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Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, rough, unusual plot structure, non-linear, romantic, scenic
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The Lost Tomb 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
This drama is adaption of Kennedy Xu's novel series"Grave Robbers’ Chronicles". 50 years ago, a group of Changsha grave robbers dug out manuscripts of the location of treasures from Warring states, but an encounter with an undead rendered almost the whole group dead. In the present, the young grandchild of the sole survivor, Wu Xie, discovers a secret within his grandfather's notes. Together with his third uncle, Wu Sansheng, and a few other experienced tomb robbers, to search for the treasure. But what no one expected to find the intriguing mysteries that accompanied their tomb robbing adventure - just who was the owner of that tomb? Will they be able to find the real coffin? And just where will these puzzle lead the group?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of Chinese legendary anti-hero Zhong Kui, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the course of his attempt to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, stylized, tense, entertaining, romantic, scenic, touching, epic, serious
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Candle in the Tomb (2016)
Plot Summary:
When archaeologist Shirley Yang learns of her father's disappearance, she returns to China and enlists the help of tomb raiders to track him down.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense
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Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)
Plot Summary:
During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, tense, surreal, psychotronic, mystical
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, psychotronic, tense, captivating, disturbing, romantic, costume drama, exciting, epic
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Candle In The Tomb: The Wrath Of Time (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of tomb raiders team up together to explore an ancient tomb of Yuan dynasty which is located in the Ping Shan mountain in West Hunan province.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspenseful, stylized
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The Adventurers (2017)
Plot Summary:
The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Candle in the Tomb: The Weasel Grave (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, when middle-aged Hu Ba Yi packs his belongings for one of his adventures, he finds an old photo, which brings his memory back to his college days in the 1960s. He then reminiscence about his first adventure that led him to become a tomb-expert.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, enigmatic, captivating
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Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (2020)
Plot Summary:
Yilong Zhu and Xiaotong are leading the cast! Let’s see the restart of these grave robbers. With mysteries unsolved, they’re gathering for adventure! On the way through all sorts of life and death, the secret about “the sound of the providence” is being uncovered step by step….
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Mojin: The Worm Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
Legendary tomb explorer Hu Bayi is on a dangerous mission as he seeks out the Tomb of Emperor Xian, located on an island of monstrous creatures in this mystical action-adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspense
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Fading of the Cries (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jacob, a young man armed with a deadly sword, saves Sarah, a teenage girl, from Mathias, a malevolent evil that has begun plaguing a small farmland town while in search of an ancient necklace that had belonged to Sarahs Uncle. Jacob sets out to get Sarah home safely, running through streets, fields, churches and underground tunnels, while being pursued by hordes of demonic creatures. Along the way, both come to terms with the demons within themselves - Sarah begins to understand her hatred towards her mother and sister may be unjustified and Jacob discovers the secrets of his past, realizing the only way to truly defeat the demons is to return to the very place his family was murdered.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, bleak, suspense, serious, independent film
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The Dead One (2007)
Plot Summary:
Trapped between the living and the dead, Diego de la Muerte fights to rescue his soul from the evil god of death that controls him. But a bigger battle awaits him when the Aztec god demands the soul of Maria, the girlfriend Diego left behind.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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The Four (2012)
Plot Summary:
An undercover agent is assigned by his corrupt chief to infiltrate a rival department and sabotage their investigation of counterfeit currency. What he discovers is the counterfeiter's real plan. To overthrow the capital. Not by flooding it with funny money, but with an army of undead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, rough, bleak, suspense, fast paced
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
Plot Summary:
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, stylized, detective, twisted, epic
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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A prequel to "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, stylized, captivating, scenic, epic, serious, detective
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A Man Called Hero (1999)
Plot Summary:
Episodic saga from the first half of the 20th century follows Hero Hua from an ill-omened June day in his youth to a showdown 17 years later with a disaffected member of his martial-arts school, a Japanese named Invincible. Tensions between Chinese and Japanese, plus U.S. racism, mark the tale. Hero marries Jade, leaves her in China when he goes to America as an indentured servant, rebels against cruel labor conditions, and is joined by her in New York City where she has twins. Jump ahead 16 years: their son Sword comes to New York looking for his father. There, Sword hears many stories of his father, which we see in flashbacks, and the stage is set for the battle with Invincible.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, stylized, comic
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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011)
Plot Summary:
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, captivating, tense, suspense, epic, serious, fast
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Painted Skin (2008)
Plot Summary:
Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, rough, serious, stylized, epic, psychotronic
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Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1979, a young soldier is working in China's snowcapped mountains when an explosion reveals bizarre fossils hidden deep in the mountain caverns. What they discover next will change his life and human history forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, romantic, scenic
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Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Xuan Zang risks his all to conquer a water demon, a pig demon and the demon of all demons, Sun Wukong.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, talky, exciting, semi serious, dorama, mysterious, action adventure, crying, fairy tale
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Dororo (2007)
Plot Summary:
The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts -- 48 to be exact -- were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau." His warlord father gave the originals to 48 demons in exchange for power. When Hyakkimaru kills a demon, he wins back a body part. He is spotted in one of these battles, with a giant spider demon, by Dororo, a scrappy female thief who is fascinated by not only Hyakkimaru's prowess with the sword blade poking out of his arm but the new leg he grows after dicing his opponent. Is he a man -- or a monster? After hearing his story from an old minstrel, she decides to join him on his travels and find out for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, anime, psychological, exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, weird
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Time Raiders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Time Raiders is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. It tells the story of explorers searching for the secrets of immortality in ancient tombs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic, scenic
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The Lost Tomb (2015)
Plot Summary:
Wu Xie is an antique shop owner who comes from a family of tomb raiders. As he continues the family trade with his team of tomb raiders, he finds lost treasures of the Warring States as well as the answers to the tragedies of his family’s past. With the help of his grandfather’s notes and his team – the quiet Zhang Qiling, the resourceful Pang Zi, the experienced Wu Sanxing, San Xing’s loyal helper Pan Zi, and the skillful Ah Ning – Wu Xie sets out to find the lost treasures as well as the people responsible for the massacre of his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense
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7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
Plot Summary:
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China unearths a 2000 year old nightmare - a secret that should have remained buried.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: China, Australia, Russia, Thailand
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, intense, exciting, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Forbidden Warrior (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Gaia Za is a sacred tome that holds many ancient and powerful spells to be unlocked by a so-called Chosen One expected to be born to one of two leading families: the Khans or the Marajis. Unwilling to leave the clan's fate to the gods, Che Khan decides to take matters into his own hands by plotting the murder of a new Maraji baby, who may be the child in question. In doing so, he sets off a furious clash.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Plot Summary:
Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, China, Canada
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, stylized, mystical, dieselpunk, scary, suspense, saga, intense
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The Mummy Returns (2001)
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Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn't above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis' otherworldly army.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 341000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed, action adventure, psychotronic, dark fantasy, feel good
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The Mummy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspense, light, entertaining, intense, action packed, psychotronic, tense, captivating
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Iron Mask (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Russian Czar Peter the Great commissions Jonathan Green, an English traveller, to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire. Green sets off on yet another long journey, full of unbelievable adventures, which eventually leads him to China. On his way, the famous cartographer makes breath-taking discoveries, meets mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even Lun Van, the King of Dragons, himself. What could be more perilous than looking into the eyes of Viy? Only meeting him again… What will prevail this time — the unflinching scepticism of the scientist or ancient black magic, which has already gained influence over the Far East Lands?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Russia, China, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, tense, captivating, surreal, cult classic, happy, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film