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Plot Summary:
Josh Gates sets off on a quest to find the Yeti, a legendary man-ape living in the high altitude of the Himalayas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, entertaining
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The Coolest Places on Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Coolest Places on Earth takes viewers on a journey of discovery to astonishing places- cities, landmarks and jaw-dropping works of nature - exploring the history and learning why it deserves to be called one of the coolest places.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Mona Lisa Mystery (2006)
Plot Summary:
Are there two versions of The Mona Lisa? Is the Mona Lisa the world knows so well the original version? Or had Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the iconic portrait?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Recon: A Filmmaker's Quest (2012)
Plot Summary:
An independent filmmaker, journeys to 12 countries across 4 continents. With a digital camera and his passion; He wrote the most amazing script and he has the vision: Let the planet and mankind directing his path. Life's wonders will be the ultimate teacher. Unexpected characters ranging from moviestars to mobsters will help guide his dream. Join the Quest !! and experience the Filmmaker's passionate essence.
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Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, underground film, captivating, independent film, offbeat
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Kibaoh Klashers (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dylan and his pals Hailey and Ollie work together to compete in Battle Blading.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Adventure
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Critical Role (2015)
Plot Summary:
Voice actor Matthew Mercer leads a group of fellow voice actors on epic Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. These familiar voices bring the audience into the full experience of D&D, allowing imaginations to soar as the characters embark on adventures.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Bump! (2004)
Plot Summary:
Bump! is the world's first gay and lesbian travel and lifestyle television series. It is unique and international in scope. In each episode Bump! presents a new gay-friendly destination in a stylish and upbeat format. Bump! travels the globe in search of fascinating gay human-interest stories. From gay tourism hot spots like Miami and London, to urban centers such as Montreal and Los Angeles, Bump! focuses its lens on gay and lesbian communities around the globe.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Fear Factor (2017)
Plot Summary:
This refresh of the breakthrough series is hosted by Ludacris and custom-created for a new generation. Filled with new stunts inspired by urban legends, popular scary movies and viral videos from today’s cultural zeitgeist, contestants will confront their fears, be pushed beyond their comfort zones and take action against some of their biggest stressors.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, disgusting, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic, non fiction
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Edge of Alaska (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hidden deep in the wilderness of Alaska is the toughest town in America: McCarthy. Only 42 residents brave the extreme conditions. They are mavericks, trailblazers, risk takers and rabble rousers, all trying to escape their past by surviving at the end of America.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining, realistic, non fiction
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Gumball 3000: The Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
A 3000 mile race from San Francisco to Miami that took place in the Spring of 2003. 150 cars and stars created all kinds of mayhem and chaos over 6 days racing from coast to coast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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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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Boundless (2022)
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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Annabelle Hooper and the Ghosts of Nantucket (2016)
Plot Summary:
Vacationing on historic Nantucket Island, a teenage mystery writer and her friends must outwit two scheming thieves to solve the secret behind a legendary ghost story.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, spooky
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In Search for Captain Grant (1986)
Plot Summary:
Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is known (37 degrees), but no longitude. The Glenarvans decide to find captain Grant.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure
Country: Soviet Union, Bulgaria
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, intense, exciting, light
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Ultimate Expedition (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nine strangers are brought together to summit a 20,000-foot mountain in the Peruvian Andes. With each step, these novice climbers will push themselves to their limits and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Chasing Monsters (2015)
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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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Egypt's Unexplained Files (2019)
Plot Summary:
Experts dive deep into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, and use cutting-edge archaeological technology to reveal the hidden truths that could potentially answer questions that have befuddled Egyptologists for generations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: History
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating
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Dino Dana: The Movie (2020)
Plot Summary:
Finds 10-year-old Dana, who sees dinosaurs in the real world, solving dino experiment #901 - where are all the kid dinosaurs? But while working on the solution, her new neighbor Mateo is dino-napped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and it's up to Dana, her sister Saara, and Mateo's brother Jadiel to finish the experiment.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Goldfathers (2012)
