Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "poaching"

1. Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Completed

Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff is on a mission to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world.

Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Russell Crowe, Christopher Abbott

2. Up (2009)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 1,124,663 | Gross: $293.00M

3. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Robin Hood decides to fight back as an outlaw when faced with the tyranny of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater

Votes: 208,348 | Gross: $165.50M

4. The Giver (2014)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift

Votes: 125,603 | Gross: $45.09M

5. Rio (2011)

G | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.

Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Karen Disher

Votes: 248,446 | Gross: $143.62M

6. Pig (I) (2021)

R | 92 min | Drama, Mystery

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.

Director: Michael Sarnoski | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Cassandra Violet

Votes: 89,468

7. The Silencing (2020)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A reformed hunter living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local Sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.

Director: Robin Pront | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas, Annabelle Wallis

Votes: 34,327 | Gross: $0.10M

8. Slotherhouse (2023)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Emily Young, a senior, wants to be elected as her sorority's president. She adopts a cute sloth, thinking it can become the new mascot and help her win, until a string of fatalities implicate the sloth as the main suspect in the murders.

Director: Matthew Goodhue | Stars: Lisa Ambalavanar, Sydney Craven, Andrew Horton, Bianca Beckles-Rose

Votes: 4,047

9. The Rescuers Down Under (1990)

G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

R.A.S. agents Miss Bianca and Bernard race to Australia to save a little boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.

Directors: Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel | Stars: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers

Votes: 47,257 | Gross: $27.93M

10. The Rundown (2003)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Rosario Dawson

Votes: 143,021 | Gross: $47.73M

11. Bambi (1942)

G | 69 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.

Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn

Votes: 154,048 | Gross: $102.80M

12. A Perfect Getaway (2009)

R | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Two pairs of lovers on a Hawaiian vacation discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the islands.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez

Votes: 76,363 | Gross: $15.48M

13. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

Votes: 54,480 | Gross: $3.98M

14. Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986 TV Movie)

102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Director: Julian Amyes | Stars: Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang

Votes: 2,293

15. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea

Votes: 9,363

16. The Wild Thornberrys (2002)

PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After losing a cheetah cub to ruthless poachers, Eliza must redeem her folly and go on a quest to save him.

Directors: Cathy Malkasian, Jeff McGrath | Stars: Tim Curry, Rupert Everett, Flea, Lacey Chabert

Votes: 15,260 | Gross: $40.11M

17. Two Brothers (2004)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Guy Pearce, Freddie Highmore, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Oanh Nguyen

Votes: 15,899 | Gross: $18.95M

18. Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)

R | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.

Director: David Hackl | Stars: James Marsden, Thomas Jane, Piper Perabo, Scott Glenn

Votes: 10,759

19. 'Gator Bait (1973)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ... See full summary »

Directors: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian | Stars: Claudia Jennings, Sam Gilman, Douglas Dirkson, Clyde Ventura

Votes: 1,452

20. 13 Minutes (2015)

R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, War

In November 1939, Georg Elser's attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler fails, and he is arrested. During his confinement, he recalls the events leading up to his plot and his reasons for deciding to take such drastic action.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Christian Friedel, Katharina Schüttler, Burghart Klaußner, Johann von Bülow

Votes: 10,064 | Gross: $0.16M

21. Poachers (1975)

82 min | Drama

Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.

Director: José Luis Borau | Stars: Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor, Alicia Sánchez, Ismael Merlo

Votes: 905

22. The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996–1997)

TV-PG | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A teenager and his extended family investigate the supernatural and other mysteries around the world.

Stars: Frank Welker, Quinton Flynn, J.D. Roth, Michael Benyaer

Votes: 2,742

23. Free Willy 3: The Rescue (1997)

PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

16-year-old Jesse and old friend Randolph try to foil an illegal whaler threatening Willy and his pregnant mate.

Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Jason James Richter, August Schellenberg, Annie Corley, Vincent Berry

Votes: 10,780 | Gross: $3.52M

24. The Amazing Panda Adventure (1995)

PG | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A young American boy visiting China helps his zoologist father rescue a panda cub from unscrupulous poachers while its reserve is threatened with closure from officious bureaucrats.

Director: Christopher Cain | Stars: Stephen Lang, Ryan Slater, Yi Ding, Wang Fei

Votes: 4,420 | Gross: $7.51M

25. Adu (2020)

TV-MA | 119 min | Drama

Three people, three stories, one thing in common: Africa.

Director: Salvador Calvo | Stars: Luis Tosar, Álvaro Cervantes, Anna Castillo, Moustapha Oumarou

Votes: 5,449

26. Danny the Champion of the World (1989 TV Movie)

99 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Somewhere in England in autumn 1955, widowed veteran William Smith and his son, Danny, live an idyllic life together. But their property happens to sit on a piece of land that a local ... See full summary »

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane, Samuel Irons, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 1,476

27. The Hunters (1996)

R | 113 min | Crime, Thriller

A Stockholm cop moves back home to his brother near Norway and Finland. He investigates out of control reindeer poaching. He confiscates rifles with no permits. Everybody, even his brother and local cops, are against him. Things escalate.

Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Lennart Jähkel, Jarmo Mäkinen, Tomas Norström

Votes: 9,413

28. I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A bored Italian socialite (Kim Basinger) abandons her jet-set lifestyle for the rigors and rewards of rural Kenya in this true story, based on the best-selling memoir by Kuki Gallmann. Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire).

