Movies like Dinosaur Island

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Dinosaur Island (2014)
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Dinosaur Island (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The adventure begins when Lucas, a 13 year old boy, embarks on the vacation of a lifetime. When disaster strikes, Lucas finds himself stranded in a strange land littered with ghost ships and prehistoric creatures. While searching for other signs of life, Lucas hears a radio broadcast in the distance and is drawn into the jungle where he encounters a beautiful young girl who claims to have come from the 1950s. Together they set out on a quest to get home all the while uncovering secrets that will forever change the future.
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, colorful, enigmatic, disgusting, colourful
Plot: dinosaur, children, lost world, time travel, kaiju, teenager, escapades, teenage protagonist, secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, remote island, obsessive quest, riddles and clues, monster, giant monster, air disaster, tribe, pets, treehouse, island, alternate dimension, mystery, pet, adventure

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Most similar movies to Dinosaur Island

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, psychotronic, natural horror and serious films with plots about dinosaur, kaiju, giant monster, escapades, reptiles, monster and danger mostly in Adventure, Sci-Fi and Family genres. Some movies like Dinosaur Island: Dinotopia (2002), My Pet Dinosaur (2017), The Adventures of Jurassic Pet (2019), Prehysteria! 3 (1995), Prehysteria! 2 (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dinotopia (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 250 min.
TV show
Story: Carl and David, two boys flying a small aircraft over the ocean with their father, crash land near an uncharted island. The boys swim safely to shore, but their father unfortunately drowns in the crash. On their own, the brothers explore the island ...
Style: serious, exciting, feel good, colorful, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, utopia, giant creature, expedition, island, dangerous animal, sibling rivalry, family relations, human animal relationship, imaginary kingdom, tyrannosaurus rex, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Pet Dinosaur (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. ...
Style: sincere, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, friendship, government, teenage life, danger, animal life, survival, adventurer, youth, allies, escape from custody, child ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Côte d'Ivoire
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, try to protect them from hunters who want to capture them.
Style: serious, weird
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, lost world, kaiju, giant monster, reptiles, monster, giant creature, prehistoric creature, explorer, jungle adventure, expedition ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1985, 80s, prehistory
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Adventures of Jurassic Pet (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An adventurous teenager summons the courage to help a friendly dinosaur to escape from the clutches of a mad scientist that wants to use him for experimentations.
Style: sweet, touching, sincere, compassionate, disturbing
Audience: kids, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, pets, scientist, adult child friendship, research laboratory, best friend, egg, experiment, friendship, adventurer, teenager, child protagonist ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 3.8
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Prehysteria! 3 (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The dinosaurs help young Ella and her family save their mini-putt business.
Style: gay cinema
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, prehistoric animal, kaiju, golf, monster, giant monster, miniature golf, family relations, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, uncle niece relationship, parent child relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Chapter 1, Planet of the Dino-Knights (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Josh Kirby Time Warrior Chapter 1 Planet of the Dino-Knights: In the 25th century mankind has found a device capable of destroying the universe. Irwin 1138 separates the Nullifier into 6 pieces which he scatters throughout time. When the evil Dr. ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, space opera, youth, kaiju, buddies, friendly alien, medieval, knight
Time: medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.1
 572
Prehysteria! 2 (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A rich boy desperate for attention makes friends with the dinosaurs of "Prehysteria!". Prehysteria! 2
Style: independent film, psychotronic
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, prehistoric animal, kaiju, monster, youth, giant monster, governess, toy train, rich, family relations, stop motion, wealth ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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, underground, kaiju, lost world, prehistoric creature, reptiles, explorer, exploitation, prehistoric animal, steampunk, geology, lava ...
Time: prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 112
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.
Style: independent film
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, giant monster, volcano, flying, boy, friendship, egg, bird, young
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Gamera the Brave (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Toru Aizawa, a 11 year old boy suddenly finds a tiny egg on a red mysterious stone. the egg hatches and comes out an abnormal little turtle (Toto) which not only grows rapidly, but also flies in the air and even blows fireballs. At the meantime, a ...
Style: exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: giant monster, kaiju, giant bird, gamera, turtle, save the day, dangerous animal, mutant, rivalry, supernatural, escapades, danger ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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: classic horror, natural horror, grindhouse, prehistoric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, monster, island, kaiju, cave woman, submarine, sword and sorcery, reptiles, sorcery, giant monster, desert, cave ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, 1910s, 20th century, prehistory
Place: antarctica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Extinction: Nature Has Evolved (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The amazing footage you will see in this documentary was recorded during an expedition to the Amazon in South America. It has been assembled as per the camera time codes. It has not been altered or tampered with in any way and after extensive ...
Style: mockumentary
Plot: dinosaur, lost world, found footage, jungle adventure, amazon, jungle, reptiles, monster, survival, witch, animal attack, giant monster ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A scientist's kids are sucked into a TV screen and wind up in the Stone Age with cavemen and dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, feel good, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, kaiju, animal, puppet, kidnapping, prehistoric animal, giant monster, heroes, imaginary, youth, danger, space and aliens ...
Time: prehistory, 1900s, prehistoric times, stone age
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the ...
Style: captivating, enigmatic, semi serious
Audience: kids, teen fantasy, family outing
