Movies like Congo

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Congo (1995)
 5.3
 48K
Congo (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
Style: exciting, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, horror comedy, cult classic, natural horror, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: jungle, adventurer, gorilla, treasure hunt, animal attack, survival, fight scenes, monkey, creature feature, ape, dangerous animal, danger, creature, escapades, obsessive quest, daring rescue, beautiful scenery, monster, beast, explorer, father son relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, military, treasure, killer animal ...
Time: 20th century, future, jurassic, 90s, 1990s
Place: congo, africa, tanzania, houston texas
Keyword: attack, reboot, american, romanian

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Most similar movies to Congo

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and psychotronic films with plots about danger, monster, escapades, adventurer, heroes, creature and rescue mostly in Adventure, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Congo: Kong: Skull Island (2017), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), King Kong (1976), King Kong Lives (1986), King of the Lost World (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: monster, giant monster, creature, king kong, giant animal, island, survival, giant creature, jungle, chase, expedition, monster versus monster ...
Time: 70s, 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1973 ...
Place: vietnam, fictional island, pacific ocean, washington d.c., thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ...
Style: suspense, scenic, suspenseful, saga, exciting ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, giant monster, island, jungle, tyrannosaurus rex, dangerous animal, jurassic park, survival, animal, lost world, monster, predator ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 1997, prehistoric times, 20th century
Place: fictional island, costa rica, caribbean, california, san diego california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.0
 35K
King Kong (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, ...
Style: suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, depressing, fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: king kong, beast, monster, gorilla, giant monster, kaiju, giant ape, giant snake, world trade center manhattan new york city, island, full moon, survival ...
Time: 70s, prehistoric times, jurassic, year 1976, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, fictional island, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
King Kong Lives (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kong falls from the twin towers and he appears to be alive!
Style: scary, natural horror, independent film, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: king kong, monster, kaiju, giant monster, monkey, godzilla, ape, giant ape, military, heart transplant, pregnancy, hospital ...
Time: 80s, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place: borneo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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King of the Lost World (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster ...
Plot: lost world, giant ape, parallel world, save the world, obsessive quest, supernatural, adventurer, danger, kaiju, giant monster, creature, monkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The blood orchid - A rare flower that holds the secret of eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and ...
Style: suspense, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: jungle, snake, treasure hunt, animal attack, survival, expedition, monster, killer animal, dangerous animal, creature, eaten alive, greed ...
Time: jurassic, year 2004, 2000s
Place: borneo, new york, usa, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.8
 451K
Predator (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, survival, jungle, creature, military, hunting, deadly creature, mission, gory, chase, alien invasion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987, future
Place: latin america, south america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic ...
Plot: survival, jungle, animal attack, dangerous animal, colonialism, adventurer, lion, danger, hunting, obsessive quest, heroes, creature feature ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 90s, 1890s
Place: africa, kenya, south africa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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The Dinosaur Project (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Found footage of an expedition into the Congo jungle where a team of explorers stumbles upon a colony of Dinosaurs.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, cryptozoology, dangerous animal, found footage, survival, adventurer, lost world, scientist, discovery, escapades, creature feature ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: congo, africa, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 8.2
 1.1M
Jurassic Park (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. ...
Style: suspense, epic, breathtaking, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night, date night, teens ...
Plot: dinosaur, island, survival, creature feature, animal attack, scientist, disaster, research, children, experiment, dangerous animal, child in peril ...
Time: jurassic, 20th century, year 1993, prehistoric times, 90s
Place: fictional island, montana, caribbean, central america, costa rica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, predictable, saga ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: dinosaur, island, jungle, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, monster, fantasy world, survival, lost world, genetics, dangerous animal, heroes ...
Time: year 2001, jurassic, 2000s, prehistoric times, 90s ...
Place: costa rica, fictional island, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.9
 676K
Jurassic World (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Style: entertaining, scenic, suspenseful, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: dinosaur, creature, animal attack, killer animal, dangerous animal, tyrannosaurus rex, chase, jurassic park, human animal relationship, survival, velociraptor, monster ...
Time: jurassic, year 2015, 2010s, future, prehistoric times ...
Place: caribbean, fictional island, costa rica
