Movies like Roar 1981
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Roar (1981)
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, mondo, creepy, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
tiger, lion, lion cub, animal attack, leopard, cat, experiment, blood, human animal relationship, bare chested male, survival, travel, murder, wildlife, lonely, manhunt, problem, elephant, struggle, animal, family relations, chase, jungle, vegetarian, heroes ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s, year 1981
Place:
africa
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Most similar movies to Roar
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and exciting films with plots about danger, escapades, survival, heroes, chase, animal and dangerous animal mostly in Adventure, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Roar: Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), Cheetah (1989), Survival Quest (1989), Beyond the Reach (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a native village is apparently terrorized by a Lion, the local sergeant enlists the help of a veterinarian working at a nearby animal study center. It is soon discovered that the Lion has a unique problem, it has double vision due to the fact ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
jungle adventure, animal, cat, explorer, lost world, lion, veterinarian, poacher, disability, animal life, family relations, black market ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, scenic, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, animal attack, dangerous animal, jungle, adventurer, colonialism, lion, danger, obsessive quest, creature feature, heroes, greed ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1800s, turn of the century, 90s ...
Place:
africa, south africa, east africa, kenya, london
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set it loose so that it can learn to hunt and be free. However, when the animal is captured by poachers planning to ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
animal, teenage girl, summer vacation, poacher, wild animal, jungle, cheetah, coming of age, teenage boy, mother daughter relationship, girl, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
africa, kenya, usa, california, hawaii
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this exciting live-action adventure, young Mowgli, an orphan raised by wolves, is spotted by a scout for a giant circus. Accompanied by a cruel hunter and a snake charmer, the scout sets out to trap Mowgli. But with the help of Baloo the bear and ...
Style:
semi serious, intense, sweet, unusual plot structure, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot:
jungle, monkey, jungle book, chase, elephant, jungle adventure, youth, bear, escape, disorder, animal life, feral man ...
Time:
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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, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, murder, treasure hunt, mountain, rivalry, danger, hostage, manhunt, camping, skinny dipping, river ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, montana
Similarity:
88%
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:
atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, desert, hunting, chase, hunter, isolation, witnessing a crime, travel, thirst, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, mojave desert, usa, new mexico
Similarity:
87%
87K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
Similarity:
87%
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:
86%
48K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Iceland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fight for survival when a bloodthirsty lion starts to stalk them.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
animal attack, killer animal, survival horror, father daughter relationship, animal, wild animal, lion, rescue, wilderness, monster, wilderness survival, dangerous animal ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, cult classic, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing
Plot:
desert, culture clash, tribe, wilderness, on the road, rivalry, danger, heartwarming, wild animal, african, road trip, animal ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Whispers, an innocent and adorable baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his loving mother, Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast ...
Style:
scenic, colorful, captivating, touching, serious
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
elephant, adventurer, wilderness, jungle adventure, survival, animal life, friendship, jungle, danger, parents and children, rescue, poacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. Meanwhile, the leopard begins to hunt the inhabitants of the island.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame
Plot:
hunter, jungle, lost soul, creature, big game hunter, interracial relations, temple, leopard, ruins, handicapped, voice over narration, creature feature ...
Time:
year 1978
Place:
southeast asia, asia, thailand
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A scientist desperate for funding accepts an offer from a shadowy organization. In exchange for funding they demand that he create an unimaginable weapon for them: a killer dinosaur.
Style:
psychotronic, futuristic, suspense, scenic, exciting ...
Plot:
dinosaur, creature feature, killer animal, monster, animal attack, giant monster, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, distopia, escapades, heroes, human animal relationship ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into ...
Style:
scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
grizzly bear, national park, camping, park ranger, hunter, bear, creature feature, helicopter pilot, wilderness, animal attack, rabbit, killing a horse ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
dog, animal, youth, saint bernard dog, family relations, friendship, family life, partner, best friend, friends, escapades, odd couple ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Plot:
mutant, dinosaur, alligator, creature feature, crocodile, experiment gone awry, survival, danger, dangerous animal, chaos, laboratory, escapades ...
Time:
prehistory, jurassic, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, mexico
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 91 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:
independent film, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle adventure, escaped killer, wasteland, wilderness, manhunt, gang, chase, escape, hostage, captivity, chases and races, prison ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
83%
9K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by lions.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, perverse, tense ...
Plot:
animal attack, wilderness, nature, stalking, survival horror, survival, dangerous animal, danger, poaching, family life, escapades, creature ...
Time:
jurassic
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped serial killer.
Style:
scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot:
grizzly bear, youth, woods, confined, dangerous animal, danger, animal attack, survival, isolation, wilderness, bear, killer animal ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
animal attack, killer shark, dangerous animal, beach, shark attack, danger, save the day, ocean, killer animal, shark, blood, water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When ...
Style:
intense, tense, serious, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
jungle, chase, gorilla, animal, giant animal, beast, friendship, poacher, giant monster, kaiju, transformation, dangerous animal ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
africa, los angeles, california, uganda, usa ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized ...
Plot:
killer shark, shark, shark attack, creature feature, dangerous animal, eaten alive, underwater, monster, dinosaur, danger, gory, giant monster ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, light
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wilderness, tour guide, disorder, escapades, fish out of water, culture clash, on the road, danger, goofy hero, nothing goes right, desert, african tribe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
johannesburg south africa, africa
Similarity:
82%
266
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, snake, crash, chase, survival, dangerous animal, danger, on the run, creature feature, pursuit, daughter, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
82%
148K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, jungle, treasure, buddy, bounty hunter, lone hero, chase, tough guy, fight, gold, amazon rainforest, respect ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, los angeles, south america, california
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
Style:
spoof, humorous, feel good, not serious, parody
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, friendship, fish out of water, gambling, escapades, mischievous children, nothing goes right, buddies, disorder, rescue, danger ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
Style:
natural horror
Plot:
disaster, animal attack, car crash, creature feature, horse, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, small town, dog, police, little girl, truck ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Voracious sharks use human bodies to build dams.
Style:
natural horror, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
shark, monster, shark attack, animal attack, killer animal, creature feature, creature, killer shark, giant animal, dam, sharksploitation, murder ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Benji has become stranded on a remote island after a boating accident. He finds himself struggling to survive in the wilderness, avoiding close encounters with a wolf, a bear, and a territorial female cougar with her cub.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, light ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
wilderness, dog, animal, fox, camp, forest, survival, raccoon, hunter, lost at sea, canine, camping trip ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, usa
Similarity:
81%
730K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style:
suspense, scary, classic horror, natural horror, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, shark attack, creature feature, ocean, beach, fear, killer shark, boat, monster, dangerous animal, great white shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
boston, fictional island, persia, oceania, long island ...
Similarity:
81%
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