilst the other perhaps knew him too well, has just died, leaving them an unresolved mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death: was he murdered or did he commit suicide?Read More »

  • Thomas Salvador – La montagne AKA The Mountain (2022) (HD)

    2021-2030AdventureFantasyFranceThomas Salvador

    Thomas Lemercier on Cineuropa wrote:
    Pierre is a Parisian in his fourties whose life consists of his morning coffee in a run-down apartment, his phones, his keys, his computer on the train, page 9 of the fourth version of a file, then a demonstration of robotics to some clients, in English. But through the window, are emerging the outlines of a new journey, of a recovery (he does not yet know how radical it will be), of his existence. These outlines are the snow-capped peaks and the glacier where Thomas Salvador sets the scene (and a tent) for his second feature film, The Mountain [+], revealed in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 75th Cannes Film Festival. Read More »

  • Spencer Gordon Bennet & Fred C. Brannon – The Black Widow (1947)

    1941-1950AdventureFred C. BrannonMysterySpencer Gordon BennetUSA

    The Editor of the Daily Clarion newspaper hires amateur criminologist Steve Colt to solve a series of murders, all involving poisonous spider bites.
    Meanwhile, King Hitomu has sent his daughter Sombra to the United States to fulfill his plan for global domination. There she poses as a fortune teller and, with a gang of henchmen, attempt to steal a prototype Atomic Rocket Engine.
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  • Hiroshi Inagaki – Yagyu bugeicho AKA Yagyu Secret Scrolls, Part I (1957)

    1951-1960ActionAdventureHiroshi InagakiJapan

    Quote:
    In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.Read More »

  • William Berke – Zamba (1949)

    1941-1950AdventureDramaUSAWilliam Berke

    Jenny and her six-year-old son, Tommy, are flying over the Belgian Congo when they are forced to bail out and become separated. Jenny lands in a dense jungle and is rescued by a safari headed by two wild-animal collectors, but Tommy is not found. He has amnesia and is lost, but is adopted by Zamba, a huge gorilla. He lives happily with his new family. Jenny comes back with a searching party, and Zamba, the gorilla mother, is determined to protect Tommy from his real mother.Read More »

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