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: classic horror, natural horror, grindhouse, prehistoric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, monster, island, kaiju, cave woman, submarine, sword and sorcery, reptiles, sorcery, giant monster, desert, cave ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, 1910s, 20th century, prehistory
Place: antarctica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 4.9
 111K
Anaconda (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil, Peru
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: jungle, snake, boat, animal attack, survival, dangerous animal, killer animal, danger, river, strong violent content, giant snake, amazon river ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: latin america, ecuador, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, action adventure, action packed, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, manly, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, adventurer, archaeology, indiana jones, jungle, chase, desert, artifact, alien, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: peru, ussr, south america, latin america, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Style: serious, weird
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, lost world, kaiju, giant monster, reptiles, monster, giant creature, prehistoric creature, explorer, jungle adventure, expedition ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1985, 80s, prehistory
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led ...
Style: futuristic, bad ending, intense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, astronaut, dystopia, planet of the apes, space travel, genetics, dystopian future, survival, time travel, stranded, space adventure ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, near future, 2020s ...
Place: washington d.c., north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.2
 444K
King Kong (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style: sentimental, scenic, suspense, emotional, epic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, manly, boys' night ...
Plot: creature, jungle, dinosaur, king kong, monster, beast, gorilla, giant ape, island, rescue, giant animal, monkey ...
Time: year 2005, 1930s, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Mummy Returns (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, scary, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, treasure, ancient egypt, supernatural, good versus evil, mythology, monster, chase, tomb, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2001, 1930s, jurassic, future, 20th century ...
Place: egypt, london, africa, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Style: exciting, fairy tale, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: tarzan, jungle, treasure hunt, archaeologist, obsessive quest, violence, magic, chase, treasure hunter, explorer, monkey, monster ...
Time: year 1998, 1910s, edwardian era
Place: africa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 15K
Primeval (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Horror, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: crocodile, killer animal, gory, creature feature, chase, animal attack, creature, mad scientist, village, monster, dangerous animal, political unrest ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: africa, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cutthroat Island (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete ...
Style: exciting, breathtaking, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: pirate, treasure hunt, swashbuckler, island, ship, female protagonist, pirate ship, sword fight, treasure, adventurer, treasure map, heroine ...
Time: 17th century
Place: caribbean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Style: exciting, teen, breathtaking, psychotronic, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, obsessive quest, fantasy world, imaginary, lost world, adventurer, mysterious place, twists and turns, expedition, cave, danger, rescue ...
Time: year 2008, prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s ...
Place: iceland, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 103K
Sahara (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, adventurer, treasure hunter, desert, obsessive quest, archaeology, escapades, civil war, good versus evil, danger, buddy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led ...
Style: fantasy adventure, retro, grindhouse, funny, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, chase, adventurer, giant spider, escapades, artifact, treasure hunter, lost world, cannon, afrikaans, explorer ...
Time: victorian era, year 1985, 20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place: africa, south africa, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 184K
Rampage (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, touching, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: monster, gorilla, giant monster, creature, animal attack, rescue, animal human communication, destruction, rage, giant lizard, creature feature, mutation ...
Time: 2010s, jurassic
Place: everglades, missouri, illinois, wyoming, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Raptor Island (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: lost world, creature feature, soldier, kaiju, battles, military, deadly creature, danger, chaos, survival, escapades, rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 436K
Godzilla (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: monster, giant monster, dinosaur, godzilla, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, deadly creature, giant, giant creature ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place: japan, san francisco, hawaii, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this direct-to-video remake, when an accident leaves a group of researchers trapped beneath the earth's crust, it's up to a drill team, led by Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan), to rescue them. But once underground, the team discovers a ...
Style: serious, mockbuster, prehistoric, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot: dinosaur, volcano, adventurer, heroic mission, escapades, daring rescue, imaginary, chases and races, deadly creature, creature, monster, underground ...
Time: prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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