Movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
140K
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, rom com, psychotronic, atmospheric, feel good, ironic, mockbuster, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, fantasy world, lost world, adventurer, twists and turns, mysterious place, underground, expedition, cave, imaginary, obsessive quest, danger, tyrannosaurus rex, prehistoric creature, mountain, natural disaster, volcano, research, treasure, missing brother, earth, magic, rescue, prehistoric animal, monster ...
Time:
year 2008, prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
iceland, italy, europe
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Most similar movies to Journey to the Center of the Earth
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, humorous, psychotronic and entertaining films with plots about danger, escapades, heroes, monster, chase, dialogue and catastrophe mostly in Adventure, Fantasy and Action genres. Some movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth: Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Inkheart (2008), City of Ember (2008), Jumanji (1995), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, teen, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot:
island, jungle, lost city, fantasy world, expedition, atlantis, lost world, escapades, beautiful scenery, giant lizard, mission, treasure ...
Time:
year 2012, 19th century, 2010s
Place:
hawaii, fictional island
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After their father is called into work, two young boys, Walter and Danny, are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa, and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, ...
Style:
exciting, intense, semi serious, epic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
robot, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, game, child, sibling rivalry, childhood, human in outer space, alien, outer space, alternate world ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
85K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Style:
fairy tale, touching, costume drama, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens, kids ...
Plot:
fictional reality, young heroes, adventurer, medieval, writers, imaginary, supernatural, book, parents and children, magic, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time:
year 2008, middle ages
Place:
alps, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, ...
Style:
exciting, dark fantasy, visually stunning, apocalyptic, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, save the day, danger, dystopia, uncover truth, survival, underground city, girl, underground, puzzle, ancient mystery ...
Time:
future, year 2008, 20th century, distant future
Similarity:
94%
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409K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, offbeat, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
jungle, fantasy world, childhood, magic, board game, time travel, getting home, children, parallel world, danger, friendship, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 90s, year 1969, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
88%
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:
exciting, entertaining, breathtaking, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, manly, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, indiana jones, desert, jungle, artifact, chase, alien, sword fight ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
peru, south america, ussr, mexico city, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, ...
Style:
serious, stylized, atmospheric, epic fantasy, suspense
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
steampunk, viking, island, treasure hunt, winter, archaeologist, missing child, snow, tomb raider, superhero, airplane, aviation ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 90s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island, london, england, france, iceland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 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:
exciting, costume drama, romantic, saga, epic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, boys' night ...
Plot:
pirate, swashbuckler, mermaid, chase, ship, treasure hunt, fantasy world, treasure, captain, mythical creature, sword fight, adventurer ...
Time:
18th century, year 2011, georgian era
Place:
london, caribbean, england, spain, britain ...
Similarity:
93%
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
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.
Style:
gothic horror, epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
pre-teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
dinosaur, archaeologist, imaginary kingdom, lost world, reptiles, monster, prehistoric creature, kaiju, underground, steampunk, alien, prehistoric animal ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, visually stunning, scary, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
magical creature, fantasy world, fairy, magical, imaginary, children, siblings relations, magic, family relations, estate, parent child relationship, troll ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Accident prone teenager, Percy discovers he's actually a demi-God, the son of Poseidon, and he is needed when Zeus' lightning is stolen. Percy must master his new found skills in order to prevent a war between the Gods that could devastate ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, epic, teen, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen fantasy, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mythology, good versus evil, greek mythology, legends and myths, demi god, superhuman powers, teenage life, centaur, monster, greek god, young heroes, half breed ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
empire state building manhattan new york city, las vegas, nashville tennessee, tennessee, ancient greece ...
Similarity:
79%
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:
exciting, suspenseful, saga, predictable, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
dinosaur, island, jungle, monster, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, fantasy world, survival, lost world, jungle adventure, genetics, heroes ...
Time:
jurassic, year 2001, 2000s, prehistoric times, 90s ...
Place:
costa rica, caribbean, fictional island
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychotronic, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
jungle, dinosaur, dangerous animal, adventurer, rivalry, heroic mission, escapades, love triangle, danger, uninhibited rivalry, heroes, kaiju ...
