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Plot Summary:
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: stylized, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, crime thriller
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Bear Island (1979)
Plot Summary:
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, bilingual
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980)
Plot Summary:
After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Legend of the Mummy (1998)
Plot Summary:
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source of the ghoul's power and find a way to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, gothic, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, weird
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Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre (2001)
Plot Summary:
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, detective
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Sands of Oblivion (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of a prop from the 1923 movie The Ten Commandments that was actually an authentic artifact from antiquity with cursed powers. In the modern day these resurface leading to murder and mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, epic
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The Only Witness (2002)
Plot Summary:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, bleak
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Max Is Missing (1995)
Plot Summary:
A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tomb raiders.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Da Vinci Treasure (2006)
Plot Summary:
An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, enigmatic, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Mother Lode (1982)
Plot Summary:
A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades searching the mountain caves for a chamber of long lost gold. He is prepared to do anything - including murder - to keep his gold for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Plot Summary:
When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent (Cheryl Campbell) teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger (James Warwick) to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tense, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station, Iris wavers in the scorching heat and constant jostle of passengers, fainting suddenly on the platform. She wakes in time to be rushed onto the train, but with a pounding head and a feeling of being almost in a dream. Whilst in this malaise she is comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, but when Iris falls asleep she awakes to find Miss Froy has gone and her fellow passengers denying she ever existed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, absurd, period piece, mind bending, realistic
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The Reeds (2010)
Plot Summary:
A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, grindhouse, independent film
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Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, rough, mind bending, neo noir
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Murder on the Home Front (2013)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, period piece, clever, serious, suspenseful
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The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)
Plot Summary:
The scene of the crime is Whitechapel, the same London district notorious for the recent attacks of Jack the Ripper. Three monks are found dead, the apparent victims of a vampire - now, someone else is out for blood. Or is it something else? As bizarre events unfold, the answer is left to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to find.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, gothic, realistic, detective
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Adventures of Arsene Lupin (2004)
Plot Summary:
As the daring thief Arsène Lupin (Duris) ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, exciting, captivating, period drama
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The Sign of Four (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance; this leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective, realistic, exciting, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking, intellectual
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The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002)
Plot Summary:
STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including SHARON, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend DAN is murdered, he goes into hiding.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious
Similar in 88%
The Deep (1977)
Plot Summary:
A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, scenic, scary, slasher, action thriller, serious, realistic
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The Vivero Letter (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life -- No one knows the secrets of his death. All that is about to change.Free -spirited archaeologist Danny Fremont (Casper Van Dien, Sleepy Hollow) is certain that if found, King Tut's Emerald Tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair (Jonathan Hyde, Titanic), a member of a secret society who wants the tablet to harness unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, suspense, psychotronic
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Blue (2009)
Plot Summary:
Blue is set in the breath taking sun soaked white sand beaches of Bahamas. Sagar is an excellent deep sea diver who dreams of getting his own new boat someday while his friend Aarav is a rich arrogant businessman, whose ego is much larger than the big boats that he owns. The conflict between these two sparring friends is the conflict between the rich & the poor, Moral & Immoral, and greed & honor.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Plot Summary:
When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 453000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Malta, France, UK
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, clever, mind bending, serious, entertaining, intellectual, informative, intense
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Survival Quest (1988)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, retro, independent film, realistic
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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 Ninth Gate (1999)
Plot Summary:
An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 195000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark, satanic, psychological, atmospheric, neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, twist ending, suspense
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The Mummy Returns (2001)
Plot Summary:
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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National Treasure (2004)
Plot Summary:
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 350000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, clever, suspense, scenic, action adventure, action packed, atmospheric, inspirational, sincere
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The Mummy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for all eternity as a punishment for a forbidden love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 453000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, entertaining, funny, suspense, semi serious, cult classic, horror comedy, dieselpunk, humorous
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Plot Summary:
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: entertaining, serious, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure, clever, slasher, saga, patriotic, cult classic