Posts Tagged ‘shipwreck’

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Carman, Michael | Brady, Mark | Simcoe, Anthony | Baker, Christopher | Joyce, Maddison | Callan, Peter | Butler, Russell | Gibson, Colin | Probets, Bryan | Nason, Andrew | Bellette, Tony | Dornan, Jeff | Laga'aia, Jay | Walton, John
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Richardson, Ralph | Holm, Ian | Fox, James | Lambert, Christopher | MacDowell, Andie | Campbell, Cheryl | Charleson, Ian | Davenport, Nigel | Farrell, Nicholas | Geoffrey, Paul | Griffiths, Richard | McRae, Hilton | Suchet, David | Wells, John | Ravinder
Directors: Hudson, Hugh
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A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Road to Bali (1952)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Crosby, Bing | Hope, Bob | Lamour, Dorothy | Vye, Murvyn | Coe, Peter | Moody, Ralph | Askin, Leon | Ansara, Michael | Auelua, Besmark | Cantor, Herman | Chance, Larry | Claus, Jack | Cording, Harry | Crosby, Bob | Gordon, Roy
Directors: Walker, Hal
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Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

After the Sunset (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Hayek, Salma | Harrelson, Woody | Cheadle, Don | Harris, Naomie | Penn, Chris | Williamson, Mykelti | Garity, Troy | Babatundé, Obba | Hornsby, Russell | Linn, Rex | Curtis-Brown, Robert | Moses, Mark | Bowen, Michael | Ledard, Tony
Directors: Ratner, Brett
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After a successful last score, a master thief retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he’s making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.

Into the Blue (2005)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Walker, Paul | Alba, Jessica | Caan, Scott | Scott, Ashley | Brolin, Josh | Frain, James | Beckford, Tyson | Dwayne Adway | Frazer, Javon | Taloa, Chris | Bowleg Jr., Peter R.V. | McIntosh, Clifford | Collins, Adam | Montie, Gill | Ballard, Dan
Directors: Stockwell, John
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Jared Cole and his girlfriend Sam Nicholson are a young couple living in the Caribbean. Jared is an unemployed diver whose dream is to find treasure in the Caribbean Sea and Sam works at a local resort as a shark handler. When Jared’s best friend Bryce Dunn, a selfish New York lawyer and his new girlfriend Amanda Collins arrive, the two couples spend a couple of days experiencing paradise. But, they discover an airplane on the sea floor that crashed during a hurricane and they find the cargo on-board the airplane is cocaine. Jared and Sam’s lives are in danger, when Bryce and Amanda make a deal with a dangerous drug lord who wants the cocaine. Jared’s rival, Treasure Hunter Derek Bates learns what they are doing and tries to negotiate the cocaine to raise money for a expedition where he intends to find a sunken boat with treasure. Jared, Sam, Bryce, and Amanda find themselves racing against time to find the shipwreck before somebody else does.

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Wilson, Owen | Blanchett, Cate | Huston, Anjelica | Dafoe, Willem | Goldblum, Jeff | Gambon, Michael | Taylor, Noah | Cort, Bud | Jorge, Seu | Cohen, Robyn | Ahluwalia, Waris | Koizumi, Niels | Wdowczak, Pawel | Gubler, Matthew Gray
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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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?

007 Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Moore, Roger | Lee, Christopher | Ekland, Britt | Adams, Maud | Villechaize, Hervé | James, Clifton | Loo, Richard | Oh, Soon-Tek | Lawrence, Marc | Lee, Bernard | Maxwell, Lois | Maitland, Marne | Llewelyn, Desmond | Cossins, James | Chan, Yiu Lam
Directors: Hamilton, Guy
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Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is called in to investigate. As he tracks down Scaramanga, he realises that he is highly respected by the killer, but will this prove to be an advantage in the final showdown?

Ghost Ship (2002)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Byrne, Gabriel | Margulies, Julianna | Eldard, Ron | Harrington, Desmond | Washington, Isaiah | Dimitriades, Alex | Urban, Karl | Browning, Emily | Rettondini, Francesca | Brkic, Boris | Ruggiero, Bob | Gardiner, Iain | Bieshaar, Adam | Watt, Cameron | Giddens, Jamie
Directors: Beck, Steve
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After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre ocurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

Shark Tale (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Smith, Will | De Niro, Robert | Zellweger, Renée | Black, Jack | Jolie, Angelina | Scorsese, Martin | Marley, Ziggy | Doug, Doug E. | Imperioli, Michael | Pastore, Vincent | Falk, Peter | Couric, Katie | Soren, David | Smith, David P. | Thompson, Bobb'e J.
Directors: Jenson, Vicky | Bergeron, Bibo | Letterman, Rob
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The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. Oscar soon comes to realize that his claim may have serious consequences.

National Treasure (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Kruger, Diane | Bartha, Justin | Bean, Sean | Voight, Jon | Keitel, Harvey | Plummer, Christopher | Fisher, David Dayan | Finlay-McLennan, Stewart | Taktarov, Oleg | Pope, Stephen A. | Parisse, Annie | Pellegrino, Mark | Riesco, Armando | King, Erik
Directors: Turteltaub, Jon
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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.