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Colossus and the Headhunters (1963)
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Colossus and the Headhunters (1963)
Original name: Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Maciste and his people flee their volcano-ravaged island. They end up caught in between two warring tribes.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: peplum, warrior, mothra, island, volcano, volcanic eruption, tribe, swimming, sword, sword fight, fire, blind man, bounty hunter, savage, sailboat, fall in love, strongman, blood, male female relationship, blindness, bow and arrow, raft, ruins, decapitation, wound ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, exciting, homoerotic and serious films with plots about peplum, sword fight, warrior, sword, battles, sword and sandal and bare chested male mostly in Adventure, Action and Romance genres. Some movies like Colossus and the Headhunters: Triumph of Maciste (1961), Samson Against the Pirates (1963), The Vengeance of Ursus (1961), The Last of the Vikings (1961), Kindar the Invulnerable (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Wandering strongman Maxxus comes upon two warring tribes, the Sun worshipers and the Moon worshipers...and fights monsters !
Style: grindhouse
Plot: peplum, dragon, dinosaur, warrior, sorcery, sword and sorcery, monster, creature, sacrifice, battles, decapitation, volcano ...
Time: prehistoric times, stone age
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Triumph of Maciste (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The evil Queen Tenefi demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire. Maciste intervenes and saves from this sacrifice a village's women including the beautiful Antea. Maciste then becomes involved in an effort to ...
Plot: peplum, warrior, evil queen, sword and sorcery, sorcery, magic, human sacrifice, traitor, lion, merchant, volcano, trance ...
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Samson Against the Pirates (1963)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A terrible pirate terrorizes the Antilles plundering ships, slaughtering their crews and selling women as slaves. One of the women asks Sansone for help.
Plot: peplum, swashbuckler, semi nudity, ship, pirate, camp, showdown, combat, trapdoor, pirate captain, acrobat, beefcake martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, War
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The daughter of a noble man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero. Repackaged from an original Sword-and-Sandal italian film.
Plot: peplum, sword and sorcery, camel, semi nudity, sorcery, superpower, bare chested male, son, horse riding, princess, good versus evil, prince ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A rebel leader returns to his city for a final confrontation with the evil king he is fighting. However, he finds himself attracted to the king's beautiful niece.
Plot: peplum, warrior, showdown, horseman, girl fight, heroes, battles, desert, gladiator, ambush, wrestling, swordsman ...
Place: arabia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Vengeance of Ursus (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. He wants to marry her so he can take over her kingdom and add it to his own. When Sira is kidnapped, Ursus leaves his farm to rescue her and to eventually lead a revolt against King ...
Plot: peplum, warrior, gladiator, falsely accused, rebellion, strong man, bare chested male, superpower, horse riding, swimming, princess, wine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Last of the Vikings (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this historical drama, a Viking prince returns to his homeland only to learn that his father has been murdered by King Sven of Norway. Sven is forcing his sister to marry in order to create an alliance with the Danes. The prince must defeat Sven ...
Plot: viking, peplum, medieval, warrior, knight, barbarian, revenge, legion, sorcery, sword and sorcery, vigilante, prince ...
Time: medieval times, year 1961
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Kindar the Invulnerable (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, Egypt
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An evil bandit kidnaps a sultan's son and raises him but finds the son has magic powers.
Style: independent film, period drama
Plot: peplum, warrior, camel, myth, arabian nights, mythology, bare chested male, fall in love, sword fight, superhuman powers, battles, belly dancing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Alone Against Rome (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Roman Consul, on his way to fight a border war, stations a garrison of soldiers in a provincial town. The townspeople aren't happy with this situation but decide it's in their best interests to cooperate. However, the Tribune left in ...
Plot: peplum, gladiator, ancient rome, ancient, roman empire, combat, showdown, army, roman, sword, dungeon, battlefield ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Taur the Mighty (1963)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The warlike men of Kixos murder the king of Surupak and abduct his two daughters, Jia and Tuja. Jia's bridegroom Syros asks the mighty warrior Taurus for assistance. Taurus faithful companion Ubaratuta will give Taurus a hand to defeat the ...
Plot: barbarian, semi nudity, peplum, king, combat, showdown, camp, battles, heroes, superhuman powers, adventure hero, martial arts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Giants of Rome (1964)
Genre: Adventure, War
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An elite group of soldiers led by the courageous Claudius Marcellus are handpicked by Julius Caesar to embark on a desperate and dangerous suicide mission to destroy the Druids' secret weapon.
Style: fast paced
Plot: peplum, ancient rome, roman soldier, roman empire, warrior, ancient, ancient world, sword and sorcery, sorcery, soldier, bare chested male, buddy ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Ironmaster (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession ...
