Adventure

  • Louis Feuillade – Tih Minh (1918)

    Louis Feuillade1911-1920AdventureFranceSilent

    Jacques d’Athys returns from an expedition to Indochina where he picks up a book that contains the whereabouts of secret treasures and sensitive government intelligence. This makes him the target of foreign spies, including a Marquise of Latin origin, a Hindu hypnotist and an evil German doctor.Read More »

  • Tamizo Ishida – Orizo nan henge AKA Seven Changes of a Paper Crane (1941)

    Tamizo Ishida1941-1950AdventureJapanMystery

    Maya Grohn wrote:
    The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo, which was published in a magazine called “KING”, the most popular magazine of its time. This type of magazine was deemed too popular for serious literature lovers, who regarded it as beneath them. Once a girl, a long time ago, Maya could not understand it all, but through ageing I have begun to enjoy these thing in a quite different manner.Read More »

  • Mani Ratnam – Thiruda Thiruda AKA Thief,Thief (1993)

    1991-2000AdventureCrimeIndiaMani Ratnam

    Synopsis:
    Fresh printed bank notes to the value of incredible 10 billion rupies are stolen in India from a train by the henchmen of super-gangster Vikram living in London. The code card only being able to open the container with the money comes into the possession of beautiful Chandralekha. On the way to Vikram she comes across the two thieves Kadir and Azhagu who are on the run from the police – having in tow country-girl Rajathi whom they kept from committing suicide and who then ran away from her ruthless uncle. After some attempts of cheating each other Chandralekha is making friends with the thieves. When she discovers that Vikram is stopping at nothing – especially not at dead bodies – on his hunt after the loot, she informs the three others about the real value of the code card. In the following pursuit between Vikram, the four heroes and a special police brigade which has to get back the money before a state crisis comes about, not only fierce action, but also love comes to its own.Read More »

  • Raoul Coutard – La légion saute sur Kolwezi AKA Operation Leopard AKA Military Coup in Kolwezi (1980)

    1971-1980AdventureFranceRaoul CoutardWar

    In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart’s replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.Read More »

  • James W. Horne – The Shadow (1940)

    James W. Horne1931-1940AdventureCrimeUSA

    The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.Read More »

  • Claudia Pinto – La distancia más larga AKA The Longest Distance (2013)

    2011-2020AdventureClaudia PintoDramaVenezuela

    Synopsis:
    A story about a boy who gets into an adventure with a stranger hoping to meet his grandmother.Read More »

  • Sergio Sollima – La tigre è ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa! (1977)

    Sergio Sollima1971-1980AdventureItalyTV

    Quote:
    Following on from the successful television adaptation of Sandokan in 1976, a year later Kabir Bedi gave life to the big screen incarnation in this Sergio Sollima-directed film.Read More »

  • Lewis D. Collins – The Mysterious Mr. M (1946)

    Lewis D. Collins1941-1950ActionAdventureUSA

    An evil scientist known as “Mr. M.” uses a drug he has developed called “hypnotreme” to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is dispatched to find the mysterious villain and stop his nefarious plans.Read More »

  • Clive Gordon – Cargo (2006)

    2001-2010AdventureClive GordonDramaSpain

    This taut, cerebral thriller by award-winning documentary filmmaker Clive Gordon showcases an outstanding cast and a smart, multilayered screenplay. In this intensely crafted drama, a young backpacker, Chris (Daniel Bruhl), is traveling around Africa when he gets into trouble, loses his passport, and decides to stow away aboard a rusty cargo ship to flee the local police and get back to Europe. Discovered shortly after putting to sea, he quickly realizes that this is no ordinary voyage: it features a crew of hopeless, possibly even deranged, men; a mysteriously inscrutable captain (Peter Mullan), who holds absolute sway over the inhabitants of this insular floating isle; and a ship that seems to be burdened by untold secrets.Read More »

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