Plot Summary:
The new series follows three gold-mining "families" as they battle nature, machines and each other in a brutal race against time to get as much gold from the ground as possible before the icy frost of winter returns to shut them down.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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El Le'ba (2020)
Plot Summary:
The series revolves around the personality of a hotel manager named "Wassim", during which he is exposed to many comical situations with tourist destinations and others.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, enigmatic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Passage to Mars (2016)
Plot Summary:
A NASA Arctic expedition designed to be the first Martian road trip on Earth becomes an epic two-year odyssey of human adventure and survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychotronic
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Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie (2021)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the TV series of the same name, it is revealed that the husband works for the Public Security Bureau, and their marriage is a cover to keep her under surveillance. In spite of his mission, he falls in love with Nami and tries to convince her not to get involved in other people’s affairs. She is being monitored as a state-level security risk, and the bureau is unwilling to tolerate any more trouble from her. However, to save a friend, Nami runs out of the house and risks everything she has to confront the enemy. When she comes home, she finds her husband pointing a gun at her! A gunshot echoes through the quiet, upscale neighborhood…The movie picks up where the controversial ending of the drama series left off!!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Escape Through Africa (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1914, a British nurse, Anne, escapes an attack on her outpost in Africa. Hunted by a German-led war party, and with help from her uncle, an Army Captain, and local warriors, she embarks on an epic journey across the African hill country. She must balance bravery with her pacifist ideals to deliver a native girl safely to her mother, reunite with her husband, and save a neighboring outpost from a massacre.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Around the World in 80 Days (2021)
Plot Summary:
Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, costume drama, period drama
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of THE THREE MUSKETEERS and their reckless romantic friend D'Artagnan. Supernatural powers and dark mystical forces add an exciting twist to this classic tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, Canada, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, entertaining, stylized, semi serious
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Captain Alatriste (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a society, the proud and arrogant Golden Age Spain, riding blind towards the end of the Empire and in which the honor and loyalty are all, a Spanish soldier who has travelled Europe fighting under the flag of "Tercio Viejo de Cartagena", survives in the Austrias' Madrid as a mercenary swordsman hired four coppers on request. Brave, honest and loyal man, Diego Alatriste will be involved in intrigues and conspiracies of various kinds that require him to make good use of his steel.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Adventure
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, epic, serious, realistic, stylized
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Treasure Quest: Snake Island (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hidden somewhere off the southeastern coast of Brazil could lie hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of lost Incan gold. One team of treasure hunters has a new theory on where the treasure lies - a remote spot home to 1,000s of deadly vipers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Moonfleet (2013)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of J Meade Falkner’s 1898 swashbuckling novel. A young man craving adventure joins a gang of smugglers in search of Blackbeard's diamond.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, semi serious, humorous, epic, period piece, nautical, costume drama, period drama
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The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1964)
Plot Summary:
Shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, Robinson Crusoe fills his time in either building a shelter for himself, or by reminiscing about the years he spent at sea and the adventures that led him to where he is. The months roll by and the hardships become easier, especially with his herd of wild goats, the ship's dog and a friendly parrot to keep him company. But one day he comes across a strange footprint - friend or foe?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Adventure
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Rope (2021)
Plot Summary:
A team of scientists face a test of faith and survival when they discover a mysterious rope in the middle of a forest, in this riveting French mini-series.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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House of Anubis (2009)
Plot Summary:
Das Haus Anubis is a children's television series produced jointly by Belgian broadcaster Studio 100 and Nickelodeon and the first remake of Het Huis Anubis aired in The Netherlands and Belgium. Another English remake called House of Anubis aired in 2011. With a seven-figure production budget, it is one of Nickelodeon's largest in-house productions, and the first German daily soap opera specifically aimed at children. From 29 September 2009 to 4 May 2012, the show had been running both on children's channel Nick, and season 1 on music channel VIVA. Das Haus Anubis is aimed at children twelve years old and above, and is the German remake of the successful Dutch television programme, Het Huis Anubis. This 2006/2009 series was one of the most successful children's series in the Benelux countries.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining