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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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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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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Plot Summary:
Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, fairy tale, mockbuster, offbeat, suspenseful, computer animated, suspense, psychotronic
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this direct-to-video remake, when an accident leaves a group of researchers trapped beneath the earth's crust, it's up to a drill team, led by Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan), to rescue them. But once underground, the team discovers a mysterious -- and horrifying -- subterranean universe. Giant spiders and treacherous dinosaurs abound in this pulse-pounding update of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi adventure, which also stars Dedee Pfeiffer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, mockbuster, exciting, disturbing, prehistoric, natural horror, computer animated, psychotronic, independent film, captivating
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Plot Summary:
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, melancholic, talky, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, intense, apocalyptic, nautical, classic horror
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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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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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King of the Lost World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Mandrake (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychotronic
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Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966)
Plot Summary:
The 7th film in the Godzilla series. After being caught in a storm in the south seas, several teenagers and thief arrive on an island where natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization. They also discover a sleeping Godzilla and decide to wake him up to aid in their plan to free the natives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, suspense, classic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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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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The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Plot Summary:
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, suspense, epic fantasy
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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
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Plot Summary:
King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey known as The Isle of the Mists. Here the Warrior King and his men face the Goddess of the Underworld and her winged horrific creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, fairy tale, serious, computer animated
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Plot Summary:
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious, natural horror, offbeat, serious, computer animated, psychotronic
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Raptor Island (2004)
Plot Summary:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an action-packed tale of man-versus-monster starring Steven Bauer and Lorenzo Lamas.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, tense, suspense, dark, fast, psychotronic
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Age of the Dragons (2011)
Plot Summary:
Age of the Dragons is an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. Set in a medieval realm where Captain Ahab and crew hunt dragons for the vitriol that powers their world, Ishmael, a charismatic harpooner and his friend Queequeg join their quest. Ahab's adopted daughter Rachel, beautiful and tough, runs the hunting vessel. Ahab's obsession to seek revenge on a great White Dragon that slaughtered his family when he was young and left his body scarred and mauled, drives the crew deeper into the heart of darkness. In the White Dragon's lair Ahab's secrets are revealed and Rachel must choose between following him on his dark quest or escaping to a new life with Ishmael.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, epic
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Plot Summary:
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 182000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, atmospheric, offbeat, action packed, dark fantasy, predictable, action adventure, anamorphic, serious
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Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)
Plot Summary:
This Italian-Turkish co-production helmed by genre veteran Antonio Margheriti (using the pseudonym "Anthony M. Dawson") was cobbled together from a four-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television. In prehistoric times, the muscular Yor (Reb Brown in a loincloth) saves his cave-babe (Corinne Clery) from a dinosaur just before they get zapped into the future to battle bad guys in the familiar desolate wasteland. Genre stalwart John Steiner (Caligole) and the ubiquitous Luciano Pigozzi co-star with Carol Andre.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, apocalyptic, fantasy adventure, retro, prehistoric, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Dragon Crusaders (2011)
Plot Summary:
In this sword-and-sorcery extravaganza, a group of marauding Knights Templar suffers a curse that transforms them into monsters, driving them to square off against an evil dragon obsessed with annihilating the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, computer animated
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Plot Summary:
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 198000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Mexico, China
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: captivating, action adventure, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, epic, saga, tear jerker, anamorphic, perverse
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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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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Plot Summary:
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 339000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, suspense, scenic, intense, suspenseful, harsh, cult classic, anamorphic, psychotronic
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Plot Summary:
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 438000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, scenic, suspenseful, saga, exciting, apocalyptic, cult classic, tense, sweet, epic
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Jurassic Park III (2001)
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In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 337000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, predictable, saga, action adventure, intense, slasher, apocalyptic, anime
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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
Plot Summary:
Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the interlocking golden map, and they mount a quest across the seas to solve the riddle of the map.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, suspense, humorous, stylized, semi serious, cult classic, mythical, mystical, epic
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Plot Summary:
Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, he also attempts to avoid eternal damnation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 754000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, entertaining, mystical, funny, saga, visually stunning, epic, mystic, costume drama
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, feel good, absurd, semi serious, stylized, suspenseful, teen, psychotronic, sweet
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The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008)
Plot Summary:
The heroic tale of young Mathayus and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon. Mathayus faces heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny: becoming the formidable warrior king of an ancient desert empire.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: serious, epic, saga, grindhouse, cult classic, ridiculous
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, stylized, enigmatic, captivating, fantasy adventure, action adventure, light, tense, atmospheric