Movies like Valley of the Dragons

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Valley of the Dragons (1961)
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Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1881, Michael Denning, an American soldier, and Hector Servadac, a French aristocrat, are about to have a duel over a woman that they both are infatuated with. However, just as the two men are about to shoot at each other, a comet strikes the Earth and the gravitational pull draws in the two men. Michael and Hector soon deduce that this comet has been periodically landing on Earth and gathering people and animals from various eras in time, including people and dinosaurs. The two men then decide to put their differences aside and fight for survival as well as help make peace between two warring tribes of cavemen. Written by Brian Washington
Style: psychotronic
Plot: dinosaur, giant spider, comet, duel, prehistoric man, lizard, caveman, snake, spider, giant monster, space, kaiju, jungle, natural disaster, friendship, earthquake, tribe, neanderthal, irishman, lightning, frenchman, ape man, giant animal, giant lizard, cave ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, 19th century
Place: algeria

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Most similar movies to Valley of the Dragons

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, suspenseful, serious and cult film films with plots about dinosaur, cave, danger, monster, escapades, kaiju and rescue mostly in Adventure, Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Valley of the Dragons: One Million Years B.C. (1966), At the Earth's Core (1976), The Island of the Dinosaurs (1967), The People That Time Forgot (1977), On the Comet (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from ...
Style: exciting, sexy, campy, psychotronic, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: caveman, dinosaur, survival, monster, giant monster, desert, giant spider, stop motion, natural disaster, rivalry, camp, hunting ...
Time: prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory, middle ages, future ...
Place: tokyo
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95%
At the Earth's Core (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like ...
Style: psychotronic, unusual plot structure, campy, humorous, ridiculous ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot: monster, cave, dinosaur, giant monster, space travel, good versus evil, mad scientist, kaiju, weapons, steampunk, distopia, alien ...
Time: victorian era, prehistoric times, future, prehistory, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Island of the Dinosaurs (1967)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of scientists in search of lost Atlantis are plane wrecked on an uncharted island full of stock footage monsters fresh from One Million BC. Occasionally we get an original papier mache monster peaking out from behind an alcove, but for the ...
Style: psychotronic, cult film
Plot: dinosaur, scientist, prehistoric animal, babe scientist, cave, expedition, caveman, helicopter
Time: prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world ...
Style: sexy, entertaining, futuristic, harsh, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, monster, cave woman, island, caveman, submarine, desert, creature feature, adaptation, catastrophe, runaway, mad scientist ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, 80s, 70s, 1910s ...
Place: antarctica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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On the Comet (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story: When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, giant monster, prehistoric animal, sea monster, giant creature, ship captain, monster, sea, ship, guardian, creature ...
Time: 70s, prehistory
Place: north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hammer Film’s follow-up to the successful One Million Years B.C. is set in an ancient past when humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Athletic cavewomen and hairy men wander around, grunting, sweating and occasionally sacrificing evil blonde babes to ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: cave woman, survival, tsunami, prehistoric man, female nudity, chaos, rivalry, heroes, love affair, dinosaur, caveman, male female relationship ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Mysterious Planet (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A spaceship crash-lands on a planet, and the crew is astonished to find that it holds a beautiful woman who can heal the sick and injured and a race of super-intelligent beings.
Style: psychotronic, retro
Plot: erotica, dinosaur, space, swimming, cave, healing, alien, laser gun, sinking ship, climbing, monster, egg ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, world war one, ancient mystery, island, submarine, adventurer, rescue, heroic mission, good versus evil, survival, lost at sea ...
Time: prehistoric times, 1940s, prehistory, year 1916
Place: antarctica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Thailand, Germany
Duration: 172 min.
Story: During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: island, giant spider, pirate, stranded, survival, castaway, escapades, adventurer, rivalry, dangerous animal, rescue, giant lizard ...
Time: 1860s
Place: thailand, virginia, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a 7 year hiatus, Godzilla returned to the screen to take on King Kong in the 3rd film in the Godzilla franchise. A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently ...
Style: campy, psychotronic, satirical, light, ridiculous ...
Plot: king kong, godzilla, giant monster, monster, kaiju, dinosaur, monkey, island, giant ape, jungle, satire, giant creature ...
Time: prehistoric times, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
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Story: Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
Style: epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized
Audience: pre-teens, kids, boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: archaeologist, dinosaur, imaginary kingdom, alien, prehistoric animal, monster, reptiles, dangerous animal, heroes, escapades, rescue, adventurer ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Where Time Began (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also prehistoric animals like some dinosaurs,
Style: natural horror, psychotronic
Plot: dinosaur, prehistoric animal, exploitation, underground, geology, kaiju, bookseller, lava, steampunk, bookstore, diary, mushroom ...
