Movies like Kon-Tiki

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Kon-Tiki (2012)
 7.1
 54K
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style: harsh, visually stunning, epic, sexy, inspirational, realistic, exciting, suspense, intense, factual ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ocean, survival, sea voyage, boat, raft, expedition, shark, adventurer, sailing, lost at sea, fish, travel, diary, sea captain, biopic, sea, wilderness, sailboat, starvation, obsessive quest, danger, sea adventure, explorer, storm, runaway ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1947, year 2012, 2010s, 1920s, year 1946 ...
Place: pacific ocean, peru, polynesia, usa, south america, tahiti, new york ...

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Most similar movies to Kon-Tiki

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, visually appealing and exciting films with plots about survival, nature, escapades, wilderness, catastrophe, danger and death mostly in Drama, Adventure and Biography genres. Some movies like Kon-Tiki: Adrift (2018), Everest (2015), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), All Is Lost (2013), Tracks (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Adrift (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
Style: sincere, sad, suspenseful, romantic drama, inspirational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, boat, survivor, water, sailboat, sea adventure, power of love, death, storm, sea, yacht, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1983
Place: tahiti, pacific ocean
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100%
 7.1
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Everest (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Iceland, USA, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style: realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: survival, mountain climbing, mountain, mountaineer, natural disaster, disaster, snow, stranded, forces of nature, frostbite, tragedy, wilderness ...
Time: year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place: mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
Similarity:
100%
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Spain
Duration: 154 min.
Story: 1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Style: inspirational, epic, period piece, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: renaissance, conquistador, adventurer, medieval, native american, ship, new world, tudors, ocean, jungle, nobility, ancient ...
Time: 15th century, medieval times, ancient times, 16th century, year 1941 ...
Place: spain, caribbean, italy, europe, west indies ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.9
 87K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style: harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Tracks (2013)
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%
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style: scenic, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place: ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
50%
 8.2
 36K
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style: breathtaking, cerebral, atmospheric, dramatic, visually appealing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wilderness, forest, wilderness survival, human spirit, cold weather, friendship, survival, hunter, nature, tiger, environment, explorer ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, year 1975, 1910s, 19th century
Place: siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr, persia ...
Similarity:
100%
 8.0
 692K
Into the Wild (2007)
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
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 7.8
 684K
Cast Away (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place: fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.6
 27K
White Squall (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style: inspirational, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot: sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, survival, mentor, life & death ...
Time: 60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place: jamaica, south america, west indies, cuba, connecticut ...
Similarity:
100%
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, stranded on an island, friendship, passionate kiss, destiny, stranded, female nudity, ship ...
Time: year 1997, 18th century
Place: fictional island, oceania, pacific ocean, scotland, london
Similarity:
100%
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style: exciting, tense, period piece, epic, costume drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, navy, naval battle, sea battle, battles, sailing, warship, heroic mission, royal navy, british navy, sea ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place: britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
The Lost City of Z (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Style: inspirational, meditative, period piece, exciting, costume drama ...
Audience: date night
Plot: explorer, jungle, survival, expedition, travel, archaeology, journey, tribe, amazon jungle, conquistador, world war one, destiny ...
Time: 1920s, year 2016, future, 1900s, year 2017 ...
Place: south america, ireland, england, bolivia, america ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.2
 116K
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Style: tense, suspenseful, bleak, harsh, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, survival, soldier, jungle, pow, prisoner, violence, escape, wilderness, prison, struggle for survival, mission ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, year 1965, year 1966, 60s ...
Place: vietnam, laos, iraq, asia, indochina
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
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The Bounty (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, captivating, sexy, epic ...
Plot: ship, mutiny, sea, island, sea voyage, colonialism, storm at sea, journey, royal navy, lifeboat, pacific island, captain ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1984, 1780s, 1930s
Place: england, tahiti, britain, pacific ocean, europe
Similarity:
100%
 7.6
 3K
Shackleton (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
Style: serious, epic, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: adventurer, expedition, explorer, endurance, photograph, against the odds, danger, ambition, forces of nature, nature, survival, sea ...
Time: 1910s, year 1914, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: antarctica, south pole, britain, england
Similarity:
100%
 7.9
 696K
Life of Pi (2012)
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:
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 7.1
 146K
Wild (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style: meditative, road movie, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, starting over, female protagonist, death of mother, tourism, human spirit, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2014, year 1995, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, portland oregon, oregon, usa, mojave desert ...
Similarity:
100%
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 6.7
 70K
Jungle (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, jungle, wilderness, nature, alone, wilderness survival, adventurer, survivor, amazon rainforest, rescue, raft, river ...
Time: year 2017, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1980
Place: bolivia, south america, andes mountains
Similarity:
80%
Christopher Columbus (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, USA
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: The epic mini-series tells the story of the legendary Italian-born explorer Diego de Geona Taino, later known as Christopher Columbus, from his birth in c.1450 Genoa, Italy, to his young adult years as an expert sailor and navigator who, with money ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, factual ...
Plot: expedition, conquistador, ocean, ambition, adventurer, inventions and discoveries, tragic hero, political intrigue, renaissance, medieval, new world, father son relationship ...
Time: 15th century
Place: portugal, spain, europe, atlantic ocean, africa ...
Similarity:
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 6.3
 4K
Abandoned (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: sea, lost at sea, death, desert island, ship, fear, survival, courage, storm, boat, sailing, wilderness survival ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
 6.8
 12K
True Spirit (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world, many expect her to fail. With the support of her sailing coach and mentor Ben Bryant and her parents, Jessica is ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, thought provoking, psychological, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: sea voyage, sailboat, sea adventure, ocean, sailing, sea, boat, life, storm, journey, swimming, seafaring ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.4
 17K
North Face (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 126 min.
Story: North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Style: touching, serious, exciting, captivating, crying ...
Plot: mountain, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, survival, adventurer, wehrmacht, disaster, man versus nature, rivalry, mountaineering, forces of nature ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, alps, germany, swiss alps, bavaria
Similarity:
67%
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Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a ...
Style: breathtaking, philosophical, epic, spiritual, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, adult
Plot: buddhism, beautiful scenery, mountain, expedition, traveler, biopic, world war two, life philosophy, spirituality, wanderlust, travel, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 90s, year 1997
Place: tibet, himalaya, austria, chile, asia ...
Similarity:
20%
 6.6
 267K
The Beach (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style: psychological, scenic, tense, sexy, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, adventurer, tourist, jungle, drug, travel, beach, utopia, desire, hippie, marijuana, survival ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
Similarity:
100%
Society of the Snow (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 144 min.
Story: On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Style: captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, inspirational ...
Plot: survival, airplane crash, mountain, disaster, desperation, crash, photograph, rugby, rescue, struggle for survival, snow, airplane accident ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: andes mountains, uruguay, chile, south america, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.4
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El Dorado (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Style: rough, captivating, bleak, realistic, epic ...
Plot: conquistador, spanish conquest, adventurer, amazon rainforest, treasure hunt, conquering, amazon jungle, colonial america, traveler, biopic, myth, rain forest ...
Time: 16th century
Place: peru, spain, latin america
Similarity:
100%
 7.5
 422K
127 Hours (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place: utah, usa
Similarity:
60%
The Emerald Forest (1985)
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%
The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman is transported to the New South Wales penal colony in 1788.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: human spirit, against the odds, girl heroine, danger, on the run, escapades, female whipping, prisoner, society, injustice, life is a bitch, sailing ...
Time: 18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place: australia, england, europe
Similarity:
100%