Time:
1900s, prehistoric times, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, south america, brazil
Similarity:
100%
462K
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, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, mutant, deadly creature, chaos ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place:
japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1870's - A woman hires an anthropologist/adventurer to track down her husband, who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
lost world, danger, heroic mission, adventurer, dinosaur, daring rescue, travel, prehistoric animal, missing person, anthropologist, wilderness, reptiles ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, alaska
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Morocco, Jordan
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:
dark fantasy, costume drama, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, treasure, ancient egypt, supernatural, mythology, good versus evil, monster, chase, tomb, desert ...
Time:
year 2001, 1930s, jurassic, future, 20th century ...
Place:
egypt, london, africa, middle east, england ...
Similarity:
88%
496K
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, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, adventurer, desert, ancient egypt, tomb, monster, supernatural, archaeologist, treasure, deadly creature ...
Time:
90s, jurassic, future, year 1999, 1920s ...
Place:
egypt, africa, south africa, middle east, north africa ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like ...
Style:
grindhouse, retro, psychotronic, classic horror, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, giant monster, monster, lost world, fight for freedom, kaiju, cave woman, cave, space travel, good versus evil, steampunk, giant animal ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1976, prehistoric times, 19th century, prehistory ...
Place:
wales, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Style:
fairy tale, exciting, teen, epic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
mythology, youth, monster, friendship, fantasy world, superhuman powers, heroic mission, demi god, young heroes, adaptation, legends and myths, greek mythology ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, ancient greece
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, escapades, adventurer, daring rescue, obsessive quest, inventions and discoveries, legends and myths, forces of nature, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, scientist, volcano ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
Style:
entertaining, atmospheric, semi serious, saga, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
alien, benign alien, ufo, desert, magical power, children, teleportation, mountain, supernatural ability, space and aliens, young heroes, space ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
Similarity:
78%
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:
suspenseful, saga, scenic, perverse, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
dinosaur, jungle, giant monster, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, island, dangerous animal, amusement park, lost world, paleontology, expedition, killer animal ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, year 1997, prehistoric times, 20th century
Place:
costa rica, fictional island, san diego california, caribbean, kenya ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full ...
Style:
funny, humorous, spoof, parody, not serious ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, paleontologist, lost world, chase, fantasy world, survival, satire, escapades, partner, danger, beast ...
Time:
prehistory, year 2009, 2000s, stone age
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sexy, serious, scary, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
lost world, dinosaur, dangerous animal, jungle, expedition, time travel, adventurer, supernatural, exploration, stranded, danger, imaginary ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
100%
1.2M
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, breathtaking, entertaining, exciting, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, date night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
dinosaur, island, survival, creature feature, animal attack, child in peril, research, children, dangerous animal, teenage girl, science, fantasy world ...
Time:
jurassic, year 1993, 20th century, prehistoric times, 90s
Place:
montana, fictional island, caribbean, central america, dominican republic ...
Similarity:
67%
468K
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, emotional, scenic, action adventure, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
king kong, creature, jungle, dinosaur, giant animal, monster, gorilla, giant ape, beast, rescue, island, dangerous animal ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading.
Style:
exciting, scenic, captivating, fairy tale, sad ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
island, exotic island, little girl, young heroes, writers, imaginary friend, danger, single father, scientist, child, poacher, jungle ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, patagonia, pacific ocean, san francisco, indonesia ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Canada, France, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Style:
fairy tale, epic, visually stunning, epic fantasy, mystical ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, steampunk, journey, magical, alternate reality, orphan, witch, parallel universe, parallel world, imaginary, heroes, literary ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
england, london, oxford university
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, UK, Australia, Germany, New Zealand
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful ...
Style:
fairy tale, costume drama, saga, epic, feel good ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
fantasy world, sword fight, good versus evil, witch, imaginary kingdom, queen, prince, talking animal, centaur, animal, sibling relationship, parallel world ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that he must first find the magical Golden Fleece. To do so, he must embark on an epic quest fraught ...
Style:
exciting, epic fantasy, tense, epic, talky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
greek mythology, giant monster, monster, skeleton, dragon, mythology, adventurer, sword and sorcery, prophecy, ancient world, stop motion, giant ...
Time:
ancient times, year 1963
Place:
ancient greece, greece, rome italy, hellas
Similarity:
100%
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