Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

Kohn and Alice Clayton set sail for Africa. Mutineers maroon them.

After his parents die, the newborn Tarzan is taken by a great Ape, Kala.

Later the boy finds his father's knife and uses it to become King of Apes.

Binns, the sailor who saved the Claytons and who has been held by Arab slavers for ten years, finds the young Tarzan and then heads for England to notify his kin. A scientist arrives to check out Binns' story. Tarzan, now a man, kills the native who killed Kala; when their chief is killed the black villagers appease Tarzan with gifts and prayers.


The scientist's daughter Jane is carried off by a native, rescued by Tarzan (who has burnt the native village), aggressively loved by him ("Tarzan is a man, and men do not force the love of women"), and at last accepts him with open arms.



The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

King Kong (1933)

King Kong (1933)

A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

The Mark of Zorro (1940)

A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.

Jungle Man-Eaters (1954)

Jungle Man-Eaters (1954)

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.

Moby Dick (1956)

Moby Dick (1956)

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

Moses, an Egyptian Prince, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)

When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)


The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Indiana Jones I | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

Hellboy (2004)

Hellboy I (2004)

A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.

Planet of the Apes - 1 - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)


A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)


The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.