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Plot Summary:
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
Plot Summary:
Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accept a six-month research post in the Antarctic, making the first detailed study of a penguin colony, changes all that... Living in Shackleton’s derelict hut, Forbush is alone at the frozen edge of the world, his only links to civilisation a two-way radio and letters to his elusive, would-be girlfriend, Tara, in London. Through an often ferocious winter in the company of the penguins, he grows increasingly attached to his hardy, endearing subjects – learning profound lessons in endurance and humility.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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
Plot tags:
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Africa Express (1975)
Plot Summary:
John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. Ursula Andress is Madeleine Cooper, the lady of mystery he runs into as she flees from the hunter played by Jack Palance.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Adventure
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
Plot Summary:
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, uplifting, touching, offbeat, serious, realistic, learning
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Born Free: A New Adventure (1996)
Plot Summary:
Another thrilling adventure for Elsa the lioness as she works her magic on two teenagers struggling with changes in their life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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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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Africa (1999)
Plot Summary:
While in South Africa a troubled fashion model must struggle to survive after a car accident leaves her stranded in the African bush. When she wakes up, she fights her way through the wilderness, struggling to survive the harsh conditions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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To Walk with Lions (1999)
Plot Summary:
Drama based loosely on the final years of Kenya game warden and lion-raiser George Adamson's life. An unofficial sequel to 'Born Free' (1966) and 'Living Free' (1972), which also dramatised the life of Adamson, this film picks up the life of George (Richard Harris) on the African wildlife preserve he runs with the help of his brother Terrence (Ian Bannen). When drifter Tony Fitzjohn (John Michie) arrives to work for the old men he initially takes poorly to the task, almost savaged by a lion on his first day and on the verge of leaving when he hears that his predecessor was killed in a similar incident. The arrival of a lion cub that Fitzjohn must care for and raise changes everything. Soon he finds himself helping the brothers in their fight to save lions - and, ultimately, the park itself - from the poachers, soldiers and corrupt government officials that threaten them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Kenya
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, serious, realistic
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Jungle Erotic (1970)
Plot Summary:
Young women have an adventure in the African jungle - where they are harassed by gentle men, and wild monkeys.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Lost in Africa (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young American and a young English woman are kidnapped by a tribe in Africa. They manage to escape but the leader of the tribe is killed in the process. There's a whole jungle between them and civilization and chief's son wants revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Living Free (1972)
Plot Summary:
When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, wild
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Sheena (1984)
Plot Summary:
Sheena's white parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, epic, sex comedy, anamorphic, cult classic, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic, erotic
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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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The Happy Valley (1986)
Plot Summary:
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Plot Summary:
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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The 7th Dawn (1964)
Plot Summary:
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
Plot Summary:
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, emotional, semi serious, cult film
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Cheetah (1989)
Plot Summary:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to race it against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue the cheetah.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, clever, touching, unusual plot structure, sweet, melancholic, twist ending
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The Earthling (1980)
Plot Summary:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, serious, surreal, independent film
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White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, melancholic, talky, exciting, serious, touching, realistic, meta, thought provoking, bleak
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Plot Summary:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama, visual, fairy tale, gothic horror, period piece, anthropological
Similar in 81%
Born Free (1966)
Plot Summary:
Born Free (1966) is an Open Road Films Ltd./Columbia Pictures feature film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, a real-life couple who raised an orphaned lion cub to adulthood, and released her into the wilds of Kenya.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, non fiction, uplifting, feel good, serious, realistic, crying, light
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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic, erotic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, satirical
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Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone (1997)
Plot Summary:
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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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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The Naked Prey (1965)
Plot Summary:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, retro, fast paced, independent film, realistic, psychotronic
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Duma (2005)
Plot Summary:
An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational, sad, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious, romantic
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic, dramatic, natural horror, atmospheric, anamorphic, serious