Obsessive quest movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant obsessive quest movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, stylized, serious, action adventure, entertaining and captivating films and TV shows about / with obsessive quest, escapades, danger, heroes, chase, supernatural, hopes, death, kiss and imaginary plots mostly in Adventure, Action and Fantasy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as obsessive quest: Tomorrowland (2015), Into the Wild (2007), The Time Machine (2002), The Revenant (2015), Sahara (2005), Black Death (2010), The 5th Wave (2016), The Beach (2000), Rim of the World (2019), The Lost Room (2006).

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 6.4
 191K
Tomorrowland (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, France, Canada, UK, China, Italy, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and ...
Style: exciting, visually appealing, thought provoking, visually stunning, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: utopia, youth, young heroes, time travel, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, alternate reality, heroes, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, obsessive quest ...
Time: future, year 2015, 60s, 2010s
Place: florida, new york, paris france, houston texas, africa
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 8.1
 655K
Into the Wild (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style: road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place: alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
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 8.0
 867K
The Revenant (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.0
 103K
Sahara (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, adventurer, treasure hunter, desert, obsessive quest, archaeology, escapades, civil war, good versus evil, danger, buddy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Style: exciting, teen, breathtaking, psychotronic, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, obsessive quest, fantasy world, imaginary, lost world, adventurer, mysterious place, twists and turns, expedition, cave, danger, rescue ...
Time: year 2008, prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s ...
Place: iceland, italy, europe
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 6.4
 51K
Black Death (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, bleak, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: medieval, plague, knight, witch, sword and sorcery, monk, obsessive quest, danger, dealing with death, bubonic plague, inquisition, heroic mission ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century, medieval times, year 2010
Place: england, europe
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 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
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 6.6
 253K
The Beach (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, visual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, travel, adventurer, beach, obsessive quest, exotic island, utopia, tourist, drug, marijuana, jungle, hippie ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
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Rim of the World (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Stranded at a summer camp when aliens attack the planet, four teens with nothing in common embark on a perilous mission to save the world.
Style: action adventure, humorous, light, satirical, enigmatic ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: obsessive quest, child protagonist, summer camp, alien invasion, alien encounter, alien, end of the world, interracial friendship, social misfits, space, apocalypse, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pasadena california, california
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 8.1
 33K
The Lost Room (2006)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, supernatural, alternate dimension, escapades, peril, riddles and clues, heroic mission, obsessive quest, investigator, mistrust, characters in danger, imaginary ...
Time: future, 21st century
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Style: exciting, semi serious, dark fantasy, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, pre-teens
Plot: strong female character, archaeologist, mummy, egyptology, adventurer, obsessive quest, adventuress, sister sister relationship, pterodactyl, dinosaur, steampunk, monster ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2010, victorian era
Place: egypt, paris france, france, europe
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 7.7
 455K
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style: humorous, 3d animation, sweet, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: imaginary, obsessive quest, friendship, prejudice, disguise, hacker, master of disguise, medal, heroes, chases and races, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 5.7
 84K
Fool's Gold (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, treasure hunter, adventurer, beautiful scenery, yacht, ocean, golddigger, obsessive quest, rivalry, underwater, escapades ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: bahamas, florida, usa, key west florida, chicago ...
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While the Fern Flowers (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Kirill Andreyev lives in Moscow with his sister and works for a tabloid newspaper "Secret Truth". His life changes one day when a colleague gifts him a magic amulet. The amulet transports Kirill to Altai mountains where folklore and magic ...
Style: exciting, enigmatic, tense, ambiguous ending, funny
Plot: relocation, evil force, final battle, paranormal phenomena, life turned upside down, brother sister relationship, obsessive quest, amulet, search and rescue, car accident, journalist, showdown ...
Place: russia
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Malta, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, clever, suspense, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: conspiracy, holy grail, treasure hunt, religion, twists and turns, christianity, investigation, ancient mystery, conspiracy theory, riddles and clues, secrets, secret society ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1st century, 21st century
Place: london, italy, paris france, europe, england ...
