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Max Is Missing (1995)
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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:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
treasure hunt, youth, train, heroes, friendship, friends, family life, adventurer, escapades, on the run, teenager, boy, artifact, father son relationship, historian, childhood friend, chases and races, danger, 12 year old, adventure, family
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
peru
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about danger, escapades, heroes, chases and races, rivalry, friends and youth mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Max Is Missing: A Cry in the Wild (1990), The Dinosaur Hunter (2000), Call of the Wild (1992), Green Sails (2000), The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc. (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry animals until or if he is found.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wilderness, youth, dangerous animal, self discovery, isolation, survival, boy, survivor, nature, wilderness survival, sole survivor, forest ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
yukon, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 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:
dinosaur, paleontologist, treasure hunt, adventurer, inventions and discoveries, escapades, hunter, race against time, youth, rivalry, child hero, prehistoric animal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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, realistic, serious
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, survival, animals, wilderness, inventions and discoveries, friendship, daring rescue, heroes, escapades, adventurer, treasure hunt, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, yukon, london, england, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
As a plea-bargain to clear their school records, a group of misfit teens ventures into the majestic but unforgiving wilderness to help a young naturalist save the vanishing wolves. After they encountered unexpected incident, they are aided by the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wolf, animals, nature, misfit, wilderness, youth, survival, heroes, adventurer, rescue, escapades, animal life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader to guide him through his struggle, he travels to the jungles of Indonesia where a tribe--wrongly ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
strong female character, heroes, injustice, escapades, jungle, dishonesty, workplace situations, tribe, corruption, environmentalism, corporation, environmental ...
Time:
90s
Place:
indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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, switching roles, dishonesty, daring rescue, prodigy, mistaken identity, family life, prison ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, lost city, murder, treasure, expedition, graphic violence, chase, betrayal, adventurer, dishonesty, ancient mystery ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
653
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage, it suffers a severe technical failure, killing the controller and gradually increasing its already high speed, at the rate of 2 more miles per ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
train, runaway train, railway, catastrophe, disaster, forces of nature, hijacking, technology gone awry, confined, save the day, androids and robots, rivalry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of scouts stumble onto a cache of stolen weapons hidden in a forest. They meet up with a girl and get involved with the men who originally stole the weapons. The men try to shoot the scouts every time - but are thwarted at the end.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
forest, dead children, lumberjack, wilderness, scout, criminal's revenge, rivalry, escapades, confined, good versus evil, crime gone awry, heroes ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
793
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
island, pirate, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, estrangement, confined, isolation, family life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, treasure hunt ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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158
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropics of Central America. Helen is an amateur, making her money as an illegal arms trader to Central ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, smuggling, secret agents, chase, stalking, espionage, heroes, special agents, undercover, on the run, rivalry, embezzlement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When an expert counterfeiter finds himself in debt to a dangerous bookie and on the run from the mob, he races to clear his name and settle the score.
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
on the run, betrayal, forgery, rivalry, dishonesty, friends, friendship, bookies, city life, bet, father son relationship, hospital ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, sheik, treasure hunt, auto racing, age difference, cross dressing, woman dressed as man, dishonesty, heroes, adventurer, confined, rivalry ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Family, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While widowed Porter Ricks is away at school learning to be a park ranger, his teen-aged son, Sandy, under adult supervision from a neighbor, remains at the family home in the Florida Keys with his pet dolphin, Flipper. While Po (as Porter is called ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, cult film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
ocean, island, beach, youth, animals, dolphins, daring rescue, gangsters, confined, young heroes, pirate, buddies ...
Time:
60s
Place:
bahamas, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
314
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, save the day, survival, escapades, race against time, pregnancy, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse, catastrophe, forces of nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, manhunt, wilderness, tribe, hunter, on the run, adventurer, cannibalism, culture clash, nature, desert, chase ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An archaeologist smuggles a valuable ancient jewel into the US. He is soon murdered by people looking for the jewel, but he had hidden it. The killers, believe that his widow knows where the artifact is hidden, go after her.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
jungle, woman in danger, treasure hunt, escapades, graphic violence, car chase, drowning, female protagonist, murder, cemetery, warehouse, archaeologist ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of specially designed barges. They set out to thwart this terrible ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot:
yacht, spy, military, ocean, state affairs, undercover, espionage, conquering, heroes, ship, sailing, sea ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
germany, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Style:
semi serious, touching, emotional, feel good, cult film
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
disney, youth, aging, runaway, camp, family relations, mountain lion, animal life, friends, adventurer, heroes, escapades ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A luxury cruise liner is requisitioned by the Greek government in an attempt to give safe passage to national treasures worth millions of pounds. The liner is attacked by an art collector who finds out about the plan. During the hijack the liner ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, heroes, rivalry, race against time, obsessive quest, escapades, confined, one man army, rescue, heroic mission, terrorism, legends and myths ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Summer 1985. The headlines dominates of the hunt of a foreign submarine in the Stockholm archipelago. A group of young teenage boys makes unexpected discoveries.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
island, amateur detective, young heroes, friends, family relations, escapades, heroes, love and romance, youth, teenage love, friendship between boys, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, confined, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, rescue, psychopath, captivity, kidnapping, woman in danger, snow, serial killer, erotic thriller ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton becomes embroiled in a last minute AWOL attempt by one of his soldiers — forcing him to choose between ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
military, soldier, military life, moral dilemma, on the run, friendship, wartime life, military base, family problems, life is a bitch, superior officer, iraq war ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, uplifting, exciting
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
adventurer, environmentalism, extinction, human spirit, panda, conservation, dealing with death, heroes, hopes, escapades, dangerous animal, estate ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
china, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby ...
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
car, chase, on the run, car chase, on the road, programmer, police, helicopter, nurse, baby, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a professor from gangsters who want a stone tablet that she has discovered may lead to untold riches.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, martial arts, kidnapping, archaeologist, art, gangsters, battles, friends, daring rescue, rivalry, gang, escapades ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot:
boy, youth, leaving home, friendship, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, escapades, starting over, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, u.s. navy, disaster, rescue, drowning, daring rescue, survival, nuclear submarine, heroes, save the day, tough heroes, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the older brother (Tommy Nash) he idolizes is run off the road by a ruthless drug dealer (Darren Thomas) during a nighttime street race known as Sepulveda Suicide, Rick Merchant (Jaz Martin) channels his grief into getting revenge behind the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
street racing, car chase, contests and competitions, rivalry, vengeance, auto racing, car racing, gangsters, car accident, motorcycle, drug dealer, strip club ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
716
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, prodigy, coming of age, on the run, survival, young heroes, heroic mission, against humanity, youth, war, rivalry ...
Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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