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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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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, retro, classic horror, natural horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
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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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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 89 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
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Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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The Mysterious Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 645
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Duration: 96 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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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
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Hydra (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
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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
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Plot tags: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro, classic horror, natural horror, serious, psychotronic, light
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A young boy named Roscoe finds a portal to another world where he is taught magic by an elder demon known as Dimwos. Dimwos raises the boy into manhood, revealing to him many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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At the Earth's Core (1976)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 90 min
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Mysterious Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Duration: 84 min
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
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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