Plot: teenager, time traveler, back in time, changing the past or future, time travel, family secret, escapades, adventure hero, time loop, magical, time warp, teamwork ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Captain Nova (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
Style: futuristic, captivating, disturbing, entertaining, inspirational
Audience: family outing
Plot: time travel, sent to the past, time traveler, girl heroine, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time jump, heroine, save the world, time warp, teamwork ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Dinotopia (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Frank Scott, a wealthy American, crashes his plane into the Caribbean. His two teenaged sons, Karl and David, survive, only to find themselves castaways on Dinotopia. Karl and David are constantly at odds, even as they struggle to adjust to life in ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting, spiritual ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, danger, survival, siblings relations, escapades, utopia, lost world, island, misfit, talking animal, love interest, marooned ...
Time: medieval times
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In his 13th film, Godzilla takes a supporting role to the far more prominently featured Jet Jaguar, an Ultra-Man like robot. Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race. Jet Jaguar decides to stop the ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, classic horror, fast, semi serious ...
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, robot, monster, cyclops, lost civilization, dinosaur, creature, giant robot, kidnapping, superman ...
Time: jurassic, 70s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Prehysteria! (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young boy and his family embark on a series of adventures when the boy finds some mysterious eggs which hatch to reveal a brood of baby dinosaurs.
Style: independent film, humorous, feel good, offbeat, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, single parent, kaiju, stop motion, prehistoric animal, giant monster, kids and family, monster, family relations, museum, youth, heroes ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 1993, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Gamera vs. Guiron (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.
Style: daikaiju, psychotronic, classic horror, cult classic, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, monster, gamera, giant monster, deadly creature, mutant, evil alien, alien, turtle, reptiles, killer animal, dinosaur ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Lost World (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a ...
Style: scary, serious, stylized, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: lost world, dinosaur, dangerous animal, jungle, expedition, exploration, adventurer, time travel, monster, supernatural, stranded, imaginary ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
100 Million BC (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a ...
Style: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, exciting, natural horror ...
Plot: dinosaur, time travel, tyrannosaurus rex, lost world, time portal, experiment gone awry, heroes, chaos and mayhem, imaginary, fish out of water, creature feature, creature ...
Time: future, 1940s, prehistory, year 1950, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Space Warriors (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
Style: captivating
Plot: children, competition, nasa, space shuttle, coming of age, astronaut, female scientist, saving a life, scientist hero, teamwork, fraud, young heroes ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Gamera vs. Viras (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A group of aliens from another planet head for Earth with the intentions of conquering it. Their first ship is destroyed in transit by the giant flying turtle Gamera. A second ship makes it to Earth and captures two Boy Scouts and holds them captive ...
Style: daikaiju, suspense, grindhouse, natural horror, classic horror ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, gamera, monster, deadly creature, turtle, prehistoric creature, dinosaur, killer animal, reptiles, boy scout, alien ...
Time: prehistory
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
Style: exciting, humorous, stylized, mockbuster, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, boys' night, family outing, kids
Plot: dinosaur, lost world, island, survival, disorder, missing person, isolation, forces of nature, chases and races, supernatural, adventurer, escapades ...
Time: prehistory
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.
Style: entertaining, colorful, profound, mysterious, philosophical ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teen fantasy ...
Plot: time travel, teenager, rage, evil, journey, fear, courage, parents and children, good versus evil, siblings relations, magic, love ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Gamera vs. Monster X (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A giant creature attacks Japan during the World Fair and it's up to Gamera to stop it. But the monster injects Gamera with its offspring and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate the parasite.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, daikaiju ...
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, turtle, save the world, mutant, heroic mission, danger, superhero, good versus evil, rescue ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Land of the Lost (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Land of the Lost is a half-hour Saturday-morning children's series that debuted on ABC in the fall of 1991. Re-runs were later picked up by Nickelodeon. Tiger Toys received the license to produce a toyline based on the series, which included ...
Style: retro
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, portal, volcano, family relations, parallel universe, lost world, teenager, prehistoric animal, missing person, reptiles, kaiju, prehistoric creature ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Age of Dinosaurs (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit and terrorize Los Angeles, a former firefighter must rescue his teenage daughter from the chaos ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, mockbuster ...
Plot: dinosaur, lost world, genetics, chase, genetic engineering, danger, dangerous animal, chaos and mayhem, parents and children, confined, monster, animal attack ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Gamera vs. the Deep Sea Monster Zigra (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A moon base is destroyed by a spaceship with a cluster of gumballs on its head. Later, at Sea World, dolphins are dying mysteriously. Zigra kidnaps two men and two children (one of whom is a Coke addict - Coca-Cola that is) and starts causing ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, mutant, killer animal, spacecraft, dinosaur, reptiles, octopus, mothra, prehistoric creature ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Jurassic Attack (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While returning from a military expedition a helicopter crash lands a commando unit in a dense, remote tropical jungle – a lost world populated by dinosaurs. Now they must find a way out of this isolated valley before becoming prey for prehistoric ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, jungle adventure, mad scientist, helicopter crash, lost world, prehistoric animal, military, jungle, eaten alive, island, giant monster ...
Time: jurassic, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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