Category Archives: Adventure

Innerspace

IMDB Rating: 6.40
10097 votes

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Cocky space ace Tuck Pendelton volunteers to be minaturized and injected into a lab rabbit. Some techno-terrorists foul up these plans and Tuck is mistakenly injected into hypochondriac Jack Putter instead. Now the terrorists are after Jack with all-American hero Tuck shrunk inside him. Their only hope is Tuck's journalist girl- friend Lydia, but Jack has developed a crush on her.
Actors
Lt. Tuck PendletonDennis Quaid
Jack PutterMartin Short
Lydia MaxwellMeg Ryan
Also posted in 1987, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

IMDB Rating: 7.40
17679 votes

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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal....
Actors
Neal PageSteve Martin
Del GriffithJohn Candy
Susan PageLaila Robins
Also posted in 1987, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Golden Child

IMDB Rating: 5.20
8800 votes

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Eddie Murphy plays a detective with a speciality of finding lost children. He is told he is the 'Chosen one' who will find and protect the Golden Child, a Bhuddist mystic who was kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Murphy disbelieves the mysticism but finds more and more evidence of demon worship as he investigates.
Actors
The Golden ChildJ.L. Reate
Chandler JarrellEddie Murphy
Sardo NumspaCharles Dance
Also posted in 1986, Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery | Comments (0)

Crocodile Dundee

IMDB Rating: 6.40
13476 votes

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New York reporter Sue travels to Australia to meet and interview Michael J Crocodile Dundee, a man who runs a safari business and has just survived an attacked by a crocodile. After spending a few days touring the safari park, Sue invites Mick to come back with her to visit New York. How would the clash of cultures and different life style affect the Aussie bushman? How do things turn out when Sue falls for his charms?
Actors
Michael J. 'Crocodile' DundeePaul Hogan
Sue CharltonLinda Kozlowski
Walter ReillyJohn Meillon
Also posted in 1986, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Flesh & Blood

IMDB Rating: 6.40
2434 votes

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In 1501, in the Western Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the populations, an army of mercenary peasants leaded by Martin (Rutger Hauer) fights side-by-side with the noble Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck) to retrieve his castle, with the promise of a huge reward. However, the band is betrayed by Arnolfini, and decides to pay him back, assaulting and stealing a caravan under the command of Arnolfini and his son and student, Steven (Tom Burlinson). In one of the wagon is traveling the fiancée of Steven, Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is accidentally kidnapped and later raped by the group. Agnes becomes Martin's mate, and the mercenaries decide to invade a castle, without knowing that the army of Arnolfini is chasing them.
Actors
MartinRutger Hauer
AgnesJennifer Jason Leigh
StevenTom Burlinson
Also posted in 1985, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (0)

A 007 View to a Kill

IMDB Rating: 6.00
9863 votes

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007 returns from the USSR with a new computer chip; one that is invulnerable to the magnetic pulse of a nuclear explosion. The chip is being manufactured by Zorin Industries, headed up by a sociopathic businessman named Max Zorin (Walken) who is planning to corner the world microchip market by using explosives to cause an earthquake in the San Andreas fault that will wipe out Silicon Valley - and the millions who live and work there! Bond must face not only Zorin himself, but the equally twisted May Day (Jones) and Scarpine, another one of Zorin's henchmen. Assisted by San Francisco City employee Stacy (Roberts) Bond goes after the would-be computer magnate in a series of frightening confrontations - including fire in the SF City Hall, a wild chase through the city with Stacy at the wheel of a fire department ladder truck, and finally in a hand-to-hand fight atop San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
Actors
James BondRoger Moore
Max ZorinChristopher Walken
Stacey SuttonTanya Roberts
Also posted in 1985, Action, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Jewel of the Nile

IMDB Rating: 5.70
7573 votes

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This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the story of this "jewel"?
Actors
Jack ColtonMichael Douglas
Joan WilderKathleen Turner
RalphDanny DeVito
Also posted in 1985, Action, Comedy, Romance | Comments (0)

Legend

IMDB Rating: 6.00
11842 votes

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A magical adventure which features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to disperse eternal night in the land where this story takes place, by killing every unicorn in the world. Although he looks unbeatable, Jack and his friends are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili (who Darkness intends to make his wife) from the hands of this evil monster.
Actors
JackTom Cruise
Princess LilyMia Sara
The Lord of DarknessTim Curry
Also posted in 1985, Fantasy, Romance | Comments (0)

The Ewok Adventure

IMDB Rating: 5.20
1368 votes

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The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani's are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani's go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.
Actors
NarratorBurl Ives
MaceEric Walker
Wicket W. WarrickWarwick Davis
Also posted in 1984, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

The NeverEnding Story

IMDB Rating: 7.20
8308 votes

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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it "borrowing" it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible "Nothing" Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.
Actors
Bastian BuxBarret Oliver
Barney Bux, Bastian's FatherGerald McRaney
Bully #1Drum Garrett
Also posted in 1984, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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