Style: fantasy adventure, cult classic, exciting, serious, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tribe, sword and sorcery, sorcery, muscleman, barbarian, sword, caveman, erotica, woman with a gun, wizard, ancient history, ancient ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, prehistoric times
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Gladiator of Rome (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.
Plot: peplum, gladiator, warrior, ancient rome, ancient, slave girl, bare chested male, senator, christian, slave labor, forest, roman ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Fury of Achilles (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
Style: homoerotic
Plot: peplum, ancient, antiquity, warrior, ancient world, troy, greek mythology, myth, slave girl, hopes, god, battles ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.
Style: biblical, psychotronic, homoerotic
Plot: peplum, gladiator, warrior, arena, myth, mythology, historical event, ancient world, rebellion, companionship, battles, heroes ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Sansone contro il corsaro nero (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: aka Hercules and the Black Pirates. Brave and noble Samson fights pirates as a soldier in the royal army. He wants to marry lovely fair maiden Rosita, but her haughty governor father disapproves. Meanwhile, the cunning and duplicitous Rodrigo ...
Plot: peplum, hercules, pirate, combat, male female relationship, acrobat, murder, superhero, violence, beefcake, adventure hero, ship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Hercules Against the Barbarians (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: peplum, hercules, warrior, sword and sorcery, barbarian, sorcery, heroes, rescue, battles, legends and myths, battle zone, escapades ...
Time: middle ages, 12th century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Legend of Gingko (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Caught in between an ethnic war, Bee struggles between love and death.
Style: captivating, exciting, disturbing, tense
Plot: warrior, sword, human sacrifice, fight, legends and myths, battles, sacrifice, competitor, supernatural power, male female relationship, bow and arrow, sword fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Erik the Conqueror (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Plot: viking, barbarian, medieval, peplum, historical event, revenge, ancient, knight, sorcery, sword and sorcery, sword fight, battles ...
Time: middle ages, year 1961, medieval times, 9th century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Rebel Gladiators (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.
Plot: peplum, gladiator, greek mythology, slave, ancient rome, arena, prison, jail cell, battles, security guard, heroes, sword fight ...
Time: ancient times
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the ...
Style: hispanic, homoerotic
Plot: peplum, hercules, warrior, swashbuckler, legion, combat, showdown, camp, homosexual subtext, soldier, redhead, banquet ...
Time: 17th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Hercules, Samson & Ulysses (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three strongmen hunt down a murderous sea monster.
Style: psychotronic, homoerotic
Plot: hercules, peplum, sword and sorcery, ancient world, sorcery, greek mythology, lion, sea monster, ancient, gay interest, superhero, horse ...
Place: ancient greece, rome italy, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Vulcan, Son of Giove (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.
Plot: peplum, warrior, mythology, greek mythology, semi nudity, myth, lizard, monster, superhero, bare chested male, dwarf, female fight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Hercules the Invincible (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Hercules battles to save the population from a giant dragon.
Style: biblical, fairy tale
Plot: peplum, hercules, ancient world, warrior, ancient, barbarian, sword fight, lava, amulet, underground city, greek mythology, superpower ...
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a ...
Style: homoerotic
Plot: peplum, warrior, ancient world, muscleman, adventure hero, bare chested male, underground city, one against many, brawl, sunrise, sword and sorcery, underground ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Fury of Hercules (1962)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a tyrannical kingdom there is an evil ruler and a queen who lusts after Hercules who is attracted to a handmaiden. A rebellion overthrows the ruler.
Plot: peplum, hercules, ancient, ancient world, warrior, sword and sorcery, evil, bare chested male, greek mythology, drug, heroes, battles ...
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Magnificent Gladiator (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Roman soldiers capture Attalus (a.k.a. Hercules) in a battle at the fringes of the Roman Empire. They take him back to Rome where his prowess as a gladiator earns the respect of the Emperor Galienus. An ambitious nobleman named Zullo, however, wants ...
Plot: peplum, gladiator, ancient rome, ancient, ancient history, roman, spy, myth, ancient world, roman soldier, antiquity, mythology ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Queen of the Seas (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time...
Plot: pirate, peplum, swashbuckler, captain, courage, jewelry, battles, sailboat, flirting, machete, pirate captain, combat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Atlas Against the Cyclops (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, serious, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: peplum, cyclops, ancient world, warrior, monster, sword and sorcery, sorcery, pluto, soldier, muscleman, bare chested male, hercules ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Maciste In King Solomon's Mines (1964)
Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Maciste is captured and forced to work as a slave in an African mine.
Plot: peplum, warrior, ancient world, muscleman, forced labor, strongman, torture, sword fight, secret passageway, heir to the throne, lion cub, camp ...
Place: rome italy, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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