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Plot Summary:
A group of middle school friends go on the hunt for treasure after finding a skeleton in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
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Skydog (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a high school senior working on his pilot’s license rescues a dog named Oreo, he finds out his mom is a CIA agent who’s been captured. He teams up with Oreo and a new friend to find his mother and uncover double agents inside the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Ghost Ship (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Goonies have got nothing on these adventure seeking kids! When a group of teens stumble across a mysterious treasure map, the search is on to find a lost pirate ship that's filled with treasure. Though they soon discover a secret desert tunnel that will lead directly to the ship, the teens hadn't counted on a pair of Chinese strangers determined to claim the bounty at any cost. Making the acquaintance of an old hermit who claims to have been a member of the crew, the kids must overcome a series of deadly obstacles and fierce adversaries if they are to claim the elusive lost treasure and escape with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Lost on Mars (2002)
Plot Summary:
Lost on Mars is a science fiction movie directed by Eric Shook. The first ship designed to go to Mars is scheduled for a routine planetary space exploration. The mission is drastically changed once Earth receives a strange signal transmitted by a probe on Mars. The Sequel to Lost on mars is" Empire of Danger".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Sugar Creek Gang: Secret Hideout (2005)
Plot Summary:
This is the fourth film in The Sugar Creek Gang series. The gang races through the swamp only to stumble upon previously unexplored territory that leads them right into the middle of a mystery. As if the puzzling new discoveries aren't enough, Poetry's lamb causes mischief in the schoolhouse and gets everyone into hot water with Miss Lilly. When things calm down, the gang plans an overnight stay in a cave near the cemetery, but Tom Till has been keeping a secret that is sure to shake things up. Matters get even more interesting when Old Man Paddler appears and reveals the truth behind the gang's secret hideout! Look for the other films in the five part Sugar Creek Gang DVD series to complete your collection: Swamp Robber, The Great Canoe Fish, Revival Villains, and Teacher Trouble.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Stella und der Stern des Orients (2008)
Plot Summary:
In 2005, on New Year's Eve, little Stella visits her grandma in the family home. Unknowingly, she activates a time travel machine and is transported into the year 1905, where she meets some long gone relatives when they were her age.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965)
Plot Summary:
Kara Ben-Nemsi, friends and rescuers set out to free a young relative of the guardian of the treasure of the Chaldaeans (Christian sect), who is captured for that fabulous ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Ian Levine: Downtime Redux (2013)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in deep space, Someone is playing a manipulative game of chess between The Doctors former companions and his enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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The Time Tunnel (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Sky Pirates (1986)
Plot Summary:
Air force Lieutenant Harris starts for a flight to Boa Boa, on board Reverend Mitchell with a box containing a part of a top-secret extraterrestrial key. They get lost in a supernatural storm and find themselves after an emergency landing in kind of a Bermuda triangle, 5,000 miles off their course. Home again, no one believes Harris' story, and his crew suspiciously denies it too. Harris is thrown in jail, but manages to escape. Together with Mitchell's daughter he seeks the lost part of the key and its secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Dinosaur Island (2014)
Plot Summary:
The adventure begins when Lucas, a 13 year old boy, embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of life, Lucas hears a radio broadcast in the distance and is drawn into the jungle where he encounters a beautiful young girl who claims to have come from the 1950s. Together they set out on a quest to get home all the while uncovering secrets that will forever change the future.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, disturbing, colorful, enigmatic, disgusting, colourful
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Lilac Ball (1988)
Plot Summary:
Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who's just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other. Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose. The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 394
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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Aporia (2023)
Plot Summary:
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Treasure of Pirate's Point (1999)
Plot Summary:
Ahoy Maties! There's a treasure chest of gold buried on Pirate's Point. When the living descendant of legendary pirate Captain Vane lets Ray in on the secret, there's mutiny in the town. Now, Ray and his friends are on a mission to recover the loot and foil an evil plan. In the meantime they learn that friendship is the most precious treasure of all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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The Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island (1999)
Plot Summary:
Danny Quinn (Seth Bernard) lives with one great dream... he wants to prove his late father was right about a pirate treasure in the depths of Lake Michigan.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Where Time Began (1977)
Plot Summary:
Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also prehistoric animals like some dinosaurs,.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, psychotronic
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The Last Treasure Hunt (2016)
Plot Summary:
Adventure - A heartfelt story of an estranged brother and sister who must put aside their differences in order to solve an elaborate treasure hunt, left for them in the will of their eccentric father.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996)
Plot Summary:
The globe trotting trip that Henry Jones, Jr. sets out on in the early 1900s next takes him and his family to Russia. A few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Both are running away to seek a simpler life. They cross the countryside, encountering colorful Gypsies and avoiding fierce Imperial Cossack troops. The hardships of the journey make Indy homesick, but he won't soon forget his journey with the stubborn old man. Indy's next destination is Greece, where his mother Anna realizes that father and son need to spend more time together.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)
Plot Summary:
Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl who lives on a space station in the year 2049, gets into some trouble and is banished to Earth. With help from some Earth friends she must find her way back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, teen, humorous, not serious, whimsical
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The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Plot Summary:
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, suspense, epic fantasy
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Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
Plot Summary:
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dieselpunk, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, fast, independent film, cult film
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TimeCrafters: The Treasure of Pirate's Cove (2020)
Plot Summary:
While searching for lost treasure, time traveling pirates end up in the modern day and do battle with unlikely foes: a group of kids with the latest in techy gadgetry.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Chapter 1, Planet of the Dino-Knights (1995)
Plot Summary:
Josh Kirby Time Warrior Chapter 1 Planet of the Dino-Knights: In the 25th century mankind has found a device capable of destroying the universe. Irwin 1138 separates the Nullifier into 6 pieces which he scatters throughout time. When the evil Dr. Zoetrope goes after the pieces, Irwin 1138 must try to stop him, with the help of a 20th century teenager, Josh Kirby, and a half-human warrior named Azabeth Siege. The race is on.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Time Toys (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of middle school kids stumble upon a chest full of incredible toys from the future. The discovery takes them on an adventure using their newfound toys to save their neighborhood and ultimately the world from a maniacal corporate madman. In the process, these "loser" kids learn they have the qualities they thought they were lacking all along.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, exciting, funny, entertaining, disturbing
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Captain Nova (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing, inspirational
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The Treasure of the White Falcons (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three friends find a treasure map from the mysterious 'White Falcons', a juvenile gang whose leader disappeared ten years before.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Family, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Visitor from the Future (1984)
Plot Summary:
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and later try to steal a device called a "Mielophone" (which can read thoughts) from Alisa Seleznyova - a girl that performs experiments with this device and animals. Kolya manages to save the device from the pirates and brings it back to the 20th century. But both pirates and Alisa get there too. Alisa knows where Kolya studies but doesn't know what he looks like. Pirates saw Kolya, but don't know anything about him. Written by Boris Shafir.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: light, clever, entertaining, apocalyptic, exciting
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Minutemen (2008)
Plot Summary:
When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, scenic, teen, semi serious, fun
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The Time Machine (1978)
Plot Summary:
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Treasure Island (1972)
Plot Summary:
Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family
Country: UK, France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Finding 'Ohana (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two Brooklyn siblings' summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, funny, captivating, entertaining, exciting, teen comedy