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Master of Dragonard Hill (1987)
368
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and suspected criminals with a painful whip called the "dragonard."
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
Plot:
black slave, slave trade, human exploitation, rebellion, island, heroes, adventurer, injustice, escapades, rivalry, danger, against the odds, slavery, army, violence, female nudity, slave, murder, battles, racism, villain, dictator, nobleman, scotsman, seductress ...
Time:
middle ages, 18th century
Place:
caribbean, fictional island
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Most similar movies to Master of Dragonard Hill
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, adventurer, treasure hunt and murder mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Master of Dragonard Hill: Dragonard (1988), The Delta Factor (1970), Follow the River (1995), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965), Kidnapped (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
363
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1747, a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugar-planters. When caught having sex with his owner's wife, Abdee is given 100 lashes with the ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
corporal punishment, sugarcane, sex scene, female nudity, human exploitation, slave trade, adultery, slavery, punishment, caribbean sea, beefcake, sexploitation ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
caribbean, fictional island, jamaica, south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Action-packed espionage thriller based on a book by Mickey Spillane. A man who has been framed for a large-scale robbery escapes from prison, but is caught and given a choice between returning behind bars and working for the CIA. He is enlisted to ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, prison, spy, nudity, drug, mission, helicopter, secret agent, fortress, dictator, female nudity, scientist ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american white relationships, colonialism, wilderness, survival, native, danger, captivity, culture clash, settler, colonial america, escape, pioneer ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
slavery, racism, slave, black slave, civil war, oppression, social injustice, interracial relations, plantation, sadism, brutality, violence ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
kentucky
Similarity:
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542
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot:
pirate, pirate ship, captain, courage, kidnapping, ocean, adventurer, danger, orphan, soldier, rivalry, corrupted ruler ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
europe, scotland
Similarity:
21%
754
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, psychotronic ...
Plot:
beach, forbidden love, disaster, pacific island, natural disaster, island, parent child relationship, escapades, opposites attract, love and romance, danger, injustice ...
Time:
year 1979, 1920s
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
dog, german shepherd, survival, wilderness, stranded, landscape, canine, animal, daring rescue, pets, adventurer, contests and competitions ...
Time:
19th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, canada, england, london, yukon
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, adventurer, amazon tribe, mad scientist, nazi hunter, amazon river, betrayal, investigation, chase, heroic mission, daring rescue ...
Time:
1940s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s, year 1965 ...
Place:
south america, usa, brazil
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Halfwit Indian Akaena promises a fictitious treasure to anyone who takes her down south where the sun always shines. Trapper Bill Robinson, an honest fur trader in Alaska, refuses to sell his dog sled to dishonest miner Mike Williams, who steals it ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, spoof ...
Plot:
mountain, survival, danger, rivalry, bounty hunter, heroes, dishonesty, escapades, on the run, chases and races, daring rescue, manhunt ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that Unk can claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, independent film ...
Plot:
literary, pirate, sailing, captain, pirate ship, historical event, sea, courage, intrigue, kidnapping, ship, escapades ...
Time:
18th century, year 1971
Place:
scotland, europe, highlands, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure ...
Style:
cult classic, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
treasure, treasure hunt, pirate, treasure map, ship, swashbuckler, blind character, courage, siege, sailing, betrayal, chase ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
fictional island, caribbean, israel, england
Similarity:
20%
264
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An Old South plantation owner lusts after his female slaves.
Style:
grindhouse, sensual, surprise ending
Plot:
interracial sex, brother sister sex, slave, exploitation, erotica, sex with sister, slavery, violence, black, human exploitation, blaxploitation, racism ...
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, village life, missing person, danger, hostage, terrorism, rivalry, intrigue, race against time, rescue, mercenary, jungle adventure ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
19%
914
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Swiss Family Robinson story.
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, captivating, serious, period drama
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
pirate, danger, island, daring rescue, family relations, family in danger, estrangement, confined, isolation, family life, father son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure
Country: Ukraine, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer who sets out from Italy to find his missing father, and along the way finds danger, excitement, and amazing discoveries at every turn. The supporting ...
Style:
independent film, serious, captivating, exciting, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
medieval, chivalry, sorcery, explorer, rivalry, ambition, rescue, adventurer, good versus evil, master warrior, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
13th century, middle ages
Place:
italy, asia, venice
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
ocean, sailing, ship, boat, survival, captain, attempted rape, courage, die hard, pirate ship, sea voyage, pirate ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
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308
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 222 min.
Story:
Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck.
Attempting to claim ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating
Plot:
pirate, kidnapping, orphan, heroes, heroic mission, teenage life, daring rescue, escapades, treasure hunt, good versus evil, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
scotland, europe, highlands
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling ...
Style:
classic horror, psychotronic, gothic horror, offbeat, grindhouse ...
Plot:
smuggling, ghost, scarecrow, swamp, supernatural, monster, secret identity, attempted rape, occult, folk horror, 666, pirate ...
Time:
18th century, future
Place:
england
Similarity:
19%
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:
50s, year 1955, 1950s
Place:
asia, borneo
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, epic
Plot:
crusade, battles, medieval, friendship, military, heroic mission, politics, society, rivalry, state affairs, pope, religions or cults ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 11th century, 12th century
Place:
europe, israel, holy land
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, coast guard, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, boat, sea, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to ...
Style:
saga, captivating, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
viking, medieval, battles, paganism, vengeance, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, escapades, love and romance, murder, young lovers, renewed love ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 9th century
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his ...
Style:
funny, mesmerizing, epic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
love story, time machine, hunchback, disguise, swashbuckler, older man younger woman relationship, murder, betrayal, countryside, father daughter relationship, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
18th century, year 1997, 17th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader to guide him through his struggle, he travels to the jungles of Indonesia where a tribe--wrongly ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
strong female character, heroes, escapades, danger, injustice, dishonesty, workplace situations, corporation, environmentalism, corruption, environmental, conspiracy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
indonesia, asia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
1547 Fernando De Gama, a young "Soldier of Fortune" from Portugal, set sail for the ient in an effort to find a man who murdered his father and, with luck, like many of their compatriots, to make his fortune. A vicious storm in the Indian ...
Style:
realistic, epic, serious, rough, surprise ending
Plot:
tudors, medieval, treasure hunt, dishonesty, state affairs, adventurer, royal family, legend, manhunt, love and romance, master warrior, rivalry ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
18%
368
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wet Gold is the story of a young woman (Laura), who works as a waitress in a cafe. Laura stumbles across a drunk elderly man (Sampson), who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that went down with millions in gold. Although Laura's ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
ocean, sailing, scuba diving, bare legs, greed, gold, underwater, jealousy, sailboat, treasure, betrayal, paranoia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
key west florida
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
investigation, treasure hunt, paranoid, escapades, dishonesty, cons and scams, private detective, danger, diamond, ex nazi, woman in a bikini, insurance company ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
africa, london, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of scouts stumble onto a cache of stolen weapons hidden in a forest. They meet up with a girl and get involved with the men who originally stole the weapons. The men try to shoot the scouts every time - but are thwarted at the end.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dead children, forest, lumberjack, wilderness, woods, crime gone awry, escapades, danger, confined, heroes, criminal's revenge, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
18%
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