Best movies like Island of the Lost
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Plot Summary:
An anthropologist is shipwrecked with his family while on an expedition in search of an uncharted South Pacific island.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Adventure, Action, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Best tv shows and movies like Island of the Lost (1967):
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The Presence (1992)
Plot Summary:
After their plane crashes in the Pacific ocean after a storm a group of people scramble to a tropical island. At first the place seems home to palm trees and exotic wildlife but on the discovery of a disused military base they find out the island poses a severe threat to them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Beyond Atlantis (1973)
Plot Summary:
A band of adventurers invade a native island determined to grab a reported fortune in buried treasure.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, psychological, art house, independent film, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man who loves to travel, travels to an island where a mad doctor is creating zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, bloody, grindhouse, independent film, scary, mind bending, offbeat
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Screamers (1979)
Plot Summary:
Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, serious, suspenseful, lovecraft, retro, suspense, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic
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Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
Plot Summary:
A new Mothra takes to the air and must battle Death Ghidora to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, cult film
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Plot Summary:
Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, fairy tale, mockbuster, offbeat, suspenseful, computer animated, suspense, psychotronic
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Parasite (2004)
Plot Summary:
An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Dr. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of testing an experimental cleaning fluid which could revolutionize the oil industry. Hired to carry out the tests is Jacob Rasmussen and his rough and ready crew of deconstruction engineers. But within hours one of them is missing under suspicious circumstances. Things go from bad to worse when environmental activist Mickey Hennessey and his hard-bitten associates seize control of the rig, taking everybody on board hostage. But very soon oil workers and environmentalists will be compelled to join forces in an evolutionary battle for survival. For a savage new life-form has made its home on the rig. And it is hungry.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, rough, serious, experimental
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Roar (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his photojournalist brother gets killed by a white tigress in the jungles of the Sundarbans, Pandit and his team of commandos enter the prohibited core area of the forest to avenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Plot Summary:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, gothic horror, cult classic
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Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1983)
Plot Summary:
Professor and students camp out to find Bigfoot-type creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Animal (2014)
Plot Summary:
When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, dark drama, natural horror, independent film
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Banshee!!! (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of college friends on a spring break camping trip are stalked and slashed by an unknown creature with the ability to make them hallucinate through sound waves. The survivors hold up refuge in an isolated farmhouse, cut off from all communication. Now, they have to come up with a plan to kill this unrelenting creature before it kills them. "Banshee!!!" takes the idea of the legendary Irish myth and spins it around into a terrifying and unstoppable monster!.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious
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Air Rage (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea agreement wherein all the blame is on him and his men would be discharged and receive any benefits they're entitled. But the General presiding over his trial chooses not to agree to the agreement and throws the book at the Colonel and has his men dishonorably discharged thus eliminating all their benefits.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed, realistic, fast
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2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Plot Summary:
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) narrator. But the boat — now a high-tech submarine — is also bigger, and Capt. Ahab is as determined as ever to settle the score and take down the mighty sea mammal that maimed him.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, creepy, scary, independent film
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Sea Beast (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the fishing village of Cedar Bay, terror lies within the water. And now it has surfaced in search of something more substantial to devour than marine life: human flesh. A captain and a sea biologist must wage a terrifying battle against the deadly creatures in order to save mankind from total extinction.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror, suspense, dark, computer animated, psychotronic
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Supergator (2006)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, fast
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Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
Plot Summary:
A scientific expedition to Loch Ness runs into trouble when the group leader is killed in a mysterious diving accident. Soon after, when the unorthodox Professor Howell shows up to take over as leader of the group, more strange incidents and attacks start to occur. While Howell and TV producer Elizabeth Borden are busy investigating the source of the attacks, the body of an enormous sea creature washes up on the lake's shore.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, hilarious
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Snakehead Terror (2004)
Plot Summary:
A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
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Flipper's New Adventure (1964)
Plot Summary:
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called by most) is away, Sandy learns that the family home, built on state land, is being torn down to make way for a highway. In turn, Sandy would be sent to live with relatives, while Flipper would be sent to the seaquarium permanently. Not wanting to be separated from Flipper, Sandy, using his skiff, runs away with Flipper. A distraught Po returns home to look for his son. Meanwhile, the Hopewell family from Britain are vacationing in the area. Their sailboat is hijacked by three escaped convicts, who take the father, Halsey, hostage, and set the three Hopewell women - mother Julia, and teen-aged daughters Gwen and Penny - adrift, they who eventually land on the island where Sandy is hiding... Written by Huggo.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)
Plot Summary:
A princess is on a quest to unite the five greatest warriors to save her kingdom from a demon sorceress.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, cult classic, bleak
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Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, scary, exciting, computer animated
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SharkMan (2005)
Plot Summary:
When he began fusing human and shark DNA, his colleagues laughed at him. Now his creation is taking his revenge, and they aren't laughing anymore.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, rough, serious, natural horror, psychotronic
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Megalodon (2002)
Plot Summary:
Megalodon is a 2002 American shark film. It takes place out on a deep sea oil rig.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, natural horror, suspense
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The Rig (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious
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The Rift (1990)
Plot Summary:
An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, futuristic, retro, captivating, fast, cult film
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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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Attack of the Sabertooth (2005)
Plot Summary:
In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of college smalltime thieves puts a virus in the security system to participate in a scavenger hunt, the greatest attractions of the zoo - sabretoothes from the prehistoric age developed from DNA found in fossils - escape, killing the hosts and guards for fun.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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Gamera vs. Monster X (1970)
Plot Summary:
A giant creature attacks Japan during the World Fair and it's up to Gamera to stop it. But the monster injects Gamera with its offspring and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate the parasite.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, daikaiju, grindhouse, classic horror, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Mountains of the Moon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: India, South Africa
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, entertaining, disturbing
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous