Movies like The Vivero Letter
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The Vivero Letter (1999)
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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 ancient ruins. Unfortunately, almost every member of the group has plans to double-cross the others. All is resolved in bloody fashion in the middle of the jungle wilderness.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, lost city, murder, treasure, expedition, betrayal, graphic violence, chase, adventurer, escapades, wilderness, ancient mystery, dishonesty, female nudity, archaeologist, river, ruins, death of brother, chases and races, danger, adventure, crimes
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and exciting films with plots about danger, chases and races, escapades, chase, rivalry, deadly and murder mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Vivero Letter: Blue (2009), A Cry in the Wild (1990), After the Storm (2001), River of Death (1989), King of Africa (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Blue is set in the breath taking sun soaked white sand beaches of Bahamas. Sagar is an excellent deep sea diver who dreams of getting his own new boat someday while his friend Aarav is a rich arrogant businessman, whose ego is much larger than the ...
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exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, chase, escapades, adventurer, betrayal, ocean, journey, tomb, secret place, legends and myths, riddles and clues, ancient ...
Place:
india
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100%
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:
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Place:
yukon, canada
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100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On the run from smugglers and the police, world-weary scavenger Arno (Benjamin Bratt) takes a job as a courier for a tycoon. But when the tycoon's yacht goes down in a storm, can Arno partner with a fellow sea scavenger to loot the ship's ...
Style:
serious, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
gangsters, adventurer, rivalry, escapades, manipulation, rescue, gigolo, fisherman, treasure hunt, criminal's revenge, betrayal, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bahamas
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33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, mad scientist, adventurer, betrayal, investigation, chase, heroic mission, daring rescue, vengeance, rivalry, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 60s, year 1965, year 1945
Place:
south america, usa, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
wasteland, escaped killer, gang, wilderness, chase, manhunt, escape, hostage, captivity, heroes, prison, rescue ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, jungle, amazon, topless woman, bounty hunter, diamonds, adventurer, dangerous animal, gold, cannibal, archaeologist, jungle adventure ...
Time:
80s
Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
boat, river, graphic violence, nude, stalking, soldier, escapades, on the run, psychopath, forces of nature, family in danger, strong sexual content ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, murder, treasure hunt, rivalry, hostage, mountain, nature, rock climbing, camping, killer, manhunt ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
263
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!
Style:
rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, hitman, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, nude, couples, clergy, hotel, infidelity, woman in danger, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Wealthy, Manhattanite brothers Dylan, Logan and a group of their friends head to Brooklyn for a concert when they meet notorious gangster, Simon and make an ill-advised deal with him. Soon, things go wrong and now the group is desperately running ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, crime gone awry, escapades, chase, drug dealing, isolation, survival, disorder, on the run, confined, deathtrap, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
331
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female psychopath, heist, power relations, estrangement, family relations, disorder, siblings relations, riddles and clues, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, on the run, treasure hunt ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, car chase, bounty hunter, psychopath, blaxploitation, track down, investigation, rivalry, graphic violence, martial arts, deadly, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, gang, cons and scams, buddies, chase, crime gone awry, dishonesty, desert, ex convict, graphic violence, friends, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A rookie cop becomes the chief suspect in the killing of some of his crooked cohorts.
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
police, nude, graphic violence, police detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, good versus evil, investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an American soldier’s Black Ops Unit is ambushed during a raid to rescue a nano-nuclear device that has fallen into the wrong hands, he must run for his life to not only track down the missing device, but also clear his name when he is ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ...
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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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination, hitman, terrorism, suicide, mad scientist, hostage, poison, chase, government agency, state affairs, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
viking, monk, heroic mission, heroes, chase, escapades, monastery, master warrior, medieval, nordic, norse mythology, gospel ...
Time:
middle ages, 8th century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Maverick downhill racer, Tyler Crowe, reunites with best friend and renegade snowboarder, Mark Rider. It doesn't take long for the old friends to take on a new mission. Together they head to Alaska, where led by a veteran guide, the two attempt ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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22%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prehistoric animal, obsession, obsessive quest, heroes, escapades, dangerous animal, rivalry, losing-it hero, deadly creature, giant monster, submarine, animals ...
Time:
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Place:
san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A soldier-of-fortune steals some Russian nerve gas from Afghanistan, and brings it to the U.S. to be analyzed. A greedy millionaire rancher finds out about it and sets out to steal it.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, disturbing
Plot:
treasure hunt, uncover truth, riddles and clues, escapades, investigation, rivalry, cardinal the priest, leonardo da vinci, murder, archaeologist, cave, hiding place ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 282 min.
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Story:
Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit is a 2008 American miniseries. It consists of three parts: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit, Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb and Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
archaeologist, treasure hunt, adventurer, treasure map, ancient mystery, relic, ancient egypt, riddles and clues, lost treasure, chase, mythology, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
After his photojournalist brother gets killed by a white tigress in the jungles of the Sundarbans, Pandit and his team of commandos enter the prohibited core area of the forest to avenge his death.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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