Movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, intense, semi serious, dieselpunk, epic, action packed, action adventure, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, manly, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, archaeology, treasure, adventurer, artifact, tombs and skeletons, good versus evil, indiana jones, crocodile, human sacrifice, survival, supernatural, treasure hunter, wilhelm scream, danger, sword fight, indians, beautiful scenery, snake, brainwashing, food, villain, occult, underground ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1984, year 1935, 30s
Place: india, china, shanghai, shanghai china
Keyword: reboot, avant-garde, retrospective, gong, american, gangsters, challenge

Most similar movies to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, entertaining, cult classic and fast films with plots about treasure hunt, adventurer, treasure hunter, escapades, treasure, heroes and archaeologist mostly in Action, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Mummy (1999), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), National Treasure (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the ...
Style: breathtaking, entertaining, exciting, epic, action packed ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, manly ...
Plot: treasure hunt, holy grail, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, map, artifact, treasure, knight, father son relationship, mythology, indiana jones ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1989, 90s, year 1912 ...
Place: germany, israel, utah, san francisco, venice ...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Style: exciting, breathtaking, epic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, manly, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, indiana jones, treasure, adventurer, archaeology, nazi, artifact, chase, villain, desert, escapades ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, 90s, year 1981
Place: egypt, south america, nepal, africa, himalaya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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 ⇓
85%
Romancing the Stone (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, escapades, adventurer, travel, chase, stranded, map, treasure, gem ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south america, colombia, new york, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Mummy (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for ...
Style: scary, exciting, entertaining, funny, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, adventurer, desert, monster, supernatural, ancient egypt, tomb, treasure, archaeologist, deadly creature ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future, jurassic, 1920s ...
Place: egypt, africa, south africa, middle east, north africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's ...
Style: exciting, action packed, stylized, action adventure, saga ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, female protagonist, treasure, archaeology, strong female lead, tomb, archaeologist, solar eclipse, artifact, kick-butt women, woman with a gun, good versus evil ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: cambodia, iceland, italy, venice, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
National Treasure (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, clever, suspense, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeology, archaeologist, treasure hunter, adventurer, secret place, riddles and clues, map, journey, ancient, artifact ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 1974, 18th century, 1830s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., philadelphia, pennsylvania, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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%
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, romantic, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, kids, family outing, teens, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, adventurer, archaeologist, desert, treasure, couple relations, love and romance, novelist, culture clash, escapades, happy ending, writer's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Japan, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Lara Croft ventures to an underwater temple in search of the mythological Pandora's Box but, after securing it, it is promptly stolen by the villainous leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. Lara must recover the box before the syndicate's ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, action packed, stylized, action adventure ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeology, archaeologist, kick-butt women, monster, female protagonist, fantasy world, female martial artist, archeological dig, treasure hunter, good versus evil, treasure ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s
Place: greece, africa, shanghai, kazakhstan, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure hunter, archaeologist, treasure, archaeology, friendship, library, adventurer, librarian, heroic mission, obsessive quest, good versus evil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination ...
Style: entertaining, serious, suspenseful, action adventure, action packed ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, ancient mystery, riddles and clues, treasure hunter, artifact, president, escapades, secret ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 1865, 1860s, 19th century ...
Place: south dakota, washington d.c., virginia, paris france, buckingham palace ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Uncharted (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake uncovers the location of the legendary El Dorado. With the help of his mentor and an ambitious journalist he works to uncover its secrets while surviving on an island filled with pirates, mercenaries, and a ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, visually appealing, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeology, danger, treasure hunter, jungle, adventurer, artifact, tough guy, lost treasure, sea, deception ...
Time: 2020s, future, 2000s, year 2006
Place: new york, the philippines, boston, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Finds Indy vagabonding around the South Pacific on a treasure hunt for a fabled lost diamond. The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, fast
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, indiana jones, adventurer, writers, treasure hunter, archaeologist, pirate, heroes, battlefield, world spanning, disorder, secret place ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918, year 1919, 1900s
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Captain Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a woman from his past, and he's not sure if it's love -- or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the Queen ...
Style: romantic, exciting, witty, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, family outing ...
