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Plot Summary:
When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was separated when he was nine. On his long and adventurous way home, he meets Aki, a Homo Sapiens woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, prehistoric
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The Trap (1966)
Plot Summary:
A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sexual, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, sexy, period drama, cult film
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Vivat, Naval Cadets! (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: stylized, light, sincere, captivating, sentimental
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Istanbul Beneath My Wings (1996)
Plot Summary:
17. yüzyıl İstanbul’u, 4. Murat’ın demir yumruğu altında yasaklarla dolu ama fantastik karşılaşmalara da pay bırakan bir hayata sahne olmaktadır. Kendilerini uçmaya ve insan sınırlarını zorlamaya adamış iki mucit, Hazerfen Ahmet Çelebi ile Lagari Hasan Çelebi işte böyle bir İstanbul’da yarenlik etmektedirler. Bekri Mustafa ile Evliya Çelebi gibi şahsiyetler, işte bu İstanbul’un sıradışı başka karakterleridir.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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17 Miracles (2011)
Plot Summary:
As part of the Willie Handcart Company, Levi Savage (Jasen Wade) feared that leaving late in the season would lead to despair and death. What he came to find out is that for every tragedy, there is a multitude of miracles. Based on unbelievable actual events, and brought to you by filmmaker T.C. Christensen (Praise to the Man, The Work and the Glory), 17 Miracles will open your eyes to the stories of the Mormon Pioneers as you have never seen them before. Something extraordinary is about to happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, christian film, biblical, spiritual, contemplative
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Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965)
Plot Summary:
Angelique (Michele Mercier) is saved by the king of the cutthroats (Giuliano Gemma) when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman in this costume-drama sequel based on the book by Serge and Anne Golon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, stylized
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The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
Plot Summary:
1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture a foreign journalist and Case recounts his story of false accusation on trumped-up charges, instigated by the bigotry and racism of his commanding officers. Following a successful attack by the British against the rebels Case is brutally shot by Colonel Drewe, his accuser. The journalist returns home determined to report the true story of The Brigand of Kandahar.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, futuristic
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The Lady and the Highwayman (1988)
Plot Summary:
Set in old England, Hugh Grant ("Four Weddings & a Funeral", "Notting Hill") plays a highwayman who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. But during one of his robberies, he falls in love with an aristocratic lady, Emma Samms ("Star Quest", "Delirious"). Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause. This swash-buckling romantic adventure will have you on the edge of your seat with every swing of Hugh's savage sword.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, tense, captivating, light, entertaining, gothic, sex comedy, serious, period drama
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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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In Gold We Trust (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
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The Edge (2010)
Plot Summary:
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: realistic, bleak, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, period drama
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Master of the World (1983)
Plot Summary:
Conqueror of the World, a thrilling and explosive story of violence...of human drama, of a rare man, strong and primitive. Set two hundred thousand years ago, when the human race had to adapt to their brutal, savage environment or disappear into oblivion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, psychotronic
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Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
Plot Summary:
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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Missing Link (1988)
Plot Summary:
A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steps, deserts and mountains until he reaches the coast. But there are already humans, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: prehistoric, one man show
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Iceman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled near a creek. It is their leader Kelab's responsibility to be the keeper of the group's holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, amongst them Kelab's wife and son, only one newborn survives - and Tineka is gone. Blinded by pain and fury, Kelab is out for one thing alone - vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, prehistoric, art house
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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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Texas (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the beginning of the 19th Century many Anglosaxons are settling in the Mexican province of Texas. As the years go by, political conflicts between the settlers and the Mexican government are escalating which would lead to war and Texan independence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Adventure, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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One Million Years B.C. (1966)
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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Angelique (1964)
Plot Summary:
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique (Michèle Mercier) marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac (Robert Hossein) out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, stylized, sentimental, costume drama, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, baroque, beautiful
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The Lost Viking (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young Viking called Vitharr arrives in Britain with dreams of conquest and adventure, but when his family and clan are ambushed and killed, he must survive alone in this strange,dangerous new land as he searches for his Uncle's settlement.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, Adventure, History
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, action adventure
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Ephraim's Rescue (2013)
Plot Summary:
From T.C. Christensen, director of the sensational pioneer film, 17 Miracles, comes the heroic true story of a simple man who was called to do the work of angels. Ephraim’s Rescue relates the story of Ephraim Hanks: a rescuer of the Martin Handcart company. Follow Ephraim as his adventures lead him to join the LDS Church and ultimately to one of the most heroic rescues in American history. With a unique desire to help and strengthen others, Ephraim learns that each choice we make can prepare us for what lies ahead. He discovers, through it all, that decisions determine destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized
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Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007)
Plot Summary:
An unexpectedly modern take on a tale of two Viking warriors abandoned on the American coast. Warning – contains a graphic answer to the question: do Vikings sh*t in the woods?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, offbeat
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Quest for Fire (1981)
Plot Summary:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged terrain, rival tribes and savage beasts, Quest for Fire examines a peaceful tribe's search for that all important element fire, and the knowledge to create it. Focusing on human dream as well as realistic insights into pre-historic man, the constant struggle for survival is vividly recreated in this sensational production.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, prehistoric, serious, epic, sexy, political, educational, disturbing
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
Plot Summary:
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, stylized, serious, prehistoric, mythical, cult classic, captivating, realistic, light
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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
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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
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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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The Way Back (2010)
Plot Summary:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, epic, inspirational, rough, serious, bleak, visually appealing, intense, road movie, dramatic
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Alpha (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, social, suspenseful, realistic, action adventure, epic, inspirational