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Walkabout (1971)
29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aborigine boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.
Style:
road movie, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, surreal, scenic, meditative, touching, cerebral, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, teenager, boy, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash, language barrier, children, wildlife, hunting, ritual, killing an animal, uncle niece relationship, hunter, kids in trouble, female nudity, mountain, swimming, ranch ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, sydney australia, adelaide south australia, new zealand
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Most similar movies to Walkabout
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and weird films with plots about nature, survival, wilderness, storytelling, journey, mentor and runaway mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Walkabout: Lost in the Barrens (1990), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Leave No Trace (2018), Passion in the Desert (1997), Lord of the Flies (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Style:
intercultural, suspense
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wilderness, survival, bear attack, snow, nature, treasure hunt, winter, friendship, coming of age, man versus nature, orphan, bonding ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, forest, nature, veteran, trust, teenage girl, survivalist, trauma, wilderness, hitchhiking, woods, freezing ...
Time:
2010s, future, 90s, near future
Place:
oregon, washington state, xian, portland oregon, utah ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel ...
Style:
spiritual, cerebral, melancholic, meditative, depressing ...
Plot:
nature, shaman, amazon tribe, amazon river, amazon jungle, jungle, medieval, amazon rainforest, latin american history, wilderness, friendship, existentialism ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015
Place:
south america, colombia, spain, latin america
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style:
touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place:
australia, africa, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style:
intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
wilderness, river, coming of age, friendship, survival, summer, nature, camping, youth, camp, mountain climbing, chess ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jordan, UK, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Style:
captivating, realistic, tense, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
desert, coming of age, world war one, survival, bedouin, arab, boy, sheik, journey, escapades, danger, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1916, 2010s, 1920s
Place:
middle east, jordan, saudi arabia, africa, arabia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style:
retro, disturbing, anthropological, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
jungle, tribe, adoption, jungle adventure, slavery, sex trafficking, rain forest, amazon rainforest, pagan, coming of age, female nudity, survival ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.
Style:
independent film, cult classic, existential, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
rain forest, soldier, jungle, native, journey, murder, doctor, orphan, mountain, army, jaguar, good guy ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
central america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style:
atmospheric, scenic, epic, meditative, factual ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wilderness, survival, native, hunting, mountain man, native american, revenge, mountain, rocky mountains, grizzly bear, indians, trapper ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1972
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, north america
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, black and white, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, island, desert island, bullying, innocence lost, survival, children, stranded on an island, literary, coming of age, skinny dipping, isolation ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s, future, near future
Place:
fictional island, britain, pacific ocean
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, parody, serious ...
Plot:
tribe, australian aboriginal, swamp, vengeance, murder, love and romance, couples, heroes, couple relations, aborigine, mistaken identity, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 1930s
Place:
australia, oceania, tokyo
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi autobiographical, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, introspection, against the rules, society, elderly, escapades, social misfits, wilderness, indigenous people, self discovery, alienation ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, tasmania
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, scenic, philosophical, anthropological, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, nature, wolf, mountain, scientist, arctic, camping, snow, voice over narration, skinny dipping, environment, dog ...
Time:
year 1983, 1940s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
alaska, usa, canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, sexy, prehistoric, atmospheric ...
Plot:
caveman, survival, neanderthal, cannibalism, prehistoric man, violence, discovery, fire, cannibal, nudity, tribe, ancient history ...
Time:
prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
france, canada, africa, scotland
Similarity:
50%
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21K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, enigmatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
desert, wilderness, hiking, death, wandering, isolation, nature, survival, best friend, walking, mountain, car ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, argentina, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, cerebral, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, home schooling, family drama, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, capitalism, parenthood, children, survivalist, socialism, precocious child, funeral ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place:
washington state, nebraska, new mexico, xian, oregon
Similarity:
39%
696K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style:
philosophical, touching, visually appealing, reflective, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, kids, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
survival, animal, ocean, human animal relationship, loneliness, life & death, stranded, survivor, hopes, beautiful scenery, storm at sea, journey ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
india, america, asia, montreal, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When his grandfather's drive-in cinema and home in the outback town of Wyndham is threatened with demolition, a twelve-year-old Aboriginal boy must journey through Australia's bush country — equipped only with ancient survival skills — ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, friendship, friends, family relations, youth, best friend, desert, society, escapades, aborigine, save the day, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
39%
71K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
Style:
sincere, captivating, exciting, prehistoric, social ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
survival, wolf, wilderness, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, near death experience, boar, medieval, wolf pack, man versus nature ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, future, ancient times
Place:
europe
Similarity:
38%
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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:
38%
139K
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
Similarity:
38%
123K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style:
road movie, psychedelic, independent film, cult classic, avant garde ...
Plot:
road trip, hippie, on the road, existentialism, motorcycle, marijuana, rebelliousness, friendship, biker, self discovery, rock music, stoner ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
california, new mexico, alabama, arizona, louisiana ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, road movie, cerebral, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, brother, childhood, journey, father son relationship, children, survival, parents and children, existentialism, wilderness, road trip, abusive father ...
Time:
year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Style:
visually stunning, bloody, sweet, independent film, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, nature, adoption, wilderness, boy, hunting, juvenile delinquent, fat boy, manhunt, childhood, sarcasm, dog ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
new zealand, indiana, persia, oceania
Similarity:
37%
482K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style:
sentimental, cult classic, atmospheric, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, teenager, boy, children, youth, summer, friends, courage, on the road ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
oregon, usa, normandy
Similarity:
37%
127K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style:
surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, cerebral, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, imagination, escape from reality, suicide, desert, storytelling, stuntman, magic realism, imaginary kingdom, friendship ...
Time:
1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
Similarity:
37%
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