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Pocahontas(1995)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 25min | Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 2,585 votes)

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

The Call of the Wild(2020)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 40min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,602 votes)

Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Western
4.0/5 (with 488 votes)

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

River of No Return(1954)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Adventure, Western
3.4/5 (with 192 votes)

An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God(1972)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 451 votes)

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

The Sisters Brothers(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Drama, Western
3.4/5 (with 850 votes)

Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

The Gold Rush(1925)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 669 votes)

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

North to Alaska(1960)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 2min | Western, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Sam and George strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiancé back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel. Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy.

Bend of the River(1952)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 31min | Western, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 72 votes)

Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

The Far Country(1954)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 37min | Western, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 63 votes)

In 1896, Jeff Webster sees the start of the Klondike gold rush as a golden opportunity to make a fortune in beef...and woe betide anyone standing in his way! He drives a cattle herd from Wyoming to Seattle, by ship to Skagway, and (after a delay caused by larcenous town boss Gannon) through the mountains to Dawson. There, he and his partner Ben Tatum get into the gold business themselves. Two lovely women fall for misanthropic Jeff, but he believes in every-man-for-himself, turning his back on growing lawlessness...until it finally strikes home.

Goin' South(1978)

1h 49min | Comedy, Western
3.0/5 (with 58 votes)

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

Shark(1969)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Action, Thriller
2.3/5 (with 7 votes)

A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.

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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin(1967)

3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives chase, all roads lead to nonstop adventure, wild and woolly characters, and a lucky punch that leads to a bonanza of belly laughs!

A Fistful of Lead(2018)

1h 26min | Western, Action
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Four of the West's most infamous outlaws carry out a daring bank heist in the gold-rush town, Bath Water. As the posse takes chase, things take a turn for the worse, as the bandits realize they've been double-crossed - but by who?

Wells Fargo(1937)

1h 34min | History, Western
2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Barbary-Coast Bunny(1956)

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

After Bugs' giant gold nugget is stolen by Nasty Canasta, he tries to win it back at Canasta's San Francisco gambling hall.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Drums Across the River(1954)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 18min | Western
2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

When whites hunger after the gold on Ute Indian land, a bigoted young man finds himself forced into a peacekeeping role.

Kummeli Goldrush(1997)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.

The Trail of '98(1928)

1h 27min | Adventure, Action
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

The Great Adventure(1975)

1h 38min | Adventure, Western
2.0/5 (with 3 votes)

During the American Gold Rush era, an orphaned boy and his wild dog who must battle against the Yukon wilderness and human greed to help save a frontier town.

Nevada(1944)

1h 2min | Western
3.4/5 (with 1 vote)

Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge has his man Powell kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.

Trail of the Falcon(1968)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 1min | Drama, Western, Adventure
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.

In Old California(1942)

2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.

Eureka Stockade(1949)

1h 43min | Drama, History
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.

Belle of the Yukon(1944)

1h 23min | Western, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.

Two Brothers in Trinity(1972)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Western
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

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The Great Man's Lady(1942)

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

14 Carrot Rabbit(1952)

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Yosemite Sam (as Chilikoot Sam) tries unsuccessfully to steal gold from Bugs Bunny during the Yukon gold rush.

Directed by Friz Freleng

Gold Diggers of '49(1935)

2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Porky and Beans are prospectors during the Gold Rush, but when a villain steals Porky's bag of loot Beans races to get it back so he can marry Porky's daughter Little Kitty.

Directed by Tex Avery

The Dead and the Damned(2011)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 22min | Horror, Western
1.6/5 (with 9 votes)

A meteor lands in Jamestown California in 1849 during the gold rush. It is found by miners who release it's spoors which turn the population into blood thirsty mutants.

Directed by Rene Perez
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