Movies like The Sands of Time

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The Sands of Time (2000)
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The Sands of Time (2000)
Original name: I guardiani del cielo
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions.
Plot: mythical creature, sahara desert, horse, desert, archaeology, horse riding, camel, biplane, hanged man, french foreign legion, bible quote
Place: sahara

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and suspenseful films with plots about desert, horse, horse riding, danger, escapades, survival and camel mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like The Sands of Time: Secret of the Sahara (1988), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Black Wind (1965), Passion in the Desert (1997), Alexander Jamieson (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Secret of the Sahara (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: No overview found.
Plot: desert, sahara desert, foreign legion, ufo, legion, french foreign legion, bandit, secret, treasure, lost civilization
Time: 1920s
Place: sahara
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100%
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style: road movie, scenic, visually appealing, surreal, erotic ...
Plot: desert, sahara desert, travel, infidelity, on the road, traveler, husband wife relationship, existentialism, beautiful scenery, sex scene, heat wave, art history ...
Time: 1940s, 80s
Place: africa, morocco, north africa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.9
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Black Wind (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust ...
Plot: sacrifice, desert, rural area, death, parent child relationship, engineer, worker, wind, son, father son relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Passion in the Desert (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers ...
Style: surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: leopard, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, male nudity, humanity, loneliness, brutality, wilderness, soldier, nature ...
Time: regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place: egypt, france, ottoman empire, sahara, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Alexander Jamieson (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Against the odds of survival WW1 flyer's in the Lafayette Esquadrille risk everything for honor and conquest. The adventurers momentum does not end when the ravages of war and lost friends is over. As sought after undercover agents X WW1 pilots ...
Plot: robbery, world war one, pilot, biplane, horse, sheriff, assassin
Place: costa rica, malaysia, bali, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Goat Life (2024)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India, USA, Haiti
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The film depicts the life of Najeeb Muhammad, an Indian abused migrant worker, who was forced to survived in a desert to herd goats in Saudi Arabia.
Plot: jail, desert, immigration, slavery, based on real people, prison, escape, worker, migrant worker, missing person, lake, snake ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Young Black Stallion (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!
Style: serious, touching, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: horse, black horse, desert, human animal relationship, girl horse relationship, friendship, girl, world war two, young heroes, rescue, survival, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style: harsh, suspense, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, aviation, disaster, thirst, pilot, isolation, airplane accident, crew, rescue ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: sahara, libya, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Unpredictable Nature of the River (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Nobleman Jean-Francois de la Plaine is exiled to serve as governor of a West African colony.
Plot: slavery, river, exile, colonialism, interracial sex, cannon, perky breasts, inheritance, interracial relations, love, singing, game playing ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s, 1790s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.6
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Dusty (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Plot The eponymous Dusty is an appropriately named dingo, or wild dog. Roaming the fertile fields of Australia, Dusty is captured as a puppy. Though dingoes are normally averse to human companionship, Dusty attaches himself to an old, worn-out ...
Style: independent film
Plot: dog, ranch, animal, horse, horse riding, fence
Time: year 1983
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A female doctor returns from the city to her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia in the 1930s, intending to bring modern medical care to the area's impoverished and ill-educated residents. However, she finds herself going against the ...
Style: medical drama
Plot: doctor, poverty, healer, horse riding, historical event, medical profession, medicine, husband wife relationship, horse, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, superstition ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Sahara (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, sheik, treasure hunt, woman dressed as man, auto racing, cannon, cross dressing, age difference, racing, treasure hunter, danger, rivalry ...
Time: year 1983, 1920s
Place: ottoman empire, north africa, detroit, sahara
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
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Riders (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 199 min.
Story: Arrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has a high social position, woman at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the Pin Up of Penscombe has driven him ...
Style: sensual, erotic
Plot: horse, horse riding, equestrian, rivalry, competition, lovers, olympics
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 228
Lost Seamen (2003)
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "AldƩbaran", only the ...
