Movies like Sahara 1983
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Sahara (1983)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, sheik, woman dressed as man, treasure hunt, auto racing, cannon, valet, age difference, treasure hunter, cross dressing, crossdresser, racing, prison, heroes, kidnapping, missing person, adventurer, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, danger, confined, dishonesty, wedding, escape ...
Time:
year 1983, 1920s, 20s
Place:
ottoman empire, africa, morocco, detroit, sahara, north africa
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Most similar movies to Sahara
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, adventurer, rivalry, treasure hunt and chases and races mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Sahara: The Wind and the Lion (1975), Ashanti (1979), Lost Treasure (2003), Beyond Justice (1991), Follow the River (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Style:
epic, scenic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, politics, desert, rescue, boy, battle of the sexes, invasion, cavalry, german soldier, sword fight, u.s. president, sword duel ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, year 1975, 1930s, 90s
Place:
morocco, north africa, washington d.c., africa, tangier morocco ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, village life, missing person, danger, hostage, terrorism, rivalry, intrigue, race against time, rescue, mercenary, jungle adventure ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A paint is stolen from a building during a great fire and after recovered, the police finds inside it a mysterious map. A police officer responsible for the case ask his brother, who is an antiques expert, to help him during investigations. ...
Style:
suspenseful, touching, suspense, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, good versus evil, escapades, danger, chase, rivalry, treasure, heroes, treasure hunter, police, archaeologist, jungle ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him ...
Style:
suspense, action thriller, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fortress, tough guy, terrorist, collision, rescue, heroes, desert, kidnapping, danger, dishonesty, intrigue, confined ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american white relationships, colonialism, wilderness, survival, native, danger, captivity, culture clash, settler, colonial america, escape, pioneer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A bush pilot is hired for $250,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.
Style:
light, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, false accusation, chase, fugitives, danger, manhunt, runaway, escape, rescue, captivity, prison life, helicopter ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
mexico, latin america, ireland, boston
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, adventurer, amazon tribe, mad scientist, nazi hunter, amazon river, betrayal, investigation, chase, heroic mission, daring rescue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s, year 1965 ...
Place:
south america, usa, brazil
Similarity:
23%
368
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson), who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that went down with millions in gold. Although Laura's ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
ocean, sailing, scuba diving, bare legs, greed, gold, underwater, jealousy, sailboat, treasure, betrayal, paranoia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
key west florida
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, tense, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
adventurer, dinosaur, treasure hunt, paleontologist, inventions and discoveries, escapades, hunter, race against time, youth, rivalry, prehistoric animal, child hero ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style:
harsh, suspense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, airplane accident, aviation, disaster, crash landing, sahara desert, thirst, isolation, pilot ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
sahara, libya, africa, middle east
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on Louis L'Amour novel, The Diamond of Jeru tells the story of an American scientist and his wife who hire an ex-pat war veteren to act as a guide on a journey up an unchartered Borneo river in search of diamonds.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, adventurer, diamond, bounty hunter, daring rescue, escapades, danger, treasure hunt, archaeologist, treasure hunter, lost treasure, hostage ...
Time:
50s, year 1955, 1950s
Place:
asia, borneo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, chase, escapades, obsessive quest, airplane, adventurer, one man army, survival, danger, aviation, wilderness, treasure hunter ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1547 Fernando De Gama, a young "Soldier of Fortune" from Portugal, set sail for the ient in an effort to find a man who murdered his father and, with luck, like many of their compatriots, to make his fortune. A vicious storm in the Indian ...
Style:
realistic, epic, serious, rough, surprise ending
Plot:
tudors, medieval, treasure hunt, dishonesty, state affairs, adventurer, royal family, legend, manhunt, love and romance, master warrior, rivalry ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot ...
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revolutionary, exotic locale, trucker, fictional country, truck, arab, desert, chase, rebellion, military, on the run, escapades ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa, middle east
Similarity:
21%
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, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
leopard, male nudity, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, humanity, loneliness, brutality, soldier, wilderness, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time:
regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place:
egypt, sahara, france, ottoman empire, africa ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, desert, airplane crash, baboon, airport, attempted rape, cave, thirst, hunting, helicopter, locust, big game hunter ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A boy and his dad take a trip to Peru, but when they are accidentally separated he is given a mysterious mask that makes him a target for ruthless tomb raiders.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, lost treasure, treasure hunter, youth, danger, on the run, chases and races, escapades, adventurer, heroes, train, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
peru
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot:
desert, treasure hunt, obsessive quest, on the road, escapades, biopic, landscape, artists and showbiz, performer's life, albino, painting, goat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sexy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, sword and sorcery, matriarchy, amazon tribe, snake, sorcery, semi nudity, treasure hunter, lost treasure, jungle adventure, woman with a gun, sorority ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, prison, spy, nudity, drug, mission, helicopter, secret agent, fortress, dictator, female nudity, scientist ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. ...
Style:
grindhouse, realistic, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
highwayman, nudity, outdoor sex, cheating wife, wedding night, adulteress, female nudity, evil woman, guard dog, seductress, secret passageway, vanity ...
Time:
17th century, year 1983
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old temple. It is encrypted with the location of the long lost Seal of Solomon, which, according to ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
archaeologist, archeological dig, adventurer, desert, heroes, rivalry, escapades, danger, legends and myths, chases and races, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
20%
308
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min.
Story:
Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck.
Attempting to claim ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating
Plot:
pirate, kidnapping, orphan, heroes, heroic mission, teenage life, daring rescue, escapades, treasure hunt, good versus evil, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
scotland, europe, highlands
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
jungle, tarzan, kidnapping, nude bathing, female protagonist, public nudity, sexual awakening, father daughter relationship, skinny dipping, rescue, no bra, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, future
Place:
africa, west africa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, ...
Style:
scenic, touching, exciting, atmospheric, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, adult
Plot:
desert, survival, friendship, poacher, adventurer, youth, rescue, jungle, on the run, gang, love story, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
africa, canada, australia, alaska
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, India, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
on the run, desert, leadership, lone wolves, redemption, rivalry, danger, vengeance, change of heart, outlaw, manhunt, warrior ...
Place:
asia, himalaya, india
Similarity:
20%
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 ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, touching, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
tarzan, jungle, adventurer, culture clash, stranded, orphan, feral man, unrequited love, ape, animal cruelty, justice, rescue ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 1900s ...
Place:
africa, england, london, united kingdom, europe ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, saga, epic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
viking, medieval, chivalry, barbarian, ancient, knight, epic battle, sword duel, swashbuckler, storm at sea, semi nudity, sea ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 10th century
Place:
scandinavia, north africa, africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When young computer genius Rudy inherits his father's business his avaricious uncle has him kidnapped and held hostage until the boy signs off all rights to the lucrative enterprise. Not wanting the uncle to control, a pair of corporate ...
Style:
exciting, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
kidnapping, baseball, youth, lookalikes, disorder, prodigy, switching roles, daring rescue, dishonesty, danger, mistaken identity, family life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and suspected criminals with a painful whip called the "dragonard."
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
black slave, slave trade, human exploitation, rebellion, injustice, island, against the odds, adventurer, danger, escapades, heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
middle ages, 18th century
Place:
caribbean, fictional island
Similarity:
19%
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