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Plot Summary:
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences to the rain forest. Kari has mixed feelings about the project, until an accident puts him in the care of a local Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Finland, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: semi serious, independent film
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Sahara (1983)
Plot Summary:
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 81%
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Netherlands, France, Spain, Australia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, exciting, independent film
Similar in 82%
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Plot Summary:
Extraordinary images from Werner Herzog. Shot in the Australian Outback the Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: bleak, contemplative, political, tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, disturbing, anthropological
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Fire on the Amazon (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist joins forces with a beautiful young activist to find out who is responsible. Along they way, they fall in love as they discover the men responsible for the killing would be more than willing to murder again if it will keep them quiet.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, exciting, colorful, suspenseful, colourful
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Powwow Highway (1988)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Red Bow is struggling, in the face of persecution, by greedy developers and political in-fighting, to keep his nation on a Montana Cheyenne Reservation financially solvent and independent. Philbert, a simple-minded friend of Buddy's, ardently pursues Native American/First Nation wisdom and lore wherever he can find it--even on Bonanza--in order to earn his warrior name. He's even got his war pony, Protector: a beat-up old wreck of a car. Buddy's sister has been arrested in Santa Fe, and together Buddy and Philbert set off on a road trip to look after her kids and go bail her out. However, Bonnie's arrest has something strange about it as her friend Rabbit points out. As the miles roll by, Philbert's faith challenges Buddy's hard-edged view of the world (and occasional bout of reckless violence), and together they face the realities and dreams of being Cheyenne in the modern-day US as they fight to free Bonnie and her children and elude the Feds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, psychedelic, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale, inspirational
Similar in 79%
Medicine Man (1992)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, anamorphic, philosophical, action adventure, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, romantic, road movie
Similar in 78%
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Plot Summary:
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, thought provoking, touching, captivating, bleak, realistic, independent film, serious, contemplative, sexy
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River of Death (1989)
Plot Summary:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit off more than they can chew. What with a nazi doctor still doing his experiments on people in the same place.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, independent film, realistic
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Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Blue Butterfly (2004)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them on a trip to the jungle to search for the butterfly, leading to an adventure that will transform their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
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Anything to Survive (1990)
Plot Summary:
A father and his children are caught by a storm whilst sailing in Alaska. When they get shipwrecked, things go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious
Similar in 82%
The Earthling (1980)
Plot Summary:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, serious, surreal, independent film
Similar in 82%
The Aviator (1985)
Plot Summary:
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: melancholic, inspirational, serious, realistic, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, visually appealing, weird
Similar in 75%
The White Dawn (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 867
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, vintage
Similar in 82%
Miracles Still Happen (1974)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen-year-old girl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
Similar in 82%
Sara (1997)
Plot Summary:
Forty-something Leon is an alcoholic, ex-special forces barely scraping by when he's hired by a mobster to protect his 16 year old daughter. Not only does Leon have to clean up his act, but also handle the romantic advances of his ward and the keen attention of his dangerous employers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, sincere, serious, realistic
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Plot Summary:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama, visual, fairy tale, gothic horror, period piece, anthropological
Similar in 89%
Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic, erotic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, satirical
Similar in 78%
King Solomon's Mines (2004)
Plot Summary:
An adventurous quest for a treasure hidden in King Solomon's mines, based on H. Rider Haggard's timeless tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: captivating, epic, fast, serious
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The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Plot Summary:
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: touching, harsh, emotional, intense, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, tense, visually appealing, suspense
Similar in 86%
Wolf Totem (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, thought provoking, dramatic, historical drama
Similar in 90%
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)
Plot Summary:
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
Similar in 89%
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Plot Summary:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, baroque
Similar in 89%
Follow the River (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic
Similar in 84%
Walkabout (1971)
Plot Summary:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, visual, surreal, scenic, visually stunning, meditative, thought provoking, touching, philosophical
Similar in 78%
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Plot Summary:
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: retro, disturbing, anthropological, exciting, atmospheric, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
The Naked Prey (1965)
Plot Summary:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, retro, fast paced, independent film, realistic, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
White Water Summer (1987)
Plot Summary:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, feel good, serious, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, scary
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment he studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false. Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, sensitive, anthropological, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Similar in 80%
Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Plot Summary:
The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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