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Plot Summary:
The First Circumvalation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, epic
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Musashi (2003)
Plot Summary:
Orphaned when he was not yet ten, Musashi grows up skilled in the martial arts. During the Battle of Sekigahara, he fights on the side of the losing Toyotomi forces, but eludes the enemy as they hunt down the vanquished soldiers. He then spends years wandering the countryside mastering the sword. As his fame spreads throughout the nation, men seek him out to test their skills against him--most notably Sasaki Kojiro who faces Musashi in the ultimate duel at Ganryujima.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Triad Princess (2019)
Plot Summary:
After jostling her way into a gig as a celebrity bodyguard, the boisterous daughter of a powerful triad boss shakes up a TV star's life and finds love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 931
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic comedy
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Expedition Bigfoot (2019)
Plot Summary:
An elite team of Sasquatch specialists journey into the unforgiving Oregon wilderness in search of Bigfoot. The three-week expedition, based on science and expertise, may finally pull the elusive beast out of the pages of legend and lore and into reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Chasing Monsters (2015)
Plot Summary:
From giant barracudas to 500lb stingrays, CHASING MONSTERS takes viewers on a high adrenaline quest to seek out the world's most colossal underwater creatures in remote and dangerous corners of the planet. Hosted by extreme angler and adventurer Cyril Chauquet, this high-stakes series explores the elusive monster fish living in the hidden depths of the oceans, lakes, and rivers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, disturbing, factual, entertaining
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The Trusted Confidant (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout 2007. The four characters from left to right are wind, woods, fire, and mountain. The title is a reference to the war banner used by Takeda Shingen, which in turn was taken from Sun Tzu's The Art of War. It means "Swift as the Wind, Silent as a Forest, Fierce as Fire and Immovable as a Mountain.".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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To the Ends of the Earth (2005)
Plot Summary:
From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 267 min
Plot tags: sincere, epic, semi serious, captivating, road movie, period piece, realistic, nautical, costume drama, period drama
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Gold (2017)
Plot Summary:
Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing
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Inés of My Soul (2020)
Plot Summary:
Romantic historical drama based on the true story of the first woman "conquistador" who went to the South American land that would become Chile, and helped to form the city of Santiago.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama, historical drama, historical romance, period drama
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Human, Space, Time and Human (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. At first the aggressive behaviour of the thugs and their leader is directed at the first class passengers, but then more and more indiscriminately against the rest of those on board. Rape is followed by murder and it’s not long before the first of numerous and increasingly brutal mutinies takes place.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Veritas: The Quest (2003)
Plot Summary:
Veritas: The Quest is a television program that aired in 2003. It follows a rebellious but intelligent teenager, Nikko Zond, discovering that his father Solomon's profession is much more mystical and adventurous than he previously thought. Solomon and his team search for the answers to some of the world's mysteries, a quest began because of the mysterious disappearance of Nikko's mother during an archaeological dig. Thus begins Nikko's fantastical journey into an Indiana Jones-style adventure with his father and his colleagues in trying to follow in his mother's footsteps to discover what strange secrets she was uncovering.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, cliffhanger
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Reef Doctors (2013)
Plot Summary:
Running the remote Hope Island Clinic, Sam Stewart is an accomplished doctor, who with her team, looks after the residents of all the neighbouring islands, as well as the holidaymakers and thrill seekers who visit the area. Not only a GP, Sam is a single mother with a free spirit and a determination – who has an unusual hobby: venom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean (2021)
Plot Summary:
Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean will take viewers on a historic journey across the Ottoman Empire based on the life of 16th-century Ottoman admiral "Barbaros" Hayreddin Pasha and the adventures of four brothers who become seafarers. The drama series retells this adventure through the stories of four brothers; Ishak, Oruc, Hizir, and Ilyas, fighting high tides and the secrets of the seas. It focuses on their pursuit of a holy secret with the help of Master Suleyman, and during the course of their journey, they make enemies in, Pietro; the Pope's hand reaching out to the Mediterranean who is also pursuing the secret and organizes an attack against their ship. But this doesn't stop the brothers and they continue their original quest to find the holy secret all the while fighting their enemies at high tides.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, nautical
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The North Water (2021)
Plot Summary:
Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, anime, existential, nautical, historical drama
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Sea Wolf (2009)
Plot Summary:
A young man is taken aboard a seal-hunting vessel helmed by the cruel captain Wolf Larsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting, serious
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Emperor of the Sea (2004)
Plot Summary:
Emperor of the Sea is a South Korean television drama series directed by Kang Il-soo and Kang Byung-taek and starring Choi Soo-jong, Chae Shi-ra, Song Il-gook and Soo Ae. It aired on KBS2 from November 24, 2004 to May 25, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:50 for 51 episodes. The historical drama is based on Choi In-ho's novel of the same title, which depicts the life of Jang Bogo, who rises from a lowly slave to a powerful maritime figure who dominated the East Asia seas and international trade during the Unified Silla Dynasty. The drama was received extremely well, holding the number one spot in the ratings for majority of the weeks it aired. It was also exported to eight countries earning approximately US$1.8 million in profits. The filming set in Wando County, South Jeolla Province also became a tourist attraction.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, sageuk, epic
