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Jungle Cruise(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 2,537 votes)

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

Apocalypse Now(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 27min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 3,606 votes)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Anaconda(1997)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 1,111 votes)

A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.

How the West Was Won(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 42min | Western
3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

Mud(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 10min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1,232 votes)

Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.

Fitzcarraldo(1982)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 37min | Drama, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 335 votes)

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

The Far Horizons(1955)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, History, Western
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

Show Boat(1951)

3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

The Big Sky(1952)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 20min | Adventure, Western, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with.

4 for Texas(1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Comedy, Western
2.6/5 (with 26 votes)

In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.

Gentleman Jim(1942)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 24 votes)

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

The Naughty Nineties(1945)

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

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Frankie and Johnny(1966)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 27min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.

The Iron Mistress(1952)

1h 50min | History, Drama, Action, Western
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge Narcisse's murder, but Judalon takes up with another man. Jim eventually has another romantic interlude with Judalon and is forced to kill one of her suitors in self-defense. Jim leaves town, and falls for the daughter of a Texas politician, but his entanglement with Judalon continues to bedevil him.

The Mississippi Gambler(1953)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 39min | Romance / Love, Western
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.

Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration(2005)

1h 2min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A film that focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Directed by T. C. Christensen

Ride a Crooked Trail(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 27min | Romance / Love, Western
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

After robbing a bank Murphy assumes the identity of his pursuer, a famous US Marshal, when he stumbles into a town and is confronted by the local judge, Matthau. Murphy is forced to remain as the new Marshal; an old flame, Scala, nearly unmasks him by accident, only to be forced to assume the ruse of being Murphy's wife. The "couple" given a house and respectability, which neither has had before. They maintain the charade to avoid hurting a young orphan boy, Matthau's ward. Scala is torn by her loyalty to boyfriend planning to rob the bank and growing feelings for Murphy.

Directed by Jesse Hibbs - With Audie Murphy, Gia Scala, Walter Matthau, Bill Walker, Eddie Little, Henry Silva, ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1939)

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.

The Rawhide Years(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 25min | Western
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the boat; Ben, on arrival, finds a lynch mob after his neck, and flees. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her and attempt the hopeless task of clearing himself.

The Gambler from Natchez(1954)

1h 28min | Western
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.

Steamboat Round the Bend(1935)

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.

Remember the Sultana(2015)

1h 36min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.

Heart of the Golden West(1942)

1h 5min | Western

Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.

The Yellow Rose of Texas(1944)

1h 9min | Western, Action
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.

Mississippi(1935)

1h 13min | Music, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally kills himself with his own gun, falls in love with his former fianceé's sister and finally bullies an apprehensive family into accepting him.

Santiago(1956)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Adventure, Action
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.

Show Boat(1929)

2h 26min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This film sticks very closely to the Edna Ferber novel, rather than the musical based on the novel. There are only two major changes from Ferber's book : *Julie in this version is a white woman, not a racially mixed one; therefore she and her husband are not unlawfully married. * Ravenal returns at the end, instead of dying as in the novel.

Directed by Harry A. Pollard, Robbie Baldwin Ross, Arch Heath - With Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Emily Fitzroy, Otis Harlan, Stepin Fetchit, Carl Laemmle, ...

Riverboat Rhythm(1946)

1h 5min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.

Directed by Leslie Goodwins - With Leon Errol

River Lady(1948)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 18min | Action, Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver. Romance and deceit are catalyzed by the arrival of the gambling river boat, River Lady, owned by the beautiful Sequin. Bauvais, a representative of the local lumber syndicate and Sequin's business partner, is trying to convince H.L. Morrison, the mill owner, to sell his business.

The Audition(1933)

10min | Music
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Phil Emerton and his band play tunes and accompany guest performers, including singer-dancer Hannah Williams, the singing Three X Sisters, and acrobatic tap dancers Larry & Larry.

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