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Plot Summary:
A team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a "great flying serpent of death." As days turn to weeks, Susan Jordan, the daughter of the professor leading the expedition, assembles a team to rescue her father and his colleagues from the clutches of the ancient Aztec warriors and their horrible serpent god.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
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Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, serious, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, arthurian, psychotronic
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Pegasus Vs. Chimera (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two mythological creatures battle each other.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, computer animated
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WitchSlayer Gretl (2012)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, offbeat
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Goblin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Every Halloween, a small hamlet in the deep woods is visited by a fierce goblin, intent on capturing infants and brutally murdering anyone in it's path.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, tense, captivating, demonic, serious, suspenseful, computer animated
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The Fallen Ones (2005)
Plot Summary:
An archaeologist finds the mummified remains of a giant--the offspring of a Fallen Angel and a human woman. Now he has to stop the terror he has unleashed.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, captivating, dark, semi serious, fast
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Ragnarok (2013)
Plot Summary:
Archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen discovers that the Oseberg ship hides a secret from the Viking Age. Along with his two children put Sigurd out on a quest to find the truth. The mystery leads them into "No Man's Land" between Norway and Russia where no man traveling in modern times. Old runes take on new meaning when the secret they uncover is more frightening than anyone could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, action adventure, tense, surreal, scenic, anime
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Adventure Inc. (2002)
Plot Summary:
Adventure Inc. is a dramatised adventure television series produced primarily in Canada which aired from 30 September 2002 to 12 May 2003. It was a co-production of Fireworks Entertainment, Tribune Entertainment, M6, Amy International, and Tele München. The series premise was inspired by the work of modern-day explorer Barry Clifford. Distribution was by syndication throughout the United States and by Global in Canada. Following its only season, the episodes were aired in Canada on Space.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK, France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized, fast
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Aladdin and the Death Lamp (2012)
Plot Summary:
Aladdin the adventurer and his friend Ali accidentally uncover a lamp that contains a genie. But unlike the story we know, this genie does not grant three wonderful wishes. This genie destroys everything in its way by turning the keeper’s thoughts into living nightmares. After witnessing the death of his fellow adventurers when the genie is released, Aladdin and surviving friend Ali turn to the village elder to uncover the history of the lamp, only to find the evil Shahir has been following them, hoping to take hold of the lamp and fulfill his own diabolical plans to have unlimited power. destroy their friend along with the ring.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 618
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, disturbing, light, melancholic
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El Dorado (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Search for El Dorado is as follows: After his friend dies in an explosion, Jack Wilder embarks on an expedition to find The Golden Calendar, which in turn leads him on an action-packed journey filled with adventure to find El Dorado, the mythical City of Gold in South America.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating
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Dragon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A catastrophic volcanic eruption releases ancient dragon-like creatures on the surrounding areas. Scientists believe this could start a chain reaction of volcanic eruptions giving way to a global Dragon Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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She (1965)
Plot Summary:
The lost city of Kuma is ruled by the cruel, arrogant, beautiful queen, Ayesha, gifted with eternal life. She lures Leo Vincey into her world, seeing in him the reincarnation of the lover she long ago murdered in a fit of violent jealousy. Against all advice Leo is determined to stay and Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the flame of eternal youth... with disastrous consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Jabberwock (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn of an imminent attack by a winged creature with the body of a dragon the head of a gruesome insect and deadly claws. As the beast descends upon the peaceful town brash Alec draws his sword and the villagers arm themselves. Now the brothers must stand together to save their home and the people they love.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, serious
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King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic
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Hellhounds (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, mythical, scary, serious, psychotronic
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Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - said to be guarded by the very beast that murdered his family. As they come face to face with the killer Kraken, they must also battle a ruthless crime lord, who will stop at nothing to seize the coveted treasure for himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, natural horror, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, independent film, computer animated
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Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)
Plot Summary:
Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
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Mandrake (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychotronic
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Manticore (2005)
Plot Summary:
Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic
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Wolvesbayne (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make matters worse, it seems the vampires are having a civil war with a clan breaking from the others in a quest to return the vampire goddess back to power.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, gothic, exciting, serious, fast
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Death Factory (2014)
Plot Summary:
A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, scary
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The Demon's Rook (2013)
Plot Summary:
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
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, tense, rough, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Plot Summary:
King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey known as The Isle of the Mists. Here the Warrior King and his men face the Goddess of the Underworld and her winged horrific creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, fairy tale, serious, computer animated
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Sea Wolf: The Pirate's Curse (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Danger, Sea of Desire.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, serious, suspenseful
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The Treasure Hunter (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the northwest desert where countless prosperous dynasties have flourished and fallen, there is rumor of a treasure of unbelievable riches buried among it. A group of mysterious guardians have been guarding the map to the location of the treasure until a fierce rivalry erupted. A notorious international crime group, The Company hunted down the map keeper and before they managed to secure the map, the keeper passed the map to a young chivalrous man Ciao Fei. Ciao Fei was forced to give up the map to save the live of his mentor’s daughter Lan Ting. Teaming up with Hua Ding Bang and Lan Ting they embark on a dangerous journey to recover the map and fight to protect the ancient treasure.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, melancholic, fast
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Sinbad and the Minotaur (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sinbad, armed with rumors of ancient gold, finds himself sneaking into the desert camp of the evil sorcerer Al-Jibar. Hidden among the many relics is an ivory scroll case containing the logs of the pirate Captain Minos, which will lead Sinbad to the golden head of the Colossus of Rhodes.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: stylized, semi serious, captivating, exciting, psychotronic, campy
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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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The Librarians (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of librarians set off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts. Based on the series of "The Librarian" movies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, breathtaking, humorous, exciting, anime, mythical
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Dragonfyre (2013)
Plot Summary:
A battle-weary ex-Special Forces Operative buys a ranch in remote American West to flee from the world, and encounters a strange series of trespassers, including a beautiful elf princess and a Native American mystic and Orcs. When the Orcs invade his property, John must give up his isolation to become a hero, before the Orcs unleash their dragon god on our world.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, romantic, scenic
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Carny (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a traveling carnival comes to a rural Nebraska town, the caged attraction everyone is talking about is the alleged Jersey Devil. When the beast escapes, tearing the citizens to shreds, local sheriff Sam Atlas steps up to form a tracking team. But the carnivorous fugitive is only one of Sam’s problems. The local pastor, enraged by the death of his son at the hands of the beast, has plans for igniting his own brand of hellfire and revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, mythical, serious, psychotronic