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Plot Summary:
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, eighties, neo screwball comedy
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The Tattoo Chase (1989)
Plot Summary:
In order to receive an inheritance, Howie Goldman must comb the globe and find a woman with a deposit box number tattooed on her derrière.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Crazy Hong Kong (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1990s, Nǃxau was cast in three low-budget unofficial sequels that continued the fish-out-of-water aspects of the first two films.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The African (1983)
Plot Summary:
Charlotte (Catherine Deneuve) flies to East-Africa in order to build a touristic center near the Lake Williams where the pygmys live. Here she meets her husband Victor (Philippe Noiret), a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to built this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Black Jack (1979)
Plot Summary:
In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice." He takes to the countryside in the company of Tolly, a teenaged boy who is able to translate Black Jack's odd speech into something comprehensible. They join up with Belle, an aristocratic teenager who has escaped from the madhouse her family imprisoned her in when she grew troublesome. Together, the three join a carnival. However, as it becomes clear that the girl is far from crazy, love between Tolly and Belle grows. This story, set in the mid-18th century, is based on a novel by Leon Garfield.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Hate Kids (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nick Pearson is a life-long bachelor who is finally settling down. On the brink of his wedding he is surprised to find he has a 13 year old son who has come to find his him through the help of a psychic. The problem is Nick can't stand kids and would happily send the boy back to live with his biological mother, except that no one has any clue who that might be. Having nowhere to turn Nick must hit the road with the boy and the neurotic, inept psychic to track down dozens of his disgraced ex-flings to whom he must ask the awkward question - with very mixed results.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, funny, exciting
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The Great Elephant Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police and lions on a journey they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Recep Ivedik 6 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Recep İvedik is at home watching television, when postman brings him a surprise invitation for the annual dried beans festival of Konya province. Very excited with the news, Recep convinces his best friend Nurullah to join him but due to a miscommunication with the travel agency, they get plane tickets for Kenya, Africa, instead of Konya, Turkey. After arriving at Kenya and getting on a safari tour, our hapless companions find themselves lost in endless savannah and at the middle of two rival local tribes. Many adventures await Recep in this unfamiliar and exotic land, who will try anything and everything to return home, mostly to hilarious results.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, surprise ending
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Driving Me Crazy (1991)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map. A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat. A young man without fear and without brains, but with the treasure map engraved somewhere in his failing memory. A doctor without drinking, providential specialist of failing memories and other atypical amnesia ... It is this dream team that sails anchor one morning in the year of grace a thousand and seven hundred and a few, towards the treasure island and its coves of pink sand.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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My Uncle Killed a Guy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Eder (Lázaro Ramos) is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca (Darlan Cunha), a 15 years old boy who is Eder's nephew, wants to prove the innocence of his uncle, he's sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya (Deborah Secco), ex-wife of the deceased. Duca also wants to win the heart of Isa (Sophia Reis), a classmate who seems more interested in his best friend, Kid (Renan Gioelli). To be able to prove his theory, Duca gets help from Isa and Kid.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic, detective
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Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
Plot Summary:
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, slapstick, surreal, captivating, entertaining, mysterious, offbeat, not serious
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Safari (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem - he is completely unexperienced as a guide!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, captivating
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Escape from Angola (1976)
Plot Summary:
Adventure - Moving to the unspoiled terrain of Africa was a risk the Mallory family survived. This family of animal trainers soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives after their truck breaks down deep in the African bush. They split up to search for help, only to find themselves face to face with some of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa: crocodiles, cobras and other deadly beasts. - Stan Brock, Anne Collings, Steven Tors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Vacation Friends (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met in Mexico followed them back home and decide to play tricks on them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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An Elephant's Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Adventure
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Lost in Africa (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young American and a young English woman are kidnapped by a tribe in Africa. They manage to escape but the leader of the tribe is killed in the process. There's a whole jungle between them and civilization and chief's son wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Roar (1981)
Plot Summary:
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, mondo, creepy, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, weird
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The Last Safari (1967)
Plot Summary:
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Plot Summary:
When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The Lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young Gorillas and sell them on the black market.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Corvette Summer (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical despot.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual, cult classic, slapstick, independent film, mockumentary, spectacular
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Legend of the Lost Goddess (1970)
Plot Summary:
A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film, sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, parody
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Dunston Checks In (1996)
Plot Summary:
Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a villainous jewel thief with an orangutan assistant named Dunston. When Dunston gets loose and tries to escape a life of crime -- aided by Robert's sons -- havoc, hijinks and lots of laughs abound!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, not serious, entertaining, slapstick comedy, feel good, funny, clever, touching, unusual plot structure
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The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a scout for a giant circus. Accompanied by a cruel hunter and a snake charmer, the scout sets out to trap Mowgli. But with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, little Mowgli leads the adults into his biggest and wildest adventure yet! A fun-filled movie every member of the family will enjoy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: semi serious, light, romantic, unusual plot structure, humorous, sweet, melancholic, dramatic, surreal, splatter
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Bored Silly (2000)
Plot Summary:
What starts out as a boring day for Bobby, Johnnie and Chuck quickly escalates into a riotous backyard adventure. A swarming beehive, a lawn mower with a mind of its own, a mysterious junkman and the neighborhood bully are just some of the hilarious encounters these close-knit friends will experience on a day that began with the classic kid question of all time: "What do you guys wanna do?".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Good Boys (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: absurd, funny, light, not serious, sex comedy, teen comedy
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Vacation (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, realistic, not serious, teen, road movie, feel good, romantic, slasher
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Hatari! (1962)
Plot Summary:
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, black and white, feel good, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, tense, funny, light
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King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, funny, retro, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, fast, surprise ending, atmospheric
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Plot Summary:
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure, humorous, bad ending, harsh