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Minotaur (2006)
 3.7
 5K
Minotaur (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Long ago in the Iron Age a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace. His father Cyrnan, the village leader, tries to reason with Theo not to go but Theo is driven by blind rage. He devises a plan and is taken with the other youths who are dragged screaming from their families.
Style: suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark fantasy, psychotronic
Plot: minotaur, legends and myths, monster, mythology, sword and sorcery, adventurer, good versus evil, survival, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, creature, human sacrifice, killer animal, ancient, antiquity, creature feature, maze, giant monster, myth, legend, animal attack, ancient history, sorcery, winter ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece
Keyword: reboot, attack

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about escapades, danger, monster, rivalry, heroes, creature feature and creature mostly in Action, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Minotaur: Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008), Wrath of the Titans (2012), Clash of the Titans (2010), Hellhounds (2009), Reign of the Gargoyles (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, fairy tale ...
Plot: deadly creature, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, escapades, danger, heroes, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, goddess, odyssey, mythology ...
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus-the demigod son of Zeus-is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages ...
Style: entertaining, stylized, serious, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: mythology, greek mythology, myth, legends and myths, fantasy world, heroic mission, sword and sorcery, demi god, monster, sword fight, antiquity, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, serious, stylized, mythical ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mythology, greek mythology, myth, legends and myths, ancient history, monster, ancient, good versus evil, supernatural ability, god, sword fight, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, ancient times
Place: greece, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.3
 778
Hellhounds (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.
Style: exciting, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: creature, greek mythology, legends and myths, rescue, supernatural, heroic mission, danger, dog, battles, escapades, giant monster, creature feature ...
Place: ancient greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: gargoyle, deadly creature, heroic mission, military, supernatural, daring rescue, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, danger, heroes, survival ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Rise of the Gargoyles (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Workers involuntarily release a gargoyle that proceeds to behead those who took her eggs (and some who didn't!).
Style: gothic, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense
Plot: ancient mystery, church, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, monster, imaginary, deadly creature, escapades, creature feature, creature, animal attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.4
 1K
Caved In (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An extreme adventure tour group headed by deep caving expert John Palmer descends into a 2000 Ft abandoned salt mine , that was mysteriously closed down years ago after an unexplained disaster trapped all of the miners . They prepare for rock slides ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, treasure hunt, escapades, good versus evil, legends and myths, destiny, danger, adventurer, survival, rivalry, dangerous animal, forces of nature ...
Time: prehistory
Place: greece, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hercules has settled down with his wife and children, but misses the good old days traveling around having exciting adventures. Then one day he is persuaded out of his farming "retirement" to help a distant village which is being attacked ...
Style: exciting, serious, entertaining, light, disturbing ...
Plot: mythology, legend, greek mythology, minotaur, hercules, sword and sorcery, rescue, superhuman powers, good versus evil, deadly creature, superhero, danger ...
Place: ancient greece, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Movie in collections
 3.7
 947
Manticore (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Commandos in Iraq looking for terrorists find a man-eating monster instead.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: survival, military, danger, daring rescue, monster, animal attack, reptiles, creature, killer animal, soldier, chaos, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Before he died, Dar's father gave a mysterious amulet to Tal, Dar's younger brother who is now king. Dar, while wandering with his animal companions, chances to meet and rescue a family who seek the help of King Tal against Lord Agon, a ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sword and sorcery, barbarian, sorcery, medieval, sword, wizards and magicians, myth, wizard, villain, ancient, mythology, peplum ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sinbad and his crew intercept a homunculus carrying a golden tablet. Koura, the creator of the homunculus and practitioner of evil magic, wants the tablet back and pursues Sinbad. Meanwhile Sinbad meets the Vizier who has another part of the ...
Style: exciting, suspense, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cyclops, sinbad, medieval, good versus evil, mythology, supernatural, monster, giant monster, stop motion, magic, sword and sorcery, treasure hunt ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 8th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.1
 2K
Hydra (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot: survival, monster, creature, eaten alive, criminal heroes, human prey, chases and races, deadly creature, escapades, heroes, danger, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Perseus Against the Monsters (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the monster Medusa, whose steely gaze has cast the kingdom's best soldiers into stone.
Style: fairy tale, serious, exciting, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: peplum, sword and sorcery, ancient, ancient world, sorcery, kaiju, monster, greek mythology, dinosaur, creature, folk hero, good versus evil ...
Time: ancient times
Place: greece, ancient greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.4
 696
Jabberwock (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn ...
