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Mountains of the Moon (1990): Dir. Bob Rafelson
Feat. Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant…; Ambitious saga details the quest of Sir Richard Burton to discover the source of the Nile river. Compelling personal story remains focused amid the…
Farewell to the King (1989): Dir. John Milius
Feat. Nick Nolte, Nigel Havers, Frank McRae…; Half–successful attempt to fashion a mythic tale from the Japanese invasion of Borneo in WW2, with a US Army deserter (Nolte) and a British…
Walker (1988): Dir. Alex Cox
Feat. Ed Harris, Rene Auberjonois, Peter Boyle…; Harris is William Walker in an unwieldy, idiosyncratic account of the American adventurer's takeover of Nicaragua in 1855.
Allan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987): Dir. Gary Nelson
Feat. Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones…; Proficient, if dated adventure yarn in which explorer Chamberlain and archaeologist Stone set off to Africa in search of a missing brother. Mixes…
Big Trouble in Little China (1986): Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell; High–tech, tongue–in–cheek adventure in which Kurt Russell kicks butt in Chinatown.
Leading Edge, The (1986): Dir. Michael Firth
Feat. Billy T. James; Adventure docu–drama that's little more than an excuse to show off some wonderful South Island scenery and awesome ski theatrics. Billy T.…
Mosquito Coast, The (1986): Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix; A knock–out thriller about the woes of obsession with Harrison Ford as the idealistic inventor who drags his family into the thick of the South…
Where the River Runs Black (1986): Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Charles Durning, Dana Delany; Compassionate eco–drama about an Amazon–raised orphan who is assimilated into civilisation by a priest (Durning).
Burke and Wills (1985): Dir. Graeme Clifford
Feat. Jack Thompson, Nigel Havers, Greta Scacchi; True blue Aussie classic chronicling the famous journey of two ill–prepared explorers across the unforgiving outback.
Emerald Forest, The (1985): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Powers Boothe, Meg Foster; Sumptuous Amazon adventure story concerns an one man's struggle to find his son, kidnapped ten years earlier and initiated into a primitive society.

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