Tag Archives: expedition

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

IMDB Rating: 4.10
5750 votes

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In New York, the ambitious Dr. Jack Byron and his associate Gordon Mitchell present the research of his assistant Sam Rogers to the CEO and board of directors of a corporation to sponsor a scientific expedition to Borneo. The objective is to find a flower, Blood Orchid, that flourishes for a couple of weeks every seven years and could be a fountain of youth, prolonging the expectation of life of human beings. They are succeeded and once in Borneo, they realize that it is the raining season and there is no boat available to navigate on the river. They pay US$ 50,000.00 to convince Captain Bill Johnson and his partner Tran to sail to the location. After an accident in a waterfall, the survivors realize that a pack of anacondas have gathered for mating and their nest is nearby the plantation of Blood Orchid, which made them bigger and bigger.
Actors
Gordon MitchellMorris Chestnut
Bill JohnsonJohnny Messner
Sam RogersKaDee Strickland
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller | Comments (2)

Eight Below

IMDB Rating: 7.40
7684 votes

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In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.
Actors
Jerry ShepardPaul Walker
Davis McClarenBruce Greenwood
KatieMoon Bloodgood
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Descent

IMDB Rating: 7.40
25533 votes

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A woman goes on vacation with her family and friends and her husband and her daughter encounters a tragic accident. One year later she goes hiking with her friends and they get trapped in the cave. With a lack of supply, they struggle to survive and they meet strange blood thirsty creatures.
Actors
SarahShauna Macdonald
JunoNatalie Jackson Mendoza
BethAlex Reid
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

King Kong

IMDB Rating: 7.80
77047 votes

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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
Actors
Ann DarrowNaomi Watts
Carl DenhamJack Black
Jack DriscollAdrien Brody
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

IMDB Rating: 7.20
30608 votes

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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he's having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he's attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?
Actors
Steve ZissouBill Murray
Ned PlimptonOwen Wilson
Jane Winslett-RichardsonCate Blanchett
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)

National Treasure

IMDB Rating: 6.80
35933 votes

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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.
Actors
Ben GatesNicolas Cage
Abigail ChaseDiane Kruger
Riley PooleJustin Bartha
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)

The Core

IMDB Rating: 5.30
13792 votes

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For reasons unknown, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly, life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds, slamming into windshields and causing drivers to lose control of their cars. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble. Scrambling to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and a team of the world's most gifted scientists to travel into the earth's core in a subterranean craft piloted by "terranauts" Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs and Commander Robert Iverson. Their mission: Detonate a nuclear device that will reactivate the core and save the world from sure destruction.
Actors
Dave PerryChristopher Shyer
PaulRay Galletti
LynneEileen Pedde
Also posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (4)

The English Patient

IMDB Rating: 7.10
27970 votes

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Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almasy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almasy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almasy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.
Actors
Count Laszlo de AlmásyRalph Fiennes
HanaJuliette Binoche
David CaravaggioWillem Dafoe
Also posted in 1996, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

IMDB Rating: 7.80
50014 votes

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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family's garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight.
Actors
ElliottHenry Thomas
MaryDee Wallace-Stone
MichaelRobert MacNaughton
Also posted in 1982, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (8)