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Plot Summary:
A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steps, deserts and mountains until he reaches the coast. But there are already humans, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: prehistoric, one man show
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Journey to Spirit Island (1988)
Plot Summary:
A greedy Indian persuades his tribe to sell the lonesome 'Spirit Island' for a congress center. Instead of transferring the historical graves on it like he tells his tribe, he plans to wipe them out. By accident a group of two Indian kids and two friends from Chicago on vacation are flown to the island and get in his way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, semi serious
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Goliath Against the Giants (1961)
Plot Summary:
Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for opposing a usurper king and his consort.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Treasure of Tayopa (1974)
Plot Summary:
Modern day western about an expedition led by Winters to find a lost treasure in the Mexican badlands. Psycho Trapani turns the search into a bloodbath.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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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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Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
Plot Summary:
An escaped prisoner flees to the South American jungle, where he must survive not only wild animals and disease but also a ferocious Indian tribe.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Tusks (1988)
Plot Summary:
Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidden ivory trade only to lock horns with new game warden and former friend Mark Smith, whose testimony years before helped put Singh away.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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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 Lost Continent (1968)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escape their various troubles. When a violent storm strikes, the ship is swept into the Sargasso Sea and the passengers find themselves trapped on an island populated by man-eating seaweed, giant crabs and Spanish conquistadors who believe it’s still the 16th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, mythical, classic horror, natural horror, scary, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious
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The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume 1: The Journey (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of Lehi and his wife Sariah and their four sons: Laman, Lemuel, Sam, and Nephi. Lehi leaves Jerusalem because he prophesied unto the people concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, and they sought his life. He journeys into the wilderness with his family. He sends Nephi and his brethren back to Jerusalem after the brass plates and the family of Ishmael. The sons and daughters of Lehi marry the sons and daughters of Ishmael. They take their families and continue into the wilderness. Ishmael dies in the wilderness. They come to the sea. Nephi's brethren rebel against him. He confounds them, and builds a ship. They cross the sea to the promised land in the Americas. Lehi dies in the promised land. Nephi's brethren rebel against him again. Nephi departs again into the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, independent 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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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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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966)
Plot Summary:
The international criminal Vinaro enjoys sending explosive wristwatches to his enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Adventure
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Ironmaster (1983)
Plot Summary:
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, cult classic, exciting, serious, psychotronic
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Cold River (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel Winterkill, by William Judson, Cold River is the story of an Adirondack guide who takes his young daughter and step-son on a long camping trip in the fall of 1932. When winter strikes unexpectedly early (a natural phenomenon known as a 'winterkill' - so named because the animals are totally unprepared for a sudden, early winter, and many freeze or starve to death), a disastrous turn of events leaves the two children to find their own way home without food, or protection from the elements.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Master of the World (1983)
Plot Summary:
Conqueror of the World, a thrilling and explosive story of violence...of human drama, of a rare man, strong and primitive. Set two hundred thousand years ago, when the human race had to adapt to their brutal, savage environment or disappear into oblivion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure, psychotronic
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Ao: The Last Hunter (2010)
Plot Summary:
When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was separated when he was nine. On his long and adventurous way home, he meets Aki, a Homo Sapiens woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, prehistoric
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Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
Plot Summary:
As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for supremacy, not only for the leadership of the tribe but also for the love of a beautiful young woman. The age-old battlegrounds of rivalry, envy and passion are explored in this tale of prehistoric adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, vintage
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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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Iceman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled near a creek. It is their leader Kelab's responsibility to be the keeper of the group's holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, amongst them Kelab's wife and son, only one newborn survives - and Tineka is gone. Blinded by pain and fury, Kelab is out for one thing alone - vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, prehistoric, art house
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Prehistoric Women (1967)
Plot Summary:
Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari, has vanquished a rival tribe and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A hunter stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the possessive, sadistic Queen.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, prehistoric, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, campy
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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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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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King Kong Lives (1986)
Plot Summary:
Kong falls from the twin towers and he appears to be alive!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, natural horror, independent film, serious, suspenseful, fast, crying, psychotronic, spoof, weeping
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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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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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The New Swiss Family Robinson (1998)
Plot Summary:
When Angelino Jack Robinson gets a new job in Australia, he decides to take his sissy wife Ann, brave sons Shane and Todd and wining daughter Elisabeth 'Lizzy' by sailing yacht from Hong Kong to Syndney. The gun he gets thrown in by Sheldon Blake proves disabled, and for a sinister reason: near Borneo, Blake's men turn up to capture them. The family escapes but loses the yacht on a reef. They build a cool camp on an island. But the pirates keep coming back, and the boys discover why: he hid a treasure in the yacht. Shane is also discovered and captured in more then one way by French plane wreck survivor Françoise, who later teams up with the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, independent film, serious
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Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by recurring dreams of Hea-Thor, a gorgeous cavegirl,and a menacing Allosaurus, action-movie star Tony Markham soon finds himself transported, by means of a magic Icon, back through time to Dinosaur Valley. Now trapped in world of dangerous dinosaurs, grunting cavemen and a tribe of exotic, love-starved cavegirls, Tony must put his modern-days skills to extreme tests in order to survive prehistoric perils, win the cavegirl of his dreams and (maybe) return to his own time?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, prehistoric, cult film
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Quest for Fire (1981)
Plot Summary:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged terrain, rival tribes and savage beasts, Quest for Fire examines a peaceful tribe's search for that all important element fire, and the knowledge to create it. Focusing on human dream as well as realistic insights into pre-historic man, the constant struggle for survival is vividly recreated in this sensational production.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, prehistoric, serious, epic, sexy, political, educational, disturbing
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
Plot Summary:
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, stylized, serious, prehistoric, mythical, cult classic, captivating, realistic, light
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Alpha (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, social, suspenseful, realistic, action adventure, epic, inspirational