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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 Last Adventure (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult film
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Jacquou the Rebel (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness is cruelly ended when his father is arrested, after a dispute with the arrogant Count de Nansac. With both his parents dead, Jacquou is adopted by Bonal, a kind priest, under whose influence he grows into an assured, morally upright young man. Now an adult, Jacquou has one desire. To repay the Count de Nansac for the evil he once inflicted on his parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, period drama
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The Raft of the Medusa (1990)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags:
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The Double Steps (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to feed the myth bunker ... Who is Augiéras? ¿Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, holy, thief, devil or a mixture of all?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative
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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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Missing Link (1988)
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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Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974)
Plot Summary:
Korg: 70,000 B.C. is a live-action television show on Saturday morning in the 1974 season, produced by Hanna-Barbera. It featured the adventures of a family of Neanderthals during the Ice Age. It was intended to be educational, and was based on the best then-current research about Neanderthal life, except where it had to be watered down for a young audience. A board game of the same title was produced by the US toy company Milton Bradley as a direct tie-in. Charlton Comics published a Korg comic book from May 1975 to November 1976. The series was written and drawn by Pat Boyette, and lasted for 9 issues. The American Museum of Natural History and The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History served as consultants to the series. The complete series was released by Warner Archive on December 11, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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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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Robinson Crusoe (2003)
Plot Summary:
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic
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Call of the Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
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Rugged Gold (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Antarctica (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: depressing, ironic, suspenseful, serious, realistic, epic, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Deadliest Sea (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps in the Bering Sea, but the boat and crew are soon victims of a powerful and relentless storm.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
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The Sea Wolf (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Sea-Wolf is based on a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London, about a literary critic, who is survivor of an ocean collision. He then comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic
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The Old Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense
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The Red Tent (1969)
Plot Summary:
Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007)
Plot Summary:
An unexpectedly modern take on a tale of two Viking warriors abandoned on the American coast. Warning – contains a graphic answer to the question: do Vikings sh*t in the woods?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, serious, stylized, offbeat
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To Brave Alaska (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)
Plot Summary:
Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved from discovery and certain death by Leon’s young daughter Angele, who releases him back into the wild. The Great War comes and goes, making local foundry owners the Garcins rich. Family patriarch Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru), who happens to be Angele’s godfather, has given a free lifetime’s lease of a shack in the hills to a gypsy woman (played in flashbacks by Elisa Tovati in which she’s seen, literally, having dances with wolves on stage). Her son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi), who appears to be slightly mentally handicapped, guards the wolves he’s befriended up there, especially the black pack leader he calls Carbone.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, wild
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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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Walkabout (1971)
Plot Summary:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, visual, surreal, scenic, visually stunning, meditative, thought provoking, touching, philosophical
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Black Robe (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chief's beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them upriver.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: bleak, realistic, christian film, historically accurate, sad, period piece, religious drama, colorful, thought provoking, serious
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Lord of the Flies (1963)
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Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, rough, thought provoking, stylized, bleak, psychological thriller, philosophical
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10,000 BC (2008)
Plot Summary:
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action adventure, historical drama, prehistoric, inspirational, experimental, mythical
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The Donner Party (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, mysterious, suspenseful, bleak, wild
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Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Plot Summary:
The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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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
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, epic, realistic, scenic, meditative, factual, serious, bleak, existential, spaghetti western