Movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
126K
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, fairy tale, ridiculous, breathtaking, psychotronic, atmospheric, feel good, campy, natural horror, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, fantasy world, obsessive quest, adventurer, mysterious place, expedition, twists and turns, rescue, lost world, volcano, natural disaster, cave, underground, research, prehistoric creature, magic, teenager, mountain, earth, good versus evil, prehistoric animal, fish, monster, giant creature, animals ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s, 21st century, prehistoric, 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, entertaining, humorous and psychotronic films with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, catastrophe, chase, mentor and fantasy world mostly in Adventure, Fantasy and Family genres. Some movies like Journey to the Center of the Earth: Jumanji (1995), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), City of Ember (2008), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Mysterious Island (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, feel good, exciting, psychotronic, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
jungle, island, lost city, atlantis, fantasy world, expedition, legends and myths, beautiful scenery, lost world, gold, teenager, chase ...
Time:
2010s, 19th century
Place:
hawaii, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
354K
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:
entertaining, exciting, humorous, light, feel good ...
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kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, girls' night ...
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fantasy world, jungle, childhood, magic, monkey, time travel, board game, animals, disappearance, getting home, children, parallel world ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, year 1969, year 1995, 1860s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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, scary, semi serious, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
fantasy world, magical creature, fairy, magical, siblings relations, magic, family relations, children, estate, imaginary kingdom, twins, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 ...
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entertaining, exciting, humorous, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, archaeologist, treasure, archaeology, adventurer, jungle, chase, alien, desert, artifact, sword fight, fight scenes ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, future, year 1957
Place:
peru, mexico city, south america, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, stylized, apocalyptic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, steampunk, save the day, survival, uncover truth, end of the world, puzzle, dystopic future, fantasy world, apocalypse, ancient mystery, underground city ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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:
heroic mission, adventurer, lost world, daring rescue, travel, missing person, wilderness, anthropologist, prehistoric animal, dinosaur, reptiles, mine ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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, humorous, epic, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mythology, greek mythology, monster, legends and myths, teenage life, good versus evil, centaur, teenager, demi god, supernatural, young heroes, heroes ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, empire state building manhattan new york city, tennessee, ancient greece, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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, captivating, futuristic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
robot, alien, space, space travel, brother brother relationship, board game, sibling rivalry, stranded, childhood, child, game, youth ...
Time:
2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style:
intense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, stranded, ocean, monster, island, civil war, pirate, castaway, giant bird, giant monster, american civil war, escape ...
Time:
19th century, 50s, year 1865, 1860s
Place:
pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ 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:
exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
alien, benign alien, children, ufo, spacecraft, disney, teleportation, desert, supernatural ability, young heroes, fight scenes, redemption ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Movies like The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
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, humorous, romantic, witty, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
pirate, ship, mermaid, chase, swashbuckler, treasure hunt, fantasy world, treasure, captain, adventurer, escape, sea battle ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
london, england, spain, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
439K
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:
exciting, scary, entertaining, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, desert, ancient egypt, tomb, adventurer, monster, archaeologist, supernatural, deadly creature, sword fight ...
Time:
jurassic, future, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
egypt, africa, middle east, north africa, cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, UK
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, epic, feel good, entertaining, saga ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, talking animals, sword fight, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, queen, witch, prince, centaur, wizards, parallel world, lion ...
Time:
1940s, 21st century
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
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:
exciting, fairy tale, epic, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
mythology, youth, monster, fantasy world, friendship, heroic mission, young heroes, greek mythology, legends and myths, superhuman powers, friends, artifact ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
80K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, UK, USA, 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, exciting, dark fantasy, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
adventurer, fictional reality, wizards, young heroes, writers, family relations, magic, supernatural, parents and children, father daughter relationship, kidnapping, disappearance ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
alps, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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, suspenseful, scary, entertaining, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
mummy, archaeology, treasure hunt, supernatural, ancient egypt, good versus evil, treasure, tomb, chase, mythology, heroic mission, monster ...
Time:
1930s, jurassic, future, 20th century, year 1933
Place:
egypt, london, africa, middle east, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
Style:
fairy tale, light, colourful, entertaining, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
magic, witch, imaginary kingdom, wizards, magic trick, good versus evil, disney, wizards and magicians, prophecy, betrayal, transformation, fantasy world ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
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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:
epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
archaeologist, dinosaur, imaginary kingdom, alien, prehistoric animal, monster, reptiles, dangerous animal, heroes, escapades, rescue, adventurer ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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:
scenic, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, giant monster, dangerous animal, tyrannosaurus rex, jungle, animals, island, survival, suspense, monster, fantasy world, creature ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 90s, jurassic, 20th century
Place:
costa rica, san diego california, california, kenya, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, stylized, captivating, clever ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, archaeology, archaeologist, kick-butt women, female protagonist, fantasy world, monster, good versus evil, adventurer, chase, tombs and skeletons, woman ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
greece, africa, shanghai, egypt, kazakhstan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 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, humorous, sad ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
island, little girl, young heroes, exotic island, imaginary friend, writers, family relations, single father, scientist, child, poacher, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, patagonia, singapore, pacific ocean, indonesia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of ...
Style:
exciting, intense, colourful, light, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
young heroes, spy, children, mad scientist, secret agents, robot, heroic mission, fantasy world, chase, espionage, good versus evil, fight scenes ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 150 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, dangerous animal, dinosaur, rivalry, heroic mission, escapades, love triangle, uninhibited rivalry, heroes, scientist, creature feature, adventurer ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, intense, entertaining, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
dinosaur, island, survival, tyrannosaurus rex, jungle, fantasy world, genetics, monster, dangerous animal, suspense, rescue, creature ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
costa rica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
viking, steampunk, disney, island, winter, missing child, archaeologist, snow, treasure hunt, airplane, superhero, aviation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 19th century
Place:
london, england, france, iceland, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, creature, survival, animal attack, dangerous animal, tyrannosaurus rex, chase, velociraptor, monster, island, amusement park, killer animal ...
Time:
future, prehistoric times, jurassic, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
costa rica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, parody, humorous, not serious, absurd ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, chase, paleontologist, beast, escapades, survival, partners, satire, misfit, alien, writers ...
Time:
prehistory, stone age, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, witch, magic, good versus evil, legends and myths, talking animals, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, magical, winter, heroes, children ...
Time:
1940s, future, year 1940, 20th century
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, surreal, futuristic, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
spy, children, espionage, child spy, monster, fantasy world, mad scientist, heroes, rivalry, villain, dinosaur, secret agents ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, time travel, world war one, ancient mystery, island, submarine, adventurer, rescue, heroic mission, good versus evil, survival, lost at sea ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 1940s, prehistory, year 1916
Place:
antarctica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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