Style: exciting, serious, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: heroic mission, daring rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, escapades, imaginary kingdom, rivalry, imaginary, danger, dragon, legends and myths, medieval ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
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, tense, talky, epic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: greek mythology, mythology, giant monster, monster, skeleton, prophecy, dragon, adventurer, ancient world, stop motion, kaiju, treasure hunt ...
Time: ancient times, year 1963
Place: greece, ancient greece, rome italy, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.8
 1K
Soulkeeper (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two thieves (Rodney Rowland, Kevin Patrick Walls) compete with a madman in their search for an ancient relic which can create an army of evil souls.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, humorous, queer horror, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, treasure hunt, heroic mission, danger, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, gory, supernatural ability, parallel world, legends and myths ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.6
 1K
Cerberus (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The breastplate of Attila the Hun is stolen as it has clues to the location of the Sword of Mars. It is said the Sword of Mars made Attila invincible and is guarded by Cerberus.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, deadly creature, supernatural, rescue, danger, escapades, missing person, beast, legends and myths, creature, dog, creature feature ...
Place: romania, usa, new york, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
King of the Lost World (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster ...
Plot: lost world, giant ape, parallel world, save the world, obsessive quest, supernatural, adventurer, danger, kaiju, giant monster, creature, monkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
 3.6
 920
Mandrake (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: jungle, curse, chaos, survival, adventurer, danger, dangerous animal, rivalry, escapades, ritual, monster, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Thirty years ago, Ray Reiter witnessed the brutal death of his parents at sea by a strange, octopus-like creature. Now determined to exact revenge, he joins archaeologist Nicole on a perilous high-seas expedition to find a legendary Greek Opal - ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: sea monster, giant squid, creature feature, survival, vengeance, adventurer, danger, escapades, creature, treasure hunt, deadly creature, killer animal ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Attack of the Gryphon (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a mystical land torn apart by civil war, a warrior princess must team up with a rival warrior prince to hunt down an evil sorcerer who has summoned a giant flying demon which is terrorizing their land.
Style: exciting, epic, serious
Plot: escapades, civil war, imaginary, good versus evil, supernatural ability, supernatural, rivalry, danger, master warrior, heroes, save the world, uninhibited rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 3.0
 2K
Cyclops (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The corrupt Emperor Tiberius forces his bravest general, Marcus, to subdue the monstrous Cyclops that has been decimating the countryside...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, stylized, suspense ...
Plot: cyclops, good versus evil, legends and myths, danger, state affairs, dangerous animal, escapades, battles, roman empire, imaginary, folk hero, master warrior ...
Time: 1st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Something Beneath (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious
Plot: priest, environmentalism, clergy, deadly creature, survival, supernatural, danger, society, supernatural ability, killer animal, monster, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Movie in collections
 2.3
 247
The Snow Queen (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mysterious presence has threatened humanity for hundreds of years as it lurks in the frozen wastes people avoid. Nearly unnoticed as its power grows, she's been slowly draining the planet of one of its most precious resources. It takes two ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, good versus evil, rivalry, supernatural, imaginary, danger, escapades, heroes, adventurer, curse, monster, soldier ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Amphibious Creature of the Deep (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Indonesia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of ...
Style: serious, scary, mysterious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prehistoric creature, creature feature, deadly creature, killer animal, supernatural, danger, prehistoric animal, escapades, curses spells and rituals, monster, ocean, giant creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head, and battling the Kraken monster.
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, stylized, fairy tale, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot: mythology, legends and myths, monster, greek god, greek mythology, medieval, giant bird, giant monster, good versus evil, myth, sword and sorcery, ancient history ...
Time: ancient times, 1900s
Place: ancient greece, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.4
 2K
Dinocroc (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, crocodile, killer animal, monster, genetic engineering, creature, experiment gone awry, creature feature, chaos, danger, survival, adventurer ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.8
 867
Bugs (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A cop on the track of a criminal finds himself in the midst of an unfinished subway tunnel, when his flashlight reveals a startling discovery: a three metre long scorpion-like Bug. With one slice of its massive tail the bug fells the man and devours ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: monster, insect, creature, dangerous animal, danger, deadly creature, race against time, chaos, special agent, swat, killer animal, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Snakehead Terror (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, natural horror, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer animal, monster, creature feature, isolation, survival, escapades, supernatural, small town life, experiment gone awry, chaos, animal life, disorder ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.7
 2K
Wyvern (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The residents of a small Alaskan town find themselves under attack by a flying reptile known in medieval mythology as a Wyvern. It has thawed from its ancient slumber by melting icecaps caused by global warming.
Style: exciting, bleak, stylized, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dragon, global warming, heroes, creature feature, danger, deadly creature, legends and myths, creature, monster, killer animal, imaginary, chaos ...
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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