Time: prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this direct-to-video remake, when an accident leaves a group of researchers trapped beneath the earth's crust, it's up to a drill team, led by Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan), to rescue them. But once underground, the team discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, disturbing, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Plot: dinosaur, volcano, adventurer, heroic mission, escapades, daring rescue, deadly creature, reptiles, creature, monster, giant spider, androids and robots ...
Time: prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Mysterious Island (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style: intense, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, stranded, ocean, monster, island, civil war, pirate, castaway, giant bird, giant monster, american civil war, escape ...
Time: 19th century, 50s, year 1865, 1860s
Place: pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
Style: entertaining, feel good, exciting, psychotronic, absurd ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: jungle, island, lost city, atlantis, fantasy world, expedition, legends and myths, beautiful scenery, lost world, gold, teenager, chase ...
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: hawaii, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Style: exciting, fairy tale, ridiculous, breathtaking, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, fantasy world, obsessive quest, adventurer, mysterious place, expedition, twists and turns, rescue, lost world, volcano, natural disaster, cave ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iceland, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
Style: exciting, entertaining, scenic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: monster, giant monster, king kong, creature, survival, giant animal, island, giant creature, chase, monster versus monster, expedition, military ...
Time: 1940s, 70s, year 1944, year 1973, 20th century
Place: vietnam, washington d.c., pacific ocean, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As the first nomadic tribes wander across the vast wilderness of the infant planet they confront hostilities created by the harsh environment and each other. After a massive volcanic eruption a tribal chief is killed and his two sons fight for ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic, vintage
Plot: cave woman, female nudity, caveman, twins, exploitation, prehistoric animal, supernatural, women, ancient history, mute, desert, volcano ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: england, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When brothers Richard and Bryan and young nanny Crystina fall into a hole while exploring one of Hawaii's many volcanic caves, they plummet all the way to the center of the Earth in this adventure loosely based on Jules Verne's classic ...
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
Plot: dinosaur, treasure hunt, volcano, atlantis, monster, expedition, jules verne
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Mexico
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the ...
Style: captivating, psychotronic, suspenseful, anamorphic, perverse ...
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, monster, creature feature, creature, giant animal, destruction, rescue, giant lizard, kaiju, humanity in peril, military ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: japan, boston, antarctica, china, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Mighty Gorga (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A circus owner and a lady trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus.
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, weird, cult film
Plot: kaiju, giant ape, giant monster, monkey, jungle, skeleton, hiking, gorilla, circus, witch doctor, lava, jungle adventure ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.
Style: campy, exciting, serious, psychotronic
Plot: dinosaur, spacesuit, lava, exploitation, monster, venus, kaiju, sword, space, sorority, matriarchy, venus the planet ...
Time: stone age, 1930s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Master of the World (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zeppelin, steampunk, world domination, inventor, alien, aviation, airplane, chaos, anti war, mad scientist, prodigy, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
Style: serious, atmospheric, fairy tale, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, professor, sailor, steampunk, shipwreck, woman dressed as man, deadly creature, daring rescue, good versus evil, escapades, rivalry, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Last Dinosaur (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An aging big game hunter takes on the ultimate challenge - the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex
Style: natural horror, psychotronic
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, tyrannosaurus rex, hunter, giant monster, reptiles, prehistoric animal, hunting, billionaire, prehistoric creature, pteranodon, female photographer ...
Time: prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship ...
Style: psychotronic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, cult film ...
Plot: space and aliens, dinosaur, space exploration, space, monster, astronaut, robot, pterodactyl, kaiju, venus the planet, venus, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, 1930s, prehistory, future, 2000s ...
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Warlords of the Deep (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell disabled, a deep sea monster ...
Style: psychotronic, cult film, retro
Plot: octopus, castaway, atlantis, monster, sword, sea, alien, archaeologist, dinosaur, creature feature, escape, martian ...
Time: 1890s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This Italian-Turkish co-production helmed by genre veteran Antonio Margheriti (using the pseudonym "Anthony M. Dawson") was cobbled together from a four-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television. In prehistoric times, the ...
Style: campy, ridiculous, surreal, futuristic, parody ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: post apocalypse, dinosaur, sword, beast, distopia, monster, caveman, sword and sorcery, desert, barbarian, robot, violence ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, 80s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, obsessive quest, adventurer, daring rescue, escapades, legends and myths, imaginary kingdom, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, curses spells and rituals, professor, scientist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Anak Ng Bulkan (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Remake of the 1959 film Anak ng Bulkan.
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, volcano, flying, friendship, boy, egg, bird
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%