Plot: male pubic hair, male nudity, female nudity, masturbation, abandoned ship, sailor, tragic event, pubic hair
Place: marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Village Had No Walls (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young man from the city journeys to his first teaching post, the small hamlet of Bangarwadi, deep in the jungle, inhabited by a few shepherds and farmers as well as a criminal tribe known as the Ramoshis. After the initial shock of his strange new ...
Plot: rural setting, exile, customs, punishment, sheep, teacher student relationship, village, cattle, shepherd, desert, grandfather granddaughter relationship, superstition ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Happy Valley (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: corporal punishment, serial killer, cheetah, teacher, african, father daughter relationship, racial slur, horse, girl, sex, marital infidelity, governess ...
Time: 1940s, year 1941
Place: africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 6K
Wolf Totem (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: forces of nature, wolf, survival, dog, wilderness, tradition versus modernity, medieval, danger, society, wolf pack, disaster, wild animal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1969
Place: china, mongolia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kerim, Son of the Sheik (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. (After marrying Fawzia, he plans to eliminate her so he can then marry ...
Plot: peplum, bare chested male, villainess, battles, violence, dungeon, sword fight, horse, sword, greco roman wrestling, swashbuckler, wrestling ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stealing, horse-trading and horse-smuggling. Life changes abruptly when a Russian garrison, commanded ...
Style: independent film
Plot: russo japanese war, horse thief, cossack, horse, thief, village, revolution, resistance, peasant, russian empire, czar, russian army ...
Time: year 1971
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Last Adventure (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, ocean, friendship, airplane, death, pilot, friends, danger, escapades, killing an animal, summer ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: africa, paris france, france, congo, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Mandinga (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An Old South plantation owner lusts after his female slaves.
Style: grindhouse, sensual, surprise ending
Plot: older woman younger man sex, interracial sex, brother sister sex, exploitation, erotica, violence, slavery, human exploitation, black, blaxploitation, racism, punishment ...
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
 112
Saul and David (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.
Style: stylized, epic, gloomy, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: old testament, ancient world, peplum, ancient, christian, bible, faith, battles, ancient history, friendship, royal family, political unrest ...
Place: israel, rome italy, holy land, middle east, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 2K
Windstorm (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: While spending the summer at her grandmother's farm, a girl (Hanna Hƶppner) discovers a talent for communicating with horses and tries to tame a fierce stallion.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: horse, youth, animal training, teenage life, horse riding, self discovery, stallion, disobey, horse ranch, teenage girl, black horse, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Cold Sun (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Story: "This feature-length film is set in the barren and lifeless "Broken Heart" desert of the 1920s. "Cold Sun" is the story of a prostitute searching for her dead brother, a confused excommunicated priest seeking love, two ...
Plot: convict, broken heart, sun, murder, prostitute, priest, desert, cold
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Avenger (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: peplum, ancient world, mythology, myth, warrior, ancient, troy, gladiator, greek mythology, ancient rome, antiquity, ancient history ...
Place: ancient greece, hellas, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Beyond Justice (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him ...
Style: suspense, action thriller, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: collision, rescue, heroes, kidnapping, desert, tough guy, danger, confined, intrigue, escapades, daring rescue, vengeance ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Double Steps (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois AugiƩras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot: desert, obsessive quest, treasure hunt, on the road, escapades, landscape, biopic, performer's life, artists and showbiz, escape, voice over narration, narration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Avalanche (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ in tempers, in problems and notions of honor and dignity. ...
Plot: climbing, athlete, snow, teamwork, cold the temperature, cold weather, risk, mountaineer, danger, hillside
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
 27K
Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Fourth Wise Man (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Artaban is a young Magus (Wise Man) who desires to follow the star to the birthplace of the coming King, against the counsel of his friends and family. Carrying three precious jewels to give to the baby Messiah, Artaban and his reluctant servant ...
Style: biblical, christmas classics, spiritual, esoteric
Plot: servant, quest, christian, christmas, jewelry, jesus, nativity, myth, liberation theology, religious, new testament, antiquity ...
Time: 1st century, 1930s
Place: jerusalem, israel, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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