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Keep Breathing (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a small plane crashes in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, a lone woman must battle the elements and odds to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blue Skin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Summer is almost over and Germán invites his friends for a few days of fun, sun and sex on his luxurious yacht. The dream vacation quickly turns into a night when the group of friends go for a swim and forget to attach the ladder to the side of the boat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)
Plot Summary:
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, UK, Spain, Germany
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, stylized, tense, captivating, disturbing, costume drama, epic, period drama, vintage
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Moby Dick (2011)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, nautical, fairy tale, stylized, period drama
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Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
Plot Summary:
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu. Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Charles, Emperor King (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Charles I or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most powerful men Europe has met, the ruler of a empire as great in size as in diversity. As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it can be seen how the heir to the crowns of Germany, Burgundy, the Netherlands, the Free County, Artois, Nevers and Rethel, of the territories of the Crown of Aragon and its related Italian territories, and of the territories of the Catholic Monarchs in Castile, North Africa and the Americas, matures as a statesman and gets stronger in face of menaces around him and good and bad advice from his counselors.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, factual, tense, captivating, historical drama, erotic, sensual, telenovela
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Conquistadores: Adventum (2017)
Plot Summary:
Narrates faithfully the first 30 years of America's discovery and conquer, from Colon's departure from Spain in 1492 until Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first travel around the world in 1522.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: factual, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama, humorous, fun
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Christopher Columbus (1985)
Plot Summary:
The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money funded from the monarchy of Spain, sailed to the unknown West to find Asia in 1492, and instead found a 'New World' of the modern day West Indies to South America, and then follows his later years in his 50's as a tired, ailing man whose dreams of exploration and discovery to which he passed onto his son, and other followers, just before his death in 1506.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, USA
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, factual, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama, nautical
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Secret History of Xiaozhuang (2002)
Plot Summary:
Xiaozhuang Mishi, also known as Xiaozhuang Epic, is a 2003 Chinese television series produced by You Xiaogang. The series is the first instalment in a series of four television series about the early history of the Qing Dynasty. It was followed by Huang Taizi Mishi, Taizu Mishi and Secret History of Kangxi, all of which were also produced by You Xiaogang.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Adi: Zehra (2018)
Plot Summary:
Zehra comes to the world as the daughter of a conservative Turkish family in Frankfurt. The incredible story of Zehra, starting at the home of the poor and enthusiastic family in Germany, and continuing with a rich family of Istanbul with secrets and a terrible crime. The story is full of emotions of two mother praying for the same person. And Zehra then start living in Istanbul but there are secrets waiting in Istanbul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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CSI: Crime Scene Talks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenactments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information in order to help build evidences. However, Itomura often does not care about the scientific approach and instead pays a great deal of attention to the things that the victims always carried with them or treasured. And he focuses on these things because they usually carry the victim’s dying wishes, understanding that last message not only helps solve the cases but also brings closure to the depressed family of victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wrong Side of the Tracks (2021)
Plot Summary:
When his teenage granddaughter falls victim to the drug dealers overtaking his neighborhood, a fed-up war veteran takes matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sinbad (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sinbad accidentally kills the son of the powerful Lord Akbari in a fist fight. As recompense for the blood debt, Sinbad's brother is killed in front of his eyes. Sinbad escapes, but his grandmother uses a magic talisman to curse him for the death of his brother. The curse prevents Sinbad from staying on land for more than one day; if he tarries the talisman will choke him to death. This prohibition against remaining on land leads to a life of adventure at sea that holds many wonders. Sinbad is unaware that he is still being hunted by Lord Akbari, who does not consider Sinbad's brother's death as sufficient payment of the blood debt.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, light, disturbing, semi serious, tense, captivating, costume drama, epic
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The Boat (2011)
Plot Summary:
A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and aware that we only have each other, the ship will become their only home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, tense, captivating, serious, apocalyptic, nautical, contemplative
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One Boat One World (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Dreamland of the Ocean cruise can accommodate 6000 guests and staff members, it is like a city in the sea. Visitors' joys and sorrows and staff members' struggles are presented in the same voyage. Security officer Ding Kai and tour leader Tian Yue meet and fall in love, colliding with travelers, colleagues and relatives.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, nautical