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This time around Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their pesky cousin Eustace Scrubb find themselves swallowed into a painting and on to a fantastic Narnian ship headed for the very edges of the world.
Style: visually appealing, captivating, fairy tale, epic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, dragon, obsessive quest, parallel universe, alternate world, witch, female warrior, christian, wizard, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century
Place: england
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Style: feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: self discovery, travel, daydreamer, life changing experience, journey, loneliness, adventurer, photographer, obsessive quest, lifestyle change, disorder, dream ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iceland, greenland, usa, new york, los angeles ...
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 5.6
 143K
R.I.P.D. (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A recently slain cop joins a team of undead police officers working for the Rest in Peace Department and tries to find the man who murdered him. Based on the comic by Peter M. Lenkov.
Style: buddy comedy, not serious, stylized, exciting, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, investigation, unlikely partners, ghost, escapades, obsessive quest, uncover truth, life & death, law enforcement, police detective, rivalry ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, seattle, usa, new england, massachusetts
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 6.0
 8K
Ruby Red (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Gwendolyn Shepherd is a normal 16-year-old, but her family holds a secret: A time-travel gene is expressed in the clan inherited, but not every member of the family is blessed with. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene. ...
Style: exciting, captivating, stylized, sentimental, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: time travel, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, love and romance, teenage love, teen romance, prophecy, strong female character, imaginary, young heroes, supernatural romance ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, germany
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.
Style: light, humorous, entertaining, funny, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: obsessive quest, night watchman, fantasy world, museum, magic, archaeologist, curses spells and rituals, monkey, volcano, culture clash, kids and family, transformation ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1938, stone age ...
Place: london, pompeii, egypt, england, new york ...
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 7.6
 161K
Ponyo (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The son of a sailor, 5-year old Sosuke lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary ...
Style: touching, sweet, anime, scenic, manga ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, toddlers, preschool
Plot: fish, mermaid, magical, obsessive quest, magic, love, animal, friendship, magic realism, unlikely friendships, princess, sea ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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 6.3
 10K
Doctor Who (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Style: suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, stylized, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, doctor who, changing the past or future, good versus evil, heroic mission, rescue, danger, save the world, obsessive quest, alien encounter, androids and robots, space ...
Time: 90s, future, year 2000, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco, california, north america
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 7.1
 32K
Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wilderness, desert, solitude, camel, survival, travel, human spirit, photographer, explorer, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place: australia
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 8.3
 1.1M
Up (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, date night ...
Plot: dog, loneliness, friendship, unlikely friendships, follow your dream, hopes, friends, animal life, journey, obsessive quest, aging, wilderness ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south america, iran, venezuela, latin america, mount everest
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 7.1
 52K
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style: harsh, realistic, inspirational, epic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ocean, survival, sea voyage, shark, boat, expedition, raft, obsessive quest, adventurer, sailing, travel, lost at sea ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place: pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
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 8.2
 34K
Black Clover (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Asta and Yuno were abandoned together at the same church, and have been inseparable since. As children, they promised that they would compete against each other to see who would become the next Emperor Magus. However, as they grew up, some ...
Style: anime, exciting, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: friendship, magical, direction and purpose, battles, jousting, orphan, fantasy world, magic, magician, obsessive quest, wizard, chosen one ...
Time: 16th century, 18th century
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 6.6
 216K
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, demonic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, witch, ghost, supernatural, evil wins, evil, supernatural horror, macabre, curses spells and rituals, dark humor, exorcism, witchcraft ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 1969, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: los angeles, pasadena california
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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style: futuristic, cerebral, bleak, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space wars, outer space, imaginary, space battle, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, space, space opera, good versus evil, obsessive quest ...
Time: future
Place: space western
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 5.8
 4K
Full Speed (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A family together with their grandpa go on a vacation, when their new car won't stop and it nearly escapes crashing into a hundred cars.
Style: feel good, captivating, funny, road movie, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family problems, obsessive quest, family in danger, chase, speed, highway, parents and children, car breakdown, husband wife relationship, family relations, father son relationship, travel ...
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