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Adventure movies
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Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins (Bruce Willis) is an unsurpassed thief who can crack any safe in a moment. After serving a regular term at prison, he is ready to leave his dangerous and reprehensible profession. But mafia and CIA are not interested in such developments and try to compel Eddie to rush through the robbery of the century. He has to steal three Leonardo’s pictures from the most secured museums of the world. |
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David Spade plays Joe, whose search for his family has him hittin' the road and keepin' it real with every lowlife he meets, including a sweet hottie (Brittany Daniel), a janitor (Christopher Walken), and a pychotic cannibal (Brian Thompson) with whom he has a brief interlude. Through it all, Joe keeps on truckin' . . . all the way to L.A., where a shock jock DJ (Dennis Miller) targets Joe as the butt of his show. But Joe's plucky spirit encourages listeners to cheer him on and help him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted. Rock on! |
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Another evil threatens to conquer the world, as Conan journeys on a search to find a magic crystal before the sorceror Toth Amon can use it. He is also required to rescue the Princess Jehnna for the treacherous Queen Taramis who plans to betray Conan and rule the world. |
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Long before the Pyramids were built, a daring and ruthless conqueror came from the East. He came along with the hordes of his loyal, bloodthirsty warriors and so he subdued ancient lands which fell before the sword of the furious invader. When the world was drowned into the dark waves of chaos, lawlessness and violence, the hero came to ruin the insuperable evil invaders. He was a hireling long ago, and his veins were filled by the scorpions' blood, now he is to defend the world against the evil powers. Let the Biblical city of Gomorrah contemplate the bloody battle!.. This prequel to The Mummy series stars The Rock, a WWE celebrity along with Steven Brand as Memnon (the tyrant), and Kelly Hu as a beautiful sorceress. |
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In the years following World War II Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is haunted by memories of brutality of his war. He can no longer honestly call himself a man of God since he was occasionally forced to participate in a Nazi crime. He tries to escape his memories travelling through far countries. In Cairo he meets a collector of rare antiquities who have unearthed a Christian church in the remote region of Kenya. The church seemed to be buried at the same day it was built. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find some ancient artefact hidden within the church before the British discover it. But while investigating, they find out that the church was built to protect the area against an evil force, which has been buried long ago and eventually released along the excavations. The horror has only just begun. |
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The fantasy-adventure movie revolves around an orphaned teenage farm boy named Eragon (Edward Speleers) whose life is changed forever when he finds an egg from which hatches a baby dragon, Saphira (Rachel Weisz). She communicates telepathically with Eragon, informing him of his being the last of a breed of once powerful and magnanimous Dragon Riders. Eragon also learns that the beautiful land of Alagaлsia is now ruled by the corrupt King Galbatorix (John Malkovich) and it’s up to him to fight for freedom against the evil sorcerer Durza (Robert Carlyle) and the army of Galbatorix.
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Ace Ventura is a detective who helps people to find their beloved pets. Now he is to find Shikakah, a sacred animal of the Wachati tribe in Africa. This critter is the most necessary element of the upcoming wedding rithual which should be held between, so to speak, Romeo and Juliet who are descendants of the two different tribes. Of coarse, Jim Carrey's character brings funny disaster everywhere he appears, otherwise he is not Ace Ventura! Alligator's throat and rhino's ass seem to be the places he never been... But one should better watch this hilarious film yourself!
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Pirates, treasures, Jamaica. The daughter (Geena Davis) of a dying pirate gets a peace of the secret map, which can lead her to the Spanish treasure, which is buried on some mysterious island. Her father was killed by her uncle, and she desperately wants to take a revenge upon the fratricidal pirate named "Dawg" (Frank Langella). She realizes that the second peace of the map is in the hands of her bloody enemy, and begins to recruit the ship crew at Port Royal. Then it turns out to be that one of the men she recruited, William Shaw (Matthew Modine), has the last (third) part of the map. But the bloodthirsty unkle Dawg still has its second part. Thus... let the battle begin!
