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Plot Summary:
Charlotte (Catherine Deneuve) flies to East-Africa in order to build a touristic center near the Lake Williams where the pygmys live. Here she meets her husband Victor (Philippe Noiret), a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to built this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
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A Fountain for Susan (1999)
Plot Summary:
African Ibrahim Maiga is a renowned R&B artist, who lives in Europe. One day he receives a letter from his father, the chief of Ibrahim's tribe that he must marry Nene. She has been married off to him since their childhood. Ibrahim dislikes the idea and he asks his fan Zuzana to accompany him to Africa as his supposed wife, so the wedding can be cancelled. Things are getting difficult when the chief doesn't want to cancel the wedding and Zuzana falls in love with Michael, a journalist who is writing a report about Ibrahim's tribe.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Finding Lenny (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Everything happens for a reason" - on his 50th birthday, Lenny Vincent is fired from his job as a sports writer for a daily newspaper, his wife of 19 years leaves him for a much younger man and he and his best friend Dave are caught in a gang heist at a restaurant. He ends up being hi-jacked by the gang and dumped in a rural village. Here he befriends the local chief and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime; helping to reunite the chief's warring sons, fighting a money grabbing property company from turning the chief's land into a golf course, coaching the village soccer team and ultimately.. finding himself!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
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Okafor's Law (2016)
Plot Summary:
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Black Decameron (1972)
Plot Summary:
Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king by devious endurance tests of the pretendants; (2) "The Punished Lovers", in which a fake blind husband is 'cured' after having the culprits banished from the tribe; (3) "The Old Prostitute" who manages to take revenge from all the village dignitaries who wrongfully condemned her brother; (4) "The Endless Search" that does not end until a hunter finds his perfect end-game; (5) "The Crazy Woman" whose illness was not exactly of the mind, but of an (almost) insatiable lust.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Going Bananas (1987)
Plot Summary:
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, eighties, neo screwball comedy
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The Southern Star (1969)
Plot Summary:
Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 104 min
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The Pink Jungle (1968)
Plot Summary:
A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, become involved in the search for a lost diamond mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Great Elephant Escape (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police and lions on a journey they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Ivory Hunters (1990)
Plot Summary:
Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Carry on Up the Jungle (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Carry On team send up the Tarzan tradition in great style. Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp, and then the party is captured by an all female tribe from Aphrodisia... Written by Simon N. McIntosh-Smit.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, parody, offbeat, humorous, not serious, independent film, campy
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Tusks (1988)
Plot Summary:
Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidden ivory trade only to lock horns with new game warden and former friend Mark Smith, whose testimony years before helped put Singh away.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Terrible Jungle (2020)
Plot Summary:
French Guyana, not so long ago. Eliott, a young and naive anthropology researcher, goes on an expedition to study the Otopis, a mysterious tribe from the Amazon rainforest. It is also an opportunity for him to get away from the grip of his possessive mother, Chantal de Bellabre, an ethnologist hated by the profession for her biased and cold-hearted practices. Arriving in the forest Elliot realizes the Otopis are not the “good savages” he had imagined. Alcoholic, violent, crooked: they will turn his expedition into real hell in the jungle. Fortunately, Chantal, consumed by remorse and worried about her son, decides to abandon her own expedition and goes looking for him in the jungle, with the help of the not so helpful Lieutenant-Commander Raspailles and his men.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, absurd, idiotic
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Mister Moses (1965)
Plot Summary:
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Amazon (2000)
Plot Summary:
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, entertaining
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A Matter of Resistance (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Luana, the Girl Tarzan (1968)
Plot Summary:
A girl searching a forbidding jungle for her missing father stumbles upon a savage jungle girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exotic
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Escape from Angola (1976)
Plot Summary:
Adventure - Moving to the unspoiled terrain of Africa was a risk the Mallory family survived. This family of animal trainers soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives after their truck breaks down deep in the African bush. They split up to search for help, only to find themselves face to face with some of the most dangerous wild animals in Africa: crocodiles, cobras and other deadly beasts. - Stan Brock, Anne Collings, Steven Tors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Karzan, Jungle Lord (1972)
Plot Summary:
Financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, an expedition is mounted to find and capture a jungle-man who lives in Africa.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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An Elephant's Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lost orphan boy and a giant elephant team up to take down an elephant poaching syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Adventure
Country: Canada, South Africa
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Mistress of the Apes (1979)
Plot Summary:
Jenny Neumann takes a group of men into the jungles of Kenya to look for her husband, and instead finds a tribe of caveman-looking "Near-Men" who all seem terribly attracted to her beautiful blond hair.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film
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Jaguar (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shaman from the South American rain forest visits France for a public relations campaign. In a hotel's elevator in Paris he meets a French good-for-nothing named Perrin he's fascinated with. He follows Perrin to his flat and although Perrin is not very enthusiastic about so much interest in his person, he lets the shaman spend the night in his flat. After an official meeting on the next day being part of the PR campaign the shaman suffers from a heart attack. Hardly being able to speak and laying in a hospital bed he demands to see Perrin. The latter is not very interested in meeting the shaman again. However it looks like it is to late for animosities as the shaman and Perrin seem to be tied mentally somehow since they've met in the elevator.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, tense, touching, humorous, psychotronic
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The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ken Manchester (Brant von Hoffman) and his beautiful rich wife Barbara Manchester (Kathy Shower) wire the drunk adventurer Buck Malone (David Keith) to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. However, the true purpose of the expedition was not just hunting.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Sri Lanka, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, independent film, spoof, parody
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The Last Safari (1967)
Plot Summary:
A hunter stalks a killer elephant.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965)
Plot Summary:
When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact that it is cross eyed and therefore cannot hunt. The Lion is taken back to the study center and is soon adopted by the vet's daughter. Meanwhile, a dangerous criminal is planning to capture young Gorillas and sell them on the black market.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical despot.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, intellectual, cult classic, slapstick, independent film, mockumentary, spectacular
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Little Indian, Big City (1994)
Plot Summary:
Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, sweet, melancholic, splatter
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The Savage (1975)
Plot Summary:
Caracas, Venezuela. Just after her engagement with Vittorio, Nelly runs away from him. As he pursued her, she looks for help to Martin, a French middle-aged man she met by accident. He helps her to escape and drives her to the airport and gives her a plane ticket to Paris. Then he thinks he can go back to his peaceful lonely life on his island. Of course, he is wrong and will be bothered again by Nelly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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A Far Off Place (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scenic, touching, exciting, inspirational, atmospheric, sad, poignant, anamorphic, serious, gloomy
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Hatari! (1962)
Plot Summary:
A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos. Will the arrival of a female wildlife photographer change their ways?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, black and white, feel good, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, tense, funny, light
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A Perfect Plan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, humorous, semi serious, sweet, exciting, realistic, crying