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1) Uncharted
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Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada, who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world's...
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It's 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse, but the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts decides to join...
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The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way they face many dangers; Bilbo meets Gollum and takes...
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"The roguish, yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's ... idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa ..., steals his ship the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's daughter, Elizabeth. ... In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner ... joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed...
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In October 1991, three raging weather fronts, one of them a powerful hurricane, combined in the North Atlantic to form the greatest storm in recorded history. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Billy Tyne is the sword-fishing boat captain of the Gail who is from Gloucester. Tyne is highly competitive, but has been stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even...
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When a group of young divers discover the wreckage of a cargo plane at the bottom of the sea, they believe their dream of buried treasure has come true. What they don't realize is that there is also millions of dollars of illegal goods that are in that sunken plane and a group of dangerous criminals are already desperately searching for it. As tensions mount and the friends begin to fight about what to do with their find, others get closer to discovering...
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Three childhood friends, after discovering a hidden treasure map that was left behind by a recently departed friend, go into the Oregon wilderness in search of lost treasure. They take a canoe upriver and everything that can go wrong, does. The three become hunted by two backwoods farmers, tree-hugging hippie chicks and a crazy old mountain man. All in the hopes of finding the D.B. Cooper treasure they studied about when they were young kids.
11) Operation Condor
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Jackie Chan ignites the big screen as the world's greatest secret agent, code name Condor. Sent to track down stolen Nazi gold buried beneath the Sahara, Condor is pursued by a ruthless band of treasure-hunting terrorists.
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In the near future, global warming has made water levels rise to unfathomable heights, consuming more than half the Earth. With no end in sight, two treasure hunters must follow their daring father on an adventure to retrieve a lost artifact that will restore the Earth to what it once was. Also in pursuit of the artifact is a ruthless real-estate tycoon who will stop at nothing to control its limitless power.
14) Cutthroat Island
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Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
15) The Phantom
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The story begins as an expedition lads on the island of Bengalla, seeking the legendary skulls of Touganda. Believed to harness an energy force of incalculable power, the skulls could spell disaster for mankind. And that's exactly what ruthless tycoon Xander Drax has in mind ... unless one man can save it.
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Kirk is a dreamer who lives with his mom. He moves out when she states her disapproval at his secret pirate life. He meets up with Flint, and together the two set sail upon the Great Salt Lake, stopping ashore to plunder unsuspecting picnickers and wreaking havoc among other land-lovers. They stumble across a genuine cursed treasure map and suddenly these two are soon pursued by a host of crazy characters, all on a quest for riches beyond imagination....