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[2006,
USA]
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A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls. |
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This movie presents Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a deadly and gracious female ninja. She is forced to make a responsible decision when she is sent to kill Mark Miller and his 13-year old daughter Abby. She rejects her mission and begins to fight against the hand, a powerful ninja syndicate whose members practice the dark martial art of ninjiutsu. Her fantastic abilities help her to struggle: she has a gift to see the future and her fighting skills also is not a trifle! |
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Based on the popular cartoon, this action-adventure movie is about the battle between the forces of good and evil. The once-beautiful planet Eternia is reduced to rubble and its ruler, the Sorceress of Greyskull Castle (Christina Pickles), is imprisoned by the diabolical Skeletor (Frank Langella) who is bent on world domination. Heroic warrior He-Man (Dolph Lundgren) and his bold cohorts, dwarf inventor Gwildor (Billy Barty), soldier Man-at-Arms (Jon Cypher) and his daughter Teela (Chelsea Field), are summoned to thwart Skeletor's nefarious designs. But when the puckish Gwildor uses his powerful Cosmic Key that can open portals to any part of the galaxy, they fortuitously find themselves transported to Earth. There, the Cosmic Key falls into hands of two American teenagers, Julie Winston (Courteney Cox) and Kevin (Robert Duncan Mitchell), who unwittingly become entangled in an internecine battle between the mighty He-Man and Skeletor's army of darkness. |
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Four voluptuous females, Tina Armstrong (Jaime Pressly), Christie Allen (Holly Valance), Helena Douglas (Sarah Carter) and Kasumi (Devon Aoki), receive an enticing invitation to travel to an exotic island. They are not invited to lie on the sand, basking in the sunshine, drinking cocktails and admiring tanned muscular bodies of naked men. They are to partake in the "Dead or Alive" martial arts tournament. The world’s toughest fighters face each other for a ten-million-dollar top prize. But for many combatants money is not the sole reason for their participation in the contest; it’s also a matter of prestige, honor, and the search for truth.
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A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure — and their estranged romance. |
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The action-adventure movie tells the heroic story of the times when Vikings tried to conquer North America by destroying local tribes before Christopher Columbus reached its shores. Wrecked during the storm, a ship became the grave of Vikings and their captives. There was only one survivor, a Viking boy whose unconscious body was washed up on the shore by the powerful waves. Fortunately, the People of the Dawn tribe used various healing remedies to fix the kid up and raised him as their own. Many years later, he grows up into a warrior named Ghost (Karl Urban) and bravely defends his abode against an invasion of ferocious Vikings who, after having plundered great cities of Europe, land on the shores of North America. Despite a mighty legion of his foes, Ghost is unwilling to sheathe the sword and attempts to defeat the usurpers.
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Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors: a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow and an elf with the fastest bow in the land; Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones. |
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It must be very scary to live in a zombie infested city if you are left alone and have no guns to defend yourself against flesh-eating rotting zombies, driven by creepy parasitic worms. It seems to be very hard lines on Fred (voiced by Frank Sudol), a miserable old man who must find a way out before he becomes a zombie viand.
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America’s greatest secret weapon is unleashed again as three glamorous crime-fighting Charlie's Angels - Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) - reunite for a challenging new adventure. This time, they are assigned to investigate the theft of two silver bands containing important encrypted ID information for every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Some witnesses’ being murdered, the Angels must stop the perpetrator of the crimes, mysterious ‘fallen’ Angel Madison Lee (Demi Moore). |
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Former Special Forces operative Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes) has the misfortune to be mistaken for another Special Forces agent. He is abducted by intelligence officers and injected with a mind-controlling drug that allows them to create images in his mind and manipulate his actions. Though Dean manages to escape from his enemies, he experiences hallucinations. In his intoxicated state of consciousness he finds himself fighting on the battlefield, and this makes him unpredictable and dangerous. Only Detective Amy Knight (Jacqueline Obradors) knows what is happening to her best pal. Dean’s life depends on her decisive action: she must find an antidote at whatever cost, or the drug will kill him in six hours. |
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Jack & Jennifer take a private cruise with friends, such as Captain Richards and his wife Maggie. Manuel is a staff member who catches Jen's eye. Thanks to chain of events sparked off between a dispute concerning Jack and Manuel, a fire breaks out and the ship blows up and sinks. Jen and Mannuel seem to be the only survivors to wash up on an island...but before long Jack shows lying in a rock pool...and here's where the tale turns nasty |
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In Niece, France, Mikhail Suverov, a former Russian gangster is chased by two corrupt FBI agents Pellman and Loomis and Mikhail is killed. French police officer Alain Moreau discovers Mikhail is his twin brother he never knew and was given up for adoption. Investigating Mikhail's murder, Alain travels to New York City and assumes Mikhail's identity, where he meets Mikhail's sexy girlfriend Alex Minetti and discovers Mikhail was working for the Russian mob and Mikhail's former boss, Ivan, isn't happy to see Mikhail. Risking everything to discover the truth, and pursued by Ivan, Agent Pellman and Agent Loomis, Alain discovers Mikhail quit the Russian mob and had evidence of the Russian Mob's criminal activities and the two corrupt FBI agent's involvement with the Russian Mob, and Alain sets out to infiltrate the Russian mob and the two corrupt FBI agents and protect Alex, as Alain sets out to avenge Mikhail. |
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