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Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
7K
Original name: Tarzan the Ape Man
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Tarzan story from Jane's point of view. Jane Parker visits her father in Africa where she joins him on an expedition. A couple of brief encounters with Tarzan establish a (sexual) bond between her and Tarzan. When the expedition is captured by savages, Tarzan comes to the rescue
Style:
sexy, humorous, fairy tale, semi serious, psychotronic, erotic, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, satirical ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
jungle, tarzan, kidnapping, nude bathing, female protagonist, public nudity, father daughter relationship, skinny dipping, sexual awakening, rescue, fight, mountain, abduction, swimming, gorilla, lion, legend, journey, lust, voyeur, python, death of father, mysterious man, no bra, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, future
Place:
africa, west africa
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Most similar movies to Tarzan, the Ape Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, independent film, realistic and melancholic films with plots about danger, jungle, escapades, survival, jungle adventure, wilderness and death mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Tarzan, the Ape Man: King Kong (2005), Sheena (1984), Africa (1999), Hotel Colonial (1987), The Legend of Tarzan (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, touching, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
tarzan, jungle, adventurer, culture clash, stranded, orphan, feral man, unrequited love, ape, animal cruelty, justice, rescue ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 1900s ...
Place:
africa, england, london, united kingdom, europe ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, scenic, action adventure, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
king kong, creature, jungle, dinosaur, giant animal, monster, gorilla, giant ape, beast, rescue, island, dangerous animal ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Sheena's white parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey are forced to flee while ...
Style:
sexy, epic, cult classic, anamorphic, sex comedy ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
jungle girl, jungle adventure, jungle, bare breasts, nudity, bow and arrow, female hero, comic book, chase, skinny dipping, superheroine, lion ...
Time:
1930s, 80s
Place:
africa
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80%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While in South Africa a troubled fashion model must struggle to survive after a car accident leaves her stranded in the African bush. When she wakes up, she fights her way through the wilderness, struggling to survive the harsh conditions.
Plot:
jungle, skinny dipping, car wreck, worry, wilderness, cobra, model, fashion model, fashion, manager, dinner party, lion ...
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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:
year 1997, 19th century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious, fast ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adventurer, jungle, archaeologist, treasure hunter, hunter, woman with a gun, beautiful scenery, disaster, cannon, lost treasure, missing person, jungle adventure ...
Time:
victorian era, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
africa, south africa, east africa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marco Veniera goes to Bogota, Columbia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And ...
Style:
independent film, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
child trafficking, erotica, colombian drug cartel, conflict, jungle, mistaken identity, uncover truth, dishonesty, drug dealing, danger, terrorism, drug dealer ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
colombia, latin america, new york, brazil, venice ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Style:
visually stunning, scenic, exciting, fairy tale, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly, manly, family outing, girls' night, teens
Plot:
jungle, tarzan, feral child, superhero, lone hero, slavery, animal attack, revenge, brutality, animal, colonialism, geopolitics ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 2016, 2010s, future ...
Place:
africa, congo, united kingdom, london, england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, stranded on an island, friendship, passionate kiss, destiny, stranded, female nudity, ship ...
Time:
year 1997, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, oceania, pacific ocean, scotland, london
Similarity:
100%
900
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A practical joke ends up very wrong in Nigina Sayfullaevas curious youth drama. Two seventeen year old Moscow girls, Olya and Sasha, are visiting Olya's long lost father who lives in Crimea, when they decide to switch places and pretend to be ...
Style:
serious, emotional, captivating, social, neurotic ...
Plot:
teenage girl, friends, father daughter relationship, friendship between girls, deception, teenager, family relations, pretense, family reunited, family conflict, lie, teenage life ...
Place:
soviet union, black sea, crimea, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The international criminal Vinaro enjoys sending explosive wristwatches to his enemies.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
tarzan, jungle, lost city, bare chested male, beefcake, explorer, lost world, jungle adventure, monkey, gold, boy, city ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
38%
29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style:
road movie, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Young women have an adventure in the African jungle - where they are harassed by gentle men, and wild monkeys.
Style:
erotic, independent film
Plot:
jungle, nudism, native, trauma, sex on a sofa, nudity, bare butt, wildlife, erotica, sexploitation, chase, female nudity ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
50%
855
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are ...
