Movies like Sands of the Kalahari

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Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
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Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, desert, airplane crash, nature, hunter, lost world, explorer, baboon, creature feature, plane crash survivor, heroes, dangerous animal, disaster, isolation, leadership, escapades, rivalry, danger, confined, wilderness, forces of nature, rivals, human nature, uninhibited rivalry, violent content ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about danger, escapades, survival, wilderness, heroes, disaster and forces of nature mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sands of the Kalahari: Wolf Totem (2015), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), The Naked Prey (1965), The Delta Factor (1970), Follow the River (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wolf Totem (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: forces of nature, wolf, survival, dog, wilderness, tradition versus modernity, medieval, danger, society, wolf pack, disaster, wild animal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1969
Place: china, mongolia
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic ...
Plot: survival, jungle, animal attack, dangerous animal, colonialism, adventurer, lion, danger, hunting, obsessive quest, heroes, creature feature ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 90s, 1890s
Place: africa, kenya, south africa, london
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The Naked Prey (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, tribe, hunter, manhunt, on the run, cannibalism, native, danger, adventurer, culture clash, desert ...
Time: 19th century, 60s, 1800s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
The Delta Factor (1970)
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, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, cia, prison, island, kidnapping, rescue, special agent, injustice, righting the wronged, captivity, wrongfully committed, heist ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Follow the River (1995)
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, kidnapping, wilderness, native american, survival, danger, captivity, native, culture clash, settler, colonial america ...
Time: 18th century
Place: virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Beyond the Reach (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, desert, wilderness, hunting, chase, hunter, isolation, witnessing a crime, travel, thirst, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, mojave desert, new mexico
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92%
White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa
Style: talky, melancholic, enigmatic, exciting, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, obsession, wilderness, hunting, movie business, elephant, storytelling, obsessive quest, friendship, danger, friends, racial slur ...
Time: 50s, year 1990, 20th century, 1950s
Place: africa, uganda, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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The Edge (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, marital infidelity, bear attack, hunter, crash, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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The Grey (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: world war two, aviation, flying, airplane, air disaster, world war, photojournalism, female journalist, exotic locale, pilot, u.s. air force, disaster ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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St. Helens (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, volcano, volcanic eruption, survival, climate, darkness, evacuation, escapades, society, journalism, danger ...
Time: year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place: oregon, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, airplane, save the day, danger, survival, heroes, spouse in danger, forces of nature, air disaster, military, volcano, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Call of the Wild (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: dog, survival, wilderness, german shepherd, stranded, canine, landscape, animal, escapades, pets, rivalry, contests and competitions ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
Place: alaska, canada, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Sky's on Fire (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The ozone is depleted and as a result of this all sorts things are happening like lethal insects flying around. A scientist tries to warn everybody about this but no one seems to believe him. When his predictions come true they now turn to him for ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, environmental, dystopian future, anti hero, danger, dangerous animal, save the day, race against time, rescue, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Deadliest Sea (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Plot: ship, survival, coast guard, escapades, danger, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, sea, boat, battles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska
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85%
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Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
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The Red Tent (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Style: historical drama, realistic, serious, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: survival, aviation, disaster, arctic, interwar period, conquistador, post soviet, space, winter, 007, nature, rescue attempt ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, destiny, hijacking, money, aviation, robbery, perfect crime, murder, intrigue, bare breasts, nudity, missing person ...
Time: year 1981, 70s
Place: washington state, portland oregon, seattle, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Coast of Skeletons (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot: treasure hunt, investigation, private detective, danger, cons and scams, dishonesty, escapades, insurance fraud, husband wife relationship, hidden treasure, insurance company, prospector ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, post world war two
Place: africa, london, england
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83%
Dead in 5 Heartbeats (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Adapted from the successful novel, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, by Ralph "Sonny" Barger with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. The story follows the Infidelz MC's former President, Patch Kinkade, who has left his personal demons behind for the calm ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: motorcycle race, gang, rivalry, betrayal, vengeance, biker, social relations, motorcycle chase, dishonesty, tough heroes, bike, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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83%
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, survival, cruise ship, ship, natural disaster, christmas, greed, new year's eve, ocean, daring rescue, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
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83%
Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions ...
Style: rough, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: survival, animal attack, crocodile, cave, survival horror, adventurer, dangerous animal, hunting, underwater, stranded, wilderness, beast ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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83%
A Far Off Place (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 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, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, teens, adult
Plot: desert, survival, friendship, poacher, youth, rescue, adventurer, jungle, on the run, gang, teenage life, love story ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 108 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: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new zealand
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83%
Turbulent Skies (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own, is about to have its first flight. But the son of the owner decides to upload more software, he doesn't bother to check if there are any viruses ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: airplane, computer virus, save the day, danger, hijacking, chaos, rivalry, race against time, escapades, space travel, aviation, pilot ...
Time: 21st century
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83%
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Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
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82%
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Stranded (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, captivating, serious, period drama
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: pirate, island, danger, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, estrangement, confined, family life, isolation, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: thailand
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82%
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, hostage, train, save the day, race against time, danger, ransom, tunnel, confined, mind game, law enforcement, subway ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The 7th Dawn (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Style: independent film, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, military, politics, wilderness, british empire, world war, safari, battles, british colonialism, artificial intelligence, war, heroes ...
Place: asia, malaysia, russia
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Water & Power (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: law enforcement, danger, siblings relations, survival, political corruption, twins, police corruption, graphic violence, violent content, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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82%
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