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Quest for Fire (1981)
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Original name: La Guerre du feu
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged terrain, rival tribes and savage beasts, Quest for Fire examines a peaceful tribe's search for that all important element fire, and the knowledge to create it. Focusing on human dream as well as realistic insights into pre-historic man, the constant struggle for survival is vividly recreated in this sensational production.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, breathtaking, serious, captivating, epic, philosophical, sexy, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot:
caveman, survival, tribe, fire, cannibalism, neanderthal, discovery, prehistoric man, love story, nude, ancient, ancient history, mammoth, evolution, nature, sword, graphic violence, wilderness, human nature, buddies, heroic mission, violence, catastrophe, dinosaur, prison escape ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, future, ancient times
Place:
france, scotland, canada, africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, visually appealing, melancholic and realistic films with plots about catastrophe, storytelling, mentor, survival, dialogue, culture clash and life philosophy mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Quest for Fire: The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), Ao: The Last Hunter (2010), 10,000 BC (2008), Black Robe (1991), Jeremiah Johnson (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When ...
Style:
harsh, stylized, serious, sexy, light ...
Plot:
caveman, prehistoric man, bear, suspense, tribe, ancient history, orphan, rescue, wilderness, teaching the ways of the world, uninhibited rivalry, self discovery ...
Time:
prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory, future, ancient times ...
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Genre: Adventure, History
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
neanderthal, caveman, pregnancy, survival, nude, bear attack, forbidden love, fall in love, human nature, polar bear, wilderness, couples ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
Place:
france, siberia, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Style:
epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, daring rescue, mammoth, animal attack, jungle, chase, natural disaster, cave, lone hero, wilderness, ancient history, redemption ...
Time:
stone age, prehistoric times, prehistory, future
Place:
egypt, north africa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, bleak, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
native american, christian, indians, religion, wilderness, shaman, colonialism, jesuit, nature, church, culture clash, native americans ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
canada, quebec, france, india
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, epic, scenic, meditative ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
survival, wilderness, hunting, native americans, mountain man, native american, native, indians, rocky mountains, revenge, life philosophy, interracial relations ...
Time:
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Place:
colorado, usa
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1825 an English aristocrat is captured by Indians. He lives with them and begins to understand/accept their lifestyles. Eventually he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.
Style:
scenic, intense, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
horse, native americans, ritual, suspense, captivity, survival, lifestyle, manhood, injustice, interracial relations, indians, violence ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, india, south dakota
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100%
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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, thought provoking, atmospheric, surreal, meditative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desert, survival, suicide, culture clash, teenage girl, wilderness, rite of passage, children, brother sister relationship, australian outback, language barrier ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia, adelaide south australia
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67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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shipwreck, sea, corpse, catastrophe, lifeboat, survival, panic, raft, napoleon bonaparte, ship, cannibalism, scandal ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
senegal, france
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100%
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Conqueror of the World, a thrilling and explosive story of violence...of human drama, of a rare man, strong and primitive. Set two hundred thousand years ago, when the human race had to adapt to their brutal, savage environment or disappear into ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
caveman, sword and sorcery, prehistoric animal, fight, wilderness survival, prehistoric man, bear attack, tribe, decapitation, survival, cannibalism, childbirth ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age
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100%
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:
sexy, road movie, visually appealing, surreal, scenic ...
Plot:
desert, travel, traveler, husband wife relationship, beautiful scenery, existentialism, sex scene, on the road, infidelity, summer, painter, sensuality ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
africa, morocco, sahara, north africa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Films like Life of Pi
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, air disaster, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, solitude, determination, survivor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, year 1995, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, fictional island
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An anthropologist is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real ...
Style:
harsh, bad ending, visually appealing, allegory, psychological ...
Plot:
caveman, survival, frozen alive, neanderthal, natural disaster, unlikely friendships, redemption, anthropology, life, life philosophy, childhood, evolution ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 80s, stone age
Place:
california, antarctica
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Peru
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Fitzcarraldo, a dreamer who plans to bring opera and Enrico Caruso to the South American jungles. With limited funding, he must figure out how to finance the opera house, and ultimately decides to capitalize on South America's rubber ...
Style:
cerebral, surreal, visually appealing, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
boat, steamship, jungle, opera, insanity, art, beautiful scenery, surrealism, obsession, river, forest, dreams ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: India, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, atmospheric, sexy, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an ...
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atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, serious, parody ...
Plot:
tribe, australian aboriginal, vengeance, indigenous people, murder, swamp, couples, love and romance, heroes, couple relations, expedition, forbidden love ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
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touching, harsh, serious, stylized, anthropological ...
Plot:
tarzan, culture clash, jungle, survival, stranded, orphan, feral man, monkey, adventurer, justice, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century, 1880s
Place:
africa, england, scotland, london, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style:
bleak, tense, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, revenge, native american, betrayal, jealousy, dog sled, love triangle, tragic love, rivalry, intrigue, human nature, temptation ...
Time:
18th century, middle ages
Place:
canada, tokyo
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25%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, existentialism, introspection, loneliness, friendship, life & death, solitude, road trip ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, china, london, california, england ...
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25%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
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suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, innocence lost, island, survival, stranded on an island, coming of age, bullying, isolation, youth, children, childhood, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
pacific ocean, fictional island
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, survival, stranded, isolation, culture clash, rescue, life is a bitch, human nature, dogma, shakespeare, bus, tragedy ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, new jersey, australia, namibia
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25%
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Movies similar to Into the Wild
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
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thought provoking, light, disturbing, anthropological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
india, brazil, south america, latin america
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen ...
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future, 80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK, Nepal
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and rebellious young Karma (Gurgon Kyap). Tinle tries to ...
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road movie, atmospheric, breathtaking, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Audience:
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Plot:
nature, mountain, coming of age, buddhism, survival, buddhist, destiny, finnish, distopia, culture clash, friendship, afterlife ...
Time:
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Place:
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; ...
Style:
thought provoking, talky, melancholic, cerebral, sexual ...
Plot:
utopia, anarchist, rebellion, politics, runaway, relationships, destiny, culture clash, immortality, greed, brutality, life philosophy ...
Time:
future, 70s, 60s
Place:
paris france, poland, switzerland, geneva switzerland, france ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, breathtaking, cerebral ...
Plot:
christian, redemption, religion, solitude, loneliness, forgiveness, monk, life philosophy, monastery, island, hopes, sin ...
Time:
future
Place:
russia
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24%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
Style:
epic, breathtaking, exciting, serious, lyrical ...
Plot:
martial arts, vengeance, desert, fight, sword fight, survival, escapades, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, medieval, epic battle, warrior ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, touching, suspenseful, tense, reflective ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, boat, isolation, sea, storm, survivor, loneliness, forces of nature, ship, ocean, human spirit, sailor ...
Time:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
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atmospheric, road movie, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
culture clash, self discovery, coming of age, road trip, child abuse, adolescence, hippie, sister, family relations, celebrity culture, single parent, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
morocco, africa, london, england, europe
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24%
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, sexy, philosophical, dark fantasy, artsy ...
Plot:
leopard, desert, exhibitionism, male nudity, napoleon, humanity, brutality, loneliness, wilderness, soldier, nature, nude ...
Time:
regency period, 18th century, 1790s
Place:
egypt, ottoman empire, france, middle east, africa ...
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24%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, visually appealing, atmospheric, motivational, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
survival, ocean, human animal relationship, stranded, lost at sea, animals, life, hopes, life & death, beautiful scenery, survivor, journey ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india, pacific ocean, toronto ontario canada, montreal, paris france ...
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50%
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