Style:
romantic drama
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, jungle adventure, human animal relationship, lion, explorer, safari, lost world, wilderness, youth, stepfather, husband wife relationship, girl ...
Place:
africa, kenya, east africa
Similarity:
36%
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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
36%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, philosophical, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
leopard, male nudity, exhibitionism, sahara desert, desert, bedouin, humanity, loneliness, brutality, soldier, wilderness, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time:
regency period, 18th century, year 1997, 1790s
Place:
egypt, sahara, france, ottoman empire, africa ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A thinly fictionalized account of a legendary movie director, whose desire to hunt down an animal turns into a grim situation with his movie crew in Africa
Style:
enigmatic, talky, melancholic, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, obsession, wilderness, movie business, elephant, storytelling, obsessive quest, danger, friends, friendship, racial slur, treasure hunt ...
Time:
50s, year 1990, 20th century, 1950s, 70s
Place:
africa, uganda, london, texas, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Follows the tale of a young woman’s sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, grindhouse, sex comedy ...
Plot:
sex scene, bullfighter, lust, erotica, loss of virginity, virgin, orgasm, impotence, blonde, coming of age, american abroad, seduction ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
spain, europe, north africa, morocco
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sex comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, nude bathing, lesbian, skinny dipping, sexploitation, public nudity, bisexual girl, bare breasts, sex scene, promiscuous woman, voyeur, adultery ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in ...
Style:
anamorphic, serious, surreal, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, survival, youth, 10 year old, bare chested male, boy, nature, homeless, homeless man, tragedy, wilderness, orphan ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
treasure hunt, chase, escapades, obsessive quest, airplane, adventurer, one man army, survival, danger, aviation, wilderness, treasure hunter ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
35%
621
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, France, Finland, Germany, Brazil, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences ...
Style:
semi serious, independent film
Plot:
rain forest, skinny dipping, indigenous people, tribe, environmental, love affair, culture clash, destiny, heist, survival, escapades, treasure hunt ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, finland
Similarity:
35%
986
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This road picture follows a dope fiend named Rick, who believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is obsessed with Ginger, watches her movies obsessively, and ...
Style:
buddy comedy, semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
drug dealer, porn star, outdoor sex, obsession, obsessive quest, unemployed, drug dealing, self discovery, on the road, unfaithful boyfriend, older woman younger man, nudity ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place:
beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style:
retro, disturbing, anthropological, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
jungle, tribe, adoption, jungle adventure, slavery, sex trafficking, rain forest, amazon rainforest, pagan, coming of age, female nudity, survival ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, india
Similarity:
35%
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:
grindhouse, independent film, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, sheik, woman dressed as man, treasure hunt, auto racing, cannon, valet, cross dressing, age difference, crossdresser, treasure hunter, racing ...
Time:
year 1983, 1920s
Place:
ottoman empire, north africa, detroit, africa, morocco ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tarzan is summoned to Brazil by an old friend to stop an evil tribal cult from destroying native villages and enslaving the survivors. The Lord of the Jungle is accompanied on his quest by a pretty blonde doctor, a boy and a grizzled sea captain.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
tarzan, boat, lost world, monkey, jungle adventure, explorer, river, bare chested male, native, vaccination, human versus animal, fistfight ...
Time:
year 1967
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Style:
melancholic, inspirational, serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
wilderness, aviation, rescue, loneliness, courage, human spirit, airplane, opposites attract, danger, daring rescue, save the day, against the odds ...
Time:
1920s, year 1985, 80s, year 1918, 70s
Place:
texas, new jersey, california
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous ...
Style:
touching, harsh, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, nature, utopia, village, obsessive quest, danger, mental illness, father son relationship, rain forest, inventor, missionary, social commentary ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south america, central america, latin america, usa, baltimore ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: West Germany, Ghana
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires ...
Style:
surreal, intense, meditative, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
slave trade, culture clash, treasure hunt, slavery, female warrior, character study, rescue, complex characters, survival, political unrest, master and servant, rebelliousness ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987
Place:
africa, brazil, latin america, west africa, germany ...
Similarity:
34%
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