Woody Strode
Also Known As: Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode, Woodrow Strode, Woody Stroode
Biography: An athlete turned actor, Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA. He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 25, 1914
Age: 110 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 31, 1994
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Spartacus
Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Genres: History War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Genghis Khan
Overview: This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tribes and conquers India,China,Persia,Korea and parts of Rusia,Europe and Middle-East.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-15
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The Buccaneer
Overview: During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-11
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Kingdom of the Spiders
Overview: Investigating the mysterious deaths of a number of farm animals, vet Rack Hansen discovers that his town lies in the path of hordes of migrating tarantulas. Before he can take action, the streets are overrun by killer spiders, trapping a small group of townsfolk in a remote hotel.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-24
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Bride of the Gorilla
Overview: The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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Keoma
Overview: Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-11-25
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Brooba
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-25
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Overview: Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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The Professionals
Overview: An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.
Genres: Western Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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The Ten Commandments
Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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Vigilante
Overview: New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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The Black Stallion Returns
Overview: "Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay, he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec finally unravels the mystery of Black's theft...only to discover that he must overcome even greater odds to reclaim his beloved horse.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Boot Hill
Overview: Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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Sergeant Rutledge
Overview: Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Pork Chop Hill
Overview: Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
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The Gatling Gun
Overview: Doctor Gatling invented a war machine to beat all arrows, and guns.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-01
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The Italian Connection
Overview: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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The Last Voyage
Overview: The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of the crew member Hank Lawson.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-19
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Shalako
Overview: Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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City Beneath the Sea
Overview: Two adventures dive for treasure off the coast of Jamaica.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-21
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7 Women
Overview: In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-11
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Invaders of the Lost Gold
Overview: Japanese soldiers battle a tribe of cannibals while protecting a gold shipment.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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The Unholy Four
Overview: A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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The Sins of Rachel Cade
Overview: A female doctor in the Congo is torn between two loves.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-02
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Scream
Overview: A group of people on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to set up camp. Out of the blue, a murder occurs.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-08
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Jaguar Lives!
Overview: The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Jungle Warriors
Overview: A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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Loaded Guns
Overview: An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-18
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Black Jesus
Overview: A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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The Final Executioner
Overview: After a nuclear holocaust, as the rest of society regresses to primitivism, a small, "elite" group that has managed to escape radioactive contamination takes it upon itself to exterminate those it sees as "unfit", including certain members of its own group.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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The Violent Breed
Overview: A military group led by Henry Silva and Woody Strode are bound by their honor, to execute their orders to kill as many enemies as possible.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-24
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Overview: Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-05
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Cuba Crossing
Overview: An adventurer gets caught up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-23
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The Last Rebel
Overview: Set in 1865 in southwest Missouri, at the close of the Civil War the film follows the adventures of two Confederate men and a black man who they rescue from a lynching.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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The Revengers
Overview: The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.
Genres: Action Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Winterhawk
Overview: Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, and thus begins the chase...
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-05
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The Bronx Executioner
Overview: In a futuristic New York City, a cyborg goes on a killing spree
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-08
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Black Rodeo
Overview: Documentary about a rodeo that takes place, for the most part, in Harlem.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Angkor: Cambodia Express
Overview: In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Lion Hunters
Overview: A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-25
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We Are No Angels
Overview: Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-25
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Caribbean
Overview: Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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Scipio the African
Overview: Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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Lust in the Dust
Overview: Assaulted by Third World outlaws, donkey-riding Rosie joins a silent drifter's search for gold.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Sundown
Overview: Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Genres: War Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-31
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On Fire
Overview: Joe is an arson investigator for the fire department. He has a loving and devoted wife and has two just as loving and devoted sons. Things couldn't be better for him until he learns that the department wants to retire him. He does so reluctantly. He then falls into a deep depression because, while most people look forward to retirement, he doesn't. So, his wife and children do their best to lift his spirits but all he does is push them away.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-05
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Son of Sinbad
Overview: Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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Demetrius and the Gladiators
Overview: The story picks up at the point where "The Robe" ends, following the martyrdom of Diana and Marcellus. Christ's robe is conveyed to Peter for safe-keeping, but the emperor Caligula wants it back to benefit from its powers. Marcellus' former slave Demetrius seeks to prevent this, and catches the eye of Messalina, wife to Caligula's uncle Claudius. Messalina tempts Demetrius, he winds up fighting in the arena, and wavers in his faith.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-16
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No Time for Love
Overview: An upper-class female reporter is (despite herself) attracted to a hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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African Treasure
Overview: Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-06
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The Royal African Rifles
Overview: A shipment of Vickers machine guns is stolen from a British warship in Bombasa Harbor, Africa, in 1914, and Denham is assigned to track them down. He poses as a hunter and follows a trail that leads him to Cunningham, a trader, who intends to sell the rifles to the Germans, and whose daughter, Jennifer, Denham loves.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Jungle Man-Eaters
Overview: Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Androcles and the Lion
Overview: George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Two Rode Together
Overview: Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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The Quick and the Dead
Overview: A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
Genres: Western Action Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-09
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Ravagers
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-26
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A Gathering of Old Men
Overview: A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a courageous step by coming forward en masse to take responsibility for the killing of a white racist, whom one of their members has shot. As the sheriff confronts the suspects, the young plantation owner stands alone in her daring defense of this group of men, provoking racial tension that makes a compelling drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-10
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Breakout
Overview: A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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Tarzan's Deadly Silence
Overview: Tarzan tries to stop a bloodthirsty Colonel from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. The ape-man has been rendered deaf by an exploding hand grenade, effectively limiting one of his keen senses. Tarzan relies on his telepathic powers to stop a lion. Woody Strode also appears in this film that combines two made for television episodes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Jungle Gents
Overview: When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-05
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Tarzan's Three Challenges
Overview: The spiritual leader of an oriental country is dying. The leader's evil brother Khan is plotting to prevent Kashi, the youthful heir, from assuming his rightful position. Tarzan is summoned to protect Kashi and, in doing so, he must face Khan in three tests of strength.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-29
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Che!
Overview: Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-27
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Tarzan's Fight for Life
Overview: Dr. Sturdy is trying to establish a modern hospital in the jungle. His efforts are strongly opposed by Futa, the witch doctor, and Ramo, a native warrior.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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The Deserter
Overview: A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Mandrake the Magician
Overview: Mandrake and Lothar battle enemy agents who have kidnapped the beautiful Princess Narda to force the magician to assist them locate a counter-intelligence agent who possess vital information.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Tarzan and the Perils of Charity Jones
Overview: Jai, the orphaned boy adopted by the Monkey Man, helps missionary Charity Jones bring an organ to a friendly tribe, but they are captured by hostile natives.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-04
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The Quest: The Longest Drive
Overview: To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Silver Chalice
Overview: A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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The Gambler from Natchez
Overview: A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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Oil
Overview: When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Posse
Overview: A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Genres: Action Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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Key West
Overview: A former CIA agent and his friend, operating a charter boat service in Florida, find themselves the target of an eccentric millionaire with a score to settle.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-10
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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Overview: Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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The Cotton Club
Overview: Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Overview: As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Storyville
Overview: While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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