Genre "Romantic Adventure" Movies
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| 1. Conagher (year: 1991) |
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This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the budding relationship between b ...
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| 2. Conan the Destroyer (year: 1984) |
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Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard, this fast-paced, occasionally humorous sequel to Conan the Barbarian features the hero (Arnold Schwa ...
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| 3. Every Which Way But Loose (year: 1978) |
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Clint Eastwood's first comedy feature proved to be one of his most profitable vehicles. Eastwood plays Philo Beddoe, a bare-knuckle boxer who travels ...
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| 4. Father Goose (year: 1964) |
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Deliberately casting his established screen image to the four winds, Cary Grant plays Walter Eckland, an unkempt, uncouth and unshaven beach bum in Fa ...
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| 5. Fool's Gold (year: 2008) |
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days co-stars Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey re-team on the big screen for this adventurous tale about a treasure-hunting ...
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| 6. March or Die (year: 1977) |
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Dick Richards directed this French Foreign Legion adventure that's at once parodies and pays tribute to the venerable Hollywood epics that preceded it ...
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| 7. Mogambo (year: 1953) |
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The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mog ...
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| 8. Paradise (year: 1982) |
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A "The Blue Lagoon" set in the Sahara Desert, this romantic adventure is set at the turn of century and chronicles the story of two beautifu ...
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| 9. Prestige (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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| 10. Prince Valiant (year: 1997) |
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In this drama based on Hal Foster's long-running comic strip, Prince Valiant and his cohorts engage in medieval adventure and romance.
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| 11. Reap the Wild Wind (year: 1942) |
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Cecil B. DeMille's Technicolor historical spectacle Reap the Wild Wind was to have starred Gary Cooper, but Cooper's prior commitment to Goldwyn's Pr ...
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| 12. River of No Return (year: 1954) |
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Director Otto Preminger's only western, River of No Return is set in Canada during the 19th century Gold Rush. Farmer Matt Calder (Robert Mitchum) is ...
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| 13. Romancing the Stone (year: 1984) |
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Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely b ...
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| 14. Son of the Dragon (year: 2007) |
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A small time con artist and his loyal companion must fight to prove their innocent when they are accused of attempting to poison a princess in this ad ...
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| 15. The Adventures of Robin Hood (year: 1938) |
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In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several leg ...
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| 16. The Blue Lagoon (year: 1980) |
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This 1980 version of the oft-filmed Henry Devere Stackpoole novel The Blue Lagoon was the first to be stamped with an "R" rating. The basic ...
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| 17. The English Patient (year: 1996) |
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Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the backd ...
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| 18. The Last of the Mohicans (year: 1992) |
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Director Michael Mann based this lushly romantic version of the James Fenimore Cooper novel more on his memory of the 1936 film version (starring Rand ...
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| 19. The Princess Bride (year: 1987) |
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Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred S ...
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| 20. The Prisoner of Zenda (year: 1952) |
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel. Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart G ...
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| 21. The Snows of Kilimanjaro (year: 1952) |
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his sh ...
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