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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
Best tv shows and movies like At the Earth's Core (1976):
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Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967)
Plot Summary:
Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, daikaiju, natural horror, fast
Similar in 82%
A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a post-Armageddon world, a young woman finds herself in a fight for survival against mutant cavemen, dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: futuristic, retro, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, offbeat, semi serious, fast, bizarre
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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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Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
Plot Summary:
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, captivating, semi serious, slapstick, whimsical
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Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mothra's twin nymphs and children from the city find a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, cult film
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Rebirth of Mothra III (1998)
Plot Summary:
To save the world, Mothra goes back in time in an attempt to defeat a younger King Ghidorah.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, exciting, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
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Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
Plot Summary:
A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet, and blood-thirsty buggers at that. The crew hopes to be found and rescued, but they have to struggle to survive until then.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, retro, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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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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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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Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Plot Summary:
Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet, entertaining, weird, idiotic, ridiculous, cult film, awful
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King of the Lost World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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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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Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil Battra to destroy us. The Cosmos, as the girls are called, offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately, Godzilla also appears and a three way battle begins that threatens to destroy Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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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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The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Plot Summary:
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, suspense, epic fantasy
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Plot Summary:
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: epic, gothic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, computer animated
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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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Warlords of the Deep (1978)
Plot Summary:
Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell disabled, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advanced alien race that makes sailors their slaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, cult film
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Mysterious Island (1961)
Plot Summary:
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro, classic horror, natural horror, serious, psychotronic, light
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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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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Plot Summary:
In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, suspense, independent film, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, 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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Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: futuristic, humorous, independent film, stylized, exciting, psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, art house, offbeat
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Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the 6th Godzilla movie, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth's people to help them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka "Monster Zero") by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. Monster mayhem ensues on Planet X, but it's soon discovered that the aliens have other intentions for the monsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, daikaiju, suspense, classic horror, natural horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, 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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Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
Plot Summary:
Princess Farah refuses to marry Sinbad until Prince Kassim, her brother, is able to give his consent. However, the Prince's wicked stepmother, Queen Zenobia, has changed Kassim into a baboon in order to have her own son crowned as caliph. Sinbad, his crew, the Princess and the transformed Prince travel to a distant land, fighting every obstacle Zenobia places in their path, to seek the advice of a legendary wise man who can possibly tell how to end the spell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, melancholic, stylized, humorous, semi serious, mystical, mythical, fantasy adventure
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Clash of the Titans (1981)
Plot Summary:
To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head, and battling the Kraken monster.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, dark fantasy, cult classic, stylized, fairy tale, visual, visually stunning, mythical, fantasy adventure, psychotronic
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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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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, breathtaking, teen, psychotronic, atmospheric, feel good, ironic, mockbuster, cult classic, action adventure
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, suspense, humorous, stylized, semi serious, cult classic, mythical, mystical, epic