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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, treasure hunter, lost treasure, train, heroes, friendship, friends, family life, adventurer, chases and races, escapades, danger, on the run, boy, artifact, father son relationship, historian, adolescence, childhood friend, indiana jones, teenager, family, 12 year old, adventure
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
peru
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Most similar movies to Max Is Missing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about danger, escapades, heroes, chases and races, treasure hunt, rivalry and family mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Max Is Missing: A Cry in the Wild (1990), The Vivero Letter (1999), The Dinosaur Hunter (2000), Call of the Wild (1992), Green Sails (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, independent film
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wilderness, youth, skinny dipping, boy, dangerous animal, danger, self discovery, isolation, wilderness survival, survivor, grizzly bear, nature ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
yukon, canada
Similarity:
100%
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:
cliffhanger, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, lost city, expedition, treasure, lost treasure, treasure hunter, murder, violent content, escapades, adventurer, dishonesty, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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:
33%
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, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, german shepherd, survival, wilderness, stranded, landscape, canine, animal, daring rescue, pets, adventurer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, canada, england, london, yukon
Similarity:
32%
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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, escapades, danger, injustice, dishonesty, workplace situations, corporation, environmentalism, corruption, environmental, conspiracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
indonesia, asia
Similarity:
29%
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:
independent film, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, kidnapping, martial arts, archaeologist, lost treasure, treasure hunter, art, gangster, rivalry, master criminal, daring rescue, one man army ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
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:
independent film, exciting, serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wolf, naturalist, nature, misfit, wilderness, friends, animal life, danger, escapades, survival, rescue, adventurer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
28%
914
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 173 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, danger, island, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, estrangement, confined, isolation, family life, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
28%
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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:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a treasure more valuable than gold. Crossing paths with some of the West’s most notorious figures, the three outlaws fight for ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, unlikely partners, on the run, bounty hunter, escapades, danger, friendship, partner, chases and races, old west, conspiracy, civil war ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dead children, forest, lumberjack, wilderness, woods, crime gone awry, escapades, danger, confined, heroes, criminal's revenge, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
175
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:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
smuggling, canuxploitation, embezzlement, rivalry, stalking, chase, undercover, chases and races, on the run, espionage, danger, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
central america
Similarity:
24%
733
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:
action thriller, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
runaway train, stepmother, railway, train, disaster, forces of nature, hijacking, technology gone awry, heroes, on the run, save the day, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
24%
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:
young heroes, amateur detective, friends, family relations, love and romance, escapades, danger, heroes, youth, teenage love, friendship between boys, teenage boy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Simon, an adopted boy of a Danish couple visiting Kenya with his mother, goes missing in Kibera slum. When his mother offers a reward on TV, the kidnappers are on the run.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
missing person, social differences, parents and children, danger, youth, family relations, society, friendship, culture clash, escapades, getting home, kidnapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young American boy spends his summer in Ireland and solves the mystery that captivates the entire village. Driven by curiosity and his own search for meaning in life, he faces his fears and discovers the Secret of the Cave.
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, captivating
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, family relations, supernatural, young heroes, escapades, miraculous event, legends and myths, parents and children, christian, treasure hunt, coming of age, treasure hunter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, seattle
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A couple of youngish adventurers go into the wilderness of British Columbia in search of a lost colleague. Their plane crashes and they find themselves at the mercy of a crazed old Scottish miner, who has lived in isolation for many decades ...
Style:
retro, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure hunter, survival, gold, lost treasure, killer, aviation, airplane crash, hunter, cowboy, mine, murder ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
british columbia, europe, scotland, alaska
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, jungle, diamonds, topless woman, ex nazi, gold, bounty hunter, amazon, adventurer, danger, jungle adventure, cannibalism ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Far from home in the lush bamboo forests of China, ten-year-old Ryan Tyler, with the help of a young girl, goes on a wonderful journey to rescue a baby panda taken by poachers.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, scary, sweet, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, girls' night
Plot:
panda, poaching, survival, animal, poacher, human animal relationship, family relations, coming of age, bear, treasure hunt, parents and children, friends ...
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
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, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
violent content, woman in danger, jungle, treasure hunt, danger, escapades, chases and races, exhumation, jewelry, grave, burglary, death of husband ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
21%
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:
rescue, confined, heroes, obsessive quest, rivalry, treasure hunt, danger, race against time, escapades, one man army, chases and races, heroic mission ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
21%
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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:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, snow, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, confined, chases and races, rescue, danger, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, captivity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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, native, on the run, cannibalism, danger, adventurer, culture clash, desert ...
Time:
19th century, 60s, 1800s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
danger, space station, collision, escapades, save the day, meteorite, scientist, society, space adventure, nasa, lgbt, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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, serious, realistic, uplifting, exciting
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
adventurer, environmentalism, extinction, danger, human spirit, panda, conservation, escapades, heroes, hopes, dangerous animal, couple relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
china, new york
Similarity:
20%
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, independent film
Plot:
spy, yacht, military, sailing, ocean, espionage, state affairs, danger, undercover, conquering, heroes, ship ...
Time:
1900s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
germany, britain, england
Similarity:
20%
747
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, survival, prodigy, boy genius, coming of age, young heroes, on the run, heroic mission, danger, against humanity, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
20%
371
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, heat wave, medicine, nypd, hospital, quarantine, danger, escapades, chases and races, race against time, couple relations, plague ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
20%
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