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Liam Aiken, Garrett Strommen

Votes: 4,893 | Gross: $6.54M

29. Virunga (2014)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, War

A team of brave individuals risk their lives to protect the last mountain gorillas.

Director: Orlando von Einsiedel | Stars: André Bauma, Emmanuel de Merode, Mélanie Gouby, Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo

Votes: 12,256

30. The Shooting Party (1984)

98 min | Drama, Romance

While Europe stands on the brink of World War I in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats.

Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: James Mason, Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, John Gielgud

Votes: 1,525

31. Cheetah (1989)

G | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A "born free" type story set in Kenya about an orphaned cheetah cub that is adopted and raised by an American family.

Director: Jeff Blyth | Stars: Keith Coogan, Lucy Deakins, Colin Mothupi, Timothy Landfield

Votes: 1,184 | Gross: $8.15M

32. Blastfighter (1984)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A former policeman sets out to unleash violent vengeance upon deer poachers when they rape and kill his long lost daughter.

Director: Lamberto Bava | Stars: Michael Sopkiw, Valentina Forte, George Eastman, Stefano Mingardo

Votes: 1,470

33. Dirt Music (2019)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The stunning landscape of Western Australia is the backdrop for an impassioned tale of love and grief in Gregor Jordan's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Tim Winton.

Director: Gregor Jordan | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Garrett Hedlund, Badger, Jacob Clayton

Votes: 1,025

34. A Breed Apart (1984)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama

A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.

Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 1,900

35. Scamper the Penguin (1986)

29 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The adventures of a little penguin living in Antarctica.

Directors: Gennadiy Sokolskiy, Kenji Yoshida | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Volyntsev

Votes: 1,410

36. Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983)

84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young boy in the woods discovers a lovable alien...or is it?

Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Ian Serra, Nina Ferrer, Susana Bequer, Sara Palmer

Votes: 4,761

37. Heatstroke (2013)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Thriller

An accidental detour during a vacation in the African desert pits a research scientist and his family against a group of dangerous arms dealers.

Director: Evelyn Purcell | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Svetlana Metkina, Maisie Williams, Peter Stormare

Votes: 3,362

38. Stanley (1972)

PG | 108 min | Horror

A young Seminole Indian uses his rattlesnake to take revenge on all those he believes have wronged him.

Director: William Grefé | Stars: Chris Robinson, Alex Rocco, Steve Alaimo, Susan Carroll

Votes: 819 | Gross: $0.14M

39. The Butterfly (I) (2002)

PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

This is the story of a young girl named Elsa who was raised by a single mother (Isabelle) in the city. Isabelle and Elsa begin the film moving in next door to an elderly man who collects ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Muyl | Stars: Michel Serrault, Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu, Jacques Bouanich

Votes: 3,310 | Gross: $0.04M

40. Wind Across the Everglades (1958)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Budd Schulberg | Stars: Burl Ives, Christopher Plummer, Chana Eden, Gypsy Rose Lee

Votes: 1,248

41. Ni vu, ni connu (1958)

95 min | Comedy

In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.

Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Frédéric Duvallès, Claude Rich

Votes: 2,036

42. Wounded (1997)

R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

The forest rangers Julie Clayton and her boyfriend Don Powell find several grizzly-bear slaughtered in the forest. They report to their superior and he comes with the FBI Agent Eric Ashton ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Martin | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Graham Greene, Adrian Pasdar, Robert Costanzo

Votes: 736

43. The Lion (1962)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama

In Kenya, when young Tina befriends a lion and embraces local customs, her mother summons Tina's American father to help bring Tina back to civilization and give her a civilized upbringing.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, Pamela Franklin

Votes: 759

44. Twist of Fate (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 86 min | Romance

When a temporary auto call worker rescues an interior designer by talking with her to calm her down the two believe that they should explore the spark they felt during the call, however due... See full summary »

Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Cassie Steele, Ryan Kennedy, Karissa Tynes, Andrew Francis

Votes: 616

45. Manon des sources (1952)

228 min | Drama

To avenge her father's death, Manon blocks the source of water for local villagers.

Director: Marcel Pagnol | Stars: Edmond Ardisson, Henri Arius, André Bervil, Charles Blavette

Votes: 463

46. Revenge of Billy the Kid (1991)

87 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

The horny farmer McDonald has his wicked way with a goat. Life returns to normal for the family, until the goat gives birth! The mutant off spring, called Billy, is tormented by the ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Groom | Stars: Michael Balfour, Samantha Perkins, Jackie D. Broad, Bryan Heeley

Votes: 445

47. Bwana Devil (1952)

Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

Directors: Arch Oboler, Robert Clampett | Stars: Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, Nigel Bruce, Ramsay Hill

Votes: 422

48. High and Dry (1954)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy

An American businessman in Scotland is conned into shipping a valuable load of cargo to a Scottish island via a coal powered boat.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker

Votes: 1,521

49. Long Live Robin Hood (1971)

G | 103 min | Adventure, Drama

A fun film with stylish costumes that has Gemma as the heir to the Nottingham dukedom who is robbed of his heritage. He joins the already-established 'Merrie Men' and becomes their leader.

Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Giuliano Gemma, Mark Damon, Luis Dávila, Silvia Dionisio

Votes: 419

50. Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)

G | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A veterinarian living in Africa with his daughter take care of a cross-eyed lion, make friends with other animals, and learn about local wildlife.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn, Cheryl Miller

Votes: 735