Plot: pirate, swashbuckler, mermaid, ship, chase, treasure hunt, fantasy world, treasure, captain, sword fight, mythical creature, adventurer ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 2011
Place: london, iran, britain, fictional island, madagascar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost ...
Style: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, adventurer, treasure hunter, archaeologist, beautiful scenery, disaster, hunter, cannon, missing person, woman with a gun, camp ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot: treasure hunt, rescue, adventurer, obsessive quest, secret place, danger, wild ride, heroic mission, male female relationship, violence, chase, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a ...
Style: humorous, exciting, stylized, cult classic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, manly, date night
Plot: martial arts, monster, supernatural, truck driver, kung fu, good versus evil, magic, truck, kidnapping, friendship, mythology, wizard ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.
Style: exciting, entertaining, stylized, dark fantasy, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: pirate, swashbuckler, ship, sword fight, fantasy world, supernatural, friendship, treasure hunt, journey, determination, treasure, courage ...
Time: 18th century, year 2007, 2000s, georgian era
Place: fictional island, caribbean, britain, iran, singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Firewalker (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
Style: fantasy adventure, cult classic, grindhouse, buddy comedy, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunter, treasure hunt, martial arts, jungle, adventurer, cyclops, curse, bar fight, cave, cannon, sarcasm, archaeologist ...
Time: 80s
Place: central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Stargate (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Style: exciting, futuristic, entertaining, visually stunning, visual ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, archaeology, space opera, slavery, pyramid, teleportation, creature, mythology, evil alien, archaeologist, ancient egypt, alien ...
Time: future, 90s, near future, 20th century, 1920s
Place: egypt, colorado, space western, middle east, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, mythical, parody ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: archaeologist, treasure hunt, archeological dig, artifact, adventurer, heroes, expedition, save the world, obsessive quest, good versus evil, heroic mission, race against time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, China, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, stylized, mystical ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: mummy, tomb, treasure hunt, mythology, archaeology, archaeologist, tombs and skeletons, dragon, archeological dig, monster, adventurer, supernatural ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, jurassic, 20th century, year 1946
Place: china, asia, himalaya, england, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Phantom (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
Style: light, entertaining, exciting, humorous, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: superhero, comic book, good versus evil, escapades, villain, heroes, island, vigilante, treasure hunt, one man army, silver, chase ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939
Place: fictional island, new york, usa, southeast asia, thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Jack Sparrow, a freewheeling 17th-century pirate, quarrels with a rival pirate bent on pillaging Port Royal. When the governor's daughter is kidnapped, Sparrow decides to help the girl's love save her.
Style: exciting, fairy tale, entertaining, dark fantasy, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: pirate, treasure hunt, ship, sword fight, fantasy world, treasure, captain, pirate ship, pirate captain, swashbuckler, curses spells and rituals, escapades ...
Time: 18th century, year 2003, 2000s, georgian era
Place: caribbean, britain, iran, fictional island, haiti ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Finding 'Ohana (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Two Brooklyn siblings' summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
Style: anamorphic, funny, captivating, entertaining, teen comedy
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, treasure map, lost treasure, secret passageway, hidden treasure, treasure hunter, treasure chest, friendship, escapades, friends, woman ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, new york, brooklyn new york city, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hunt for the Amber Room (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's the greatest myth of the German post-war era: The Amber Room. Since its disappearance in 1945 from Koenigsberg Castle, legions of treasure hunters have tried and failed to find the room. It is said that Physics genius, Albert Einstein hid ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating
Plot: treasure hunter, lost treasure, treasure hunt, archaeologist, treasure, adventurer, grave robber, secret, archaeology, technology, hidden treasure, treasure map
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Rundown (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely ...
Style: stylized, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, treasure, buddy, lone hero, chase, bounty hunter, fight, gold, tough guy, tough heroes, respect ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 8K
Relic Hunter (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Relic Hunter is an anglophone Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt. Actress Lindy Booth also starred for the first two seasons; Tanja Reichert replaced her for the third. It was inspired by the success of the video ...
Style: sexy, exciting, captivating, tense, witty ...
Plot: archaeologist, relic, artifact, treasure hunt, escapades, female protagonist, treasure hunter, treasure, adventurer, woman, one woman army, women ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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