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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
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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: atmospheric, serious, fairy tale, exciting, captivating, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, submarine, steampunk, sailor, shipwreck, professor, creature, animal, heroes, dangerous animal, adventurer, chases and races, isolation, escapades, rivalry, danger, good versus evil, forces of nature, obsessive quest, deadly creature, daring rescue, heroic mission, sea, love triangle, death ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Keyword: ocean or sea, scuba

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, psychotronic and suspenseful films with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, submarine, monster, jules verne and imaginary mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Mysterious Island (1961), Mysterious Island (2010), The People That Time Forgot (1977), Warlords of the Deep (1978), Mysterious Island (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 158 min.
TV show
Story: The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn ...
Style: fairy tale, epic, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: underwater, giant squid, submarine, octopus, creature, animal, adaptation, heroic mission, deadly creature, danger, androids and robots, obsessive quest ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: new england, usa
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
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: gothic horror, epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: pre-teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teens
Plot: dinosaur, archaeologist, imaginary kingdom, reptiles, prehistoric creature, lost world, steampunk, underground, kaiju, explorer, monster, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
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100%
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, fairy tale, mockbuster ...
Plot: heroes, adventurer, heroic mission, obsession, obsessive quest, submarine, daring rescue, supernatural, escapades, danger, underwater, chaos ...
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100%
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: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: stranded, giant bird, american civil war, island, submarine, survival, civil war, castaway, ocean, monster, balloon, giant monster ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mysterious Island (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the ...
Style: intense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, scenic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: giant bird, beast, sea disaster, american civil war, survival, race against time, monster, escapades, union soldier, catastrophe, fantasy world, deadly creature ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century, victorian era
Place: fictional island
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100%
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: exciting, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, daring rescue, escapades, adventurer, obsessive quest, legends and myths, forces of nature, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, inventions and discoveries, underground, explorer ...
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100%
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
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100%
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: retro, psychotronic
Plot: octopus, atlantis, sword and sorcery, underwater, monster, giant monster, dinosaur, sorcery, sea, alien, archaeologist, castaway ...
Time: year 1978, 1890s
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100%
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Some survivors of a drowning ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city, where they may be trapped for the rest of their lives.
Style: psychotronic, natural horror, fairy tale, retro, classic horror ...
Audience: kids
Plot: steampunk, utopia, submarine, underwater, ocean, sea, killer animal, woman with a gun, pirate, giant monster, creature, myth ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, 1870s
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30%
Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
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, pirate, giant lizard, treasure, castaway, stranded, survival, rivalry, danger, escapades, adventurer, rescue ...
Time: 1860s
Place: fictional island, thailand, virginia
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14%
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: grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: steampunk, world domination, zeppelin, inventor, alien, aviation, bare chested male, megalomaniac, ship, father daughter relationship, unrequited love, anti war ...
Time: year 1961, 19th century, 1860s
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26%
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Captain Nemo (1975)
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 203 min.
Story: Based on novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne.
Plot: ocean, submarine, underwater, creature, soviet army, animal, journey, professor, servant, kidnapping, travel, escape ...
Time: 19th century
Place: soviet union
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50%
Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A five man submarine plants sensors around the worlds oceans to monitor for a impending earthquake.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, diving, chess, scuba diving, diver, water, danger, battle of the sexes, chases and races, space and aliens, heroes ...
Time: year 1966
Place: caribbean
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24%
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: balloon, flying, camel, space, steampunk, adventurer, slave girl, escapades, heroes, journalism, danger, treasure hunt ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1860s
Place: africa, west africa, britain
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23%
The Neptune Factor (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
Style: psychotronic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, ocean, giant monster, disaster, diving, kaiju, scuba diving, monster, planet, diver, sea, octopus ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
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22%
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Shark Hunter (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, deadly creature, race against time, obsession, escapades, rescue ...
Time: prehistory
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22%
The Mysterious Island (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Cameroon
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: submarine, lost soul, giant monster, castaway, island, pirate, escapades, danger, chimpanzee, jules verne
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prehistoric animal, underwater, heroes, obsessive quest, obsession, danger, dangerous animal, chases and races, escapades, losing-it hero, rivalry, deadly creature ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: san diego california
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21%
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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: grindhouse, psychotronic, classic horror, retro, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, dinosaur, giant monster, lost world, kaiju, cave, space travel, good versus evil, cave woman, steampunk, sword and sorcery, underground ...
Time: victorian era, prehistoric times, year 1976, 19th century, prehistory
Place: wales, washington d.c.
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21%
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, mockbuster, prehistoric, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot: dinosaur, volcano, adventurer, heroic mission, escapades, daring rescue, imaginary, chases and races, deadly creature, creature, monster, underground ...
Time: prehistoric times
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21%
City in the Sea (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The plot concerns the discovery of a lost city beneath the sea off the coast of Cornwall. Price is the captain overseeing a group of sailors who have lived there for more than a century where the peculiar mix of gases has allowed them to extend ...
Style: classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, semi serious ...
Plot: lost world, edgar allan poe, sea, creature, steampunk, giant monster, adventurer, macabre, animal, monster, submarine, underwater ...
Time: victorian era, 20th century, 1900s
Place: cornwall
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20%
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Silent Venom (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, submarine, underwater, dangerous animal, mutant, survival, military, race against time, save the day, isolation, danger, daring rescue ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia, korea, okinawa japan
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20%
Odysseus & the Isle of Mists (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years.The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrible to tell, the missing book of the Odyssey ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, fairy tale ...
Plot: deadly creature, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, escapades, danger, heroes, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, goddess, odyssey, mythology ...
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and ...
Style: independent film, captivating, semi serious, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: steampunk, spacesuit, alternate history, space race, moon, disorder, adventurer, space and aliens, chases and races, escapades, contests and competitions, imaginary ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967
Place: england, siberia, scotland yard
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19%
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
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19%
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Jabberwock (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn ...
Style: exciting, serious, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: heroic mission, daring rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, escapades, imaginary kingdom, rivalry, imaginary, danger, dragon, legends and myths, medieval ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day people in order to battle the King of Atlantis, who is under the control of a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
Style: psychotronic, fairy tale, exciting, tense, semi serious
Plot: ocean, underwater, disaster, creature, animal, adventurer, battles, exotic island, danger, obsessive quest, mad scientist, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978, 1860s
Place: washington d.c., pacific ocean, fictional island
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19%
Sinbad and the Minotaur (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sinbad, armed with rumors of ancient gold, finds himself sneaking into the desert camp of the evil sorcerer Al-Jibar. Hidden among the many relics is an ivory scroll case containing the logs of the pirate Captain Minos, which will lead Sinbad to the ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
Plot: folk hero, wizards and magicians, deadly creature, treasure hunt, escapades, danger, imaginary, good versus evil, medieval, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, rivalry ...
Place: europe, greece
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19%
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style: melancholic, talky, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, betrayal, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark ...
Time: future, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york
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19%
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Before he died, Dar's father gave a mysterious amulet to Tal, Dar's younger brother who is now king. Dar, while wandering with his animal companions, chances to meet and rescue a family who seek the help of King Tal against Lord Agon, a ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sword and sorcery, barbarian, sorcery, medieval, sword, wizards and magicians, myth, wizard, villain, ancient, mythology, peplum ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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