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Plot Summary:
Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be sixteen feet long. Tikoyo believes that his companion houses the soul of a wise old man, and helps him guard the sacred black pearls in the lagoon. In fact, Manidu does protects Tikoyo and his girlfriend Diana, only eating those who are their enemies, or who seek to destroy their environment, or steal the pearls.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Journey Ahead (2022)
Plot Summary:
A famous Hollywood actress and a young wilderness expert drive from Los Angeles to New York. Along the way both women learn they can't run from their past to create the future they want. Stars Holly Robinson Peete, Kaylee Bryant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dark Age (1987)
Plot Summary:
In the Australian outback, a park ranger and two local guides set out to track down a giant crocodile that has been killing and eating the local populace.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, wild, cult film
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The Shark Hunter (1979)
Plot Summary:
A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Shark Huntress (2021)
Plot Summary:
Shelia, an environmentalist venturing into the deep sea to capitalize on the billion-dollar plastic industry encounters deadly enhanced sharks. She wants revenge… it wants blood.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Mister Moses (1965)
Plot Summary:
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Diary of a Nudist (1961)
Plot Summary:
Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very much shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy Taylor to the camp so she can write an expose on the camp and have it shut down. However, much to her surprise, Stacy finds that she enjoys the nudist lifestyle and writes some very positive articles on her experiences, which doesn't sit well with Arthur. Arthur then decides to join the camp himself and write his own story.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult classic, psychotronic, grindhouse, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy, sexploitation film, cult film
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The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1974)
Plot Summary:
An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Pirate Movie (1982)
Plot Summary:
A comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original (Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance), as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In your typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy fights girl with swords plot, the story revolves around Mabel.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, cult classic, humorous, spoof, feel good, semi serious, erotic, fairy tale, light, romantic
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Jaws 3-D (1983)
Plot Summary:
This third film in the series follows a group of marine biologists attempting to capture a young great white shark that has wandered into Florida's Sea World Park. However, later it is discovered that the shark's 35-foot mother is also a guest at Sea World. What follows is the shark wreaking havoc on the visitors in the park.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, natural horror, funny, bloody, anime, classic horror, tense, rough, serious
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Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three friends from California are filming an audition tape for an extreme reality game show. They document their journey to Australia where they will be doing their most dangerous activity.... Shark Cage Diving. A catastrophic turn of events leaves them in baited water full of Great White Sharks, turning their recording into a blood chilling diary of survival... and death.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, intense, slasher, grindhouse, natural horror
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Plot Summary:
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, christmas horror, scary, natural horror, funny, classic horror, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Rampage (1963)
Plot Summary:
A German zoo hires two hunters to catch a rare breed of panther in Malaysia. The girlfriend of one of the hunters accompanies them on their hunt.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, serious
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Burke & Wills (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, epic, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, independent film, period drama
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Krakatoa: East of Java (1968)
Plot Summary:
A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: epic, independent film, tense, serious, suspenseful, 70mm film, disaster movie
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Roads to Koktebel (2003)
Plot Summary:
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, road movie, mysterious, serious, realistic, crying
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The Dove (1974)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23 foot sloop named "The Dove". On his journey he meets and falls in love with a young woman (Patti Ratteree, played by Deborah Raffin) who is also traveling around the world. The story follows Robin around the world to many beautiful locals, as he grows from a boy to a man, finds himself, and finds the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Paradise (1982)
Plot Summary:
After their caravan is attacked and their respective families butchered by Arab marauders, teenagers David and Sarah flee across the desert. But the desert is filled with danger from the elements, animals and the unwholesome appetite of the Jackal, a sheik who wants Sarah for himself. However, the desert also holds temptation and love. David and Sarah hide out in an oasis and build a life for themselves, discovering each other in new ways.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, captivating, sex comedy, independent film, realistic, sexual, eighties
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Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, emotional, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, clever, feel good
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Love Wrecked (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Plot Summary:
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: melancholic, realistic, serious, erotic, teen, romantic, sexy, feel good, sensual, sexual
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Plot Summary:
Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, surreal, visual, dark comedy, funny, absurd, visually stunning, entertaining, offbeat
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Jaws 2 (1978)
Plot Summary:
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful, bloody, gothic horror, splatter, detective, cult classic
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The Deep (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, scenic, scary, slasher, action thriller, serious, realistic
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Jaws (1975)
Plot Summary:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 647000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, natural horror, entertaining, creepy, classic horror, rough, exciting
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The Beach (2000)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, intellectual, visual, philosophical, epic, atmospheric, psychological thriller
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard (Christopher Atkins) make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching, entertaining, sexy, feel good, minimal cast, sensual
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Cast Away (2000)
Plot Summary:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 626000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, psychological, serious, scenic, emotional, motivational, sad, inspirational, feel good
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The Lost City (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and more romantic, than any of her paperback fictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, funny, feel good, exciting, captivating, sweet, cute, humorous, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The Little Mermaid (2023)
Plot Summary:
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 146000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, motion capture, psychotronic, epic fantasy, surprise ending, interesting