Best tv shows like Prehistoric Park
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Plot Summary:
A BBC miniseries about Nigel Marvin's quest to bring the extinct dinosaurs through time to Prehistoric Park.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Documentary, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, educational, nature documentary, colorful, prehistoric, computer animated, colourful
Best tv shows and movies like Prehistoric Park (2006):
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Wonders of the Monsoon (2014)
Plot Summary:
The wildlife and cultures of southern Asia have been shaped by one of the greatest phenomena on Earth: the mighty monsoon winds that sweep across this vast region, turning drought into deluge. All life – human and animal – is dominated by this rampaging weather system. From the northern shores of Australia to the highest peaks of the Himalayas and the wind-blown deserts of northern India to the lush equatorial forests of Borneo, this series makes an exhilarating journey through the lands of the monsoon. Along the way, it offers a taste of the variety and colour of the different regions’ most extraordinary wildlife and cultures and the way they cope with the tumultuous weather. This is the story of a relationship between humans and nature that has grown across thousands of years – all living in the shadow of the monsoon.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Documentary
Country:
Duration:
Plot tags: nature documentary, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds (1977)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: natural horror, scary, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
Plot Summary:
A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet, and blood-thirsty buggers at that. The crew hopes to be found and rescued, but they have to struggle to survive until then.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, retro, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Land of the Lost (1974)
Plot Summary:
Rick Marshall and his children Will and Holly were on a weekend expedition rafting trough a river when an enormous earthquake diverts them to an eclectic alien world inhabited by dinosaurs, chimpanzee-like cavemen called Pakuni, and aggressive, humanoid creatures called Sleestak.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, stylized, semi serious, epic fantasy, vintage, weird
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Dinotopia (2002)
Plot Summary:
Carl and David, two boys flying a small aircraft over the ocean with their father, crash land near an uncharted island. The boys swim safely to shore, but their father unfortunately drowns in the crash. On their own, the brothers explore the island and soon discover it is not only inhabited by people, but by dinosaurs as well! While the place seems easy enough to get used to, the boys must find a way of returning to their home.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 250 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, feel good, captivating, colorful, epic, mockbuster, colourful
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Odyssey 5 (2002)
Plot Summary:
Odyssey 5 is a Canadian science fiction series that first ran in 2002 on Showtime in the United States and on Space in Canada. Odyssey 5 is the brainchild of Manny Coto, who served as a script-writer and executive producer during the series run. Through his website and in interviews, Coto has expressed his interest in returning to the series at some point, either continuing it or giving it a conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger
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Timecop (1997)
Plot Summary:
Timecop is an American science fiction television series. The show was broadcast on the ABC network and first aired in 1997. The series is based on the Timecop movie and the "Time Cop" feature which had appeared in the comic book series Dark Horse Comics. Thirteen episodes of the series were ordered, but only nine episodes aired.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Crime Traveller (1997)
Plot Summary:
Detective Jeff Slade and his beautiful colleague Holly are armed with something very special in the ongoing fight against crime their very own time machine. Invented by Holly's father, Professor Frederick Turner, the time machine may be a bizarre mixture of D.I.Y. technology, but it works, just, sending the charming, maverick detective Slade on a dangerous roller-coaster ride through both the present and the past. Intriguing complex puzzles are solved with the aid of their unreliable collection of nuts and bolts and flashing lights, but they must always obey the rules of quantum physics, or risk being lost forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Dinosapien (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dinosapien is a British/Canadian children's television program produced jointly by BBC Worldwide and Cambium Catalyst International with SEVEN24 Films. Overall 15 episodes were made, each 21 and half minutes long. The series is filmed in Bragg Creek, Alberta. The program made its debut on March 24, 2007 on Discovery Kids and CBBC. The series ended on June 30, 2007. Each program contains around six minutes of CGI. Brittney Wilson stars as Lauren Slayton, Suzanna Hamilton as Dr. Slayton and James Coombes as the villain, Dr. Aikens. Because of the Native Americans role in the series, the show could possibly be loosely based on Turok. Sci-fi veteran David Winning directed the pilot and first three episodes and Brendan Sheppard, known for his work on Doctor Who DVDs, directed five episodes. Marc Lougee, veteran of several award-winning animated series directed CG animation and Visual Effects/2nd unit for the series prior to filming The Pit and the Pendulum, a stop motion animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale. The Pit and the Pendulum was executive produced by animation icon Mr. Ray Harryhausen, joined by DINOSAPIEN producer Pete Denomme and Fred Fuchs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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Jurassic Predator (2018)
Plot Summary:
Scientists working at a government research facility use prehistoric DNA to resurrect a T-Rex who escapes from the lab to terrorize a nearby town.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Plot Summary:
A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious
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Frankenstein (2004)
Plot Summary:
Frankenstein is a 2004 U.S. television miniseries (edited into a film) based on the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. It follows the original book more closely than other adaptions. The story is of a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, epic, suspense
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Plot Summary:
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: epic, gothic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, computer animated
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Triassic Attack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak havoc on the small town and the local university.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, fast
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Raptor Ranch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological, feel good, bleak, natural horror, psychotronic
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The Time Tunnel (1966)
Plot Summary:
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, homoerotic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, campy
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Doctor Who (1963)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a Time Lord—a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor—who explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, the Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilisations, help ordinary people, and right wrongs. The show has received recognition as one of Britain's finest television programmes, winning the 2006 British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series and five consecutive awards at the National Television Awards during Russell T Davies's tenure as Executive Producer. In 2011, Matt Smith became the first Doctor to be nominated for a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor. In 2013, the Peabody Awards honoured Doctor Who with an Institutional Peabody "for evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known television universe." The programme is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time—based on its over-all broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, and iTunes traffic. During its original run, it was recognised for its imaginative stories, creative low-budget special effects, and pioneering use of electronic music.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, futuristic, apocalyptic, slapstick, tripping, cult classic, spooky
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Ultraman: Towards the Future (1990)
Plot Summary:
Ultraman: Towards the Future is a Tokusatsu TV series produced in 1990 in Australia by the South Australian Film Corporation and Japan's Tsuburaya Productions. There were 13 episodes filmed. At the time, Eco-awareness was at a high, and many episodes included environmental themes. Ultraman's three minute time limit is also attributed to "Earth's polluted atmosphere" in this version. Although simply called "Ultraman" in the original Australian version, the series was titled Ultraman Great for its Japanese release; the 13-episode show was originally featured on home video and Laser Disc there on 25 September 1990, and was later broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System from 8 July to 30 September 1995. This was the 10th Ultra Series and the first produced in the Heisei era. The show was distributed in the United States by Sachs Family Entertainment, the show was broadcast in weekly syndication from 4 January to 28 March 1992. The series generated a merchandise line including toys, comic books and a video game.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, multicultural
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Space: 1999 (1975)
Plot Summary:
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, spooky, bleak, cult classic, vintage, cult film
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Primeval: New World (2012)
Plot Summary:
A North American spin-off of the hit U.K. television series, Primeval: New World follows a specialized team of animal experts and scientists that investigates the appearance of temporal anomalies and battles both prehistoric and futuristic creatures.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, futuristic
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The Lost World (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To date, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets through 2004. The series continued to be rerun in the United States on TNT at 5:00AM EST Monday through Friday, until eventually that came to an end as well. The series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired on syndication. Pay-per-view aired the show uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, retro, sexy, heroic, exciting, offbeat
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Power Rangers Time Force (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a crimelord from the year 3000 finds that times are too tough, he goes back in time to 2001. And the Power Rangers of year 3000 come back to battle him. Things only get crazier when the bad guy masters time travel, allowing him to pop up wherever he wants in the timestream.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, futuristic, super sentai
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Plot Summary:
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious, natural horror, offbeat, serious, computer animated, psychotronic
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Primeval (2007)
Plot Summary:
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, suspense, scenic, apocalyptic, detective
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100 Million BC (2008)
Plot Summary:
A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a giant, man-eating dinosaur back through the portal and into modern-day, downtown Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, tense, mockbuster, natural horror, offbeat, psychotronic
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The Lost World (2001)
Plot Summary:
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who faces an Allosaurus with an elephant gun, and Matthew Rhys plays the tagalong reporter hoping to impress his faithless fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychotronic, serious, computer animated
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The Dinosaur Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, disgusting, natural horror, independent film, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Doctor Who (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Doctor looks and seems human. He's handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But he is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living – more of a hobby actually, and he's very, very good at it. He's saved us from alien menaces and evil from before time began – but just who is he?.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, humorous, tense, atmospheric, captivating, mysterious, retro, thought provoking
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Terra Nova (2011)
Plot Summary:
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, epic, cliffhanger, sweet, mysterious, action adventure