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Plot Summary:
Petit-fils du célèbre explorateur Allan Quaterman, Chris Quaterman ne vit que pour l'aventure. Riche et séduisant,décontacté et déterminé, il se lance au péril de sa vie et celles de ses compagnons sur les traces du trésor d'Alexandre Le Grand. Une entreprise d'autant plus périlleuse qu'il n'est pas le seul à suivre une piste piégée qui mène au bouclier, au casque et à l'épée du plus grand conquérant de l'antiquité.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, Bulgaria, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
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Slade Collins in and Out of Time (2016)
Plot Summary:
'Slade Collins 2: In and Out of Time' is an adventure film sequel to 'Slade Collins and the Tree of Life.' The stories follows a relic hunter named Slade Collins, who seems to have this incredible knack for finding himself waist deep (often times higher) in trouble. In this film Slade, in order to save the woman he loves, must travel back in time to World War II. Along with Jennifer, his long time partner, he must find his father, Rick Collins, who walked out on Slade and his mother when he was only a child. During all of this they find themselves engulfed in the plot of the evil Nazi General Balderic and his crew, who seeks to use time travel as a means of changing the outcome of the war. With time running out, the Collins boys must put aside their differences if they are to avert this Nazi plan for world domination and save the world as we know it. ' Slade Collins 2 : In and Out of Time' is a film that will keep you on the edge of your seat-from its opening scene to its final.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, action adventure, epic
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The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon (2008)
Plot Summary:
A team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
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Cabo Blanco (1980)
Plot Summary:
Giff Hoyt , a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, independent film, cult film
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La leggenda del rubino malese (1985)
Plot Summary:
An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure
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Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983)
Plot Summary:
A group of adventurers are gathered together to retrieve some mystical gems which are in the possession of a deadly cult.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, gothic, splatter, odd
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Treasure Raiders (2007)
Plot Summary:
Michael, an American professor teaching history at Moscow University, finances his passion for treasure hunting with competitive street racing. His racing nemesis Wolf becomes his ally as they both embark on a quest to search for a famous ancient Russian treasure.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Slade Collins and the Tree of Life (2014)
Plot Summary:
Slade Collins and The Tree Of Life is an adventure film that explores ancient Iroquois folklore. The story follows a relic hunter named Slade Collins who is employed by a museum caretaker to find Dr. Winters, a renowned anthropologist who has gone missing. Dr. Winters was researching The Tree Of Life in an attempt to uncover its secrets. In Iroquois myth, The Tree Of Life is believed to be directly tied to the story of Creation. Through an unfortunate event, Slade teams up with Sill Winters, Dr. Winter's daughter who is also searching for her father. Together, they set out to find the Tree Of Life and the doctor. Unfortunately for them, they are not the only ones searching for The Tree Of Life. The nefarious Reverend Wendell Cobb and his associate, the ruthless mercenary named Czar are also searching for it. Together they set out to bring about the end of the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, action adventure, independent film
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Diamond Dogs (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Diamond Dogs" is the story of a group of American fortune hunters, who come to China looking for a long-lost-treasure. During the Soviet crack-down on religion in the 1930's, a priceless Buddhist artifact, a Tangka was taken across the border to China and hidden in the mountains. The diamonds alone, decorating this huge gold-inlaid textile, are thought to be worth $50 million. The fortune hunters.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, fast
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King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
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Sea Wolf: The Pirate's Curse (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Danger, Sea of Desire.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious, suspenseful
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The Treasure Hunter (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the northwest desert where countless prosperous dynasties have flourished and fallen, there is rumor of a treasure of unbelievable riches buried among it. A group of mysterious guardians have been guarding the map to the location of the treasure until a fierce rivalry erupted. A notorious international crime group, The Company hunted down the map keeper and before they managed to secure the map, the keeper passed the map to a young chivalrous man Ciao Fei. Ciao Fei was forced to give up the map to save the live of his mentor’s daughter Lan Ting. Teaming up with Hua Ding Bang and Lan Ting they embark on a dangerous journey to recover the map and fight to protect the ancient treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, melancholic, fast
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Spear of Destiny (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a museum professor disappears, his colleagues must solve riddles and avoid traps to find the mythical Spear of Destiny and rescue the professor.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing
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Hooten & The Lady (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hugely charismatic, roguish American adventurer Hooten and his fantastically feisty partner in crime, Lady Alexandra travel the world, from the Vatican to The Himalayas, the Amazon to Egypt, in their quest to save the world's lost treasures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, captivating, semi serious, funny
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King Solomon's Mines (2004)
Plot Summary:
An adventurous quest for a treasure hidden in King Solomon's mines, based on H. Rider Haggard's timeless tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: captivating, epic, fast, serious
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The Hunt for the Amber Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's the greatest myth of the German post-war era: The Amber Room. Since its disappearance in 1945 from Koenigsberg Castle, legions of treasure hunters have tried and failed to find the room. It is said that Physics genius, Albert Einstein hid the legendary Amber Room from the Nazis in the turmoil of the last days of the war. It bears a secret within its amber - in wrong hands, it could destroy mankind! Our adventurers, Eik, Katharina and Justus, come across an incredible trace and with the help of Einstein's great-granddaughter Mila, together they fight off a ruthless pharmaceutical magnate who spares no effort to get ahold of the Amber Room. From Europe's biggest monument in Leipzig, through the halls of Munich's German Museum, across the dunes of St. Peter-Ording, to the Nazi caves of the Berchtesgaden Alps. The adventurous hunt begins. Written by Dreamtool Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining
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The Charlemagne Code (2008)
Plot Summary:
An action-packed race to find the legendary treasure of the Nibelungen hidden by Charlemagne and thought to be the biggest lost treasure in the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, psychotronic
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Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, fairy tale, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, road movie, unusual plot structure, entertaining, melancholic, visually appealing
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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, atmospheric, rough, humorous, semi serious, mockbuster, stylized
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (1994)
Plot Summary:
Indy takes a job as assistant to a Hollywood studio executive in an attempt to earn his college fees. His job is to get flamboyant and difficult director Erich Von Stroheim to complete his latest epic on time and with the budget, or else.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure (1999)
Plot Summary:
The sixth film in the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Jack Hunter (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit is a 2008 American miniseries. It consists of three parts: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit, Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb and Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 282 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
Plot Summary:
When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, entertaining, light, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, feel good, mythical, fast
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MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994)
Plot Summary:
Hunting artifacts attributed to Zenon (an ancient scientist from Atlantis), MacGyver and his old professor end up searching for the lost city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Plot Summary:
English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's in search of a powerful relic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 217000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, stylized, action adventure, saga, captivating, sexy, funny, clever
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Plot Summary:
Lara Croft ventures to an underwater temple in search of the mythological Pandora's Box but, after securing it, it is promptly stolen by the villainous leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. Lara must recover the box before the syndicate's evil mastermind uses it to construct a weapon of catastrophic capabilities.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Japan, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, action packed, stylized, action adventure, saga, captivating, motivational, clever, heroic
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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
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The Mummy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for all eternity as a punishment for a forbidden love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 453000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, entertaining, funny, suspense, semi serious, cult classic, horror comedy, dieselpunk, humorous
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finds Indy vagabonding around the South Pacific on a treasure hunt for a fabled lost diamond. The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy on a thrilling treasure hunt for one of Alexander the Great's most prized possessions. Pursued by a dangeroud one-eyes man, Indy follows the trail of the diamond from London to Alexandria to the South Seas, where he has a run-in with a murderous band of Chinese pirates. The shipboard battle that ensues is a spectacular display of swords, guns and flying fists. Marooned by the priates on a remote desert island, Indy is captured by savage headhunters, but before they can turn him into a shrunken head and cannibal stew, he is rescued by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, and makes a life-altering decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, fast, cult film
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Uncharted (2022)
Plot Summary:
A descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake uncovers the location of the legendary El Dorado. With the help of his mentor and an ambitious journalist he works to uncover its secrets while surviving on an island filled with pirates, mercenaries, and a mysterious enemy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 246000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, visually appealing, epic, cult classic, action adventure, ambiguous ending, feel good, suspenseful, buddy comedy