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Plot Summary:
Based on novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 203 min
Plot tags:
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The Sannikov Land (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of people setting out to find a previously assumed land and upon reaching it, not knowing how to deal with the customs of the place, have to deal with all the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: ethnographical
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The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)
Plot Summary:
Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day people in order to battle the King of Atlantis, who is under the control of a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, exciting, tense, semi serious
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Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Plot Summary:
In 1881, Michael Denning, an American soldier, and Hector Servadac, a French aristocrat, are about to have a duel over a woman that they both are infatuated with. However, just as the two men are about to shoot at each other, a comet strikes the Earth and the gravitational pull draws in the two men. Michael and Hector soon deduce that this comet has been periodically landing on Earth and gathering people and animals from various eras in time, including people and dinosaurs. The two men then decide to put their differences aside and fight for survival as well as help make peace between two warring tribes of cavemen. Written by Brian Washington.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: classic horror, psychotronic, vintage
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The Bermuda Depths (1978)
Plot Summary:
Scientists investigating the briny deep are threatened by a giant turtle and the spirit of a young brunette swimmer in the Bermuda Triangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, natural horror, mystical
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Undersea Battleship (1963)
Plot Summary:
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, natural horror, bizarre, cult film
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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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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some survivors of a drowning ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city, where they may be trapped for the rest of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, retro, classic horror, natural horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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City in the Sea (1965)
Plot Summary:
The plot concerns the discovery of a lost city beneath the sea off the coast of Cornwall. Price is the captain overseeing a group of sailors who have lived there for more than a century where the peculiar mix of gases has allowed them to extend their lifespan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Master of the World (1961)
Plot Summary:
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, fairy tale, exciting, captivating, psychotronic
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Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
Plot Summary:
A five man submarine plants sensors around the worlds oceans to monitor for a impending earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, vintage
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Empire of the Sharks (2017)
Plot Summary:
On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller who must learn to marshal a supernatural ability if she is to free her people from the Warlord's dominion.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, mockbuster, weird
Similar in 79%
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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Mysterious Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the war by hijacking a hot air balloon! Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they aren't alone... Littered with wreckage, the island is home to cast of survivors who have been lost in space and time, including Jules and Abby Fogg, two young women from modern times who become stranded while flying over the Bermuda Triangle. Faced with defending themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures, and an active volcano that's ready to blow, they must find a way to survive and escape the island. Hope only comes when they encounter the island's oldest resident, Captain Nemo himself. With his help, they set to work crafting an escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, scenic, psychotronic, nostalgic
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn the truth of the "monster" roaming the seas. The great novelist, Jules Verne, described this perilous journey to the darkest depths of the sea with Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Mysterious Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Cameroon
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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The Neptune Factor (1973)
Plot Summary:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, experimental
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The Captain of the Lucky Pike (1973)
Plot Summary:
A heroic drama about a submarine sailors of Russian Northern Fleet during the WWII.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Plot Summary:
During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous monsters, bloodthirsty pirates, and mad genius Captain Nemo (Patrick Stewart), who lives on the island for his own secretive ends.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, fairy tale, epic, psychotronic
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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
Similar in 82%
Monster Island (2019)
Plot Summary:
Gigantic monsters threaten to destroy everything in their path as mankind remains defenseless.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, disaster movie
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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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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1870's - A woman hires an anthropologist/adventurer to track down her husband, who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, natural horror, psychotronic, suspenseful
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Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom (2023)
Plot Summary:
When an ancient power is unleashed, Aquaman must forge an uneasy alliance with an unlikely ally to protect Atlantis, and the world, from irreversible devastation.
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Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, colorful, psychotronic, interesting, colourful
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Waterworld (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland' – which is tattooed on Enola's back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, entertaining, cult classic, psychological thriller, retro, philosophical, atmospheric
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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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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years after exploring Pandora and joining the Na’vi, Jake Sully has since raised a family with Neytiri and established himself within the clans of the new world. Of course, peace can only last so long. Especially when the military organization from the original film returns to “finish what they started”.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 472000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, breathtaking, epic, colorful, fairy tale, visually stunning, deep, cyber, visual
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Aquaman (2018)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Curry learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and to be a hero to the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 507000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, epic, action adventure, psychotronic, colorful, slasher, saga, stylized, anime