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Plot Summary:
As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilisation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, prehistoric, natural horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, classic horror, serious, independent film, scary
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Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Plot Summary:
In 1881, Michael Denning, an American soldier, and Hector Servadac, a French aristocrat, are about to have a duel over a woman that they both are infatuated with. However, just as the two men are about to shoot at each other, a comet strikes the Earth and the gravitational pull draws in the two men. Michael and Hector soon deduce that this comet has been periodically landing on Earth and gathering people and animals from various eras in time, including people and dinosaurs. The two men then decide to put their differences aside and fight for survival as well as help make peace between two warring tribes of cavemen. Written by Brian Washington.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, vintage
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Takeru Yamato (1994)
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After killing his brother, Prince Yamato is banished from his father's kingdom until he can bring his dangerous powers under control. On his journey, he meets and joins with the magical priestess Oto, and together they go to fight against an evil god that has been ravaging the Earth in the form of an enormous hydra. Will Yamato ever return home to reclaim his rightful place on the throne?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: mythical, daikaiju, bizarre
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The Lost Continent (1968)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, mythical, classic horror, natural horror, scary, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious
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Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
Plot Summary:
When strange atmospheric events occur in the disunited city states of Ancient Greece, a forum debates what action to take. As there is no agreement, Androcles King of Thebes seeks the assistance of his friend, the legendary Hercules. Hercules, now married to Deianira with a son named Hylas does not wish to leave the comfort of his family, though Hylas is keen for adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, exciting, serious, psychotronic, campy
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The Phantom Empire (1987)
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When a man-eating cave creature appears with a fortune in uncut diamonds around his neck, Dr. Chambers' daughter Denae hires adventurers C & C Salvage to find the underground source of the gems. Accompanied by archeaological intern Andrew Paris, mineralogist Prof. Strock, and C&C's scruffy owners Cort Eastman and Eddy Colchilde, Denea's hopes of emerging from her famous father's shadow become as remote as getting out of the caves alive!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, weird
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Caveman (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar, and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spoof, funny, cult classic, prehistoric, parody, humorous, slapstick, offbeat, witty, not serious
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Dinosaur Island (1994)
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Welcome to lush Dinosaur Island, where a tribe of gorgeous cavedwelling warrior women satisfy the exotic fantasies of five downed military airmen. Fearsome battles with the island's ferocious maneating dinosaurs are the only disruption of their seductive pleasures on this island paradise. Narrowly surviving with their lives, the rugged men fall under the seductive spell of their lovely captors and soon find their every dream fulfilled.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, psychotronic, sex comedy, erotic, semi serious, spoof, parody, cult film
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Wizards of the Demon Sword (1991)
Plot Summary:
Ulric's daughter unites with warrior Thane against evil Lord Khoura, who covets the knife of Aktar.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, spoof, parody, campy
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Ironmaster (1983)
Plot Summary:
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, cult classic, exciting, serious, psychotronic
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Miss Cast Away (2004)
Plot Summary:
A plane carrying beauty contestants crash lands on a deserted island. Captain Maximus Powers (Roberts) and co-pilot Mike Saunders (Schlatter) have to take care of their passengers, while avoiding the dangers of Jurassic Pork (a giant prehistoric pig) and a group of apes busy trying to relaunch Noah's Ark.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, entertaining, captivating, grindhouse, offbeat, independent film
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Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
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As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
Plot Summary:
Hammer Film’s follow-up to the successful One Million Years B.C. is set in an ancient past when humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Athletic cavewomen and hairy men wander around, grunting, sweating and occasionally sacrificing evil blonde babes to the sun in return for protection from stop-motion beasts. The fun-loving, energetic Sanna (Victoria Vetri), one of the sacrificial offerings, manages to escape during a ritual and joins another tribe where she says ‘necro’ a lot and falls in love with a surprisingly hairless guy.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, tense, classic horror, prehistoric, natural horror, offbeat, psychotronic, cult film
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Prehistoric Women (1967)
Plot Summary:
Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari, has vanquished a rival tribe and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A hunter stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the possessive, sadistic Queen.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, prehistoric, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, campy
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The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Gappa the Triphibian Monsters (1967)
Plot Summary:
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, daikaiju, scary, humorous, semi serious, campy
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Son of Godzilla (1967)
Plot Summary:
The 8th Godzilla film is aimed at an even younger audience than its predecessors. In the South Seas, scientists conducting weather experiments encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking Godzilla's offspring.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, grindhouse, classic horror, humorous
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Amphibious Creature of the Deep (2010)
Plot Summary:
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Indonesia, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, mysterious, exciting, tense, natural horror, mystic, independent film, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962)
Plot Summary:
Wandering strongman Maxxus comes upon two warring tribes, the Sun worshipers and the Moon worshipers...and fights monsters !.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Plot Summary:
The 4th film in the Godzilla franchise restores the serious tone of the original Godzilla film. A greedy developer has placed huge machines to suck dry a part of the ocean near Tokyo so he can build luxury condos. After a storm, a giant egg washes up on a nearby beach. The developer's plans go awry when he disrupts Godzilla's rest and the monster goes stomping through Tokyo. It's up to Mothra defend its egg and Japan from Godzilla. One of the most popular films in the original Godzilla series.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, classic horror, epic, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary
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Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
Plot Summary:
The 7th film in the Godzilla series. After being caught in a storm in the south seas, several teenagers and thief arrive on an island where natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization. They also discover a sleeping Godzilla and decide to wake him up to aid in their plan to free the natives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, suspense, classic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
Plot Summary:
After a 7 year hiatus, Godzilla returned to the screen to take on King Kong in the 3rd film in the Godzilla franchise. A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently revived Godzilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult classic, daikaiju, grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, suspense, classic horror, natural horror, scary, serious
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The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Plot Summary:
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, light, entertaining, natural horror, retro, grindhouse, classic horror, action adventure
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Triassic Attack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, fast
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Raptor Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological, feel good, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Plot Summary:
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious, natural horror, offbeat, serious, computer animated, psychotronic
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At the Earth's Core (1976)
Plot Summary:
A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, classic horror, independent film, atmospheric, serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, futuristic
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Jabberwocky (1977)
Plot Summary:
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, talky, exciting, surreal, cult classic, stylized, not serious, spoof, sexy
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Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught with fantastic monsters and terrible perils.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, talky, epic, entertaining, fairy tale, dark fantasy, visual, cult classic, visually stunning
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10,000 BC (2008)
Plot Summary:
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action adventure, historical drama, prehistoric, inspirational, experimental, mythical
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Dragonslayer (1981)
Plot Summary:
The sorcerer and his apprentice Galen are on a mission to kill an evil dragon in order to save the King’s daughter from being sacrificed in accordance to a pact that the King himself made with the dragon to protect his kingdom. A fantasy film from Disney Studios that exhausted all possible visual effects of the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, captivating, cult classic, stylized, mystical, epic, esoteric