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| 1. Apocalypse Now Cinema (Year: 1979) |
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One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness t ...
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| 2. Billy Jack Cinema (Year: 1971) |
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Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created the character of Billy Jack in the motorcycle flick The Born Losers. Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Nat ...
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| 3. Blood Diamond Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pin ...
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| 4. Call of the Wild Cinema (Year: 1972) |
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Director Ken Annakin and an international cast including Charlton Heston and George Eastman try to breath life into Jack London's often-filmed wildern ...
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| 5. Captain from Castile Cinema (Year: 1947) |
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In this big-budget historical adventure, Tyrone Power stars as Pedro De Vargas, a young and impetuous nobleman in 16th Century Spain. Pedro helps to f ...
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| 7. Cast Away Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck N ...
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| 8. Congo Cinema (Year: 1995) |
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Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head ...
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| 9. Deep Blue Sea Cinema (Year: 1999) |
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Although mako sharks are among the fastest and deadliest predators in the ocean, they're not as smart as humans — at least, they weren't. Ho ...
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| 10. Dersu Uzala Cinema (Year: 1975) |
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A few months after his notorious suicide attempt, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of helming the first Russian/Japanes ...
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| 11. Eight Below Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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Eight brave sled dogs search for the master who is looking for a way to rescue them in this adventure drama. An American geologist (Bruce Greenwood) f ...
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| 12. End of the Spear Cinema (Year: 2005) |
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An indigenous people are turned from a life of violence to a more gentle and forgiving nature in this adventure drama based on a true story. Nate Sain ...
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| 13. Five Graves to Cairo Cinema (Year: 1943) |
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel Imperial. This time, the action ...
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| 14. Flight of the Phoenix Cinema (Year: 2004) |
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Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon Ja ...
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| 15. Into the Wild Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Into the Wild is writer/director Sean Penn's adaptation of the popular book by Jon Krakauer, a nonfiction account of the post-collegiate wanderings of ...
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| 16. Jericho Cinema (Year: 1937) |
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| 17. Lord of the Flies Cinema (Year: 1990) |
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Harry Hook directed this second screen adaptation of William Golding's cult novel about a group of British schoolchildren who revert to savagery when ...
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| 18. Midnight Express Cinema (Year: 1978) |
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Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a na?ve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad D ...
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| 19. Mission Kashmir Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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Revenge drives this tale of an orphan taken in by a state police officer only to discover that the man who raised him as his own was also the man who ...
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| 20. Mountains of the Moon Cinema (Year: 1990) |
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Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the explorator ...
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| 22. Na vlastn? nebezpec? Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Czech director Filip Renc's adventure thriller Na vlastn? nebezpec? (AKA At Your Own Risk) intersects two taut and suspenseful stories. In one, a gent ...
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| 23. Northwest Passage Cinema (Year: 1940) |
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Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one ...
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| 24. Pathfinder Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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The sole survivor of a Viking "dragon" vessel shipwrecked on Eastern shores of the New World fifteen years ago provides the only hope for th ...
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| 25. Prestige Cinema (Year: 1932) |
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The tragic death from peritonitis of leading man Robert Williams marred the production of this oppressive triangle drama set in a French penal colony ...
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| 26. Prince of Foxes Cinema (Year: 1949) |
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Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is a cinemadaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the fil ...
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| 27. Psych-Out Cinema (Year: 1968) |
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Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse ...
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| 28. Savage Harvest Cinema (Year: 1981) |
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A drought in the savannas of Kenya provides the basis for this dramatic African adventure that centers on a family living on a desiccated plantation. ...
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| 29. Seven Years in Tibet Cinema (Year: 1997) |
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Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the mem ...
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| 30. Sharpe's Rifles Cinema (Year: 1993) |
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In this action adventure, author Bernard Cornwell's fictional Major Sharpe is faced with the daunting task of teaching a ceremonial battalion to fight ...
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| 31. Shogun Assassin Cinema (Year: 1980) |
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More a "greatest hits" movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, Shogun Assassin is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popu ...
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| 32. Shoot to Kill Cinema (Year: 1988) |
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Sidney Poitier makes his long-overdue return to films in the 1988 thriller Shoot to Kill. Poitier plays an FBI agent, on the trail of an elusive kille ...
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| 33. Spriggan Cinema (Year: 1998) |
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Animator of the groundbreaking anim? classic Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo was the executive producer for this two-fisted Raiders of the Lost Ark-like animat ...
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| 34. The Beach Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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For his first major project after the overwhelming success of Titanic, Leonardo Di Caprio took a risky path in this adaptation of Alex Garland's accla ...
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| 35. The Bounty Cinema (Year: 1984) |
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This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall book, but on Richard Hough's ...
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| 36. The Children of Huang Shi Cinema (Year: 2008) |
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As China is ravaged by war in the late '30s, a young English journalist named George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) leads 60 orphans over the Liu Pan Sha ...
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| 37. The Culpepper Cattle Company Cinema (Year: 1972) |
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Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventu ...
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| 38. The Cure Cinema (Year: 1995) |
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Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old boy whose single mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid), has just moved to a new home in Minnesota. Erik feels like a fish o ...
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| 39. The Descent Cinema (Year: 2005) |
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A group of close female friends on a yearly adventure vacation find themselves trapped and hunted in a series of caves by an unknown force that lurks ...
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| 40. The Edge Cinema (Year: 1997) |
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Billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) accompanies his much-younger wife Mickey (Elle Macpherson) and a fashion photography team headed by Bob Gr ...
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| 41. The Flight of the Phoenix Cinema (Year: 1965) |
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Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James ...
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| 42. The Ghost and the Darkness Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period advent ...
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| 43. The Ghost Ship Cinema (Year: 1943) |
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RKO horror producer Val Lewton dished up seven reels of brooding psychological terror with The Ghost Ship. Richard Dix stars as the ship's captain, a ...
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| 44. The Lost Patrol Cinema (Year: 1934) |
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934. Sergeant Victor McLaglen is in ...
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| 45. The Man in the Iron Mask Cinema (Year: 1998) |
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Actor-director William Richert (Winter Kills), who directed the late River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), originally planned ...
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| 46. The Mosquito Coast Cinema (Year: 1986) |
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Harrison Ford delivers one of his most-acclaimed performances in Peter Weir's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel (scripted by Paul Schrader). Ford pla ...
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| 47. The Naked Jungle Cinema (Year: 1954) |
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It doesn't take long for old-time-radio fans to figure out that The Naked Jungle is a film version of the classic Carl Stephenson nailbiter Leiningen ...
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| 48. The Naked Prey Cinema (Year: 1966) |
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In the bush country of South Africa in the late 19th century, chauvinistic hunter Gert vanDen Bergh calculatedly offends a local tribal chief. Given s ...
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| 49. The Old Man and the Sea Cinema (Year: 1958) |
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Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea was probably unfilmable to begin with, but this didn't stop John Sturges from trying to cinemat ...
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| 50. The Perfect Storm Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of ...
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